Great visuals and soundtrack but that's it. Awful writing of characters and dialogue (which you'd think should be the most important part of the game).

it's good if you're a minimum wage waitress or barber irl and absorb the stuff people randomly blurt out to you, and if you like "waifus" talking about sex or something
(I'm sure most of the people calling it "good vibes" or whatever online probably fall under the above category... I knew someone who had the MC as an avatar so there's probably a bit of "she just like me fr fr" to it)
it's a visual novel in the most literal sense, with mixing drinks instead of a plain list of choices
unfortunately I've tried this game three or four times in the past couple years and lost motivation in the first hour-ish of each playthrough, it's just too boring

soundtrack is good though
(the game may or may not be a massive LGBTQ coded message)

The writing defines the meaning of millennial cringe.

I don't want to punish this game for being the kind of game that I don't like, but I have a very hard time enjoying this game. In my opinion, there is very little intrigue, and the drink mixing isn't all that challenging. I understand that this is more of a visual novel than a game, but for some reason the story failed to capture me. Also one of the reviews called this 'not a weeb game' which I feel is a bit untrue

played until day 3. got bored because the dialogue is always sexual, not even innuendos they just talk like that. didnt care about any of the characters. mass produced anime slop

I tried, I really tried. I can't get into a lot of VN's because it's like listening to a teenager talk. Some are mature but few are really compelling in their writing. This was hard to do a few hours and the gameplay is mixing drinks in a way that's completely different than real life, so I don't even get the perk of learning mixology from the game. I'm sure there is a crowd of gamers that love this, but I value my time too much and prefer to spend it on things that really engage me.

Pros: Music and Art
Cons: Writing and Gameplay

I regret paying money for this.

This game was made by creepy anime fans.

Never seen a game self-destruct this hard at the end.

All the good I did in my playthrough, listening to the clients, caring for them, handing out the correct drinks and giving them special treatment when called for, and then I'm slapped with the bad ending, because I had some spare cash after one big payment, and decided to get an extra item from the shop, give the mechanic a try since I though I could afford it. Well as it turns out, that prevented me from being able to pay rent at the end of the game, and I got evicted for it.

I looked up a guide, and man it's depressing. The bad ending prevents you from seeing not only the regular ending, but all the others you might unlock, of which I met the requirements for all of them.
Repeating 15 hours of reading to recreate my playthough, or skipping the dialogue and following an excel sheet to make the right drinks, just so I don't buy that extra trinket, to get the cutscenes, is not my idea of fun. Ended up watching them on YouTube, and they would have been nice to see if they were integrated in the flow of the story, but a 99% identical replay sure kills that chance.

This game left me feeling melancholic, if given a warning, to avoid such a dreadful substitution for a satisfying conclusion to the experience, others might enjoy the game as a whole.
But one as to ask why that's even a problem in the first place. A nice walk on the beach shouldn't need a warning to avoid the landmine, just don't have the landmine.

I want to like this game. I came here from both Coffee Talk games, where a lot of people recommended this one because it's the same formula. People *really* like this game. I wish I did, because I almost did.

Firstly, I want to get this very important aspect out of the way, that I do not know how other people ignore: Dorothy is a child (visually) sex worker. I found the choice weird, right out the gate, but I understand that the cyberpunk genre deals with hard topics. Therefore, I played the game through despite cringing every time this Lilim, they are called (a cool concept that was underdeveloped), was brought on screen to talk about how much they love sex in every conversation. It could have been handled in an interesting way, as the fact that she is mentally an adult, 24 I believe, who chooses not to upgrade her body, unlike other Lilim, when she reached mental maturity could have had her wrestle with her life choices, in which she takes a deep look within herself to realize that this is catering to something absolutely abysmal-- especially considering she speaks about getting paid to behave like some's dead daughter at the beginning of the game. Tied in with the fact that she is scared of her mother figure using her as a replacement for their biological, dead daughter, doing sex work for pedophiles is crazy given the ability to truly understand childhood and what it means to loose a child . But they didn't do that. Instead, she uses a steamer to promote her services by the end of the game . There isn't there for anything other than to have a funny "loli" say sex jokes and promote pedophilia. There's no depth. It's beyond stupid to use the cyberpunk genre, or any genre for that matter, to use hard topic they absolutely can utilize, and then not explore them with any emotional or even objective depth. There is literature that explores the subject matter and can be spoken about academically, like the novel Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, but the route in this game was to cater to pedophiles and make it comical that it was happening at all.

Which is another problem I have with this game. Jill, the bartender, has a potential terrorist as a colleague, serves drinks to a contract killer, a contract hacker, a member of a private police force, a 24/7 live streamer who even does nudity, and, of course, a child-like prostitute. She seems like she expresses a particular opinion about any of that is with Jamie, when she asks something about how he feels knowing his job is about killing people, but when he answers his job is like any other she admits it was kind of rude of her and that he's right. But she was at least uncomfortable with it, expressing that. I do not understand how she can passingly be uncomfortable with Dorothy for one dialogue box in the game, to herself, asking about whether it's right or not at the beginning of the game, only to never do that ever again, or do it with anyone else besides the contract killer, who I literally don't even care about because he added nothing to the story besides reminding me that this is supposed to be a cyberpunk.

Never mind the fact that most of the world building fell off by not even half-way through game. Most of the costumers stories felt inorganically finished, or simply stuff was never visited, like Anna or Ingram (who could have connected to Dorothy's story). In the first part half of the game you're given basic world building, giving option for future conflicts related about technology in the game's setting, and it doesn't matter because the game is so focused on *cute anime girls talk about boobs and sex.* I wanted more on Gillian's past and where he is now, instead it boils down to he has sex at the ending, for real. He is a hiding potential terrorist, and his ending is that he randomly got laid. Alma, Stella, Virgilio, Donovan, and Dana also do not have an ending. It's also not talked about what Jill is going to do when the bar closes? And the interesting characters, like Sei, are given the most mid ending, it is crazy. The plot where she and other are tortured for 3 days is huge, and she is just fine later. She even say's "it doesn't matter anymore, I got a new job," as if she didn't have a strong sense of justice and wanting to help people, and now she's just selfish and unphased by something that would otherwise induce PTSD?

The story also fell off every time something emotional happened, almost immediately, and I couldn't care about the emotions in the games because half the time I was asking myself if any of these characters were realistically speaking at all. Hell, a majority of it was "quirky" people, like the Boss, or horny sex jokes, like everyone else. Why does a woman having large breasts have to be a focal point of conversation for most of the game? Also, Jill's story was straight up lame and I did not care about it. It became a focal point out of nowhere, with inorganic payoff as well. It's a part of the reason the tone shifts so much.

If a visual novel fails at setting up any conflicts, or even resolving the extremely minor ♥♥♥♥ thrown in.

The game play is just what it is. The mini game didn't have to be that hard either.