Devils were tempted by ballad of anima...

look, i'm usually a fan of these kinds of games, but by the gods it is slow. as. fuck. i have never played a sidescroller/platformer as slow as this except maybe Parasite in City, but that has a pass for being, you know, good? this is just...average. at best. the game tells you nothing that you can understand about the mechanics, and waxes poetic about shit you don't care about; the lore's pretty interesting, if you're willing the sit there for twenty fucking minutes reading the INTRODUCTION. yes, i kid you not, the amount of dialogue in this game makes hardcore RPG fans like myself cringe away in disgust. the combat is decent, i suppose, but i wouldn't know because i didn't understand anything. i just figured out with button is to block, which is to jump, and which is to attack, and prayed i managed to do anything. hit responses are garbage, the character animations are mediocre, and it's only saving grace is that it ticks a few kink boxes and genuinely has interesting lore. the game says it has pregnancy content, but i played upwards of five hours of this and saw nothing. i saw the brothel scene which is where i thought you might get some preg content, but instead i just saw a bunch of scenes in poorly translated english repeat over and over until i could just waltz out of there. the only good thing about the brothel is that it's an exp farm. you watch a few scenes, rest for the day, and get thousands of souls for doing basically nothing with no consequences. if you can look past the egregious amount of dialogue, the lack of any useful information, barebones controls, and mediocre sex scenes, then thsi is probably for you. it just ain't for me.

It's an alright game but the dialog is a lot to get through, super dialog heavy, and with it's spacing (even with proper localization and emulation) It's a real pain to read. I couldn't really get into it. There seems to be a fair amount of content, but I couldn't get through it all.