Fragments Of Eden

This is really too early for a proper rating, but I feel that this game desperately needs a review that clarifies what it is actually like. Because that's quite different from the impression you get on its page. The most important thing first: I don't know where the title image showing lots of women with grotesque body proportions comes from. The women in the game actually look well proportioned and attractive. Except perhaps for Abigail (the one on the right), though even she looks actually normal in the game. On the negative side, there are no sex scenes yet, and not even nudity or romance. The preview images are not actually in the game (yet?). Like the 2019/2020 finished game "Pine Falls", this game seems inspired by Stephen King's novel "The Mist". After a series of bizarre accidents, the MC is swallowed by a strange mist and wakes up in the garden of a house in the little town of SorrowHaven. It appears that all inhabitants are female and that most are young and attractive but also eccentric to the point of madness. The town is disconnected from the rest of the world. Nobody can leave, but occasionally new inhabitants arrive there, and occasionally a driverless truck with supplies turns up. As of version 0.4, the story ends shortly after the MC got to know Apolonia, who tries to talk to a frog, taking it for a fish, and later tries to catch another girl's cat, taking it for a squirrel, and hopes to teach it to fly. (Apolonia is the girl shown multiple times with a hammer in a preview picture.) If the quality of the writing does not get improved, this game will never get more than 4 stars from me. I could overlook the abundant typos, but the walls of text are really annoying. There is a lot of text here that has no place in a VN, let alone an AVN, such as long philosophical musings, descriptions of things we can see in the accompanying image, and even one slide's text consisting of "he remarked" after the MC said a sentence in the previous slide. For now, I am subtracting another star for the fact that as of 0.4, and 1 1/2 years since the first release, we seem to be still early in the exposition. 3 stars is quite generous for the little there is, even though I kind of liked the plot so far.