It's a decent game for what it is, if you are interested in the story.
STORY AND CHARACTERS
The story is actually quite good, in fact, with some decent plot twists. Word of advice, though, skip the intros. Not the opening, the anime-like intros (you get to see it once per chapter, and there are 12 chapters), because it spoils some things.
The characters are generally likeable and have a lot of personality. Not just the main three, but the secondaries (well, most of them, at least)
GAMEPLAY
Now, the gameplay... It has good elements... badly used. The skill system (read, equipable passives) is actually interesting, the fact that you can choose the difficulty is always a plus, the battle system ON A VOID, is decent... but it suffers from:
- A lack of balance (Normal is actually VERY EASY, Hard is Easy, or Easier Normal, Very Hard is indeed Very Hard or even worse, and I haven't tried the rest)
- A lack of interesting battles. The bosses aren't awful, but the enemies ARE. Specially when they don't have interesting rewards (if you fight the first chapters, at one point the mone stops having any use, and until the end you won't get any skills above rank 1, and the crafting is basically useless until the chapter 10, where it BREAKS the game)
Also, there are systems that are useless through most of the game. The crafting, as I said, is an afterthough until the end of the game, as, if you've been lewding the girls (even in a Virgin run), you'll have better weapons than anything you'll get until... chapter 9? 10? And it's not exactly hard to get these weapons I've mentioned if you've kept with the scenes. Also the first rank of recipes are for weapons that you bought TWO chapters ago, the next rank you will probably have the lewd level weapons, the third rank are in the casino (and you DON'T want to farm casino coins yet), the fourth rank is barely above the already mentioned weapons, and by the time you are in the fifth rank... that's chapter 9.
The girls barely learn any active skills through levelling, so while the passives are cool, the girls will be limited to:
Besides that, you get the actually meat of the combat system, the weapon skills. You can equip one skill to your weapons, of three different skills per weapon (and three ranks per skill). So besides all I've already mentioned, depending on WHICH skill you've crafted into your weapons, you get:
Astel:
- Ima:
Disaster:
It sounds like a lot, yeah? It isn't. Outside of Ima, you won't be using the girls natural active skills if you can avoid it, and you can only have one weapon skill equiped in each weapon (with a cost in money to replace it), so Astel and, specially, Disaster, will be playing with two skills in combat most of the time (Ima too, but not as much as those two). A system that it is, in the void, interesting, in reality means you'll be spamming the same skill time and time again... or you'll just keep attacking.
You get the weapon skills by killing enemies. Again, in the void is sounds interesting and it goes against what I said about the enemies not having interesting rewards. In reality, though, for most of the game you'll only get the rank 1 versions, you can buy them in the extra shop in any case, and their real use most of the time is to sell for money, because for most of the game the enemies don't give that much (but selling the skills certainly DOES)
H-CONTENT
In the first chapters is actually quite decent. There are a lot of scenes, and outside of the most tame ones, the game certainly doesn't pull any punches for the girls. They are going to go through rough to brutal sex, with gangbangs (tens of people against them), mind control, monsters, tentacles... they also can prostitute themselves, for more consentual scenes. If you like hardcore hentai, this game will scratch that for you... until the shit hit the fan. Then, besides a few "game over rape" scenes (with no game over), you'll barely get any new scenes. That's about a third of the game. Maybe a bit more.
But it also has a lot of costumes, and the sprites REFLECT them. At some points the girls will change to a certain dress (usually the standard one) because a scene requires it... but you can change it and many times you can do it BEFORE the scene, so it is hilarious seeing these three in lingery saving a hostage, to give one example.
But, the content that it gave, I did enjoy, and there is A LOT. Just... not well paced. And not too much consentual. Also everything is heterosexual sex, so don't come here looking for yuri or gay, you won't get it.
FINAL SCORE
The score I give the game is a bit biased, because the story, for me, did save a lot of the game, but the battles ended being tedious most of the time, I missed the sex at the end and most of the systems were underused and lackluster. So read that score more like a 3.5/5 than 4/5. The sex and, specially, the story kept me, because the combat sure didn't.
I've seen people saying "play on normal, you won't miss anything". I disagree though. Hard is also quite easy, and in normal you won't get the crafting materials (they only drop on hard or above). And those are the core element to outright break the last fourth of the game, and that was the most fun I had with the combat system, seeing how three gals in brothel lingery could utterly humiliate gods and eldritch aberrations. I beat the first phase of the final boss in two turns, by example, and nothing endured more than three turns against my team at that point. Not even the hidden super bosses.
PD: Oh yeah, I forgot, unless you are into it, don't bother with a Virgin Run. You can obtain the rewards the game gives you for it in chapter 10... in chapter 10, it just needs a bit of effort. If anyone is curious, it gives you the rank 6 recipes and a lot of resources to craft them, but you can get them in that chapter fairly soon in any case, so... yeah, if you are into virgin runs, go for it, if you aren't, no, it's not worth it. The ending is the same, no matter if the girls would fuck anything that moves (and a few things that doesn't) or if they barely know the meaning of the word sex.