V. 0.2 review. This game is great, it made me feel awful.
The artwork is breathtaking. The alternating high/low contrast and colorful/bleake renders provide a rich and engajing visual, that conveys emotion without the need for text walls, so common in VNs.
Without the patch, the story loses all coherence. Characther build and motivation is lost without shoota content, the text's stand-ins for incest are obvious and cartoonish ridiculous.
When whole, the flashbacks provide a Hitchcokan experience, where the audience understands the protagonist's POV and, knowing better, feels overwhelming angst, screaming internally for him to get out.
To a lesser extend, other story arcs provide the same conflicting perspectives, making the player feel angry/fearful/disgusted for or foward the protagonist, depending on the path taken.
This is not at all a feel good and fap to the pretty pixels game. It provides the same emotional response one would expect from witnessing a incest-shoota story in real life, making it (apparently) a curious game for non fans of these genres, such as myself.
The one major defect, preventing the game from reaching 5 stars, is the lack of an avarege Joe path. Either the protagonist is a sadistic horny prick or a submissive spineless doormat, making it hard to fully immerse in the story.
Overall, a game that easilly stands above the crowd, with high vallue visuals and storytelling, which is definitivelly not for everyone.