Another great game from Talothral with an interesting setting, a cool MC and a lot of sexy (and some less sexy) women.
I really enjoyed playing this game not only because of the adult content but because of the setting, the story and the characters.
The game has now finished, and the ending was satisfying enough so it doesn't fell unfinished, but there are still enough open questions remaining, and a lot more to discover about this universe so I hope it will return later in a form of a sequel.
Why not 5 stars if I have such a positive opinion of the game?
While the game was really great and enjoyable, a lot of it's aspects are average, so I couldn't justify giving it 5 stars. For some people, who value these aspects more, or care less for those that I really enjoyed, even 4 stars might seem too much.
Setting: I'm a big fan of the urban fantasy genre so I really enjoyed exploring this universe. The universe seems to be well built with enough of it showing that you feel as if you can only see the tip of an iceberg with a lot more below the surface to be discovered.
The Houses and their relationship seemed to be really interesting, It would have been nice to see and interact more of them. Maybe in a future sequel.
Story: As an introduction of the supernatural world to the MC it was OK, but quite generic. The villains also felt flat and one dimensional. Some of the villains that seemed important at some point of the story (Miyuki's father, the redhead woman in one of the promo screenshots who was involved with the kidnapping attempt) were barely shown at all and later killed offscreen by someone else. The later of the story is mostly consisting on characters going to some random places to get some MacGuffin in preparation of an attack on the current villain, attack him, repeat. Story is certainly one of the aspects of the game that could have been improved a lot by making the villains more 3 dimensional and giving them more screentime so we actually care about them.
Characters: The MC is somewhat detached and emotionless. The story has some explanation for it, but I don't know if this is a deliberate choice by the developer or he just knows about his shortcomings of creating a cool but still emotionally driven MC and using this explanation to cover for it.
Even with this, the MC is certainly likeable. He is cool, rational and loyal. He also has dry wit and sarcastic humor.
The other characters are ok, there is no one I really hate but none of them is shining either. Most LI-s are rather bland character wise with cliche personalities. Maybe Sabrina is a bit above the others and I'd loved to see Hannah having a more important role in the later parts of the game.
Graphics: The game doesn't look bad, and there are some very sexy looking woman in it, but mostly it's just average looking. Especially the locations and background looks very generic.
Sex scenes: The graphics aspect of these scenes is average. No fluid animations, only short loops with 2 or 3 frames. While there is a lot of variety in the sexual partners, from super hot to disgusting and there are all kinds of fetishes that can be found in all the sex scenes during the game most of it is relatively boring. There is no buildup. No flirting. No gradualness. Usually the female expresses her wish to have sex with MC, and he agrees. A lot of this is only casual sex or sex with the intent of having children (explained in the story), but in other cases the female is one of the love interests who will later become one of MC-s wives.
Also, while as I said there are a lot of fetishes are represented among the sex scenes, most of it only comes from what the female partner is (muscular giantess, midget, fox girl, old woman, amputee etc. ) the only sex scenes I remember where the fetish wasn't circumstantial and one of the participants actually expressed their interest in it was with Sabrina, who wanted to be bound down. She is also the only one from the main LI-s who participated in a threesome. While harem doesn't necessarily mean all the love interest have to participate in an orgy at the end, I'd loved more members didn't just accept that they will have to share MC but also shown some proactivity for this sexually.
There are also some sex scenes that I were not for my tastes (grannies, troll) but having played Talothral's previous game I have already learned to expect things like this and they can be avoided without any negative consequences.
To sum it up, if you are only in for the sex scenes, there are a lot of games out there with much better ones. If you are also interested in the world and like to have a logical and relatively good story binding the whole thing together, then it's certainly one of the better games on the site.
