7/1”
Great visuals and story - the world stands distinctly in between the Tsukihime and Fate Universe while utilising elements from both to create one of my favourite visual novels with a focus on magic. Aoko and Soujiro are great protagonists and never let the pacing feel stale.
The music is also amazing - if you don’t know any of the tracks listen to “Five” on YouTube and you’ll be blown away.
My only critique with the game is that I think parts of the middle section can feel a bit drawn out and I find the side characters outside of Alice (although I guess she is a main character) largely one note and uninteresting - making the school and menial elements of the narrative very boring as I wait for the detailed magic system and descriptions to take prescience which I find infinitely more interesting.
Overall, if you like visual novels you’ll love it, if you like theme you’ll like it, if you’re indifferent it will probably have a strong start and hook but then teeter off, and if you don’t like them this game won’t change your opinion on them. It isn’t a groudnbraking title that revolutionises the genre like Fate or danganronpa arguably did but it is a refinement of the formula which is a credit to the visual novel medium.
Great visuals and story - the world stands distinctly in between the Tsukihime and Fate Universe while utilising elements from both to create one of my favourite visual novels with a focus on magic. Aoko and Soujiro are great protagonists and never let the pacing feel stale.
The music is also amazing - if you don’t know any of the tracks listen to “Five” on YouTube and you’ll be blown away.
My only critique with the game is that I think parts of the middle section can feel a bit drawn out and I find the side characters outside of Alice (although I guess she is a main character) largely one note and uninteresting - making the school and menial elements of the narrative very boring as I wait for the detailed magic system and descriptions to take prescience which I find infinitely more interesting.
Overall, if you like visual novels you’ll love it, if you like theme you’ll like it, if you’re indifferent it will probably have a strong start and hook but then teeter off, and if you don’t like them this game won’t change your opinion on them. It isn’t a groudnbraking title that revolutionises the genre like Fate or danganronpa arguably did but it is a refinement of the formula which is a credit to the visual novel medium.