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Summary: A short vn with Fantasy/Adult/Romance elements. Play as Roy, a mage supporter who accidentally put a mind control spell in his companion (dark elf girl). Features fully uncensored artwork, VA, 3 endings available.

About:
- Game: Elf Enchanter: Arousing Anima is a very short vn made in Ren´py, 3rd game by Belgerum. Estimated playtime: 1 and half hour.
- Story: written in a fantasy world, you will play as Roy (MC), an insecure mage supporter that while trying to be stronger, accidentally put a mind control spell in his companion called Miriel, a spear-wielding dark elf girl.
- Gameplay: differently from the other titles by Belgerum, in this game, you won´t fight a boss-like battle, but as an eroge and choose what to do with the elf girl under your control in 3 endings available.
- VA: only Miriel (dark elf girl).
- Artwork: mostly good. The CG´s are fully uncensored, no patch is required, with female solo, tentacle, vanilla ♥♥♥. The part where slime king is under control with ♥♥♥♥♥ (without body) is somehow strange.
- Text/translation: good.
- Soundtrack: good.
- Performance: no problems so far.

Conclusion: Elf Enchanter: Arousing Anima is a very short vn made in Ren´py by Belgerum with Fantasy/Adult/Romance elements. The artwork is fully uncensored and the female character is voiced. The price is fine for the content available, recommended for those that want to play a short eroge and get 18+ quickly.

So, I received a pre-release copy of this game and my experience with it was very mixed: I'll give it a positive review, as it's not awful as a very short, dirt-cheap nukige, but I was still quite disappointed by it.

Why? Well, mostly because it does very little with its premise, which at first sounds quite appealing. I quite like games that let you play either a hero or a villain, placing you in a position of power and control, and tempting you to abuse it. Here, choices are few, the ability to steer protagonist's action and attitude limited and conclusions kind of underwhelming (there are only three endings, each having a unique h-scene on top of two unavoidable ones earlier in the story). It's also very short, I guess appropriately to the price, but also making it impossible to actually get you invested in the story.

The ♥♥♥♥ itself is... Okay. One of the dark scenes was actually pretty unsual, but at this day and age, it's hard to do something actually new in hentai. The heroine's VA is pretty good.

In the end though, I'd still recommend any of the other two games by this developer (or most of the Japanese eroge available on Steam) over this one. It's not the worst, but rather forgettable and even disappointing, if you expect it to make full use of its main theme. You can do better, Belgerum.

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Elf Enchanter is a very short and also very cheap little ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Visual Novel. It took me exactly 35 Minutes to finish a Playthrough, which I also enjoyed as it was a decent short Love Story and not like a stupid rapey Scenario, which I kind of expected. Looking at the Choices I am pretty sure that you could play it like that however. I am pretty surprised of the Quality of this though, as the Art is pretty good and it also has decent English Voice Acting. This is something you normally dont get for this Price. What I also really liked are the Slimes in the Game, they are absolutelly adorable and have some nice Puns as well :D.

Overall, a very short, very cheap, but pretty good little ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Story. Not really anything that can do you wrong.

Score: 8/10

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Pretty short but very cheap ♥♥♥♥♥♥ Visual Novel, there is trading cards, there is achievements (easy to accomplish), etc. Even tho the art isn't the best thing, i still prefer that over bad 3d models. I recommend because it's pretty nice for the price.

I always look forward to these releases~

It's pretty clear that the devs took the critiques of their last title and decided to go back to basics with this one. That might sound like a negative, but I can fully get behind taking a step back from the "interesting, yet occasionally busted" combat of the last game and exploring your roots a little. The game's a straight visual novel this time around and as one it pulls it off beautifully~

-The art is fantastic, as I've come to expect from these Belgrum games. Very expressive characters. Nicely detailed backgrounds. And some adorable slimes that I still feel no shame in murdering; but hey, Mages gotta eat~
-The ♥♥♥ scenes, while few, are nice and girthy (pun completely intended). There's not as much variety with the fetishes this time around, but that's no where near a bad thing. It is nice to see that the length was toned way down compared to Magebuster's and personally I feel they've hit the ideal runtime for one of these scenes. It made going for all the endings in a single sitting much more manageable.
-The voice acting is once again fantastic. Nobody voicing the token male this time around, but it wasn't too jarring and Miriel had plenty of lines to help fill the void. The performance was very subdued this time, which fit the character, but it hit it's highs when it needed to and overall pulled out another great show~

On the downside however:
-The story is pretty basic. I love the touches with her hangups over being an illegitimate child, and a later breakdown scene was very well handled... but that doesn't really override the fact that the story is just 3 days of hunting slimes with some ♥♥♥ in the middle. When you have a premise like mind control, there's a lot that can be done with it and it's a shame to see that more wasn't done with it.
-And of course, if that price point didn't give it away, this game is short! You can complete the entire game in under an hour (less if you abuse your saves like I tend to) and afterwards there's really not a lot to fill your time. As stated there's not much to the story. And while the ♥♥♥ scenes are still a pretty fair length despite the shortening; there's not a lot of them and they're really easy to get, so the game ends pretty quickly. Basically you get what you pay for. But while it's not bad at all for the price, I'd be more than willing to pay extra for something with a little more meat on the bone.

Overall, I loved my time with this one. It may have been a short trip but it did what it set out to do beautifully and has quickly become my industry standard for what I expect from adult visual novels. Great art, steamy ♥♥♥, and the english voice acting is still something I wish more games adopted. Know that I'm eagerly awaiting Mahou Mating, as well as whatever else you decide to throw our way~

very emersive game. managed to achive all 3 endings, and can i just say. wow! i've never been that invested in a game before, but this is somthing else. had to take a brake mid way through because i couldn't handle it all in one go. cant recommend enough, will probably play through it again at some point

Highly recommend, really ♥♥♥♥♥♥, I love it, great voice acting and I love the ♥♥♥ scenes.

If you like the other stuff made by Belgrum then I suppose this rather cheap game is worth considering. However it's easily the worst game listed under this developer/publisher.

While the premise promises hypnosis it honestly does next to nothing with it and your choices are limited to 2 noteworthy choices that affect the ending and one of those is just to fight or let the bad end play out.

The only choice that matters is at the very start so right at the start your only real branch is locked and the rest is just you watching it all play out. To make things worth the dialogue in both branches is fairly the same so unless you just really want to see the small differences then after the first playthrough you'll just skip to the final part for the second playthrough.

the game also makes little effort to tempt you onto either path due to it being at the start. It would have been more interesting if "given the premise" you had the option to make good or bad choices several times until your ending was decided by which side you favored more.

Overall it's dirt cheap so it's hard to call it a waste. But it's barely worth the little money it costs. Their other work is much more interesting and thought out.

So, this game left me with a lot of mixed feelings overall and so I'm going to try and be fair to the consumers and developers and give the most honest review I can.

So, starting with the pros:

1. It's cheap. Not much you can buy for a dollar for over an hour of entertainment.
2. I still enjoy the art from the artist of Belgerum's last two games.
3. The voice acting for the "action" scenes is great and in English, a rarity for most VN's.
4. The writing can be campy at times, but follows the established lore consistently.
5. The developer(s) are friendly and quick to provide feedback when asked.

As for the cons:

1. It's short. About the same length as Demon King Domination but without the game play.
2. Unlike Belgerum's last two games, this is a pure VN. There is no game play beyond making dialog choices.
3. The male voice was cut from this game. Not a big deal for most, but it feels like a loss overall.
4. Though the voice of Miriel is great during most parts, it feels a bit emotionless during standard dialog.

Overall I feel that the game is more than worth the price of admission, but I also feel this is the weakest of the three games released to date. I know the reasons why this game turned out the way it did, but cannot help but feel a little bitter about the end product.

My only hope is that going forward, Belgerum publishes more games that expand on the core ideas of Mage Buster and less on a standard visual novel setting. This game is fine if you like standard VNs, but I have come to expect more than that from Belgerum.

short visual novel with 3 different endings. At first i was not able to find ending 1 or 2, until i realized that not asking a question has a different result as to asking a question.

spoiler ahead:
owh, and totally not a tentacle game, just a slime octopus. thats totally different !