VN - Others - Completed - Demonheart [v1.61] [Rolling Crown]

Really great art, and a fairly interesting story overall, but there were some issues with the game that bring the score down for me:
- No rollback, and the UI wasn't overly intuitive
- Annoying 'explorer mode' where you have to mouse over a bunch of things in the scene and click on them, just to get a line or two of narration; you have to find ALL of the clickables before you're able to move on, even though they have no impact on the story
- Unscrambling the 'demonic speech' anagrams was tedious at best
- Trying to avoid the male love interests was like navigating through a minefield, and the game didn't always reflect choices taken. I showed Brash no interest the entire way through, but he still got to a point where he confessed to be in love with Bright (despite her constantly calling him disgusting and telling him to not touch/come near her)
- Game constantly used rape as a plot device. Brash literally tries to rape Bright at one point, but that's forgotten by the narrative by the time he randomly confesses to be in love with her
- There were times where the game forces you to act like you should care about a character even if you don't (Mark, being the prime example. The game tells you that despite accepting a proposal from him in the past, Bright hasn't talked to him in a very long time, and you can even choose to tell Bright's mother that she's interested in women, so it makes no sense for Bright to constantly act hurt, angry, or in love with Mark later on. Where's the apathetic options?)
- Only a single female LI, and her interaction with the story was extremely short
- Ending felt rushed, and the big plot twist was somewhat predictable. I get the feeling the dev wanted this to be an 'enemies to lovers' story between Bright and the demonspawn, but I just couldn't care enough about him as a character to want to even be platonic with him. Creepy rapist stalker != appealing romantic option

I've played this on Steam and can recommend it. It has great lore, relationships are complex with a lot of back and forth and some mysteries carry through the entire game, so there is suspense until the very end. Hard decisions keep you on your toes. The only downside might be that some interesting characters from the beginning are never seen again. I would have loved to see some kind of full circle or at least some information as to what happened to them.

It's a very decent roleplaying game. Not revolutionary by any means, but definitely worth your time and also worth buying on a discount. I'm saying on a discount because since this game was released the level of quality for the best visual novels has improved, both visually as far as relating to complexity and agency. There are some better game by now. But Demonheart still is a very good experience all around.

What you will not see here is a lot of adult content. The story is for adults but the sexual content is bare minimum.

THIS IS AMAAAAZIIIIIIING, I'm in love with this game and its characters, already played 'Demonheart: Hunters' and I'm just begging the world for a third part (if there gonna be one ;D)
I really like the style of art and how scenarists worked on the dialogues, even when you try to hate some characters - it's just hard, because all of them have their motivation and throughout the game you are creating some kind of a bond with all of them (I mean, the main ones - Raze, Ari and Brash). Some events were really not expected and made me choose the option 'Scream', because that's what I would do in rl
I just loooove this game, I even love to replay it with the same options that I already made only because of the story itself. It is pretty good, I mean it, just find some time to play this game, I dare you - you gonna like it

They need to add the sequel and this more of a rating for both combined.

They are for sure above average story, characters development, simple rpg, art, and grind/progression.

The characters and how they are handled I would say is the best part even the semi rapey guy has plenty of good points and really more developed in 2nd game.

Good twists (though obvious if pay any attention).

Can have a F+M or F+F romance ! both are great in their own right.

Could use more sound, adult art, and maybe a little more rpg stuff to make this closer to a 5/5, but this 100% underrated again though need to play both without sequel is silly sequel is what really helps.