For a starter I cannot describe how much this game cured my crippling depression, the Nekopara Franchise has honestly cured my depression and helped me with suicidal thoughts. My depression was really bad last month as I had finished high school and becoming a shut in neat, my family kicked me out because I had become too "weird" because of my usual hobbies, I tried to explain that the anime body pillow was the only friend I need but they wouldn't listen. After finding somewhere to move in, my room partner recommended that I try the Nekopara franchise, at first I shrugged it off but after awhile my depression got really bad and it was my friends last wish for me to try the game. The opening of the game filled me with joy as I saw 2 cat girl waifus appear on the screen that was pure eye candy. I dropped everything in my life and started sweating on this game and my depression and misery started to finally fade away after 4 years of torture. The visuals in the game are nothing special but that's one of its charms, the art of the cat girls in this game are 100% waifu content and the art style making me feel good inside. The feelings I get when I play are so mixed that it makes me feel alive again, from laughter to tears, the game makes you feel alive and that you are really there. As people say its not about the graphics that make a game good its about the story and the plot, the Nekopara series of games are far by the best story games of all time and the visuals 100% carry the story, The story follows you as Kashou Minaduki "Master" and your two cat girls Chocola And Vanilla, it makes you wish you were the MC (not Minecraft) and makes you dream you had 2 perfect cat girls at your side.

The best feature of the game is its adjustable jiggle physics, it made the immersion 100 times better and I would consider that feature one of the main reasons my depression is gone today, half way through the story my depression was almost gone and I could be found sitting in my room for hours at a time enjoying this game. The anime waifus in the game make me so happy and really feel like I am loved and at ease. when I put the game on, it brings a smile to my face and really feels me with joy. When I have bad thoughts of my abusive household I always hop on Nekopara and it makes me feel happy again.
Sometimes I find my self playing this game and staring at the "holy scenes" for way to long and I'm happy to say this game has great "holy scenes" the R18+ Patch is defiantly a must buy with the game looking 9999 times better, the patch makes the game actually have character and makes the "epic scenes" 9999 times better to watch.

When I play this game I whole heartily play for the plot, don't get me wrong most people play for the "swaggy scenes" but for me I 100% play the plot, the best thing in my opinion has to be its funny use of comedy and how its attached to 2 innocent cat girls that just want "Master" to be happy. I know people way criticise me for being a odd one out for playing for the plot but its TRUE! I genuinely play for this games plot.

Now I know many people are going to be reading this review so I'm going to describe the best way of playing this game without anyone else knowing, you need to obviously need to own the game (DUH) and own a high tech trip wire laser that pulls up your pants and closes the game when activated, you should have these materials laying around but one thing that you might need to get is a good wireless mouse so you can click to advance the plot when your a "little" far from your computer, after these materials it should be self explanatory.

I know I might sound like I'm repeating my self but the game is just one of or maybe the #1 story game out there, not many other games can cure someone's depression that has been going on for many years and not many other games can bring a smile to sad mans face but I can 100% confirm this game will just do that but triple your expectations. To be honest if your reading this far into the review I think you have done yourself a favour and should be the type of person to pick up this game.

If your still reading this I think you want to know a little bit more about my mental health before playing Nekopara, to be honest I have really been suffering and when I go outside I feel like I'm being stared at all times and it doesn't help with my anxiety, When I was inside after being outside all day I feel like I cant breathe and when I got to bed my sleep paralysis demon haunts me everyday, but everything changed when I moved out and became more independent, at first when I moved out I was on the "verge" and wanted to die everyday because it got way worse but one day I got recommended a strange game called Nekopara, to be honest I wasn't having it and had zero interest playing that silly game at all but my friend wished i played it one time so i finally gave in and gave it a shot.

As a final note, I know its not just me who has used this game as a way of escaping and curing my depression, The Game is healing for me, therapeutic for sure. I hear this for lots of others too and I think it’s an absolutely beautiful phenomenon. I’ve never been one to keep up on hobbies and see them through. I always give up when I see I'm just wasting my time. I always feel too lazy to get up and do something or my depression takes over. This is not the same. I’m yearning all the time to get back in the game and fix the thing I messed up last session. I’m always wanting to see if I am just good enough to have those 2 as my waifus. I just wanted to say that I am so grateful for this game and I hope it brings you the peace and joy it brings me even as just a starter. I honestly think that this game is the BEST GAME IN THE WORLD!!!!

3/10 (sound track too expensive)