A mostly fun gem matching combat puzzle game, with some erotic stuff thrown on top. If you've played
Mirror before, then you'll have a good idea of what to expect, although the animation quality isn't quite on that level. Basically, you beat each girl 3 times, and you get sexy times with them, with one exception. It's not the first of it's kind, but it has it's own interesting twists.
Every time you beat a girl, a screen pops up, allowing you to choose from 3 cards, each which has some permanent upgrade, a new Skill, or an item. You can also this random upgrade screen from the Shop, with there being different card upgrade rarities and strengths.
But how do you get gold? I'm not really sure. During a battle, if an enemy attacks you, they place a quest gem on the field (if one isn't there already), and getting that to bottom of the screen gets you 20 gold, but it's incredibly hard to do and kind of random. If you perform a 5 or more combo, you get a diamond sphere, which adds a few gold too, but other than that, I'm not sure how gold is earned. It doesn't appear to be earned when you win, it just seems to kind of happen, or it's limited to the previous 2 things.
Anyway, every time you beat a girl,
every girl becomes slightly harder to defeat, so there's a sort of choose your own progression to the game. When you
eventually die, the world will reset itself, allowing you to keep your upgrades, skills, items and any scenes you previously unlocked, but all girls are set back to their default.
Here's where my problems with the game start. In order to do anything lewd with a girl, you need to beat them 3 times
AND have a magical clear condom on you. Except that the condom becomes more expensive the further you advance, which is sort of silly, especially since you only need one to unlock the scene, and you could just wait until the world resets to buy them at their cheapest, considering how rare money is in the first place.
Also, because of this progression system, you'll probably beat the first girl you fight (assuming its the demon or the knight), but winning a second time isn't an option at all when your starting out. You pretty much have to die. Since this is basically a rogue-lite, it makes sense, but progress is
SLOW, so you end up beating a girl once, then having to lose immediately after, in a cycle that continues on until after you've done that like a dozen times or so. An option to reset the world at will, or practice stage where your only rewarded the "common cards" for winning would have been nice.
Each girl has their puzzle gimmick, which I'm not going to spoil here, but this brings me to why I took another star off my rating: the elf. She's completely unbalanced as all hell. Her gimmick is that she places mines on the field, which you remove by performing 2 combos becide them. If you fail to do so within a certain number of turns, you take damage
PER bomb, equal to what the elf herself does with a normal attack, but simultaneously.
Now this isn't so bad, as she clearly isn't meant to be challenged early and she only throws 2 bombs at once, but it gets progressively worse. Stage 1 is awkward, but completely doable, with the right upgrades. Stage 2 is where she becomes unbearable. She beings throwing out 3 bombs plus, each which deal
MORE damage than she does, and now they take 3 hits to destroy, and you only have 6 turns to break them. The mines are scattered, so it's literally impossible to slap them all at once, and you need at least 3 of the 6 turns they exist just to destroy them.
Worst yet, the timing between her placing the bombs and her own attacks is much smaller. So basically, it's Attack, wait a couple turns, mines, wait a couple turns, Attack, repeat. Beating this stage doesn't happen any time soon. Expect to invest at least a few hours into the death cycling for upgrades before this round is manageable. When you get to her third stage, the bombs only require 1 hit to destroy now, but they deal double damage, and they throws them out every other turn, sometimes right before she attacks. Definitely a bullshit fight. Although, her eroge scene isn't too bad (not really worth the effort though, considering she's clothed during it).
As for the lewd stuff, the game also has some minor animation errors, such as seeing one mouth behind the current one, and at one point a girls crotch stretched through her leg, but it's nothing too distracting or permanent. I did find it annoying that one girl has the options to remove her clothing during the foreplay scene, but they didn't continue that idea for the actual sex scenes. So most girls will be dressed up in costumes with some pieces missing over the naughty bits, and one of them straight wears their lingerie to bed, not really exposing much. Nice animations, but I prefer nude characters to actually be nude.
Overall, not a bad puzzle fighter game, and I love this genre, so more is always better. I just wish developers would put a tiny more effort in. They seem to be planning more girls, and I'm hoping each current girl gets more scenes, but I'm not expecting much.
TL;DR Worth a couple hours of your time, but I highly suggest using the gold cheat code a few times when the game gets tedious (i.e. challenging the overpowered elf). Your just going to earn those rewards by constantly dying anyway, so after you've already experienced each girls' puzzle mechanics, you may as well save yourself some time by using the extra gold.
