In the desert city of Alabast, there exists a massive structure referred to as ‘The Sail’, which separates the nobles from the lowly commoners. In this ivory tower however, there are secrets the nobles keep even from each other. Deep below The Sail, there exists a collection of sorts called ‘The Menagerie’. Obsessed by novelty, the elves of Alabast even go as far as to collect exotic artifacts, creatures and even other peoples from across the world. Here there is nothing and no one on display without a price.
The Menagerie is a new visual novel from Lupiesoft and features multiple character routes, adult content, monster girls and more!
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All in all good, will play it further.
In this game though - just futanarISH. So far I've only seen 2 futanari there - main character and 1 more girl. WHich is not that much at all, in my opinion.
P.S. The game is pretty awesome. For a small game.
The writing is really wonky though. A lot of the dialogue is flat-out worthless fluff (the first sex scene with an anonymous person in the intro doesn't even get a CG) and the player choices practically taunt you to not save beforehand.
-Help someone escape?
-Tell them to stay?
-Squeal on them?
If I have missed something I don't know.
I couldnt find the cgs for the game anywhere on the internet so I don't know.
Source: http://www.ulmf.org/bbs/showthread.php?t=27427&page=4
But hot damn the writing of this game is shite, it fails in all categories, prose, consistency, plot, structure everything is sub par by a fairly large margin, events do not flow naturally and at times the scenes jump weeks ahead without any kind of notification (leaving you to constantly wonder if you're still in the same day you were in last sentence) most of the dialogue is completely pointless, and events do not lead to a logical conclusion, just whatever the writer felt like could happen next.
And there's only cg for less than half the scenes and most "sex" is fade to black instead of an actual scene, combined with the shit writing this is one of the worst nukige (which is quite a feat considering the genre) on the site.
Mild spoilers: In one ending the Menagerie is shutdown when it goes bankrupt, whereas in another ending the Menagerie is basically destroyed when the country (apparently) undergoes a revolution.
Usually crap like this is reserved for BIG visual novels with massive scripts where its impossible to keep every story path tied together (ie. X, Y and Z characters appearing in the intro but never again once you go down G character's path). But with smaller games? Its a piss-poor sign of how poorly managed the writer(s?) were since no one said \OK, this is a rough timeline of the 'world' and at the end; THIS event happens so make the character stories fit.\
That said, its obviously a low budget title (seriously, they should have commissioned more art). Just pirate it, beat it in a hour or two, (buy it if you think it was worth it), and then move on.
*downloads immediately*
can we have more?
PS. MINOR SPOILER ALERT! MINOR SPOILER ALERT! Being a lolicon as I am, not having a "full" sex scene with either Pru nor Key irritates me. ¬¬
i believe i checked them all
Also, a number of choices just lead to paths that just dump you back to the main menu with no warning. At first I though I'd gotten some really weird bug or something, but nope, buying some sleep medicine to help get rid of weird dreams (that are basically never mentioned again in the other paths) is apparently a non-standard game over.
Not to mention, that basically the main plot hook where you're supposed to train the new person just mysteriously vanishes for no reason.
And, of course, all the text boxes that had text spilling out of them for no reason.
That would be a pretty minor issue in a fan-translated patch of something where they can't just add more boxes, but this was written in English by native English speakers, and they could easily have fixed it.
It's quite a shame, really. I had been really looking forward to this, and there were moments where the strangeness of the writing style made the setting that much more intriguing and interesting.
As is, however, it's a gigantic mess. A mess with potential, but still a mess.
I mean, I trust the admin to know what's being uploaded, but I also trusted the stuff on MangaGamer to be, you know, at least vaguely competently put together, even if I didn't personally like them.
person: \Come with me right now, don't bother getting dressed. There's someone I want you to meet right away\
jump cut to protag getting breakfast after a nap
jump cut to both protag and the person from before, both fully clothed. \Okay, this is the person I wanted you to meet.\
Scenes jump not only from one to another without any sense of flow, but there are gaping plot holes that jump straight the fuck out of nowhere. Characters being introduced to people they had been good friends with for ages, characters talking about a distant past with each other when we witnessed their meeting in the game (which doesn't seem to span more than a few weeks at most), the fact that the game can't decide if a scene is common to all routes or specific to one and ends up being dropped and forgotten in half the routes despite the involved parties being pretty excited about it.
I want to like this game, but the developers seem to have released a game that was in a state even worse than a pre-alpha. It's like the writers wrote a quarter of the game, the developers rearranged them to make it easier to test something, and then the writers wrote another quarter of the game based on the new order, leaving one half of the game a tangled mess and the other half completely nonexistant.