Ai no Uta

[h1]Potential landmines: 18+ content (non-consensual), NTR[/h1] I was gifted this game by a friend in Steam who asked to remain anonymous in the hopes of translating it for an English audience. [b]Ai no Uta[/b] is an adult otome visual novel featuring romance and fantasy set in a medieval Western period. The game runs on LiveMaker assets by Magic House that features a governor's daughter Eleanor Vale who inherits the legacy of a lost race on her 18th birthday. Eleanor's older brother Aldrut Will Vale is betrothed to a noble of a neighbouring country. At the same time, he harbours deep feelings for Eleanor. During Eleanor's birthday party, Sean, a retainer of another realm and of the same race as Eleanor enters her life. And a wandering minstrel Kyle Bruga has recently entered Eleanor's hometown, hoping to seek out the lost race through Eleanor. The story follows Eleanor as she comes to terms with her lineage, and develops a special relationship with an older nonblood-related brother, a vassal of a lost race, or a bard. In terms of plot, there are some forms of adult content that might prove uncomfortable to some readers. They take up a very small portion of the game, though, an…

[h3] PLOT [/h3] The story started with talking about the relationship with faeries and humans, the faeries need human's love mana for them to survive, and since the human stop believing and loving faeries, they are dying. [spoiler] yes, a faery and not fairy, thus, faeries and not fairies. I looked up the Internet and just came to know that they are actually quite different, and not only in terms of spelling but also in terms of kinds. [/spoiler] It turns out that Eleanor is not actually human, and she is actually a faery and Sean (one of the LI) came to get her, tho he will respect her wishes for wanting to stay in the human realm or return to the faery realm. [h3] Love Interests [/h3] [b] Kyle [/b] Tho his design is not my favourite but his personality is. I tend to like bright, cheerful and dumb characters right after yanderes. Whatsmore, he is also a travelling musician who sings badly, lolol. He also teaches Eleanor to play the Lute, the instrument that he always carries around the world with him. He is also one of those who believes in faeries and always wishes to see them. [b] Sean [/b] I like his design the best, tho his personality cames off a bit cold to the humans, …

I really wanted to like this, I'm a sucker for the blonde princly type but *sigh* the brother trope (And no I don't care if they're not technically related, they still call eachother brother and sister the entire time) yuck. Aside from that, the game is just kinda poorly written. It might be a translation thing where it just sounds off in English? Idk. What I do know, is that the text box takes up like 70% of the screen. It makes it very hard to focus on the one upside to game, which is the art/cgs. There is no character sprites though, which I found myself missing terribly. I ended up returning the game after I almost completed a route. There was just nothing there compelling me to continue. The chemistry between the characters is nonexistent.

(Thank you for the English Fan Translation!) Despite the CTRL button skipping EVERYTHING and the concerns other people had, I actually found myself enjoying this story. The MC is really cute, kind hearted and bright. The guys are fun too... Even if two of them have rather... Possessive traits. ~.~ The game is bright and carries a hopeful message of unity. There are only two Choices to make: one for which route you'll be on and one if you wanted a Good Ending or not. Simple. To a point. Has lewd scenes. The English is pretty spot on and like I said, even if other people disagree on certain aspects... I had a different view of it. But that's just me. Either way. Thanks you! :>

3 routes to choose from, there's an english patch and decisions do not always impact the route like you expect. Spicy scenes and a very fun VN!

The game is pretty but I could not play it due to the game staying in a tiny window was hard to read the text and unable to change the window size.