Love Notes Reviews

Pros: - Great art, - Cool music, - You can adjust how fast text appears on the screen, - LGBT+ options (same sex dating), which is cool, - Different love interests with unique and interesting personalities, - You can play as a guy or a girl. Cons: - It is difficult to know which option is the right option to pick, to succeed in romancing someone, which makes the game a bit frustrating to play. Picking the right option to impress friends is not intuitive or logical. It doesn't make any empathic or emotional sense, and the characters treat you like an annoying or boring idiot if you choose the 'wrong' option. - The gifts option is quite difficult to win. I got two out of three correct gifts for the love interest Kasumi, despite doing two play throughs. - There's a mean side character who is just described as baldy, which yikes. Being bald doesn't make someone evil. Good bald people exist, and plenty of people suffer from hair loss caused by diseases like cancer and Crohn's disease. - The sole Chinese/Chinese coded character Cassandra (who wears a Chinese dress) is the main bad guy, which is unintentionally racist. - What is with the option that shames you for liking soda? *bursts out laughing* There's nothing wrong with drinking soda. Edited to add: OK, I've reread this review, and I owe the game devs an apology. My criticisms of this game are wrong. There's nothing wrong with the characters being toxic or morally grey. Having morally grey characters doesn't mean the game devs agree with their characters' actions. My previous review's criticisms were caused by my poor media literacy and comprehension skills. That's not the game devs' fault. I'd cautiously recommend this game for anyone who likes villain characters or morally grey characters.

I enjoyed the bit of this game I played through so far. I ended up liking the way the game handled the romances better than the prequel, Love Bites, as it didn't focus quite so much on juggling the five routes at the same time. Each route is not super long, but there's five per main character, and there are 10 total CGs to collect. I'm curious if, like Love Bites, the stories are different depending on who you choose as your main character. I hope [spoiler]Dante[/spoiler] is added as a romanceable route, despite not making the Kickstarter goal! I loved him so much.

I actualy enjoyed this VN, You can choose Male or Female, the non chosen becomes an npc as you are both in the band and are childhood friends. I played as Rachel and did the Valerie route. This is a fun and interesting route, a vampire who never saw herself as a domestic type settling down and them both playing the parent to a part time human girl. I have just completed the Zoe route, which was fun, with them becoming devoted to each other, so much so, that when others tried to take Rachel from Zoe, they had no chance and gave up. The Kasumi route is crazy where you end up competing against your duplicate, It is kind of strange how the game starts and you quickly see that it isn't just you. I have found a few bits are the same on all routes, just a huge difference IN the routes. Soon you see nearly everyone was affected, so you all start to dig into things. Things start happening to you and then you are hit with a sledge Hammer Along the way you get to pick a Romance route and the story builds from there. I found the Valerie route cute and funny in places. I do recommend it. Now off to try another route.

I wish I could recommend this game. But I can't. Writing is frantic and so, confusing. After reading all of the routes, I'm still not sure what villain wanted, who turned MC or who caused amnesia. Romances progress extremely abrupt. One scene you have that flirty tension, next one they already refer to each other as boyfriends/girlfriends and act like they've been in relationship for years. Ending is EXTREMELY rushed. Things are just...happening. Music is mediocre, there's not much variation to characters outfits or emotions, routes are fine (some are kind of interesting even) but suffer same abrupt end as the main storyline. Cameos from Love Bites were fun, though pointless plot-wise. By the way, out of the two games, Love Bites is better - it has more charm and coherent writing. Replaying is booooooring. I know why story split into parts (because the writing is so disjointed, reading it as one story would give you vertigo), but I don't understand why gifting system is even here. It made sense in Love Bites, because you had to earn money to give gifts, but here? Useless. Also, I understand how reusing assets can be advantageous, but this feels like too much. The only saving grace is graphics. Character design is not bad and CGs are VERY pretty. Gave me motivation to read all routes, so I could at least enjoy the end CG. Unfortunately, with all of the problems with the writing, typos and the price, I cannot recommend this game.

Love Notes is set in the same universe as Love Bites, with several characters making a reappearance from the first game, though it's not necessary to have played it to understand the story, as it's not a direct continuation. Instead, there are two new main characters (Rachel and Jesse) which the player can choose, both of whom are part of a band whose last gig went seriously awry ... with supernatural consequences. While they figure out what happened during that gig and deal with the ordinary and supernatural aftermath, the overarching plot scenes are interspersed with the subplot from one of the five available romances, which the player is prompted to choose from a lineup after a certain point in the story. The plot and romance are kept very separate in terms of influence from one to the other, which I didn't mind, as the subplot scenes serve to explore the dynamic between one of the love interests and the main character, as well as the lore of the universe the story is set in. I played all five subplots, albeit only with Rachel, not with Jesse, and I enjoyed interacting with every romantic interest a lot, as they're all vastly different characters with a variety of personalities. The sprites are lovingly rendered, with beautiful CGs to match (one per love interest and main character, so ten in total), though this is of course also a matter of personal preference. My total playtime comes out at about 6 hours; however, I'm a very fast reader and made frequent use of the skip button on replays (there are two "epilogues" available for each romance, and I wanted to see both). There is no unnecessary padding to the story or subplots, which I appreciate, as more isn't always better. Overall, I had a great time reading Love Notes, and would definitely recommend that people who liked Love Bites give this VN a chance as well.

TLDR: too short and lacks a cohesive storyline. Art (without vm18 cgi unfortunately) and writing are good, but the division in scenes deprives the story from a sense of cohesion. Add this to the duration of one route (about 3h) and it's a thumb down. I own most WW games and this isnt one of their best.

[h1]VERY short review[/h1] Uninspiring story, short in length, too few CGs and recycled resources such as background CGs and sprites from other games. The story lacks cohesion and this is only made worse by the menu in between every scene, making it an extremely disjointed experience. [h2]Should you buy?[/h2] Nope, maybe at 2 euros or less if you have nothing else to buy.