Pub Encounter

I honestly have no real words or idea where to start on this one. I will disclaim that this probably was not the kind of game meant for me, but at some point along the way, I heard somewhere on the internet that this game was good. Listening to the internet, that was my first mistake. Playing despite the fact that I know what a DL game usually entails...that was my second. Finally, when you google this game, one of the first things that will come up is: "I dated a senior citizen and he licked my leg" published by Kotaku and a hilarious read. I think somewhere in there was my third. Although, “senior citizen” is misleading here, most of these guys are far from geriatric. Most are maybe in their 30s or 40s.

The premise here is that MC one day wanders into a small bar, and encounters several middle-age men on different walks of life. As far as the story's development from there, some are more superficial than others. There was an attempt at a deep, dark storyline for few of the characters, and I would probably have appreciated it more in a different context with some further exploration into the concepts contained within. Instead MC just chases the men down constantly or continuously falls asleep drunk in a bar. To me, that is a poor attempt at driving the plot forward. In the end, there were only two characters whose story I was able to appreciate. What got me through was sharing all my thoughts as grotesquely as possible with a friend, whose helpful insights produced rather hilarious nicknames for all five gentlemen.