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 persona black gap – however he nonetheless has a gaggle of drop-dead attractive women competing in opposition to 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 understand the “goals” of its gamers, and seeing as you’ve in all probability acquired extra likelihood of being struck by lightning than being pursued by one of the women on this recreation, it’s clearly delivering on its ambitions.
The gameplay right here shouldn’t be authentic: you watch pre-recorded films play, after which choose choices which department the narrative. Sometimes you’re in a position to discover your atmosphere to be taught a bit of extra in regards to the characters you’re interacting with, however you’ll principally end up choosing paths which alter the route of the story.
Every choice you make will affect your relationships, and amusingly your main purpose seems to be to maintain all your choices open, as you’ll solely unlock new chapters when you have a robust sufficient bond with all the 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 when you deviate from that.
Fortuitously, you’ll be able to shortly rewind to earlier scenes and see all the completely different outcomes. In a single chapter, after being rapidly promoted to advertising supervisor by a phenomenal businesswoman who we actually simply met, we took a shady payoff from a rival agency and bankrupted our new sweetheart. Love is merciless!
All the 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 critically, and it’s the form of factor you’ll be able to play with mates simply to expertise all the foolish outcomes. We had 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.