The game opens in Japanese, without an option to change the language - which is very alarming. Thankfully this wasn't a problem to me, but anyone who cannot read Japanese to find the English option might have issues.

There are very basic VN features missing. No auto mode, no text speed increase/decrease, no individual voice options, you cannot save whenever you want! Checkpoints are not displayed, so you have to try and play chapters in their entirety, to avoid having to re-read the same parts. Because you can't even skip already read text. And this way getting to where you left off takes a very long time. That's not good at all.

A lot of lines are voiced, but even more aren't. What's there is excellent and I wish there were more. The game (at least in English) likes to auto advance between voiced lines if multiple characters are talking on the same page, so lines are sometimes cut short and a new voice is played. It's disorienting in a bad way.

It is very hard to advance to the next page after all the text is displayed. The game only allows mouse left click to advance, you can't use the keyboard at all... no setting to change this either. Worst of all, for some reason it takes 5-6 clicks to register that you want to advance, even after the arrow appears on screen to indicate it is safe to move on.

The text is displayed on top of the artwork, without a textbox. Since the background and characters move around, it's a bit hard to read the text sometimes. Not obstructing the art was likely a conscious decision, but it would've been nice to include a textbox as an option at the least. The English font used already makes reading a bit difficult.

After stopping for the day and returning to the game the next, I accidentally misclicked and selected "New Game" instead of "Continue" and the game wiped all my progress and deleted all save files. Having to speed up the game and attempting to click faster than humanly possible to reach where I stopped, was not a good time, nor a substitute for a skip function. This feature should be the bare minimum for a VN released this day and age.

While looking for the save file to make a backup (in case I mess up again, there is no warning about your saves being deleted), I found a folder literally called "FutariHime_BackUpThisFolder_ButDontShipItWithYourGame" in the game's files. This is sad.

Especially since the art and story are quite captivating. But with things as they are,
avoid unless patched.

I don't really know whether to recommend this game or not, I will err on the side of "No"

The good : the arts style is beautiful, the music is good.

The ok: the story is well interesting, it is not ground breaking, you can see the twist a mile away.

The bad: the game is very slow, not that the pacing is slow, for a Novel game, and every time you move to another sentence and it took 2 sec to clear up single alphabet of the previous sentence, it makes the game very slow. There are some bug, I think they are bugs because sometime there is no voice at all. This is more like a Kinetic Novel than your normal VN.

I finished the whole game but, I did not finish all endings.

I enjoyed this game. I found it very engaging and fairly unique. It does have some flaws though.

Story: The story tackles themes of love, philosophy, religion, and the meaning of life. For those of you that are coming here because of your love of the megaten franchise, there are demons in this game but, not many and it's not a big focus in the story (sorry). The way the game is set up, the story can come off a bit repetitive (most chapters involve a new suitor being tested). However, I do feel like there was still a good diversity in the characters you see in this game. I think the ending is a bit lack luster and left a few questions unanswered but, it's not really a big deal. The bonus side story (chapter 13) is also very good imo even if it has less unique artwork than the main story.

Trigger Warning: This game has some themes of sexual assault. It is not glamorized but, it is there.

Art: Most of the art was beautiful and I was very impressed with the partial animation of the characters and scenery but, some of the art is clearly less polished than the rest. Some of the suitors also seem to be drawn in a much more cartoony way than the main art which came off jarring at times. I also felt the moving elements and the lack of the text box meant that the words were sometimes very hard to read. There is a scenario log so you can open that if you can't make out the words though, I fortunately only had to use this method about a dozen times to get through the game. If they could add in a text box in a patch that would vastly improve the game.

Technical Stuff: There is no skip, skip read, or save anywhere functions. The falling text effect takes forever to go through so I suggest you go into the settings and turn this off. The auto save does save 2-3 times per chapter but, it is annoying not to be able to just stop wherever you want. Lack of skip and skip read also means that any replays would be tedious. Someone else said bad endings will wipe your saves. This is not true. When I got my bad ending I just went back and redid the choice that ended my game, very painless. There are arrow keys at the bottom of the load files screen so look out for those. I thought that there was only 1 page of saves at first and was worried it was just rewriting the same saves over and over. Also, the game will not register any clicks on the edges of the screen. You need to click in the middle of the screen to progress. The bubble animation in the dream segments can not be skipped by clicking so that's not the game not registering your clicks. Also, not all of the lines are voiced and some of the lines are not properly synchronized with the text so there is a delay in it playing.

Cool story and visuals, despite some small inconveniences like it being auto-save only. The premise lends itself well to having enjoyable and unique encounters as well. I really got sucked into this story and just finished it one sitting.

...Also Crawling Chaos accidentally becoming the biggest wingman is so funny, 10/10.

Whoa, rando dudes visiting you weren't your true love, and instead it was this girl who was protecting you for a literal millennia? What a surprise... took you both long enough to realize.

An intriguing, well-written VN with beautiful art - and numerous technical issues.
Make sure to turn off the text effect in options before you start the game; and be prepared for 30-second loading delays for some scenes, even on an SSD.

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"The 13th month" is a visual novel by Kobayashimaru LLC /Kodansha Games.
A story about a cursed princess and castle, inspired by Sleeping Beauty.
It's not only following the original, also a unique interpretation story.
The visual is mysterious and fantastic with Live2D animations, protagonists voiced, and several branches.

『眠れる森の美女』基礎設定を踏襲し、イメージしつつ再構築したヴィジュアルノベル。豪華制作陣が携わっている。ほぼボイスあり。時折選択肢はあれど、基本的には一本道ストーリーとなっている。Live2Dによるキャラクターとその世界観は非常に魅力的で、飽きなく読み進めることができるだろう。一方、ADV部分のUIはもう少し洗練できる部分もあると感じた。現代的おとぎ話に浸りたい人は是非プレイしてみよう。

Video >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1GRwwGYhB8

Pretty crude game in terms of technical execution, those who make games on the Unity engine are crying from f*cking Spanish shame....

I will be honest, this game is not worth the price. The engine behind this game is Unity, that mean it tend to hiccup and freeze a lot during transition between scenes. Big minus point.

There is nothing wrong with dark theme story telling here, but I gotta say sometime nothing make sense, for example I try to protect the princess yet get a bad ending? While the other choice just make things worst but still lead to the same action as protect the princess yet that get a pass? Very dull writing there, as if the writer lack the idea how to proceed those scenes logically and make them interesting.

There is no guide to get all available chapters and the pace is slow even when user did turn off text effect (no skip feature here guys, you have to click manually), which are bad for a visual novel game.

I try to think in a positive way, maybe that somehow the big picture of the story can save the rest but can't. Even for the last chapters near the end, things such as ''true love'' felt forced and rush for all main characters. I am sorry, but I cannot recommend this game for anyone! It make me fall asleep during play! No visual novel game should ever bore player like that, especially when they are trying to get those extra chapters unlock on their own, while totally clueless! I gave up guys...at least through this review you don't have to went through all that difficulties, annoying aspects to realize the true value of this product. Don't waste your money on this.