Hi, I'm Ben. I have an estimate of 44 hours in the game and decided to create this short review with tips of everything I learned about the game because of how marvelled I am with it, even though I need to play the game in a complicated state (Downloading patch, rough translations, and trial and errors to make the game work). The story has 2 parts, the first one is getting ready against the dragon and the second one is getting ready against someone. This review will be 98% spoiler free.
For an H-game, this one is an S-Tier in terms of story and world-building as every quests and dialogue is important for the development of each characters and surroundings. In terms of gameplay, it is A-tier as every mini-game are well thought-out (Except for the compass one, I skipped that.) and managed itself smoothly with the lore with an exception of having to check house to house to find the quest and losing intentionally in the side quest's hardcore battles in the endgame.
For CG-scenes, I cannot tell what tier it is yet as I haven't completed the gallery yet. For the art style, I give it B-Tier as it might not be that great, but it does emphasize heavily on each parts of the story you're seeing as well with the game's theme of tragedy and retelling of an old story.
For the musics used, I give them S-tier as they emphasize each scenes carefully and stretches their meaning towards the players simply. For the endings, I give them an A-tier as they are true and real.
For the voiced dialogues, they're okay so C+ tier.
Overall, the game is A+ Tier and it is highly recommended to play if you want a long story with twists, turns, and wholesomeness.
My personal comment:
I love the game before, during, and after the game. The makers really went above and beyond with this game. I didn't feel any rushness nor compared to other games and everything is just so real and though-out so well. If I were to meet the makers in real life, I'd treat them to a meal and talk about the game all day. Bard is best boi and I like the E _ _ l B _ _ _ e quest.
My personal tips:
- Play the game in Virgin route first.
- Armor is partly essential in the first part of the story.
- Atk and M.Atk is priority in the second part of the story.
- When in a Hardcore battle, you need to always lose to save the scenes to the gallery.
- Complete Adventurer guild's quests to unlock regions.
- In each region, completing the side quests in the board is a must to progress other quests.
- If you're short in cash, the Arena that will be unlocked later on should help.
- Never spend AP unless you want to do a lewd quest.
- Upgrade Lewd skill to level 2 after unlocking all regions and finishing all the level 1 lewd quests in each area.
- There are three endings in the game. A bad ending, a True ending, and a True ending (non-virgin).
- It is inevitable to get the bad ending as it is designed to be there.
- After the bad ending, a new quest will appear.2
- When all the main quests and side quests are done, a save is a must and something will change compared to before.
- If you download this game through F95, you must download the patch and then replace the downloaded files with the patch before playing the game.
- It is not necessary to fill all 50 slots. Have 2 saves, one for saving and one for back-up.
- If you see a quest that you want to play again, have another save for it.
That is all for now.
P.S. You're free to correct me if I'm wrong about something here.