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Zettai★Maou ~Boku no Mune-kyun Gakuen Saga~


Clephas

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I had a lot of reasons for avoiding playing this game... first, it had really crappy-looking gameplay. Second, it was tagged both in Japanese and English with the hetare protagonist tag. Third, the concept was pretty stupid, even by VN standards...

On all these counts, I was correct in my assessment as to whether this would be playable.

That's not to say this VN doesn't have a lot of positive points. The heroines are generally well-developed, and they do have their own paths (though all of them other than Ryuana, Senshia, Yuki, and Kudelka are all short and less well-developed). However, that positive point is absolutely overwhelmed by the fact that EVERY FEMALE IN THIS GAME IS A HEROINE except the protagonist's mother... and that is just way too much.

Making it worse is that the protagonist is the perverted sandbag hetare type that generally ends up as the 'idiot best friend' in most love-comedy VNs these days... I'm sorry, but I don't enjoy vicariously experiencing being beaten on by the heroines in just about every scene. Unless you are completely do-M, you'll come to hate this protagonist well before you get out of the common route.

The writing quality is spotty, probably because it was handled by so many separate writers (five that I know of), and as a result, the gap between the really well-written scenes (usually in the dungeons or during special scenes in the heroine routes) and the 'normal' scenes is so obvious that I was a bit exasperated.

Ryuana is probably the most favored of all the heroines, because hers is the only route where you really see the protagonist grow out of his hetare-dom, if only just a bit. Frankly, he is pretty much a weak-willed, cowardly, perverted idiot until the end of most of the paths, and I wanted to impale him for most of the VN.

The gameplay is pretty pointless, since you basically walk through the dungeon (your level is automatically matched to it and you can't change anything about your characters) to the goal every time, and there is no real sense of accomplishment to it, since it doesn't gain you any advantages to out of your way. Thankfully, it generally only pops up three times in the common route and zero to three times in various heroine routes. That said, it was annoying just for its very existence, since it is basically a waste of your time.

Overall, I can't recommend this VN... at all. The art is good and there are some attractive heroines and some good moments, but that doesn't change the fact that most of the elements that went into this VN sucked donkey hair.

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