Lavender Quartz 境界秤動

Glad to see the world of LQ slightly unveils its mystery, after all these years of wait. Words feel pale to illustrate how thrilled and staggered I am, as a die-hard LM7 sensei's fan who also participated the crowdfunding of Tobarashi's figure. Dang that was in 2018, time flies fast. The vibe is 10/10 for anyone into post-Soviet or perhaps post-Russo-Ukranian-war doomer dark fantasy. Also the complex relationship and tightly condensed emotions between the protagonist duo are simply sensational for Yuri lovers. The level of polish is probably something we'd expect from a small indie studio, meaning some assets are being reused while others are prepared but never ended up in the places they were originally meant for. There might be changes in the deadlines or the game concept itself, so a few assets ended up in places that felt close enough. Still, personally I got no complaints about that. As someone who also works on doujin and original stories, [b]I know things like this are alwa...

First impressions review Also, don't look at my playtime because I'm still aren't fluent at Japanese and spend some of it checking dictionaries here and there. ------------------ Lavender Quarts is a curious project that feels precisely what Tom Clancy would write in 2025 AD if he happened to be a huge maho-shoujo yuri fan. The game tells a story of Ikonu, a girl who fled her home village on the border right before war broke, leaving her family behind. Striving to get back to her family, Ikonu, being a talented hacker and having resistance to the mysterious "wand users" magic (I did tell "maho shoujo", didn't I?) begins cooperating with Cirsium, a woman proficient in martial arts, who's an agent of a certain government organ, interested in seizing a certain one of aforementioned "wand users". Despite the gritty artstyle, moody dark ambient with no music tracks whatsoever, and setting, obviously inspired by Eastern Europe (the backgrounds are too tidy and look way too civilized to be ...