Radiance of Summer

This game is short, but that doesn't make it worth your time. In terms of sexual content, the art is fairly high quality, BUT you're only getting enough CGs to count on one hand. You can see almost all of them from the previews on the thread, so the only thing you're really getting by playing the game itself is plot and atmosphere. Speaking of plot, I feel like this VN just doesn't execute an NTR plot very well, which is the main reason for my low rating. Some of my specific gripes and other thoughts can be found below: Spoiler: Plot Details Overall, the plot is just waaaay too vague. For example, sometimes less is more when it comes to revealing the capabilities of an "unseen villain", but there are far too few details given about Yuuka's situation with her family; namely, why does she even go along with the arranged marriage, given that we know she is capable of rebelling? Also, why is she even at what is presumably a normal school if her family is THAT important? Additional worldbuilding here would raise the stakes, make Yuuka's decisions make more sense, and ultimately make the whole story more compelling (example re-write: her family is "new money" and this arranged marriage is some kind of power play by her father to attain more power. Hence, she is still in normal school but has had her freedom taken away as she's gotten older, to the point that she'll be sold off after high school). Regardless, we know that she is at least tacitly complicit in this arranged marriage plot... until she decides to run away from a seemingly important commitment she had with this fiance and instead goes to sleep with the MC for the entire weekend. Why did her parents not track her down?? As far as we know, she wasn't even PUNISHED for this! It would even make sense plot-wise, since it would have given her a reason to avoid the MC for the rest of the school year. Instead, however, the reason given was that "it's awkward." While this reason plants the seeds of what could grow into an interesting coming-of-age moment for the two, when you contrast it with the sky-high melodrama of "my super affluent parents are forcing me into an arranged marriage with a politician's son", you get a whiplash of intensity which is too much for this short of a kinetic VN. The relationship between the MC and Yuuka is also not very well established. Much of this may be the fault of translation, but the scene between the two of them is seemingly done under the pretenses of "Yuuka rebelling" rather than because Yuuka likes the MC. This is strengthened by the fact that after this encounter, it takes the MC and Yuuka THE ENTIRE SCHOOL YEAR of to even try to talk to one another about it. This frames their relationship as fleeting, something that could never actually be... ...which makes it all the more strange that in the sex scene with Yuuka and her fiance, Yuuka thinks to herself "MC was the only one who was supposed to (have sex with) me", which implies she was actually into the MC? What?? Either this line was mis-translated, or it was otherwise included simply because "this is the kind of thing NTR girls say". Between the out-of-place arranged marriage and unclear/inconsistent writing in regard to Yuuka's feelings towards the MC, I feel as though the story is more a mish-mash of poorly executed NTR cliches superimposed onto the shell of an actually engaging and atmospheric VN. Ultimately, I think this story would have been better served if it went in one of the following directions instead: Option 1: Ramp up the melodrama a lot to match the absurdity of the premise. For example, have the MC and Yuuka fall in love over the school year instead of just having a one-night stand, but have the family's control play a larger part, and the climax of the story being something like MC witnessing Yuuka and her fiance having sex, instead of just seeing the aftermath. Corruption of Yuuka by the fiance could also play a role here as well, but is not necessary. Option 2: Have the plot center around Yuuka's real indifference after their sexual encounter and her moving on and accepting her fate as a pawn to be sold off, and lean more into the cucking/despair of the MC and Yuuka's personality/ambitions being eroded by the power dynamics she's being subjected to. No need for a happy ending. Option 3: Instead of having NTR at all, instead have the arranged marriage play more as a reason for the MC to confess his love and fight against the odds and those in power to secure Yuuka a bright future that she can choose. Since this significantly changes up the tags and atmosphere of the game, I've listed this one last. TL;DR the plot attempts to take itself seriously, but the absurdity of its premise combined with a breakneck pace results in it being difficult to understand character motivations/intentions, which in the end makes it less effective than a more cliche plot. While a lot of these problems could be fixed by giving the story more scenes to build the characters and world more, since the game is now completed it is what it is. The atmosphere of the game is decent, with some decent SFX and BGM, as well as the fully-voiced female dialogue being a nice touch. That being said, immersion doesn't help much if what you're being immersed IN isn't good.

First and foremost, at the moment of writing this there is no NTR tag, but this IS a netorare game (not netori, your girl is getting violated unpleasantly by another man). If you do not like netorare stay away. I thought it's a netori story so i took an L by playing this, but oh well. It doesn't affect my score but i feel like i should warn others about it. It's an extremely short, 30-40 mins, kinetic novel with a very pleasant style, decently written dialogues and voice acting and a barebones story that kinda stops in the middle of the narrative (you steal your girl back from the fiance after all but the game ends right there). There is only one animation and couple CG's, and they look nice but it's just too little. Overall it's a decent short kinetic novel, but nothing more than that.

A short story with "untouchable flower" theme, I think NTR enjoyer will love this. It has good art and is pretty unique too (it's a shame that there are only few cgs. Also, most of the h scenes is NTR content btw). The female lead is fully voiced (I think this took a large portion of the game's size). Voice acting is quite well, although there're many times when her voice suddenly get too loud so beware of that. Story wise, it's decent. It did tell us about the past and how the relationship between the two main characters building up and breaking apart. But as the game is very short, you may not feel related to the mc or be too attached to the fml much.