March of the Emissaries

JORY IS BAAAAAAAAAAAAACK oh heck yeah. This visual novel looks so awesome!!! I love to see the improvement between this one and Tears of a Mermaid! I wonder where this story will go.....very interested to see more (and love to see how this continues from the other game!)

I thought this was a very strong and well-polished piece, both in terms of writing and art. The characters were well defined and fleshed out, and the worldbuilding was easy to comprehend if a bit much to digest at times. The beginning was a bit heavy on backstory and slow to get going, though. I could see this being made into something like an anime!

Hey! I played the game and it was a very great experience!

First of all, I appreciated the character design (and the art in general) a lot: Caius is a babe, period! The character arc was polished and particularly VERY well-shaded, and the background art was absolutely GORGEOUS. The GUI was also very elegant and theme-appropriate. I also did enjoy the animations during the main battle, and the compendium was a great addition as it added a lot of lore! It was also implemented very naturally.

The story was interesting: it really explored the theme of grey morality very interestingly. I was at first a bit worried with Griswyr as he sounded like a very bad guy, but the story developed the themes in a very interesting way, and in the end, I think both him and our "enemy" (I'll try avoiding spoilers) were two monsters with different ways of disregarding moral values, which was interesting. For some reason, I think I was witnessing, when it comes to both, a fight between a lack of moral values, rather than a clash of values as it is usually written, and it really was a refreshing take!

Of course, my boy Caius was here to carry the reflection on morality as an actual moral character, and his conflicts were interesting. I liked that he remained overall faithful to himself, although the writing still managed to nuance him and make him evolve throughout the story.

It was overall a great game, congrats on making it under a month! I'm now VERY curious to see the rest of Caius' adventures (I am simping., this man has a hold on me....), and to discover more of the world! I saw Aurielle being mentioned which reminded me I really need to play Tears of a Mermaid lol (planned to so because I hosted OUAT, but I'm definitely more curious now!!)