Welcome to the apocalypse...again. This time you've got to run a little grocery store, remember what people say to you and deal with colorful characters...like a murderer. Oh, and shoot zombies. Service with a Shotgun got me with it's trailer and cute dystopian girl in said trailer. Add some kooky hi-jinks and you have a game that looks like it's from Newgrounds, but much longer.
Like I wrote, you'll be managing a little convenience store and trying to remember what customers say to you to get money. Money for what? Bullets. Bullets and zombie traps. So every convo you've go to pay attention, they're timed or at least the questions, asking about remembering, what characters said are. At the same time you've got to shoot zombies as they slowly make their way to one side of the store.
It's hard to switch between, funny and strange conversations explaining the lore of the land and getting to know people and busting a cap in a zombie. I could go all in on just the visual novel side.
So, a fun story mired in gameplay that's kind repetitive that doesn't really give a dopamine hit. Shooting the zombies isn't even that hard or anything it's kind of an annoyance.
I'd say this might need to be a learning lesson for the developer, there's effort put into it, no doubt, but it's hard to justify making it through for the whole crazy story.
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