Elpizo
kiwifarms.net
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- Dec 30, 2018
I see PriPara in that screencap.Alright, so all this discussion about that magical girl visual novel made me actually want to try it, and it's honestly... not that bad.So really, this is just a boring old western take on the magical girl genre, sold as a progressive visual novel. I hope this stupid "review" was at least interesting to you guys. I'm gonna go back to it and shamefully admit that I am at least a bit interested.First off, it's still a demo so I don't know how much of the current game's content is going to be changed. Obviously they're going to add that irritating voice acting, but aside from that, they might (I hope they do) change the backgrounds. Half of them are what seems to be generic stock images for VN backgrounds...
And the other half, Google Sketchup models. The same kind of stuff amateur webcomic artists use on Webtoons.
Someone already pointed out the Dangan Ronpa screenshots in one of the backgrounds a few pages ago, so i won't get into that. But it seems like hiding lol funny memes in backgrounds is a bit of a reoccurring theme. (The image in the TV on the second image is a reference to that one gif from an old anime called Cipher the Video. Though i'm not sure who the character with white hair is.)
The writing itself is also not as obnoxious as I thought it would be. It reads like a generic magical girl story, complete with cheesy transformation lines that contain a various mix of words like "crystal", "heart", "sparkle", "twinkle" or whatever else. They added a pseudo-contemporary twist by making the transformations rely on magic smartphones (complete with normal smartphone apps) that turn into some sort of Apple watch when the characters are transformed. Though the use of - or rather lack of - punctuation is very distracting. Half of the dialogues are either missing periods at the end of sentences, or have no commas.
Again, I was expecting worse with the dialogue, and all the "queer" stuff that is used as a selling point on the site is not shoved on the readers' faces, at least not at the beginning of the story. I'm 3 or 4 chapters in (they're not too long) and all we got so far is two hints that Sophia (blue haired girl) is a lesbian: one character saying something like "Don't you know Sophia is..." and being interrupted, and the main character commenting to herself about how she's not into guys. The characters' sexual orientations are only talked about in terms of who they might or might not be into. Clover (the "porcelain doll") being trans also isn't brought into the equation, though I'm sure that's something that comes up later in the game, or in her romance route.
Now, the one character we've all been focusing on: Zacharie (the non-binary character). He's never referred to as "they" in the game, always as "he". Furthermore, he's often called a guy explicitly. He's just presented as a feminine guy who isn't ashamed of that; i'm totally ok with it.
And finally, the magical girl outfits are tacky but unremarkable, and the OST is also pretty generic itself.
Edit: In an ironic twist of events, Zacharie is from Canada. Quebec, in fact.
Oh, and Korilakkuma, kisekae dolls and a DreamSelfy avatar.
And like Danganronpa, this VN is gonna get sued for copyright infringement.