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[後半に日本語レビューあり] [h1]Victory or Fall: A Cute Magical Girl H-ADV with Branching Routes[/h1] Marina Katsuragi gains the ability to transform into magical girl "Pastel Marie" through a chance encounter with Aramaki, a mysterious little creature. Her mission: drive back the monsters emerging from dimensional rifts and seal each one safely. The cheerful, ordinary girl carries out a secret war every day, unknown to anyone around her. For Marina, the fight is both a duty and a pledge to protect what she holds dear. This is the opening entry—Parallel Episode 1: Magical Girl Pastel Marie☆彡—in a popular series' spinoff trilogy by Lusterise, known for their transformation heroine H-ADVs. Player choices branch into two paths: the "Victory Route" and the "Defeat (Corruption) Route." The victory route tells a story of Pastel Marie fulfilling her magical girl duty with integrity intact. The defeat route, by contrast, depicts Pastel Marie's gradual corruption at the hands of monsters—rendered carefully across multiple H-scenes. Watching the sweet-faced Pastel Marie lose her radiance is the kind of bittersweet emotional contrast unique to the genre. Neither route alone reveals the full picture; expe…

This game remakes popular situations from previous Exstia series titles so those who enjoyed the previous works will definitely like it. I would have liked to see more stories that are unique to Pastel Mari such as the school being taken over by monsters or her friends being brainwashed by monsters without her knowledge while the battles are going on or an even more extreme take on Marina's naive nature seen in the previous games. The bad ending at the end was especially fantastic! Kemonomimi are great! However, in the teacher's defeat ending I would have liked to see Marina properly "educated".