Pros: not
terrible. Written well enough that I could see how some people might like it.
Cons: the women are magically compelled to go mad with desire for the protagonist. All of them. And if you feel strange about taking advantage of that, and try to reject any of them, they break down, and you're made to feel terrible. Or, you can take advantage of them, and induct them into the harem you're building. I'm fine with harems, if the girls are given an actual choice. In some games, there is a dark ending where all the girls are magically drawn into a harem, and magically forced to feel happy. I'm 99% sure that's the
good ending for this one, albeit under different circumstances (the protagonist doesn't have the choice to just let them live their lives.)
The plot is a bit out there, in terms of how it relates the mystical/supernatural with the human. The two realms don't feel well integrated. I can't really put my finger on why.
The other big con: the protagonist's brain. For starters, he isn't really dealing with "survivor's guilt", he's dealing with
masquerading as survivor's guilt. So, it's not actually about human psychology. It's about
which I find less connection with, being an actual human. And I have a fair amount of experience with shitty thoughts, (although not the survivor's guilt type,) but this is something else; it bears no resemblance to my experiences, and is super unpleasant. I'm not saying my experiences are the only way to experience shitty thoughts for which you need therapy, but despite my history I feel no resonance with the protagonist's thoughts. Which would be one thing, if the story were about therapy and healing. Instead, it's about magic and just ignoring stuff until it disappears. I’m fine with protagonists with (figurative) demons, that they need help to conquer, but their demons, struggles, healing, and setbacks need to seem plausible. These don't. I'm not a psychiatrist or a therapist, so I can't say with 100% certainty that there aren't a significant amount of people who experience things like this, but going off of my own experiences, it doesn't seem well done, and it doesn't make this a compelling product. In my imperfect human opinion, I don't see it helping many people who, being real humans, actually have to work for their healing - and not just have healing and pussy handed to them by magic - and I certainly can't see it helping a well-adjusted human understand the nature of shitty experiences for those of us who struggle regularly. Maybe my opinion is wrong, but, either way, the nature of the protagonist's demons and healings detracted from my experience of the game. Not that it would have been 4 stars even if they hadn't.
I didn't like the sex scenes.
I don't like the protagonist. He's a lecherous creep, who gets women solely because of the aforementioned magic, instead of through charm and quality. He's doesn't seem like a
bad person, but he doesn't do much to earn or deserve the good things that come his way, and following along with his lecherous thoughts feels pretty poor. And they don't stop, even when he starts getting laid. It doesn't seem like he does much growth or healing, at least as far as I got. There aren't a ton of choices in how this plays out, at least as far as I can tell, so you're basically just along for the ride. And he is really
not someone I enjoy riding along with.
Despite all the negatives, I'm pretty sure I should give this three stars. I feel confident that it's better than a two star game.