VN - Others - Completed - Heartomics: Valkyries [Final] [Heartomics]

  1. 1.00 star(s)

    Theubermeme

    Note: I don't believe a complex opinion can be properly represented by a number but I do understand some people are impatient so I don't use the star system normally, my ratings are as follows. 1 don't recommend, 3 unsure please read review, 5 recommend.

    Pacing, it's a measure of the rate at which a story progresses, much like any fun roller coaster a good story has it's peaks and valleys, escalation, climax, deescalation, it is with these attributes that one creates proper pacing but their is a 4th attribute, distance, how long the story is. The way to describe this story's pacing is this is the result of taking the both LOTR trilogies and fitting both of the epic tales into a half hour movie. As you may be able to imagine that would be an unintelligible mess this game at least has the courtesy of relying on every single medieval anime trope and cliche ever, the main issue is that it presents those tropes and cliches in 30 minutes barely taking time to catch is breath, it just doesn't work it's too fast and generally uninteresting. The part we give a shit about, the girls, are barely present throughout the plot, in general it's an intro scene for each girl (except luna) and one scene where the MC and her hang out and then one fuck session. The problem with that is their isn't a lot of actual art for the girls the sex scenes consist of one still image and a small amount of explanatory text. The only reason people wanna play these games is to bang hot anime babes and the delivery in this game on that front is lacking, and unfortunately the girls don't even have that waifu factor going on, they look generic and have at most 2 personality traits 1) thirsty for the MC 2) take over as queen, and that only applies to 2 of the girls, the other 2 just wanna fuck. The art is the best thing here and it's generic anime style which isn't a negative or anything it just isn't a positive either.

    Finally one thing I tend to ignore with most porn games is the GUI, I don't expect perfection or even "good" I just hope for passable and shut up about it, but this game's GUI is pretty bad, escape for example straight up shuts down the game, the button that 99% of all PC games use as a pause button immediately shuts down the game, I am all for a button that shuts down these games instantly just in case someone walks in but don't make it the universally understood button for "pause", yes I did accidentally have to restart 15 or so times because I wanted to save thank you for noticing.

    In conclusion I cannot recommend this game simply put it does nothing unique or special it's writing is woeful it's characters 1 dimensional (and 2 dimensional lol) art is generic and it's sex scenes are lacking. My suggestion to the developer is to either write a shorter story or make a longer game.