Simply put, this game is fucking amazing overall, and the content with Lyriel is mind-blowing.
The story and dialogue are decent, characters have real personalities and none of them look like clone copies that you have seen very similar variants of in other games. The animations and just overall graphics quality are TOP NOTCH. The story and your emotional connection to the LIs is so well-done that I am actually really invested, and seriously fretting over how it's all going to turn out! That is rare as hell, at least for me, in an H game.
The story progression also works very well considering how non-linear it is. You will rarely if ever feel like you are just waiting for an event to pop up, I don't think I ever even clicked the skip time button - there is always something interesting to do in one of the rooms.
Other bonuses? Refreshingly, they did not feel the need to cram the game with incest, NTR, or FUTA content.
As far as cons, I will say this - I only really care for two of the LIs (Rae the succubus and Lyriel the elf.) The decision to include a giant beefcake pirate chick with huge muscles, AND yet another giant beefcake in the form of Yoma the orc, AND a short overweight dwarf, is a little puzzling to me, but then again I'm one of those old-fashioned types who prefers my women to, you know, actually be pretty and feminine. Cait the bookworm is feminine enough but her personality kind of blows, and I wouldn't call her attractive, but at least she isn't 50 lbs overweight or taking anabolic steroids.
I will say I like having Naomi (the roidrage pirate lady) in the game, because of her hilarious antics and conflicts with the other LIs, but they really could have left it at that and then given us another couple of beautiful characters each with their own unique personalities and quirks. At least the game doesn't seem to force you to progress the less desirable LIs too much, at least in the current version (0.72) - if that changes it would be a major con. Please note, I do think you have to continuously progress Rae for the story to advance, so if you don't like her you are shit out of luck, but I think it would be hard to not find her attractive.
At the end of the day, the content with Lyriel alone makes it all worthwhile.
The story and dialogue are decent, characters have real personalities and none of them look like clone copies that you have seen very similar variants of in other games. The animations and just overall graphics quality are TOP NOTCH. The story and your emotional connection to the LIs is so well-done that I am actually really invested, and seriously fretting over how it's all going to turn out! That is rare as hell, at least for me, in an H game.
The story progression also works very well considering how non-linear it is. You will rarely if ever feel like you are just waiting for an event to pop up, I don't think I ever even clicked the skip time button - there is always something interesting to do in one of the rooms.
Other bonuses? Refreshingly, they did not feel the need to cram the game with incest, NTR, or FUTA content.
As far as cons, I will say this - I only really care for two of the LIs (Rae the succubus and Lyriel the elf.) The decision to include a giant beefcake pirate chick with huge muscles, AND yet another giant beefcake in the form of Yoma the orc, AND a short overweight dwarf, is a little puzzling to me, but then again I'm one of those old-fashioned types who prefers my women to, you know, actually be pretty and feminine. Cait the bookworm is feminine enough but her personality kind of blows, and I wouldn't call her attractive, but at least she isn't 50 lbs overweight or taking anabolic steroids.
I will say I like having Naomi (the roidrage pirate lady) in the game, because of her hilarious antics and conflicts with the other LIs, but they really could have left it at that and then given us another couple of beautiful characters each with their own unique personalities and quirks. At least the game doesn't seem to force you to progress the less desirable LIs too much, at least in the current version (0.72) - if that changes it would be a major con. Please note, I do think you have to continuously progress Rae for the story to advance, so if you don't like her you are shit out of luck, but I think it would be hard to not find her attractive.
At the end of the day, the content with Lyriel alone makes it all worthwhile.