I played this for hours today and enjoyed it a lot. As people have said, it's very slow burn, but the story and characters are very engaging so it's totally cool. Aura is an awesome protagonist. She's full of kindness, selflessness, bravery, a total confidence in herself and strong will - a perfect heroine for a downfall, mwahahahaa.
I want the villains to win. I thought the first section of the game where Aura seems so OP was so cool, and then to see that the villains were pulling out all the stops to stack the deck against her. Betrayal. Her OP power locked behind an evil curse represented by a collar. A demon king and a room full of his generals. I loved it. What a great set up. Dude it just ticks my boxes a lot because you see what both sides are like so clearly, and the fact that Aura was able to overcome even all this underhandedness just excites me at her eventual corruption.
Alicia gets into her mind-space and even Aura's sub-conscious has total confidence she will succeed no matter the odds. But Aura did not count on one thing. Me, the player, a sadist who is on the side of the villains.
I think my main concern at this point is the game is a significant time sink and I feel like I've only scratched the surface, barely just getting to the surface level mind-fuckery with Alicia changing bits and pieces of Aura's happiness, relationships, interests - haven't even got to appearance yet, and this is hours of gameplay with me deliberately going for corruption.
I don't know where the game is going. You can't please everybody and people have so many varied fetishes and I'm figuring at this point at least the game probably won't end up ticking a bunch of my key boxes as it goes on. Alicia wants Aura to be as shallow as she is, to be her friend again and join her clique while bullying the losers. That's not what I want. I don't want Aura to become the bully. I want her to be bullied. If only it were possible to change Alicia's goal.
I see so much potential in this game to be a ryona masterpiece but I have a feeling it's not gonna go that way. I wish there was more to the artwork during the battle scenes. You have these goblins and these huge orcs but just little sprite animations. If there was a voice actress to do "oompth" noises when Aura gets hit, that would make a huge difference too.
Aura is threatened by bullies in the 'real' world but kicks their asses. I wonder how much it's possible to alter the outcome of that particular sub-plot as it's alluded to that Aura will run into them again
I want incredibly evil fuckery with Aura's life. Humiliation, degradation, make her a target for bullies, for pervy ugly teachers and old men, pain, non-con, all that good stuff, even if it's a slow burn to get there. But like I said ya can't please everybody and the game probably won't go there.
As it is though it's a fun game and the storytelling is great. I accidentally soul-broke Aura and not sure when my last save was but even so I will probably get back into it again.
