VN - Others - Completed - The Most Forbidden Love in the World [Final] [Regista & Hermit]

The Most Forbidden Love in the World (Damekoi) is a VN that mixes a traditional model, with just enough innovation to keep things interesting. The fact that this was released in 2007, and still remains an enjoyable read, probably stems from said innovation, in particular the borrowing of plot twists, that are associated with TV and movies. Regarding weaknesses, there isn't a lot of forbidden love here, but you can still read it for the drama, and inflated emotions.

Positive:
- Good Writing - I'm gonna complain about plot twists below, but the writing is still solid in terms of characterization, text quality (grammar), descriptions, connections between important plot points, and established character backstories. The writer made a choice, on how to capture your attention (up to you), but the quality is there.
- Comedy - Mostly because it's clever, and very specific (again influenced, by other mediums, not what you tend to see in VN's), not so much because it's funny or it will lead to a good time. It's great comedy in theory, as for practice, probably not.
- Support cast - They can't seem to tell the protagonist that the teenage girl is falling in love with him, and maybe something needs to be done about that, but if you forget this minor issue, they are detailed characters, relevant to the story, and bring much needed diversity, that is missing in so many VNs.
- Heroines and their interactions with each other - Basically the routes tend to have some form of "love triangle", and the girls end up having emotional "heart-to hearts". That's not particularly impressive in itself, but the writer uses these moments of to build the characters, and add a few extra layers, making the heroines more likable and human.

Negative:
- Protagonist has V.A, but it's not good; It's an old VN (limitations are evident); Everyone is fine with the forbidden love (hence not very forbidden, after all); Many plot twists require suspension of disbelief (not a lot of making sense); And the slice of life is downright exasperating at times.

Score: The most forbidden love in the world is an 8/10 and a very good VN. This an easy recommendation to someone who wants traditional with a twist, and can easily disregard more "distinct" ways of generating emotional turbulence, in favor of sheer entertainment. Nice VN, don't get too caught up in its name.

(H-scenes, have - not so great - animations, and that's about it)

After finishing the game following the Mitoko story line, I can understand the reason behind the game name.

This is a strong visual novel that really takes a realistic tone on drama, romance, slice of life and forbidden love. The VN is fully voice acted (even the male MC) and this really give the characters life and personality. The H-scenes are pictures and some scenes are fully motioned.

I followed to Mitoko story line (which is the fourth and last one) and to some extend it made me feel worried to continue, but felt that this was the 'true' ending, and with the after credit chapter, made this also somewhat happy ending. This story line was very relatable to the anime "Koi Kaze", where a seperated young adult brother and his high school sister meet and fall in love, while treating their situation in a serious and realistic manner.
I have not (yet) played through the other story lines, but I feel that this will leave another aftertaste.

By all means, 90% of this does not feel like a H-game, with Mitoko ending the H-scenes only start in the later part of the game (chapter 14-15), especially after the credit roll and the "extra-final" chapter starts. The game would have done perfectly well without the H-scene and it would still have been an very enjoyable and satisfying romance/drama VN.

This game is the predecessor of the VN/Anime "White Album 2" and "Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend", which are also written by Fumiaki Maruto.

I am kinda sad that this VN from (original JP release) 2007 did not receive an anime adaptation, because with it's plot, it has a strong romance/drama setting without a supernatural or fantasy setting. This VN left quite an impression on me and weirdly enough, I will miss the characters after playing this game for 25 hours.

Really recommend this VN, especially for its strong romance/drama aspect, but don't expect too many H-scenes.

This is a visual novel with the kind of protagonist we all hate. Low self esteem, passive, worthless.
There are two things that make this a plus, not a minus in this VN.
1 - The story is VERY well written, the situations where his bad personality traits are manifested usually push the story forward in interesting ways. He is also voiced, so the impulse to get mad because he does something we think is stupid becomes lower.
2 - This is a story about overcoming these traits and depression. The delivery is perfect. The MC has a lot of good sides and he isn't some lazy idiot. Every character is well written and their interactions are great. Every situatiion where his bad traits manifest are a building block for his change.

Another amazing point about this VN is the setting itself. It's more mature, with him working in office jobs instead of going to school. This adult life depiction is a breath of fresh air for visual novels.

The romance is great, they managed to make the girls falling in love with him believable despite his bad traits. The teacher was a surprise, one of the best. The "polemic" of this VN is the main girl, who's age is... questionable.
She also happens to be the best character in the entire visual novel, amazing personality.

This VN is certainly worth a read.

Seriously one of the best VN that i played
Both in terms of story, art, etc, this one hit home pretty hard, really like this VN
At first you find yourself only like 1 heroine
Then after u finished all route, you end up liking all of them
If anyone knew another VN like this, please give me suggestion! Thanks

The stories are well written and although a lot of people annoyed by the layout and need to go through all the side women to get to main story it meant that the H scenes were well paced and regular as long as you used save points well.

The female characters are all interesting and storylines are fun, mostly with some poignant moments thrown in.

The main character though is terrible, his low self esteem is well and truly justified. He will bow to anyone who gives him a pat on head. Is totally oblivious to everything going on yet suddenly astute in business which moronic because business requires an ability to read people. He is beyond self absorbed and even when he knows what he is doing is wrong and hurts people he just keeps doing it (supposedly loving people but ignoring them for a month and letting them believe some pretty damaging things .

The artwork is pretty good mostly but to me animations just looked amateurish with proportions all over place and very simple loops.

The whole loli/guardian forbidden love concept just wasnt backed up in story, She was in last year before University, had been working for years and already independent so not only not loli she was never actually dependent on him as guardian and in fact she was one who dragged him into some semblance of responsibility (though was always pathetic).

I guess these totally pathetic MC's are popular in japanese eroge so target audiences feel superior and can live fantasy it could happen to them but I finding it more and more annoying as time goes on. Personally I much prefer a villainous or heroic MC over pathetic.

Well, the game came as a surprise, an EXCELLENT surprise.

But first, let's get something out of the way:
"Abandon all hope ye who enter here to fap"
The game's focus and best point are the dialogs, charaters and stories.

Dont get me wrong, the H-scenes are very well done, animated, the drawings are gorgeous and uncensored but they are placed here for the sake of the story so there arent many and, in most cases, by the time you got to the point where you see one you became so attached to the characters, and their lovemaking is so wholesome, that it's no longer fap material.

So if you expected some piece of borderline kink after reading the title of the game you've got the wrong game.
The relationships that this game try to depict are indeed borderline but in the sense that they are generally frowned upon or illegal or going through too many hurdles to usually come to fruition.

They are however built in a way where, for these specific characters in these specific conditions, you would be hard pressed to call them immoral. The romances here are sincere and pure beyond any doubt although always difficult to achieve.


Now if you're fine with spending a few hours reading love stories unfold while happily grinning like an idiot for the characters then, by all means, try it. I dont think you would ever regret it. And even if you are only remotely interested in romances, the feelgood aura of the game has good chances of warming your heart.

PROS:
-The dialogs
The dialogs are well written. For the most part the game is a comedy using savorous lines or situations to make you laugh or give you a breather during a tense moment. There is, of course, a lot of drama as well. They try to depict in details what is going through the charater's heads (sometimes a bit too much maybe).
Some transitions are a it confusing though
The translation is well done, they managed to keep most of the jokes. Some were impossible to translate so you might have a few moment where you wonder what the characters are talking about if you dont understand the japanese voices


-the characters
Not only the heroines but the secondary characters and the main character have personalities of their own and are not here just to fill in a slot or give one line once in a while.
As for the main character, Osamu. I found it refreshing that he actually has a personnality and isnt just an avatar for the player. The fact that he is voiced tend to distance the player from the main character which is a good thing especially when you go into the more forbidden relationships. Thanks to that you end up cheering for the couples more than thinking that you yourself are making the heroines fall in love.


music
Not bad, it's not genius but it does the job.

Drawing
very good quality, I dont particularly like the style of the faces but you cant deny that the drawings are good and detailled.


CONS
Well it's a visual novel so you spend several hours pressing enter to the point that you have muscle stiffening.

Sometimes the MC has so little self esteem that he ends up thinking the world's pain is his own fault and it comes out as being arrogant to me.
And if a situation was based exclusively on that, it felt artificial.