十三月のふたり姫／The 13th month

[h1]A great VN marred by serious technical issues[/h1] The game opens in Japanese, without an option to change the language - which is very alarming. Thankfully this wasn't a problem to me, but anyone who cannot read Japanese to find the English option might have issues. There are very basic VN features missing. No auto mode, no text speed increase/decrease, no individual voice options, you [u]cannot save whenever you want[/u]! Checkpoints are not displayed, so you have to try and play chapters in their entirety, to avoid having to re-read the same parts. Because [u]you can't even skip already read text[/u]. And this way getting to where you left off takes a very long time. That's not good at all. A lot of lines are voiced, but even more aren't. What's there is excellent and I wish there were more. The game (at least in English) likes to auto advance between voiced lines if multiple characters are talking on the same page, so lines are sometimes cut short and a new voice is played. ...

I don't really know whether to recommend this game or not, I will err on the side of "No" The good : the arts style is beautiful, the music is good. The ok: the story is well interesting, it is not ground breaking, you can see the twist a mile away. The bad: the game is very slow, not that the pacing is slow, for a Novel game, and every time you move to another sentence and it took 2 sec to clear up single alphabet of the previous sentence, it makes the game very slow. There are some bug, I think they are bugs because sometime there is no voice at all. This is more like a Kinetic Novel than your normal VN.

Cool story and visuals, despite some small inconveniences like it being auto-save only. The premise lends itself well to having enjoyable and unique encounters as well. I really got sucked into this story and just finished it one sitting. ...Also Crawling Chaos accidentally becoming the biggest wingman is so funny, 10/10. [spoiler]Whoa, rando dudes visiting you weren't your true love, and instead it was this girl who was protecting you for a literal millennia? What a surprise... took you both long enough to realize. [/spoiler]

Pretty crude game in terms of technical execution, those who make games on the Unity engine are crying from f*cking Spanish shame....