Gu Yi should be the luckiest man alive. The protagonist of FMV courting sim Love Is All Round is as much as his eyeballs in debt, a little bit of a creep, and a character black gap – however he nonetheless has a bunch of drop-dead attractive women competing towards one another to pay his payments and invite him to remain of their multi-million greenback properties. It’s all proper for some, eh?
Chinese language dev Intiny says it needs to understand the “desires” of its gamers, and seeing as you’ve in all probability bought extra likelihood of being struck by lightning than being pursued by one of many girls on this recreation, it’s clearly delivering on its ambitions.
The gameplay right here will not be authentic: you watch pre-recorded motion pictures play, after which choose choices which department the narrative. Sometimes you’re in a position to discover your surroundings to be taught a bit extra in regards to the characters you’re interacting with, however you’ll largely end up choosing paths which alter the course of the story.
Every choice you make will affect your relationships, and amusingly your main objective seems to be to maintain your entire choices open, as you’ll solely unlock new chapters when you’ve got a robust sufficient bond with all the characters concerned. We discovered this irritating as a result of it seems like there’s a really particular path the sport needs you to take, and also you hit a brick wall in the event you deviate from that.
Thankfully, you’ll be able to rapidly rewind to earlier scenes and see all the completely different outcomes. In a single chapter, after being rapidly promoted to advertising and marketing supervisor by a phenomenal businesswoman who we actually simply met, we took a shady payoff from a rival agency and bankrupted our new sweetheart. Love is merciless!
The entire characters are assigned very particular personalities, from the mental artwork seller to the kooky bunny boiler, and the actresses do a great job of utterly exaggerating their roles – though, as is frequent in Chinese language tv, a few of voices are literally dubbed (regardless that it’s all in Mandarin all through).
The story’s ridiculous, but it surely’s to not be taken significantly, and it’s the type of factor you’ll be able to play with mates simply to expertise all the foolish outcomes. We had been howling with laughter once we tried to tape up one of many lady’s ripped attire. If that seems like one thing you’d additionally take pleasure in, then fill your boots.
