KonoSuba Love For These Clothes of Desire - Playthrough Part 12

I started another run and this time I had Megumin wear the School Invidia dress. She was acting like a jealous child, which isn't too far from her actual personality. After that I figured I couldn't bear seeing Kazuma simp for her more than in the Legend of Crimson movie and I decided I was done with the game.

If you are a fan of the show there's plenty to enjoy here, mainly the wonderful cast of voice actors. I generally detest visual novels, but it being fully voiced made things enjoyable. There are plenty of funny moments and fan service outfits to unlock. The main issues I have with this game are in the design department. Creating the dresses and gathering resources is a cool mechanic, but the paths you have to take are pretty much pre-determined since you have to build the outfit every time you need to unlock a specific job giving you the needed resource. So for example if you want to make Wiz's swimsuit you need to first build one of Darkness' and Aqua's outfits. It would've been much better if the jobs were available on subsequent runs after you already unlocked them once. This would allow you to go for different girls at the same time rather than grinding the same outfits every time. I wasn't a huge fan of the main story. It's basically an excuse to have the magic slab creating personality altering clothes, but towards the end it becomes convoluted and confusing out of nowhere with no decent resolution having to explain the backstory of the villain in the last chapter. There's also the issue with the endings. I have no idea how to get different endings. I got a special one with Darkness, presumably because I was over certain affection, but I couldn't even get the normal one for Aqua. The side characters like Yunyun, Chris and Wiz don't seem to have a special ending - just a side mission which is completed before the main story. If everything is based around affection I guess you have to do all the events with the main character and give the correct outfit answers every time. The former can be a problem since there are events which don't indicate they are present. The only way I can figure to do this is create a giant spreadsheet and experiment over different runs. That or just look it up online, but if I have to do that there is a design problem.

Overall if you are a Konosuba fan there's a lot to enjoy here, but the gameplay structure may be a problem for some.