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God fucking dammit. Noel was such a fucking shit show.

Alright. Let me get this out of the way first. The story around Noel and Lily is good. Noel, your cold professional killing machine gets to be a bodyguard in some fancy school for rich girls, for Lily. At first she's not happy and even almost breaks down by the change of tone and atmosphere, but soon she's falling for Lily. Hard. Like super hard. So you have this relationship based around Noel trying to keep her job and everything a secret, while she also slowly dies (for story reasons), and struggles with the incoming fights, while Lily obviously realizes something is going on, but doesn't dare to ask. You know. The good stuff.
So. This is all nice and dandy. But this is an eroge. And there was apparently need for a LOT of uninteresting BS everywhere. You need to skip through a lot of uninteresting shit, as really, the only interesting thing is this one relationship. Maybe if the villains wouldn't have been introduced as the dumbest stereotypes ever, there could've been some fun. Maybe if there hadn't been a lot of completely random rape everywhere (no, not even really ero scenes, although the omake menu counts them). Something. But it just isn't. It felt like the vision of the writer and rest of the dev clashed hard, as it just doesn't harmonize at all. Or.. something like that.

Now. I'm not new to VNs, I know my ctrl. Still the point I get annoyed is if in the end the most important and pivotal part of this fucking relationship (Lily learning about Noel, including her impending death) is in a super predictable way interrupted, exchanged for dumb as fuck story shit, with what ultimately looked like some shitty asspull happy ending tacked on. I dunno. I held ctrl, as I was mad, but the CG made me think so.


The writer of this ended up continuing to write stuff like Toradora. Good choice. As much as I loved the interaction of Lily and Noel, god did this game end up fucking up whatever it possibly could. For no gain whatsoever. Now I know the reason, why nobody ever talks about this, even though it's one of the not so common yuri(?) games with a story.