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I don't mean to shit on the community and I am sorry if I come off that way. This reply will be pretty sloppy so sorry about that.

I think I mentioned the fact it is stated as 18+ but my concern was that I was worried people of younger ages wouldn't care for the tags as content warnings properly and just kind of see it as a norm. I do enjoy the art and I was certainly a bit harsh on the overall story of the game and I do recognize the fact that this is a one person operation and that indie games are already hard to make and during the review I should've made a couple points on the fact for the game they are running it's not the worst so that is on me and is probably very good in the community of VN and that it's just my small selection of VN games I've played were more to my taste so obviously this was going to be something I didn't like as much.

 I am really sorry though if I did come off as someone trying to just shit on the game just because I can, I did say though that I was not trying to shit on the community I said that at the very end as well my intention was to never laugh at the people who like the game. 

I do know what a yandere game is, I have played quite a few so it isn't some crazy subject and I do know that's what like all these characters are I just wanted them to be more fleshed out personality wise, I know some had minimal screentime so nothing can take place and the fact this game has like two chapters so nothing can take place like within a logical time sense. I'm just not use to more explicit yandere games and I see how my inexperience in that makes me come off as seriously arrogant 

I do see where some of my points can be easily rebutted, they weren't properly structured and I see where I missed some things so I thank you for that. I did not intend to write this as like a "no one should play this, I am way better, I have 0 experience in VN and hate any creator which tries to make something explicit!" but I do see how I came off like that.

Sorry that I offended you and made a poorly made argument, as I've said I didn't mean to bully anyone and I just wanted to say that idk this game wasn't for me but then again I did say all of that very harshly. But still thanks for the reply idk how to say this very well but it did help me understand a bit of the topics of the game better but still idk I'm really sorry my comment sounded like an attack on the community and creator, I was too harsh but I never meant to attack anyone. I still stand by a few of my points but as I said earlier I see where I kind of went wrong so thanks for that.

This game is one of the worst games I have ever played. Skip this if you don't want spoilers or something.

 It's fine if you really enjoy the game in my opinion just as long as you realise how disgusting some parts of this game are. One of the issues are that it seems to have a very large audience of a young age when the topics of this game are incredibly explicit.  The love interest of the game, Pierrot, is literally terrible. Harlequin is his rival and set up to be worse but here's the issue they're genuinely the same character with the only difference being that Pierrot is slightly altered to be more likeable however the issue is that they're still both terrible, you can't say Harlequin is terrible when Pierrot also drugged you without consent making you unconscious so you couldn't leave the circus and tied you up backstage and both him and Harlequin explained in graphic detail how badly they want you. Not to mention they both constantly break into your house without your permission and just kind of flirt way too much. These characters aren't romantic, they are the embodiment of walking red flags. If this was real with some circus performers breaking into some girls home and constantly sexually harassing her this would be a crime story dude, this would be what mothers tell their daughters in order to teach them why not to trust strangers. This is completely glossed over too, this game romanticises subjects like drugging, kidnapping, harassment and practically rape all too much which is not already a TERRIBLE thing to do but with this obviously young audience is dangerous like you don't want to normalize things that does happen to people constantly and gets them killed or just ruins their lives, this story is terrible.

Now on the topic of story, regardless of what everyone else thinks this story so far is garbage. I know there is a small amount of chapters so far so making a judgement on the lore isn't incredibly justified but with everyone currently praising the game for it's A tier writing, it's seriously not. The story is 5 random monsters get enslaved by humans and get abused and oh there was also a pink clown named Columbina but Harlequin just kinda ate her so they could get enough strength to escape against the humans... THATS IT. THATS THE LORE. THIS IS WHAT YOU'RE PRAISING? Don't get me wrong I like games that take their own spin on existing historical things like how this game has a take on clowns in the theatres of Italy around the 16-17th century but this game does NOT do it for me. The story is incredibly boring to me like genuinely I love games with lore and secrets and I am willing to make a new judgement once more story comes out but this story at it's current level is NOT worth praising do not lie right now. I could pull shit like this out of my ass in an hour and I'd reckon it would be better than this it is not crazy.  I'm pretty confident the abuse they suffered is almost an excuse for how they behave which is NOT HOW THIS WORKS, no amount of trauma can justify actions like this I do not care.

The designs in this game aren't terrible I guess, I do sometimes like them but in my opinion it is pretty hard to ruin a clown design but also the jester-clown-circus theme is the only thing keeping this game away from being (even more)  disgusting. If these were just regular ass dudes then everyone would more or less be thinking about this entire storyline differently. The art is pretty ok though I don't mind the art.

These characters aren't really attractive in any sense, I am not the best qualifier to write about the romantic appeal as I don't really have an interest in any characters in any piece of media but I can still recognize what am I SUPPOSED to find attractive I guess. Besides Harlequin and Pierrot all the other characters have NO depth and even Harlequin and Pierrot have no real personality, everyone drew like a tiny card out of a hat and whatever that card had on it they made their personality. Pierrot is just misunderstood and wants to feel love and ignore the fact he broke into your house and is begging to have sex with you probably and Harlequin is just some asshole creep who also breaks into your house after Pierrot and begs you to have sex with him. The only reason why Harlequin is made to be less likeable is because he hates Pierrot, that's it, unless being green also means something but there is virtually no difference elsewise. These characters are all copy paste with one or two aspects slightly altered which is boring.

I haven't played a ton of dating sims in my life but I have played a handful of visual novels and this one is by far the worst. I looked into it because I saw how I occasionally saw people who were super into this and I am genuinely shocked by how much fans a game like this has. This game requires such minimal effort in general to make it is insane and at the level it is currently at it does NOT deserve this much praise. I am not entirely shitting on the creator but you have to realise what you are writing about and what you are advertising as an attractive character right, like I know it's in the warnings and it pretty obvious it says 18+ but EVERYONE who likes this game is 12. Pierrot is not cute or sweet he literally is stalker who constantly assaults you, same with Harlequin. I can't offer any advice to change or fix the game, the game is already such a landfill of garbage it's hard to rewrite it to make it better or make the characters more interesting and less disgusting. This game is a glorified Hazbin Hotel Helluva Boss dating sim but with clowns and whether you like that or not you have to see the bad writing and odd choice in character traits. 

I know some people use this game as a way to escape real life or that I am taking a game far too seriously but out of everyone playing this game I'm not seeing anyone point out the issues and when they do this fandom is so quick to shit on them and cuss them out without giving their opinion a listen. I missed a few points I could've made probably but I don't want to play this game more than once.

This doesn't mean you have to think it sucks i just think it sucks like a lot, you can think whatever you want just realise what the content inside the game is about and know that it's oftentimes extremely uncomfortable.