PROS
+ Art style, colors, and most visual parts are pretty good. Especially design of the Arvenia is quite well done, she is simply gorgeous, and cute AF, especially how her ears move when she is ashamed, etc.
+ Arvenia's (our main love interest's) dialogues are voiced, and it's kind of well-done by someone who knows how to talk sexy, so the sound represents the character as well, and she does a decent job with serious or dramatic parts as well.
+ Arvenia has quite interesting character, and learning more about her is enjoyable, and interesting, like how she was once human, things she did while she was human, she was one of people burn with healing powers, how she meet with her husband, how she was taken into one of parties fighting against dark lord Zharon by force to find Marika's Grimoire to stop him, how party members taken their frustations from her with hurting her, how later when thet found the book, and seal was broken the book take her into the hell for a year, torture her in that place, and left her back later on, as a demon, and after 1.5 years going home, and finding out her husband got married with her best friend, how she killed both, then went after her old party members, and slaughtered all, by torturing them like they deserved, but not stop there, and kill every loved one they have, everyone she can, and the more, and more demons gathered around her, and the Dark Queen Arvenia was born or learning more about her nightmares (''Only the pain... only the pain is real.'', ''Everyone betrays me in the end.''), problems, the darkness inside of her, and be there for her, see how your relationship with her develops, etc.
+ Development between the MC & Arvenia is quite well-paced, it's not too slow, or too fast, it's like how it should be.
+ Your choices matter, and your character can die from those choices, there are a couple of different death versions as well, the ones happening later on are especially interesting, because in some of them, Arvenia kills you because of her anger, and then says things like ''NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NO! NO! NO! WHY DID YOU MAKE ME DO THAT?! I DIDN'T MEAN TO DO THAT! YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DIE!'' STOP IT! STOP DOING THAT! I NEED YOU! I NEED YOU! I NEED YOU!'' which is kind of realistic, and interesting.
+ There are two paths you can go, yandere, and romance, and obviously, it gives more variety to the game, changes some dialogues, and scenes, and adds different variations to the sex scenes as well, her eye color change is especially small, but a nice touch.
+ It's mostly subtle, but there are some suspense, and kind of horror scenes as well, along with mysterious things (''She lies'' like the time she lied about the necklace is a gift from her mother) happening, and making you wonder about them, and they re kind of interesting.
+ There are lots of sound effects, and fitting music for the scenes, and they make things more impressive.
+ Sex scenes are animated, some have only one animation & and position/angle, some have multiple animations with slightly different alterations to the scene before, and some have multiple animations & positions/angles, and they are decent.
CONS
- Start of the story, and some details like MC getting imprisoned, getting forced either to die or be a servant of the Arvenia, or getting bound with ritual, so he can't hurt her, or he will die, etc. But these are just there as plot points, and depending on the path you choose things change a lot, so I don't think it's a CON, but I'm only stating for the sake of review.
- Voiced lines are nice, and kind of well-done, but there are minor problems, like some sentences (which happened to me only a couple of times) being half-voiced, or needing to change volume a lot because of voiced lines sometimes being a bit loud, especially moans, little bit better volume balancing could be better because you upping volume for hearing pretty silent talking, then seconds later it goes kind of loud, and you need to volume down, and this kind of happens a lot.
- Some scenes lack images to show what's happening, like when the MC is eating soup or bread you see text along with png soup, and bread images on the screen, you are not seeing the MC actually eating them, and in the massage scene when MC was massaging the front, her stomach, etc, the scene didn't change, and we still kept seeing he massaging the back of Arvenia until sex scene choice comes, and MC starts touching her tits, and again in the same scene later text says ''she suddenly presses her lips against yours'' but saw nothing showing that happening, having more pictures or animations to show what's going on would be good.
- Sex scene animations are decent, but they can use some improvements, especially better physics, and more attractive angle/position choices, for example, the massage scene has some really hot angles/positions, but the vaginal sex positions/angles we had were inferior to that scene, which is bit disappointing.
- The mouse cursor doesn't disappear when you hide the UI, and it does ruin some shots you take, it should disappear with the UI.
- Sometimes you have the opportunity to ask questions, and learn some stuff, but you can't ask all questions, and after asking only one question the game progresses, it's a bit annoying, can't see any reason for this to happen.
- There is a walkthrough mod for it, and it works well, but without the game feels a bit too much like flying without wings, ingame walkthrough might be a good idea.
VERDICT
Despite the CONS, this is still one of best adult games I have ever played, but I'm saying that, and will give 5 stars thinking this game can be so much more, with these CONS I would normally give 4 stars, but I do believe developer will improve the game with later updates, especially sex scene animations, and lacking images problem should be fixed ASAP, and hope it will. Anyway, I would suggest anyone play this game, and considering everything we learn about Arvenia, how she was alone for all those years, etc, the developer really needs to write an ending where MC turns into an immortal being like her, so they can be together without the worry of one day MC dying, and she is all alone again.
