Still on chapter 1 after a week – Is It Love? Drogo - Vampire Review

First off, I should say that the only time I allow myself to spend money on a game is in order to purchase it outright, or to buy the completed version (after the trial part has ended). I made the mistake in the past of breaking down and spending small amounts of money on a game and realized how fast it was adding up. So spending money is not an option for me, since I have real-world bills and such. Second, I am more than willing to watch the same ads over and over again no matter how boring or uninteresting they may be, in order to be able to earn game credits/energy, etc. Unfortunately, that is, for the most part, not an option in this series of games. You are guaranteed 1 ad watching option every SEVEN hours. Occasionally, the game will offer another ad-watch to you, but half of the time the ad then refuses to load, so you may or may not be able to take advantage of it. These ads give you 20-30 points of energy at a time. Third, you can play the once-a-day match game to earn up to 80 or so energy points, if you can put up with it constantly bugging and having to exit and enter the match game and/or the game itself to get it to work. Fourth, while you are only able to watch energy-rewarding ads a few times a day, as ad pop-ups that in no way assist you will constantly pop up. I sat through these a few times before I realized that it was wasting my time and gaining me nothing. So between all of the above, plus the once-a-day 300 energy points that the game gives to you, you can advance a few lines of dialogue or internal thoughts/observations at a time. Quite a bit of this is seems to be filler and not very well written in my opinion. The choice options are painfully bad at times. Must we choose between our self-character being either downright rude or fangirling? A middle ground or slightly less dramatically-written options would be nice. I am being negative, but I really want(ed) to love this game. As it currently stands, I cannot really “get into” the storyline as much as I have tried to do so, due to all of the frustrating aspects of it so far. Personal gripe: I get that this supposed to be cute and fun and sensational, but do we really need the heroine to be doing such childish things as stamping her foot in impatience over having to wait a few minutes/being somewhat irritated with someone?
Review by Sims4evee on Is It Love? Drogo - Vampire.