From developer salamandra88 and publisher 7DOTS comes Sweet fantasy; a yuri, kinetic visual novel. This is on sale currently as a promotion, at £1.11 (reduced from £2.79) and I decided to give it a go after it was sat on my wish list for a while.
Pumpkin, a young nymph, has fallen in love with the woman she serves, Amethyst, and goes around a secret plan to get her mistress to fall in love with her. Help Pumpkin along the journey by making decisions for her, unlock trading cards, screenshots, and achievements.
First of all, I feel like £2.79 is a bit steep for this game. It took me under an hour to complete and wasn’t as immersive as I would have liked for a game of this stature. I feel a little like I wasted my money, as the story is pretty much the same whatever route you take, even with four different endings. It was fun going through the game to collect all the different achievements, but it got boring pretty quickly – I’ve never been more grateful for the skip button over routes you’ve already taken.
The story itself is pretty generic – servant falls in love with master, tries to get master to love them, by use of magic. It’s something that’s been used in a lot of different games before, a lot of different stories, and this one wasn’t really much different. The character designs were nice to look at, and the some of the routes (such as the raven) did make me chuckle. However, it didn’t hold out all the way and I felt that the game was lacking when I finished the game.
It was a disappointment, especially as this game was so highly positively rated. I feel like I wasted my money on this, and I would refund it if it were possible. I’d personally recommend skipping this one. There are plenty of free yuri kinetic and visual novels on Steam that are much better to play. I’m upset I didn’t really like this one. I just wish it had been better.
1.5