This game is a hard rate for me because it's not a 3 star and it feels like it baaaarely misses the 4 star. To start with, the story is either going to be a hit or a miss with you as it blends supernatural/fantasy with modern themes and personally I've never been a fan of that, but that's ok. The writing however to me is a miss. For being all these different realms of high fantasy creatures like faeries and werewolves and such, they all talk the same. Not only do they all talk the same, but they all talk like they are dudebro frat boys. Calling each other dude, bro, just stuff like that. It doesn't fit a lot of the characters, and even the characters that don't call eachother that don't talk like how you would think they would. I mean some of these vampires are supposed to be thousands of years old but they don't have any type of dialects or older types of speaking. It just doesn't fit. One very odd thing I've noticed is that some scenes seem to feel like they are missing almost. Like for example imagine somebody pulling out a knife ready to fight somebody. In a normal case you might see the different slides of the knife being pulled and maybe a swing or a stab and then the result. Here, you'll see something like somebody putting their fists up ready to fight, and then just the next slide being them on the floor. Like what happened? Wheres the event? It happens commonly throughout the game so it's definitely not just an error or something.
As for the models, particularly the girls, they look... ok sometimes, bad other times. Particularly in the beginning its pretty rough. It gets better as the game goes on, but the biggest thing for me is that all the girls are that super toned muscular look. Theres no inbetween or variety, they're all like that for some reason, and I'm not a fan of that look for girls so that's kind of a big bummer. As for the MC, I don't know how else to say it aside from he looks like a doofus. It looks like he's wearing makeup, particularly eye liner and lipstick or something. His face proportions are weird and especially his muscles. His muscles are really, really off. It's like balancing an apple on the top of a pencil. It's not natural and looks odd. For some reason he also has zero body hair of any kind, in some of the scenes when he lifts his arms you can see that he has shaved his armpit hair too because the dev even included razor burns from where he shaved it off. I'm not really sure why this is the case but there it is lol.
As for the harem stuff and the way relationships are handled, some of it is good, particularly in that you get to choose everything and nothing is forced. You can even pass on the sex scenes which is refreshing. Games usually do not give you so much control so that is really nice to have. A lot of the girls though I just can't seem to care about. They're bland and there just to fuck and dump. I also quite like Leyala and think she is generally well written, but the other two you get later on I just don't have any interest in but they are kinda dragged with you. Overall, I don't hate the game and I do kinda like it, I just feel like the issues that are present act like an anchor weighing down the overall enjoyable experience of the game. Hopefully as we get more chapters I can improve this rating to a solid 4 or a 5.
As for the models, particularly the girls, they look... ok sometimes, bad other times. Particularly in the beginning its pretty rough. It gets better as the game goes on, but the biggest thing for me is that all the girls are that super toned muscular look. Theres no inbetween or variety, they're all like that for some reason, and I'm not a fan of that look for girls so that's kind of a big bummer. As for the MC, I don't know how else to say it aside from he looks like a doofus. It looks like he's wearing makeup, particularly eye liner and lipstick or something. His face proportions are weird and especially his muscles. His muscles are really, really off. It's like balancing an apple on the top of a pencil. It's not natural and looks odd. For some reason he also has zero body hair of any kind, in some of the scenes when he lifts his arms you can see that he has shaved his armpit hair too because the dev even included razor burns from where he shaved it off. I'm not really sure why this is the case but there it is lol.
As for the harem stuff and the way relationships are handled, some of it is good, particularly in that you get to choose everything and nothing is forced. You can even pass on the sex scenes which is refreshing. Games usually do not give you so much control so that is really nice to have. A lot of the girls though I just can't seem to care about. They're bland and there just to fuck and dump. I also quite like Leyala and think she is generally well written, but the other two you get later on I just don't have any interest in but they are kinda dragged with you. Overall, I don't hate the game and I do kinda like it, I just feel like the issues that are present act like an anchor weighing down the overall enjoyable experience of the game. Hopefully as we get more chapters I can improve this rating to a solid 4 or a 5.