If this was a light novel, I'd title it "I transmigrated into the body of a low-grade villain in a shitty grimdark rpg who is destined to die horribly, but the protagonist is kind of cute and this is turning into a dating sim somehow?"
You can tell it's a jam game that had to rush to the finish line because some of the characterisation is inconsistent and not every worldbuilding thread is carried to the end, but I still thoroughly enjoyed playing this. Both the art and music is great and the mixture of fun and intense character moments is engaging. There's a bunch of neat worldbuilding ideas that made the characters work for me despite some jumps in characterization. Kurosaki as the zero-chill "hero" character who might be a little too intense and vengeful for the role and Layla who's supposed to be the shy romanceable girl but is acting extremely shady throughout are both great characters. I enjoyed August's uncertainty while interacting with them and having to guess at their motivations and feelings towards him. The action scenes were also well-written and the final battle especially was nicely intense and emotionally significant.
I definitely don't regret giving this game a shot despite it not quite being my usual genre.