Finished playing Evenicle after 119 hours. What a journey it was. I mainly got it as a Senren Kagura fan. Nan Yaegashi did the art. I miss both his artwork and Senren Kagura over the years. Evenicle kinda fills that void. So yeah to be clear I liked the idea of it being a JRPG with Nan's art more than it being a hentai game with Nan's art. This is actually my first full on eroge game I've played. Full warning I’m gonna talk spoilers. Mostly because what is the likelihood someone is actually gonna buy a porn game after me talking about it? Probably low but I will say if you end up remotely interested at any point then just stop reading and play the game. Also it’s a porn game so disclaimer duh sex stuff is gonna be talked about. I mainly want to talk about things that stood out to me story and and characters wise. Oh and here's is a collection of funny or amusing screenshots I took. Some are NSFW https://imgur.com/a/klgLMmw

Basically the premise of the game is you got our protagonist Asterisk but you can call him Aster. He wants to fuck and marry his totally not blood related twin sisters but the only way to do that is to become a knight. Aster says he got so horny with the thought of being a knight to get wives that he swam to the city from his hometown. And the game makes it clear it was a long distance. He becomes a knight in chapter 1 btw. Chapter 1 is mostly world building but I wanna talk about that later. The game has 7 chapters with seven deadly sins like theming to it. Chapter 1-5 are mostly episodic while the last two chapters became more serious in taking down the world ending evil pretty typical JRPG stuff. The main villains of the game are called “Snake Crest” and chapter’s 2-5 has you taking down a member of Snake Crest while the last 2 members focus on chapters 6 and 7 . They're all cartoonishly evil. Like it is over the top how evil they are. Chapter 2 talks about envy and political corruption. Chapter 3 is about greed and corporations being evil. Chapter 4 is probably the darkest chapter it covers gluttony with that Snake Crest member being a cannibal. And chapter 5 is technically about lust but it isn’t handled like you’d think. Chapter 5 Snake Crest member wants to revive his dead daughter causing a zombie outbreak. Lastly Chapter 6 and 7 I won't spoil because I don’t wanna completely ruin everything. The main story isn't mind blowing or anything but it is quite fun and engaging throughout and sometimes that all a game needs. It goes above and beyond in making you actually care aside from the porn.

Part of what makes this game special in my opinion is the world building and lore. Pretty much anything you might have a question about the game actually addresses. It’s surprisingly fleshed out making it really interesting. The world of Evenicle is entirely based upon religion and society functions and operates following the rules of the goddess “Mother Eve”. The “Evenicle” is basically this world's Bible. The rules humans must follow is 1 you can not kill and 2 monogamy only Mother Eve hates polygamy. If you break the rules then you get branded an outlaw and get a black ring that you never lose even if you chopped off all of your fingers. You basically lose human rights and literally become ex-human and get kicked out of society. Outlaws also lose the ability to create from the Earth have cows? They die. Have a farm? You can't make crops anymore. What sucks about this situation is that having sex automatically makes you married. So if your an innocent women that got kidnapped and gang raped by outlaws that counts as having multiple partners meaning the rape victim also becomes an outlaw against there own will. Something that is kinda funny about these rules however is that there are several loopholes. Anal sex, blow jobs, and boob jobs “don’t count”. There's a race in this universe known as Kalars there sorta like succubuses where they need semen to live. They also only produce female babies meaning if a human fucks a Kalar that also “doesn’t count”. If you're a knight in this universe and you can rise through the ranks and you can have up to 10 wives. A strong knight means strong kids. Knights are also granted permission to kill. There’s a lot more to the lore as well. There are 6 regions and you often get let know of the current political situation in each region and there’s a character named Towa that explains the back story of each region whenever you enter a new one. It’s explained who wrote the Evenicle and it’s explained how humans and monsters came to be. I can probably mention a few other things but by now you get the idea. Again, it goes above and beyond for what is mostly a goofy porn game. It’s just surprising how much effort there was when they didn’t really have too. And while the lore isn’t really anything crazy it is well thought out and interesting.

Now I wanna talk about characters but there's too many characters I’ll just go over the main five plus one side character. Aster is the protagonist. He’s a hero! But he doesn’t really care about being a hero. He’s just a horny boy that wants to stop evil and fuck girls. Aster is absolutely goddamn hilarious. He’s a pretty simple character and is ultimately just a self insert wish fulfillment, power fantasy. But the blunt and out of pocket shit he says makes him quite possibly one of the funniest protagonists I ever seen. Then you got the first wife Ramius. She is also a knight. She is competitive, kinda dumb, a bit of a meathead and loves porn, sex, food, and sleeping. Ramius is a pretty funny character despite being hot because of previous loner personality she’s considered scary to the average person. Not only that but her older brother convinced her that she's not cute. There's more to her but all I gotta say is just love her character and she says pretty funny things throughout the game. Then you got the second wife Riche. Riche is a princess and is the childhood friend of Ramius. Riche is the straight man of the group and usually stops situations going too outta hand. She is probably the least interesting of the main 4 imo but still very likable. Then you got the third wife Gurigura who was engineered to be as moe as possible. Gurigura is a loli character she plays into the “imouto” archetype and has an unspecified age. And I really like this character. She is adorable. She has a pretty tragic backstory of being an orphan then being trained at a school where they didn’t care whether she lived or died. Not only that but she lived homeless and starved for most of her life. Despite having a sad backstory though she is always happy and upbeat. She’s also really strong and consistently guides the rest of the party throughout the regions. Gameplay wise she also gives you a map, lowers the encounter rate and auto wins trash mobs. I also like how she uses “boku” for her I’s and says “onii-chan” for Aster and “Onee-chan” for the other wives and while I understand people finding it gross the juxtaposition of a loli type character saying absolutely perverted things I also find pretty funny. And something I do wanna say about Gurigura is that she the one that's takes the initiative Aster was reluctant to fuck her cause he didn’t want to take away her innocence. In another hentai scene they also joked that “it feels immoral”. So at least they're self aware. The last wife is Kathryn aka best girl. Kath is an anti-social, shut in, tsundere, super genius, inventor that loves doujins, manga, Yu-Gi-Oh, and ordering things from Amazon. And she is amazing. That’s all I got to say. I just find her really funny and surprisingly relatable. It’s hard for me to choose a favorite but it’s definitely between her or Ramius with Kath probably getting the slight edge. And now the last character I wanna talk about is a side character named Natal. This game has a ton of side characters 6 of which Aster marries there all likable to some degree but not as interesting as main 4 because you don’t spend as much time with them. What I find interesting about Natal is that she doesn’t get with Aster. Not only but she has it rough. She got anally raped by a tentacle monster, got raped a gyaru named Millet who brainwashes her, she got raped by a green monster and gives birth to said green’s monster baby. She falls madly in love with Aster but he’s to dumb to notice, her parents don't care about accomplishments despite being a knight, and she becomes a drug addict and goes completely bonkers randomly raping men. I pity her that oujisama got it bad. In the final chapter there's a side quest with her. The resolution was that she made a full recovery and is no longer addicted. Her family disowned her but was adopted by the King and Queen. She was unable to say she loves Aster but hopes someday she can. Aster is still too dumb to notice her feelings for him, Aster forgives her for the crimes she did but she doesn't forgive herself and is now gonna work on building her reputation back. Natal is a good side character. Goes through a lot. And I like the fact she doesn’t end up with Aster. Overall personally I just adore the cast there super charming, and have great chemistry. Voice acting is also great even outside the lewd scenes. The characters interactions is one of the best parts of the game it's filled hilarious writing as well as surprisingly wholesome moments.

I touched upon the hentai scenes and well there's a lot. I don’t wanna talk about them too much, mostly because I just ended up skipping most of them anyway. I realized when playing. I just wanna play the game, not fap! Like getting aroused is more than enough when playing a game. But anyway I do wanna mention what kinda tags you would seeing in them on the top my head theirs rape, gang rape, NTR, mind break, guro, lolicon, tentacles, monsters, incest, and threesomes. There are a lot of vanilla and consensual scenes. But plenty of gross degenerate scenes too. A lot of these more darker sexually violent scenes feel kinda out of place and create some pretty jarring tonal whiplashes especially since the game has such a cutesy aesthetic and always cracking jokes. Because of this a lot of the hentai in this game imo is pretty hit or miss but if you're the type of the person that can fap to anything then uh yeah there ya go. Personally I'm just glad allows you to fast forward scenes even if it has unread text. Making it mostly a non-issue but I can understand if others can't overlook it. The game is simultaneously filled with wholesome shit and fucked up shit.

Anyway holy crap I gotta end this at some point. I did cover most of what I wanted to talk about but not everything but I really should wrap this up. I think the game is an interesting experience overall because if I think about it, as a visual novel I think it's pretty good but it's not a peak visual novel. I don't think it's nowhere near as good as something like Witch on the Holy Night or Little Busters. As a JRPG it's pretty mediocre. The battle system has good ideas but it's too brain dead easy most of the game with only boss fights being fun battles. Dungeon design is also too simple and not all that interesting. When it comes to hentai aspect I think it's hit or miss most is vanilla so I don't mind but the nasty scenes are pretty nasty. Strangely enough though combining all of these aspects together makes it a unique experience that I mostly love heh. Like as a piece of hentai media I think it's the greatest thing I ever experienced from there. I feel like with Evenicle I finally "discovered" what I've been wanting outta a hentai for years. I kinda went over it already but the game just genuinely shocked me with it having decently a written world with lore and charming characters. And that's what I like about it. It's more than just a goofy porn game to get off too. It has that too. But it's surprising to me with just high effort it does kinda elevate for me in just being a mediocre JRPG or mediocre visual novel. I see this game as a kinda difficult rate cause as far as a hentai story goes it's like everything I ever wanted from a hentai. Judging from that point of view it's like an easy 10. But I can't help think like objectively as visual novel is more like a 7/10 and as a JRPG is more like 6/10. I guess I can say I land at a 8/10 overall but even that doesn't feel right cause I think the cast is better than most JRPGs. I guess the final note I can end is that I personally loved it a lot like man, I'm gonna miss these characters and I seriously feel empty after finishing the game. I think it's a solid game with an incredible main cast but it does have issues (especially tonal issues) that would most likely vary depending on your tastes.