It's only hot if they came from the same womb

a really good game, amazing

I really like this one, and I'd say it's probably the strongest entry of Razzart's overall if you can stomach the subject matter. Love Ribbon is a romance story about two strangers meeting, slowly warming up to each other, and falling in love despite all the problems it causes. Also, they happen to be sisters. Whoops!

Yeah, it's a rough ride, but to the game's credit, it handles the premise with care. It never strays into the realm of using incest as a fetish, nor does it pull its punches with the topic. It would have been easy to simply ignore the gravity of the topic like so many stories of its ilk do, or it could have bailed out on the premise at the final moment, yet it stays the course, and, in the process, it lets the characters be subjected to the consequences of their decisions and persevere in the face of adversity.

It deserves to be said: the writing is great. Iris and Zoey are thoroughly enjoyable characters on their own, feeling very real, with understandable thought processes and motivations and making realistic decisions, but their chemistry is just electric. The relationship and romance between the two builds up organically, and once things get going in earnest, it really gets one hoping (right alongside the characters) that their incidental familial relation turns out to be less severe than it actually is. But, like any good rollercoaster, the ups inevitably come with some much more violent downs. On this front, the writing isn't completely perfect—a particularly irksome trope is the primary source of conflict near the end, raising its head twice in a single climax, somehow—but that really is the only criticism I can levy at it. Even then, the epilogue really does smooth out the kinks the ending has, wrapping things up in sublime fashion. I seriously don't think they could have put any neater a bow on the whole thing.

The visuals are great, too. The character art is pleasant, there are some lightly animated cuts here and there that hit pretty well, and, of course, there are a small handful of spicy scenes that, in typical Razzart fashion, serve fantastic purpose as passionate and emotional high-points. The music was also surprisingly good for a VN, with some of the small transitional pieces in particular getting my attention.

All in all, I suspect anybody with an eye for romance (and anyone who's enough of a perv to be civil about the incest) will find a heartfelt, caring, and thoroughly enjoyable time in Love Ribbon. It's well worth the price and the time it takes to read.