Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll

Everlasting Summer was amazing so I had great expectation for this game and it's a disapointment.
Writing is bad, both story and characters. Ambiance and music are kind of cool through.

overall this is a great virtual novel. It has mystery, suspense and some adult themes.

Rather gripping. I wish there was a route in the game that would tie everything together and didn't depend on the girls that much (similar to Everlasting Summer). Nonetheless, pleasant experience, good music, atmospheric. Even if at times it felt like a drag and choices outcomes were rather arbitrary, the endings still were worth it and brought something to tthe table for the overall story.

Love, Money, Rock'n'Roll is a very good visual novel game with a beautiful story. The graphics are nice and the soundtrack is cozy... I recommend it. 💗

определенно как и любое чтиво - эта новелла дала мне хоть какие-то эмоции. Но читать про немощного ГГ нереально тяжело.

Если главная цель визуальной новеллы - вызвать эмоции, то у этой игры это получилось.
Потому что я ощущаю максимальное разочарование и словно издевку разработчиков над "дрочерами на концовки".
Лично я не понял, почему мой персонаж ведёт себя как мразь, а я ничего не могу с этим сделать. Почему от одного невинного выбора игра делиться на две практически не пересекающиеся части. И переигрывать, чтобы понять, что именно я не так сделал, нет никакого желания, потому что логики в этом нет никакой. Ведёшь себя максимально вежливо по отношению к подруге детства и не лезешь в неприятности? Поздравляем, вы никому не нужный изгой и от вас все отвернулись. Ведёшь себя максимально уважительно по отношению к девушке из богатой семьи и её деду, помогаешь ей избавиться от зависимости? Она будет ревновать и умрет от передоза, потому что видимо ты слишком хорошо/плохо относился к другой девушке. А может потому что пошёл в парк вместо кино. Удачной игры.

I have to say I'm super disappointed. What starts as a coming of age story turns into a convoluted and badly written spy thriller filled with plotholes, inconsistencies and convenient cop-outs.

The main character is not only utterly stupid, but also absolutely unlikable, self centered arrogant a-hole and a coward to boot. Sure, there is some (minor) character progression, but he still remains an unlikable idiot. Same can be said for almost every other character, a lot of them are "pseudo-intelligent" - meaning the plot contrivances, plotholes and other crap writing makes things go their way even if it absolutely shouldn't. The way these government agents behave also tells me the writers have absolutely no idea how actual governmental agencies work. And to make things even "better", there are several "subtle" attempts to glorify the shithole that was USSR in the late 80s.

The art in general is pretty good, most of the time, but there are several scenes where there is no art at all, I assume due to lack of resources or time - or both. Same goes for music and sounds - some is great, some utter trash. Most of the game is thus very high production quality, but some parts are also amateurish and on the level of "baby's first VN attempt" that you would find on itch for free.

Got this on a discount and still regret it, can't even bring myself to complete at least one story line, because it's so convoluted and poorly written and the dumbest shit happens all the fucking time... Ah man, I actually got mad...

unique VN project

Unfathomably gullible and unrelatable antagonist that doesn't know how to get the fuck off, don't give a shit and stay out of trouble. Stay out of the business of fucking espionage ffs.

ни любви ни денег ни рок н рола

I find it boring, I dont care for the characters and this could easily be a book which I would be able to read comfortably in my bed. At time it tries to be mysterious, but its just plain boring.

An alright Visual Novel. It very often drags on, and some paths are noticeably WAY better than others (I would honestly recommend you to skip Kagome's entire route, seriously screw that woman) but there are some good moments and the Ellie and Himitsu routes are pretty great.

Soviet games выпускают игру про Японию... Честно говоря кринж, все кринж, играть невозможно, сюжет говно, стилистика норм, но явно не для СНГ игрока. Музыка так же хуже чем в БЛ.

Interesting game with fantastic music and visual. The story is quite engaging, even though the main character often behaves stupidly, but that's the author's style, in the previous game of these developers the main character was not any better. I recommend the game.
But it has one big minus and that is ...... CATHERINE!!! You will have to endure long passages where the main character will whine.

I really enjoyed this visual novel. I can really tell they've increased their quality from their previous game.
The stories in this game are wild. And I love it. I'm hungry for more and am quite excited for the DLC to be released later this month. I hope we'll get something akin to the harem ending, or "secret" ending like their previous game.
The devs did a great job & I can't wait to see what other projects they have in store.
To all future players, the order you play the routes in largely isn't important, but what ever order you do play them in, I highly recommend doing Himitsu's route before Catherine's. (you'll understand why afterwards).
Thanks again to Soviet Games for this wonderful story. Seriously, just when you think the story is coming to a close, the action ramps up to an 11/10 and there's several hours more of the story left!
Who do y'all think is "best girl" They all have their moments. But honestly I'm stuck in a three way tie between
Ellie, Catherine, & Himitsu (sorry Kagome)

вторая новелла которую я читаю( если не считать моды на бл), поиграл немного, мне зашло, давно не играл в игры с японской тематикой

ЛМР конечно не БЛ, но тоже новелла
Химицу просто нереалка няшка невменяшка
Кетрин единственное что знает о контрацепции это Нико-кун потому что он гондон
Кагоме думает что если отец ушел из семьи то это что-то сверхестественое
Эли только на её руте я понял почему в название присутствует слово рок-н-ролл (СИЛА СОЛИИИИ)

Good epta very good nahui

гра непогана, як візуалка для невибагливого гравця навіть хороша. мені гра сподобалась. але через розробників я не можу поставити їй вподобайку.
якщо чисто про гру, то нормальна. можна грати.

Love, Money and Rock and Roll (or as I like to think, Spies, Documents and Flinging Your Hands), is a Visual Novel game where you play as a student, Nikolai and his misadventures with the four heroines(?) and discover increasingly depraved methods to completely ruin his life.

No this is not a game about romancing the members of an all girl rock band (although one of them is). It's your typical high school quasi-dating sim story with some esoteric elements of international and corporate espionage.

Reviewing VNs is a bit odd with my current system as I think of these as more as novels than games, but here we go.

Pros:

++ The Visuals are quite solid. The character sprites are sharp, well made and feature some animation. Backgrounds are very nicely detailed, colorful and have their own bits of animation with the occasional cameo easter eggs.

++ Music overall is quite good with a decent mix of melodies, easy to listen to and not overly obtrusive.

+ Choices. There's a decent amount of choice and variety to what outcomes you can get (4 good endings and 10 bad ones).

++ The setting of 1987 Japan, while not that unique, is presented quite well with a decent amount of historical context. No smartphones or pesky internet here. People actually have to use land line phones and *gasp* talk to one another.

+ The gallery includes backgrounds, cut-scenes and BGM. Weirdly, the unlocked ending lists are in the Help menu though.

+ There is an in-game glossary for various Russian and Japanese terms and colloquialisms with shortcuts in the dialogue for quick access

++ I think the story overall and the routes presented is done well despite a few pacing issues here and there. It was enough to keep me entertained and interested to see how things turn out with other choices and routes.

Cons:

- Various grammatical errors, especially in the late game

- Nikolai as a protagonist can be a bit tough to root for sometimes due his dense and off-putting nature

- The trope of characters not saying what they need to be saying or being unnecessarily evasive tends to get used a bit too often to drive the drama

- The order you play the routes may affect your perception of the other heroine's quite negatively in some cases

- It's not always clear why some choices have the impact they do. Things just happen to progress because you reached the right amount of favorability points regardless if the choices made sense or not.

I'm not much of a VN connoisseur, but I was impressed by the quality of the storytelling in Everlasting Summer and was curious to see how Soviet Games next title would improve on the formula and can't say I'm disappointed. I don't know if I'd say it's a better VN overall but it is a much higher quality one and still enjoyable (provided you can tolerate the misery fuel of some of the bad endings).

It gets a recommend and a 7/10

literally the best visual novel ive ever played. we get banger soundtracks once again and the story was much richer more well developed than in everlasting summer and over twice as long. Unlike everlasting summer the romantic endings was much more prevalent and satisfying and the game immediately hooks you in where it starts slow and builds up in most visual novels. props to soviet games! theyve outdone themselves in this one fr

For the record, I bought this game just to get the Steam backgrounds, nothing else.

Я в рот ебал катю , кстати буквально было дело

“All that glitters is NOT gold.”

Alright. Let me start by saying that the character and background designs, ambient sound effects, and background musics in this game are nearly perfect. It really felt like I was in Japan, and the whole experience was as relaxing as watching a well-made ASMR video.

However, the most important thing is that the story in this game is truly TERRIBLE! In a visual novel, the key element is an interesting story that pulls readers in. But this game had NO Love, NO Money, and NO Rock'n'Roll. I honestly couldn’t figure out what the point of the story was, and there were so many unnecessary and boring dialogues and monologues that I found myself dozing off while playing. XD The choices were uninteresting, and there was no tension whatsoever.

The English translation also feels a bit awkward sometimes. Still, I can see that the developers do their best, so I’ll not criticize this point.

I really want to recommend this game based on its beautiful artwork, backgrounds, soundtrack, and community items, but the story is so awful that I can't give it a positive review. I'd suggest buying it at a discount of at least 70% or more.

Какого хуя титры полтора часа?!

Кто это придумал?! Кому я должен ноги, руки, и пипиську оторвать?

This is one of the best visual novels I've ever played. Enjoy the story, the artwork, the music, and all the cute girls.

They actually did it, those crazy sumbitches did it. They actually one upped Everlasting Summer, the story is nice but the individual characters make the story more than the laid out events if that makes sense

гг неблагодарный мудак, но лучше уж так чем овощ как гг из лета. Химитцу лучшая я считаю. Кагомэ слишком уж закрытая но тоже интересный перс. Эли и Кэти два овоща и проходил их руты только из за ачивки. Игра ттоп, не жалко 10$ и 26 часов моего времени. (ачивка за просмотр титров это боль, а так же экслюзивные фоны в титрах тоже такая себе идея, пришлось пересматривать титры 4 раза)

art and music is superb the story makes you feel a rollercoaster of emotions enjoyed it overall

As a lover of Everlasting Summer i can not recommend this game. The main character is an asshole with depression problems that leads you to make only stupid choices that out of the 3 two of them are pretty much the same. Worst part is no matter what you do you cant seem to get the main character to do any real changing development. The only thing i can say positive about the game are:
- The girls are cute( and great personalities )
- Music gets an A+
- Thumbs up for the Art style
and honestly maybe if i never played the first one i wouldnt be as harsh on this one, but they clearly didnt put anywhere near as much effort making this one. Everlasting Summer had WAY more choices that all had impact with many many different ending GOOD and BAD. but this game feels so linear of randomly meeting the girls and then deciding what you might do when some of the choices at first seem like yeah this is what i want but then it keeps going and doesnt let you make another choice and the crap character takes the wheel. which btw again in the first one the main character was MUCH more flexible and made it feel like YOU were the character not some small voice in this guys head that gets a two cents in here and there.
IN CONCLUSION DO NOT BUY THIS GAME JUST GET EVERLASTING SUMMER INSTEAD