The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is v0.2...
I actually wanted to give this VN/Game 4 or more stars, but it has quite a bit of issues it needs to work out...
The visuals of the characters are average in quality for Japanese style characters, probably done with Honey Select... Some character models I recognize and some are slightly unique and better quality then others... The backdrops are a mix of ones I've seen before and some I have not... The navigation system is alright, although when the navigation involves the bottom of the window, it's far too close to the menu, which means if your not paying attention you might hit one of the lower menu items instead... There does seem to be a fetish focus on big breasts in this VN/Game, with some being almost torpedo like and/or bigger then the body frames should allow... It's a big turn off for me when body proportions are way out of wack... That happens rather disturbingly with several of the female characters, along side the gross overly muscular woman in the gym... Those types of visuals are not very believable, and I feel the artist/s are over playing the large breast fetish...
The script is alright, although there seems to be a lot of misspelled words and just some grammar errors... It's readable, just needs some proofreading... The plot revolves around a male protagonist who is sent to live with some family friends, consisting of 3 women (his mothers friend and her two daughters), while he attends school (an over used theme these days)... There is a bit of a magical fantasy element, which you get from the brief introduction prior to the protagonist being introduced... But in essence, after the reader/player is introduced to many of the various female characters, he becomes bound to a succubus... She intended to kill him, but it is discovered that he has something special about him that the succubus needs to survive...
From that point, the mechanics change to a navigation style stat grinder... Where the player/reader can sort of choose where to go and what to do... But it is currently limited to the home for certain times of the day, then to the classroom, and from there to a variety of locations and/or just the home... The characters in the home have stats that are built up over time, and I assume that the stats will gate some of their content... The characters outside the home are either gated behind money or just visiting the locations, sometimes more then once, with either no stats at all or hidden stats... The amount of content for each character is limited in the current content, with some of the home based content only being available during certain moments of the day...
You'll know that you've reached the end of certain characters story lines for the current content, either because they just repeat the same thing, or you get a message to wait for future content... There was one event that seemed really out of place, and I'm guessing it was meant as a holiday based one-time event? Involving erotic content with a ghost, which I assume was for Halloween maybe, because it seemed to have no bearing on any of the rest of the content... Who knows...
There are also several bugs I ran into... The biggest bug was the use of the Skip function... As a warning, if you use it at any time, it bugs out the rest of the play through so that visuals no longer show for the story content even though the text and choices still appear... This happened once you get into the navigation portion of the VN/Game... Only way to fix it is go back to an older save... If you save a game while the bug is happening, that save will continue to be bugged... You have to go back to an older save where the bug had not been triggered...
Another bug I ran into, is once you get near the end of the current content, when going to Sleep, and not interacting with the demon, you are asked to name a female character... From there you get an event, I'm guessing was in the same time period as the beginning of the VN/Game? In any case, while it plays out, the name you selected is mentioned in the text in reference to the woman being rescued, but right before it was over, instead she was called the same name you selected for the protagonist... Not sure if that is intentional, or a mistaken String used in the coding... From that point on, any time you select Sleep, and not the female demon, the question is asked again, and the same clip plays all over again... Obviously something is messed up in the coding...
Most of the characters that you actually get to interact with a little, do seem to have some developing personalities... Only a few of them felt rather stereotyped and a bit over played... You can tell that the bound succubus does influence some of the characters personalities/actions now and then, which is where the corruption element comes into play... So it's kind of a mix between a corruption story and a relationship building story...
The premise of the story itself is somewhat unique and interesting, and I like some of the characters... You can tell the developer/s are trying to tell a meaningful story along side the erotic content... Although with some of the female characters story arcs, it is pretty much all about the erotic content... There are quite a few game play devices that are not unique at all, and are actually rather overused in this niche market, which I'll mention below...
Overall, you kind of get a mixed bag with this VN/Game... While it does do a decent job at trying to tell a deeper main story, with some meaning to it... You also get many elements that are used far too often in these navigation style VN/Games (i.e. sleep molestation, the mean girl at home, the naive nerd girl at home, the mean manipulative girl in school, shower peeping, etc)... I really wanted to give this VN/Game a higher score, but the mix of bugs, overly sized body proportions on some characters, the use of highly unoriginal erotic content in the house, spelling errors, etc. just kept me from justifying it, based on current content...
For the most part, outside of all the problems, I mostly enjoyed my play through... Even though not much content exists yet, post navigation game... Obviously this VN/Game is still in it's early development stages, and has lots of opportunity to fix all the problems and improve everything... If it can fix all it's issues and as long as the main story arc content continues it's current trajectory, without getting to wrapped up in the more over used stuff, then perhaps on a future visit I might score it higher... I see some potential that I hope the developer/s seize upon... Does that mean I will revisit this one? Perhaps, but it may be later on in it's development... I wish the developers the best of luck, and look forwarding to seeing where they take this one...
I actually wanted to give this VN/Game 4 or more stars, but it has quite a bit of issues it needs to work out...
The visuals of the characters are average in quality for Japanese style characters, probably done with Honey Select... Some character models I recognize and some are slightly unique and better quality then others... The backdrops are a mix of ones I've seen before and some I have not... The navigation system is alright, although when the navigation involves the bottom of the window, it's far too close to the menu, which means if your not paying attention you might hit one of the lower menu items instead... There does seem to be a fetish focus on big breasts in this VN/Game, with some being almost torpedo like and/or bigger then the body frames should allow... It's a big turn off for me when body proportions are way out of wack... That happens rather disturbingly with several of the female characters, along side the gross overly muscular woman in the gym... Those types of visuals are not very believable, and I feel the artist/s are over playing the large breast fetish...
The script is alright, although there seems to be a lot of misspelled words and just some grammar errors... It's readable, just needs some proofreading... The plot revolves around a male protagonist who is sent to live with some family friends, consisting of 3 women (his mothers friend and her two daughters), while he attends school (an over used theme these days)... There is a bit of a magical fantasy element, which you get from the brief introduction prior to the protagonist being introduced... But in essence, after the reader/player is introduced to many of the various female characters, he becomes bound to a succubus... She intended to kill him, but it is discovered that he has something special about him that the succubus needs to survive...
From that point, the mechanics change to a navigation style stat grinder... Where the player/reader can sort of choose where to go and what to do... But it is currently limited to the home for certain times of the day, then to the classroom, and from there to a variety of locations and/or just the home... The characters in the home have stats that are built up over time, and I assume that the stats will gate some of their content... The characters outside the home are either gated behind money or just visiting the locations, sometimes more then once, with either no stats at all or hidden stats... The amount of content for each character is limited in the current content, with some of the home based content only being available during certain moments of the day...
You'll know that you've reached the end of certain characters story lines for the current content, either because they just repeat the same thing, or you get a message to wait for future content... There was one event that seemed really out of place, and I'm guessing it was meant as a holiday based one-time event? Involving erotic content with a ghost, which I assume was for Halloween maybe, because it seemed to have no bearing on any of the rest of the content... Who knows...
There are also several bugs I ran into... The biggest bug was the use of the Skip function... As a warning, if you use it at any time, it bugs out the rest of the play through so that visuals no longer show for the story content even though the text and choices still appear... This happened once you get into the navigation portion of the VN/Game... Only way to fix it is go back to an older save... If you save a game while the bug is happening, that save will continue to be bugged... You have to go back to an older save where the bug had not been triggered...
Another bug I ran into, is once you get near the end of the current content, when going to Sleep, and not interacting with the demon, you are asked to name a female character... From there you get an event, I'm guessing was in the same time period as the beginning of the VN/Game? In any case, while it plays out, the name you selected is mentioned in the text in reference to the woman being rescued, but right before it was over, instead she was called the same name you selected for the protagonist... Not sure if that is intentional, or a mistaken String used in the coding... From that point on, any time you select Sleep, and not the female demon, the question is asked again, and the same clip plays all over again... Obviously something is messed up in the coding...
Most of the characters that you actually get to interact with a little, do seem to have some developing personalities... Only a few of them felt rather stereotyped and a bit over played... You can tell that the bound succubus does influence some of the characters personalities/actions now and then, which is where the corruption element comes into play... So it's kind of a mix between a corruption story and a relationship building story...
The premise of the story itself is somewhat unique and interesting, and I like some of the characters... You can tell the developer/s are trying to tell a meaningful story along side the erotic content... Although with some of the female characters story arcs, it is pretty much all about the erotic content... There are quite a few game play devices that are not unique at all, and are actually rather overused in this niche market, which I'll mention below...
Overall, you kind of get a mixed bag with this VN/Game... While it does do a decent job at trying to tell a deeper main story, with some meaning to it... You also get many elements that are used far too often in these navigation style VN/Games (i.e. sleep molestation, the mean girl at home, the naive nerd girl at home, the mean manipulative girl in school, shower peeping, etc)... I really wanted to give this VN/Game a higher score, but the mix of bugs, overly sized body proportions on some characters, the use of highly unoriginal erotic content in the house, spelling errors, etc. just kept me from justifying it, based on current content...
For the most part, outside of all the problems, I mostly enjoyed my play through... Even though not much content exists yet, post navigation game... Obviously this VN/Game is still in it's early development stages, and has lots of opportunity to fix all the problems and improve everything... If it can fix all it's issues and as long as the main story arc content continues it's current trajectory, without getting to wrapped up in the more over used stuff, then perhaps on a future visit I might score it higher... I see some potential that I hope the developer/s seize upon... Does that mean I will revisit this one? Perhaps, but it may be later on in it's development... I wish the developers the best of luck, and look forwarding to seeing where they take this one...
