Queen At Arms

One of my very favorite western-style visual novels. Queen At Arms is a medium-complexity fantasy adventure otome, with optional (but fairly integral) romance. The art style you can see from the screenshots, but particularly worth noting on a technical level is the original sountrack - I've very rarely had game music a) get stuck in my head or b) get stuck in my head and NOT drive me ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, but this manages both. Writing-wise, the pacing is excellent - there is solid use of timed-choice events that lend urgency to battle scenes and other, smaller-scale conflicts. The major characters (i.e, the romanceable characters + the MC's brother) are almost all wonderfully-written, with clearly-differentiated personalities and voices. There is some unevenness to the writing quality overall, however; some parts of the game are more polished than others, which makes sense given that it was released in two editions, with quite a bit of new content added in the Deluxe edition. (The only full character storyline that obviously suffers from this is Head Archer Cesca's.) What really makes QaA stand out to me over other VNs of similar objective quality level is its handling of gender, sexu…

This is a very narrow recommendation. This also contains spoilers. A few direct ones, others less so. If I could give it stars, it would be a 2.51/5. This is a story with a lot to say and for the most part it says it very well. It is concise, without overstaying on any one point or topic. It actually focuses so much on being direct and straightforward that sometimes you might wish it actually spent more time on certain topics. However, despite interesting and diverse characters, relevant, important and simply good topics and overall great quality in story telling, it is severely let down by a lack of main character agency, garish and caricature-styled art, and its price. The good is that, as I said, it tells its story very well and very concisely. There is no lack of understanding of where your character is, what you're doing and why you're doing it. It doesn't muddle its content and its characters are presented in a unique way to complement their uniqueness. Each one is diverse and for the most part present, none of them losing their grounding. Even the most over the top character (Bryce) manages to come off as a real person going through some very real issues. The decision syste…

I wanted to like this game, I really, really did. I've tried (and failed) twice now to play even one route, but I just can't. I just don't care (at all) about any of the characters. ANY of them. I just can't get into this.

Do you like choose your own adventure games? Do you like romancing adorable/hot people? Do you like leading an entire army and having the wieght of all of their lifes on your shoulder? At least two of those? THEN THIS GAME IS FOR YOU. Ok but guys. This game is amazing. 11/10 would go back and buy a second copy for full price. So mechanically? Very sound. Its got a ♥♥♥♥ ton of save files for you and if you immediately regret a disction just scroll back with your mouse. There's a few timed events were you have to pick what to do in like 20 seconds which feels refreshing cause its still enough time to read all the options and think but not so much time that you don't feel the importance of thinking quickly. The romance options? SUPER SOLID. I've only done 2 of the routes right now but hot diggity damn are they good. They've got girls and guys for you to seduce and they're all like super good??? Its got mystery and intrege and your gonna be like 'oh what the what??? What going on???' and then your gonna go 'oh daaaaammmm' No spoilers or nothing but i was very impressed by the writing of this story. And also like you thought this was just a choose your own adventure? NOPE ITS ALSO…

I really like this game. I have only gotten two endings so far, and I am glad to say that (even with my limited experience) I don't regret spending my money. I have only one complaint(maybe two): there is no way outside of achievements to keep track of which endings you've gotten, and there is no CG gallery. While I can live without a CG gallery, the lack of ending gallery is quit annoying. I would like it if this was patched in, but I don't think that will happen. I don't have any complaints with the ''gameplay'' or with the story (so far), so I recommend this game to everyone who is looking for a good VN to read/play.

i absolutely love this game. the character development is amazing. at first you are this shy and timid person but as you go deeper into the story you slowly become more confident and brave which is pretty cool because i feel that there is rarely any main character development while the other characters slowly grow and become a better version of themselves. i really do like how your character is pretending to be a guy because it gives the story and game a bit of a interesting twist and that your not this really girly and typical main female character. i really like all your companions and romance options. currently im trying to romance the prince because he is one of my favourite characters so far. this game was defintely worth the money i paid, i dont regret buying this game at all. i really do reccomend this game to everyone who wants something a bit different from the usual visual novels