Разработчик: Winter Wolves
Описание
This is the story of Dana Larose, a young woman starting her career as a secretary in the Crown Attorney's office. The office is both overworked and understaffed, so you'll have to work out whose projects you help with accordingly.
Will you be able to unravel the mystery being covered up, balance the stress of juggling overtime for everyone, and still manage to find love...?
FEATURES
- Four dateable characters: Jonathan, Pierre, Ross and Dorothy
- Deal with many different kinds of work to help everyone out around the office
- Put in overtime for extra money, but be careful to balance work and pleasure or you'll crack under stress!
- What secret is being covered up by the Crown Attorney's office? Follow the clues...
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP
- Processor: 1Ghz
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX or OpenGL compatible card
- Storage: 50 MB available space
Mac
- OS: Mac OS 10.4
- Processor: 1Ghz
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Storage: 50 MB available space
Linux
- Processor: 1 Ghz
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Storage: 50 MB available space
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I'm really glad that visual novels have for the most part moved past stat raising. I struggle to think there was ever a time when people actually enjoyed spending hours upon hours repetitively juggling stats in a game that was far too easy to fail at with too few rewards for success. Love & Order is the most egregious offender that I've come across yet. Not only is the stat juggling an absolute chore, but there's barely even a story here to justify calling it a visual novel in the first place. Curated by: Bad Otome Games & Chudah's Corner
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1703301691
The idea of working in a law firm, being privy to interesting law suits, and dealing with all of the drama that they entail, is something that intrigues me. And yet, 90% of the game's play time is spent running gofer for the entire office. Dana spends week after week making photocopies, getting signatures, mailing documents, writing memos, organizing the office, ordering supplies... it's just boring. More boring than actually working at a law firm itself. I know, cause I've worked for several lawyers over the years, and transcribing dictation is a hell of a lot more fun than playing this.
Love & Order's premise is ripe for some really fun storytelling, but in the end, it all boils down to keeping the lawyer you're trying to romance happy by getting all of their assignments done on time while not stressing out so much that you end up failing at basic tasks. And I do mean basic. I'm really not sure how anyone can fail at photocopying, but Dana certainly has a lot of trouble with the Xerox machine. Once you manage to gain enough affection with one of the love interests, you can ask them out on a date. From there, they'll periodically invite you out, but there's barely anything to it. You go to a pub for some drinks. Maybe get some dinner. There's a bit of small talk, and then you're right back to the daily grind the next morning. There's no romantic development between the characters at all. You don't even learn anything about the person you're romancing. You just go on these short little dates, and after a while your beau (or belle) starts calling you "love" or "sweetheart" at the office, and you're basically a couple.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1703301751
The only time we actually get a hint of something more is in the mystery case you can investigate on the down low. Clearly, this matter was covered up, and Dana is intent on getting to the bottom of it! But trying to juggle her regular office duties while digging into the case is more frustrating than it's worth, especially when your boss finds out and demands that you stop sticking your nose where it doesn't belong. And if he catches wind that you disobeyed his order, it's game over. I was actually a bit relieved when he barged into the office and told me to pack up my things. It saved me from wasting several more hours on this borefest.
I'd like to say "at least it's free to play," but really, your time is worth more than this. Much like real life clerical duties, Love & Order is just a bunch of busywork with very little reward. And if you're hoping to fly through for easy achievements, good luck with that. I can't even imagine having to play through this three more times just to 100% it. I've already wasted 3 hours of my life on the game, and I ain't wasting no more. Screw that!
Play Solitaire
"bored..."
Ok, to start: I'm gay and only bought this for Dorothy. Just so you all know where I'm coming from, here; it's always gonna be hard for me to enjoy an otome game, so maybe I'm being unfair. Looking at the other reviews here, though, I don't think that's the case this time.
Personally I don't like stat management sim stuff in visual novels, but I don't necessarily dislike it either. When the ratio of story & character interaction to stat management is as skewed as it is here, though, even someone who likes that stuff would probably have to say it's going too far. This game bills itself on getting to flirt/date with cute characters and solving a mystery, but the scenes are so short, you spend barely any time doing either. What's the point?
A few positives:
I might play the other routes someday to keep it from dragging down my achievement completion ratio (lol), so I'll update this review if that changes my opinion at all, but I doubt it will.
I bought this visual novel after playing Winter Wolves's Roommates vn. This appears to be an earlier product, at least as much as it is not as advanced or polished. This does not make it less fun, but should be noted. It might even be a good introduction to their type of games.
Now, you play as a young secretary in the Office of the Crown's Attorney in Montreal. You have options as to who you pursue, all of which are technically your bosses. Pierre and Dorothy are Assistant Crown's Attornies, Ross appears to be higher than them, and Jonathan is a law clerk/intern.
While this is a part of the game, you actually cannot reach the ending unless you solve a decade-old mystery. One that might have implications to someone higher up in the heirarcry.
So do take care along your path.
Love & Order comes down to maybe a 50/50 split of schedule management and story. While not the worst offender in its category, having to go through tons of mindless tasks just to make it to a snippet of dialogue is not a fun presentation. It might be worth it if the plot was solid, but unfortunately the writing is quite poor.
As an otome/visual novel, it doesn’t deliver at all. There’s hardly any meaningful interaction between the characters, and no choices. However, I did enjoy this game. Having to juggle different projects with deadlines to try and keep everybody happy is enjoyable for me. I would recommend it for people that like time management games. But only if it’s on sale.
You can't even fuck Jean Chrétien whats the point?
This is another game I enjoyed pretty much.
It might not be the best game, but it's pretty easy and relaxing. I generally like games with attorneys and prosecutors in it, so I had plenty of fun. I would recommend it if you just want to play a pretty fun and relexing game without putting much effort in it.
Pro:
- amazing Artwork
- pretty easy and relaxing gameplay
- nice mystery plot
Con:
- rather short, therefore expensive, so buy it on sale
- issues with bgm when I relaoded, but didn't mind it much
- not much romance in it
Love and Order is more a pretty repetitive and boring management game than a date simulator itself. Characthers and dialogues are poor and you won't feel involved with their stories (as they have none or almost none) and personalities... The main plot ending doesn't surprise either, since it's pretty obvious.
This game it’s literally all about status raising, while the character you'll play with will do boring works to help her coworkers. And when you finally get a date with a character, it will be super short, plain and simply bad written.
There are tons of better games for the ones who enjoy Visual Novels, Date Simulators or Management games available so even it's short, this game isn't worth your time.
I wanted so much to like this game. But wow, this one is a bad VN. And I mean BAD. I’ve already said on reviews from other Winter Wolves games that all this status raising is in fact annoying because you barely have enough time to interact with the characters you’re pursuing. And Love and Order takes it too far, it’s literally all about status raising, doing boring works. And when you finally get a date with a character, it’s super short, plain, and simply bad written.
I swear I don’t want to sound mean. But this VN is clearly a rushed work, and it’s expensive. I don’t think that’s fair to people that pay the full price on a short, barely enjoyable game. Luckily I got my copy on a sale, but even so it feels that I’ve paid more than this VN is even worth of. I’ll continue to play the Winter Wolves VNs, not all their works are bad (some are in fact decent/good) and I still want to play their titles. I think that all VNs are an unique experience to their players, so I still believe that good works can come from these developers.
The art style was cute, BG was okay… But the BGM was just bad. It’s a single track that plays over and over again, suddenly stopping at times. The story is so rushed, you cannot feel sympathy for any character. I highly recommend a “remake” of this VN, not to change everything, but to at least add more stuff so we can get attached to the story and its characters.
2/10. I don’t recommend this game even on sale or for free...
This is more of a micro-managing simulator than it is a visual novel. Mind numbing entertainment and a good time killer. If you are able to put out of your mind that there isn't much story or romance involved, you could probably play this and find enjoyment from it. Expensive cards if you want to sell them, easy achievements.. the objectives in order to complete the game are also easy, once you figure it out.
I really didn't dislike this game as much as most people did. I do not, however, feel it's worth 11 dollars. Get this on sale for less than 5, if possible. You'll get a lot of play time into it because of the play style, but it is very repetitive.
A side note is that the developer, Winter Wolves, have many other titles on Steam that are much better. As much as I liked this, I would have to say it's one of their weaker titles. If you want something in this realm of gameplay - but a little more polished, look into some of their other titles.
Dull but compelling
I did enjoy this game, but I'm not entirely certain why. Most of the love interests are fairly boring, and insist on dragging you out to expensive resturants so all your money is spent on dates (which is a problem when you need money to lower your stress level).
It's hard to tell what actions do what, people seem to get angry at you for no reason, making sure you do a job for them regularly seems to help, but there are times when people get angry with you for not doing things, when you spent the day doing those things.
The 'mystery' isn't really, there are very few points where you can actually fail it, just make sure if it says 'send the documents back within X number of days' you do so.
The money you're paid each week does not seem to corrispond to how much work you do, but it varies and I can't figure out precisely what causes it to be higher or lower. You can work your ass off for a week and get $10, and barely work the next and get $50. So either it's buggy, badly designed, or the game mechanics are very poorly explaiend.
This aside, I did enjoy playing it. I enjoy time management and dating sims, so playing this game was fun for me. Word of advice, Dorothy is the best romance option. She gets the food in!
O....M....G.... I spent 2 hours grinding it out balancing 4 coworkers forcing their own work onto me, one of them was forcing me to do work that wasn't even office related, it's his school work. So after over 2 hours of repeating tedious dialog that basically never changes repeating cases and praying again and again for the next date to get an ending finally... I get fired, I get fired for "not doing my job" when all of my coworkers meters are maxed, I never failed a single assignment, I had a seemingly endless array of completed assignments, and my stress was basically never in the 20's at any given moment, I went to all the mindless meetings where my character contimplated suicide to escape on multiple occasions (no seriously even she wanted out that badly) and my work seriously got flushed down the toilet. I don't even know if this game is worth achievement hunting at this point. Came for the story, stayed for the achievements, got nothing out of it besides waisted time. DO NOT BUY this game under any cercumstances, it's not worth anything really. It's so bad noone has even bothered to make any guides at all for it and I've seen guides in plenty of pointless games helpful or otherwise. Just run as far away as possible from this.
Edit: I didn't want owning this game to be for nothing so I figured out and got all the achievements, will make a guide later to make it easier for others to complete the achievements aswell. However I'm sick of it for now so untill then.
For me this game was very disappointing, I didn't feel like there was really any story at all 98% of the time you are just running around doing errands for people and I didn't feel there was any depth to the characters at all. To me the main purpose of the game was to keep your stress level down and make a single character like you by doing errands for them.
I wouldn't recommend this to anyone. Very disappointing.
I love Winter Wolves and have played most of their games. This is, by far, the worst VN of theirs that I've ever played. The art work is nice, as it is with all Winter Wolves games. The story is promising, but I didn't bother finishing it, so who knows? The characters are bland and the dialogue is recycled. Typically, Winter Wolves makes interesting characters and has enough dialogue for you to really take an interest in them. In this game, however, you barely get to know any of the characters. The whole time you're playing, you're spending so much time doing pointless work related tasks and almost no time getting to know your co-workers. You gain their approval by working. Seriously. Go do their work for them and they like you more. You can, eventually, go on a date with them, which is boring and uneventful. Then all of that repeats, until you beat the game. Other than solving the mystery, there's no real story progression with the character of your choice. You never get to know them and there's no conflict. You just do your job and they immediately fall in love with you. End of game.
Overall, don't waste your money. If this game were $2, I'd say go for it, but it's not worth the price their charging. If you would like to play a Winter Wolves game Always Remember and both Flower Shop games are excellent and I highly recommend them.
First of all I'm glad to say I got this while it was on sale, buying it for the full price just wouldn't be value for money. I was quite excited to get started with Love and Order but the 3 hours I spent playing it left me feeling very disappointed, even finishing all the routes doesn't give you any satisfaction. All routes are essentially the same, badly written, fast paced and not very interesting or realistic...I hate to spoil it for anyone else who was excited to play this but all endings are basically the same, once you've played one you might as well not bother with the rest of them, In addition to this the ending felt very rushed as if they ran out of things to say or show. I don't think I could honestly recommend this to anyone, which makes me very sad to say.
The game actually sucks. TL;DR- stop
Gameplay: The whole point of this game is nothing, honestly. It's supposed to be an otome/dating sim, but it's more of a game where you have to try and keep your stress level down, which, may I add, is almost impossible. It's a pick-and-click and you're literally bombarded with bullshit you have to do in a day and your stress keeps going up and up and you can't do anything about it. All the meaningless tasks you do (Solitare, eating out, watching a movie, etc) don't decrease your stress level and they're only available during a certain period of time. All of them cost money and it's next to impossible to make any money in this game.
Characters: They're all dry and cliche. No development. They all suck. There's no other way of putting it. They get mad at you for the dumbest things and they bombard you with tasks and expect them to be done in an instant.
Story: The description is horribly misleading. I thought it would have been an okay game, given the storyline, but no. This game is impossible to complete. You can't do anything and you get fired 99% of the time because your stress makes you screw up so much, you can't even do basic functions as a human being. It's like the developers purposely made a terrible character with every flaw in character development crammed into the protagonist.
Routes: You have like what? Five routes to choose from? Nah. You can't even score a date with one of them cuz you already got fired for screwing up so many times
Overall: This game is so bad, I wish I never bought it. I want my money back, but I'm not going to get it back. Don't waste your time with it. It is as bad as it seems. Go play another one of their other visual novels because this one is the worst. 0/10 stop
Gameplay is too much like actual work without enough incentive to keep going. Carefully managing your time in the game earns you $10 a week - which runs out very quickly if you need to pay for transport or food. 2 hours of play got me a few quick dates before money started running dangerously low.
Great theme and quest text but a missed opportunity as far as visual novels go.
I highly recommend Dandelion instead.
This is my first public review, and it was nice time to spend a few hours playing this game. I wish I could come up with more pros for this game, but I seem to end up with more cons instead. Anyhow, this what I think about the game after two playthroughs:
--- Pros ---
- Nice Art
- Aid your employers by helping them out on cases as their secretary within the law firm (People who played Ace Attorney or are new to the Law/Political genre can enjoy this perspective-wise)
- Playing a character who engages in a investigative role outside her job description is a good characteristic.
- Romantic relationship is not restricted to male characters. You can pursue a yuri/lesbian relationship too.
---Cons---
- Fonts are very cheap fonts and dialogue textbox design is too simple. The colour combination between the text and the box also makes it hard to read over some mid-heavy text on a few occassions.
- The Mystery element of the story should be a little more interesting with the tension, and the outcome is pretty straightforward.
- Not many purchasable outfits to buy. Without overworking, you won't earn a lot for them either (Basically earned $10 every time, with no added bonus for my efficient hard work).
- Stress-management is too simple. All you need to do is eat in the lunch break room or spend $5 for a meal to keep your stress within 0-20% roughly.
- There seems to be no drawbacks from falling behind on the cases besides displeasing superiors even though I'm helping someone else. I'm surprised no one filed a complaint to the boss for not helping them enough.
- Need more characters to converse with within the story and free time. Dana doesn't seem to have any friends or social life outside of work.
- This game needs scheduled events while working in the office besides being dragged into a board meeting.
- Not much different or more impressive endings apart from whom you are in a relationship with.
- IMO one female co-worker as a potential romantic partner feels like an isolated mix into a game aesthetically targeted for female players . This game could at least have even number of male and female partners if it is including a yuri relationship, or just male partners only. To quote Godot from Ace Attorney:
"A single drop of milk is all it takes to destroy the pure black magic in the cup!"
Overall, I give this game 6/10. It is likable, just that it could do much better with story and gameplay elements.
Summary of the story: In Love And Order, you play as Dana Larose whoses starting her career as a secretary at the Crown Attorney's office. In the game you basically just run errands and whatnot for the lawyers (and potential love interests) there. The better job you do, the more money you get in your paycheck, and if you neglect your tasks for too long you could get fired. Pretty straight forward.
I really liked the game. Compared to other games made by Winter Wolves however, it's definitely not one of their best. The story is really interesting, the artwork is great, the gameplay is decent, the little extras you get after you finish a route are pretty cool. But they definitely could have done better. It took such little effort to complete it, and you could literally go on one date with them then the ending would be you getting married?? It just wasn't put together very well... The game took me about 3-4 hours to complete, and that was REALLY milking it. Most of the games I get from them take me around 20+ hours to complete it. It kills me that it could've been a really amazing game, if they but just a little more effort into it...
Overall, I'd give it a 6/10 maybe... It's a fun play, and a GREAT story, but it's just not as good as it could have been.
Hope this helps! ~Lailachu
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Winter Wolves |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 20.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 40% положительных (20) |