Ne no Kami: The Two Princess Knights of Kyoto Reviews

As a crowd sourced game the part 1 moniker missing from the title I'd feel robbed if I didn't buy this and the part 2 in tandem and go through them back to back and given how it's split apart and comments below I'll give this one "No" and "Yes" recommendation for the part 2, a package deal of sorts if you will. Part 1 here really feels like massively outstretched prologue where nothing of real importance happens. And as you can see from the game time I kept losing interest and alt-tabbed to do something else when the game has enough length to be a 6~9h thing at best. The background art is okay but the monster and enemy spritework is just downright early 2000s, not to mention kinetics for sprite work/action vfx is really dated and at times even rely on fmv that scales really badly from the native resolution the game runs at. The relationships between the cast members are also not given any time to develop and are just slammed in, no surprise as you need to deliver what the crowd sourcing probably was paying for, a payoff for their expectations. At least the "flower gardening tips for adults" content is pretty decent but not free which is another minus, but a bonus how it actually connects with the characters growth after and before the scenes. The comedy and antics between the cast members, the decent soundtrack and promise of part 2 waiting in the backlog are the reasons I forced myself through this. So yeah if these types of games are of interest to you, buy the games and the dlc in a bundle/sale.