Saimin Yuugi

TL;DR - game is incredible, leans heavily into the "control" part of "mind control" and IMO is some of the best of the genre in that regard. The art is great, the VA is great, the writing is great and the TL is fantastic, that's about all I want to mention on that front. It's a VN so the choices are incredibly limited - all you really choose is the route, any choice outside of that leads to a quick scene where the protag goes too far too quickly and leads to a bad end. There are three routes, halfway through the route you choose whether to commit to the route or start another one, and once you've fully finished all three you get a different ending + a quick afterstory scene. It came off very generic to me at first glance, but it really nails parts of the mind control kink that most MC games don't focus too much on, that being the control aspect. You'll see characters in MC stories gush about how great it feels to control people, but I haven't seen anything that goes to the extent this game does. It ends up being a great corruption story as well. The MC starts off as a harmless class clown, and gets into hypnosis to try and entertain people. He isn't hypnotizing the girls to bang them from the outset, he's doing it because he wants to practice. He starts off with perfectly wholesome intentions, but as he gets better and better at it, he starts struggling with how much he enjoys it. You see him start rationalizing his boundary pushing that gets more and more flagrant as time goes on, and you see him getting off on the sheer feeling of control just as much if not more as he does with explicitly sexual acts. There isn't a distinct moment where he goes off the deep end and starts raping them, the transition from harmless class clown to depraved puppet master is absolutely seamless. Because the game leans so heavily into the protag enjoying the control aspect, it leads to a lot of variety in the scenes, and some of the best ones don't include any sex at all. Some examples: He links the pleasure of a group together and has them all masturbate, and incites them to feel more pleasure the more pleasure they see the others feel. He instills a hypnotic suggestion into a girl so that she'll start feeling intense pleasure in class the next day out of nowhere, leaving her a confused mess. He then convinces her he had nothing to do with it. He hypnotizes a girl to act like their homeroom teacher, and she ends up confronting the person she's pretending to be. Zero sexual content in the scene, but just seeing the extent of the hypnosis was incredible. He makes a girl feel like she's flying through the air so that she'll grab on to him. There are a lot of scenes where he makes the girls think they're somewhere else - like making them think they're at a beach or about to shower so that they'd get naked on their own. He turns them into dolls, dogs, cats, there's age regression, time stop, lover hypnosis, common sense alteration, perception blocking, personality and memory alteration, it's got it all. And probably my favorite scene in the whole game: in one of the last scenes for her route, he paralyzes a girl while she's naked on the school rooftop. He starts driving her crazy with pleasure as he start rewriting her memories and personality to suit him better. He makes her feel as though he's fucking her, but all he ever does it touch her - he doesn't have sex with her, he just makes her feel like he is, and he's euphoric over how good controlling her feels. Overall, an absolute banger of a mind control game. An easy recommend and one of the best depictions of the kink out there.

Played two routes, only technical hiccup was some strange line breaks in the text early on. Definitely a mind control game, the protag goes and hypnotizes students and/or a teacher. While the art's good and the characters themselves are solid, the game's plot seems to just march towards the protag becoming a rapist in every sense of the word, with no option to prevent the protag from going off the deep end despite multiple prior choices staving it off. This was disheartening, since the VN opened up so strongly with a protagonist who, for once, is well-respected and liked by all his classmates. If the game kept the choices to not jump off the slippery slope for later parts of the game, it could have been 4.5 stars, but as it is the game becomes genuinely unpalatable.

The mind control theme at it's best, with slow and meaningful progress through story. Choices mostly lead to bad endings when you try to rush things a bit And all the sex is vanilla, but sensual (not gonna lie, I wished for more depravity). I so long for an actual game with similar premise, instead of a VN.

Just played for a couple of hours, on Rui's Route. And I have to say, this is one of the best mind control game I've ever played. Nothing is rushed, it really feels like you're slowly doing hypnosis on them, while slowly getting their trust. If you like mind control, I highly recommend this game. 4.9 / 5 for me.

Well, since it's officially out of the translation forum, I think I'll leave the review as it is. It's perhaps without a doubt one of the best hypnotic-mind control visual novels of all time, defined by three things. 1. The way hypnosis is applied is constructive; in fact, if you want to do it quickly, you'll always end up with a Bad End. 2. The heroines are for different tastes, but they're all likable, especially Maiya, Keika, and Rui, who are for more specific tastes. 3. Sayori's character design is spectacular; in fact, it was her first major work before she moved on to more “friendly” things like Nekopara. Easily recommendable if you like hypnosis and mind control as such, it is perhaps one of the basic readings of the fetish. It took three years to translate, but it's finally here (except for a few details). It would be nice if Saimin Enbu were properly translated someday (and not that MTL you find on the Internet), but it's really already a win. My congratulations to the translators, who I know are several.