Thoughts about Area-X (full)
Aug. 9th, 2013 11:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rainwatersparkIn sum: Didn't really click with me personally.
In the end, I found the plot just way too convoluted, and I lost the ability to care for the characters because of that. I also really hated how Livan turned out to be the (psychotic) killer in the end, because he was the nicest nice guy in the beginning and I hate it when nice guy characters have their personalities assassinated.
I still enjoyed Elcia's spunk, assertiveness, and sadism--she's a great protagonist. I also enjoyed Yuras, Rexus (mostly due to Elcia's constant teasing), and Belph was kind of interesting (the bonus scene with him was pretty great). Ferim I just found bland. Some of the dialogue was genuinely hilarious. But in the end, I just didn't like the story. (Also, the fact that the "good" endings for Rexus and Livan were kind of dark and unsatisfying.)
I'm also not really a fan of the system that requires you not only to get the correct answers in order to get a guy's good ending, but also to talk to certain people and do certain actions. At least the hint system helps, but I still found it irritating at first when I kept failing to get the good endings. (I also kept accidentally overwriting saves when I wanted to load them, grr.)
In the end, I found the plot just way too convoluted, and I lost the ability to care for the characters because of that. I also really hated how Livan turned out to be the (psychotic) killer in the end, because he was the nicest nice guy in the beginning and I hate it when nice guy characters have their personalities assassinated.
I still enjoyed Elcia's spunk, assertiveness, and sadism--she's a great protagonist. I also enjoyed Yuras, Rexus (mostly due to Elcia's constant teasing), and Belph was kind of interesting (the bonus scene with him was pretty great). Ferim I just found bland. Some of the dialogue was genuinely hilarious. But in the end, I just didn't like the story. (Also, the fact that the "good" endings for Rexus and Livan were kind of dark and unsatisfying.)
I'm also not really a fan of the system that requires you not only to get the correct answers in order to get a guy's good ending, but also to talk to certain people and do certain actions. At least the hint system helps, but I still found it irritating at first when I kept failing to get the good endings. (I also kept accidentally overwriting saves when I wanted to load them, grr.)
