I am a lurker on this forum. I come here to find some games that match up with a couple of my fetishes, smack off, and go back to whatever I was doing. From the top of my head, I don't think I ever even posted on this site before, and I never in my wildest fucking dreams would've imagined myself writing a review for a porn game of all things. I still can't believe I am even writing this review. However, as dumb as this feels to write, I believe this game deserves recognition in some form or fashion, and since I can't simply rate this game five stars without writing at least 200 words, I thought I might as well just let out my thoughts on this game and why I enjoyed it as much I did. My rating for this game is entirely based on the story as I thought it was unbelievably good, but I will also touch on the typical things one would want in a porn game as well.
SPOILER-FREE / TLDR REVIEW:
If you haven't played this game, you're probably wondering why the fuck there is a spoiler-free section for a porn game. The reason for that is this game has an amazing story, and I can't believe I am saying that about a porn game. I got emotional while playing this game, and I almost never get emotional over any show or game, so it has been an extraordinary experience for me that a fucking porn game was able to do what countless TV shows and video games that are meant to have compelling and emotional stories with much larger budgets than this game failed to do. The story will definitely not be for everyone, and the reason I loved the story so much is likely due to the game already hitting on most of, if not all my fetishes. If you're into monster girls, femdom, and some of the other fetishes in the genre section of this game, I
HIGHLY recommend you give this game a shot.
Anyways, onto the actual review. (I tried to limit the number of spoilers, but there definitely are some)
Story: (10/10)
The story is this game's selling point. I actually first downloaded this game maybe two years ago doing what I said I typically do earlier in this review, to have a quick jerk-off session, and because this game is so fucking long, I decided to drop it after reaching the first H-scene. However, around two months ago I decided to give this game a shot again, and this time, I was still spamming through the game but was skimming through the dialogue as well. Soon enough, I began noticing possible foreshadowing, character development, mystery, and more. The story was actually somewhat interesting, and the characters weren't half bad either. Before I knew it, I wasn't pulling my pants down every time I opened the game. I was just playing it for the story.
The story follows a boy named Luka who wants monsters and humans to peacefully coexist. For some context, most of humanity worships the goddess Ilias, including Luka. Ilias despises monsters, and as such, most of humanity follows suit in that hatred. The story starts with Luka beginning his journey to bring peace between humans and monsters by slaying the monster lord (the leader of all monsters) as he believes the monster lord's death can end the turmoil between humanity and monsters, but his journey is stopped as soon as it starts by a loud bang in the forest of his hometown. After investigating the noise, Luka meets a snake girl by the name of Alice who caused the bang. She is first quite hostile towards Luka as he hails from an extremely religious region of the world that despises monsters, but after a short back and forth, Alice begins to take an interest in Luka due to his surprisingly kind attitude towards monsters and his unique dream among humans of creating a world of coexistence for monsters and humans. Alice decides to tag along with Luka on his journey, and they set off to travel the world, resulting in tons of character development and deep conversations about the struggles of reaching coexistence. Luka is thrown into the life of monsters through his conversations with Alice and quickly realizes that reaching his dream won't be as simple as he first thought.
Genuine emotions were felt while playing this game, and I don't get emotional easily. I wish I could find more shows or games that could replicate the emotions this game was able to cultivate inside me. I’ll say it again. If you are into femdom, monster girls, and are interested in a good ass story, I
HIGHLY recommend giving this game a shot.
Characters: (9/10)
I’m focusing mostly on the main characters for this game. If I were to consider all the characters, I would probably give this section something like a 4/10 because if I’m being honest, I didn’t give a fuck about 90% of the characters in this game, but the main 10% were outstanding in my opinion.
Luka:
An idealistic boy who dreams of creating a world of coexistence between monsters and humans even though the task seems more and more impossible. Luka, throughout the story, constantly struggles with balancing his ideals of coexistence with his faith in Ilias as the two are always contradicting each other. This conflict takes place all while his monster girl companion, Alice, is there pointing out the many rules (commandments) Ilias has in place that would lead to the utter extinction of her and every other monster’s race. Luka's character rapidly develops in this story and watching his transformation from the beginning of his journey to the end is a treat to behold. I very much enjoyed Luka’s character, and though he isn’t my favorite main character of all time, he is certainly a good main character.
Alice:
A rational and intelligent monster girl who decided to tag along with Luka on his journey of coexistence between monsters and humans. She is a pivotal character in the story and is one of the main reasons I loved this game as much as I did. She brought so much to the story and was always there to push back against Luka’s idealistic solutions to complex problems between monsters and humans. Alice served as a perfect counterbalance to Luka and is easily my favorite character out of the entire game.
Though Alice initially followed Luka as an observer on his journey, as the story progressed, it became increasingly clear that Alice and Luka's relationship was evolving past her being a simple observer, and she began assisting Luka in many of his battles to ensure his survival. As there relationship grew, Alice also acted as emotional support for Luka when he suffered a hard loss or felt down by encouraging him to continue pushing forward to accomplish his dream of coexistence. Without Alice, I'm not sure if I would have even considered finishing this game, let alone write a review for it.
The Four Heavenly Knights:
It’d take too much time to write about all four knights individually, so I’ll compact them all here. The four knights are the monster lord’s top warriors. I really liked all of the knights. Each one has their own unique character that is nothing like the other knights. I can't even think of which ones I like more than the others. I thoroughly enjoyed these characters, and now that I am writing this review, one slight criticism that I have of this game is that we didn't get enough of the four heavenly knights.
Ilias:
The goddess Ilias is, as stated earlier, the goddess who is mostly responsible for the turmoil between monsters and humans. Her commandments have led to the rise of many radical groups hellbent on wiping monsters off the planet. She has a fairly interesting story. However, I wouldn’t say her story is anything above the ordinary.
There are many more characters in this game. However, the ones listed above, I believe, are most worthy of recognition for their importance in the story.
Amount of Content: (10/10)
The game is fucking huge. There isn’t much more to say. If you read through everything or most of what the game has to offer, this will take over 15 hours, and that is lowballing it as much as I can; a more realistic number would probably be 25+ hours.
Art: (5/10)
I’m reviewing this game on its story as that is why I played it. However, it’s a porn game, so I might as well touch on this topic. I wasn’t a big fan of almost all the H-scenes (porn) in this game. 90% or more of the monsters in this game were not jerk-off material in my opinion, and the abundance of vore isn’t to my liking either. However, the H-scenes with Alice and most of the H-scenes with the heavenly knights are all 10/10 in my opinion. Except for Tamamo because smacking off to loli shit feels wrong on so many levels in my head.
Sound/Music: (7/10)
Almost all of the sounds in this game are fine. They do what they’re meant to do. The music, on the other hand, is mostly pretty average. I would say 90% of the music is subpar with a couple of soundtracks being great. In particular, “Alice 3” (Alice's third theme) was my favorite OST. One of the biggest emotional moments I had in this game was when "Alice 3" started playing at the end of part 2.
Gameplay: (8/10)
This is a porn visual novel with a very basic turn-based fighting system. The fights do get somewhat complicated later in the game as you unlock so many abilities. However, the fighting isn’t the selling point of this game, but it achieves its goal. The fights did get tedious at times, so I’ll knock off 2 points.
Grammar (10/10)
Being a grammar nazi, I always hate seeing simple grammatical errors, especially if they’re abundant. However, this game had great grammar as far as I could tell. Nothing negative comes to mind when thinking about the grammar in this game.
Overall: (10/10)
I am reviewing this game based on its story as that's what I played it for. I will be the first to criticize most of the music, most of the H-scenes, most of the monster girl designs, and the way Luka is drawn (dude is apparently an adult but looks like a 10 year old). However, ignoring these details, this game has been able to do for me what countless other shows and video games couldn’t, especially at the end of part 2. I won’t go into detail, but part 2’s ending was phenomenal. I actually shed a tear at one point during the final battle of part 2, which is fucking insane for me. I just don't cry at stories, but a porn game of all things managed to pull it off. This is without a doubt a story I won’t forget for the rest of my life.
Holy fuck this turned out to be an essay even after I tried cutting it down. Oh well, no one will read this shit anyway
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