I think it's extremely silly that other reviewers decided to download a sequel to a guro game, clearly tagged as a guro game, then complain that there's guro. It’s like downloading Minecraft and complaining there’s fucking cubes everywhere.
Travel:
It’s a sidescroller with metroidvania-like elements, but not a full out metroidvania where you’re running laps around the world after every new skill or movement ability.
You really won’t need to retrace or backtrack. The game has a fast-travel system accessible at any time through the map screen (which some reviewers missed). If there is something you missed, like an ability-gated area or a path you didn’t explore yet, it’s still at most only 2-3 screens away from the nearest teleport.
Combat:
It’s fine, not amazing or bad, just functional. You can melee, uppercut melee, and downward slash melee while falling. You also have magic arrows which you’ll probably be using the most. The arc of the magic arrows is timing based, so once you get that down, it makes the game much more manageable.
The regular enemies don't really pose a threat unless you are swarmed by them which makes sense. The bosses provide a much greater challenge but are still balanced around your moveset, many providing ways to build up MP against to use your magic arrows.
H-content:
Fantastic art and animations. Sound is good, but the female protagonist's moans do repeat due to having a limited number of voice clips. Nice variety of content overall, but I do feel some scenes could have been longer.
Genre Rant:
I understand it is essentially unavoidable for a game with a female protagonist and h-content focused on rape and non-con, to have most of its h-content tied to the player being defeated or temporarily caught. There’s really not many options to deliver the h-content “immersively” otherwise without making it consensual. The game does manage to have two scenes that aren’t triggered by defeat, instead being done through the player’s dialogue choices, which is nice and I hope they add more.
That said, unlike many other games in this genre, the dev knew it would be stupid to force the player to purposefully lose just to unlock a gallery scene they missed. Instead, they made it so that the game unlocks all the h-scenes from a location after clearing it. A very good feature.
Conclusion:
Overall a well-made game with actual quality-of-life features. It delivers on what it promises, but it wouldn’t hurt for more content.