Gu Yi have to be the luckiest man alive. The protagonist of FMV courting sim Love Is All Round is as much as his eyeballs in debt, a little bit of a creep, and a persona black gap – however he nonetheless has a bunch of drop-dead beautiful women competing towards one another to pay his payments and invite him to remain of their multi-million greenback properties. It’s all proper for some, eh?
Chinese language dev Intiny says it desires to grasp the “desires” of its gamers, and seeing as you’ve most likely acquired extra likelihood of being struck by lightning than being pursued by one of the women on this sport, it’s clearly delivering on its ambitions.
The gameplay right here isn’t unique: you watch pre-recorded films play, after which choose choices which department the narrative. Often you’re in a position to discover your atmosphere to be taught somewhat extra in regards to the characters you’re interacting with, however you’ll principally end up choosing paths which alter the path of the story.
Every resolution you make will affect your relationships, and amusingly your main purpose seems to be to maintain your entire choices open, as you’ll solely unlock new chapters when you have a powerful sufficient bond with the entire characters concerned. We discovered this irritating as a result of it appears like there’s a really particular path the sport desires you to take, and also you hit a brick wall should you deviate from that.
Fortuitously, you possibly can shortly rewind to earlier scenes and see the entire totally different outcomes. In a single chapter, after being rapidly promoted to advertising supervisor by a stupendous businesswoman who we actually simply met, we took a shady payoff from a rival agency and bankrupted our new sweetheart. Love is merciless!
The entire characters are assigned very particular personalities, from the mental artwork vendor to the kooky bunny boiler, and the actresses do a very good job of utterly exaggerating their roles – though, as is widespread in Chinese language tv, a few of voices are literally dubbed (despite the fact that it’s all in Mandarin all through).
The story’s ridiculous, but it surely’s to not be taken significantly, and it’s the sort of factor you possibly can play with associates simply to expertise the entire foolish outcomes. We had been howling with laughter after we tried to tape up one of many lady’s ripped clothes. If that seems like one thing you’d additionally take pleasure in, then fill your boots.