Demonheart

what a great game! I enjoined it a lot

自由度很高，选项也都有很爽的 可以把攻略对象都杀掉！ 两个男攻略对象各有各的骗和雷，简直可以治愈我的恋爱脑，不过对喜欢强势男主的会是大餐 我更加喜欢Ari妹妹，我的宝宝Ari我的宝宝呜呜呜，肯定哪里选错了我的Ari被杀了呜呜呜呜呜呜呜呜呜呜呜呜呜呜呜 真的很爱Ari，连她弄门要检查十几次都很戳中我 btw很推荐大家玩！

Rating: 7/10 ("Good") Recommended for: Fans of romance visual novels/otome. I'd recommend this to a first time VN reader. My route order: Brash -> Raze -> Ari Demonheart is a western otome game where you play as Bright, a young woman apprenticed to a witch. You have a TON of freedom with Bright's responses -- you can pick nearly all her dialogue, which influences her personality and how others treat her. There's not really routes in the traditional sense of most otome games. You can actually manage to snag most of the endings in one playthrough, just make a save at certain opportune times and reload to pick different options and end up with someone else. It's not like a standard visual novel route where you get locked into one love interest's storyline and play through the whole thing. The main replay value is from the different dialogue options you can choose with the main character. Her attitude affects some NPC dialogue which can be fun or interesting to read through. There are also some smaller branching paths, like choosing to follow a certain character or not, which can lead to interesting outcomes. The overarching story is mostly the same, though, and you'll get put on the main path regardless of what you pick. Skipping through already read dialogue to read new paths can be tedious, as you pick almost everything Bright says, so it's not something I'd recommend replaying right after you've finished one playthrough. Raze and Brash are very well-written as love interests. They're morally grey at best and can be off-putting at first, but they've both got their own reasons for how they act or what they do and it's interesting to see their dynamics with the main character. Brash is very fun with a "good" Bright. Ari is a little disappointing and feels more like a shoe-in than anything. They really could have developed more with her but she feels lacklustre compared to the other leads. She also has the least amount of screentime/presence of all the love interests. She feels more like a secret side option than a fully realised romance. The other side characters are hit-or-miss. Some are pretty well-realised, while others feel like cardboard cutouts. They're serviceable. The voice acting is pretty decent overall. Not all the lines are voiced. The soundtrack is nice. Where the visual novel really shines, though, is the artwork. The sprites are gorgeous, as is the background art. There's a surprising amount of variety there. There aren't as many CGs as you would expect, though, and no CG library to view them after. The least impressive part of the game is the endings. They all feel very abrupt, rushed, and give little closure, apart from maybe Raze's. This may be intentional, though, as I see there's a sequel. Overall, highly recommend the game if you're not adverse to dark subject matter and morally grey love interests. The story is interesting and the love interests are a little different from the "usual" tropes.