Our Lovely Escape Reviews

[h1] Our Lovely Escape is quite a “normal” Visual Novel, it has all things a “normal” VN would have but it also has some “un-expecting” points in it where I would say its not “normal”. [/h1] [u] To the Story: [/u] You can chose to be Male or Female and give yourself a Name. Then the Game starts explains a bit about what your doing there and whats your Job and while that you will meet the first of the three Girls (Two Colleagues and your Boss). From there on its up to you which Route you will go for. [u] To the Gameplay: [/u] It has the normal Controls you have in Visual Novels and you have a so called mini game that has todo with you checking and messing around with Emails. (To be precisely the mini game is actually pretty pretty short) [u] Others: [/u] Its kind of Short, you will probably take 1-2 hours for your first Ending if your reading slowly, maybe add another 3 or max 9 hours to get all Endings. It has some Animated CG’s and also only some Nscenes/Hscenes, sadly not many (6 HS and 13 Animated CGs) All Routes/Endings are pretty simple and easy to find out if you read and check carefully, you will get them all. I may should also say somehow all 3 Characters have kinda there own “special thing” what that means is up to you to find out. If you want to know what I think about the “special thing” of them, read on own Spoiler Risk: [spoiler] I’m kinda creeped out by two of them since “Just no..” and probably wont attempt to go for their Routes/Endings but some may like it, so please make up your own choice. [/spoiler] Routes and Endings: There are a lot of Endings, 17 if you count some as well. There are Bad Endings who might are extreme but also Good Endings that are just okay, so you have a “round mix” of Endings. I would recommend it when its half the price or if you don’t expect it to be to “normal”. Also if you want additional help for some Routes and a good looking digital Artbook get that as well. [b] [5.5/10] Points. [/b]

This game wore me off by how many times I stumbled upon Alexis bad ending. I stopped having fun, so I'm basically hoping to replay it again when I forget about it. Tip: watch out on your decisions after the second lunch break, until you make up for her.

I enjoyed that the story arches are short enough that it's easy to see all possible endings without it eating up days and days of free time. Gaming is great but work and life are very time consuming so easy to complete games are a nice fix for that problem.

So I just finished single playthrough so I'm giving my first thoughts. Overall, my biggest issue is simply the lack of length and story. It was quite short, which was rather unexpected. I did enjoy the story but I feel as if the characters could have been presented a bit better. Even though I went down the Alexis route, I would have hoped for a bit more interaction with the other characters. I did enjoy the stressfulness of trying to stay on Alexis's good side while trying to get her to understand the importance of work haha. Music wise I enjoyed some songs alot, there was one in specific that i liked that gave a very cheery vibe. The visuals looked amazing! Overall I'd say it's a great starting point. I think if you could have taken more to time to flesh out the story more and add more scenes then it would have real potential to be a great visual novel!

[h1]Clunky overall, but enjoyable nonetheless.[/h1] I can see where the overall "Mixed" reviews are coming from, but personally I found the game enjoyable. That's all that matters to me, and enjoying the game is all that should matter to you as well, in my opinion. Unfortunately for me, two of the three girls were actually relatable, despite having kinda clunky personalities (Heck, one actually has the same name as I do, for pete's sake). If I'm honest, the characters are what drove me to purchase this game in the first place. After playing all possible routes with the help of a community guide, my waifu rating has Mayu as best girl, with Lissa and Alexis tying as seconds. Here's what I think. I'll try to keep this short. Main characters (aside from m/f protag you play as): Mayu - The shy/intense girl. Endearing, possessive, mysterious. Very mysterious. But like, in a "we honestly don't really know what to add to her"-seeming way. It's kind of sad, I would have loved to see expansion upon this character, even if it wasn't heading into a yandere approach. Lissa - The boss lady. Hypocritical, seems to be in control of everyone who works for her (in more ways than one). Most fleshed-out character of the three women, though still not quite fully rounded out. Alexis - The airhead. Glutton. Childish facade. Not much more can be said. There was maybe 3-4 music tracks but they all were bangin, so I didn't mind much. CGs were nice, felt like I needed more of those in certain scenes less than others that actually had one though. My main issue is probably the super-abrupt endings. The least they could do was fade out into the credits, but one second there's a single, non-elaborative ending sentence and the next second, there's credits. Sometimes it was actually amusing, but most of the time it left me confused. Why crash down when you can bring it down slowly? I don't know, maybe it's just me. Overall, I found this game enjoyable despite its flaws, which I think may be the point?

The tl;dr is if you absolutely must, catch it on sale. If you're undecided, there are better stories with reasonable twists and characterization to them. The content warnings are vanilla sexual situations, exhibitionism, and threat of public exposure. I'd have to summarize this game as "subtlety of a bull in a fine china shop". Its potential is there, but it's almost-immediately scattered by the heavy-handed writing style that makes every single character not so much a character as a collection of unstable or outright psychotic traits. There are also endings, swings in the narrative progression, and decisions made by the cast that lead me to believe first the conclusion was written, and [i]then[/i] the characters were squeezed into that pathway in order to fit the roll needed of them. It'd be harder to explain without breaking into spoilers, but I have to say on a technical level it makes it hard to believe actions taken in the story routes in the game's own logic. It was a trip to read, but I can't see myself taking a second visit to it. School Days is over there if you have a hankering for almost-absurd twists in story & plot.

Okay so I was following this game for a while, put up with the (understandable) delays that lasted for like a year, and obviously bought it as soon as it came out and...eh. Perhaps I just had a misunderstanding what this game/ the gals in the game would be like, heck reading the other review about how the girls were nutjobs actually got me a bit excited because that's exactly what I was looking for, but it's very..tame? I cant' speak for the whole game as I only achieved two endings of the same route but that was enough to make me lost interest to be honest. The story/ and the girls them self are bland with a little quirk that I guess is supposed to be the "Psychological horror" aspect of this game, but those quirks seem forced/ not well written or explained. All in all the story just feels extremely fast paced with no real depth/ reason to care about the outcomes. The art is pretty nice tho, don't expect much in the way of 18+ content, but still pretty nice...soundtrack is also pretty decent. Oh and I reckon I should give props that they made the mc character's gender up to the player, don't see that often but I do feel like that's what lead to the lackluster cg scenes. Almost feel bad for doing this because a bit of the story revolves around the company responding to alot of negative reviews to their latest game but...well just not for me.

I played this so you don't have to. Be warned that THIS REVIEW SPOILS THE GAME HEAVILY, SO IF YOU WANT TO REMAIN UNSPOILED, MOVE ON. Production quality is decent. It's all text based with no vo, but the sprites are good with some animation in the CGs. Sound is alright. Only problem is that the characters and plot aren't nearly as good. Characters first. Mayu: She's the first route I did. She's a homeless person with laughable social skills. In routes other than hers, she serves as Lissa's personal hitman. She has some weird fascination with dolls, but she mostly just comes across as a weird, violent, crazy person. In fact, she's the only one of the three to straight up [i]murder[/i] you if you reject her early in the character route. This is compared to a person who got convicted of [i]manslaughter[/i]! In addition, the game decides to give you the shocking swerve that she is secretly rich and has been investing it at the very end of her good ending, even though she can barely form a single coherent sentence. What? All around, pretty much a one-note violent moron. Moving on. Alexis: I did her route last. She's the one who got convicted of manslaughter. I actually liked this character only because she has a fun personality and opposes Lissa, at least in the common route and her route. In the other two, she apparently forgets that she has a conflict with Lissa, and does what she says anyway. Lissa also uses her as a hitman in one ending. Maybe Lissa used her magical mind control sex to bring her back in line. Anyway, Alexis is your second violent person in this game. Lissa: She's the villain of the game, who wins in every ending. I didn't really have an opinion of her in the common route. Once you enter a character route, though, she shows that she kills/kidnaps people who defy her. Unless she doesn't. She also needs to personally approve workplace relationships. I would think that would be HR's job if they even cared, but HR doesn't exist in this game. Even though flavor text says other people work at this office, but we never know what they do, or what Lissa thinks of them. Lissa would think something of them, because she uses her magical mind control sex to get people to do what she says while looking for new recruits, unless she doesn't. Her route also tells you that she's a camgirl out of nowhere. So that's fun. The MC: He's your typical anime loser protagonist. He is very inconsistent. In some endings, he is very assertive and smart about saying what he wants to happen, taking a stand to Lissa by quitting, leaving the situation, and surviving. Which she doesn't really care about. Unless she does. In others, he is very gullible or lethally stupid and pays dearly for it by either dying or getting caught by Lissa's magical mind control sex. I have no sympathy for him. So, the plot. The hour-long common route is your typical slice of life. Alexis is the fun-loving one, Mayu is the quiet one, and Lissa lords over the two, and only those two, because the other workers don't exist as far as the story is concerned. Which is just as well, because the visual quality of the three women is what the budget went into. Whatever. Lissa also tells you during this route that she needs you to do a minigame to deal with her spam mail. On my first try, I took it seriously, ignoring emails from fans asking questions with obvious answers (I hear you make games for women. Do you also make games for lesbians?) or emails that need more context or an authentication code from the sender for security reasons (I need I new game key. Can you give me another one?). Turns out this isn't what I was supposed to do. I only need to reply positively to people asking respectful questions about the game, and delete troll emails. Whatever. Each of the routes follow a pattern. The girl goes home with you, and you two have sex. Then you have a non-interactive date with the girl. You can end the route early if you respond negatively immediately after the date. Mayu murders you with a lamp, Alexis just leaves, and Lissa enslaves the MC with her magical mind control sex. If you get past this, you get a few more choices to influence your girl's opinion, until you reach the ending of the route. If you do badly, you get shivved on Lissa's orders or forced into slavery by Lissa. If you do okay, Alexis will kill you/dump you, Mayu dumps you, and Lissa uses her magical mind control sex to get the MC obsessed with her camgirl account. Or maybe the MC is just an idiot, I don't know. In the good endings, you actually do get a typical "happily ever after" with your girl of your choice. I couldn't bring myself to really care about the good endings, because all the girls are totally evil anyway. Lissa is the most important and infuriating character in this story, the other two girls are just there to be her sex toys. What she does in one ending goes completely against what she may do in another ending, even if she is dealing with the same circumstances. For example: If you do poorly in Mayu's ending, she says Mayu was fired and blames you for for "damaging" her, but lets you go back to work without fuss. But if you do poorly in Alexis' ending, she does the same thing, except SHE HAS MAYU COME OUT AND BRAZENLY MURDER YOU IN HER OFFICE. This makes me wonder if the workers the game pretends doesn't exist until convenient are all deaf. What bothers me even more is that Mayu had to walk over to Lissa's desk, take a knife out, walk over to MC, and kill him, all in his sight. MC thinks OHKO'ing Lissa and opening a locked door is more important than the CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER advancing towards his throat. Still, this is nothing compared to the guy's stupidity when Alexis and Mayu tells him to come over to a very dark and totally not suspicious alley when he [b]knows[/b] Lissa's out to get him in another ending. There's another ending where Mayu calls in Lissa to do a home invasion at MC's apartment. They tie him up and say that he will stay that way - Mayu and Lissa will handle his Number 1s and 2s, as well as feed him. Lissa doesn't do this in any other ending. If Lissa loves using her sex-controlled slaves into murdering people she doesn't like, then why not tell the very capable Alexis to head over and kill everyone in sight? Also, why go through the trouble of keeping a prisoner anyway? She doesn't actually care about Mayu's feelings, and keeping a prisoner takes a lot of work, especially if you tie him up and keep him in his bedroom, WHEN THERE'S A WINDOW NEARBY. Presumably its so she can keep control over Mayu, but her magical mind control sex can do that anyway with very little upkeep. The most annoying thing about Lisa is that she can apparently keep Mayu and Alexis in line because she dated them in the past, and is teasing a continuation of their relationship in the future. How does this not cause a rivalry between Mayu and Alexis? Does she put out enough to keep them from rebelling or fighting each other? Even if she does, how could this stop these very unstable and violent individuals from murdering each other out of jealously, especially since Lissa never fights people herself? Alexis kills the MC in one ending because she loves him and thinks he betrayed her at some point. What is Lissa's plan if Alexis tried this against her? Is she just going to send Mayu after her, or is she going to use some magical mind control sex? Does she use this magical mind control sex on other co-workers? If so, where are they when Lissa wants a hitman? If not, where are they when Lissa has MC killed in her office? If you're buying for ero, don't bother. If you want something more like Higurashi, don't bother. The game has so little to offer for either interest that it really isn't worth buying at full price. Wait for a 50% off sale, at least.

This one was a bit of a mess; a perfect example of how not to go down the yandere road. Everyone seems pretty normal at first glance, but then they can just snap or start acting really strange out of nowhere. (Like when [spoiler]the protagonist pushes one of the girls down on his bed and says that he loves her, despite there being no earlier indications of that[/spoiler], or when [spoiler]the boss at work decides that the protagonist needs to die just because a coworker quit[/spoiler], or when [spoiler]two of the coworkers stab the protagonist to death in the middle of the street in broad daylight after he refused to do a live sex show on cam with 20000 people watching[/spoiler], or... Well, you get it.) It's clear that the developer was trying to implement some sort of shock value, but it just comes off as desperate and feels really stupid. A few other complaints: - The character sprites and CG art don't match very well. They kinda seem like different people. For example, at one moment a character looks like [url=https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/1905/ejtXMS.jpg]this[/url] and the next, they look like [url=https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/8257/EQN4QV.jpg]this[/url]. - There are a bunch of CGs that are animated for no reason (the characters aren't actually moving in the scene) and a bunch of CGs that would make sense to animate (the h-scenes, mainly) are not. - Choices are completely nonsensical. For example, which girl the protagonist ends up sleeping with and falling in love with is literally determined based on what you decide to eat for lunch. - Some of the endings are extremely sudden. Just when things start heading in a somewhat interesting direction, BOOM, the game just abruptly ends and you're thrown back to the title menu). I honestly can't recommend this VN to anyone. It wasn't even weird in a funny way.

Hey, you wanna play a visual novel where you can bang your completely unlikeable coworkers? 'cause, good news! Here's your visual novel where you can bang your seriously unlikeable coworkers. On the surface this looks like a promising game. The art is shiny and appealing, there's a free R18-Patch, you can play as male or female, and there are multiple endings! Sounds and looks good, right? Only problem is, not a single character in this game is remotely likeable. Now, I can expect to recoil a little at a character's behaviour during a BAD END where I'm getting killed, but I don't understand why I'm still getting scowled at and treated poorly during GOOD ENDs. So, not only was the journey through the story unpleasant-- it was ultimately unrewarding. And even the BAD ENDs didn't quite land correctly. [spoiler] Why do I get murdered for a coworker quitting in one route, but she quits in another route in almost the same exact manner and I don't get murdered? Why? Because I ordered Bibimbap once? What? [/spoiler] The characters felt flat throughout the entire visual novel. There were moments where Lissa occasionally felt like the writing team was having a good day, but it never lasted long. Mayu received the worst treatment, and has about as much characterization as the ramen she eats, and as a result was the least likeable character of the three. Also, as of writing this review the gallery is bugged. I went through every route and the last of Lissa's CGs will not unlock, despite me having seen it multiple times at this point. Also, the skip button doesn't work either, so I hope you like slamming the ENTER button as fast as you can to get through the flat writing. In short, consider this review my two weeks notice. I will return to collect my things and the latest achievement (which currently has an unlock rate of 0%), and will be moving on to a hopefully better office with coworkers that don't make me want to pull out my organs.