Roller Drama

I thought the 'visual novel' part of the game was good, personally, I think the panels look amazing, but there are some other gameplay elements that have the potential to be frustrating, mainly because it's easy to reset the chapters with an 'honest mistake'. Sometimes it got so confusing I replayed the same part up to 5 times, just because it was not clear where I had to stand, or picked the wrong dialogue choice. Now, I don't care what anyone thinks of the themes in this game, I take games for what they are - I just saw a game with nice art and some creative ideas, so I wanted to try it. The game is around 3 to 5 hours, it kinda depends because there are silly things that could make it longer than it should be. Strangely I felt like I got the bad ending, but the achievements say 13/14, and apparently, I got the good one, so I am not sure if I missed anything or if the ending to this game is actually anticlimactic, I can't say that it had a good closure. It does have a little bit of ...

Before I expand on this, I need to say this the combination of genre-mixing as well as the limited options in terms of Derby games are what lead this to land on the "Yes Recommend" line, despite all the negative vibes I am about to dump. Being honest, it's imperfect. I'm going to say all the bad stuff first and then try to end on a high note: The first layer of gameplay is "sport management" by way of being a den mother/coach at the team's housing complex. It is only very loosely about actually coaching and managing the team, compared to my impressions based on the description. Six chapters into the game, I have not seen any direct, legitimate "management" duties expected from a game that calls it itself "sport management" [training, maintenance, funding, travel, recruiting, etc]. Largely, your management off the track is applied through some visual novel dialogue trees, and some light item hunting. That is, the extent of managing your team basically boils down into stealing items fro...

Awesome game! I love how the developers mixed the sport sessions with the visual novel part. The story is both intense and at the same time deep. It explore the humanity and the background of the girls of the team. A redemption road through the sport. If you are looking for something different from the usual AAA titles, give this game a chance.

ENG: Mixed feelings about this Roller Drama, the strange case of a game that I enjoyed immensely throughout its development, but left me wanting a bit more, as well as a more "grandiose" ending. The negative aspects I can point out are that the Roller Derby game is somewhat clunky, at times it's hard to understand or it feels like it depends a bit on luck during player collisions. Also, the story sometimes feels like parts are missing or skipped, which makes some sense since we are only the coach and not 100% involved in the players' lives, but it still feels odd when group issues are suddenly thrown in your face. However, we must also highlight the good things about this Roller Drama. To begin with, the artistic design is unique, as are the interfaces, an aspect many games neglect but is crucial here. Gameplay is also quite unique, being largely a visual novel with moments of management as well as point & click, and although I don't think the game fully exploited these systems, they...

A pretty unique blend between a narrative game and a sports simulation. Both are pretty cool, but for me, it's the story / visual novel part that worked best. I really loved the idea to attend to my 5 girls, to try to help them as best I could make the right choices. I'm a few hours in and I really want to know where this is going, but I can already tell I'm invested. The roller derby sequences can be a bit messy sometimes, but then again it's how this sport is IRL, and winning or losing matches isn't the most important thing anyway! If you love a good story and games that try stuff gameplay wise, look no further!

I wanted to like this game, but I spent way too long trying to figure out how to give a girl a dead cat so she would talk to me. I realized this game wasn't for me.

I really liked the odd conversations and quirky characters. There were also lots of little story elements that make you feel like you're only taking a peek in this universe, where Roller Derby is kind of a big deal. This helps taking the girls and your choices seriously, although they may feel a bit forced at times. The Roller Derby matches were more intense and complex than I expected. You have several options and abilities available that really effect the outcome of your match. Felt quite rewarding once I got a hang of it. I will probably come back and try to find the parts of the story i missed out on and to improve my Roller Derby skills! Recommended!

I love this art style and I wish you would sell some sort of art book PDF DLC. But problems keep popping up. 1, Can't skip dialogue straight to a choice, this makes the game feel like a drag when you mess up. 2, played two practice matches and set the difficulty to easy and still get my arse kicked Will review again If I beat the game

We have a quality game here, folks. Don't pass it up. Mingle with your sports crew, then use their excitement to bust up the opposing team in roller derby, a sport I have watched once and yes, is real. Don't let them tell you otherwise. People do this at each other. Skates and all. And this group of fictional gals is, to my surprise, 1-to-1 exactly like every group of roller derby-ers I've ever met. How can this be? Isn't this game a game, and not reality? Well, I assume that people who play roller derby are, in fact, characters from fiction. That must be it. It's the only explanation for it. I don't know what else to tell you. Play this game and find out for yourself.

Totally random savepoints. I'm tired to loose half of progress every time i quit the game.