Trick and Treat - Visual Novel Reviews

This free VN would be nice if there weren't too many Deus Ex Machina and convenient but predictable plot twists and asspulls. [spoiler] The MC has "magical power"? The hateful witch who kills and tortures human for revenge decides to keep the MC alive? Both girls fall in love with the MC after meeting him ONCE? The witch who has been living since 1700 cannot find her own toy after dropping it? The girl suddenly become a freaking transfer student? The cringe, oh my god. And the title drop, while surprise and nicely done with the achivement message popping right when she says it, is extremely forced and cringy[/spoiler]. The art is a hit or miss. Some may like it, but for me, it looks like thing you can come up with a search on Deviantart. The number of good reviews this one gets is crazy. Apparently people here haven't tried any real VN yet.

Very much enjoyed this! Trick and Treat is about Lillian and Ashley who you have to choose which one you can trust in and whether your able to get out of this cursed forest that has therioes of people never to leave once they have entered (reported that people go missing). The Visual Novel has multiple endings with one of them piecing the story together whilst others having different outcomes to the story. I found this very interesting and I loved the depth that the storyline has gone into! Replay value is there too!! Worth checking out if you like Visual Novels and a nice game to 100% on! I hope to play a future Visual Novel from these devs again soon :)

Before I give my review, I just want to give my respect to the devs of Trick and Treat! You are awesome and I can't wait for your next project! Anywho, Trick and Treat is an interesting VN. It surprised me to put it bluntly with it's story and characters. It had, in my opinion, a very interesting story that hooked me to find out more and characters that I had formed close bonds with! In a quick summary of the game's basic plot: You are Axel, a 17 year old highschool student who goes out on Halloween night with his two friends Alfred, and Steven to investigate a strange forest where people have mysteriously disappeared. It's from there that the game is a roller coaster ride of effective atmosphere, tension, and emotions. The music is great and add's to the scenes, the characters are memorable and are easy to get attached to, the story is interesting and emotional, and the overall vibe of the game is dark and lonely. Those last two of which perfectly sync with the themes of the game (Halloween and etc...). Those are the good things but this game does have it's share of flaws. For one, the text is sometimes poorly written and grammatically incorrect at times. And sometimes there are plot points that aren't (or are poorly) explained and story moments in the game that make you go: "Wha? ....Huh what? I don't-I don't understand-". Other than those flaws, I absolutely loved this game and would definitely recommend to everyone. Please, show your support to the makers of this so they can continue to make amazing games! [u]Overall I'd give this game a final verdict of[/u] [h1]8/10[/h1]

It was a pleasure playing this game. Thanks for making this game. Sounds were amazing and the story was fascinating. I loved the secret ending by the way! If you like visual novels, you must play this game! I recommend 10/10! And I think creators of this game should continue. You guys have a ton of potential! Thanks for creating this game. Waiting your next game impatiently!

I loved it. You have to play all of the endings to fully get the whole story.. I now want to see the other novels in the this series and see what they are about. =)

I'm sorry but I literally can't play this any longer, the grammar is awful, the sentences make no sense, if you decide to make a visual novel game at least learn to write basic English.

Personally didn't care for it. The English translation needs a lot of proofreading as it's full of errors and clumsy, awkward phrasing. The story is good enough to keep me interested but the mood often abruptly changes unexpectedly. For example, a scene where you're in a dark forest and fearing for your life and then the main character is suddenly regretting that he's not popular. The story moves way too quickly for me, it doesn't give you time to understand the motivations of the characters on any more than a basic level and then they have sudden unexplained mood swings; changes of heart, etc that make me feel like there's a lot more going on that was just skimmed over. It has potential, but in it's current state feels like a beta or trial version.

Review for the English version: Needs a proper editor. I made it ten minutes in before I quit the game. The translation is pretty bad, full of run-on sentences, misused words, and constantly jumping between past and present tenses. I understand that English is probably not a native language for the development team (judging by the writing in their developer updates), and that's perfectly fine; but if you release a visual novel (i.e. a written work) that's badly written, you're going to get a bad review. Objectively speaking (i.e. not judging by the plot or characters or any of the creative aspects, but purely from a factual stance on the writing and grammar), this game is bad. DISCLAIMER: WHAT I'M GOING TO SAY NEXT IS PURELY MY OWN OPINION. I HAVE NO EVIDENCE FOR ANY OF IT. I find it highly suspicious that the first game from an unknown development team (at least, unknown in the English VN circle) has almost 1500 reviews, and 3 curator reviews, after one month. What's more, 100% of the helpful/recommended reviews are positive, and almost all of them have been voted on 20+ times. The play times of these reviewers vary from 2-3 hours to as much as 13+ hours (which contradicts with the play times of the most recent reviews, some of which are less than 1 hour). Two of the helpful/recommended reviews are almost identical; to paraphrase, they both praise the true ending, and are both one sentence long in total. These are all my unbiased observations, and I have done no further research into these observations to turn them into anything more. Take them for what you will. END DISCLAIMER.

It is a really story. I recommend it if you like stories with very relaxed play style You can play this while you are falling trying to sleep or just wanting to relax a little bit And i have to add: The game has 8 ending,tThe fastest ending(ouf of all 8) can be achived in 10 minutes. However this is not really an ending. It is a fail ending, lets say. Or in gamer terms, it is being "defeated" The game has one ultimate the most positive ending. All other ending are actually building stones for the story for this big bang ending. However you can only have that ending if you go through all other endings first. While you are playing the game, you should save the game at all decision points so later you load and see the other options.

Honestly, this little VN is good. For a free and simple game, its story is a lot better than other paid games I’ve played before. I didn’t liked much the “true ending”, but the essence of the story was really interesting. I’d play another game by those devs, I hope there’s more to come! 6/10.