Rewards for getting an ending
So good…but
Great game!
Amazing
Diamond collecting
결제 후
Boring
Perfect
ㅠㅠ
One of the best from the studio!
It seems Dangerous Fellows is on of their better known games, so I’m going to take a minute to compare the two. They have a similar structure for progressing through the game and farming gems (which is especially easy if you turn off ads) is done in a similar way. I personally prefer Time of Death a lot more for a few reasons.
- As an adult I prefer having more mature characters to match with (minus Bok, who I will admit is uncomfortably young at 16 when the protagonist is implied to be roughly 20). The cast of DF are all 18 and 17, whereas ToD has characters aged 16, 21, 23, and 27. Not an enormous age range but given the target audience it makes sense.
- There is a ToD character who appears early on in this game who looks like she might turn into this game’s “Scarlett” (mean girl who hates the MC for no good reason and tries to make her life difficult, and there is never any resolution or even a real reason why she is so hostile). I didn’t like how Scarlett was handled in Dangerous Fellows, so I was relieved to see that in this game, they created a character who enters the story playing the Scarlett role, but she turns out to have an entirely different and more sympathetic role in her story.
- I liked the MC much more. In DF, I found myself yelling “what are you doing??” at my screen multiple times when she impulsively went out and explored alone, and the player has no option to decide against it. One of the most challenging things visual novel creators have to deal with is making the main character go along with the plot without making the player feel that they’re being forced to make choices they don’t agree with. But I think good writers are definitely capable of forcing a character into a plot without removing player agency in crucial moments.
I wouldn’t necessarily say that the characters in ToD are “better” than those in DF because there are so many differences in the setting and the dynamics between characters that comparing them seems pointless. Each set of characters fits into the setting for each game. I’d say that the personalities in ToD are more extreme and diverse, but the setting of DF as “Earth, Today” means having a more realistic cast make sense.
Basically, I think that if you liked one game, you’d probably like the other.
Another note: this is not one of the studio’s “spicy” games. I’ve played a few of them, which range from highly suggestive to fully written s*x scenes. This has nothing like that.
You get the opportunity to play two extra scenes with each romanceable character, plus an epilogue for each, but nothing beyond quick kissing has happened in the side stories and while I’ve only played Yeon and Gyeom so far, neither of their endings even concluded with a definite establishment of a relationship. (As someone who’s bordering on aromantic, I really appreciated this, though I know some might disagree).
While I’m at it, my other favorite Storytaco games are Memory Mayhem and Arcana Twilight. MM is the funniest of these games and the characters and story are really engaging, and the main character has way more personality than most. She feels like her own character rather than a stand in for the player, and I really enjoy her for that. (Also, Syd is my favorite guy in any of these games hands down. Give me a guy who cracks jokes and can be arrogant and self deprecating at the same time and has a buddy relationship with the female lead? Yes please.)
Arcana Twilight is structured way differently from these other games, but if you’ve played Obey Me, it’s pretty much identical to that as far as game play mechanics. It also doesn’t have any real “routes”; it’s more like playing as a character who’s now best friends with a bunch of very well written and entertaining characters who happen to be good looking sorcerers. 10/10 would recommend.
The Game
Fun
Love it
I don’t have any coin although I’ve just purchased it!
The loading page
Why so expensive
Cute game but very grindy and expensive
Pros:
- easy to get gems. My first play through I was close to 400 gems but accidentally spend some at late game.
- story is a little different than most otome games.
- MC has an avatar. This is a personal for me, I love seeing mc interact with the world around her, rather than being a self insert.
- no wait time! You can binge read the story. No cool down or nothing… there is a “drawback” to this.
Cons:
- Ads, Ads and more ads. Even though the ads did not bother me as much. It might bother others, this game has a lot of ads.
- gem offers one thing I hate more than ads is offers.
- flavor text locked behind paywall. Usually in these games, mc is overwhelmed by the love interests and some spicy interactions are behind paywalls.
- Looking for a otome game? This isn’t the game for you. While there is obvious hints that the LIs are into you, all expect one treats you like a friend. If you want something more you have to pay for the attention
- gem prices are rather expensive for the little amount you can get.
- free players locked to one route. The game has a ton of endings and it requires you to be close to the one of the LIs. If you binge read the story and don’t pay for romance interactions, mc will get the “bad ending “.
- grindfest, repetitive story and hidden cool down. If you are a free player and want a different ending, you will have to grind for it. Give gifts to the LIs you like and wait 24 hours till you can gift them again. Replaying the story with limited choices had killed it for me.
- story and chapters are short. I wish they were longer and a season 2. Alot of things in this story went unanswered for me.
- translation needs more work. Sometimes I was confused on what mc or one of the LIs (especially yeob) was saying.
Pricing
It got to a point where I had to pay to get the ending where I could further the story with one of the characters. The prologue itself is pricey, outfits and certain lines. And I can’t get invested enough to earn only one of the in-game currency every day, not when the lines cost 100, and the outfits 450. I would honestly buy some if, again, the pricing wasn’t so high.
Again, I loved the prologue, I just can’t see myself paying high prices to get the good ending needed.
⭐️⭐️⭐️
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