This is not a story of heroes.
Since time immemorial, warriors called musha have ruled the battlefield, granted supernatural power by their enchanted suits of armor - tsurugi.
Minato Kageaki is one such musha, driven by duty to don his crimson armor and challenge the greatest evils of an age. But...
Since time immemorial, warriors called musha have ruled the battlefield, granted supernatural power by their enchanted suits of armor - tsurugi.
Minato Kageaki is one such musha, driven by duty to don his crimson armor and challenge the greatest evils of an age. But though madmen and tyrants fall to his blade, never will he claim that his battle is right.
For the tsurugi he wields is cursed Muramasa, which five centuries ago brought ruin to the land, and innocent blood is the price it demands in exchange for its terrible might.
"Where there are demons, I slay them. Where there are saints, I slay them."
These words are an oath, the unbreakable Law binding him to his armor. But they also tell the story of his past, and of the future to come.
This software contains mature themes and graphic images that are not suitable for minors. You must be 18 years of age or older to purchase. Characters, places and events are fictional – resemblance of real-world people, places or events is purely coincidental.
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I went into this VN expecting something trashy, violent, edge and pornographic. What I got instead was a thoughtful, measured, genuinely deep exploration of all the facets of violence. There is still pornographic material that detracts from the general reading experience and dampens some moments but it's not enough to overcome the sheer quality in terms of the prose, dialog, themes, characters, and plot.
I highly recommend just buying the Gog version and not bothering with the 18+ patch unless you're really morbidly curious about the content. I genuinely think a good half of those scenes are just bad and make the story worse. Also content warnings abound.
Why did you remove the mosaic? Add it back please... I'm getting more horrified my those plastic like genitals than by the game itself!
Same for the localization/translation, when a character says: "Falling down Ladybug" IN FRICKING english! and the text says: "Ladybug... Comet."
I clearly wanna puke.
Why?
It was so simple, english to english, 1 to 1 translation.
Why?
And they're so many wrong things like this one.
Oh, and by the way, the "songs of ginseigo" written in shakespear's language are absolutely unreadable for a non-native english speaker.
BUT!
The game is an absolute masterpiece. If you can read it in Japanese, get it in Japanese.
It'll be much better. by a lot.
Only fanboys will have heard of this title and that's why the scores are so high. It's skewed by nostalgia and anime lovers. I happened to stumble across it from a random youtube video and seeing all the comments praising it while it tries so hard to be profound is what got me investigating this apparently legendary VN.
It's production value is good and that's why it gets two stars but it's writing, while competent enough in execution, the content of it is trite and full on babytown philosophy and massive contrivance. It's sophmoric, embarrassing and contradictory. It's also what you'd expect from something Japanese. Praisers generally haven't read more than a manga in their lives so they don't know what good writing really is. They probably found it when they were an impressionably young and it was their first exposure to the evils the game displays so it stands out to them and they think that shock value equals quality. It's just edge, to an embarrassing degree.
It contrives it's central conflicts by claiming there is an unbreakable law that for every evil person killed, a good person must be killed too. You can already tell where the story will force itself to go on that alone. Throw in predictable character archtypes and it writes itself. But also the rule alone breaks the philosophy of the VN.
If good and evil are subjective and it's a matter of perspective, then who is this objective judgement deigning some people good vs evil? It's contrived for the sake of drama.
Another fundamental issue with the law of balance is that it thinks good and evil are equal. They are not. Society literally could not function if that was the case. More good is the status quo. It's how people can actually conduct business and build things.
So everything is basically awful all the time through contrived, trite rules with no nuance or intelligence. Therefore it's just melodrama, the worst kind of drama.
I don't have enough space for more. Remember 11 is an actual good VN.
Oh, wow! I didn't know they were selling pornography games on their site, even I thought Steam was the first one to sell games like these, but now I think the whole gaming company are going to be marketing XXX games like this soon.
This visual novel infuriates me. Like, it infuriates me but I can't call it bad. You know what I mean? From a technical perspective, it's amazing. The writing style, the worldbuilding, the graphics, voice acting, music -- it's all amazing. My main problem comes from what exactly it tries to portray.
Basically what this novel tries to say is that killing is bad. And I have two problems with that statement:
1) First, the person from which this statement is coming. Like, It's okay to slaughter innocent people (like fifteen-year-old boys) but it's not okay to kill absolutely fucking rapists? Top-notch morals right here Kageaki. Great, great stuff.
2) Overall, this message is EXTREMELY harmful. During World War 2 my country suffered immensely, and my people had no choice but to stand up and fight back. So you are telling me it's okay to just give up and let Nazi's slaughter us? Respectfully fuck off.
Also, I'm so tired to see the onslaught of "mature" content in visual novels these days. This medium legitimately thinks that unless it uses an abundance of extreme physical and sexual violence then it's not mature enough. All other forms of medium were producing mature works without this crap for ages, why do visual novels think that they are different? I legitimately do not understand why vn's has this privilege. On a side note, I have felt like Nitro+ can't write a sex/rape scene and make it not cringe.
Finally, this visual novel has chosen probably the worst time to be translated. The world right now is a pretty bleak place,. You have got all this political tension, you have got protests, you have got the riots, you have got the fear of the coronavirus, the fear of war, etc. and right now we don't need dark, gloomy and depressive storytelling. You need something that is more lighthearted, that is a return to form, something about good and evil, and not a thing that is trying to "deconstruct" those concepts! But we got this instead... Oh well.
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