I figured I would control my completionist tendencies and skip over bits I remembered and concentrate only on scenes I had zero recollection of. For some reason, after finishing a few VNs and Otomes in a row, I decided to give it another go a few weeks ago.
So time and time again, despite liking every single element of Lamento, I ended up getting discouraged and dropping it before it truly got the chance to start. That should give you an idea of the gargantuan size of this thing. Without exaggeration, I believe my second playthrough consisted of at least 30 minutes of skipping. There are a few around this, like playing in window mode, holding down shift then bringing a different window in front (like Youtube for instance), then you can let go of shift and it will go on skipping (which is really just fastforwading) on it’s on. You have to hold down the shift key (at least on my version). Of course, once you’ve finished one route, you can skip previously read text in subsequent playthroughs but, as this is an older game, you don’t have an autoskip button. Except Bardo – Bardo is the best from minute one but of course he only shows many hours into the game and you’ll need a few more before you can get on his route and actually get to know the character at all. You have to read through hours of exposition and establishing text, remember dozens of characters, before you get any meaningful development that would cause you to empathize with anyone. The pacing is just terrible.Īnd because of this, it takes a while to truly get into it. I think that you could have taken out about half the script without really affecting the substance in any way.
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It’s full of description and little side events that, while well written, bring nothing to the story overall. It feels as if an excellent team of writers put it together, but they had no money left over for editors. You see, that 30-50 years length time isn’t a typo. I played for a few weeks and didn’t catch up to my first playthrough. By the time I decided to pick it up again, I had forgotten most of it and started over. I played for a bit then sort of abandoned it for close to a year. The way the story branches out and then intertwines in the various routes, makes second playthroughs much more engaging than in some other titles. There aren’t too many choices to make and most are obvious, but some are still rather intriguing, and I did feel some interactivity. crowds can get loudĮven by today’s standards, this is a high quality visual novel. The art is beautiful, and a huge collection of sprites and transition effects, give the impression of animation. The music plays an important role in the story and has obviously been given a lot of special attention. This being a Nitro+ game of course, the production was irreproachable, with a large fully voiced cast, even extras get their own actors, and all of them are very good. I loved the high fantasy setting and deep lore. Right off the bat I really liked Lamento. What followed was a study in ambivalence. In fact, the cover art and description were exactly suited to my tastes and I couldn’t wait to dig in. This left Lamento which wasn’t a bad thing at all. True Blood looked a little too standard and while Sweet Pool seemed to be a bottomless pit of wtf, I couldn’t find a version I could play.
An experience I found so amusing that I quickly decided to try something else from the studio. My very first encounter with Yaoi in general was the Visual Novel Dramatical Murders. It’s no surprise that eventually I got curious about their BL imprint Nitro+Chiral.
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Point is, Nitroplus knows how to craft a Visual Novel. Their 5pb studio has produced some of my favorite Visual Novels in general, the main studio is responsible for such titles as the flawed but still worthwhile Saya no Uta and Hanachirasu, and of course they collaborated with Type-Moon on the massively popular Fate franchise. I actually have quite a history with Lamento. Something along the lines: Irina is awesome, you should be her friend! It says something about me that my autocorrect doesn’t even pick up the word “catboy” anymore.
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