https://www.sinicalanimenetwork.com/post/2018/02/27/lovekami-divinity-stage-review

This second visual novel from PULLTOP and MoeNovel in Steam is a cute, funny and heartwarming fairytale romantic comedy with fan service in a modern Japanese setting about three goddesses who have descended into Japanese society as singers/dancers/entertainers to draw Sakimitama (good hearts and good will of humanity) from their human fans and supporters.

The story features a male protagonist Yamato Tatsumi who is the heir to a tailor business. The 3 goddesses are Sara Benzaiten, the center singer lead in the popular idol group L☆SEVEN who is a regular at Tatsumi's tailoring shop, Shuri Kisshouten, a wannabe street performer at Akihabara and Kagura Amauzu, a dancer and waitress at Goddess Cafe Goddess Kaguyama.

One day, Shuri and Kagura came to Tatsumi's shop for advice on idol outfits along with an ambitious plan to improve and promote their singing/dancing/entertainment career among other goddesses to audition for a place in the idol group L☆SEVEN, a center member position Sara intends to vacate.

Each route will take approximately 1-2 hours each(3 romance options altogether with Shuri, Kagura or Sara). I decided to give this visual novel a score of 9/10 on the following factors:

Plot and character backgrounds:
The English text are well-written and translated with very few errors. There is only one choice to make in the entire game which will determine which route and ending the player will get (fan service!). In each goddess's route, there is plenty of fan service and humour. Each main character has sufficient variety with each other and with the protagonist.

However, due to this visual novel being very short and seemingly as a fan service visual novel, this aspect is the weakest part of this visual novel with little variety on each character route, a rather rushed romance plot progression and a somewhat predictable outcome in both Shuri and Kagura's routes. Shuri's route also seem to be relatively longer than Kagura or Sara's. I would have preferred the visual novel to expand more on the daily challenges, hard work and practice Shuri or Kagura had to undergo in order to compete with other goddesses for the highly desired idol group position and on the events leading to Sara's motivations for vacating the idol group or whether Sara can be dissuaded from vacating her position at the idol group through additional dialogue options. Also, the romance plot progression feels rather rushed where the visual novel seems to present 3 beautiful goddesses to the protagonist who is a normal human with possibly slightly more Sakimitama than other humans, yet that is enough to enable each goddess to fall in love with the protagonist and also have sufficient Sakimitama to unleash their Jinriki(divine power) and impress audiences at their musical performance.

Artwork, backgrounds and CGs:
The artwork in this visual novel are top-notch. With the implementation of animated sprites by E-mote(Emotional Motion Technology) from M2 as one of the main selling points in this visual novel, this makes the character sprites of this visual novel very attractive with blinking eyes, waving hair, tilting head, moving lips and moving cloth pieces. There are a respectable number of chibi and normal CGs showing small movements and facial expressions in this visual novel despite the relatively short length of this visual novel. The game cover, soundtrack cover, character sprites, backgrounds, CGs, opening themes, Steam achievements, backgrounds, badges and emoticons are attractive and colorful throughout, making it a very good choice to showcase on Steam profiles. The opening theme also does well in introducing the cast of characters featured in this visual novel.

Voice acting and background music:
The voice acting are generally good and help to improve the quality of this visual novel. My only complaint is that some parts do not feel accurate and realistic such as when the goddesses are performing does not feel as if they are actually performing with at least a working microphone used in stage performances as featured in the CGs and background art where the voiced dialogue feels more as if the goddess is speaking directly towards the protagonist during a regular conversation rather than an idol singer addressing a fully packed audience at a concert venue.

The background music are generally pleasant and appropriate to match the different moments in the game. The song with vocals in this visual novel make this visual novel excellent and make it the main highlight of this visual novel with top-notch song performances by Twinkle☆Girls(which also happens to have 7 female members in the group and hence share similarities to the fictitious idol group L☆SEVEN featured in this visual novel), Yuko Kawanishi, Hitomi Harada, Rita and Chata where they have fast, catchy and upbeat songs which make J-pop and this visual novel very special and memorable.

Overall, this visual novel and soundtrack DLC are highly recommended when in bundle offer for anyone looking for a short fantasy visual novel as a romantic comedy with fan service, easy achievements, excellent artwork and song with vocals. For those who already own MoeNovel's other titles in Steam If My Heart Had Wings and/or Lovekami -Useless Goddess-, the developer has also included additional free chibi wallpapers to reward their fans. If you don't mind the large amounts of fan service and somewhat short length of this visual novel with hardly any choice to be made in this visual novel, this visual novel is for you.

I would also highly recommend If My Heart Had Wings, two of my friends niX and Dan in Steam have written comprehensive reviews here(niX's) and here(Dan's).


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I enjoyed the concept, about the goddesses starting to live among humans. The whole “idol” thing was okay too, but I guess I’m not a big fan of these kind of stories… Even so, I liked Divinity Stage and it was fun to read.

This visual novel is mostly kinetic (no choices, you only read) and there’s only one time that you have to make a choice; and that choice will lead you to one of the three love interest routes. There’s a “common route” that will soon finish before your choice, meaning that your next playthroughs will be quicker since you’ll probably skip a lot of text. But the good thing is that each route is different and you can see the point of view of each one of the girls about the idol career. There are some repeated scenes, but nothing that will bother you too much (at least it didn’t bother me). The art style is really cute, and the BGM is very energetic. I also enjoyed the fact that Yamato (the MC) actually has a face in the CGs. lol

7/10. It’s worth getting this title if it’s on sale and if you feel like reading a simple love story. (with some lewd scenes lol)

Short answer is yes, I recommend LoveKami. But, as usual, there are some stipulations.

LoveKami is a relatively short (just a few hours to complete all 3 routes), light-hearted VN about japanese goddesses who want to become pop idols. While technically there is a choice, it's essentially a kinteic novel as your only real choice is in which girl to pursue (though TBH, the game doesn't make it clear that's what's happening at the time). It's cheery, it's flirty, it's silly, it's fun, it's vibrant, it's quick, it's colorful and it's sexy . . . ish. Okay, there's some risque CGs and dialogue - and a fair amount of cleavage and panty shots.

The VN utilizes the Emote system, so the main characters (other than you) are animated and fully voiced (in Japanese). I love this aspect as it helps the characters feel more vital and alive. No, I don't speak Japanese, but I love having the voices and especially the facial changes in more than simple still shots. The CGs and the sprites are all well-done and professional. My only complaint here is the lack of variety in the . . . um . . . chestular region. Let's just say the goddesses are all "blessed". A little too much if you ask me. But if that's your thing, more power to you!

The story itself feels a little bland, and a lot rushed. I enjoyed it, but I honestly wished they'd taken more time developing the relationships after the common route ends. It's as if your character wakes up one day after being friends and just decides he's actualy in love with goddess X, Y or Z. Of course, she's never thought about it, and when she does - surprise! - she's also into him. It's all a bit forced. There's truthfully not enough time to fully flesh out each goddess and make the reader feel an actual connection with them. They're pretty flat (except the aforementioned chesticular area) and somewhat unremarkable. Yes, each has their quasi-unique "quirk", but that's about it. They're all cute and sexy, of course (assuming you can feel that way about animated women), but they need more.

There are achievements if that's important to you, and they're all easy to get. You simply go through the story in each route and unlock the vast majority. The ones that are completed outside the story are simply for opening certain menus in the game. Very simple 100%.

All-in-all, I still enjoyed the game time, and don't regret paying for the game. I did get it on sale, and would suggest doing the same. $13 isn't absurd, but I'd try to get it below $10 at the very least. My game time got a little padded with a couple brief AFKs, and I didn't always wait for voice-overs to finish before clicking to the next screen, so my guess is the 6-7 hours of total gametime is about right. I'm sure you could get through it in far less, or take your time and stretch it out a little longer.

Lovekami Divinity Stage is not a horrible VN, however it is not really a good one. If I were to rate it I gues it would be roughly a 5/10. I found the characters to be a bit charming, however the story was not that good.

The reason this is a negative review is that this VN is not complete. Moenovel released an incomplete version of the game to the west first and then a complete version in Japan later. There are no patches or anything and it seems like they have no intent on giving out the full game. What is lacking is the 18+ content, something that could have been made available through a patch.

Eeerm…ok…well this is a bit of a polar opposite to IMHHW
It’s a visual novel with a limited number of choices with the standard slightly divvy bloke that somehow ends up with a chance with women way out of his league (in this case parts of goddess' that have taken physical form)
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Very detailed art work and back grounds
Good sound
Fanservice
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Short
Rather shallow story

I couldn’t shake the feeling that this is the result of a tech exercise with the Emote system rather than a full blown product. That said what little that was there was very well done. Despite the tag there is no real nudity.
Worth a look if its your kind of thing but be warned, its so saccharine in its story line that it may well be lethal to diabetics

Only a few hours in the game so far and I think the game is awesome.

The music is high quality and really cheerful and fun, hope I can get my hands on the OST at some point.

The menu and UI is well designed and full of options with everything really easy to get too. You can replay voices and check backlog with ease. The text speed is one of the best I seen in a VN.

The voices are really cute and moe and the characters feel alive since they always moving and the backgrounds are really good.

Cute little manga art parts every so often that are cute!

Also! This game has no problems with the Steam overlay or taking screenshots!

For the price they selling the game at, the game is totally worth it and they provide a demo for the first hour too!

So support the devs and the game by buying this!

Okay, i finished first route and i think i'm not so fond of continuing the other two.
First of all the game started with a lot of boobs and really stimulating scenes but without EXACT nudity (boobs are way to big). The plot is simple short and not really addictive, nothing special, I think that main character was too simple here. Music was quite good matched here so that is +. I like to play this kind of short vn sometimes but after so many arousing scenes leaving it without any nudity patch is cruel. This game is nothing special with full of half-naked (or more) scenes without any good plot, so i see no point why it shouldn't have one simple patch.

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+ good music
+ sometimes it is nice to play short novel
+ I liked Sara attitude
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- too big boobs
- simple plot, nothing special
- Main character wasn't great here
- it doesn't have nudity patch
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+/- It has a lot of pervy scenes!

One of my favorit VNs so far. Love Kami - Divinity Stage is fun, sweet and colorful. It's your everyday Idol-Story, about two girls who want to become the next big thing, a guy who want to help them and another girl, his best friend, who already is an idol. Oh, and the girls are also godesses, but that's more or less just a minor detail, adding a bit divine flavor.

Graphic: I like boobs, but holey moley, these puppies are ginormous! And I have to admit, that almost kept me from buying this VN. However, it didn't. If you look past the boobs (or not - whatever swings your boat ;) ) you have nice, colorful, happy-go-lucky artworks with beautiful Backgrounds. And Emote makes the girls move and the boobs jiggle.

Sound: You can't have an Idol-VN without music. And if you like J-Pop, the music is one of the strongest points of LK-DS. The voice acting is also great. 10/10 in this category.

Characters: The girls are nice and cute. Neither of them is a spectacular new and unique character, they are more stereotypes: The girl next door, the flirty dancer and the kindergarten love. However, I didn't play Love Kami in expection of a mindblowing, deep characters, so in a good way I got want I expected. Everyone of them has an own storyline that can be chosen at one point of the game (beside this, it's a kinetic novel without more choices).

Final Words: There are no H-Scenes - However, I wouldn't mind a patch. ;) I finished all storylines in about 12 hours, so it's not the longest VN on steam. You might want to wait for a sale to buy LK-DS, but it's totally worth, to look into it.

While I recommend this game and enjoyed it, I do have issues with it. First, I played If My Heart Had Wings, and so I was expecting an extensive game such as that. The "Engrish" if that game wasn't really present in this game, so that is a plus. However, in IMHHW, I was able to overlook it due to how much there was to the story. Another issue is the etchi factor. For a game to have so much visual stimuli, it takes away from the appeal when it isn't actually put to effect(i.e. H-Scenes) Granted, this is on Steam so I didn't expect to see anything, and it would need time for a patch to be made like with IMHHW, so my opinion on this isn't set in stone. Honestly, having played IMHHW, the length of this game feels more like a demo than a full game. There was only a single option too, which is good if you really just want to make sure you get on the route of the heroine you want, but being a new release, I was really pumped by the idea that I wouldn't have any access to walkthroughs, so I was going to have to discover the routes myself. The single choice was a big letdown in that regard. All in all, while good, this game gives me the impression that it was released before it was truly ready.

Very nice Romance/Comedy/Idol game! 3 different endings that have their own fun, romantic moments.