This game is a quite an awkward experience to me, hard to say it is good or bad, or even mediocre.
The game in general feels quite hollow due to weak storytelling. Nothing of interest is really going on unless you just want a fap. The worldbuilding is actually decent, we have an interesting dilemma of the protagonist being half elf, half human, the NPCs feels fitting in their location and doing what they are supposed. The environments such as the building, and the pathing of the dungeon felt natural and not lazy designed.
However, all, except the rival of the protagonist, of the important characters that have proper art to them, just appear for a very short while and disappeared for the rest of the game. They are like comedic villains of the day. The twist in the story appears seemingly nowhere, where are the foreshadowing?
The game feels like its only focus is good art and useful situations for an interesting sex event. The protagonist does look beautiful, both the human and elf, her expression, and the situation she got into are all quite erotic.
However, the story of the game is just too barebone. The music is quite bland, most of the time, the BGM felt generic or doesn't fit the area, and then suddenly you have a vocal song singing at the climax that actually feels good.
In the end, it felt like a waste of potential for a game that has an interesting premise.
The only thing the game is consistent about is "Choice".
There are a lot of variants for the ending. We have 4 options at the end of the game. I found 1 hidden ending that involves the mauri gold.
2 other brutal endings involve losing to the bandits and getting sold at a slave auction, which also has a second variation to each of them. I only played the game while staying away from erotic events and only check out a few events and it already presents so many variations. I am sure there are plenty more that involves going down the full corruption and considering there are normal and elf route, there are slight differences that could be interesting. Unfortunately, due to the poor MTL translation, all these interesting differences in the dialogue are totally invalidated.
In the journey, there are many occasions where you are presented with an option to gain benefit through sexual acts or doing honest work, which does feel complying to take the easy way out, and it helps to solidify the idea that the game is trying to achieve.
For those curious about how birthing works in this game.
Well, it is quite obtuse. She gives birth only in certain scenes and you won't know whether the scene will trigger a birth or not until you tried it. Otherwise, she is stuck with a pregnant belly, or you find an NPC to remove it which will feel like debugging a game. Not a fun way.
The battle is also quite unbalanced, there are many occasions where the boss battle is going fine, but suddenly lose in one swoop due to a deadly combination of skill. Such as getting freeze/charmed and not able to do anything at all. Or losing in one hit in a boss fight, straight after beating the goddess boss fight easily. Valkyrie's skill felt weak throughout the game, and the Valkyrie form is only good for its increased stats. Chaos(debuff) and nuke magic skill or sword skill cycle deal so much more damage at a faster rate. Healing skill is also powerful for such a low-cost right from the start.
