Lazarus͏
He cried in a loud voice: "Lazarus, come forth!"
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Sample renders look good, story looks potentially interesting, and I think I was watching it at the other place (though not here for some reason), but the "voiced" tag worries me.
I played one VN that added voices part way through and I turned them off because they were too different from those I had already imagined in my head (I recall one of the 20-something LIs sounded like she had been smoking four packs a day during forty years of giving truck stop blow jobs, while the MILF sounded like a JAV school girl that had inhaled helium), and I've been hesitant to deliberately try another since.
What's your assessment so far? Is the voice acting good? Enough differentiation? Do the voices seem to "fit" the characters? Or is it the kind of thing that makes 70s and 80s "three words and fuck" pornos sound sophisticated?
The voicework comes in the form of animated cutscenes at key points in the story.
The voicework is good for amateurs. It was, however, a bit jarring when the voices in my head didn't match the characters.
My biggest criticism with the voicework is that the girls all end up sounding nearly identical because they keep trying to do the "sexy important woman" voice, rather than pick an identity and stick with it. Combined with the fact that it's a bunch of amateur creators, not proper actors, you get that "voice doesn't match the scene/moment" issue quite a bit.
That said, the voicework isn't bad - I'd even go so far as to say it's actually pretty good considering.
You can disable the voiced cutscenes entirely and play it as a pure AVN, though the cutscenes sometimes add to the moment. You won't miss anything if you skip them, but sometimes they do accent a scene. There's a particularly emotional scene in which two of the characters speak in a very somber and touching way and if you skip the voiced scene, the moment doesn't hit quite as hard. The voice acting done there improves the scene in my opinion.
TLDR - It's optional. you can skip/disable it entirely. Voices are good for amateur work, but are noticeably amateurs. Overall an improvement to the experience but is a bit jarring at first.
(The game itself is amazing. A very solid 9/10 to me and my wife, combining humor, sci-fi, wholesome, and fun. Not one of our favorites, but it comes close. Much closer than either of us expected.)
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