Experimentation Reviews

Overall, I think this is probably worth it if you like short form VNs like I do. Its really just OK. There's certainly a lot of English editing work that could be done, especially to The Mirror (which is unfortunately the first story). Overall, I think despite the short form, and some of its narrative flaws, the game is good enough to give it a recommend. Best Friend is probably the best IMO. 6/10.

Excellent visual novel at an affordable price. The soundtrack and drawings are also good. 8/10 my rating

A good game, for one euro you get 5 interesting stories. My favorite was "Best Friend"... Good luck to the developer for other games in the future! =))

AI art but stories are not that bad. The content is vaguely familiar and reminiscent of old SF short stories popular 40 years ago. Some parts are missing translation. Hard to say if anything here is original work. Still was OK in the end.

I was drawn to this because of the art and how cheap it was. I was 0,99 when I bought it. Well it was on sale for 0,49. But now it's 2,99... they upped the price. But no matter what the price is, I'm still investing my time in this. It's just not very good. The writing is bad. Full of grammatical errors. As you can read my own writing in English isn't that great either. The game is about the same level as me. Maybe a bit worse. But I didn't write a visual novel, did I? I really liked the art but I'm reading it's AI generated. I don't know how people know that as it looks good to me. In short, the game is not worth your time. I wouldn't call it terrible but there are so many good free visual novels out there, why invest time in something unpolished like this?

The first time I played this I found many negative reviews, but now I see more positive reviews. The truth is that this cheap game is worth playing as long as you're not such a perfectionist since, indeed, there are some mistakes. I liked some sound effects and music, others I didn't. The Art is good in general, at least I liked the images, you could even use them as wallpapers/artworks. Sometimes the Russian language is mixed with English randomly. The translation is NOT entirely correct, however the stories are understandable. They're short but entertaining. I liked them all except the last one. It has 4 interesting and different stories. [spoiler] Stories about parallel worlds, money and power, virtual world + approach with AI and about failure, depression and disappointment (honestly, I'm glad "J" is dead). [/spoiler] I can't say much about the last story where the previous 4 (or elements of them) are mentioned but they're NOT related at all. There are some things that are NOT fully explained and that's why it makes no sense to me. I didn't like it. In all these short stories there's a cause with its due consequence, so I'd say in a way they leave you with a moral. 85/100

I was excited for the art I saw on Stream, but this was all made by AI. I actually think the stories were made by AI, too. At least that's how they read. Basically, this is what would happen if AI created games.

Experimentation is a perfect example of how not to make a visual novel. I'm not a fan of making long reviews, so to keep it short and simple: - The game will frequently turn your language into Russian, because the developer just didn't bother translating certain lines and dialogue. - The actual translation was likely just google translate, because it is appalling. There is likely at least one error in each line of text. - The music choice is very poor, and has no transition at all between segments, and will cut off in the middle and just begin the next track. - The story is super bland, predictable, and nothing special. I liked the idea of having 4 small separate stories leading into the final story at the end, but it doesn't matter if the idea is good, if the execution if poor. - The art is practically nonexistent. Including backgrounds, there's maybe 15 images in total throughout the entire game. Most of the images aren't anything special, and wouldn't surprise me if it's just A.I. generated content. While there is so much more I could go into detail about, seeing as the developer didn't put very much effort into his game, I'll respond with my review in kind. I would not recommend this game even if it was free, I would not even recommend this game if you were paid to play it, because the cost that is your time, is far higher than the price it is. Take your money, and your time elsewhere, because this is a disaster of a game.

EXPERIMENT #31 OBJECTIVE: Evaluation of the newly-released visual novel [i]Experimentation[/i] DATA AND METHODS: Bought on Steam and read through in under an hour RESULTS: Mixed to negative as the game is too short for the plot(s) to develop properly, not that great narrative-wise, and there are ~3 CGs, not counting the one that's also the game's cover image CONCLUSION: Underwhelming FOLLOW-UP/FURTHER RESEARCH: Wait for a lower price or skip altogether.