I rate it as Rance series game, not as a game among eroges. And as a part of series it SUCKS. Rance is depicted much dumber than he was through 1 to 6 parts, and he also is much weaker here. Devs also made Kentarou easier to level up than Rance himself, and by the endgame he becomes the MC, basically. No cool "Rance defeated the final boss", no, it was Kentarou with some meh-level help from us.
And THEN they have the audacity to humiliate Rance further by taking away Sill. That's wild how it's the least Rance-like game in the series, and people loved it - probably because he's treated as a joke here, not an actual villainous hero he was, who they wouldn't have liked to play as. Usually he's more like half-animal, half-human, with ability to think about stuff, but not here.
Rance gets into a trap after a trap, in the most dumb way possible, surviving mostly off luck. Even lost in combat against Kenshin, living simply because she randomly loved his looks... I appreciate that someone added "Netorare" tag to tag list, because yeah, i do feel cucked playing this after loving Rance as a character for so long. I also liked dark lords/demons, but Xavier is just such a garbage antagonist.
The game itself plays fine, of course, so even for me who doesn't like strategies it was okay to play, and compared to many other eroges it's an actual engaging gameplay with optionality, but it's still the most "normie"-friendly Rance of all the games in this series.