I have completed Our World Is Ended. Or got the normal ending apparently, it's just that the game feels so resolved I get the feeling the other endings are bonus character things. Which is kinda weird because that's reverse to how VNs normally work.

In the end I liked it. The art is pretty, with a lot of colour and flair to textures and character shading. The indie dev characters themselves are deeper than their clichés, and have interesting perspectives on game development. As a creator and someone that tries to game dev, I could relate to some of their more creative struggles or absurdly casual (read: undisciplined) development standards.

The central mystery is a little predictable in some regards, but there were still some curve-balls, which was a nice touch.

My end/current rating for it would be about a 6-7/10. The story, mystery, characters, art-style, they make me want to give it more an 7-8/10, but I have some... significant issues.

As I mentioned previously on Twitter, the game is VERY ANIME HORNY. And by that I mean there is very regular ~funny anime pervert~ content. The game only tries to titillate the player about two-three times, but there is so, so much of it between certain characters within the text.

If you're the kind of person that's absolutely sick of that sort of humour, you probably won't be able to enjoy the VN's story, deeper character moments or mystery. It wasn't enough to "ruin" it for me, but god did I want that shit to be over each time it came up.

Related to wanting things over, is the pacing or framing of the story beats. By the end I understood how the VN was set up, but as I was playing it felt like segments were drawn out because I didn't have a clear picture of the how the story was divided up.

My last gripe is the localisation. The dialogue is perfectly understandable. But there is SO MANY grammatical issues. The text needs a massive editorial review, because I saw text issues at least once a scene.

Double spaces, missing or unneeded quote-marks, line breaks between quote-marks+text, breaks inside acronyms, breaks between accented letters, wrong pronouns, inconsistent translation between phone graphic text and message box text, broken UI english...

There's also the fact dates are MM/DD/YYYY despite this being an EU release, and other UI dates are the Japanese YYYY/MM/DD.

Part of me hopes the delay the Steam version/US release has will mean the script will be given an extra look over. (And then knowing my luck, the Switch version won't get updated.)

Anyway yeah. Our World Is Ended is somewhere between "good" and "great", but it has some pretty glaring issues. They're the kind of issues that depending on the person will either pollute the rest, or you'll just want to get past them to get back to the good stuff.