This is gonna be reaaaaaally long. I'm low-key embarassed that I wrote this much nonsense.
I feel like I have to confess my experience with this novel because it has taught me a really valuable and simple lesson that I didn't think I needed to be taught: Don't judge a book by its cover.
When I first saw this visual novel, to be honest, I was very skeptical, and now when I think back, I just want to go back in time and slap myself across the face for being so judgemental. It seemed to me like just another visual novel that was trying its best to please as many people as it could by trying to be overly inclusive (my biggest turn-off was August, mostly because I wasn't used to using they/their pronouns. Where I live, LGBT people aren't very welcomed ;_; ). I really don't have anything against people that identify as LGBT+, heck, I'm even questioning my own sexuality, is just that I have had a lot of unpleasant experiences in the past with less than friendly members of the LGBT community, that have left a sour taste in my mouth.
But somehow, just like the Hunters in this novel have that gut feeling about things, something made me give this novel a chance and so, I downloaded it.
And then I realized how wrong I originally was about this novel.
I instantly fell in love with the abundance of charismatic characters and their stories. I almost didn't know who to choose in chapter four. But guess who I ended up with? August. Yup. Goes to show how well the devs executed the characters. And honestly, I can't help it, that fluff ball is just too aghhh-, I don't have words and I'm going off on a tangent.
I really loved everyone's dynamics and every time I saw Ezra (who I kept calling Erza until chapter four when I accidentally activated the self-voicing option and it read Erza's name as "Ezra", oof) and Finn, or Omen and Alkar interact with each other, I couldn't help but let the inner shipper in me go wild (nyehehehehe).
Also, the story is really interesting, I can't wait for chapter six!
I don't really know what else to say, other than I was really pleasantly surprised with this novel. It became one of my favorite games to play, maybe even my favorite otome game I ever played.
This has been long enough, I'll now go and admire August now, lmao.
TL;DR: Dis novel very gud. Download it.