Once you reach the point where you're on a character route, the writing quality takes an insane drop. Woohoo!Īnd now... You may be wondering, “Lone, how could you not like this game?” Let’s get into that. No glitched out achievements, which is sometimes a problem for Steam vns. Perhaps these were removed for the sake of low redundancy. I guess my only nitpick is there are maybe five times in the whole game where only half the voiceline is translated (nonspoiler example: A voiceline saying, "What the hell?! She transformed!" gets translated in ENG text as, "What the hell?!"), which I don't particularly understand. I've read enough "It can't be helped" over the course of my lifetime to never want to read it ever again. I'm of the opinion that sticking to the base text as much as possible or going for a literal translation is very bad and not fun to read actually. People like to get up in arms about JP > ENG translations when they take liberties with their lines, but this one felt very good and natural in English. I really enjoyed the translation for this game. This is why I can come to understand why everyone and their mom was obsessed with DMMD in 2013, even though they probably never played a visual novel before and never played one after. If you have a hard time focusing on simpler games where there isn't much changing as you play (sound novels for example), you'd definitely have an easier time with DMMD. This game really plays with normal expectations of what someone might have for a visual novel when it comes to presentation. There are often tons of moving parts on screen, the UI changes frequently with setting, tons of VFX, CGs are pretty frequent and always great, so on.
This game is also very visually engaging for a visual novel. I honestly don’t really care about finding the answers to these nitpicks though. There are probably nitpicks that can be made about the society of DMMD, like "Do the people in the high society even go to school? There are teens here but they’re always partying where are their parents?". The UI, music, color palettes, worldbuilding, art, everything is absolutely fantastic and totally sucks you into this futuristic setting that honestly might be one of my most liked worlds in a visual novel in a long while. The aesthetics of DMMD cannot be understated.
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I’d like to give a spoiler free deepdive into this game and its sequel, how it was disappointing to me and yet how I kind of love this series at the same time. Now an adult who has nothing better to do than disappoint my parents, I spent real life money I could never get back on purchasing DMMD on Steam (and also purchasing the R18 patch, truly the peak of microtransactions) in December 2021 and played the entire game within the span of a couple days. So imagine the surprise when JAST announced an official localization in 2018, which was later released in April 2021.