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Spoilers for the visual novel Cleaved

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So, once again I have read through a new visual novel, this time Cleaved and again I have some thoughts.

The premise of this story is your good old standard isekai where our human main character, Brynn, gets sucked through a wormhole into another world where there are furry characters, including our main love interest, Calder, the wolf king, and the dashing gentleman thief, Frasier, but there is also mild amnesia and some sort of mysterious being speaking to Brynn in his head. I actually remember reading some snarky comments where Cleaved was called a direct Adastra clone because Calder, being a silly himbo wolf monarch, was just like Amicus, and Frasier, being flirty and a bit mysterious in terms of allegiances, was just like Neferu. It didn’t help at all that the sprites and CG art was done by Haps, who also did the art for Adastra, making all the gestures and emotions have a very similar vibe. All in all, I didn’t find the story being that much similar to justify the title of ‘Adastra clone’ and most of the time I had fun reading the story and learning about the characters and worldbuilding. Also the sprite art is in progress of being updated, since Haps had to retire from the job some time ago and there is now a new artist hired and the preliminary updates looked very nice.

However, there was something that made the reading often very annoying, and that is the overall writing of the story. In many cases I felt like the story was rushed from one scene to another or parts were just forgotten to write in the first place. For example in one scene Brynn was in a library where he had to find two books. There was a choice for which book you wanted to find first. On my first try I chose the not-so-important book first and there were a short scene where the book was searched from the shelve, but when it was time to find the second book, it took like two sentences and we were already reading the book and I had to take a second look on what exactly happened and what we were reading. On the second try I chose the more-important book first and I got an entire longer scene where the book was found and there were some additional lore as well that could have been added to the first-try-scenario as well but maybe it was just forgotten or there was an error in coding. Then we didn’t find the not-so-important book at all and the scene ended.

Another example was when Brynn was in his room and he was like “Oh boy, what a day! I was arrested, in a jail, in a trial for my life, and now I’m friends with the king.” That very rapidly escalated into a full blown panic attack and the mysterious voice in Brynn’s head revealed itself in a corporeal form. Here again I had to take a second look at what exactly was happening because it all happened so fast with no warning.

After noticing these weaknesses in the writing, I began to notice them more and more towards the end which made the reading a bit frustrating. Luckily, I’d say these mistakes are rather easy to fix by just adding some additional flavor text in places where they are needed. In general I’d say that the dialogue between characters is much better written compared to the text outside of the dialogue, though there were some words I found a bit overused like the word “perfect” as an answer to whatever they were talking about. I wouldn’t mind if it was a distinct talking pattern for a singular character but at least three characters were using it all the time so that was getting a bit on my nerves.

My final judgement is that Cleaved is a pretty nice story with cool characters but the text needs a revisit from the author to fix the errors and to make the reading experience more pleasant. Frasier's side story was nice, almost as long as the current main story, and probably better written than the main story in terms of the quality of the text.

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