This VN is an adaptation of JustAnotherMarylander’s story, Mike & Savy.
The adaptation isn’t great — the visuals are mediocre, overly gray and dark, the character models unappealing, posing is often awkward, and facial expressions are almost completely absent. There aren’t nearly enough renders — events are described in detail through text while the image stays static, sometimes out of sync with the narrative. Honestly, your imagination might do a better job visualizing it.
Music only plays in the menu.
Allowing the player to choose the reading order undermines the author’s original intent — the story was meant to be read first from his perspective, then from hers, exactly as it was originally published.
As for the story itself, it’s a very peculiar piece of writing. It’s a wild, toxic ride.
At first, everything seems fine: we’re introduced to the characters, shown their growth, development, and the blossoming of their feelings. It starts as a pleasant, romantic love story between a brother and his adoptive sister, and it’s actually well written.
You can really feel that the original author is a different person from the VN developer — because the developer’s other project is a narrative disaster, both in structure and in prose quality. Here you want to keep reading to see what happens next (though the overuse of cliffhangers plays a role in that too).
It sounds like a joke, but for the reader's mental health, it would have been better if these chapters had been poorly written (like the last ones, which turn into a slog of repetitive dialogue and flat writing).
Because you start to sympathize with the characters and root for them, but after the second chapter, the sister turns into a stupid hysteric, and then into a selfish bitch. The brother turns into an unhealthily obsessed, masochistic doormat, who loves to engage in groundless self-blame. The mother turns into a cruel manipulator, willing to destroy her children’s happiness just to satisfy social expectations. Then come chapters 5 and 6, where the turning point with the of “enlightenment” is so abrupt it feels utterly implausible. The only reason later events are even possible is that the brother never gets help and stays unhealthily fixated.
There’s no NTR in the technical sense, but in practice the MC suffers way more watching his love interest date someone else than in most NTR games. He only survives it because his psyche shields him by turning him into a masochist. And no, not in a particularly sexual sense — the sex here is incredibly dull and drawn out. It carries a distinctly “feminist” slant: she receives oral almost every time, yet it takes years before she even looks at his penis up close, and when she finally gives him a blowjob, it’s treated as some kind of special gift. Even when she suggests doggy style — also only years later, it’s few minutes before taking back control.
So in the end, this reads like a feminist fairy tale about a “prince” who must love his “princess” more than his own life, endure years of her hysteria, blame himself for everything, forgive all the pain she causes, and come back to her the moment she decides to dump yet another boyfriend after he proposes.
The novel is so obsessed on torturing the protagonist that even his mother sides with the adopted daughter — the child of her husband’s affair — instead of her own son. Or, for example, the brother's best friends, instead of offering obvious and honest words of support that he isn't to blame, rub salt in the wound by inviting his sister and her new boyfriend to their wedding.
Ultimately, this is a story of toxic love that feels like manipulative sadism aimed at the player, especially guys with any sense of self-respect.
You’ve been warned.
The adaptation isn’t great — the visuals are mediocre, overly gray and dark, the character models unappealing, posing is often awkward, and facial expressions are almost completely absent. There aren’t nearly enough renders — events are described in detail through text while the image stays static, sometimes out of sync with the narrative. Honestly, your imagination might do a better job visualizing it.
Music only plays in the menu.
Allowing the player to choose the reading order undermines the author’s original intent — the story was meant to be read first from his perspective, then from hers, exactly as it was originally published.
As for the story itself, it’s a very peculiar piece of writing. It’s a wild, toxic ride.
At first, everything seems fine: we’re introduced to the characters, shown their growth, development, and the blossoming of their feelings. It starts as a pleasant, romantic love story between a brother and his adoptive sister, and it’s actually well written.
You can really feel that the original author is a different person from the VN developer — because the developer’s other project is a narrative disaster, both in structure and in prose quality. Here you want to keep reading to see what happens next (though the overuse of cliffhangers plays a role in that too).
It sounds like a joke, but for the reader's mental health, it would have been better if these chapters had been poorly written (like the last ones, which turn into a slog of repetitive dialogue and flat writing).
Because you start to sympathize with the characters and root for them, but after the second chapter, the sister turns into a stupid hysteric, and then into a selfish bitch. The brother turns into an unhealthily obsessed, masochistic doormat, who loves to engage in groundless self-blame. The mother turns into a cruel manipulator, willing to destroy her children’s happiness just to satisfy social expectations. Then come chapters 5 and 6, where the turning point with the of “enlightenment” is so abrupt it feels utterly implausible. The only reason later events are even possible is that the brother never gets help and stays unhealthily fixated.
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There’s no NTR in the technical sense, but in practice the MC suffers way more watching his love interest date someone else than in most NTR games. He only survives it because his psyche shields him by turning him into a masochist. And no, not in a particularly sexual sense — the sex here is incredibly dull and drawn out. It carries a distinctly “feminist” slant: she receives oral almost every time, yet it takes years before she even looks at his penis up close, and when she finally gives him a blowjob, it’s treated as some kind of special gift. Even when she suggests doggy style — also only years later, it’s few minutes before taking back control.
So in the end, this reads like a feminist fairy tale about a “prince” who must love his “princess” more than his own life, endure years of her hysteria, blame himself for everything, forgive all the pain she causes, and come back to her the moment she decides to dump yet another boyfriend after he proposes.
The novel is so obsessed on torturing the protagonist that even his mother sides with the adopted daughter — the child of her husband’s affair — instead of her own son. Or, for example, the brother's best friends, instead of offering obvious and honest words of support that he isn't to blame, rub salt in the wound by inviting his sister and her new boyfriend to their wedding.
Ultimately, this is a story of toxic love that feels like manipulative sadism aimed at the player, especially guys with any sense of self-respect.
You’ve been warned.
