Your Crown Is Mine

Very good. Second VN I've completed, after SaDistic BlooD. If this game is taught me anything: if there is someone who is acting very mysterious and suspicious, and she traps you against a wall, lies to you, makes deals behind your back, has a questionable background and family, acts kind of erratically, a bit chaotic, scheming; but she always promises to look after you— Say yes. Always side with her. Trust her. Let foreign businesses take over your country. That whole election popularity doesn't really matter when she's on your side.

This is a fun, complex, & lengthy stat raiser/VN where you play as a villainess and decide to be the next sovereign of the country after your fiance dumps you. I got two bad endings on my run, the first of which came from accidentally running out of energy (oops!) Do not let any of your stats hit zero!! Immediate bad ending lol. This game does offer this REALLY interesting system that lets you basically turn back the clock and reset stats as needed to survive whatever check you failed. It warns of potential consequences tho, which intrigues me. This game definitely has a lot of mysteries that I have just begun to scrape the surface of! I had a lot of fun with the game, even if the stat raising got a tad repetitive in Act 2, and I'm def going to play more and try to get more of the endings! I played blind this time but mayhaps next time I'll use a guide (the dev has a guide linked on the title screen!) Anyways, I highly recommend this game if you like villainess and/or stat raisers!

I really enjoyed this game. I love the dating sim genre-- but I've never played a stat builder type Otome/Yuri. It was surprisingly fun and a good introduction to the genre! The characters were well fleshed out, as well as the story being interesting and full of twists with great writing which I think carries the game. I would've liked more chemistry between the characters as I think Rosalie was the only character that had true dedication to the main, with less romantic tension with Helius (my favourite love interest). The sprite art was not as good as the CGs and backgrounds, but I don't know the credits of the art because there wasn't an easily viewable credit screen. So I don't know if it was all by the same artist. It looks inconsistent. But for a first game by this developer, it was really wonderful anyway. Thanks so much for the experience!