Gods of Love
by YPress Games
Platform: Steam
Character Routes: 4 (Lysander, Helder, Rhane, Exinious)
Bad Endings: No
Category: Otome Visual Novel/B x G
Explicit Adult Content: Yes
Personal Favorites: Do I have to pick one? They all kinda sucked. Exinious or Lysander maybe? That’s a hard-pressed maybe. Even the little sister is a brat >.>
Fair Warning, this review will be scathing. This game was awful from start to finish, and it takes a lot for me to say that - I tend to be patient with indie or small company games. In this case, the premise was not even promising: MC, who discovered she gained the healing powers of a goddess, is pursued by gods who just want to marry her. I did support it on Kickstarter because I thought, maybe just maybe there was more to it. Nope. That is literally it.
I could have forgiven that, perhaps, if the characters were charming, but they were all terrible. Would you like the whiny coward? The gross playboy? The creepy stalker? The rigid, controlling Jesus-clone? Not even joking here, he literally quotes the bible, it’s really uncomfortable if you ask me. The writing was atrocious and did not fit the setting, and the cg art was often rather awkward looking. The storylines were exactly the same every time, down to the choices and even the scenes that went along with it - the proof of that is right there, in the Steam preview. Similar lines, similar scenes, similar plot, different god. It’s like someone copied and pasted the script and then changed a few lines. The worst part to me was the resolution to the non-existent plot struggle: The gods all have a major flaw and MC simply at some point says: I hate that you do this thing you do. He says, oh ok! I'll fix it! End plot. Sure, you were a controlling AF bastidge until now but I’m in love with you anyway (somehow, magically) and we can just forget that. No problem dude! AS IF!!! Fyi, the sex scenes are optional but causes the skipping of a CG.
Ratings: Art: 6 Characters: 3 Storyline: 2 Gameplay: N/A Overall: 3