Disappointing
CobaltCandle
I was a big fan of Lupiesoft's last work, In The City Of Alabast: The Menagerie. While the plot in that game was pretty disjointed at parts, it felt like a cohesive whole, for the most part; plus, all of the ecchi scenes were very good. Unfortunately not the case for Starfarers. I had high hopes due to the hentai scenes in the demo, but there is only one more scene of that quality in the game, with the others being considerably more ecchi. The plot itself is a mess, as well; the main gimmick is you may jump between PoVs of the 3 protagonists, but it's never clear if you're going to be seeing a scene that takes place immediately afterward, or if it will be an unspecified amount of time since the last scene. Plus, each path will have nods to your choices that you've made in the other paths, which is fun, but it gives the impression that to get some endings, you're required to jump around from PoV to PoV, and I had to take the game script to a Renpy decompiler to find out that that simply wasn't the case, making the whole character-switching gimmick ultimately pointless.Overall, it's decent, but I expected something closer to The Menagerie, but improved - more sex scenes, and a tighter plot. Unfortunately, it's the opposite.
