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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 5.7 hrs on record (5.3 hrs at review time)
Posted: 6 Jan, 2023 @ 4:02pm

Synergia Steam page mentions several features within the game that I absolutely didn't encounter whatsoever.
"Nearly 100 unique backgrounds and CGs" I don't know where that 100 came from but there are not even 15 CGs total to be generous.
"Choices that deeply affect the protagonist journey", choices are only three and just the last one matters in terms of different ending purposes.
"20+ characters with interesting backgrounds and personalities", there are five relevant characters for the first 5 hours of gameplay and the other 15 gets introduced into the story in a rush, altering the event's flow in a confusing and overwhelming way.
There is no dub, only background music.
Text's font is way too shrinky with no zoom options.
Lots and lots of big words are thrown all over the place to describe what the hell is happening within the plot, forcing me to annoyingly backtrack to get a glimpse about the ♥♥♥♥ is going on.
There is a truly poor "mental visualization" of the events, sooo many detailed descriptions which are making everything so hard to "imagine" in my head. Show more, tell less.
Kinda bumped down from this VN, the only things worth saving from the ♥♥♥♥ show are the two main characters. It started with the right vibe, but already by the half of it, it was already turning into a mind-bending mess.
Get it on sale for some angsty lesbian intercourse which is never a bad thing, but don't expect too much from everything else. 4.5/10
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Developer response:
Radi  [developer] Posted: 6 May, 2023 @ 7:31am
Hello Shibe. I don't think I've ever responded to a steam review as I don't like to interfere in the review section where I think the community should have the spotlight. I won't comment on any of the subjective parts of your review, even if, as is commonly done in negative reviews, it's worded in the most degrading way possible.

In any case, for other people reading this review I'd like to point out that the game does indeed have much, much more than 15 CGs and that the 100 unique CGs and Backgrounds line isn't a lie. I worked hard for 4 years to finish all of them myself and I can easily count them in my assets folder, you can check them in the game's gallery if you want. The gallery doesn't contain all of them, so I don't know if the number reaches 100 there, but it can't be too far. During the gameplay I think it might be closer to 200 if we count the variations.
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