Just wanted to add a bit something, and btw, last month of the year and no sign of a Kagura release.
But the explanation given in the above post is really satisfying, not only clearing some plot points, but also making it clearer whats the ecchi development of this game about.
With all of that into consideration, I just felt that this game, despite having a great setting, good art, and everything you would from an h-game, was really damn badly executed.
The dungeons are really pointless and uninteresting, can't even remember if its action based or regular rpgm fight (probably the latter).
And for the H is just run of mill, cg hunting, go complete a dungeon level, then back cg hunting for every scene tree again.
After all of that, it would still be tolerable, with good enough art and hot enough scenes, I thought I was bickering about this, but this other poster confirms it:
Its sad because its a setting that could really make some interesting ecchi and great lewd art, I want to give another try when a proper translation comes out, but realistically, I doubt even a great translator writer can make good work of this material.
I've played the mtl version, so there may be a bad combination of excess badly translated text, which made me want to skip most dialog, which even just in the intro is already excessive.If you want to try for a full pure route, the best advice is to never return to town (until the game forces you) - that way you avoid receiving the curse and being forced to go to the hot springs, If you want to go for the full lewd route, you should exhaust every scene before challenging the next hierarchy down, since you get items and skills that help with each hierarchy.
But the explanation given in the above post is really satisfying, not only clearing some plot points, but also making it clearer whats the ecchi development of this game about.
With all of that into consideration, I just felt that this game, despite having a great setting, good art, and everything you would from an h-game, was really damn badly executed.
The dungeons are really pointless and uninteresting, can't even remember if its action based or regular rpgm fight (probably the latter).
And for the H is just run of mill, cg hunting, go complete a dungeon level, then back cg hunting for every scene tree again.
After all of that, it would still be tolerable, with good enough art and hot enough scenes, I thought I was bickering about this, but this other poster confirms it:
The scene progression is so dang slow in this game, and I'm usually up for edging and slow progression, but this was ridiculous, even with the nice art and animation, I literally watched the same breast fondling scene for hours on end. Like I said, I even like good writing and slow progressing events, but this was bad on a next level, with what felt was very repetitive fluff filling dialog, and not only that but every scene tree more or less progresses the same way, so you watch everyone fondling her breast all followed up at the same time.Next, I tried to play the way it clearly intends - getting all the lewd scenes. And boy, is it a chore. The way it's set up, the lewd scenes tend to lead into each other for each hierarchy, with the final ones giving a buff for that particular hierarchy - so you are highly incentivised to complete all the lewd scenes per hierarchy before even entering the dungeon, then finishing the whole hierarchy at once. And every single scene is ridiculously long and drawn out. That means the flow of the game ends up as a brief jaunt through the dungeon followed by hours of wading through sex scenes. Then a quick jaunt through the next hierarchy, and back to hours of sex scenes. It's terrible pacing! Granted, you could just hold down the skip button and ignore all the text, but when I play I like to read everything. The game just becomes glacially slow.
Its sad because its a setting that could really make some interesting ecchi and great lewd art, I want to give another try when a proper translation comes out, but realistically, I doubt even a great translator writer can make good work of this material.