Welp. This is just a... genuinely terrible game.
The past games in the series were, uh, let's say 'hit or miss' gameplay wise, progressively getting more obnoxious as the series continued, but this one takes the cake for being legitimate garbage gameplay wise. Wind and Dark statuses are both just used to annoy the fuck out of the player and often paired with enemies, FUCKING SPIKES, and timing in a way that makes for very unfair and cheap damage and deaths. I actually had a bit of fun with the last two playing through (not a lot - but it was an interesting challenge at times) whereas this one I gave up somewhere in the 4th or 5th area, I forget, and used a savegame to view the gallery. Levers especially need to burn in hell. And those FUCKING spikes, jesus christ, ruining your invincibility move and showing up fucking everywhere, and that was BEFORE the goddamn floor and ceiling were perma-spikes forcing you to use the HORRIBLE flying system for everything.
The gallery was a huge disappointment for me as well. The circle has always reused animations to a fair degree but at least they had a decent variety of reused animations, ex. in the first game the banshee and foxgirl had pretty similar sex animations, but who cares, there are 5 million other girls with other animations, and especially in the 2nd game each boss typically had 2-4 major animation sets. With far fewer total girls this time around and even worse reusage, and way too many of them just being some riff on "lol they jack off your futa succubutt" I struggled to find any reason to actually care. And while this last bit is purely personal preference rather than any kind of objective fact, I really didn't like how almost no one really looked like they were enjoying themselves. Curious at most for many. Nor was I a fan of the jacking-you-off riff, it's just lazy as fuck and I don't find it particular hot in the first place.
Was also very displeased that the top vs sub dynamic changed SO little in most animations - previously both your and the enemy's expressions changed, now... just the enemy, and usually not by much.
Oh yeah, and at least for me the gallery is LAGGY AS FUCK, it's not like the other two were completely perfect in that regard but I didn't have to wait 3-5 seconds for each girl to load.
I still have Wonderful Day and Mirror Image downloaded and come back to them occasionally, but this shitfest of a game is liable to disappear forever from my hard drive next time I do a cleaning.
Nonetheless, thank you to all in topic who shared the game and their saves!