I found this game by pure luck after a few reviews on hentai games with good stories, and at first I was scared to be dissapointed to find a mediocre game praised by hardcore fans ignoring its glaring flaws. Thankfully, that wasn't the case here. This VN has its flaws for sure, but it's very easy to set them aside ans enjoy the story for what it is.
And the story here, while not the best, is very captivating, at least in its premice. It's one of those rare stories I could consider acutally good, with almost no strings attached. The characters interactions, while really one-sided against the MC most of the time, show a lot of character growth, especially with some characters being at so vehemently against the MC joining their ranks in the castle, then slowly warming up to him and eventually join his side. The redhead general (I forgot his name) and especially Moltaire are good examples of this, although both need a few hours of investment towards the true ending to get to that point.
Ths game has a few endings and a true ending, and fortunately it's not hard at all to reach it, just selecting the right choices early on and you'll be set to go. Usually, I despise bad endings in VNs as most of them either lead to nothing but game overs, or offer no satisfying conclusion to the story threads we have been invested into. However here, this game takes a special not for having really good alternate endings, where instead of ending the run on a bad ending, you get en ending with a specific girl and also get to experience a more detailed facet of her character development, while also having more development directed towards the MC and his past in the academy.
It works well for the most part, although the demon king story line could have just not been there at all and it would have made no difference towards reaching the true ending, which is a shame, because there are many plots points here that could have been right at home in a story where the writers could have expanded on that whole rebelling thing, and the village of demons, Moltaire's redeption, etc. That's the main problem I have here: It's a porn game first, and a story-focused VN second. It's not a bad thing by itself, but given how hard the game tries to tell a compelling story, it feels like it deserved some more time in the oven to flesh it out even more.
Speaking of porn, there is way too fucking much of it, everywhere in the game. It sounds like something you shouldn't be able to say about a porn game as a negative, but it's true. The game's main fetish is big breasts and lactating, and the game constantly makes sure you've seen them in every conceivable way, shape or form. The thing is, there's only so much you can do about showing the same pair of breasts fifteen times in a row, and it starts to get quite dull after a while. Yes, the artstyle is fantastic. It's old, sure, but it's really uses color and shadows pretty well, I was actually impressed, although it is just what was standard anime style at the time. But it doesn't help the fact that this overuse of sex scenes seriously breaks the pace of what could have been otherwise a pretty compelling story of conspiracy and rebellion against the kingdom the MC serves under.
Also, the MC is lame. I know the whole pervert thing helps bringing the porn scenes into existence, but I felt they should either have gone all in and made that guy an iredeemable pervert, or be a more serious and grounded guy and shove that stupid stuff aside. As it stands, the MC is in a weird limbo of being an annoying, dumbass pervert who gets hard at the worst possible moment and thus breaking the pacing of the story, and a down-to-earth romantic guy who is suddently pretty lucid about his position and the schemes going on around him. I almost liked him by the end, but there were way too many instances of him being a creep for no reasn other than justifying the porn scenes, half of them not even needing to be there in the first place and which could have been removed to make more room for the story and the characters.
But otherwise, it's... Fine, really. It's certainly not bad, it's not the most incredible story out there, but it works. The plot is captivating and the sex scenes are good, although too vanilla for my taste to fap to. The character are pretty good once they start evolving, although the MC just being a fucking rug for half of the game really gives off that "Japanese MC self-insert" trope I hate more than anything. But overall, I recommend it if you want some fun.