Honey Rose: Underdog Fighter Extraordinaire

I was really impressed with this game. The fighter game aspect makes for an interesting take on the VN/life management genre. Stat-building, etc. in these kinds of games can get pretty montonous sometimes, but I think the wrestling matches in Honey do a good job of breaking it up enough so it doesn't feel that way. The writing is engaging, well-developed, and funny. And of course the beautiful hand-drawn animation is the icing on the cake. You can tell a lot of love went into the development. Definitely recommend this one!

This game is a visual novel with beat 'em up game play. Their are 6 total stats you are trying to balance, 3 classes and 3 fighting stats. You can only choose to do one thing per day from a decent amount of options. The fighting is enjoyable and all moves are available from the start, you just need to know how to do them. I liked the story and characters, nothing too disappointing/impressive.

The fighting can become tedious with the amount of times people pick fights with you. Sometimes it feels like events are too random and make it feel like the player has very little control over what happens (e.g. getting sick right before an exam, getting caught out of class when you try to meet up with your friends). The actual randomness would be less than issue if the main character acknowledged that the events where not in their control, but instead the other characters just act like my stats didn't meet the required threshold.

The game is 4:3 and I had to set it to full screen every time on startup because the setting didn't save. The UI, along with some mechanics, need more explaining. I didn't even know i could get sick. You can only see the current month of activities so you cannot really plan for events that are planned for the beginning of a month. Some of the things on the calendar aren't labeled, so you can't tell if it is a match, exam, or meet up.

I encountered a few bugs. I somehow went too far right during a fight and went off screen, i couldn't see my character so i just held left until I got back on the screen. One of the enemies during a fight just stopped reacting to getting hit so i just mashed attack until something happened. During a cut scene, the game glitched and there where 2 Big Blues on the screen for a few seconds.

Overall, I liked this game and there really isn't any reason you shouldn't give it a shot unless you don't usually like these types of games.

The game is free, and you can support it by buying one of the DLC items.

Excellent, fun, free. I am amazed at the level of detail in the art and sound department. Good rhythm, animation, and story so far. My only decision is just how much I want to reward the developer. Will absolutely be donating if for no other reason than the art.
I saw another review that compared this to Persona's social aspects and I agree. I always loved P3&4 social aspects and this game has plenty of it.
It isn't a perfect game, but the issues I have are mere details so far (pressing the same button for the text to advance and to make decisions sometimes makes you select something before you even knew it was there).
Great job, good game.

Honey Rose is an interesting idea that fortunately pays off. It's part visual novel, part life sim and part 2D fighting game. It'd be really easy for such a game to be a complete mess, but HR pulls it off masterfully.

You play as the eponymous Honey Rose, who's a University student whose dream is to become a masked wrestling star. But, of course, her secret life as luchadora is endangered by her parents' ultimatum of graduation or moving to another town. It's up to you as the player to help her balance her life to hopefully achieve both goals.

Gameplay is fun and a good balance between modes. You have to help Honey both by correct decision making and good reflexes in a I-can't-believe-it-works marriage of usually completely disparate gameplay mechanics. The game does a good job of easing you into it, and I give props for the excellent way options are displayed at the start.

Besides gameplay, the art style also has to be commended. It's really appealing and not the cliche stuff you keep seeing in games of each genre. I also have to give an applause for the fantastic idea for payment options. Though I'd be happy to pay the price if they had decided to sell it normally. It really is a fun game, and it's worth the time and money. I've only played it for less than a couple of hours at the time of writing this review, but I can tell you right now I'm going to be spending a lot of time with it.

It's a very enjoyable visual novel, with life management and fightning mechanics. Where you need to balance your studies on college at the same time you try to enter the carrer of profissional wrestler.

The art style is simple and clear, the animations are good, the music is good, it has simple but functional and easy to understand mechanics, it does what needs to do and it does it well.

Now, the fightning isn't very deep, or at least it isn't until the point i played so far, but that's not a problem because the fightning isn't the main focus of the game. You do have grabs, combos, dodges, dashes, counters and stats that affect your perfomance, those create a solid base so the combat, even tho isn't the main focus, is still enjoyable and shakes things a bit. So you won't go the entire game just reading.

The game is also on a model "pay what you want", which means it's free to download and play. The dlc of the game is the various tiers of payments that you can choose from, those don't add any content to the game, they are soly to help the developer.

From what i've played so far it's a fantastic part VN part fighting game, it does both especially the latter incredibly well! The animations are fantastic and the music is catchy! AND it has full controller support! (Because who the hell plays a fighting game on a keyboard?) Overall this is a fantastic game (again so far from what i've played) and it has also become the one VN that i actually am super interested to keep playing! (also for some reason the dad is great)