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Review:

MC accidentally bonds with a symbiotic spirit (called a Dark One). Initially he tries to keep his new powers under wraps and live a quiet life but when he avenges a SA attempt against his friend, he unintentionally gets drawn into both Dark One and Companion politics. (Companions are the people who are bonded to Dark Ones.) These political spheres are well-realized, with various factions and powerful individuals and no clear "good guys" or "bad guys". Main character's motivations throughout are largely to survive and protect his loved ones, but to do that he has to do some fairly aggressive things at times.

Does a good job of making you care about the characters and of presenting decent stakes (things don't always go right for our protagonists all of the time). Primarily caters to a harem/poly romantic approach (and purely hetero), but doesn't make all of the LIs feel like they're just there to check boxes off our MC's collection - they feel like they have their own lives that don't revolve purely around him. The only exception to this is his Dark One, whose life does revolve around him, but that's because she's literally bonded into his soul. Even then she has her own wants and needs that don't always align perfectly with his. Additionally, all of the LIs feel very distinct, in their personalities, their capabilities and their sexual preferences.

As a con, it's worth noting that this game is very kinetic - there aren't many choices and those that are there don't change the story much at all.

Overall, if you want a fantasy AVN that focuses on intrigue and action with a gothic/horror aesthetic, while still having decent romance/sex, I don't know of a better option. At least not if you're okay with your choices not really mattering.

You mentioned the word 'Poly' mixed with the harem aspect. Can you elaborate please? I don't mind Poly stuff as long as it works and blends well together. I also don't mind Yuri and love it if that is an option.

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I mean, harem is a form of poly. Any harem game is a poly game. Me saying poly didn't mean that the girls are also in relationships with each other. There are a couple of lines that indicate sapphic content and/or threesomes might be a possibility at some point, but as of chapter 8 it hasn't happened (I haven't played through ch 9 yet). Rather, I emphasized the poly because it doesn't quite follow the standard "harem game" format.

There's not a clearly defined group of women you are dating who all live their lives in proximity with you as you progress all of their stories. Rather, a number of characters drift in and out and back into your life as events and circumstances dictate. Often you have the option to have romantic and/or sexual entanglements with them. No one seems to care too much if you are doing so with multiple people. And it's left unstated whether the women in question are doing the same or not.

As someone who is poly IRL, it feels like a more realistic depiction of one form of what poly can look like than the vast majority of harem games do (the only one I can think of that competes on that front is Out of Touch, but that's a very different form of poly).