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I'm not really sure if I should give positive or negative review. There's no option for in-between.

Senren Banka is an amazing VN, after playing Sanobawitch a few years ago I instantly bought this on its launch day. And yes, the story is amazing, although at the time I writing this review (2023-03-03) I have only play 3 out of 4 main route (Mako, Murasame & Lena), and side stories haven't been touched.
You know I'm glad the title is translated by NekoNyan instead of SP. But I have set my expectation way too high, while the translation is not as fully cringe as SP, I can't help but feel a little disappointed. I drop this a few times, and then back playing it again, over and over again. I'm not sure if I want to continue the rest of the story because of the translation. It's that kind of feeling where I'm still curious about story and I want to see it more and play it again and then when I see the translation, ugh, I can't, I wish I could forget what I see. Yes I am that kind of guy who picky about translation. There was times when I use Textractor and machine-translate it myself directly from Japanese text, but it's not really convenient and it crash or failed sometimes.

So what make me hate the translation?

• The first one is, SP style when joke/wordplay "converted" (not translated) into western joke. VN are niche game, hardly any normies play this, no need to change Japanese joke or meme into what they think as a western equivalent of the joke, pretty sure majority of the player already understand and familiar with Japanese joke & meme anyway. For example "Chotto matta!" translated to "Stop right there criminal scum!". That's cringe. Also everyone already know who it is, no one force you to translate "Roboneko" as "Doraemon". And there are more stuff like that.
  
• And the second one is inconsistency, a lot of it. For example 竹刀 doesn't even have consistent translation as sometimes translated as "bamboo sword", "wooden sword", and sometimes simply as "shinai". And the second one is much more important because it's a character name: 白狛, where in name section it's translated as "White Komainu", but in dialogue it's "Shirokoma". If you have good memory, actually listen to dialogue and read the text, you will notice more things like this.

But other than that, there are also good things that I like from NN translation:

• Original Japanese name order, they are still "FamilyName GivenName".
  
• Original honorific included, they still write -chan, -san, etc. at almost all of them.
  
• Using original measurement, they didn't convert it into feet when the dialogue mention it in meter, and also still translating floor originally but with added explanation instead of straight convert it into meter/feet.

Although I have mixed feeling about their choice to leave the princess title not translated.


So what's my opinion about this game?
Game & story: ★★★★★ (only 3 out 4 routes finished so far)
Translation: ★★☆☆☆
I'm not really sure if I should give positive or negative review. There's no option for in between. I wish there's more than Yes or No in Steam review, better if there's separate points for gameplay, bgm, story, etc..

So why do I choose to buy this 3 years old "3D anime style" game over the newer and more realistic looking 3D games like AI*Shoujo and HoneySelect2? That's because of simplicity, flexibility, and the most important thing: the uncanny valley.
Creating an anime style character based on a realistic looking character from other media (for example Marie Rose, Tifa (Remake), or even Eimifukada) will work all the time. But I can't say the same for the opposite, and also the realistic art style have a huge uncanny valley, limiting the number of possible character creations (trust me, realistic looking Prinz Eugen & Kurumi doesn't look good at all).

This steam version is actually just a sex simulator, the whole story mode which is a 3D Dating Sim is removed entirely. To restore it a patch is available from official site, if you care about story, because I do. There's also an unofficial mod to expand the feature that also include all official free updates & bugfixes bundled in one patch, I recommended you to install it.

The story (story mode) itself is so-so, maybe somewhat on weak side but it's not that bad, just don't expect something like an actual Dating Sim or VN games. But progressing a relationship with a custom character is sure a fun experience.
And the game is actually DRM-free so you can enjoy your privacy without being seen on steam, just run the game straight from .exe not from steam launcher.


Score: ★★★★★ - Need more tissues!

This is way too serious & formal for a hentai game review, I also wonder why.

A cheap, short, but good JRPG style adult game. If you actually read it, the story is actually pretty good and funny with some moral message in it (seriously!).

There are 2 type of stretching: stretching the monsters which the end result is killing them (in short: rpg turn based battle) and stretching the hotties which the end result is pleasure (in short: sex scene).

There are 3 hotties stretching scene with each of them have slightly variation to make simple animation, it's not bad, just typical cheap games CG. But the most important thing it's not a stolen pixiv image.
There are some choices at the end the game that alter the story a little bit and one choice that can give you one extra scene (or one less scene depends on how you see it) for the final stretching scene.

Playtime: around 60 minutes

Score: ★★★☆☆ - Not bad!

Tutorial/control: (since it's not documented)
MLB: continue dialogue, select (in sex scene)
MRB: back (in scene)
MMB: nut (in scene)
Wheel: next/previous dialogue, animate the scene
ESC: end current scene


The Review :
The game actually a decent eroge, it's a very short kinetic novel with decent story and interactive sex scenes. The scene didn't animated automatically and you have to scroll up and down with mouse, which I think it's not bad, you can ejaculate anytime and as many times as you want, but there's no visible semen and orgasm animation is kinda bad, which is a big minus.
There's only 1 scene for each girl, and the third scene, the threesome, is just a reuse and putting both previous scenes side by side, another minus point.

Score: ★★☆☆☆ (Just barely not pass the recommendation score)


(Tips for devs: add visible fluid like other game, and slightly modify/rework the threesome scene, and this going to be a positive review)

So this game is recently updated and it's nothing like what it was before, like totally different game.
There's no dungeon or any kind of adventure or exploration, it's more like dorm or pet simulator, you choose which monster girl you want to place in it, then ... umm... I actually not sure what to do after that, there's no instruction, no quick guide, no hint, or anything about how to play this game.
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2864553910

It also very buggy, interaction feel so sluggish and laggy, like 5s-10s late before prompt option actually appear or the girl starts moving, body parts clipping through clothes, the girls walks through wall, and the game crashed twice during 30 minutes of trying to figure out what game this is.
https://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2864553820


If you ask my opinion, this is actually worse than before, I'd prefer the initial release, buggy 3D adventure about doing things with the girls, even though it was relatively bad but that one have it's own "fun" aspect, unlike the current version.

Maybe the dev should release this one as different title, maybe "Monster Girl Dorm" or something, and just polish the previous version of the game, the 3D adventure one a little bit.

So you've read all the good things about this game from other reviewers?
Now let me list all the bad things that I can think of:

• Screwed up matchmaking, most pvp games have skill based matchmaking even on casual match, this game they use Tier based matchmaking, which the higher tier the more powerful the ship, and as you can guess, you can buy higher tier ships with real money. And no, they didn't distribute the players with good stats and bad stats evenly between teams, they just put random players in match in random order so the two teams have same number of ships for each tier and class.
  
• Premium ships are overpowered as fugg, you can say all you want, but compared to f2p grindable ships, it's obvious. Even the semi-premium, the one that also obtainable for like half a year to grind with special resources (coal) are beasts compared to regular tech-tree ships.
  
• Ranked match is a joke. No actual matchmaking, and absolutely no MMR system, where one team can be composed of actual good players, and the other one can be a bunch of mankees. Just pray RNG not putting you on that second team.
  
• Balance issue, some nation have very good performance and very easy to play ships while some other have unreliable and below average performance. Aircraft Carrier already unnecessary and making the match pretty much not fun, now they add Submarine, the most smartas class they recently add to the game. Oh should I mention Superships with special gimmicks too?
  
• Economy issue. When you play a match, there are credit incomes (earned from damaging opponents & playing objectives) and credit spent (you basically rent the ship to send it to the battle, yes for the ship you've bought you still rent it for battle, and you have to pay for every shells and torpedoes you fired). It's not noticeable and you might not realize it when you playing low to mid tier ships, but once you play higher tier ships, you will realize that you have small income when you just playing decent, or even gain negative amount of credits if you play bad or if you are in the losing team. Yes, playing high tier ships could cause you losing credits instead. But wait, they have the solution: "Premium Account", they tweak the income & credit spend calculation in so wicked way, so even if you play bad in match, if you have premium account active you will not lose any credits, YAY! It will cost you money, or great luck you can get from supercontainer (lootbox/gacha)
  
• Sheetie lootbox/gacha system. Supercontainer is a lie, it's 1:100 chance you will get good items from it, the rest of the rewards are more or less similar to regular container, with the number of dropped items increased. Also have you heard the infamous Makarov Container? Basically they rigged the special Christmas Premium lootbox, so everyone who are lucky enough to receive a ship from that container will always 100% get Makarov than other ships on the list, which is basically a clone of F2P grindable Germany cruiser Nurnberg which is not really a good ships because how easy that thing to be destroyed, what an amazing lootbox.
  
• Aim bug/exploit. Apparently this game has some kind of auto-aim, it very noticeable in vertical axis from own ship POV, the lead you make from your shot is not actually 1:1 if the target is moving vertically or diagonally relative to your ship POV, the actual shot will be automatically adjusted based on the target course the moment when the shot is fired. In some case where the target is sailing straight it easy to exploit (sky aiming is a thing, and it's broken af), but if the target maneuvering enough you can expect to miss the target completely.
  
• Beta tester, Community Contributors Program, and "We appreciate your feedback" are all big lies. They just want to make money, by teasing good ships, overhype them, and sell them as premium.
  
• I want to comment about Russian, but I think I shouldn't.

The latest game from AsicxArt, the developer of Fox Hime series and Fluffy Store, this time with branching plots and multiple endings as their major improvement from their previous titles.

The story is good, but it kind of lack plot twist and the climax doesn't really have a huge impact. The genre, this is more like an adventure story than a romance story, with addition of some comedy and actions. It has 2 partial branching plots/paths, bad endings, good endings and one unlockable/secret ending. The overall story is good and entertaining, but the secret ending is a bit weird and doesn't really click, at least in my opinion. There's also one ending that connect to Fluffy Store univese.

The art and illustration is really good, like their previous titles, this title also use Live2D for the main character. Also as improvement, some side characters are also drawn, even though their art quality gap is huge.
The main character is fully voiced and some side characters are also voiced (including the trio from Fluffy Store). The main character voice acting is really good and really match the character. But the musics are just mediocre.

The translation is really good, and nothing like other SakuraGame releases. All thanks to woosk!

And finally for my contentment/"how much I like this game" score, I'd give 4/5 - there are many other more expensive VNs from indie devs, but not as good as this.

Well, as the title said, this game is about some important business of a student with her coach, although the title said it was "funny", there is nothing funny about this game and it's totally not a comedy game, but the business is certainly "fun".

There are some story here and there but I was too distracted with the fast-paced nature of the game so I can't really comment much about it, but I'm 70% sure it has a story in it.

About the graphic and animation, honestly, I was expecting a real-time 3D rendered animation, turns out it was a pre-render or a playback of a video in 30 fps, so the image quality is not as great as I expected, and because of that things like changing camera angle and changing position are also impossible. But the animation quality & facial expression are very good. The background music is simple and the girl is fully voiced (yeah, only the girl). Oh, I almost forgot, it's not censored, so no mosaic, yay!

It's a 3 part video with 2 sliding puzzles in between them, it's not hard but I'm a bit distracted because the image of the blocks are the animation. So I'd say this was more of an adult anime instead of a "game".

So would I recommend it? Hmm, maybe, it's cheap so if you want to try something a bit different from those "Hentai Puzzle" games on Steam just grab this one instead. Also if this discounted, I would totally recommend it.


Also thanks to a friend who gifting me this game, I really appreciate it!

Interesting concept but it's a broken hot mess, it's buggy and not optimized, also weird and hard to control. It took years for the developer to fix only the achievement bug but not majority of the game issues, and sadly I already refund the game.

Ahh, it took me almost 100 hours to complete all routes, and all of them is really good (I'm just a slow reader, a native English or Japanese maybe could finish every routes in about 70 hours, or less).

This was a pretty long VN, for me the common route is about 15 hours, and the average of the girls route are also about 15 hours, except for Nene because her route is doubled, and for Wakana because she's a side character that you can romance, that only about 6 hours long. (again, I'm a slow reader)

Almost every aspect of this VN is really good, the story, the arts, illustrations, music, voice acting, and the UI is also almost fully featured, why I said "almost" is because it would be perfect if it had a flowchart, but not even a problem because most VN don't have flowchart too.
Also about illustrations, this title didn't have too many SD arts, but all of them are really cute.
The musics are really good too, will definitely buy it if they released the songs as dlc.
The translation is really good, name order isn't switched, and even some of the jokes are using equivalent/alternate version (because of culture difference, of course), none of them has went too far, I'm just glad this one is not translated by "SP".

Now about the story. Most of them are pure love story, so you can expect some sad moments, difficult times, and some conflicts before reaching the happy ending, there is no bad end (well, it has normal ending if you didn't date anyone, but it's not really a bad end).
It's hard to choose which route is the best, because all of them are just so good, including the bonus route is also as good as them but it was just so short. But I can give you an advice: for Nene and Meguru, you might want to play them as either your first playthrough or your last one, because I think both of them feels like a true end, and play the rest of the routes in between them.

Here is the summary of the routes (minor spoiler):
- Common route: Basically the introduction of the characters, and the explanation of what the witches are and what they do. Here the story is mainly about the Occult Club helping the students with their problems. There are more comedy in here without any serious problems.

- Nene: The purest and actually the most awkward girl. She just have one big regret that she wants to correct, but the price she had to pay is ridiculously high. This route is full of her background story, and why she decided to become a witch. And because of her route is doubled, you will get more sexy time with her, and some of them are really sweet (if you actually read it during the scene).

- Tsumugi: The sweetest and the most caring girl, but also a fragile one. She's also a witch like Nene, but despite of what everyone think it was Nene who is the most unlucky witch, it's actually Tsumugi, because her wish is so trivial yet the price she had to pay is considerably high. In this route you will learn about her background and also the adventure of her companion. There's a bit of actions here.

- Touko: The most mysterious girl, and the most 'pure love story' taking place on, even more dramatic than in Nene's route, so expect more sad moments here, but it also the one which had the happiest ending. In this route you will learn about her identity and the secret of her past, the story about Shuuji's past and beyond, and the reason why the title is called Sanobawitch/Son of a Witch.

- Meguru: The best girl :). Her route is almost feels like the true one, even though the most "main" main-heroine is Nene, and she's not even a witch just a normal girl. Outside she looks so cheerful, but deep inside she's hiding a big scar in her heart. In this route you will learn about her past and how to heal each other's heart, the most heartwarming route.

- Wakana: The funniest girl, I mean she's Shuuji's best friend, and she just won't hold back to say and ask anything to him, she is also a bit tsundere. In this short story you can see the story of what if the band they were form make a big success without any problems. The only true rom-com experience without any major problem.

So there you have it.
And then for the contentment score, the "how much I like this game" score, I'll give this title 5/5 - I absolutely love it.