Forbidden Love Reviews

As on par with a Dogenzaka Labs game, don't expect too much. I was actually pretty excited to play this game because of the forbidden-taboo aspect of the romance, but this let me down so bad. The story is.... short, but it feels excruciatingly long? The translation for the dialogue is SUPER awkward and makes every line read as some low budget early 2000s drama that never got off its feet. It's chalked full of typos as well. You can say a lot about the Dogenzaka Labs games, but the art is never unpleasant, even though everyone is a copy and paste of each other. Just different colors. I've only played Mike's story so far since his route is the main story, but it just wasn't good at all.. It was an awkward, unromantic word soup that couldn't inspire even a little bit of thrill in me, and every turn is predictable. The MC is meek and submissive, which allowed for tons and tons of misunderstandings and the ML's terrible attitude really didn't help either. Everything has flimsy reasonings for happening, but I will say I did kinda like the [spoiler]plot involving Amelia lying about the severity of the tumor in her womb. I thought it was a pretty intense plot point from most otome games that don't go that far. [/spoiler] There's a skip-to-the-next-day intimacy scene, but the build up to it is honestly so jarring I'm glad I didn't get to experience anything. Another day, I'll torture myself to get all the achievements for this game, but that won't be today... or tomorrow... or next week... If you're determined to own this game because you're some sort of glutton for punishment or you simply want to add another otome title under your belt, at the very least, only buy this game while it's on sale!