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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 20.6 hrs on record (17.5 hrs at review time)
Posted: 14 Sep, 2024 @ 1:52pm
Updated: 14 Sep, 2024 @ 1:54pm

Early Access Review
I have not completed this game, I think i'm about halfway through it at most. This game is long, it's very long, it's been in development for 10 years and it shows.

Because it isn't just long, it is also good!

As a JRPG it is exemplary, one of the best I ever played, an RPG Maker game done as the RPG Maker devs originally intended. Imo this is better than some of the final fantasy games.

One particularly noteworthy thing I find about this game is that monsters do not respawn which means the creator of this game put more thought than is usual into how grindy the game is. Exp is a finite resource and as such you get punished with a harder game if you don't take every opportunity to get exp; and if you do take every opportunity to get it you are instead rewarded with a less difficult (but not easy game). This puts a hard limit on just how grindy the game can get, I don't think I've ever played another rpg where this much thought goes into that.

But there's more to it than that, do you like choices that matter? Well out of all games I have ever played this game is the reigning king of impactful choices. Just about every single choice you ever get has a significance of some kind. If you choose not to go to a certain location at a certain time, you might be down an entire harem member, one major character just gone.

You have an option to wh0re out a harem member and if you do it then that negatively impacts your relationship for the rest of the game; and then there are the investments, some of them have a very big impact on the game, and others are just a matter of how much money you get in return later down the line.

The game is chock full of choice and every last one of them matters somehow., at the very least it'll impact some relationship stats, but there is also a plethora of hidden stats which control whether certain events and routes are open to you or not. If you're a min-maxer, this game will drive you completely insane because every detail of how you play matters.

As for the hentai content, this game is very horny, There's plenty of porn in here, but... It's nothing special, you can see in the screenshots for the game the art for the sex scenes is only of middling quality, and the sex scenes are basically just one image like that coupled with text, it's like reading smut which is fine (if you ever played the original corruption of champions you know text porn can be great), but it is very ironically not this games' strong point. It's strong point is that it's an amazing JRPG that anyone who enjoys JRPGs should probably play.
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