Let's Not Stay Friends Review by Amjara
In Let's Not Stay Friends you play as Inske, a student attending magic school while three hotties try to romance you. Life could be worse right?
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The Story
You
play as Inske, a student attending a magic school where groups of
students are divided up into two sub-groups: crafters and fighters. They
team us so fighters can protect the crafters as they gather
ingredients.
You have three love interests in the game. First is
Frenz, a child-hood friend and on the fighter's side. Frenz has a
romantic interest in our character who is beyond clueless that her long
time, sweet-heart of a friend likes her more than a friend. Next is Taf,
the popular, all around hot guy that everyone wants. Also a fighter. He
is manipulative, deceitful and your all around vain, egotistical
character with a sensitive side. There is always one right? Burain is
the third romantic option and a crafter. He is smart yet lacks self
confidence.
⭐ The game has some spice but is not super spicy.
There are some scenes of erotic or a romantic nature but nothing
outright lewd or graphic.
Game-play & Features
The
game is your usual style of visual novel. Pick choices as you progress
the story that will ultimately lead you down one of several routes. This
game may be older but I played it in windowed mode and it looks great.
The mouse controls were smooth, you can use the scroll wheel to rewind
the story and by pressing the scroll wheel down you hide the hud for
easy screenshots. Pressing the right mouse key will also take you to the
save screen to easily and quickly save your spot, and pressing the
right mouse key again will bring you back to the story.
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The Visuals & Audio
The
characters are not voiced and the soundtrack is not bad. It is not
intrusive and adds a nice tone to the story. To be honest I was so
invested in the narrative and all the gorgeous character graphics that I
did not really pay attention to it. That is a compliment actually. I
could enjoy the story without feeling like the music was competing for
my attention.
Now this game has amazing character
graphics or special moments. I took about 50 screen-caps. Trust me I
rarely get that many out of any visual novel and for this one to be on
the short end it packs a lot of great art into its small run-time! I
will share a few with you but do not wish to ruin anyone's enjoyment out
of experiencing all this delicious art in their own play-through.
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Overall Experience
All three
romantic interests are striking in their own ways with their own back
stories. I honestly enjoyed all the routes. Alright I was not keen on
Taf at the beginning but by the end of his route I did a turn-around. To
be honest I was not overly in love with the main character. She is
clueless, maybe too much.
Don't go in expecting a deep narrative as it is a short otome but what it did bring to the table for a couple of hours was very enjoyable❣️
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