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'Divine Slice of Life' Review - Nothing Divine Here



Back when I reviewed developer AJTilley's first visual novel release on iOS, Sword of Asumi [$1.99], I found myself underwhelmed by the weak follow-through on what I felt was a fairly good premise, but had some hope for future releases from the team. Well, we now have a another game from AJTilley, and I have to say that I'm a lot less optimistic about their future work. Divine Slice of Life [$3.99], like the developer's previous effort, has a good enough premise. You play as the reincarnation of Zeus who had been living a normal student life until two demigoddesses came crashing in, demanding you marry one of them and ascend to the Pantheon. Silly" Sure, but romantic comedies often are. Unfortunately, just as in Sword of Asumi, a decent premise ends up being entirely squandered. Somehow, it's even worse this time around. The main problem, among many, is that this visual novel game bites off far more than it can chew. There are five potential romance paths here, but the game is so short and limited in scope that none of them feel properly fleshed out. Each woman gets a couple of semi-romantic encounters with your hapless protagonist before he confesses his feelings and decides he wants to be with them forever. After that, you get an extremely brief ending followed by a credit roll. Of the five, you'll end up spending the most time with the two demi-goddeses, descendants of Aphrodite and Athena. In spite of that, their paths feel the most hollow. Lots of sex, but almost ...
Source: Touch Arcade
URL: http://toucharcade.com

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