VN - RPGM - Completed - Philomel [Ch. 1] [NuclearShrimp]

IMO THIS GAME NEEDS TO BE PLAYED WITH A WALKTHROUGH

This game has decent, if crude animation/cgs and good scenes. I liked the gameplay loop.... in theory. In practice, it ends up being grindy, slow, and repetitive. And it's very very easy to miss certain scenes and events.

If you're going to play this, use the walkthrough and save your sanity.

Note1: Some events you need to wait a few days after triggering.

Note2: Skip scenes by pressing End when it's "paused".

I don't comment much, but I thought I'd throw a review in for this game.

The art is pretty great, and the animations are smooth. While it is a bit grindy/repetitive, the sheer variety of dialogue and animations for each scene should be praised.

Once you get an ending, you can unlock the full gallery on a subsequent playthrough, which is nice.

My only real issue is how rushed the endings feel. No CG for the ending(s) kinda feels off.

All that said, great game, would recommend.

The good :
The animation is really good
The art is good, not bad, not meh, just good
The corruption is good enough, not short and not too long.
The mid:
The plot is meh, the hushband is a placeolder at best, you only talk to him at the begining of the game, and once when he tell you that he has to work on the mine.

The bad:
The sex scene are repetitive, and you can't pass those you have already seen. I really had to force myself to finish the game mostly because of this.
The ending is really bad, a footnote at best, but less than that. A kiss and the credit roll.

first scene was so bad that I almost stopped playing it alltogether
it gets better but by god why do they always try to turn you away the first hour in these games
animations are rare and these are kinda good

Beautiful art with animation, huge variety of scenes.
Story is standard corruption by the dick. It is technically NTR, but we have a female protagonist and her boyfriend is oblivious and non-existent until very end.
Almost zero gameplay, some little puzzles, check developers ci-en for walkthrough if stuck.
There are two major routes, plus optional NG+ area.
In conclusion it is good nukige because of huge amount of content, it lacks interesting story or gameplay, good enough for a fap or two

EDIT: Tried replaying for second ending, exposing priest.
Secret compartments with evidence didn't spawn, priest keep pestering me, pushing it to 300 lewdness - locking me out of the ending. Relying on randomness to achieve certain outcome is just bad design and annoying as hell - so I am lowering the score