somehow it feels like... I had a strong sake

i love yuri <3333

As a fan of revue starlight and long-term consumer of bushiroad's projects, this game feels largely symptomatic of bushi's current failure as a game company. Amazing projects, fantastic writing staff, budget of absolute zero.

My current playthrough of the game and understanding from other reviews allows me to confidently say I do not have an issue with the writing of the game and I'd like to preface with this and stress this. This game succeeds where it fundamentally needs to- more content of the girls, a nice send off for a project experiencing an unfortunate situation all too familiar with things I hold dear, the death of a large amount of its content held in a game by an incompetent publisher.

Yet said publisher somehow managed to mess up one of the easiest game genres on a technical level to the point I am really struggling to finish the game. How do you mess up a visual novel, really?

The audio problems in this game are incredible. Random sounds, wack compressed soundtrack, there are multiple occasions where the girls sound way too far from the microphones. It is truly a disservice to the incredible voice acting cast to not take the time to ensure they sound good for this. They are more than talented and it is frustrating to see this undermined by what I can only assume is the laziness to not fix any of these issues or even just do another take.

The cg quality I think is poor. Its not bad, but definitely on the lower budget side and symptomatic of the larger issues. Some of the sprites are a bit rough around the edges too.

This game doesn't seem like it'll last me more than 10 hours, which is fine I guess, but this feels insane when at least the first 3 routes are almost carbon copies of each other interspersed with some character interaction. Was there really no way it could have been more unique? This is what has really damaged my will to continue with the game, I don't want to feel like I'm just reading the same thing over and over again :/ On this note the game also not allowing me to skip content I haven't seen yet (even when it is basically identical) is just????? and the lack of automatic saving or checkpoints is WILD. I've really never played a visual novel with this many weird technical things that bug me.

I really truly hope bushiroad gets back on their feet with their games department. I am so sure they must be able to do better than this if they try, and I sincerely hope (but somewhat doubt) the upcoming nijigasaki visual novel and any other upcoming attempts to continue these projects through games is more fruitful. God bless love live didn't give hasunosora's game to them, I'll give it that.

BANANA DAISUKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ABSOLUTE CINEMA GAME OF THE CENTURY

Who is Daiba Nana? For the blind, she is light. For the hungry, she is bread. For the sick, she is the cure. For the sad, she is joy. For the poor, she is the treasure; for the debtor, she is forgiveness.

Revue Starlight was the gayest-not-gay thing I've ever seen. After this game, I can, with full certainty, just call it the gayest thing I've ever seen.

I love Hikari

I don't usually play VNs, but I have a strong feeling this one will be Bananice.

God I love Revue Starlight
All the routes are so fun and interesting
I missed the cute casual moments between them as well and it's so cool that they finally gave Judy a personality...and she's actually so good

Edit: I am back after finishing the game....I am back to say...this was incredible...this was...so good...i am unconsolable...i cant stop crying...i love them so much...