Your Crown Is Mine

I would play this game with the mind that it's not a deeply complex game. There is are secrets but nothing too surpising. What carries the series is the characters, which are somewhat complex. If you're coming into this game expecting hanako games type of secrets/mystery, you will be disappointed. However for something light hearted it's quite nice. One of the qualms i have is the fact that it does seem like ari is the main character instead of our MC herself.

As a backer of this project, I've been really excited to play this game, and it really did feel like a manhwa come to life with the panels and lively art. It was very sweet watching the love story between Rosalie and Lucena develop on the route I chose, and the shocking twists and turns! I hope this game does as well as it deserves! It was also really nice seeing Cindy in the game, I hope people love her.

No review on the game itself yet, but works well on steam deck - either use the track pads or the touch screen to make choices. No hiccups so far

[i] Your Crown is Mine [/i] tells a polished and intriguing story about the rise of a villainess character as the eventual monarch of her kingdom. It features gorgeous artwork, a solid cast of characters (including a few good side characters), and its fair share of political commentary around populism and the trade-offs of governance. I was particularly intrigued by the prominent inclusion of a foreign country named Atissia, which is not only the birthplace of two of the country's four love interests, but also features prominently as the locus of people's anxieties; hell, the most effective means of rallying the public at several points is quite literally to scapegoat Atissia, no matter how close the MC may truly be to its citizens. Developer Lyyycaena paints a strikingly Machiavellian picture of imperial politics and even name-drops Thucydides at one point. Lovers of historical fiction and aristocratic power struggles will certainly find a lot to like in this work. However, the game is nonetheless a bit rough around the edges, in no small part thanks to the daily activity mechanics. While the first act of the game provides a fairly decent variety of possible activities and events, the other two acts confine the MC to only four strikingly repetitive activities on weekdays, and because the mechanics are so strongly centered around maintaining stats, the second half of the story in particular often amounts to senseless grinding with little narrative substance. The availability of specific stat boosts changes overnight (for instance, charisma is a massive pain in the ass to raise after Act I, and wealth too is far easier to acquire early on, whereas you will practically be swimming in intellect by the end of the game if you are trying to accrue wealth to support your spending habits at all), and Edgar in particular is a royal pain (no pun intended) to romance because most of your chances to raise his affection involve meeting up with him at a fiendishly expensive inn (and even then, the gains are extremely modest, so you basically need to design your whole strategy around making money during the week so you can afford to be with him on the weekend). It doesn't help that there is such an abundance of dialogue choices with few to no consequences, and in general, the paucity of different story paths makes many of the choices seem completely trivial. There are zero consequences to polemicizing against Atissia on the campaign trail, for example, and the political faction the MC joins also seems to be almost completely irrelevant to the plot. This lack of real split paths outside of the fifteen endings makes the game hold up extremely poorly to replays – why would anyone spend half an hour skipping through the dialogue and grinding stats to read a new ending of some 150 to 200 words? For that matter, I very much would have liked to see more of the love interests in general – you can indeed socialize with them over the weekend, and all of them are well-integrated into the occasional plot event, and yet I still feel that I know rather little about, say, Helius even after romancing him multiple times; having the MC spend more quality time with the love interests would have added to their charm. The developer has thankfully provided an in-depth guide helpful for navigating the more opaque elements of the game, which allows for the comfortable navigation of different plot points and endings; this helps to somewhat mitigate the issues mentioned. As I have by now outlined in significant detail, the gameplay is by far the biggest weakness of [i] Your Crown is Mine, [/i] yet the game still offers breathtaking art and a good story for lovers of political intrigue to sink their teeth into. For me, it's a light 7/10 and a recommendation primarily to fans of similar villainess plots. If you're into other historical romances with a political bent on this platform, like [i] Bewitching Sinners [/i] or [i] Ambition: A Minuet in Power, [/i] then you will definitely like this game – but it lacks the narrative ambition of the former and the meticulously crafted story paths of the latter to truly become timeless. It's good, but man, it could've been something for the ages.

Achei genial deixarem sairmos com garotas e deixarem os garotos mais como sendo uma opção, gostei do plot da coroa, e os personagens se desenvolvem de um jeito bom, além da narrativa e dos momentos serem bons e diretos.

Fun game, but you can tell which love interests the creator was more interested in. Don't understand why there's even male love interests if the creator wants more attention on the female ones? Nothing wrong with that, just as someone who likes Helius and Edgar especially, those two barely get any focus. Edgar in particular like drops out of the story after the election pretty much lol

Game is quite charming with its nice visual style, in terms of gameplay its meets the expected gameplay loop of a visual novel with stat raising. The writing is good, while inspire by alot of tropes it has a few good twists, though it leans closer to the villainess side than the political side. I'd recommend it while on sale, but at full price a few updates maybe needed, as the game feels a bit rushed towards the second half, in addition I feel as though some plot threads don't have a large enough impact as there were not as many negative events as i'd expect. As i was playing the game ended once a consort was chosen, I am satisfied with the first ending I accomplished of Diplomat. All in all i'm satisfied with the game and will be playing it through a few more times to explore the other endings, but hope that the dev continues to polish the game and or improve the content of the second half.

I haven't finished most of the endings, but I think I've played enough to give a review. The artwork is just as gorgeous as the store page, I am happy to report. The story is very interesting, and the LIs are enjoyable. I dislike Edgar's personality, but if you want a hate/love story, it hits the mark well.

Had fun. I like that there's no good choice. Sometimes I wished there was some way for the player character to react differently to some things. Characters and lore worked well.

I especially liked the political parts. You have very little leeway and everyone has their own agenda.