Just played the game and, I'm sad to say this, but its very bad.
Arstyle-wise the game is amazing. It boasts all possible varieties of genders, body type and species. While I’m gay and all, I nevertheless appreciate female characters and romance options since I don’t require characters to be a certain gender to enjoy romance and overall it contributes to the world’s believability.
Sadly the “believability” is the word I can only use loosely in this case because as far as everything else goes this game is NONSENSE.
The game markets itself as an essentially furry Hogwarts with emphasis on magic and shit.
So with that in mind let *this* sink in: upon an entirety of the first route I’ve played I have seen exactly *one* scene where magic system is at least somewhat explained, *ONE* scene where magic is actually used and *NO* scenes depicting the protagonist actually visiting classes with his peers… all in the game that markets itself as a furry Hogwards.
Like, what? Why are you advertising the game as such when you can’t deliver on the thing you advertised the most? Why even set *this* as a premise?
Now you might ask what this game is about then? And the only answer I and others can give is… Bunch of characters hanging out going around in circles(reference not intended) until something finally happens. No really, that’s literally the entire plot.
The world building… doesn’t exist. If it was yet another real-life setting with furries I would maybe begrudgingly forgive that but, like, this isn’t real life, that is supposed to be science fantasy!
Additionally we are supposed to identify with main characters since he came from place where magic doesn’t exist but we don’t even know what exactly is the place he came from! Harry Potter have done it pretty well placing its protagonist in irl London, but here everyone is constantly remarking that the protagonist to came from Midgard. Like, what’s even *is* this place? It this ff7 type of Midgard? Is this a Norse Mythology type of Midgard? I don’t know and the game doesn’t know either!
And finally we get to the characters. And I’m gonna just come out and say it: they are absolutely unbelievable. They act so detached from reality that its simply impossible to emphasize with them. They can act like more-or-less normal people in one moment and the flip the switch and turn to complete psychos.
At first i was convinced that the game was going for a denpa-style horror (which is backed up by moments where the game legitimately wants to be horror) but as a denpa it also doesn’t work because denpa implies that every character starts normal and then slowly going mad for reasons when here everyone starts detached from reality and remains as such for an entirety of the game.
The dialogue seems forced and unnatural and the sequence of events makes no sense whatsoever. Things just… happen.
Like, after midroute there is an important event when two teachers got into debacle and during their spellfight hurt one of the student in a crossfire, and after two weeks timeskip things just… got back to normal?... Like, they face no consequences, the wounded student seems to recover just fine and the protagonist who fell into depression because wasn’t even being visited or comforted by anyone?... and it isn’t like either of the other characters were caring much for that student either, they just continue with their lives like nothing ever happened.
And then I get an ending that rips off Suzuha’s steins;gate one without a proper build up. Protag just discovers a time-travel superpower out of nowhere and decides to keep rewinding time because of an apocalypse or something? Where did this come from?
Anyways, this game is nonsense and my brain hurts just from thinking about it.
I also have to mention the gameplay which somehow was screwed as well. Instead of traditional vn they decided to go for a pseudo point and click adventure which only hurt the overall experience more than anything. Instead of just choosing your desired love interest each time you know you have to stumble across the entire town to search the place where they decided to randomly spawn this time around… which also came at a cost of not adding such basic features like skip read text, autoplay, reroll and save anywhere. What in the actual fuck. Last game I played that didn’t had these features was a Colonel Sanders Dating Sim, which was a free meme game, but even when it comes to free meme vns all of them have these options and you are telling me devs couldn’t add these basic features in a title which costs as much as a remaster of Persona 3? I can’t even.
Anyways, don’t let pretty graphics fool you. This game is dead inside.