Oh, AND you have to beat it twice to unlock the second act. All it was aiming to do in this first act was get you acquainted with the characters, and make you care about them. What you don’t realize is that the game planned this from the beginning. That’s right - already this game was only marketed to people 18+, AND the first part is boring, AND probably the only people that bought it in 2003 were otaku looking for a new source of moe. It is an eroge with awful pacing and at the end you get a terribly cringeworthy H-scene with the girl of your choosing. Every single one of these tropes have been done before. The first arc, Extra, is your run-of-the-mill rom-com and is quite frankly pretty awful the first time you play it. However, after finishing it, I can say that those droning mindless Muv-Luv fans are right in a way few people will ever be. At first it is so underwhelming that I almost gave up several times. On the contrary - multiple sources called it ‘the greatest story ever told across all mediums.’ So naturally, I took it with a grain of salt when I decided to give it a chance. When researching them, I had literally never seen one review that described MLA as bad in any way. Alternative is the highest ranking VN on both the American Visual Novel Database, and the Japanese erogamescape. You could even consider it as merely a really badass powerpoint. Visual novels have no gameplay, only static characters and backgrounds with voiced dialogue and occasional player choice. Have you ever had a series that has been hyped to you by so many people that you have a negative prejudice going into it, and you want to dislike it? Muv-Luv is a series of visual novels that contains three arcs - Extra, Unlimited, and Alternative. The premise is probably the hardest sell of any game ever - the epitome of a slow burn - so I will try my best to make this clear. The Muv-Luv trilogy is a statistical impossibility. (reposting my old muv-luv entry from my best works list as a standalone essay)
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