Recent reviews by Noctishy

100% completed. A nice cozy game and ultimately a passion project where the creator clearly enjoyed putting their tastes in it, so it's quite inspiring in that regard. The story is not especially deep, but it has its fair of emotional moments. Its main themes are stories & escapism ; most of the characters are briefly based on creatures of Cthulhu mythos or got some traits related to them.
Speaking of, the cast is super charming, and it's neat to learn how they're all loosely or closely tied to each other. There's gotta be one who targets the tastes of anyone easily !
Special mention to the two wholesome cross-dressers of the cast, the mischevious but blunt kemonomimi boy Miset, and the relaxed mage Nobie, who are both very cute and refreshing as members of their archetype (it's neat to see gender non-conforming guys get respected as such). Though my personal favourite would be Naraku, local priest devoted to corruption and spreading evil. I also really liked Haru and Maya, their relationship is very sweet.
It's basically a dialogue-based VN, though it has a bit of "puzzle" gameplay through guessing which drinks to make and serving them to who. The drinks are all very cute and colorful ; I want to try tasting an equivalent of the Gold-Mead Lemonade now...
Finally the soundtrack and graphics are great. Metoko-san's art is colorful and very vivid, which gives a distinct aesthetic to the entire game, with a lot of blue, purple and pink (I like how many characters got different colors in their eyes or hair). The pixel art style used for the sprites and drinks also blends itself well with the cute artworks. It gives a good dreamy impression !

Easily recommendable if you like absurd stories and don't mind reading about some dark topics ! The story is very streamlined and solid, so I would say it's very easy to get into. It's a game centered on the concept of duality, be it through the story being split between slice-of-life moments and duel scenes or how the sprites appear on the UI and all. It features two routes, each focused on one twin, and is a completely linear VN with no impactful choices ; any dialogue choice is decorative, and you're almost always meant to try them all to continue anyway.

Most of the story is told under the POV of the twins (the duel scenes switching to a third person POV), so it has a female protag POV. Fixed pairings/love interests as well. H scenes are usually rather freaky but not essentially intense or uncomfortable for the characters beside a few which can have dubcon undertones, for anyone who would rather avoid that kind of content. It features some body horror too, and fighting (-> some bloody CGs), but other than that and backstory-related drama, I found that it generally remained a lot more light-hearted than I excepted thanks to the comedic aspect and endearing characters.

Special mention to the art direction which constantly made me go crazy because of how good it looks (the compostion of the CGs is so good !). Even the UI is nice ! It's a very modern VN in general. The music and voice acting is stellar as well ; every line from the characters is voiced, and it's likely that you'll recognize the voices of the two weirdos supporting the twins as long as you're a bit familiar with seiyuus...!
Also keep in mind this version only has English and Chinese language options, so no Japanese text option if that matters to you.