PR: MC of choosable genre but that was obviously meant to be a girl starts by narrating how she wants a obsessive love that consume and encompasses all, but sooner than later after changing BF at least three times she realizes that these don't exactly grow in trees, so she comes up with a perfect plan: manipulate/create someone tailor-made to become an obsessive lover. Idea which I had contemplated on several occasions, so I'm officially promoted to "VN villain", yey. Should I get a violin?
Luckily for us the readers, her plan is much more simpler than mine and can be put to action almost right away. Though, from one bad guy to the other, the plan is flimsy at best, she hasn't prepared for contingencies and the results are very luck-dependant, it goes as follows; she screen the vic, Milo, a malleable, docile, weird freshman with little ties to his family and lots of self-esteem problems and set him up with bullies and stuff like that to swoop in and save the day. Kinda like when your GTA GF needed a refreshment on how cool you were, so you set her house on fire to later come in and "save her".
Through the rest of the game you make a few choices (about three per route) that aren't really clear as to what effect they might have but that's about shaping Milo's Yandere personality to be more aggressive, possessive or manipulative. E.g. Some "recipes" goes as follow; aggro + cunning + aggro = cannibal, manipulative + obsessive + aggro = human "doll" maker, stuff like that.
The story was meant to play all routes as some have fragments of story that are completed in others, such as Ryan being an ex boyfriend, or him being involved into a drug overdose incident after trying to pull a breaking bad at the school lab, though most data is incomplete. Like who the hell this "Desmond" guy is, what MC got on 'em, what's her relation with her other friends, what's gone wrong with the other experiments, etc.
Narratively speaking "perfect love" is lacking, which is to be expected since one hour is a little short to develop a credible obsessive love story, practically it develops as a thriller between MC, Milo and Ryan, with Ryan having a very variable role sometimes being a full-blown bully, some being a whimsy pipsqueak, some being a blackmailed involuntary participant.
The hand-drawn art is a good break from the smoothed-over anime-style VN characters but the doodle-like slide-show can get confusing and it's difficult to distinguish one figure from the other. I'd say "perfect love" most praiseworthy aspect is different Yandere types, though somewhat roughly depicted, still clearly different from each other which arouses the readers curiosity as to what the other "perfect loves" are like.
Honestly giving a score to this particular VN is a bit troublesome because it's awfully niche, like if you don't dig yanderes too much, or hand drawing isn't your thing the score is much lower. If I had to recommend to someone else, a four would probably be more close to the "objective" assessment PD: Evil Milo's attire is utterly baffling, it's like MJ "I'm bad" but worse. Guy's wearing a dog's collar for cryin' out loud
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