Oh I finished my first playthrough right now. I romanced Petra and I swear he’s so sweet I want to die for him sweet sweet baby
I really liked the game and want to play the other outcomes (I sided with the rebels in this one).
At first I was thinking if some of the MC’s choices could affect the relationships with the LI’s but wasn’t the case (for example if MC was with Petra and decided to join the rebels he wouldn’t agree with leave with MC).
I really liked it, I guess it’s my favorite type of romance in these games. Bad things happen, but the LI is there with the MC, no matter what. It was really conforting, specially with the plot envolving heavy themes like slavery. Also, the friendship my MC developed with Eryx was just lovely.
The scenes with Petra are so good and well written.
I’m so thrilled for the game to be out! It’s been a while coming and has been the topic of much discussion in our household, and it’s lovely that others get to play it now too!
I did a deep dive playthrough during beta, trying to play as if I didn’t know anything about it, and started out as a very disaffected fighter trying to keep himself to himself, then when I failed to save Terez I joined the rebellion and got involved with the revolutionaries, managing to befriend Lanziega enough to get him on side. I romanced Eryx and Remi, and dragged Petra out like a bedraggled puppy I want to romance Ferrado next time as I rebuffed them pretty firmly on that playthrough!
The game is great so far, but I seem to have run into a bug: at the start of chapter 2 (upon pressing the “next chapter” button) it skips a page too quickly for me to read it. This is on the iOS omnibus app - has anyone else run into this?
I hate being that guy and saying people who whine about “muh gender” and “muh sexuality” need to go away. If you dont like the options dont play/buy it.
Now, as for my opinion on the game. I actually loved it, haha. There was an actual plot aside from the romance, the romance scenes were lovely ((I like erotic novels so hey, I might be biased.)), despite being a romance game the scenes where there was fighting weren’t half assed, and were actually decently written ((im also a big sucker for writing combat scenes)).
You wrote the romance scenes so well, I actually wished there were more. But, that would probably make the game less of a romance/choice game and more of a erotica game. So, c’est la vie.
Author, you made a great title here; thank you very much for the time and effort you put into it.
Edit: Some more weapon options may have been nice though.
There were a couple of issues in beta with the Remi romance and I thought we’d ironed them all out! There’s an option to turn them down in chapter 3, as they ask you to stay the night when talking to them after Terez does or doesn’t die. You can say “no, maybe later” or “no, never”. However, if you think that didn’t happen for you, please email through as much info as you can to support@choiceofgames.com.
I absolutely defer to you in terms of the breadth and demographic of viewers that you would like to reach!
I have (extremely limited) Spanish comprehension skills so you won’t be able to get rid of me reading either way
And @Kshatriya , once I tied selecting the weapons to an initial stat shift, and worked out the multireplace to display the weapon text correctly, adding more on top of the six become dangerously unwieldy. But oh man, polearms are awesome. Dang!
Just for clarity’s sake, is this one of the HC games where the player is absolutely forced into romance, no arguments? Because it seemed like I had the option to turn down literally everybody, but then I got locked into the Remi romance… which I wasn’t trying to do. Not gonna lie, it kinda killed my interest in continuing to play.
And I know it sounds odd to ask that about a romance game of all things, but there have been other HC games where you could duck the romance entirely (not sure if the authors intended that, necessarily, but it’s certainly doable), which is why I’m asking what the intent is for this one.
I’ve never tried, but I believe it is possible to get through the game without romance. And even in games that do require you to have a partner in the end, you always get to choose. The Remi situation seems to be a glitch that everyone thought had been resolved in beta, but is apparently still cropping up occasionally.
Okay, good to know. Honestly, I don’t mind the romance options, but (for reasons I have no good explanation for) my first playthrough on these kinds of games tends to aim for purposely not getting involved with anyone, so to get almost all the way through the game and then oops, unavoidable romance lock (which may or may not be the result of a glitch in the code) kinda took the wind out of me.
I totally understand. I got romance-locked with Remi the first time I played the beta, although I was already in a relationship with Ferrado - and my first beta playthrough is always a self-insert, and I am very very monogamous. Oops!
Not to my knowledge - and I do a lot of both beta testing and reviewing, so I sort of think if there were such a policy, I would know about it. I do think it would be appropriate to mention within the review itself, the same way you’d mention it in a review if you received a product for free in exchange for an honest review or if you had a personal connection to the creator of the thing you were reviewing.
(Of course, this assumes that you’re an amateur reviewer. The ethics of professional reviewing are much stricter. But if you were a professional reviewer, you wouldn’t need to ask.)
I will say that if your level of involvement with or attachment to a game you tested is such that you can’t (or don’t want to) separate yourself from it enough to do an honest evaluation, you shouldn’t be writing a review. But that’s a matter of principle, not policy.
Haha, thank you. I’m just somebody who thinks commenting on things is inordinately enjoyable for some reason. It’s why I post reviews sometimes. But it’s always nice to see if people find them helpful.
Me: Yeah I can be objective about this. Probably.
Also me: * liked the game enough to make memes of it *
sweet sweet baby
scenes with Petra are so good and well written. 
If you dont like the options dont play/buy it.
