Now... this is a VN by Hooksoft. Hooksoft is a company known for its 'sweet' stories, with lots of moe, decent (occasionally straying into excellent) character development, and lots of heroines. This is their first trip into fantasy, and from what I've seen so far, it looks like they did a better job than some companies tend to do with this kind of thing, though the character types are universally standard Hook Soft heroines (I can see echoes of previous heroines from their games in all of them). Similar to all the other Hook Soft games I've played, I have no intention of playing all the paths. To be blunt, with nine heroines, it would take too long and I wouldn't be able to properly evaluate the VN by the end (deluge of endless moe results in hate). Hook Soft VNs are examples of the charage/moege ideal... and they are basically a perfect strike to the heart of lovers of that type of VN. However, for people who just dabble in moe, they tend to present a gift of psychological heartburn.

So, I decided to hit the heroines I found interesting... naturally, all of the non-human ones are included (Chloe, Zirconia, Finn, Pascal, Rea, and Miisha)... and after that we'll see if I have the energy for one more (probably not).

Common

The common route is actually relatively short for a charage. I completed it in just under five hours... and that was without really hurrying. During the course of the common route, you are introduced to the heroines, get to know the situation and setting to a certain degree, and you are given just enough information to decide which heroine you will choose. To be honest, I thought this common route was a bit out of character, compared to other Hook Soft games. If anything, most Hook Soft VNs tend to have a lot of fat and filler (usually cute and comedy). However, this was kept relatively minimal, with a definite sense of 'head for the nearest heroine' to it. Whether this is a good thing or not depends on your perspective.

Chloe de Pureryune

Choe is a vampire... though you would hardly notice it at any point in the VN if she wasn't so obsessed with it. Most of it is comedic, save for what is used to create her path's drama. To be honest, even for a Hook Soft VN, there was no real struggle to push her in the protagonist's path or make them into lovers... it happened so fast and with so few complications I was left gaping. One of the top points of a good vampire heroine's path (when the heroine has something resembling common sense) is actually getting into the relationship. However, in this case, most of the inconveniences of an immortal and a mortal being lovers are sort of glossed over in this path in favor of another nearby conflict. To be honest, my opinion on this path is that it wasted the entire vampire issue as a whole, despite her vampirism being a central issue. I also felt a bit gypped in the end, because they had several perfect chances for touching scenes where they just skipped over it and said 'its over' at the end. While I'm sure a lot of moe-addicts will love the ichaicha and general cuteness, this is not a well-designed path.