Being a father is hard work - Random Review - My Little Kitties (Korean Visual Novel)
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Walking around Google Play can give you a lot of surprises (404: Advertisement not found). And some days ago, while looking for some good tower defense games to kill time, I accidentally stumbled into a nice-looking VN that is not even listed in VNDB for some reason: My Little Kitties - a Korean VN, adapted from a Korean light novel published by Novel Engine. It was released by tales# on March 2015 with the price of $5.
It's loli! It's catgirl! There is just no reason for me to not throw money right at the screen and bring this VN home!
SYNOPSIS
Hanul is a teenager having a weary day because all kinds of animals -including dogs, cats and even pigeons- are chasing him frantically.
One day, he discovers a mother cat and her kitten, which were living in the tree of his yard, lying dead still on a cold floor.
He took them to a veterinary clinic, but it was already too late for the mother cat. And on behalf of the deceased mother, he decided to take care of the kitten named Nuri.
But, the little kitten Nuri was not an ordinary kitten.
She was a mystical creature, an inhabitant of another world not recognized by ordninary people.
After a peculiar meeting with Sora, who has her own story with the supervisor of mystical creatures, Yura, the boy who became a father of two girls after many twist and turns
is now about to begin a new life with his new family.
CHARACTER
1. Hanul
(Yeah, I'm lazy as hell
)
2. Nuri
3. Sora
4. Yura
STORY
The 2-hours-long story follows Hanul as he struggled through his daily life, dealing with his two mischievous daughters, the perverted girl Yura and a stray cat named Nero that his daughters had picked up on the street. The entire game happened in only 4 days (game time), but it's still enough to give you a vision about the life of a lone teenager father: playing with his daughters, dealing with their constant tantrums, protecting them from being sexually harassed by Yura, trying to fix their bad diets, habits...
There are totally 6 endings, including 3 bad endings, which in two of them...(super duper huge spoiler ahead 
)
You have been warned. Still process?
Ok then...Here we go...
In those two routes...
Hanul lost his virginity
The game, mostly slice of life/comedy, covers the first two chapters of the light novel, with some light drama in the good endings - actually, I guess I should say "true" endings, because they are not particularly "good", quite sad in fact, not to the point that I would call it an "utsuge" though. For some people, the game can be quite boring from time to time (it's slice of life you know), but it shouldn't be a problem for major players. There is a hell amount of choices, 20 in total, which will help increasing your playing time to about 12 hours or more, since getting in the right route in this game is a huge pain, and the choices are not even that clear (the most common-sense choice can easily lead you straight into a bad ending).
One thing I have to mention, is that the English translation of this game is pretty bad, and it doesn't seem like they will fix it any time soon (actually, I'm not even sure if they even have any intention to do that). Not to the point of unreadable Google-level, but it will still annoy quite a lot of people. Just have to bear with it, I guess 
SYSTEM
After played through the game, you will be able to unlock some fun minigames like Horoscope, Rock-Scissor-Paper, Airplane Ride and such. I have no interest in that damn Rock-Scissor-Paper thingy because my Luck stat is zero http://forums.fuwanovel.net/uploads/emoticons/default_dry.png' alt='<_<'> , but the Horoscope game is pretty hilarious, and the Airplane Ride game totally broke my hand due to its "extreme" gameplay
In this game, basically, you will give your daughter an airplane ride. Your job is to mass-spam the power button to keep your stamina - which gradually decrease over time - in check. From time to time, your daughter will get bored, make your stamina bar run down faster, and you will have to quickly "shake" her left and right, then quickly back to mass-spamming. If anyone here is a diligent Potion Maker player, they should be able to deal with this game just fine By getting high scores in the game, you will be rewarded with special CGs and voiced lines.
Oh, and this is my best score at the moment. Try to beat me, you!
The game also supplies you with a database about lots of details for unaware non-light novel reader (see those thing I used in the character introduction?) and an achievement system that will also reward you with special CGs and voiced lines.
GRAPHIC
The artwork itself is pretty nice, though it seem like they didn't put that much effort into drawing CGs. Actually, I think they directly put the light novel illustrations into the game, rather than drawing an entire new set of CG... Quite obvious, with all of those monochrome backgrounds, I guess.
MUSIC
Nothing special, just your normal everyday BGM that you find in a VN.
VOICE
The game is voiced in Korean. I have to say, I much prefer Korean voice-over than Chinese one. Yeah, still not as good as Japanese, but at least they managed to keep me from turning it the hell off. Actually, Nuri's voice is pretty cute!
CONCLUSION
$5 for 2 hours of entertainment with your two cute daughters, I think it's a fair price. That said, I won't recommend this VN to people that dislike slice of life, because it will just bore them to death. However, if you want some nice laugh, and are able to handle the bad translation, then go ahead and give it a try, I'm sure you will like it.
Score
Story: 8,5/10.
Character: 9/10.
System: 9/10.
Graphic: 7/10.
Music: 5/10.
Voice: 8/10.
Total: 8/10.
My previous review:
Ojousama to Himitsu no Otome (Trial Edition)
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