Id say this review goes into 2 sections, 1st being spoiler-free and 2nd having minor spoilers, a little bit of a summary.

It tends to be that at times you find yourself (sometimes for the longest time) completely ignoring some sort of your deepest, most desperate feelings, desires etc. and you mask them with the capabilities of your mind; you hide those feelings and desires by quite simply making yourself believe the more or less opposite of what you truly think, feel, desire and believe. This, when built up, can at some point in time make you feel very troubled. This fast-based story speaks to me that exact thing quite strongly. Aside from clear, strong sexual desire shown from the characters in the novel, which in itself can mask your true feelings of love and yes, that means it can create fake sense of love too, with you confusing it with the sexual kind, that is not necessarily the case in this visual novel and the sexual thrive can be a perfectly fine beginning to falling so deeply in love, that you really find yourself completely hopeless. That in itself is quite beautiful about this story. The beautie of life is having someone to cherish, to hold, someone that takes away your deepest feelings of loneliness and desires and i believe that once you've found the one, no matter who or where they be, the mutual desire to become something more... to become lovers is a very beautiful thing. The road is always bittersweet, but thats the beautie of it! As i like to say, overthinking is usually a bad thing and limiting it and following your heart is completely fine; if your heart truly tells you, say, that the hesitation is unnecessary, so be it. However, desperation makes people do stupid things and sometimes patience really is the key, however one must also not forget thats chances can just slip away, sometimes forever... so there really needs to be a more or less of a balance and evidently reaching that balance is not by any means easy, but neither is it also by any means impossible. Awkwardness, misunderstandings, uncertainty and the such is a part of life and you do sometimes find yourself looking back at those awkward and silly moments, chuckling in warmth or filled with regret: the balance of these memories makes life special. Anyway, this is not at all me reading too deep into the visual novel itself, its just that these thoughts strongly resonated within me, while reading this visual novel. In an indirect way it was quite relatable.

So, more of the visual novel itself~ At first you feel a lack of context from the sudden start of the visual novel, but after a while im pretty sure i got it right; its either that Ai lost her job and while thinking on alternatives remembered his brother writes eroges for a living and decided she wanted to try her hand at it aswell, while reviving her feelings for him and/or its that she was simply using the loss of her job and wanting to get into writing eroges (while ultimately enjoying it a ton) as an excuse to finally make a move on her beloved brother via using her lack of experience into writing as an excuse to get into lewd situations with her brother by playing out various scenarios so she could get better at writing and during all of it giving out various hints to the brother. There is also the confusion about the knife scene: did she simply try out a yandere approach in her story and desided to scrap it? And then there is the part about Sayuri... We learn that Ai had some photos of showing Sayuri lesbian games, so Ai used those photos to get Sayuri to help her seduce her brother even further and to give him the final push to confess his true feelings to Ai? Was she using these roundabout ways to safely confirm whether or not her brother would give her a stereotypical response to her love, so she could use the entire situation with her wanting to learn how to write eroges as an excuse to not weird out her brother and make things awkward in case he did give a stereotypical response and did not mutually love her? I believe that to be the case, but basically i feel like the only con would be the confusion found throughout the story. All in all tho, its a very enjoyable piece and therefore very much recommended!

This is one of those extremely high quality games that weren't on Steam, I first played it a while back off-Steam and have been waiting for a long time for it to finally arrive here, not to mention out of Early Access! I can't have been more excited. However, despite of the game "being finished", there are way too many things here and there that were left unfinished. To name a few, an entire side-quest line with one of the girls just abruptly ends with a "To be continued..." and even the ending of the main story, aside from feeling rushed, leaves a huge cliffhanger, despite the main story being said to have been "completed".

The game is very massive though, as evident from my playtime (I've finished the game twice on both difficulties, to note), with an INCREDIBLE amount of gorgeous art, animations so hot they summon the deepest of your carnal instincts, fun mini-games, puzzles, combat, side-, main- and contract quests and so on. Needless to say, the game is very, very polished, everywhere you go, there's something to do or to ♥♥♥♥. However it is definitely not finished and considering the sheer amount of raw effort put into the game, that is completely expected, however, I would not call the game "1.0" just yet, it is very close though.

Having played it 3 times now, I absolutely love the game, its easily on my top 5 best hentai games of all time. The main story combined with all of the side story is actually amazing and really captivating. The dialogue was well-written and never cringe. Aside from the extremely sexy moments, there were moments that really broke my heart, moments where it was genuinely hard to hold back tears and that's a lot coming from me, someone who never cries. The romance story with some of the best girls in the game is incredibly adorable and intimate, it made my heart melt a hundred times over. The intimate parts were so lewd, the girls so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hot, they almost always made something very primal awaken within me, that I struggled, as a doomed lonely man, to satisfy. Seriously, every inch of some of the girls in this game, from their naughty feet with their juicy perfect-shaped toes to their perfect slutty ♥♥♥-filled ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to their adorable passion-filled, ♥♥♥-covered faces, made you just wanna utterly ravage them, to help them fulfil their purpose as a woman. Anyway, AHEM, got a bit carried away there, whew. The only issue with the sex scenes was no audio, we can't really be having no audio in this day and age, now can we?

That being said, this aspect of the game was also not done to its full potential. What I speak of is the absolute violation that they've done with the Vampiress. While Mirina is by far the most adorable ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing ever created that you wanna protect with every fabric of your being, the Vampiress is by far one of the sexiest characters I've ever laid my eyes upon. Every inch of her delicate, yet eternal body makes me wanna ♥♥♥♥ her so hard and long, with such frequency, that she'll know nothing, but how much she loves sex. In case you couldn't tell from all of that, she is the embodiment of literal perfection, my absolute dream girl in every aspect of her being and I don't think I've ever went so crazy over a character based on her appearance. The sex appeal of her appearance is Heavenly, she is literally an Vampire Goddess, an absolute Queen. Now, how could this possibly ever, in any way physically imaginable, be an issue? Because they did not, even after all this time and fully launching the game on Steam, add a SINGULAR intimate option with her. She literally comes in with all of her magnificence, severely helps progress the story and then just exists afterwards, with no real dialogue options. Nevermind all the stuff that is incomplete in the game, including the absolute unit of a cliffhanger of the main story, no sex scenes and romance option with the Vampiress is absolutely ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ insane, they did her SO dirty and not in the naughty sense, which is precisely the problem. Anyway, they really did create literal perfection with the Vampiress, since I've never ever in my life had a crush like this, which is why the neglect of her is literally criminal.

Overall, an absolutely amazing game, playing it was pure bliss and we need more games and developers like this, they are purely an inspiration!