Serafina's Crown

I am very pleased with this romance visual novel. The protagonist is a person of color. There are other people of color. There are queer characters / romance paths. And - get this - there are polyamorous characters. HOLY F*CK! Thank you. Just thank you, Woodsy Studio for all the diversity in your VN, and actually acknowledging polyamorous people exist and portraying them in positive light. The story, outside of the romance paths, is quite good. The protagonist is not a princess or queen, but a regent. The game features a mini-game of sorts that involves debating and winning debates affects certain aspects of the story. As regent, the protagonist makes several important decisions about her nation's affairs. Some people have compared this VN to Long Live the Queen, but I don't really see it like that. LLtQ had more to do with stats and very careful planning, whereas, Serafina's Crown is not really like that. Making choices affects stats affiliated with certain gods in the game, but t...

I loved Serafina's Crown so much that as soon as I was done with it, I went online to the developer's webpage and bought the preceding story the same night. I have over a dozen story/novel game titles in my Steam library, both visual and non, and half of them are garbage. But I keep trying because eventually I find titles like this that make it worthwhile. What made this title standout for me? In this particular case, I couldn't find a character in the story that I did not like. Even the most unlikable one had a certain malevolent charm. With many stories I find I'm barely moved by the protagonist, let alone the supporting characters. In this story, I was so interested in the supporting characters I felt I had to get the original story immediately. Also, the voice acting for the whole lot of them was impressive even when compared to mainstream expensive titles. They seemed so energetic and invested, it made it much more fun. This is primarily why I recommend this game. I feel there...

I started playing [I] Serafina's Crown [/i] because I enjoyed other games created by these devs. Though honestly I didn't expect much as the release date was years ago and...I'm not really a fan of politics but luckily I was mistaken! Quite soon I immersed myself deeply into those political intrigues. Plus, the meeting of the representatives of the main Houses had the same name as our Russian House of Parliament. I found it amusing XD The story itself feels quite short BUT it has some important problems my MC had to solve via debates. For example, election of the next royal successor, investigation of the queen's death or the right approach to suddenly appeared God. There were so many issues to discuss: of great and minor importance. It was exciting! I liked the intricate, elaborated system of different Houses, worshiping different gods and following different policies. It was great fun to debate over literally everything. Usually, when I play visual novels I quickly detect the mos...

A cheap price for a very well made Visual Novel. Background and CG graphic are really Beautiful Music fits the mood of the story , enjoyable while going through a nice story. The excellent voice acting really brings each character to life. ( Good Job) The debate system is really fun. A must for any Visual Novel Lover.

Serafinas Crown was a very pleasant surprise. It's a sequel to Serafinas Saga (sadly, not on steam), but it's not necessary to play the first game. I didn't and had no problems to follow the story at all. The strongest point are the characters. They were very different from each other and felt like real people. Not-so-professional writers tend to let all their characters sound pretty much the same, no matter how old they are or what background they have. Not so in Serafinas Crown. The story was very good, there were lots of options to solve given problems, and different outcomes to it. I won't spoil anything here. There's partial, really nice voice acting as well. The only thing people might dislike is the artwork, although I have to say I didn't mind it. It might be a bit rough, but it's still nice. The CGs felt a bit out of place, but I couldn't care less. I played the game 5 times to get all the achievments and all endings (skipping parts I already read), and it took me about ...

I love this game. In short, between the various endings, both romantic and which character is ultimatle given power, it's very replayable. It has funny dialogue, good characters that are consistent and charming (for once, I found all of the romantic options to be good) and a really fun playing system that's very unique to this game. You end up hating the villian (letting you find out who that is for yourself) so much but in the way the writers intended. The art style is a perfect balance between being too cartoony and trying too hard to look real and failing. It's a fun, funny game with a mystery, a good progtagonist and very fun to replay between the different endings and the different way you can socialize.

I'm quite pleased by the diversity of this story: Diverse political views (some of which very modern), diverse interests, diverse (and deep) character background, diverse national matters, diverse personalities, diverse profanity (yep), diverse deities, diverse (and interesting) choices, and diverse sexual preferences (maybe more than you'll think of...). The voice acting are kind of okay for me, and I don't actually like the music and the debate system. But the story alone is strong enough for me to recommend this visual novel.

What happens when you have politics AND a murder mystery right in front of you? A whole lotta trouble and a bunch of colorful characters coming together... To cause even more trouble. You like court intrigue and such? Good. I would wonder if this game would teach me manners... But it seems like that doesn't always solve your problems either. What's that you say?! A MYSTERY IS AFOOT?! Then let the hunt begin! ^(^-^)^

I liked it. It took politics and a murder mystery and actually made it engaging with the use of a mini game of high vs low numbers. Didn't love the PC being a crying lovesick mess out the gate, but luckily didn't have to deal with it much. I actually did really well at the mini game. And then I died a horrible death XD I may try it again someday, but once through was enough for now.

After playing through all the endings, I finally figured out the trick to the numbers mini game. As someone who teaches argument, I kind of wish the debates hadn't been reduced to a numbers game. It's an okay visual novel, but I grew tired of the mini game after a couple play throughs.