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DUÆL REVIEW

This is going to be rough.

And that’s mainly because it really isn’t fair to judge something by one bad choice. As I often say in my personal life, if we were all defined by one bad choice we made at some point, it would just be simpler swallow a glass of buckshot and end our pain now. However, gaming doesn’t always get that out. Sometimes one mistake is all it takes to derail what could have been an interesting experience and despite any effort to be more just, there’s just no getting around it.

The first effort from the group Moleworks has a lot of good things going for it. It makes the most of its direction and animation and gives a presentation that aspires to challenge the likes of Dischan and Sakevisual. It introduces RPG elements to bring variation to the often stilted dimensions of the visual novel engine. And it’s FREE. On paper, this should be one of the strongest new titles released this year.

However, it’s not.

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