The way this developer writes his stories is truly special and stands out from most other visual novels around here, big time. I am really impressed.
The characters/girls - All lovely and full of depth, look amazing and feel very organic and realistic. This is rare in VN's. The characters in this game actually talk like human beings, the dialogue and interactions are really good.
The MC - He's not in high school or moving back home to shag his whole family believe it or not. He's a fully grown man with real life problems and struggles. Super refreshing, I love MC's like this. He is still a chick magnet though (as they all are), but it's deserved here because he actually behaves like a reasonable and believable human being.
The story - I love the story here too, and once again the characters. I am hooked. There is a lot of mystery and intrigue amongst the girls, and the MC is an ex-military turned professional fighter, who is dealing with what I am figuring to be some mild PTSD perhaps, again it's all really intriguing.
If you're heavily in to the romance aspects to visual novels like I am, this doesn't disappoint there either. You actually get to know the girls very well and the pacing/relationship building is fantastic. I nearly skipped this game entirely because there was no romance tag anywhere, but that would've been a huge mistake. If you like angsty romance (again, like me), this definitely seems to be paving a path for that too, with a couple of the girls.
It's really hard to pick a favorite girl since they are all really good, but gonna go with Elspeth or Amrit so far.
I can't wait for future updates. Job extremely well done, STWAdev.