Love And Order

Summary of the story: In Love And Order, you play as Dana Larose whoses starting her career as a secretary at the Crown Attorney's office. In the game you basically just run errands and whatnot for the lawyers (and potential love interests) there. The better job you do, the more money you get in your paycheck, and if you neglect your tasks for too long you could get fired. Pretty straight forward. I really liked the game. Compared to other games made by Winter Wolves however, it's definitely not one of their best. The story is really interesting, the artwork is great, the gameplay is decent, the little extras you get after you finish a route are pretty cool. But they definitely could have done better. It took such little effort to complete it, and you could literally go on one date with them then the ending would be you getting married?? It just wasn't put together very well... The game took me about 3-4 hours to complete, and that was REALLY milking it. Most of the games I get from ...

I'm really glad that visual novels have for the most part moved past stat raising. I struggle to think there was ever a time when people actually enjoyed spending hours upon hours repetitively juggling stats in a game that was far too easy to fail at with too few rewards for success. Love & Order is the most egregious offender that I've come across yet. Not only is the stat juggling an absolute chore, but there's barely even a story here to justify calling it a visual novel in the first place. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1703301691 The idea of working in a law firm, being privy to interesting law suits, and dealing with all of the drama that they entail, is something that intrigues me. And yet, 90% of the game's play time is spent running gofer for the entire office. Dana spends week after week making photocopies, getting signatures, mailing documents, writing memos, organizing the office, ordering supplies... it's just boring. More boring than actually wo...

I wanted so much to like this game. But wow, this one is a bad VN. And I mean [b]BAD[/b]. I’ve already said on reviews from other Winter Wolves games that all this status raising is in fact annoying because you barely have enough time to interact with the characters you’re pursuing. And Love and Order takes it too far, it’s literally all about status raising, doing boring works. And when you finally get a date with a character, it’s super short, plain, and simply bad written. I swear I don’t want to sound mean. But this VN is clearly a rushed work, and it’s expensive. I don’t think that’s fair to people that pay the full price on a short, barely enjoyable game. Luckily I got my copy on a sale, but even so it feels that I’ve paid more than this VN is even worth of. I’ll continue to play the Winter Wolves VNs, not all their works are bad (some are in fact decent/good) and I still want to play their titles. I think that all VNs are an unique experience to their playe...

This is my first public review, and it was nice time to spend a few hours playing this game. I wish I could come up with more pros for this game, but I seem to end up with more cons instead. Anyhow, this what I think about the game after two playthroughs: --- Pros --- - Nice Art - Aid your employers by helping them out on cases as their secretary within the law firm (People who played Ace Attorney or are new to the Law/Political genre can enjoy this perspective-wise) - Playing a character who engages in a investigative role outside her job description is a good characteristic. - Romantic relationship is not restricted to male characters. You can pursue a yuri/lesbian relationship too. ---Cons--- - Fonts are very cheap fonts and dialogue textbox design is too simple. The colour combination between the text and the box also makes it hard to read over some mid-heavy text on a few occassions. - The Mystery element of the story should be a little more interesting with the tension, and th...

O....M....G.... I spent 2 hours grinding it out balancing 4 coworkers forcing their own work onto me, one of them was forcing me to do work that wasn't even office related, it's his school work. So after over 2 hours of repeating tedious dialog that basically never changes repeating cases and praying again and again for the next date to get an ending finally... I get fired, I get fired for "not doing my job" when all of my coworkers meters are maxed, I never failed a single assignment, I had a seemingly endless array of completed assignments, and my stress was basically never in the 20's at any given moment, I went to all the mindless meetings where my character contimplated suicide to escape on multiple occasions (no seriously even she wanted out that badly) and my work seriously got flushed down the toilet. I don't even know if this game is worth achievement hunting at this point. Came for the story, stayed for the achievements, got nothing out of it besides waisted time. DO NOT BUY ...

For me this game was very disappointing, I didn't feel like there was really any story at all 98% of the time you are just running around doing errands for people and I didn't feel there was any depth to the characters at all. To me the main purpose of the game was to keep your stress level down and make a single character like you by doing errands for them. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone. Very disappointing.

Gameplay is too much like actual work without enough incentive to keep going. Carefully managing your time in the game earns you $10 a week - which runs out very quickly if you need to pay for transport or food. 2 hours of play got me a few quick dates before money started running dangerously low. Great theme and quest text but a missed opportunity as far as visual novels go. I highly recommend Dandelion instead.

This is more of a micro-managing simulator than it is a visual novel. Mind numbing entertainment and a good time killer. If you are able to put out of your mind that there isn't much story or romance involved, you could probably play this and find enjoyment from it. Expensive cards if you want to sell them, easy achievements.. the objectives in order to complete the game are also easy, once you figure it out. I really didn't dislike this game as much as most people did. I do not, however, feel it's worth 11 dollars. Get this on sale for less than 5, if possible. You'll get a lot of play time into it because of the play style, but it is very repetitive. A side note is that the developer, Winter Wolves, have many other titles on Steam that are much better. As much as I liked this, I would have to say it's one of their weaker titles. If you want something in this realm of gameplay - but a little more polished, look into some of their other titles.

Ok, to start: I'm gay and only bought this for Dorothy. Just so you all know where I'm coming from, here; it's always gonna be hard for me to enjoy an otome game, so maybe I'm being unfair. Looking at the other reviews here, though, I don't think that's the case this time. Personally I don't [i]like[/i] stat management sim stuff in visual novels, but I don't necessarily dislike it either. When the ratio of story & character interaction to stat management is as skewed as it is here, though, even someone who likes that stuff would probably have to say it's going too far. This game bills itself on getting to flirt/date with cute characters and solving a mystery, but the scenes are so short, you spend barely any time doing either. What's the point? A few positives: [*]Dorothy! Too many otome games that include routes for female characters are just friendship or are super ambigious; it's nice to see an unapologetic romance route for once. [*]Art is... well, it's really just "okay", but if...

Love & Order comes down to maybe a 50/50 split of schedule management and story. While not the worst offender in its category, having to go through tons of mindless tasks just to make it to a snippet of dialogue is not a fun presentation. It might be worth it if the plot was solid, but unfortunately the writing is quite poor.