Cage of Roses

the sapphic yearning is immense

梅珂一行原本是去见未婚夫，但在路上遇到了强盗，她的父母惨遭杀害。梅珂和女仆亨妮在森林中逃难，却最终体力不支晕了过去。醒来她们发现自己在湿冷的地牢里。之后有一个优雅的白发吸血鬼女人过来，原本想杀掉女仆，放贵族大小姐出去免得惹上麻烦。但是梅珂假装说自己是女仆和亨妮互换了身份。吸血鬼虽然没被梅柯拙劣的演技骗过，却也也放亨妮离开，还给梅珂安排了一间卧室。 故事分双线进行。不止有梅珂和吸血鬼玛格达莱娜的视角，也有亨妮视角那边计划营救的故事线。亨妮虽然说话粗疏，但是真的非常忠心和热诚。她在逃脱之后向未婚夫求助却被当作是说疯话。但未婚夫拒绝提供帮助也没让她放弃。亨妮在最后在其它女仆的介绍下寻得了镇上神父约翰和一位神秘人士海德玛丽的帮助。 剧情中有几处非常紧张而扣人心弦的描写。像是亨妮半夜带着钥匙偷偷去教堂那里，读着真让人为她捏了一把汗。最后神秘人士和莱娜的对峙和之后的场面也非常精彩。约翰和海德玛丽之间也有着非常迷人的关系性。 梅珂的一头红发特别的美丽。脸上的红晕和睡衣非常的动人。她善良也有教养。在莱娜看来她比别的人类坚强的多。梅珂和自己女仆的关系特别好，是形影不离的好朋友。 白发吸血鬼玛格达莱娜，非常优雅的一个人。蓝色的发饰很好看。在森林里几百年比较的孤独。这个破败的古宅里藏着莱纳的秘密，到故事的最后才会揭晓。莱娜和梅珂虽然不是同一个种族，但是其实有很多的相似之处。虽然她们的这种囚禁关系理应互相怨恨，但是她们却一点点的接近和了解彼此，互相依靠。莱娜虽然说自己是生性破坏的吸血鬼，但是也有戒条，平时杀的也是一些强盗。非常不愿意让梅柯受到伤害。取血的时用的都是匕首，取完后也会用手帕处理伤口。她们之间的关系非常动人。最终也迎来了很好的结局。 游戏中油画质感的CG非常的神。游戏中文翻译有些时候比较拗口繁复，有点往古文的用语方向上靠。有时候也会出现“扎心了”这样比较现在的用语。但总体上还算是易读的。最后作者后记写的很有意思。没想到最初的灵感构思居然是V家同人。 [code] No Responsibility Review，只根据个人喜好进行评测： [url= https://store.steampowered.com/curator/36266776-NRR233] 无责任评测[/url][/code]

What follows is what I wrote as a review a year ago and I still stand by it. I almost got to the end and just abandoned it because i didnt personally like where it was going and what it was doing there at the end. One year later and one more hour left those feelings didnt change, The ending almost got me to avoid a negative review but it feels like the author just teases you for what you want to know. Either way, I read my review from almost a year ago and here it was written but never posted, the last hour did not change my mind. - Unfortunately, only the part you are here for would something I would qualify as good. The rest is filled with repetitive dialouge and questionable plot directions What you are here for could almost as well be served by looking at the provided pictures and engaging your imagination. The real problem I have is with the aformentioned repetitive dialouge. Not an example but here is how certain phrases would be repeated. "You are doing this" "Yes, because i did that" . "You did that" "Yes, because I am doing this". Variations that just repeat it almost verbatum. It stands out because as soon as it starts heating up between them it's like the writer suddenly started caring about their craft. 10/10. The problems I have with the story are mostly personal and the directions it chose to go in were not those that I would have prefered. One negative review said it was slow. What I would say to that is not much happens. More could have been on the page so to say. Some areas feel thin and not as fleshed out as they could have been. If you are here from the demo and has the beginning has not since been revised. I can say that it at least is the weakpoint in that regard of being slow. Another , and this just makes me laugth. Says it's "just a story" "no choices to make" "just reading" witch ironically they must not have done as it so clearly states that this is a kinetic story. If that was only what was written I might be compasionate but it then goes on to describe that it means that there are no choices to make. Perhaps they were led astray by the brilliant other steam users that tagged this story with "choose your own adventure" and "dating sim" tags. Fortunately those tags seem to have gotten removed. You do get a cute yuri vampire, pretty big plus. But as I said before, your imagination might serve you better if that's just what you are looking for.

Vampire fiction tends to evoke dark, grim narratives that suit the shadowy blood-drinkers they revolve around. [i]Cage of Roses[/i] is no exception, at least in comparison to what I know of the developer's other work (for me, this is just [i]Blackberry Honey[/i]), though it's not the kind of story that explores the depravity most vampires exhibit in horror settings. There's just enough bloodiness to paint the roses red, while not too much to detract from the budding romance between Mieke and Magdelena. The core narrative between the two women is charming enough, though I'm not sure I can say the same for the side characters. Too much time is spent away from the main women on subplots and characters that could really stand to have been pared down. I got this story for the yuri, and the subplots largely distract from that, which feels odd since the potential was still there with Henny and the other maid she befriends. That, and this wasn't a problem in [i]Blackberry Honey,[/i] which had a supporting cast of several other sapphic relationships that kept the good lesbian soul alive even when the main couple faced their tribulations. Beyond that I felt distracted at times by the word choices, though not so much that it feels like more of a nitpick on my part. Overall, this proved a nice read with some good moments of heart and some dramatic twists that surprised me. I came in expecting (and hoping for) something darker, more on the horror end of things, though I can't say I regret the read. However, I do wish the side characters took up less of the writing. It would have been nice to have more scenes with Mieke and Magdelena leading up to the conclusion.

Loved it sooo much, thank you for creating this story ♥

Magdelena's exposition dumps (edit: plural) at the beginning of the game are one of the worst writing crimes I've read this year

Good story and great art

Visual novel kinética con un romance sáfico un poquito previsible, pero igualmente disfrutable. Personajes interesantes, capítulos intensos y una buena ambientación que sin embargo no termina de funcionar todo lo bien que debería en conjunto. Aun así, está muy chula. [i][url=https://otraciudadolvidada.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/cage-of-roses/] ENLACE AL ANÁLISIS COMPLETO [/url][/i]

I really, really enjoyed this one. It has all the hallmarks of what I look for in a vampire romance: She's mysterious, well-dressed, gay, and lives in a big dilapidated manor. You get a good sense for how dangerous she can be, yet she still feels gentle towards the Meike. The characters have great depth, so even in Meike's situation you also have a hard time seeing Magdalena as a monster. There's a lot of great yearning between them and the payoff once their circumstances are changed is indescribably fulfilling and further characterizes everyone involved super well. This is going in the top of all the visual novels / kinetic novels I've ever played, I cannot recommend it enough!

the art is really gorjus like it is so castlevania / ayami kojima thing, and personally i'm a person who's like i think it is worth it solely buying for the art. i have said this to like multiple games. tho i read some reviews here saying the writing is lacking and i truly agree... it is saur lacking..... it also feels like therapy speaks sometimes.... like i know magdalena feels guilty but does it really have to be told to us the audiences constantly? i think the audience is not a fool? from the get go it is clear that these vampires are more on the kinder side. and that magdalena and meike like each other enough without explicit dialogue to initiate things by they own accord. i also feel some scenes are truly not necessary, like the henny scene with the maids and all. it was the one that make me hesitate to buy it until discount. i do enjoy the characters tho, i like meike/magdalena type of character. but honestly like i wish the writing is better because it would have really be banger if writing is good + gorjus art like that. i give it a recommend but perhaps on discount, and also if you really really like the art. if you're here for the writing, it is better to get other VNs.