Sugar*Style thoughts
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Smee games are usually high quality and very similar. Cute heroines with a funny plot and little moments of seriousness is their usual pattern. I tried to like Sugar*Style really, unfortunately I didn't like it that much.
The gimmick in Sugar*Style is you can select what your protag is good at and you can also inspect the room of the heroine. I didn't like how they played that gimmick it felt really tacked on. Unlike Making*Lovers, the gimmick here has more impact but it didn't really feel, meaningful. You can view a lot of additional scenes depending on your talent and usually it's just joking around.
Moeges like Sugar*Style live and die on their heroines and it just failed to grab me in. The difference in Sugar*style from other Smee games is that the protagonist usually is the one that falls in love first and you watch him try to ask the girl out. The heroines in the common route feel like they treat the protagonist like shit too much. I know it's played for laughs but if you use that kind of scenes too much it has a negative effect. Take my thoughts with a grain of salt, I used to love SMEE games with all my heart, Making*Lovers is still one of my favorite moeges and that is the perfect example of good progression for me that Sugar*Style lacked.
About the progression, it felt unnatural. You pick the heroine you like after their respective introduction chapters, when you pick one , you immediately go through her route. The problem here for me is that The common route and heroine route happen at the same time. It felt unnatural for me like you go with a date with a heroine and you both like each other a little now and the next day(common route), it's as if nothing happened. SMEE should just have done something similar to Making*Lovers and I would have probably been easily satisfied. It also didn't help that there WERE A LOT OF TROPES USED TOO MUCH. SMEE isn't the symbol of originality but I didn't recall scenes in Fureraba or Making*Lovers that involved walking into girls dressing, peeping, or accidentally holding someone else's boobs, and that scenes happened too much.
The heroines felt shallow. I wouldn't call Making*Lovers heroines deep but they didn't feel too shallow especially Karen.
I also don't give scores on VN's I dropped. It wouldn't feel right to me to rate the game with an incomplete experience.
I would prioritize new works to read so others can know my thoughts on them and so far my reading list is the following (Not necessarily in that order) :
Sora ni Kizanda Parallelogram ( Although it looks like an AoKana rip-off, the writer is someone respected by the community so looking forward to how it becomes different)
Sakaagari Hurricane - Let's Pile Up Our School!!
Komorebi no Nostalgica
Muramasa
Ore-tachi ni Tsubasa wa nai
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