One night the protagonist, Yasutaka Eda, went to visit his girlfriend's room, Yumi Shibasawa's. What he found there was something that would left a scar on his heart, Yumi was embracing another man. What's more, when she noticed Yasutaka watching them, she got excited and decided to continue while saying that she never came when they had sex. Traumatized by this unknown side of his girlfriend, Yasutaka ran away. Months went by and now Yasutaka has managed to keep moving with his university life, even though he thought he would never be able to trust and love another woman, his new girlfriend, Mia Shibasawa (Yumi's little sister) has managed to heal both his mind and soul over time, though sometimes he still remembers Yumi and that nightamarish day, reason why he is unable to regain confidence in himself in bed. While confronting his fears while falling deeper in love with Mia, he decides to propose her to live together, though destiny seems to have another plan in stock for them. Yumi, who had dissappeared from their lives has come back...
Overall vote: 7 Spoiler warning The plot here, the dynamic and the formula is quite unique compared to AS standards. Your ex cheated on you and you broke up, you hook up with the ex' sister and try but not quite succeed to completely move on from the cheating trauma. Things get worse when the ex comes back into your life and things slowly escalates into the usual NTR troupe. We also got a girl POV which is a huge plus, nowadays AS doesn't uses it all that much ... even though imo all the games in this genre need that. The plot in general gets a passing mark for me. But here I talk about the grief that i have with this game. The elder sister, the rival and the endings. I really only rate one ending, the true end, to be well written. As for others I'll get to that in just a bit. The author didn't even bother developing the rival at all ... make us know his background story, his thoughts on the events to which he is directly involved, nothing ... For the elder sister ... The game makes you think that you have two heroines but the second one is not treated like one, what do i mean? She should have gotten one "proper" ending where they get back together HAPPILY, young sis could have done the same thing with the rival so each new couples get a real proper happy end. Have one ending where it's the MC that gets both of the girls ... Basically treat the elder sister as a proper secondary heroine! Like you noticed i prefer the elder sister, the sex scene too i mostly enjoyed the elder sister part while the younger was just meh to me, this game for me really needed to be expanded more and have more endings! It feels like usual AS lately that it was rushed up in the later stages ...
NegataLink2023-03-19★★★★★
I rate it 3 stars not because it's bad. All Atelier Sakura's NTR games are good if you like NTR Type A (basically light NTR, no blackmail, etc). But for this one... I don't know if it's overall good. Art: 8/10 It's your usual Atelier Sakura's games art BGM: 6/10 I don't have any issue for it, but at least it doesn't give the feel of "pressure" and it's goes well with NTR Type A theme the game has VA: 7.5/10 Actually it's quite good, but sometimes the voice cracked(?) because it's too loud. At some parts the acting felt awkward too, but not too much that I can't bear it Story: 7/10 It's easy to follow and quite straightforward (for you are the type of person who want to just skip the dialogues and get the gist of what happening, it's your game) NTR: 7.8/10 Tbh I am quite confuse how to rate it. It's NTR Type A and of course it's decent, but I don't feel the "sensation" that I felt on Mariko duology (I don't even know if this word really exist lol). Compared to Mariko it's just a little little bit bland. (After all it's just my nitpick so don't take it as a solid opinion) Lastly, it's my other nitpick, but it is my fist time I HATE, not the dude, but the female character (elder sister) from a literally Type "A" NTR eroge. I don't felt this way from Mariko (why I always mention Mariko is because by far it's my favorite from Atelier Sakura). TL;DR: I HATE that woman. That's all.
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