Honey Rose: Underdog Fighter Extraordinaire reviews

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Microsoft from French
In short: The experience was overall good, visually awesome, characters and universe were engaging but gameplay a bit frustrating. I recommand, keeping in mind it is a one-developer game with some flaws, but generous in content. - First, I am not a huge lifesim player, so I only have little experience with the genre. - Unique mood. I've found the game really, really beautiful, with generous animations that make the universe really engaging. Loved the character design very much! - Soundtrack was cool, maybe some weird sound emotes here and there, but that does the job putting the atmosphere. - While I still have made it through the game, I've found the gameplay a bit frustrating. It is mainly a problem of good ideas but average execution: some feedback that arent clear, some difficulty to build a strategy on the long run (sometimes hard to find the place where the character you want to talk to has gone, making you lose lots of ingame time) and the fi ghting mechanics are sadly a bit messy, making it difficult to perform the moves you want. It is really frustrating, because the setting and the mechanics ideas are great! -Writing is fine, and I've found the characters likeable. I wanted to know more about several of them, especially the fighters, so it is a good sign!
Translated by
Microsoft from Spain
In Honey Rose: Underdog Fighter Extraordinaire We are a university with a secret passion: wrestling, and despite what our parents say or apart from how much it can harm our studies, we will continue in the ring struggling to become the Suburb champion. Train in secret in the typical low-death gym in the slums or go to college to get the race, if you do not fall asleep in class or at the last minute you decide to go out and train at the campus sports venue. In This game you have the last word regarding what our protagonist does, and therefore in how the story develops. I Don't usually play this kind of visual novels with the trite premise of "boy/student with secret life of superhero/any other activity that requires secret identity" but I have to say that Honey Rose has impressed me, the graphic section hand-drawn and The animation are very nice and the story is not bad, it is consistent and has good turns in the plot, in line with the decisions you take. Another aspect to highlight is the mix of genres in the video game, because for the most part is an interactive visual novel, but you also have to fight the fighting, and that is when it becomes a fighter; Not as complete as a game that belongs entirely to the genre (obviously) but also with well thought out and entertaining controls. Finally I would like to highlight that the game is free, but if you liked it (like me) you can pay the amount that you think fair buying some of the DLC, which are not such because they do not contribute anything, are simply to pay what you want for the game; Come on, that the developers have given, very bravely, an opportunity to the model "pay What You want" (Pay what you want) when virtually no one on Steam has done so, and therefore, deserve some congratulations, so what less to reward them for the Effort. You know, if you liked the game, do not hesitate to reward their generosity with what to pocket can afford.
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