the first thing that gets me is the wolf boy doesn't look like a wolf boy. he's got the ears and tail sure but his face is just some guy. a cute guy but still. i spent the whole opening scene wondering if the sprite was bugged or if this was intentional and honestly i still don't know. the retired hunter thing is whatever, you're old and tired and this horny werewolf keeps showing up at your door. classic setup.

the dry humping scene caught me off guard. not because it was hot, which it was, but because the sound design is nonexistent and suddenly there's this wet squelching text description that made me laugh out loud. my neighbor probably thinks i'm insane. the game doesn't care though, it just keeps going with the rutting and the marking and then suddenly you're getting a handjob from a monster who's also kind of a sweetheart. the romance part is actually there, buried under all the explicit stuff. he wants to be yours. you can name yourself whatever, pick pronouns, the mc has no sprite which is smart because then you can imagine whatever you want.

i forgot to mention the futa tag. it's there. the protagonist can be trans and the game handles it without making a big deal which i appreciate. no weird fetishization, just bodies doing body things. the oral sex scene is graphic in a way that feels almost clinical but then the cock warming part gets weirdly tender. like he's just... staying there. inside. while you both exist together. it's intimate in a way the rest of the game isn't.

the bad endings have three variants and one of them involves violence that actually made me uncomfortable. not in a hot way. the game warns you about graphic violence but i wasn't expecting the tonal whiplash from sweet wolf boyfriend to... that. the multiple endings thing means you have to replay and the guide helps but some choices feel arbitrary. why does complimenting his ears lead to death? makes no sense. the cgs are nice though, the art style shifts slightly between them like different artists worked on different scenes. maybe they did. the fairytale tag is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, it's more like a dark fable about loneliness than anything magical. 20k words is short but it took me about two hours because i kept stopping to stare at the wall after certain scenes. not sure if that's a recommendation or a warning.