Aisling and the Tavern of Elves

I don't know guys, can I be listed as "neutral" about this experience? Is their a button that says "Recommended with conditions?" I'm not cold on this novel by any means but I'm also not willing to stick my neck out for it. The main thing is it's very short, two and a half hours for your first play through, with an optional second play through that MIGHT give you another half hour of content if I'm incredibly easy on it. So even if I loved every minute of that did I love it two and a third dollars an hour level? I don't know if I can say that. Normally I'd give a brief plot synopses when i write a review but even a surface level summery is going to give away half the story of a novel this length so I'm at a loss for how to start. Your POV character is a mercenary who comes to own a tavern with several kooky employees and you spend your time mired in the minutia of running the place. The romance is surface level but the economics of tavern owning is incredibly deep. Magic exists, it's not important. Elves and dwarfs and trolls exist, not important. A really interesting subplot about colonization where the elves are actually colonists from a land to the west with a huge elven empire, barely mentioned. Your POV character is from Earth, they get one good joke about it in there and never do anything else with it. I really want to like this, I want to be able to tell you it's a must read but what holds me back is the length. Everything I want this novel to cover just flies by too quickly. Theirs no time for anything to sink in before we're on to the next big plot point and resolving the last ones issues so it can be forgotten. On top of that despite not being a "best hair" choice game your choices don't matter, pick the easy ones and you'll get the girl. Look, developer, if you're reading this I want you to know I think you've got a lot of talent but this was pushed out too soon. The characters all only have one sprite with one outfit except the POV who has a whole three outfits with two posses between them. You've got basically no CGs, and it's just to short. But what you DID put in here was great! Your backgrounds are stunning, the comedy was funny and charming, the characters were nice, the world was a trip to learn about when I got the little you gave me. You just needed more time in the oven to make it longer and more developed. I'm going to give this a thumbs up, because it has POTENTIAL, but if you make a second novel you really need to step up because this isn't going to fly forever.

明明是个百合AVG，为啥没人玩呢……(；′⌒`) [h1]总评[/h1] +不错的角色立绘，有趣的人设 +文本量巨大，虽然都是日常琐碎，但本喵就好这口 +[spoiler]安装后使用Win+R键，输入steam://install/1461180即可安装免费年龄限定DLC，好评[/spoiler] ++++双线百合 [b]虽然只是个文字冒险，但是也存在着各种显而易见的不足[/b] -主菜单只有「新游戏」、「继续游戏」和「退出」，选项完全只能进入游戏后才能调 -选项看似很多，但后期很明显出现了选项堆叠过度的问题，特别是H event的时候居然要手动点“Continue”，完结还要手动点“The end”，搁这弄这几个单项选择是想致敬“按F来致敬”吗(＠_＠;) -没有配音，没有官方中文 -HCG虽然不至于说难看，但细节上确实有点……一言难尽的感觉 --没有鉴赏模式，我甚至不知道自己打出了多少CG，还剩下多少CG，哦天哪，这真是个无比糟糕的设计，我发誓这绝对比隔壁苏珊大婶做的苹果派还要难吃，我没有在开玩笑 SUM：喜欢百合又啃得下生肉的玩家都可以尝试下这款游戏…什么，你只是想康HCG？那真是太糟糕了～☆ HGN：6.0/10

[h1][i]A short girl x girl Visual Novel featuring elf girls operating at a tavern.[/i][/h1] [h1]Game's premise:[/h1] [b][i]You play as Aisling Whitehorse; a human mercenary residing in Eiredagh, a town populated by elves. While getting often summoned on various quests by Baroness Roisin, you already are aware of her arbitrary course of managing agreements with you. Therefore, when it happens to be time to collect the sum stated during the latest contract, Baroness directs you instead to a nearby tavern whose holder happens to have an overdue debt owing to Baroness Roisin. Distressed, you head straight up to the tavern to pick the stated debt, only to discover that the tavern in question is run by a cute-looking elf whose name is Cara Riverstone, and to add more discomfort to the situation, she happens to be completely broke. That’s how you agree on taking over the tavern as the new – human – owner! While not being too fond of elvish eating habits, Cara who happily accepts to work under you will help you learn what is needed in order to improve at administrating the place.[/i][/b] [h1]Featurings and the various negative points:[/h1] This is a choice-based Visual Novel offering us 4 – not so diverse among them – endings. While the medieval setting presents a neat worldbuilding and interesting details coming to elvish culture, the habits of dwarf habitants and the contrast between them and humans, it happens to be mainly described while conversating with various characters, more than displayed. There are few different sceneries taking place in game, which do look good, however I personally found the lack of change of locations to be a tad dull. The background music fits well the story and character sprites are nicely done, but even there negative points do come to mind straight away. For example no music is featured in the main menu, and starting a game offering a silent screen at the beginning resulted quite odd. Coming to character sprites and narration more bothersome points are provided… [list][*]The use of shadows upon the character that appears to not be talking was unnecessary as it is clearly noticeable who is talking in the dialogue scene; the talking character’s name is stated above the dialogue box and their expressions tend to variate according to the mood of the conversation. [*]The unnecessary swear words during dialogues do result irritating. [*]What also prevented me from enjoying even the simplicity of the story was the choice of graphics coming to the dialogue box. The usage of blue font colour during narrative parts does cause disruption while reading.[/list] As mentioned above, the game presents 4 endings of which two do end really abruptly after taking the most important choice, which would take us directly to the chosen girl’s route… however, after entering a route the outcome is the same in both cases nonetheless taking course in different places, not to mention how short the stated event is. The game does present way too many choices during gameplay, considering you have to chose either between 2 bad endings or 2 “romantic” – so to say – events. [h1]Overall:[/h1] I was really interested in this game mainly due to its medieval setting and nonhuman characters to get closer to. However, while the game is tagged as “Dating Sim”, I found it to be more about elvish culture and customs, as well as the work at the tavern which consisted of improving the environment and learning about the various dishes. Considering the duration of 3.5h, the lack of CGs and almost no romantic scenes featured in game, I do not recommend this title at all. [code]To find out and discover interesting VNs, indie games and more navigate through my Curator Page! 🩷 [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44707415-Gyepi-Types/][b]Gyepi Types[/b][/url] 🩷[/code]

Honestly, as much as I enjoyed the early interactions and worldbuilding, the ending feels indelicate and rushed. There's a few things that are hinted at that never develop, and the romance feels abrupt, sort of added as an afterthought. All things considered, the ending was rather unsatisfying.

A nice quality read. Came in expecting a bland romance VN. Was pleasantly surprised by the fun chemistry and back and forth the characters had. It had a great flow. Definitely worth a shot.

It's short, but sweet and well structured. The characters have great banter between them which is really nice. it actually feels like authentic dialogue. Choices feel like they make sense when given too. Being so short, not sure it's worth full price, but if you see it on sale then definitely worth it.

This game was cute but a bit slow. I wish there had been more decision making prompts. This felt more like reading a manga than playing a game.

Not gonna lie, the story is actually quite good. Just don't go expecting a master piece of one but for what it's worth I enjoyed it. The art style was also nice to look at and the character models are good too. I'd recommend, however, it's best if it's on sale and not at full price.

Cute and fun short story based on a cute but strong human and a very cute elf, also a crazy witch and a devious Baroness. Nice art in this as well, which is often the case from this developer. Worth a read for Yuri loves and romance lovers.

love the artwork and sprites but lack of gallery and music tends to repeat is annoying. menu not at main menu. lol took them 10 months to add a gallery when that is normal thing for release. just poor planning on their part imo.