Alrighty, I took an afternoon to dedicate a review of this title.
Ill be writing live and adding stuff as I go along broski, ill have drop down sections to make this condensed, and ill specifically name the sections so you can go to where you feel like you wanna hear most about.
With that out of the way, lets a go!
Prologue
Love the banner, golden horse on green.
Reading the first page alone, I can tell you struggle with the exact same shit I do lmao! We have to be sure of verbs and such being current or past tense. I struggle with it alot. But it isn’t hurting the enjoyability so you can push that to the back and save it for when you do the final editing before submission to Hosted Games.
Also, Nrein and Helena give me Alicent and Rhaenyra vibes, and I assume they’re gonna hate each other’s guts like crazy in the future? We shall see if I’m right xD
I suggest you follow this rule book that I use, It’ll saves you time from trying to make the dialogue flow by yourself lmao.
Example:
“A cat?” Nrein raises an eyebrow as she tilts her head to the side, gazing into Helena’s emerald eyes. “No darling, it’s most surely a sheep,” she says while shaking her head. “Helena-" she clears her throat, attempting to sound worried- "you must see a healer at once! I think you’re losing your sight!”
Oh shit, yall got a Goddess too huh? Goddess gang uniiiiite!
Although i gotta do the mandatory :
OHHHHHH SHITTTTTTTTTT
My reaction at first:

Next scene
This entire passage reminded me of Otto Hightower’s relationship with Alicent, even the colors are the same. Even the whole Right Hand business and the little pin that serves to symbolize that office. I suggest either changing it if you want to avoid readers thinking this OR saying straight up “Yo this work was partly inspired by Dance of the Dragons, I hope you like it!” to avoid any readers saying mean stuff lmao!
I highly suggest you change this, everything all together makes it feel wayyyy too similar to House of the Dragon
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Check 3:48 mark
Another thing that can make a reader think of Dance of Dragons
So you have a green banner, something that would make people think of the Greens from House of the Dragon, and the House Motto for Helena’s family is High and Mighty? People can get the Hightower from High, and the green color will make it too irresititable to not think of the Hightowers. I suggest changing all some things, because so far I cant help but think Helena is Alicent lol
Ayeeee direwolves exist here lol!
I suggest setting up the name of the wolf as the Old Wolf when we first see him. Maybe like, “Standing beside him is the Old Wolf, the blah blah blah…” and so and so forth.
Chapter 1
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Go to 1:25 mark
Reading to that point, I feel like you can do more showing instead of telling. After a character does something, you explain stuff and steal the incentive for the reader to think and feel smart about inferring things on their own, hurting reader enjoyablity. People like to feel smart, it’s our job to make them feel like it by carefully planting stuff here and their so they can come to their own judgements.
Cheat mode! I approve. Some readers just wanna not worry about stats, its a good idea to include a cheat mode!
Checked character profiles and stats page for a codex, but the only thing that can point towards us being called a little wolf is the wedding scene with the Old Wolf present. I suggest talking some info about how the house is affiliated with wolves when you show us the Old Wolf. That’d be the perfect time to do so.
I had troubles with this too bro, i kept thinking that princess or prince should be capitalized but it isn’t supposed to be, only when you have a name after the title.
Love this, also missing aunt? Sus…
Ima have green eyes like my mama
You probably missed it as it was code, but you have 2 extra dots for one of the choices!
Using era appropriate terms for clothing, awesome! Also, did none of the other houses go ‘“Supremecy over all”? Maybe we should cut them down to size’ lmaoooo
This made me laugh way too hard as i was watching south park, eric cartman doing the whole nazi shit lmaoooo Dont worry, you didn’t do anything wrong, remember this is just a live review being written as i read along!
I suggest changing the name of Enchanted Wolf to something else. Ask your readers for ideas, and maybe make a poll about it later? I’d like to present my own idea, Ruby Wolf, named as such for their red eyes! A couple of my readers suggest Blood Wolf for their bond with their person, and another said why not make it german and do Bludhund
Love that you’re including their lower ranking of the inheritance and wanting to be with you for connections. It isn’t a bad thing, just a fact of life during those times!
Ayo? How’d you make a heart appear? Thats dope! Lemme know in the future lol
You have a mistake here, capitalize and make it “…Together”
Noticed this, there’s a lot of characters saying “Aye”. Is this like a cultural thing? Even kids are saying it lmao
Suggest changing 5,000 to five thousand as you already used the word version of numerals earlier in the story. A Serbian will pester you if you don’t stick to one lmao
Bruh, MC is a dog lmao!
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Of course, I’m also a hoe at heart so i tried shooting my shot, but i noticed you put “way more colder” I suggest changing it to “much more colder”
I am not sorry.
Pastries are incorrectly capitalized
yes, the MC and I are toxic. anyways though, arent we ten here? I really think the readers may get off put by an mc behaving this way. Of course, you don’t have to choose those options is a sensible counter to this. Yet I feel like this would all go away if the characters started making moves at age 13, an age I’m sure we can all agree on is sensible for people to attempt flirting and experimenting when their hormones are practically hitting them full force now.
Pretty sure this is what Nrein said when she heard mom’s hand maid did the same thing she did to Nrein:
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Mother is incorrectly capitalized here
Mistake here with Shadow
Oh, is this where MC goes and embarrass the kid and goes:
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Too many ands here
There we go! This is a perfect example of SHOWING not telling. From here we can surmise that the right to the throne isn’t through blood or etc. Its through military might. The Imperial Guard will be key to ensure our rise to power. You can let the player think about this for themself, BUT I suggest later having Helena TELL us that the Imperial Guard is key. Either because of past history where the Imperial Guard installed emperors or etc. That can give you the chance to give the readers who inferred this the satisfaction of knowing they’re right.
Error here, should be grandmother
The “Empress was to be” sounds wrong and disjointed, the Empress-to-be sounds better and looks nicer. Also, hate that im saying this again, but this sounds very similar to Princess Rheanys, the Queen Who Never Was from House of the Dragon
Ima cuck this kid, idk how, or even if we can, but im cucking him! Also, instead of saying “Alara adds” perhaps “Alara retorts” or Alara counters" well make the reader know more clearly that she disagrees with Aeron, not agree
I think your inclusion of letting the reader who we could answer but decide not to, while still letting us know we could, is a great idea that helps immersion, good shit!
Another good inclusion. Readers wanna know that their good deed was noticed!
Need a comma between Grace and Queen. Also, too many Ands at the last sentence.
Maybe, “You excuse yourself alongside Kela, following Lady Lenila out the room.” or etc
Dialogue here is strange, needs a revamp
had a difficult time reading through this section, needs a revamp as well. Also, its not here but you should probably capitalize High Priestess all the time cause High priestess just clashes with your senses lol
“How could this be when we cant control what gender is born with the wolves? What if there’s only on heir and the cub that returns is the opposite gender?” Questions that came up when I read this.
I read all of the questions and feel like they could all use some work.The passages in them feel more like PLACEHOLDERS instead, so cant wait to see what the final product shows here!
Me when i saw what she named the wolf:
This better not be the name my mom gave her “friend” Nrein when they were kissing. OHHH I SWEAR TO GOOOOOOD
lolololol
Just realized, you should probably explain what the hearts mean, are they just flirt options?
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LMAOOOOOO
I think simply calling the Spymaster a spymaster is more realistic than Dark lord, also, we’re still ten here right?? Why is a child interested in a dude in a mask lol im almost certain that precocious crushes are formed with children when theyre repeatedly around someone, this is someone we just met! Also the responses do not sound like from a kid of ten years. Again, i think aging the characters up will make everything make more sense and more plausible
Just read this and the story about her almost killing your grandfather and that’s how they fell in love. Grandma was literally an MC for an otome novel, wasn’t she?
Didnt capitalize the first letter
Misspelled though

lololololol
Im just saying, i better be able to make a marriage alliance with em

A visual representation of what happened,parodied
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SHE LIED TO US!
Well, this is how my MC is gonna be toxic from now on, just because a girl he wasn’t in a relationship from when they were ten lied to him and now he cant get over the sheer pain
At the end, his should be him.
At the end, it should be does instead of do
Should be “Pride of the Far East.” And Shogun??? We get samurai in this world? Dope
the choices here and the passages within were a lot more enjoyable than the previous ones, good job!
Seeing your ex must be weird lmao
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I WAS FUCKING RIGHT LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Oh, cousin marriage for strategic gain me thinks, sounds about right for the time
Damn, the horni blinded this brother. He didn’t follow NNN. Somethings gonna happen, is she gonna be a like Ramsay Bolton? The brother in the next page sounds unhinged too.
ANNNNNNNNNNNND FINISHED!
My thoughts after reading
The story overall is concrete enough to know where you wanna take this, though I felt there was a lot of obvious inspiration from GRRM. The live review uptop should be plenty enough evidence for what im talking about.
Hopefully you’re able revamp a lot of the passages with the list of sentence structures i gave you, it will help make it more organic.
I think this is your third thread, with a number of rewrites right? My advice is to stick with it and keep going forward to make the outline of the story, and then to go back to overhaul stuff once you know the direction you’re heading. For the amount of times you’ve spent going back and changing things, the return on that energy spent isn’t looking like a sound investment.
The “aye” use in the story got more chuckles from me, and i don’t think that was something you were looking for when using that word.
I heavily suggest aging up the characters as well if you want to use mature dialogue and actions from the cast and MC. I felt like i was 13-14 with the dialogue options and that of your friends. Nowing we’re ten puts a damper on that. I haven’t been keeping up with the thread here since last time i popped up, so i don’t know what your plans are for NSFW content. Just be warned that you’ll face a lot of opposition for any sex stuff with underage characters here. Also, the cousin RO. KaE has cousins that your uncle will suggest you marry for a strategic alliance, but the plan was always to make it unable to happen, irregardless of your willingness or lack of it. But the readers went overboard on each side, causing me to step in and reveal that you’d never have a chance anyways, making me lose out as a storyteller. (Fyi to people against cousin marriage, there’s modern cultures that practice it. You don’t get to say theyre weird for that. Fuck off. Fyi people that’re for cousin marriage, you don’t get to say everyone should be fine with it. Fuck off. Bottom line, just enjoy the story the author presents without harassing those with opposite views or harassing the author.)
So good luck on that front man!
I honestly think it needs more so i can give you my thoughts on the story as we’re just starting it. You haven’t given me enough to say its good or bad because there’s a lot of seeds being planted early on, like the missing aunt, or the emperor being absent, and your relationship with the characters your age. But i don’t know if those seeds will come to fruition since we’re so early in the story.
I wrote this review by ONLY reading the game and not the RO information on top of thread, so take that in mind!!!
Opinions on the RO art and information
Love it!
Though i seriously think this should be in a codex or something.
Im going over the ROs we met only!
Quella sounds like a sweet heart. She gives me Eleanor Roosevelt vibes, and that’s making me reaaaaaally liking her a lot.
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Gossa sounds crazy, but not the kind I like lmao
“She suffers from the Noogren madness that plagues her entire family.”

Say whaaaaaaat
Same for her brother Lord Feroy lmao
Cmonnnn bro, give some more info for our boy Odo! The men are getting lacklustre treatment 