Valkyrie Runabout
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This VN, like most of Rosebleu's VNs, is a fantasy/comedy VN. In this case, it is based in another world, where the protagonist was summoned and helped defeat the Demon King with his ex-girlfriend the Hero Scyana, the perverted swordmaster Hairen, and the berserk cleric Fran.
The story actually begins after all these events have occurred and the protagonist has broken up with Scyana (for good reason), and he has started to attend an academy in the kingdom's capital city. As is to be expected with a Rosebleu game, the introduction of the character dynamics and the background story is both interesting and hilarious. Like most games by this company, they tend to rely on tried and true running jokes in human form that are introduced at the beginning of the story, such as the Dragon Race's reaction to Ururu in Tiny Dungeon.
The actual story is quite simple... not that the actual process isn't interesting and emotional. Quite the reverse, actually... the birth of the protagonist's friendship with Aika, for instance, is extremely emotional (both because of the background emotions and the actual emotions born from the event). Not only that, but since the protagonist is basically this over-powered super-mage, there are some really amusing points where someone attacks a friend and he snaps... pissing off someone who can level a mountain with a single spell isn't a good idea, lol.
The heroine routes aren't terribly long... but neither is the game as a whole. As proof, I finished it in a single day, despite having had to work about half of it (it took me about ten hours to finish the game). Nonetheless, what is there is actually quite excellent. The heroines' worries are very human and realistic (albeit twisted in weird ways in some cases) and thus it is easy to empathize with them. Because the pattern of the basic background story is one that is familiar to anyone who plays old-style jrpgs, it is actually quite easy to empathize and imagine it as it is described.
As a final note, if you want a more serious drama combined with the same kind of humor, the Tiny Dungeon series is a better choice. This VN is very focused on the romance and comedy, rather than the drama that was the focus of Rosebleu's flagship series. This VN is a very good example of that humor, and it is definitely a VN to keep in mind if you want something light and short that is also quite good.
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