This game was a pleasant surprise, and in my opinion, best played in a way where you try to AVOID her sleeping with anyone else. The difficulty of the game is perfectly balanced so that both succeeding at this and failing are feasible.
To sum it up, you basically have three resources to manage: knowledge, swordsmanship and wealth. Both knowledge and swordsmanship need to be leveled to avoid any time loss from make-up exams, while money is needed both to give gifts to her and to buy lockpicks, which block others from sleeping with her.
Essentially, others will periodically make a move on her, and you can unlock a skill to see her location on the map + know when someone's attempting to make a move. If you lockpick the door, you can either interfere with their advance or watch it.
In general, specific characters try to advance at specific times, depending on their stage of relationship with her. I had issues with the childhood bully advancing on her during the hours I wanted to work, for example. I also discovered that while longer jobs pay better, they eat more time too, meaning you risk having no way of stopping an advance if it happens during the job. School performance also has big payouts if you rank top of the class.
What all this means is it can become a time management game where you have to put thought into when you do what and how best to keep your lockpick supply up in order to stop others from advancing on her, with various options being available, such as increasing your income or reducing the chance a lockpick breaks and needs to be replaced.
As other characters advance, it becomes increasingly difficult to find time with her, and there's even a cut-off (I think after blowjob) where you can no longer stop that character from advancing.
Another nice little curveball is that while you can see events marked on your map, some seem beneficial to engage in, others are not. The full-on sex scenes are obvious, but the ones where a character might benefit from you engaging in the scene are less obvious. For example I got one event to beat someone in a duel, and this seems to have made him back off with his advances. But another guy wanted to test my knowledge in school, and besting him actually made him more determined to steal her. This adds a mild risk vs. reward factor at times, where you have to gamble with ignoring a scene or not in favor of better use of your time.
The story is straightforward: she was cursed some time ago after losing a fight and has poor self-control against any erotic advances because of it. The main character, if you establish a relationship with her, basically accepts this, so if you don't want her sleeping with others, it's up to you to be around to stop it.
My only criticisms are:
-I think the game is far more interesting and fun if you make an active effort to stop her from cheating. However, you are denied gallery scene unlocks by doing this. Likewise, even if you just want to let her sleep with everyone, it seems like you don't get the gallery unlock unless you actively lockpick the door to watch a scene. For this reason, I think this is one of those games where you should download a full gallery save and feel free to watch any scenes you "unlocked" but missed seeing through the gallery.
-Sex scenes are a bit too long. Nothing too annoying, but expect to be holding down the skip dialog button a lot to speed them up.
-The game itself is slightly too long. It's not a long game by any means, but I feel like there's about a week of game time where nothing will really advance and they could easily skip to the end. All love interests have either succeeded or failed by that point.
Overall, I think this is one of those games that can played in a challenging way, and I always appreciate the ones that find a way to incorporate the sex content into the gameplay, without just handing you super easy "challenges" or creating circumstances where it's impossible to win. No, "winning" is possible here, but it takes some decent effort to do so.
To sum it up, you basically have three resources to manage: knowledge, swordsmanship and wealth. Both knowledge and swordsmanship need to be leveled to avoid any time loss from make-up exams, while money is needed both to give gifts to her and to buy lockpicks, which block others from sleeping with her.
Essentially, others will periodically make a move on her, and you can unlock a skill to see her location on the map + know when someone's attempting to make a move. If you lockpick the door, you can either interfere with their advance or watch it.
In general, specific characters try to advance at specific times, depending on their stage of relationship with her. I had issues with the childhood bully advancing on her during the hours I wanted to work, for example. I also discovered that while longer jobs pay better, they eat more time too, meaning you risk having no way of stopping an advance if it happens during the job. School performance also has big payouts if you rank top of the class.
What all this means is it can become a time management game where you have to put thought into when you do what and how best to keep your lockpick supply up in order to stop others from advancing on her, with various options being available, such as increasing your income or reducing the chance a lockpick breaks and needs to be replaced.
As other characters advance, it becomes increasingly difficult to find time with her, and there's even a cut-off (I think after blowjob) where you can no longer stop that character from advancing.
Another nice little curveball is that while you can see events marked on your map, some seem beneficial to engage in, others are not. The full-on sex scenes are obvious, but the ones where a character might benefit from you engaging in the scene are less obvious. For example I got one event to beat someone in a duel, and this seems to have made him back off with his advances. But another guy wanted to test my knowledge in school, and besting him actually made him more determined to steal her. This adds a mild risk vs. reward factor at times, where you have to gamble with ignoring a scene or not in favor of better use of your time.
The story is straightforward: she was cursed some time ago after losing a fight and has poor self-control against any erotic advances because of it. The main character, if you establish a relationship with her, basically accepts this, so if you don't want her sleeping with others, it's up to you to be around to stop it.
My only criticisms are:
-I think the game is far more interesting and fun if you make an active effort to stop her from cheating. However, you are denied gallery scene unlocks by doing this. Likewise, even if you just want to let her sleep with everyone, it seems like you don't get the gallery unlock unless you actively lockpick the door to watch a scene. For this reason, I think this is one of those games where you should download a full gallery save and feel free to watch any scenes you "unlocked" but missed seeing through the gallery.
-Sex scenes are a bit too long. Nothing too annoying, but expect to be holding down the skip dialog button a lot to speed them up.
-The game itself is slightly too long. It's not a long game by any means, but I feel like there's about a week of game time where nothing will really advance and they could easily skip to the end. All love interests have either succeeded or failed by that point.
Overall, I think this is one of those games that can played in a challenging way, and I always appreciate the ones that find a way to incorporate the sex content into the gameplay, without just handing you super easy "challenges" or creating circumstances where it's impossible to win. No, "winning" is possible here, but it takes some decent effort to do so.