The potion mixing screen is a mess. Like, who thought putting the mandrake root icon right next to the moonflower essence was smart? I kept clicking the wrong one and Luna just stands there with her big tits practically falling out of that shaman robe, waiting. Her sprite animation loops this little sway that makes the beads on her necklace clack, and honestly I spent more time watching that than tracking Prince Merril through the desert. The whole thing starts with this wedding caravan getting wrecked by dark elves, classic Aravorn stuff if you played Loren, but here the focus is Kunya and her tribe of desert nomads.

Kunya herself. She's got this scar across her shoulder blade that the artist clearly spent extra time on, it catches the light during the campfire scenes. The game calls her a future warchief but half the routes have her getting railed by Takara in a tent while the other warriors are supposedly standing guard outside. Takara's whole deal is wanting fame and glory but the sex scenes with her are surprisingly tender for someone who yells about battle honors during the day. There's this one CG where Kunya goes down on her and the sand is getting everywhere, you can see it stuck to their thighs, and I was thinking about how impractical that is but also couldn't stop looking. The animation loops are short, like three frames, but they pick the right moments to loop if you know what I mean.

Manila is supposed to be the older lone wolf type but her route barely gets any screen time compared to Lyara's whole beastmaster princess arc. Lyara's the half-elf adopted daughter and there's this whole thing about her hidden power that the plot keeps teasing. The branching is real though, I ended up on a lesbian poly ending with Luna and Takara that I didn't even know was possible. The dark elf enemies have these ridiculous outfits that leave nothing to imagination, and there's a scene where Kunya gets captured that goes places I wasn't expecting from a fantasy VN. The writing sometimes forgets what tense it's in, jumping from past to present mid-paragraph, but then it'll hit you with a line about how Kunya's fingers taste like desert salt and you forgive it. Wish the beastmaster powers actually showed up more in the sex scenes instead of just the combat text crawls.