VN - Others - Completed - DeadΩAegis & DeadΩAegis: Gaiden [Final] [metalogiq]

The main reason I'm giving this 5 stars is because, at the end of it, I genuinely feel something. I'm not sure exactly what it is, but there's something real there.

I ended up doing the space route, which from what I understand is the better route, and it really was a fascinating route.

To be clear, this is mostly just reading. There's I think a total of 4 or 5 choices total, and of those really only 1 is important (the route selection). For reference, the whole game is like 8-10 hours for one route, probably an extra like 3 for the other. And truthfully, a lot of that reading isn't easy. Not to say it's bad, it's quite good actually, it's just really good at being really disheartening at times.

Seriously, if you are not comfortable with seeing a girl get systematically broken down over and over and over again, don't play this. There were several times when I thought "okay, this has to be it, this is when things finally start to look up for the mc" only for that thought to be brutally crushed like her spirit.

Also the gaiden game is a prequel and much shorter. It's pretty solid and does a good job setting up the events to come. On it's own, it's not much to write home about tbh.

I love Midori's character development especially when she's trying to survive the chaos around her, but, in total magical girl fashion, she becomes the world's savior. I think the magical girl trope in the vn is pretty standard, but the writing is great especially Midori's fall from grace as a magical girl. In my opinion, the guro is sparse, and the scenes are well-done. I would recommend to play the main route and do the rest for the cg. Shout out to sydsnap for the vid!

I feel sorry for the writing skill this game has.

as far as writing skill is concerned, it is descriptive without being too wordy. the way it presents its idea to the reader is just absolute chef's kiss. if I'm just rating this game for the writing skill alone, this is easily a 5/5. and that's the only praise I can give to this game.

the reason? plot. if you look at this in hindsight, it's really just a hentai plot. yes, a hentai plot that does all the excuses in the world just for the heroine to be a slut. if you've watch your average hentai then you know what I'm talking about. and it sucks, because such writing skill is stuck to this trash plot.

It doesn't matter how good and descriptive you are when talking about shit. in the end its just shit. you've seen shit, you've smelled it, you know its trash, so why are you reading trash? that's the issue.

I will talk about spoilers so, I would recommend playing it first the story is really worth it, I would also recommend the prequel first and then the main game.




The game is pretty amazing, I was really surprised with the story it critisied so many things without being too in your face, some are pretty obvious others are more subtle like how awful we humans treat animals. Others like war propaganda or how girls are often sexualised or such seen as lesser than males are more obvious but they are still greatly implamented in the game.

The storyline overall is also pretty amazing, and I loved that everything got more and more disturbing. The C.C. are also pretty great , I was very glad that they weren´t just rape monsters.

The characters are also very good written even a lot of the males, except maybe banker he was kinda just there. But I liked that kinnison was still a bit sane and realised that something was wrong his final moments made me really like him, callaghan was a really good character because he was kinda the manifistation of what is wrong with a lot of man, Dr Berkykra (or something like that) was also very good I loved his ending and that he was still human and had red blood that made him much more interesting.

Mitsoumi was also amazing I was very glad that he wasn´t just a bad guy like everyone else (except in that one route which I will meantion soon)

The girls are also all pretty good Minori was a good MC and Cerci was even when really obvious a really good villain and her ending was okay, I wish her talk with lisette was longer.

But the there is one massive problem with the story, the "earth" route it was just awfully written, it ruined Mitsoumi he was really badly written there and it really rubbed me the wrong way. The ending also was just way too happy and forgiving too Cerci and every other character, it felt like the awfull things that happend at the Catherale were just forgotten, I really hated playing through that route. Without this route I would have probably given 5 stars but it was just bad and missed the point of what the story was supposed to be.


The music was very fitting and often felt very aggresive while also being surpressing.


The sex scenes have good art, but what I liked way more than that was that they weren´t being presented like most eroge or nukige. They didn´t feel erotic often they were drawn with very unappeling details for the eyes, like cold backgrounds, blurry objects, or they were dim lighted which made them really special they can still be enjoyed as sex scenes but there was a lot more thought behind them than "we need sexy h-scene" the use of discriptions and the words in them were also always more cold and brutal than most porn games. I could understand if a lot of people wouldn´t find them to be a turn on, and not because there are guro or scat aspects but just because they weren´t designed to be a turn on they were designed to be a turn off and that made me really like them.

Voice acting is also good.

The choices were only really for three endings, a early death ending, the true ending with a good resolution where also all mysteries are being revealed, and the earth ending which is just trash and can ruin a lot of aspects of the true ending if you played this route first. So I kinda wish there were no choices at all the game would be better overall then.


I would highly recommend.

The story is not for everyone. (And as it turned out, not for me either).
The game itself is well done. Pleasant voice acting. Memorable soundtracks. No bugs. Excellent drawing (although, admittedly, H scenes do not seem particularly pleasant to the eye - but this is not an artist's mistake, it's just the way it was intended)...
The main problem of the game is that it has an interesting story and pleasant heroines. And when you realize this, you no longer want them to be broken and r*ped half of the screen time... And world didn't break them like typical h-JRPGs do, where "Oh no", and a minute later "Oh yes" and that's it. Here everything is much more thorough and adult-like. And that's what ruined the game for me... The rare case when two pluses give a minus...

This was my first time playing an eroge VN, so I expected to be reading/watching a movie. I never expected to be invested in such a depraved and at most times, revolting, story. It just felt like torture porn at most, but somehow I always was able to keep going because of the tiny glimmers of hope for things to be better for our poor protagonists.

I won't say too much, but having played in a few sessions to experience the ending, I have to say it made me feel like it was worth it, if you can handle these type of stories.

S++ Voice acting (It's scary how good they can swing their emotions around, and also make some concerning sounds as well.)

A+ Story (I personally liked it since it made me feel like a trainwreck by the end of it, but I can see the flaws, sometimes I feel like they could tone done some of the wretched stuff as well but it's an eroge, can't expect much out of that. The ending felt rush, but I'm just happy with the conclusion overall. I want to clarify that I only got one ending, which felt pretty good overall, not bad ending.)

S+ Art (Expect pretty anime girl designs but most H scenes being paired with ugly bastards and tentacles. Also just as a PRECAUTION, it does have minor moments of guro, and cosmic body horror at times as well. No way to avoid these moments.)

S+ Writing/Translation (Nothing felt misunderstood)

I did not expect to enjoy this as much as I did considering it's the "magical girl" genre which I normally think is pretty dumb. I'll also continue with the fact that I thought the "earth" route was also incredibly boring....

But the "space" route... holy shit the writing and mood and overall sense of despair is incredible. You keep thinking it's going to end and there's no way they can continue the rollercoaster of pain (in the best sense) but it just keeps going.

For those who are on the fence, the themes that are by far the most prominent, which the entire storyline revolves around, are dehumanization, patriarchy/misogyny, and a horrific dystopian no-win environment.

Guro takes a backseat. Surprisingly, alien tentacle-rape takes a backseat too. Most of the game is human on human, rather than tentacle on human, which I didn't expect.

I'm also a big fan of the Ender's-game-esque Battle-School station. But you know, a million times darker.

Fantastic VN. This is a VN about a bunch of girls who go off to space to become 'magical girls' to defend Earth against some new alien threat as part of a military response. And they do...along with progressively being treated worse and worse while being trapped in an outer space military base that slowly (over the course of a year this game's story takes place) devolves into something of a rape prison. You will definitely get the most out of this if you're into misogny + rape, since that's the game's main theme. In a word, 'despair.' These poor girls get treated very, very badly, and any hopes for a better future they manage to garner invariably gets swiftly and utterly crushed. If you are looking for something more wholesome you will definitely have to look elsewhere; though the main protagonist is impressive at maintaining at least a smidgen of her hope/soul/humanity to the very end, so the VN never really loses the thread of faint hope (I won't spoil the endings tho ).

Music is great, and the story is surprisingly interesting/well-written (if you can look past the overtly ridiculous 'magical girl power that runs off sexual stimulation' premise), with a lot of twists and turns and interesting developments. Tons of scenes with very high quality uncensored art, too. A few of the scenes go a bit overboard for my tastes (it can get a bit gross-out at times) but the majority of them didn't go too far.

It's mostly a kinetic novel, though; no game elements, and there are only a handful of choices to be made. If you want more interactivity, you'll also need to look elsewhere. But if you're on board for what this game offers, it delivers in spades.

Amazing game. Came for the porn, stayed for the story (and the porn). Felt really bad for the characters but that's a given with the premise.

Some spoiler free tips: There are 3 endings of which one is a really bad one and the others are meh (for the characters, not in terms of quality).

Just save at every choice, there are just 3 iirc. To get all the possible scenes do both paths in the third choice and do all possible combinations of the first two.

There is no need to bother with the minigames, I completed them all in hopes of finding a secret but they seem to be just there for fun.

Well... what about this game? At first I was quite hesitant to start, but my girlfriend was looking for something a little different from the usual cut-and-paste stories, with a female protagonist, and personally I was intrigued by the story and also by some comments.

For starters, the game's interface is nice and neat. We find almost all the functions of a Renpy, but without the bugs.

Then, it's more of a kintic novel, in the sense that the choices to be made are few, with a lot of narration. So don't expect to click to choose who you're going to piss off at night (the little sister or the big one, etc...). But if you love to read, you've come to the right place. the vocabulary here is carefully chosen, and the story, although with a number of inconsistencies, is powerful.
Be warned all the same, and look carefully at the tags. When I say, the story is powerful, it's not a joke. At some point, one can wonder if the author is not misogynistic. lots of sadism and shocking scenes, marked with emphasis, so if you have a weak stomach, make yourself vomit before you start.
In this story, you are embarked on a rescue connot in the middle of a raging sea. A wave places you on its crest, with a glimmer of hope, for the next moment, to plunge you into the depths of hell.
Dystopian and utopian at the same time, the story takes us to see the darkest sides of the human being, to then show you what it has best to offer with a very naive side.

On the picture side, nothing to complain about. Fans of manga and hentai can rejoice. Beautiful pictures without sensory.

In the end, a pretty tale, with intrigues that hold you together, and very dark moments.

Came for magical girls and tentacles, stayed for story.Most scenes are pretty normal (as far as rape scenes go) though there are a few maggot bait level stuff. This is one of the few vns where I felt sorry and truly rooted for the protagonist and her friends without seeing them as fap material.Never had i truly felt rage and disgust at the fuckers though some are complex and well-written.A must-read for those who dig dark stuff.

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What can I say. I really like it. I don't really care much about the porn aspect of it, even though there is plenty of that. But what is great about it is that it won't sacrifice its story for creating tropey scenes. It doesn't feel like it's just checking boxes, the game wants to tell a story.

And the story was good. It is really dark, not as bad as Starless for example, but it is nasty. More importantly though, it is contemplative for the genre and it kept me engaged. I did not skip through it and I genuinely cared about the fate of the characters. Despite the bleakness of the setting, their struggle never felt empty and the emotions portrayed are the real strength of this VN.

Also the 2 main endings are both incredibly beautiful, which is rare. I loved it. Don't miss it if you like a story well told.

Great game for peers that enjoy a vn seeing their female protagonist get humiliated. A vn i can compare this to is the Taimanin series with a lot more emphasis on rape and tentacles and less on corruption and mind control.

Minor spoilers below:

- I went into this blind not thinking that the rape was going to be a decent amount but boy was I wrong. Being not a fan of rape that much and the scenes being about 95% rape, I was still able to digest it but be careful. If you can't stomach watching your female protagonist get boned by ugly dudes, tentacles, old dudes etc after caring about her, you might want to pass on this.

- One downside i had with the game were the choice system. They were kinda fake in a way where they don't really impact the storyline of the game and don't have meaningful choices as only the first choice (which leads to a bad end) and the last choice (multiple ending) really impacted the story and the rest were for cg collections.

- On the bright side was the great art of sprites and storyline of the whole vn. The H-Scenes were fantastic all of them were uncensored with great detail without deviating from the plotline and it being forced in your face. Without going to spoiler territory, the storyline made me really root for the female protagonist throughout the whole playthrough and hoped I could get a good ending due to the harsh atrocities she had to face.

TLDR: In the end a solid story driven vn to burn your hours through with plenty of ecchi scenes that are uncensored if you can handle the rape scenes of the protagonist.