Leaderboard

I've played through Karakara 1 & 2 and the best way I could describe the experience is "NEKOPARA, but without sex slavery". The first episode is beautiful visually, greatly voice-acted and just wholesome slice-of-life fun spiced up by the interesting post-apocalyptic setting (definitely the most lighthearted post-apocalypse I've seen). The scripting is great, making the dialogue very lively despite the lack of Live 2D or similar techniques used. Even the way heroines are treated feels extremely NEKOPARA, with two added to the harem every episode. I have to say though, I liked the second one, which Fred the Barber trolled everyone with by giving it a 5/5, a bit less than the first. The gimmicks of the new heroines are pretty poorly done, the story introduces many new elements that feel more like retcons than expanding the game's world and the mystery subplot is a jumbled mess. I'd rather get more slice-of-life stuff and well thought out stories about the setting than these half-assed attempts at being dramatic with a massive cliffhanger at the end. I felt antithetical to what was actually enjoyable about these games. I give 3,5/5 to Karakara and 3/5 to Karakara 2. Nice, short distraction, but hardly anything beyond that.

Yeah, I believe expectation plays a big role in what we perceive as "worst". We do see those as more trash than we should because disappointment and frustration doesn't really have a "so bad it's good" funny meme value to poke fun at in the future. I did play games that are sitting at 57 in Metacritic thrice from scratch while dropping titles at score 93 halfway so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ expectation is one bitch that takes time to adjust. p.s. I could contribute to the discussion but no one needs to know that one bad nukige I played

I'll take your entire stock.

Sure, but one person's treasure is another one's nightmare. Just read up some opinions on Hoshimemo or Himawari. And as you can see, few people here mentioned obvious trash. Obvious trash rarely can leave you with a strong impression and achieve real hights of terribleness, because no one expects anything from it, including its authors. When something actually tries and takes itself seriously... That's how true abominations are brought to this world.