Please! Please Confess First Review

You start the game broke, which is typical, but you get a job as a bar tender. The lack of money is a regular talking point.

The six admirers are fine, although they are mostly tropes. They include the girlfriend (via dreams), the boss landlady, a reticent singer, a school friend who refuses to admit she loves you, a younger school friend who refuses to admit she loves you, and a psycho stalker who never stops saying she loves you. The actresses are good and create distinctive personas. The psycho stalker steals a few scenes and can be amusing. There is no affection meter and choices do not affect the endings, which is fine by me but some might not like the lack of challenge or consequence.

Unlike a lot of other games, the story branches are overly simple. During long conversations there are not many dialogue choices, which feels more like a movie than interactive fiction. And when there are choices, there is too much scene overlap. Also, bizarrely, the scene title is always shown at the top left of screen, which is annoying and cannot be turned off.

Translation is poor. English subtitles are just thrown on top of the Chinese ones, which is not even the biggest problem. Phone conversations have no English text, and the messages are all audio recordings so no chance to use Google Lens. There are a few scenes without any subtitles too. But the main problem is that a few scenes don’t exist in the English version. You will need to switch to Chinese to get all scenes/achievements until this gets patched.

Video quality is good. Audio is excellent (live recorded). There are bonus videos and photos, but 95% seem to be unrelated instagram clips of the actresses, and those with dialogue have no subtitles. It will take 2.5 hours to get to the finale and another 3.5 hours to unlock all scenes. Some of the romance endings are poor (mostly a montage of old footage). Despite a satisfactory amount of content, it might be best to wait for a lower price and hope some issues get fixed.