Carpe Noctem - Yuri Visual Novel

if you enjoy this visual novel then you'll enjoy reading the (unfortunately) cancelled manga 'Killing Me!' which has more comedy and fluffiness :3 (i'm in my vampire yuri phase so please drop more recommendations XD)

Very cute vampire x vampire hunter love story. About 2 hours of playtime. No choices though really. (Not a bad thing, just something to note.)

[h3]I feel [b]mixed[/b] about this one.[/h3] While I loved the characters and the story of this VN, I can't say the same about the copious amounts of conflicting artstyle present in this VN. Was the art of this game done by volunteers or the dev's friends for free in their own time or something? It was very jarring to see the game go from having an anime artstyle to realistic to amateur-looking and then back to professional-looking anime artstyle in a second. Speaking of visuals, some more visual depictions of scenes would've been nice; rather than just a black screen being there 75% of the time. It's a VISUAL novel. Where's the VISUAL part? Also, despite there being other characters with pivotal roles (such as Lily the Maid), 99% of the CGs in this game is only Cordelia and Adelaide. Which I think does massive disservice for characters like Lily who basically act as the tritagonist to this story. The only CG that doesn't involve only Cordelia or Adelaide is [spoiler]one near the end with Keane, but even that is brief[/spoiler]. I get that this is a Yuri VN first where Cordelia's the "love interest" with Adelaide as the MC, but still, it would've been wonderful to see CGs involving other characters too, especially Lily's as she had her mini character arc in between the chapters, and we spent time with her in-story. It's not like Cordelia-Adelaide are the only person in this game's world. Now for the technical aspects. I'll be blunt, I don't know what engine the dev used to make this VN, but whatever it is - it sucks. [list] [*] Pressing Esc closes the VN without as much as a confirmation; where every other VNs [i]at least[/i] ask for confirmation, if not bring you to a pause screen where you can save/load or change the options. [*] And speaking of options, the only way to even get to the options menu in this game is by Right Clicking. Like what??? I don't remember the VN even telling me about this either! I found out about it by accident! There's no "options" button in the main menu either! But instead, there's the gallery and the credits. Cause you know, seeing who contributed this game or the game's CGs are far more important than setting the game's message speed, volume and the like. [list] [*] But anyway, in the options menu: there are volume options in the audio settings where you can adjust the volume of the characters. Which is a weird thing to include; considering I never heard voice tracks of any of the characters at any point in the VN. [/list] [*] You can't even take screenshots by pressing F12 or open the steam overlay in this VN. Gotta do it the old fashioned way of pressing Print Screen or WinKey+S. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dumb in 2025, and this VN came out a year before it. [/list] Ultimately, I'd be down to read another VN from this developer, especially if it involves characters/world of this game; but for quality's sake I hope the dev will use a better VN engine (something like RenPy if anything), have a dedicated artstyle instead of a mishmash of everything and maybe having more visual bits for the next VN they make. Some people might argue that "I'm being too critical for a free VN" - but I don't think that's a good reason to ward off constructive criticism.