Gu Yi should be the luckiest man alive. The protagonist of FMV relationship sim Love Is All Round is as much as his eyeballs in debt, a little bit of a creep, and a character 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 houses. It’s all proper for some, eh?
Chinese language dev Intiny says it desires to understand the “goals” of its gamers, and seeing as you’ve in all probability bought 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 just isn’t unique: you watch pre-recorded motion pictures play, after which choose choices which department the narrative. Sometimes you’re capable of discover your setting to study slightly extra concerning the characters you’re interacting with, however you’ll largely end up deciding on paths which alter the path of the story.
Every choice you make will affect your relationships, and amusingly your main aim seems to be to maintain all your choices open, as you’ll solely unlock new chapters if in case you have a powerful sufficient bond with all the characters concerned. We discovered this irritating as a result of it looks like there’s a really particular path the sport desires you to take, and also you hit a brick wall when you deviate from that.
Thankfully, you’ll be able to rapidly rewind to earlier scenes and see all the completely different outcomes. In a single chapter, after being unexpectedly promoted to advertising and marketing supervisor by a wonderful 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 seller to the kooky bunny boiler, and the actresses do a great job of utterly exaggerating their roles – though, as is widespread in Chinese language tv, a few of voices are literally dubbed (though it’s all in Mandarin all through).
The story’s ridiculous, however it’s to not be taken severely, and it’s the form of factor you’ll be able to play with mates simply to expertise all the foolish outcomes. We have been howling with laughter once we tried to tape up one of many lady’s ripped attire. If that appears like one thing you’d additionally take pleasure in, then fill your boots.