I feel like I repeat myself every single time I "review" one of these games, but damn. This game was fucking good.
Everything about this one screams gold and it's got a lot of neat little touches that usually only show up later into a dev's first game or only in their second game. The visuals are great right from the start, the characters' facial expressions are very expressive and well-made, it's got a lore tab, facial expressions that actively change during the h-scenes as a response to the dialogue, it shows you how to pronounce some of the words, and the spell menu is a nice little touch too as it shows everything the MC can do.
The story/setting itself is pretty damn good. It takes place within a modern world with magic, but it has a teeny tiny difference that makes it feel much different than some of the others. I won't say it here, since it might be a little spoiler-esque. But instead I'll go based off of the game's page alone. The MC is one of the only men left with magic capabilities and as such is practically sought after by everyone, with the hopes that any children he has will be able to use magic. He starts living with Cymhen during a wardship program the Families do. And ends up getting a few goals. Discover the nature of magic, convince the wards to join the investigation, and uncover the truth behind the suspicious string of deaths. The game is early in it's story and as such, you barely scratch the surface of magic and the deaths. But, you get a surprising amount of bonding with the wards. As well as a lot of content to play through.
The characters are pretty great too. Each almost completely unique both in appearance and personality, with only minor similarities that make sense for those characters to have, like if they were related or something. All of them have their own problems they're dealing with and none are the same. From being forced to be a "picture of perfection" by her family to learning that the man she idolizes might not be that good of a person after all, each character's problems are almost entirely unique when compared to the other's. You get a staggering amount of information about each of the 8 girls as well, even the wards who are introduced a little ways past the initial 3. Which allows you to really understand or feel for them.
I should probably stop myself from continuing to ramble on or I'd probably be able to submit this as a scholarship essay. So, all in all, the current content serves as an amazing appetizer for the future of this game and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for interesting stories, settings, characters, etc. I'm really looking forward to the second half of chapter 2.