You know what gets me about these sci-fi hentai VNs? They always promise some grand space opera but then you spend three hours reading about trade federations. Scars of Fate doesn't do that, thank fuck. It opens with this dude who just wants to get laid, and the whole Emperor Krux arresting former guards thing is basically background noise. I respect that honesty. The art is that slightly rough CG style where sometimes a tit looks like it was drawn by someone who's only seen breasts described in text, but other times, man, the lighting hits just right and you're like okay, I get it.

The voice acting. God. There's this one guard character, I think her name was Lyra? She has this breathy delivery that sounds like she's recording in a closet while her roommate's asleep, and it's so bad it circles back to being genuinely hot. The soundtrack is just two synth loops that play on repeat, and one of them has this weird high pitched whine that made me check if my phone was dying. I kept playing anyway. The dialogue choices are mostly variations of "be horny" or "be slightly less horny but still horny," and picking the wrong one just loops you back to the same scene with a different line of text. There's no real branching, which is fine because I wasn't here for narrative complexity.

The juiciest scene involves a zero-gravity blowjob that defies like, three laws of physics. She's floating upside down, hair everywhere like some kind of horny jellyfish, and the protagonist's internal monologue is just "wow space is cool." I laughed out loud. Then I kept reading. The cum physics are also completely unhinged, it just sort of... hovers there. Like a tiny milky way. I wish they'd spent more time on the actual guard plot because there's this one throwaway line about Krux having a secret weapon that sounded genuinely interesting, but then it's back to trying to fuck the bartender who has the same face as the mechanic who has the same face as the princess. The asset reuse is aggressive. But the princess scene where she's wearing that ridiculous ceremonial armor that's basically just pauldrons and a thong? Worth it. I don't know why the pauldrons did it for me but they did.