Short review:
Do i recommend this game? Yes.
It works as fetish fodder, as well as a mindless grindfest, and gives you all the tools you need to skip the grind if you want to.
But do yourself a favor and use a guide from at least your second playthrough onward, to minimize the amount of restarts.
Or just play the routes as you want and get a full save afterwards.
Game and scenes are good, but not worth the time investment to attempt to fully complete.
And just for those who can't stomach it, all NTR is avoidable.
Full review:
This game is close to great. Frustratingly close.
The first few hours of gameplay, i was blown away. I actually had fun plaiyng a combat-focussed RPGM Game. The equipment system in this game is excellent. The idea of equippable teammembers that are tied to your equipment and can be swapped out as needed is excellent. Almost every enemy is just as much of a glass cannon as you, making combat fast paced and grinding a lot less tedious than it often is.
The very first playthrough was some of the most fun i've had in an RPGM game.
This all gets thrown out the window once you play through the game once and go for different endings.
You see, H-scnes, as well as titles (basically achievements), are bound to your safe, not the game, meaning if you want a full gallery, you need to go into NG+ many times.
And since route split is at about halfway through the game, I was getting Fire Emblem 3H flashbacks from all the replaying of the first half I had to do.
You have the option before each restart to reset your stats, so you could make each playthrough like the first, which i did for the first restart, but after consulting a guide after the second, I realised how often I would have to replay the first half low-leveled just to have a good gameplay experience in the second.
I stopped resetting my level at the third restart, and proceeded to one-shot every single enemy in the game from then on. All the fun i had with the gameplay was gone.
There are 3 main routes, one of which splits into an alternate NTR route, two evil/corrupted routes, and one final/true ending route, that gets unlocked after you beat the others. That alone already means 6 full playthroughs. But once I went on H-Scene hunt the true horror of the save-based system hit me. Each of the 4 bad endings meant the a restart. two of which occured in the second half of the game, one of which behind the longest string of H-Scenes, locke dbehind wasting all your money. And that is also the one which has an alternative h-scene if you choose against the bad ending, mutually exclusive to the bad ending scene, meaning you have to go through that chain twice. Fun.
I was hoping the restarts would be contextualised in the story, a bunch of little things made me think so, and I was really hyped for the final ending, Sadly, it was a weak link between the endings, not the meta-story I was hoping for. Still not a terrible story, there are little details in many routes tying things together, and they all involve some good fetish fuel.
On the topic of H-Scenes, they range from ok to great. There's great variety, the issue is that it becomes very monotonous in each route. All but one NTR scene are on one route, most forced prostitution on another, etc.Tit gets repetetive fast.
My personal opinion of the H-scenes:
Overall pretty good.
There's too little willing submission for my taste, to much aphrodisiac drugs, incense etc.
Only one scene really stood out to me, because the MC is not under the influnece of drugs or hypnosis, but still submits, that's the shit that gets me off.
Sadly, the route invovling it devolved into pure prostitution, which is really just NTR with extra steps (/S?)
Still, there are some gems here, and nothing terrible.
All in all, I'm glad I played the game. it's not amazing, and probably not worth the 15+ hours I spent on it, but the first 5 of those were really really fun, and the H-scenes are good enough to get a place in my gallery folder.
