Last Dream

In addition to playing the game, I had line-edited it in full and therefore have a good sense of the content. Still, I would certainly not have spent so much time on edits if I had the benefit of hindsight. (which I didn't)

Anyway, I did sort of go through the game during the line-editing process, and probably saw more than a player actually would.

Last Dream is very linear in design, like a linear array dotted with fake choices. Branching is minimal at best. That said, a lot of these choices affect a certain variable, and to win the game, you would have to accumulate enough points in this variable to avoid a bad end.

The writing was well... not good in the non-native sense, which was possibly why Hosted Games wanted a native speaker to review the writing before accepting it. I actually liked the story there, and Midori was a character I would have liked to romance, but sadly, she wasn't an RO, although there are romances in the game. I am unable to comment on similarities to FFX as I have never played it, for what it's worth.

Ultimately, this game was pulled from HG after being approved for publication. I don't know the exact reason for this, no official reason was publicly given, and the discussion thread was locked for futher comment. It has since been released for free. On another note, the original submission had AI content, but HG had permitted the author to replace it before approving it for publication. That said, the replacement (which was approved for publication) had AI content as well. The AI status of the current free release is unknown to me.