Both sides now
After the excellent Good Girl Gone Bad with its numerous choices and possible routes I had high hopes for Our Red String - and I haven't been disappointed so far.
The good
The improvable
Eva Kiss strikes again - no other adult content creator manages to deliver such a perfect blend of art, music, characters, writing, choices and user interface.
Our Red String is one of my favourite adult VNs right now, highly recommended.
After the excellent Good Girl Gone Bad with its numerous choices and possible routes I had high hopes for Our Red String - and I haven't been disappointed so far.
The good
- Gorgeous illustrations (I was reserved at first when I saw previews of the new char design with its saturated shading, but in combination with the beautiful, colourful backdrops it looks just right).
- Nice selection of music
- Both male and female MC PoV (= innovative game design)
- Interesting, realistic and relatable characters
- Decent writing (proper English, slice-of-life dialogue & story)
- Tons of (sometimes even branched) choices with meaningful consequences
- Beautiful UI (smartphone)
- Slim & stylish text box with excellent readability
- A pinch of RPG atmosphere thanks to the stats system
- Lola (too bad she didn't turn out to be the MC as "promised" ).
The improvable
- Lena not recognising Ian when they meet again (remastered intro) seems weird.
- Some anatomic details (especially concealed breasts) look off.
- Stat requirements to unlock certain conversation options are sometimes too strict.
- Annoying 4th wall breaking "acid trip" scene which felt completely out of place.
- Lena's awful looking ahegao faces.
- Minor bugs (at times display of wrong names when someone is talking).
- (Very few) typos
- Compared to GGGB saving / loading has become less convenient.
Eva Kiss strikes again - no other adult content creator manages to deliver such a perfect blend of art, music, characters, writing, choices and user interface.
Our Red String is one of my favourite adult VNs right now, highly recommended.