Template!! An Angel's Gift

The beginning seems pretty decent. The music is good, the characters are fun. The focus here is less on the story and more on what actually happens. The game doesn't try to spend several hours slowly building things up and introducing its characters. For those who are tired of long build-ups and stories that only start getting interesting after 10 hours, everything here is much simpler. And that doesn't mean worse. And then, suddenly... We have a girl who casually climbs in through the window, gets into the protagonist's bed and crawls under the blanket. Then she gets tired of waiting and simply tries to wake you up by jumping on you. Well, why not. Then she grabs your shoulder, and the two of you run across the street on a yellow light. Romantic, right? You even call her "cutie" out loud. Why not? Then you meet another cute girl, accidentally knock her over, and she lands in a rather awkward position, not immediately understanding what just happened. Our "white panties" girl, of course, gets offended and runs away. Everything seems pretty cliché. But I guess that's part of the charm. The characters are cute and their reactions are funny. Do they make you smile? They do. The art is good, the music is nice, and there is an atmosphere to it. You can also just have a laugh at some of the ridiculous situations. Why not. And most importantly, the game has a free R18 patch from the publisher. After about 2.5 hours of playing, I decided to buy the Steam version for 530 hryvnias. By that point, I was sure I genuinely liked the game, rather than just finding it interesting for the first couple of hours. The length is also fine. The game is around 20-30 hours long. Not the shortest, but it isn't stretched out to a hundred hours either. A perfectly reasonable length for a visual novel like this. Overall, I like it. This isn't the kind of game where I'm expecting some incredible story or deep narrative. It simply gives me cute characters, funny situations, a good atmosphere, and a chance to relax. And that's enough.

Concise Game Review: Template!! An Angel's Gift《てんぷれっ!!》 — Four Heroines, One Walking Romcom Template (Scroll down for the detailed verdict) 🎮 Game Value ✅ Strongly recommended for fans of lighthearted moege, school romcoms, sweet heroine routes, and classic visual-novel tropes, in which you play as Sakurai Sora, an astronomy-club president affected by TMPL (Temporary Magnetic Pattern Linkage), a strange condition that causes familiar fictional clichés to happen around him in real life. A childhood friend in his bed, a toast-in-mouth transfer student who becomes his stepsister, a maid falling from the sky, and a strict class representative are only the beginning. 4 individual heroine routes turn those absurd situations into actual romances. 👤 Protagonist Male Protagonist — Sakurai Sora, astronomy-club president and reluctant “trope magnet” affected by TMPL. 🧬 Genre Visual Novel / Romance / School Romcom / Slice of Life / Moege / Multiple Routes / Adult（R18） 🔞 Adult Content ■ Core Themes ● Pure Love（純愛） ● Sweet Romance（イチャラブ） ● Childhood Friend Romance（幼なじみ） ● Step-Sister Romance（義妹） ■ Sexual Content ● Oral（口） ● Vaginal（膣） ● Creampie（中出し） ● Masturbation（オナニー） ● Nipple Play（乳首責め） ● Paizuri（パイズリ） ● Footjob（足コキ） ● Cowgirl（騎乗位） ● Doggy Style（後背位） ● Spooning（側位） ● Facial（顔射） ● Bukkake（ぶっかけ） ■ Fetishes & Extras ● Shaved Genitals（パイパン） ● Virgin（処女） ● Maid（メイド） ● Shibari（緊縛） ● Foot Fetish（足フェチ） ● Wetness（濡れ） ● Swimsuits（水着） ● Uniforms（制服） ● Pantyshots（パンチラ） ● Outdoor Sex（野外H） ● Bath Sex（風呂H） ※ Note: The Steam base game contains no sex. An external R18 patch restores 22 H-scenes: 6 each for Sena and Rinne, and 5 each for Shio and Miyori. The scenes primarily focus on consensual romance while featuring several sexual positions, locations, and fetishes. 🔓 Censorship Mosaic censorship; an external R18 patch restores the removed adult content, but the H-scenes remain mosaicked. ⏱️ Game Length 4 main heroine routes plus additional endings. Total playtime depends heavily on reading speed, voice playback, and completion goals. ⚔️ Challenge No mechanical difficulty. The common route contains 7 choices; the first 6 can affect heroine-specific scenes, CGs, and route availability, while the 7th and final choice determines which available heroine route Sora enters. 🎨 Illustration Beautiful 2D anime artwork by Yuki Takano, Natsuki Tanihara, Mamu Mitsumomo, Yuu Kisaragi, and Shayuri, remastered in 4K with expressive sprites and numerous heroine-specific CGs. The gallery separates complete scenes from representative CGs, while Sprite Mode lets you create simple custom compositions with the game's characters and backgrounds. 🎵 Music & Sound Japanese voice acting features Hana Akino as Shio, Sakura Hanazawa as Sena, Sara Ayumi as Miyori, and Sora Haruka as Rinne, alongside a voiced supporting cast. The Extra menu also includes a music player for listening to the game's soundtrack separately. 🔁 Replay Value 4 heroine routes, 2 additional endings, Monolog scenes, gallery completion, Sprite Mode, and the music player add completion value beyond the main story. An All Lock option can also reset all game progress for players who want to unlock everything again normally. 📝 Review, Gameplay & Verdict 📖 Story Sakurai Sora's life changed after Algol, a winged hamster-like creature, transferred Temporary Magnetic Pattern Linkage, or TMPL, to him. Years later, the condition keeps pulling him into romance-VN clichés involving his childhood friend, new stepsister, a maid, and his strict class representative. Template!! turns those clichés into school comedy, astronomy-club activities, friendship, and romance. The common route introduces all four heroines before Sora enters one of their individual routes. 🎮 Gameplay ① Common Route Choices Seven choices appear before the route split. Earlier answers can unlock scenes and CGs and affect which heroines appear at the final route choice. ② Four Heroine Routes Se…

I'm still going through the game and so far it's fun. Having said that, the only reason I bought the game and left a review ASAP was because of the Mac build. Not many publishers are willing to release a Mac port, so kudos for that.