Olivine Lights

This is a hidden gem. It's short, sweet, and well written. And not just "well written for a porn game" either. I thoroughly enjoyed this despite not being a huge Pokemon fan. It has branching plots and multiple endings that make sense, the art for the H scenes is really high quality, the writing has both a mature and concise quality to it, and it feels like it's set in the Pokemon universe.

The writing is excellent, though it does tend to get a little too tongue-in-cheek too often. The scenes are sparse, but the quality of the images are great, and the fact that they were commissioned instead of AI-generated to support artists is awesome. If you're here for a quick fix, you should probably try elsewhere, but for a legitimately gripping story with several branching paths, this is top-notch.

In the end I, as an entitled gamer, was promised by the game that there will be a fight between Cynthia and Red. However, the VN ended just before this was supposed to happen. Because of this obviously gigantic flaw, I rate this a 0/10. Also, many of the choices didn't really matter, or they did but only superficially. And last thing, Cynthia looking different in the sex scenes compared to how she looked during the story was just... weird. I understand why, but still... Those are the reasons, why I rate this only 4/5. That, and more importantly the fact that I don't really care about Pokemon all that much anymore. If you are a Pokemon fan, add +1 star to my rating. Overall, it was a great experience, that made me laugh and it made me even sad. I don't get emotional all that often. But this did it for me. So thank you, whoever made this VN. Thank you very much. And a last thought to add to this rant: imagine Writefuck working with the developers of Palworld on a campaign/story mode. Nintendo would go bankrupt.

Pros Short, sweet, concise. It tells a cohesive, decently-structured story. Reasonably understandable even if you've never played the game, if anything, it really emphasizes the idea of someone who has only heard of pokes loosely by making your own character mostly unaware of things. Good choice of main heroine to act as mentor/explainer. Characters are well-written, with some small human twists to bolster identity while grounding them more with reality. Does bring up the gritty possibilities of the world, but is mostly as context. Choices are meaningful and lead to unique outcomes and endings. Cohesive plot with only a handful of overlapping continuity issues. Lore canon events are written as context, rather than mirrored for reality, giving the characters speaking about them even more of a human-like feeling. The ability to view events in different lights from varying (mostly Cynth's) perspectives adds a lot. Music sets mood. Cons(?) The choices, while deliberately meaningful, are also mostly rather black and white, in contrast to the characters being written with more grounded depth. Same applies to the endings, though there are some neutral ones. (it does help with clarity, though!) There's a bit of overlap with the info given by events. It takes away from the immersion just a tad bit by making the characters confirm superfluous information when they eventually obtain the sama data later on. (not a big deal, but characters being able to investigate, think and deduce with more thought than a kid's show feels a bit wasted if you spoonfeed parts of it like the aforementioned kid's show.) Some of the other characters could've used more options (and scenes for their routes, though I have no plans to obtain them anyway) Others A lot of dialogue is meant to be references to canon events or the possibility of them, meaning you won't really get it if you're not that into the series, even though that's what your character is meant to be. (this isn't strictly a bad thing in many of them, anyone who doesn't know can feel immersed while listening to interesting lore, while experienced peeps may get a small chuckle from the perspective) For a porn game, the lewd scenes are mild and few. Given how short the game is, this isn't that bad. They're still well thought out and cute. Spoiler: Extra Bonus time. Spoilers . To note, I'm not into pokes that much so some of this may just be taken from the series directly, but I will write with the assumption that it's not, because I don't know. This is just me sucking the writer's dick because I feel it's due, even though I'm not sure if it was intentionally written this way, the fact is that it is. While the story isn't the most grand thing, I really want to show respect to how they twist characters a bit to give them human flaws, especially with the main heroine, though all the named (and even some who aren't) characters get this. Cynthia is written as the confident Sinnoh champ that she is, but with a far more confident and aggressive sense of pride. She's a supportive, enjoyable character, but because we're getting more of the context from her or a perspective that learns mostly from her, her flaws seem less obvious. This is mirrored by another similarly improved character, Lance. Lance is given the flaw of being more jealous, though it's not something he seems completely aware of, which is how flaws tend to be. When Cynthia and Lance fight, his flaw is immediately obvious because Cynthia is correct in that situation and in the aftermath of their argument, as you discuss it, Cynthia speaks on what she believes Lance's issue to be, even if she respects him. The neat part, is that Lance actually does bring up HER flaws, too, which she steamrolls over because she has the moral highground on the topic. Throughout the story, you don't realize how careless she can be. With nothing but a fairly weak borrowed pokemon and a trainer she knows is wildly inexperienced, she investigates a case of deliberate sabotage. You might miss it because it just feels like a happy-go-lucky adventure, but as Lance points out, death is no joke. In reality, she nearly gets you both killed, multiple times. At the end, she even confirms as much, but she talks about it in the context of you saving her (and vice versa), but if you reflect on that point, she did the same thing Lance did with his hero complex. While she has a somewhat more supportive outlook on it, she can't see that recklessness for the danger that it is. To her, it's part of the adventure that is life. At one point in the story if you revisit the pokecenter, she basically has a minor shock because she forgot about her garchomp during the investigation. This is brushed off, but it's a really neat detail. It's a visualized potential consequence for her (though she can't see it because it's also not directly caused by her choices) To put it simply, she's an adrenaline junkie and her fix is adventures. This is such a great flaw for a main character to have. It fuels their needs while acting as a real pillar of their personality and reactions. She gets hyped when you push your limits and despite what she says, had every opportunity to inform Lance with little more than a phone call the instant she realized terrorists were involved and possibly get more backup, even if she's right that he wouldn't have gotten there in time, it wouldn't have slowed her down. Remember Garchomp? It's quite clear she actually completely forgot about it in her own excitement. With her close partner, she feels shock, but because she and Lance don't get along and he was arguing in bad faith, she overwrites this detail with her own anger and justifies it as necessary, even though it's only in hindsight that this is true. It even sounds more convincing because Lance's hypocrisy feels more like a detractor than her supportive brashness. Despite all this, a flaw like this also makes her a compelling, enjoyable character to interact with, it's especially cool to see that she can't see it herself because the only two people who chastise her are Lance that she disagrees with and you who is too naive to see the danger despite her skill as a trainer. We even get to see her almost acknowledge it as a contrast to Lance's, but she deflects her flaw by bringing up her supportive nature as opposed to Lance's habit of (figuratively!) putting people down for it, even though neither of those is a good excuse for their behavior. If a sequel is made, I'm curious to see it explored or expanded upon. We got to see a bit of it with Garchomp, her nervousness and mental anguish upon not having her partner with her, but because it was not a consequence of her brashness, it doesn't fully register to her as a possible outcome for it. The same is true for all the named characters, Cynthia's recklessness/overconfidence is just the one we see most because we interact with her the most, too. Jasmine's awkwardness, the psychic's mental fortitude, the MC's ignorance/exploitation (dependent), Lance's hero complex, Red's aloofness, the nerd's creeping, the ranger's willful ignorance, Betsy's humanity (as a foil to her sociopathy for humans). Summary A fun, short experience. Well-constructed adventure with neat lore bits and interesting character writing. A good demonstration of what 'show, don't tell' looks like. Characters all speak with just enough awareness (and lack of it) to demonstrate how actual (but still cartoon quirky) people might behave. Looking forward to more of this adventure (or other stuff) by the writer.

Games like this are so weird to rate. There's obviously a huge market for "pokemon games made for people who aren't 10 years old" while increasingly older former-10 year olds play the games, and current 10 year olds couldn't tell you what a pokemon was. They say hunger is the best spice, and we are starving, so how good is this game, really? Well, it's actually pretty good and there's really nothing to complain about. I'll think of something by the end, or die trying. You are John Everyman, Office Worker at Silph Co. A terrorist attack (no causalities) happens and you are deputized to figure out who is responsible before a terrorist attack (causalities) happens. That's basically the plot. A lot of VNs are books, this is a movie. Super early 90's VNs from Japan were kind of like this; short, lots of choices, lots of endings. It happens in the pokemon world, which means we get cameos, microcrumbs of worldbuilding in the most underutilized IP mankind has ever created. So is the shortness the problem? Nah, it tells a story, it's fun, and there's a lot of replayability. The lewds? I mean they're fine? They're not the nukige kind, they're the "John Everyman gets the Girl" kind. You'll see them in movies. They tend to have less nudity. I think the only real problem I have is...........the endings don't have names. Oh! And when you get to the end, you're given a screen of how well you did, but you have to go to the main menu from the menu. Yup. Had to dig real deep into this one. There is an achievement screen that has unlocks for subsequent playthroughs (super cool) but no way of tracking what endings you got. Games like this typically have a 'true' ending. Something you should go for. I guess there's some aimlessness there? I couldn't tell you if I got the best ending or not my first time- and I realize now that my second time will make me still unsure. So yeah, that's it. I made a promise and kept it. No ending names, no way of tracking what endings you've gotten so the replays that you're certainly going to do are more aimless than they should be. 0/5 would only thoroughly enjoy the first time. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to play this game again.

Story 10/10 not far to the story but it has Been great so far Art 10/10 has my favorite franchise pokemon art and is faithful so a 10 Writing 9/10 not bad for a one person team Content 10/10 has pokemon battles and not manysex scenes but I was addicted to gameplay so a 10 I hope this dev makes games because he/she has talent Thanks for game and peace