Kiss the Demiurge

[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34294631/] Follow Far2close - Visual Novel Playthroughs Curator Page [/url] [b]Kiss the Demiurge[/b] Developer: YuriEureka Publisher: YuriEureka [h1]Intro:[/h1] Magic contracts, a secret organization to prevent magic from manifesting in the normal realm, a hellish land called Makai where demons roam, is this your usual story? The question we face is whether the things we see are real or not. We are thrown in the shoes of Minori Nakahashi extinguishing a fire demon at a high school, and she contacts U.M.I. to report the situation. She finds a poster regarding the Magic Club in a different high school and decides to transfer there to join then dismantle the club from within. However, things don't go according to plan. Minori still retains her morality and struggles from within to even harm the girls in the Magic Club. Eventually she will develop feelings for Chitori, Akane, and Tomoko, but how far is she willing to go to accept them herself? [spoiler] All of it is a delusion, magic isn't real, Makai does not exist. It is all in Minori's head. Severe trauma can cause delusions and we witness that with not just Minori, but the rest of the girls. [/spoiler] [h1]Pros:[/h1] [b]1.[/b] I thought the story was neat and how it tackled life after experiencing severe trauma and it's lingering effects. [spoiler] One point that was cool to see was Minori experiencing that everything she thought was all just a delusion she made up. She did not bear to realize that she was the one that killed her own mother until that point. The great part about that section was that we are experiencing it ourselves as well. We all saw what was going on, the fiction she made up with Makai, UMI, and having dangerous magical powers. When it's all shown to us that everything was a lie through normal means such as the holes in Minori's wall. To the other girls, the holes in the wall are easily caused by being punched through and the phone calls Minori makes are all just a silent phone. The walls of our facade break down and we watch it with utter sadness. [/spoiler] [b]2.[/b] The characters are well written and possess their own sins that help both Minori and whichever chosen girl develop over time. Personally, Tomoko's route is on par with Minori and resonates the best; I'm not saying Akane or Chitori are bad, they just deal with a different type of mental downfall. I like how Chitori is shy and afraid of the world as she deals with [spoiler] the aftermath of hardcore bullying. [/spoiler] Akane is a hardcore chuunibyou due to [spoiler] her parents losing faith in her and Akane has come to terms that she won't be successful as her peers. [/spoiler] [b]3.[/b] The CG art by [url=https://lianquanter.artstation.com/]Lianquanter[/url] is great and the characters can be seen in their full detail. [h1]Neutrals:[/h1] [b]1.[/b] The music is royalty free but it does a fine job in helping the scenes they are in. [h1]Cons:[/h1] [b]1.[/b] We know Akane, Chitori, and Tomoko as characters; however, there is still some mystery behind Minori. How long has she been doing this [spoiler] delusion? [/spoiler] How active is she as we saw in the beginning? Does she go to most tragic events and investigates? There are still a lot of questions regarding Minori that we, the audience, just don't get answers for. [b]2.[/b] The sprite art and background art is vastly different from the CG art. The sprite art can be deemed as subpar with a small variety of different facial expressions and a small handful of outfits. They do not possess different poses as well. If prefer visual novels with a majority of high quality studio art, this may turn you away. Luckily the artist [url=https://twitter.com/MrFeshershist]BULKVANDERHUGE[/url] acknowledges this themselves and I know that they're getting better over time. The recent art on their pixiv shows their improvement. [b]3.[/b] I believe a custom GUI can help not only the theme of the visual novel, but accessibility aspects. This happens mostly in Minori's room, Grandpa Nakahashi's room, or the beach, but the white text on the UI can blend in with the background. It can make it hard to see where the buttons are due to this. [h1]Conclusion:[/h1] Kiss the Demiurge is a GOOD story with well written traumatized characters, but the sprite/background art may drift you away if you are looking for higher quality visuals. [b]Score:[/b] 7/10 GOOD

Kiss the Demiurge is a fun yuri visual novel about magic and girls trying (emphasis on trying) to perform it. I just completed my first route and I'm excited to jump back in for the other two. While I noticed a few typos, I thought the writing was thoroughly engaging, and the contrast between the protagonist's thoughts and spoken dialogue provided a lot of humor.

I really enjoyed this. The characters are all cute and charming. The art is a little hit or miss for me. I get the style but its just not my preference especially for what turns out to be a bit of a darker story. However this game is hard to discuss without talking or at least referencing the fact the plot is not what it initially seems. Which I do very much enjoy the big twist. My only real issue is that I feel the twist comes up and we spend a long time after that in some of the stories. I felt the post twist could have been shortened a little in some of the stories. It feels like it drags on a bit for some of them even though it is still cute.

it was good, worth the money for some solid writing and humor. Though the kind of jokes, especially the more dark ones, I find particularly funny personally. It being a yuri vn doesn't really do a whole lot for me and I enjoyed the non romantic sections more then the others though I still found the romance fine enough. The artwork for normal dialogue threw me off initially but I find it charming when paired with the dialogue. It's got heart so to speak. If I had to sum it up quickly, it has 3 routes and the quality is consistent across all of them (Tomoko is my favorite). Buy if you want to chuckle and or feel emotions. Reminds me of a specific slice of life manga about this one loser who tries to make friends.

A sweet, well-done visual novel about secretive magical organizations, high-school pressures/relationships, and coping with grief, all in the setting of Gather! Mystery Research Club. Equal parts wacky, touching, and tragic. High-quality art and engaging characters, although between the three club members, Akane steals the show. Highly recommend

Loved this game so much! It had so much heart and Minori was a wonderful yet relatable protagonist. I definitely cried a few times. Many emotional gut punches. Play it!

✔️ Tested on Steam Deck, works fine (25/02/2023). Touchscreen for navigating the menu, 'A' button for advancing text. Not the most polished VN in the world, but it has an interesting premise and it's obvious a lot of thought was put into the writing of the different routes. Art outside CGs could be improved and also some heavy subjects are mentioned and not handled very well, maybe even giving a negative message. Make sure to pay attention to the trigger warnings in this visual novel.

As far as the art goes, the characters look like they were drawn by a middle schooler and the backgrounds look like a preschooler did them. The writing is way too melodramatic and expositional for me. The game opens on a dramatic confrontation between a mother and her protagonist daughter. The daughter demands to know where her absent father is. Right before she's about to learn the truth her mom disappears, too. She literally disappears into thin air with no explanation and the protagonist doesn't even treat it like a mystery what happened to her. So then the girl grows into a teenager and, in addition to being a tortured soul orphan, she's also a demon hunter. I quit the game after a particularly boring encounter between the protagonist and her grandpa. I have no idea what the point of the interaction was, all I remember is she spouted a lot of exposition about how much she loves and cares about him, then the screen faded into the next scene and I couldn't take any more.

I was actually planning to write a bad review, but I had fun with it. Not very well written, dialog is a mess, no voice acting at all, but it was fun to poke with friends.