This game gets wayyyy too much of a pass. The combat is boring and clunky. The plot and stage design is weak and uninspired. The attempt at being edgy with the dialogue is corny and feels like a boomer wrote it. The fanservice cheesecake elements are tepid and add no aesthetic value. I would complain that it was a ridiculously short game, but I'm glad there wasn't more of it to play because it quickly became a chore. The game ends with the most played out style of final boss and a sequence of QTEs that are immediate deaths if you fail ( restarting a drawn out boss encounter from the beginning.)
James Gunn mentioned Russ Meyer as a reference point for the type of female sexploitation figure Juliet is supposed to be. This isn't Faster Pussycat or Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. This is tripe that gets graded on a curve because of the quirky gimmick concept that is one ply tissue thin. I like SUDA51 stuff and media that shrugs off wariness of the male gaze, but this game did nothing but make me resent having played it. It's obnoxious as hell that people try to position this game as some sort of slept on subversive feminist work of art. People do a lot of heaby lifting with cope in their positive regard for this schlock. I give it a 2 instead of 1 only because it wasn't too broken to beat.
James Gunn mentioned Russ Meyer as a reference point for the type of female sexploitation figure Juliet is supposed to be. This isn't Faster Pussycat or Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. This is tripe that gets graded on a curve because of the quirky gimmick concept that is one ply tissue thin. I like SUDA51 stuff and media that shrugs off wariness of the male gaze, but this game did nothing but make me resent having played it. It's obnoxious as hell that people try to position this game as some sort of slept on subversive feminist work of art. People do a lot of heaby lifting with cope in their positive regard for this schlock. I give it a 2 instead of 1 only because it wasn't too broken to beat.