I have played many Furyu's games, art style, vibe, music... are still my types but not the price. This one shouldn't be such expensive like that. Imma buy it again when it's on sale.

This isn’t Atlus-level gameplay — the comparison is inevitable since the price sits in the same range and genre. But if you’re here for FuRyu’s style, story, and music, with personality-based dialogue that makes the experience feel more personal (whether it leads to bigger narrative changes or not), it delivers. The production value is clear: strong art, solid voice acting, and character songs that set the mood. Where it falls short is cohesion. Persona makes bonds matter — they feed directly into combat and progression, so you feel the feedback of your choices. In Varlet, many of the systems (SSS chores, personality stats) end up feeling cosmetic or disconnected. They exist, but they don’t come together into a whole. This feels like FuRyu’s tunnel vision at work. They clearly went all-in on presentation — music, art, voice acting — but without a cohesive design philosophy tying it all together, the gameplay loop ends up hollow. Atlus has a clear north star (“RPG...

I'm generally an enjoyer of the Furyu formula of slop and I generally find it to be quite endearing but VARLET so far (I'm about halfway into the 2nd chapter) this game fails at even that. The gameplay is boring and doesnt even try to innovate. The first chapter is so insanely disappointing as it doesnt try to do anything interesting. This is made even worse by the fact that this game is very clearly copying The Caligula duology but fails at it MISERABLY. Both this game and Caligula 2 handle idols early on in the game. Cali2 goes for a very interesting take on the toxic aspects of idols from both the perspective of the fans and the idols themselves. VARLET on the otherhand? Shows a very surface level "The idol industry has bad apples in there but some idols are awesome!" take on it without a single interesting character moment. Even the "awakenings" in this game feel utterly meaningless and empty. The focus party member of the first chapter just decides that she disagree with the vie...

I played this game with my eye on the clock cause it didn't take long to realize I was going to refund it. Everything about it feels lackluster and lazy, which makes the price especially egregious. I find it astounding that the devs can so transparently attempt to copy Persona and fundamentally miss everything that makes the series appealing. These characters are boring, the presentation is lackluster, the combat is perfunctory. They essentially pulled the combat turn order system from FFX and they even screwed THAT up. Please, FuRyu, stop wasting time with the Monark team. How many more stinkers will they get to make? Get Yamanaka and Historia back and make Caligula 3 and stop screwing around with these one off trash piles with no original ideas.

I only played through the first dungeon of the game, so I don't have a full view of the game, but as someone who has enjoyed FURYU's other games, even the mediocre ones: this isn't it. Combat is slow, especially on the hard difficulty where every enemy felt like a damage sponge with little to no variety (and from what I've heard, that doesn't change much). The social aspects feel like a infinitely more hollow version of Caligula 1/2's and MONARK's. The writing felt incredibly hollow, and while I was interested as to where the story might go, I wasn't interested enough to sit through what little else the game had to offer. Even the music, which was my favourite park of those other games, was so forgettable I do not remember there even being background music. (Maybe the bosses have good music? Don't know, didn't get that far.) Maybe it gets better the further you go on, but with an opening that misses the mark so badly, I didn't have high hopes for that; at least not enough to continue ...

The game became monotonous much quicker than any game should. All of the SSS tasks follow the same process of scanning an area until something pops up or putting up posters, and combat devolves into an incredibly repetitive guard & break cycle that is done much better in other games.

If there was ever a FuRyu game I would describe as not worth your time, it is this one. It's the most painfully mediocre game I've played in a long time, and I have a very large tolerance for bad games (and often like them.) This is not that. You know the student interactions in Caligula? Picture they took that and made a whole game out of it but simplified all the complexity out of it, set in one tiny (but too large) little square and three indoor spaces and padded out the runtime by not giving you a sprint button and made you run around looking for things on the ground you can't see by clicking a sonar button repeatedly. The best part? Maxing the rating out doesn't even do anything as far as I can tell. Maybe it unlocks the true ending? I don't know, I maxed it out in chapter 4 and stopped doing anything aside from talking to other students, which I also stopped doing in chapter 6 because I realized they never had anything interesting to say and were one-dimensional. The dungeo...

I answered the personality test at the beginning of the game honestly, and the game me a psychopath. 10/10

I check the achievement tab and boy was i disappointed when it showed me how many chapters are in this game. Kind of a let down when i know how long my journey is. Like im just counting down at this point and waiting for the game to end. Not only that but why is all the achievement visible for me to see??? Easy ones i get for them to be visible, but why must all of the achievement be visible to help me checklist them? I'm still only at the first dungeon but seeing this is pretty disappointing to say the least. Maybe the game will get better as i continue IDK. Another note, why is the camera soooo zoomed in on the character? Why can't i adjust the camera back a little? I've messed with the setting hoping to see some improvement to no avail. What really bugs me the most is why does it feel like im ice skating when moving the character around? It feels like im not interacting with the ground with each steps? IDK how else to express that. You getting your revolution power felt so forc...

Though it takes some time for the combat to fully open up, and the streamlined structure won't be for everyone, Varlet gradually reveals itself to have one of the most tactically-minded combat systems of any Furyu game, opening up in really exciting ways the more you progress, with some really tense fights on hard. I'd strongly encourage anyone who enjoys Monark or Caligula 2 to go into this with an open mind and allow it the time to reveal more of its narrative and mechanical depth, I've personally found it to be really rewarding, only getting more interesting with each new system and wrinkle the combat adds.