The Merchant Memoirs

Finishing this as soon as I bought the game. Once again, another good Visual Novel developed by Afterthought Studios. The art for this VN is good and really simple. The atmosphere formed when it is combined with the gentle and relaxing BGM at certain scenes is just great. I find myself lost listening to the BGM and forgetting to press "Next" until the text changed due to auto-forward. During the serious scenes, the BGM is nicely matched as well. The character interactions between Engel and his Guardian Angel are funny and I like it. Story wise is good, to see the thought process of Engel and the choices he makes in the progress of the story. It is definitely much better to read it again in New Game+! Definitely worth getting there along with the twist. No doubt this being a good VN, there are a couple of minor flaws in the game but that does not hinder me and my experience being positive. Giving this a 7.5/10! Do get this game and play it

Sad waste of an interesting premise... Despite being so short it was a slog to get through. Spends way too long on an absolute jerk of a protagonist blabbering on about blempyblomp trade sanctions in flimbleflorp, and then actual plot events get one sentence. Within three text boxes I'd remarried my wife, spent months with her then found out she became evil entirely offscreen. THEN IT JUST ENDS Then you have (I kid you not) go play new game plus in a heckin kinetic novel. Play through the same unchanging choiceless story again, because the skip button doesn't work. Now, for no logical reason, saving an unrelated person's life at the start of the game means your wife reveals her evilness earlier, and you can get the good ending. Which is just one sentence that you married the angel instead, and had a child. At no point in the game does your protagonist ever remember he had children with the other wife in his other life, or express any concern he just retconned them out of existance for ...