DTIPBIJAYS is pretty much everything good about visual novels.
None of the characters are flat at all. They all have their own emotional turmoils and while they seem to embody a specific stereotype, this gets deconstructed in many ways, and an explanation for their personality and behaviour is given in their own little dedicated chapter. Literally no character is one sided. The fact that only a little less than half of the main cast is LGBT helps too, as most visual novels tend to have Everyone Is Gay and be done with diversity.
The Amie system is just brilliant. A character will get a quick little snippet of narration when they are first met, and most of the game's meat comes from the Amie system - mountains and mountains of pure characterisation, all of which only serves to give you more of a perspective on a character. It also keeps time introducing characters instead of fleshing them out brief.
No character has a route; just subplots that are opened during specific chapters. This is good, as everyone gets fairly decent screentime (barring Arianna, who gets Demoted to Extra if you don't pick her subplot) and exposure.
The art is... The character art is very good, I like the icons that are used on the title screen, the backgrounds, dead GoD, the backgrounds, but the C Gs are pretty mediocre, and the obvious jump in art style makes it horribly jarring.
Bottom line, this game is worth playing, if only for the experience.
Innovative, Compelling, and above all else, Good
DTIPBIJAYS is pretty much everything good about visual novels.
None of the characters are flat at all. They all have their own emotional turmoils and while they seem to embody a specific stereotype, this gets deconstructed in many ways, and an explanation for their personality and behaviour is given in their own little dedicated chapter. Literally no character is one sided. The fact that only a little less than half of the main cast is LGBT helps too, as most visual novels tend to have Everyone Is Gay and be done with diversity.
The Amie system is just brilliant. A character will get a quick little snippet of narration when they are first met, and most of the game's meat comes from the Amie system - mountains and mountains of pure characterisation, all of which only serves to give you more of a perspective on a character. It also keeps time introducing characters instead of fleshing them out brief.
No character has a route; just subplots that are opened during specific chapters. This is good, as everyone gets fairly decent screentime (barring Arianna, who gets Demoted to Extra if you don't pick her subplot) and exposure.
The art is... The character art is very good, I like the icons that are used on the title screen, the backgrounds, dead GoD, the backgrounds, but the C Gs are pretty mediocre, and the obvious jump in art style makes it horribly jarring.
Bottom line, this game is worth playing, if only for the experience.