A Castlevania scroller with the sluggish combat of Dark Souls and some extremely violent hentai.
Starting with the gameplay: the combat will probably not be enjoyable for anyone who doesn't like the Dark Souls style of wind-up swings, post-swing wind-downs, and dodge rolls. This combat style makes it easy to play the game if you have enough patience to learn patterns and queues, but it's an antipattern in an eroge, in my opinion, because it elongates the time between scenes and forces your brain to engage on things other than the porn. Still, I can't deny the game dev did the souls-style justice.
On the subject of those porn scenes, it seems like 25% of defeat scenes in this game are not porn at all, but just violent death scenes. You'll walk up to a new enemy hoping to see their sex scene and instead see the main character beheaded, cut in half, dismembered, or impaled. This again left me feeling conflicted on the vision/target audience of the game.
Finally, the plot is nothing novel. The premise is that a witch is helping the church to defeat demonic corruption, but there's also a zealous group of inquisitors as a rogue element. With that summary, you probably already know how the full story's going to go.
However, what really bummed me out about the story is that, even though it's translated from Japanese, you still have to click through the Japanese text before seeing the English. It ends up being twice as much clicking and a lot of cautious scanning to make sure you don't pass over the English version.
Overall, I actually did not enjoy this game at all, but I'm giving it 3 stars because I can't deny that this game has some beautiful art, a combat system that some people will love, and some unique kinks.
