Fictif: Interactive Romance Software

So far I’ve only played a few chapters for Two Against The World and I am really drawn to the world and mystery of the character and what’s going to happen in the story. Just realized there’s only one route out so far, but I’m playing Last Legacy on another device and that one is also incredible with world exploration and character backstory. These chapters are certainly not for bingeing in one go. I collect the daily stars every day for a period of time, and in time I can rack up enough for an enjoyable experience with the premium choices. Each chapter probably takes almost 100 stars...? It takes a bit of time to get that since we have 28 stars every 5 days. Truthfully, this game requires patience if you’re not able to pay, but I don’t mind that. The story is just wonderful to read, and it’s understandable that game developers need income just as us fellow players do... I’m okay with having patience when there are games that require $30 cost upfront anyway. Each chapter with all the paid options was probably a 10-15 minute read or so? I wasn’t really timing it, but yea. I get the criticism but I still love the content and want to support the creators. 🙌

I wish it was as easy to earn stars in this app as is it to earn coins in The Arcana. I would GLEEFULLY watch ads if I earned 10 stars per ad instead of ONE (1) STAR. It’s kind of insulting, tbh. 10 coins per ad in The Arcana nets you 40 coins, and it adds up fast! I love it! Nix Hydra gets their ad revenue and I don’t have to spend money on coin packs if I don’t want to! But 1 measly star per ad in this app? Come ON. Oh, AND—the coins stack up in the daily checkins in The Arcana from 10 on day 1 to 240 coins on day 7. That also adds up fast! And it’s an incentive to keep opening the app every day and play new romance routes or replay old ones with new choices! But 7 stars after 5 days, IF you check in every day in this app, and only 1 star earned per ad, is soooo not an incentive to keep opening the app every day.... I really, REALLY wish earning stars was as easy in this app as it is earning coins in The Arcana. That’s literally my only complaint. Meantime, I’m patiently but VERY eagerly awaiting Sage’s next chapter in Last Legacy 👀🙏

Between the beautiful artwork, wonderful soundtrack, complex stories, and engaging characters, this easily tops my chart of best visual novel games I’ve ever played! It is romance centric which is nice if you like that, and I think its best quality is the more complicated and pragmatic standard personality of the main character of each of the books. I also really appreciate how it goes out of its way to avoid guilt-tripping the reader for not taking premium options, with no disappointed reactions from the characters, just skipping past the whole ordeal and sometimes even implying that event still does happen but it’s just off-screen, which takes a lot of stress out I think. I think not having an avatar for the main character was a good choice and enables the reader to have more control over their image of their character, though I do wish there was more physical description, just vague things like ‘my clothes were formal and silky’ or ‘my clothes were thick and tough but mostly ripped and torn’, or something like that. I understand why a lot of female love interest routes aren’t out yet due to their unpopularity, but I hope that changes because Anisa and Tess are really so good. Maybe even some non-binary love interests in the future. Also I had a major crashing problem, but it got resolved somehow, so I’m good. I did have a longer review here, but I guess it didn’t get saved, so this is the cliffnotes.