[NO MAJOR SPOILER REVIEW] (Useful info for players here too)
Ok So this is game is so far a love-hate rs because some decitions are well made while others are found uncompleted. Resuming it: Is amazing actually.
Not gonna lie is a very creative and well made game. The isekai thing feels more as the dev was having a hard time finding a good way of building a prologue for this game's world, yet despite the mc never mentions his past life again there is a good job leaving winks based on the fact he knows some stuff beforehand.
The battle system is actually entertained for boss fights and quick for normal enemy fights, a common mistake alot of rpg games makes is making normal fights last too long so the grinding becomes a pain. Here you can press tab and spam the attack option for grinding. The tree is also a great implementation specially due the lvl up system and a certain girl you should unlock.
The music is... impressively relaxing. And i mean it because it looks as if the character is in a permanent zen state. I swear that focus was the only reason why i did not ragequit the tetris minigame.
Now going on some issues, i'll address the elephant in the room. The H scenes. This game has a narrative and gameplay that makes it entertained and inmersive even if we remove all the h scenes. So are the h scenes making it better? well these have a problem which i would resume in: "cardboard theatre". When you try to make H stuff for a game you have 3 options: 1 Make a well drawn image, 2 Make a simple but admirable gif, 3 make a cutscene. The problem with the H scenes is that the dev seems to try making 2 but making an animated 1 instead. That's what i call "cardboard theatre" because you make static images with little to no articulations to move in an static enviroment. Moving everything one side to other without making any major changes makes it look like cardboard puppets in a theatre, moving arround telling a history but being static and with occasional expresion changes with no other movement articulation. In H scenes animated as gifs we need to address an important aspect of sex: Genitals and body in general are soft and mouldeable, hence these are suppused to press and stretch on every movement. Many developers and artist does life hacks for this like adding the same artistic change on reduced frames for any interaction with that zone. But if you can't do it or is getting too exhausting of a job you can do the same thing that Ray K does for his games: Make multiple variations by redrawing the same character (which the dev here already does for the facial expresions) and just swap them between each of the player's interaction without animating at all, that makes it smoother and to be honest the game is already moving like that and is still good. I have noticed the dev usually changes their art style which is fine, but in case the dev wonders: No, your artstyle is not bad and is actually very good but your animations are too plastic if you treat it like a cardboard theatre, both of the lifehacks i mentioned can improve it. I'll state this observation for the 2 aswell because it commits the same failure but in the two at least there are more details changing on H scenes which means the dev is in fact improving it.
Talking about H scenes, to anyone wanting to have all h scenes unlocked: You'll have to save at the very beggining near the plant, then after helping Djemma save again near the brothel on a separated save state, increase the maid's likeability (punish her everytime you ask ishet to call her for cleaning) and save state once her likeability is at max and the castle is dirty again, finally don't land a finger on Naoko until the 3 arcane demons arrive and you complete their challenges, proceed with Naoko now and save a last save state, for a total of 4 (maybe a 5th one if you got captured by the witch? however this one should be done on an apart game where you did not kill the plant). Why? The plant "NTR" scene is never stored withing the gallery so you are gonna see it only once and at the very beggining of the game so 1st save. On the brothel there are 3 possible options for you involving scenes with 3 possible girls however not all of them on the same choice, save state here for that. Very beggining save? yes, if you defeat the plant you are gonna get an additional girl, however adquire the medic, merchant or anything and you are gonna miss her forever (i think this is a bug) so the save state here is for the complicated job of killing that plant with rookie stats (more info below). Arcane demons? For some reason their h scenes are never stored in the gallery too, so save state here in case you want to watch them later, also becareful because if you start their challenges again by accident you'll have to hit again their scores for watching their scenes (cries in korobeiniki). What's wrong with Naoko? Just save, you'll understand it later then. Witch scene? IDK, these last 2 are kinda niche scenes, more lore than H, is up to you.
About that plant... honestly i think is a bug but you know what? i like it. Your curse requires 10 virgin girls for breaking it but you can end getting between 15-19 depending your game decitions. So assuming the girl you get (Ivy) from defeating the plant is optional, she feels more like a reward for accepting taking down such challenge as defeating a boss with rookie stats and gear on the early game. So how do you do it? Get out of the castle and save game, keep loading over and over until your next step in the grid makes you find a chest that you can picklock, save game again and try picklocking it (load back if either you broke alot of lockpicks or the reward was less than 2k gold) repeat the process until you have about 30k or 50k gold, you may have done 5-15 moves. Now repeat the process for the merchant (only once tho) and buy the clothing, weapon and as much medical creams as you can (with about 70 should be enought but may not be if you are unluck). Save one more time and go and fight the plant, attack and heal yourself back to full heal whenever you require it. Once the plant is dead, interact again and you are gonna get an extra girl as reward. What happens if you get the medic, the lava swords or the merchant before doing so? R.I.P. You can't fight the plant anymore.
I liked the strength mechanics, you need certain strenght levels for wielding certain weapons and twice that amount for wielding an akimbo (so if you got your lava swords, is not a bug, you need more strength lvl). Lava swords are in fact the strongest weapons so enjoy them as much as you can :)
A detail some players may miss is that you have a limited time for breaking the curse (find all 10 virgin girls for breaking it), so you may want to avoid sleeping and resting as much as you can until then. Djemma can help you with that once you rescue her.
Is it any worth it to unlock "magic"? Well what weights more? losing 10k gold in adrenaline or losing the battle in general?
Also there is a funny softlock. Kill catalina and proceed with Naoko until that one event. The game is gonna softlock.
About the tetris. That challenge is really hard, i ended developing tetris skills just for that. And this may be easily solved if plyaers could see further what pieces are in queue aswell if we could store pieces for later. I have a technique which consists on placing all of the same piece on a dedicated space so losing chances are lower before at least 20k points and requires less skill.
Additional tip: You can spam movement to a direction you can't go (like maps borders) for forcing enemies to attack you during grinds.