I'm gonna go ahead and actually use this space to get all my gripes about modern 100% Orange Juice out there, regardless of what the new (and yes, you're new if you started playing post Mio's release) players think.

This game is in such a pathetic state, it's insane. The core gameplay is just as fun as it's ever been, but the game as a whole has been mistreated by Hono and everyone else at Fruitbat Factory for years now. It's painfully obvious to anyone who's been around for a long time, such as myself, that nobody who worked on this game actually cares about it anymore. I'd be willing to bet that Valve cares more about Team Fortress 2 than anyone at Fruitbat Factory cares about 100% Orange Juice.

These days, the game is quite literally just a dumping ground for Hono's bad ideas and even worse character designs. Dark Lulu, Mother Poppo, and Sweet Creator look like stuff that you'd find in the depths of Deviantart. The game is more unbalanced than it has ever been in the over 10 years that it's been out. Both of the Ellies, Hero Kai, Cook, and Mimyuu (Jailbird) still steamroll nearly every single match, the base game characters and older DLCs are being left to rot such that only masochists and people who are dedicated to a character they like (like I am with Fernet) play them anymore. Passives and Hypers are becoming so long and convoluted that they're struggling to fit all the text on the cards themselves. Take a look at Malt's passive and Hyper if you need an example of that.

The grinding for cosmetics is insane, it's on par with gacha games. You can't take a break from the game if you want to have all the cosmetics, despite the fact that we have a section of the shop dedicated to retired events, since you guys never retire any events.

The name of the game is "100% Orange Juice" in reference to how the roster was comprised entirely out of characters from existing Orange_Juice games such as QP Shooting, Flying Red Barrel, Suguri, etc. The exceptions of course were Kai, Marie Poppo, and Tomomo, but that was okay as they were all key players in the game's original campaign.

Disregarding clone characters, there's 7 Sora characters (Sora, Alte, Sham, Nath, Mira, Tsih, and Star Breaker/Hoshino Reika). Disregarding clone characters, there's 12 Flying Red Barrel characters (Marc, Peat, Fernet, Sherry, Islay, Flying Castle, Seagull, Merchant, Tequila, Lone Rider, Mescal, and Malt.) Now, disregarding Kai, Poppo, and Tomomo since they've been here since day one, guess how many OCs are in the game? Fifteen. (Mio, Ellie, Lulu, Arnelle, Maynie, Watty, Pomeranius, Halena, Cook, Hyper Ellie, Kai (Hero), Mother Poppo, Dark Lulu, Sweet Creator, and Mio (Festive).

In a game that was meant to be a celebration of the other Orange_Juice titles, it's pretty disrespectful to the history of your games that Deviantart-tier OC slop would outnumber the amount of reps that Flying Red Barrel has, that Sora has, and that Alicianrone has (don't even get me started on how depressing Alicianrone's fate is). All of the OCs aside from the OG 3 should be removed as they quite literally go against the name of the game itself. As for the rest of the roster, every single clone character aside from the ones you get from buying other games, like QP (Dangerous) or Sora (Military) should've just been cosmetic DLC instead of further bloating the already massive roster. It's not like that's unreasonable to ask, you've done cosmetic DLC once before with the Suguri and Hime winter costumes.

I might sound harsh here, but this comes from a love for this game, I've been around since almost the very beginning, since just about the time Syura and Nanako came out, and to see what was at the time my favorite game ever fall from grace this hard is just so sickening, demoralizing, and depressing. You know what the worst part is? Writing this all down is a complete waste of my time, nothing's gonna change for the better. More OC bloat will be added, the game will further devolve into the mess that it's been for years now, and people will continue to spam me with jester awards for daring to care about a game that at one time, meant a lot to me.

Thanks Hono, and thanks Fruitbat Factory for ruining such a great game. This is not the game I once loved, I want to go back to 2014.

(And yes, I know this will become outdated by future DLC releases, shut up. The main points are still true.)

This game is a disaster on all fronts and doesn't even work.
-My paddle gets thrown off screen randomly with no control
-My paddle gets treated to the same movement as the puck and I can't control it
-Specials instantly end and do nothing
-Projectiles hit you even when you clearly dodged them
-Log/History is broken
-Skip is bound to X instead of CTRL like 99% of the other Visual Novels in existence
-No options other than screen resolution and music volume
-No manual saving

Genuinely do not buy this, I know you saw the "Unhinged Gensokyo Odyssey Quotes" video by Drewski but this game isn't even worth the small price of $5 at it's current state.