Venus Vacation Prism #2

Chapter 2. Honoka.

So I really like the game, but of course there are some cons.
For starters, the branding on the pictures. I mean, look at this, it’s ridiculous!

Yes Koei Tecmo, we know the game is yours. At least in Stellar Blade we have the option to turn this off. Not here. We can’t do anything with it. Tone it down Tecmo! Make it smaller and bring it down. It so ridiculous far up the image.

Then the pictures. All pictures you take are rated. One, two or three stars. Three stars is the best. But the rating system is a completely strange mystery. There’s no way to make sense of it. It’s so random when you get one or two stars. For example, a photo in which you can see a lady completely, gives you one star. And if you take a photo in which you zoom in, so that you don’t see her legs and not her entire head, gives two stars. It doesn’t make sense! And all the extra stuff you can do, like frames, filters and all that jazz. Has zero effect on your photo.
Players are already researching and experimenting what gives two/three stars. It’s a weird mess.
It would be nice if the game gave you some tips, but of course it doesn’t.

And finally, responding to the girls.
Depending on your reaction or answers to a girl, you can see blue (bad) or red (good) hearts. It often happens that you give an answer that you think is good and then you get blue hearts.
A good example of this can be seen at the end of this video. Honoka is whining that she misses “Grammy”. I have the option to say to her: “Do you want to call her?” That’s perfect, right? Wrong! Blue hearts! I was like: “What the hell man?!”
One time you tell her she’s sexy and you get red hearts, then she shows you a picture and you tell her she looks sexy and boom, blue broken hearts. It just doesn’t make sense!
Maybe you say, that’s the game man! But I don’t like it and think it’s annoying.

But I have to admit, it’s not that strange. Because ALL DOAX games have this. Responding and reactions have always been weird in the Xtreme games. Several times in the Xtreme Volleyball games I have had, that I gave my partner a gift that she was supposed to like. Then she refused it and I was left without a partner. End of playthrough. So annoying.

But otherwise, great game!

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