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Hanikami Clover: Succubi and wasted potential


Clephas

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... it has been almost a year and a half since the last release from Studio Ryokucha, and I was looking forward to this, almost despite myself.  This company has produced some really good games over the years, and I have generally enjoyed most of their games I've played thoroughly.  At first, it seemed like this one might end up being one of the better VNs by this company, but once I finished my first route, I was forced to come to the realization that my expectations - based on the building of the setting in the first half of the common route - were not going to be met.

Why did it get my expectations so high?  Quite simply, they went out of their way to create an idea of the setting that leads the reader to anticipate some really interesting drama (though not necessarily action) later on, particularly in the heroine paths.  Unfortunately, once you get on the heroine paths, it is little more than three parts H-scene to five parts ichaicha with a small dash of 'worries about the future' drama.  The protagonist ends up doing the same thing in each route as a solution to future problems, and by the time I'd finished two routes, I honestly had lost all interest in the game as a whole. 

This is one of those cases where the classic slice-of-life romance formula just doesn't work, and I was more than a bit pissed off at the way they ruined things after all the effort they went through in the common route to plant the seeds of a lot of potential future conflicts.  In particular, Rio's path is unbelievably disappointing, considering all the potential ways they could have done it given the way they presented her as the game's main heroine.

As a whole, this bit of slice-of-life is something of a waste of time, and I honestly can't recommend it.

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