Love Delivery is a stat raising, visual novel developed by Cometsoft Inc. and published by Smilegate. You take on the role of Hyunsoo (whose name can be changed), a 22-year old man working as a part-time delivery man for a fast food place. On the way to deliver an order in the rain, Hyunsoo is hit by an oncoming car, which forces him to stay in the hospital and consequently, lose his job. It turns out that the driver is Juhee Ban, a young woman who's working at a cafe. She feels so bad for Hyunsoo that she ends up taking care of his hospital bill and even offers him a job as a delivery man for her cafe, after finding out that he lost his previous job. Knowing that he has rent and bills to pay, Hyunsoo happily takes up Juhee's offer. However, as he's getting used to his new job, he meets up with an old nemesis from back in middle school. Latte (formerly known as Hana) Kwan is a frequent customer at Juhee's cafe who's aspiring to become an actress. As she bumps into Hyunsoo, she's surprised but secretly pleased to see him again, thinking of using Hyunsoo again as she did back in school. Between the ever-present kindness from Juhee and the verbal (sometimes, slightly physical :o) attacks from Latte, can Hyunsoo better himself and find love?

In regards to the gameplay, it's primarily a stat raiser. You can choose to raise stats, such as appearance and dialogue, and stat requirements need to be met in order to progress in the story. There's a common route, and after you get past it, you'll have the choice to pursue either Latte's or Juhee's route. While Latte only has one ending (assuming that you meet all the required stats), Juhee has both true and bad endings. Also, there's a general bad ending. In addition, 16 episodes of After Stories that follow the events after Latte's true ending can be viewed from the Main Menu. Lots of CGs are present along with replayable episodes and a full-on soundtrack and Korean voice acting (Hyunsoo isn't voiced, though). There are Steam achievements as well, and they count towards a user's global total.


I must admit that after reading the store page description for Love Delivery, I was intrigued to play the story, and since it has won some awards, I figured that it must be quite good. Thus, I was curious to try out this game. XD

First, the story and main characters hooked me in. Hyunsoo is definitely portrayed as the loser type since it's mentioned that he only has a GED and is struggling to make ends meet with part-time work. Although I'd normally find this kind of main character unappealing, I decided to give the story a chance and see how it goes. When there's the accident between Hyunsoo and Juhee, that's when events pick up. Hyunsoo's life takes a change in a different direction, and then there's the possibility that he might have a beautiful woman fall in love with him, which he never thought would happen. I liked Juhee right away because of her genuinely kind personality and compassion towards others. I went for her route first, and I like that there's another side to her in that she has trust issues with men. There's actually a justifiable reason for it, and I enjoyed reading about her past and such as well as seeing how her story wraps up.

Then there's Latte, the bully from Hyunsoo's middle school days. (PSA - Bullying, harassment, etc., is never justified for any reason.) For purposes of completion, I went for her route afterwards although I found it hard to swallow initially. I really dislike the love interests who were/are bullies. However, as I read her route, I found myself understanding why her personality is the way that it is although it still doesn't justify that she bullies/bullied Hyunsoo. From how the game sets up the story, it's fairly obvious that it wants you to pursue Latte's route since it even goes so far as to add Steam achievements and after stories for her. Anyway, after finishing her route and reading all the after stories (which is why it took me a while to complete the game), I ended up liking Latte and felt happy that she was able to resolve all her past traumatic issues and have her happily ever after with Hyunsoo.

As for the writing, it's paced fairly well, and it helps that stat raising is present to give a break between episodes. As I played the English-translated version, though, I have to point out that it's rough. Even though the story is understandable, it definitely could use a native English speaker to proofread the text, as there are awkward phrases, typos, and such.

With the gameplay, I enjoyed the stat raising part even though it can be a hit-or-miss for some. It was fairly doable to meet the required stats to proceed to the next episode as long as you can manage Hyunsoo's stress and are careful about the money spent on raising stats. All of the Steam achievements unlocked for me as well. The only achievement that can be troublesome is the one for earning a lot of the money by relying on bitcoin. You may very well have to reload a save file and such before getting that achievement.

Regarding the art, it's great to look at, with the sprites and backgrounds drawn and colored well. The sprites are in the typical anime style. If there is one criticism that I would make, it's that I felt that Latte's and Juhee's chests were exaggerated in size, but this is a personal preference since I like realism more. The CGs are especially done well, but I should point out that at the time of this review, I'm missing some CGs in the CG gallery even though I completed all the stories.

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Also, I should note that a few of the CGs have female nudity or show revealing clothing, so do keep that in mind.

In regards to the music, the tracks are lovely to listen to, with there being a variety to suit the appropriate mood and such. My favorite tracks would have to be a couple from Juhee's route since they're more in a classical tone, and I have a preference for it. ^^ Of course, I must not forget to mention the Korean voice acting. I enjoyed that it's present, and I especially liked listening to Juhee's voice acting. Latte's was on the more annoying side at times, but considering her personality, this kind of makes sense. Still, I appreciate that there's plenty of voice acting, even from minor characters.


Would I recommend Love Delivery? If you're looking for a visual novel in which you can date beautiful women (yes, I know that there's an audience for it XD), don't mind stat raising, and/or want to get those Steam achievements, it's worth checking out. For the asking price, I feel like it's worth it, especially after reading the sweet but dramatic after stories. Of course, it could use some polishing, like proofreading of the English translation, but the story is great and fun.

Finally, I want to give a major thank you to Smilegate for the review key. It was quite the journey to read this fun story, and I'm excited for any such stories in the future. ^^

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