Anibabe‪!‬ 12+

Overall, I think it’s a good app/game. Great art styles, engaging enough storytelling, and just overall fun. But, as some people have already commented, the rubies system is a bit over the top. I understand the need for exclusive content (since the rubies choices don’t affect the story you play through), and the app has to make money some sort of way (although free apps receive some money, albeit pennies, per each download), but it’s just too much. Sure, they give you some opportunities to earn free rubies through points, but there too little in between. It’s already tough having a 2-3 ticket maximum and tickets taking multiple hours to reset, but the high price of premium choices and the exclusivity of earning rubies stack up too. At the very least, give us a “prize” for completing each story, 10-20 rubies or just 3 tickets (plus, allow us to have more than 3 in a storage or something. I had 2/3 and finished the daily mission, only to receive 2 tickets, but since that would go over the limit, I only got 1. It didn’t even show me what the prize was gonna be until I opened it).

The only bugs I found was that the backlog would be completely blank sometimes, plus in the Mafia story, one of the girls (I think the rival Mafia girl) would literally have no eyes (like a slug) whenever she would blink, and hold that blink for an entire line of dialogue, it’s horrifying to see.

To preface, I have read EVERY story(guess I’m the real loser here) and for the most part I’d say that this app does what it wants to and does it well enough that I do not have many complaints.
The only complaints I DO have are ones that I truly hope that the developers listen to, as I at least think I have some ground to speak up as I’ve put in the effort of reading every story that is on this application. UI, art, ability to gain currency through ads and all that stuff is great. No issues there.
The major issue I have is with some of the stories and the choices they force you to make are quite often bad. If you are not willing to spend gems the choice you are left with will quite often make you feel like garbage. One example is that you let one of the girl’s father die and force her to deal with it. Pretty scummy. Makes me feel like the devs are fishing for money. Changing them to a less polarizing outcome would feel much better. The only other thing is that I don’t think that final chapters of stories should have a premium choice. Other than that, it’s a great app, one that is unique and I quite rather enjoy :)

I have to say that I really enjoyed this game and the story that I was reading through, it was a lot of fun. When the game let me have fun, that is. As others have said, the “premium” choices you are given in the game, which are essentially choices that don’t involve you being a jerk to one or more of the characters, require gens to select and each one of these premium choices costs roughly 30 gems. 30 gems costs roughly $4 USD, so that’s $4 per choice, and with each chapter having multiple times for these premium choices that adds up very quickly. The price is insane. If the premium choices only cost one or two gems that would be acceptable, but one choice for 30 gems or around $4? That’s insane! It would cost you around $30 per chapter, and over $100 per book. That is so far out of line it’s crazy.
A much better practice would to have been charging $25-30 per book and not have those “premium” choices cost anything. In other words, you buy the book, you can play through it and select any choices you want for free.

It’s really too bad, I really did enjoy the game, but I’m not willing to fork over hundreds of dollars into it. It’s a shame that the developers went this route but it’s obvious that they have no intention of changing anything. At this point this is a game that could have been wonderful but is destroyed by a bad business practice.