Version: [v1.0]
I tried to force myself to sit through this one, I lasted to day 10.
*some spoilers ahead*
'Timestamps: Unconditional Love' (will be referred to TS from now on) is a light SciFi story about the genius son of a guy that invented a time machine, lucky him, since his friend, the MC, gets to use it to fuck his family members and cuck his father!
Now, you might be thinking - AWESOME! I love Sci fi, well... that's a shame.
Most of the time traveling plot is revolved around the MC living a random day twice, as his genius friend calibrate his time machine, there's also a hooded guy killing people, and an evil clone(?) fucking things up. mostly, time is spent making supply runs, chores, making meaningless conversations with extremely unlikable characters and pissing off cops.
Extremely unlikeable characters? yup. MC is pretty dumb and spineless, his mother is a sex addict willing to fuck her son on a random whim, his father is creepy and kind of a cuck, his sister is annoying and unpleasant, his genius friend is chubby, awkward, condescending little perv that spends his time fucking his own mother in VR while he has a time machine in his basement.
Overall, I found myself disliking every single character, which is honestly a first.
The writing is pretty bad, the story does have a decent premise, which is wasted and not used enough as the MC is running around doing random chores and spends his time making meaningless, quite frustrating conversations with cardboard characters.
I found myself bored with the story and the characters, which is an issue since the other aspects of TS aren't better.
This is a kinetic novel with the worst aspects of a bad sandbox implemented, there are... 2-3 choices that lead to different scenes and dialogue, hardly a decent payoff.
The rest of it is pretty much a kinetic novel, you have an annoying map and can move around the locations, but they are empty and pointless, so the way it plays out is - you see a blue marker on a location on the map, you go there, it's a kinetic novel with extra steps. the navigation as always is awful, the 'quest helper' on your phone just goes 'go beach' and once again, as always I'm left wondering - WHY DID YOU BOTHER?
The renders are dated which makes sense, since this project apparently started at 2017 so I'm not gonna drop points over it.
MC's mother, which gets more screen time than any other character is plain and simple ugly, as is the MC. this is a problem for me because some other characters look decent enough, it's not a '2017' issue.
The animations are low FPS and played as a video in a sluggish player, very immersion breaking and not a great experience.
Unfortunately there's not much left, the story is a snoozefest, the dialogues are endless and pointless, the characters are very unlikable, the sandbox mechanics are awful, so you look forward for the payoff in the sex scenes, they does not look great, the animations player is frustrating, but at least the scenes with the sister are pretty hot.
Gave it 2/5 for the obvious effort which I respect, but honestly this is a very skippable VN for pretty much any type of consumer.
I tried to force myself to sit through this one, I lasted to day 10.
*some spoilers ahead*
'Timestamps: Unconditional Love' (will be referred to TS from now on) is a light SciFi story about the genius son of a guy that invented a time machine, lucky him, since his friend, the MC, gets to use it to fuck his family members and cuck his father!
Now, you might be thinking - AWESOME! I love Sci fi, well... that's a shame.
Most of the time traveling plot is revolved around the MC living a random day twice, as his genius friend calibrate his time machine, there's also a hooded guy killing people, and an evil clone(?) fucking things up. mostly, time is spent making supply runs, chores, making meaningless conversations with extremely unlikable characters and pissing off cops.
Extremely unlikeable characters? yup. MC is pretty dumb and spineless, his mother is a sex addict willing to fuck her son on a random whim, his father is creepy and kind of a cuck, his sister is annoying and unpleasant, his genius friend is chubby, awkward, condescending little perv that spends his time fucking his own mother in VR while he has a time machine in his basement.
Overall, I found myself disliking every single character, which is honestly a first.
The writing is pretty bad, the story does have a decent premise, which is wasted and not used enough as the MC is running around doing random chores and spends his time making meaningless, quite frustrating conversations with cardboard characters.
I found myself bored with the story and the characters, which is an issue since the other aspects of TS aren't better.
This is a kinetic novel with the worst aspects of a bad sandbox implemented, there are... 2-3 choices that lead to different scenes and dialogue, hardly a decent payoff.
The rest of it is pretty much a kinetic novel, you have an annoying map and can move around the locations, but they are empty and pointless, so the way it plays out is - you see a blue marker on a location on the map, you go there, it's a kinetic novel with extra steps. the navigation as always is awful, the 'quest helper' on your phone just goes 'go beach' and once again, as always I'm left wondering - WHY DID YOU BOTHER?
The renders are dated which makes sense, since this project apparently started at 2017 so I'm not gonna drop points over it.
MC's mother, which gets more screen time than any other character is plain and simple ugly, as is the MC. this is a problem for me because some other characters look decent enough, it's not a '2017' issue.
The animations are low FPS and played as a video in a sluggish player, very immersion breaking and not a great experience.
Unfortunately there's not much left, the story is a snoozefest, the dialogues are endless and pointless, the characters are very unlikable, the sandbox mechanics are awful, so you look forward for the payoff in the sex scenes, they does not look great, the animations player is frustrating, but at least the scenes with the sister are pretty hot.
Gave it 2/5 for the obvious effort which I respect, but honestly this is a very skippable VN for pretty much any type of consumer.