Soul Light Reviews

fox girl

Very sweet little VN about a girl tasked with saving her village with the magic she's yet to awaken, along with the fox girl and witch she meets along the way. A nice short story with multiple endings that was well worth the read! +Love the character's design - each of the characters had their own personality that I think the artist really captured in the smaller details of the CG, sprites, and chibis. +Love interests - I though they were both nice love interests and wanted to see both of their stories equally. +Music was pretty good throughout, a little stronger in the last half though. +Length - Took me about 3.5hrs to get through Anna's route on Auto-Play and another 3hrs to go through Hary's route and get the other endings. -Translation - Great for the most part, but as someone else mentioned could have used an English native proofreader. A lot of pronouns were mixed up. Honestly, the overall translation was fine and most were mistakes that I could gloss over. -Endings - The Good endings were cute and nice, but it wasn't intuitive how to get those endings... Took me a few go throughs before I got Anna's good ending. [spoiler] Need to only do Neutral responses and your love interest choices to get their good endings. Since you get "Light/Dark" points I would have assumed the good endings were getting all Light points or all Dark points with your girl of choice. [/spoiler] Ultimately, it was a nice read and I recommend!

Ah yes, this short, but interesting game. I was very fond of the artstyle that is definitely based on very specific cultural roots you don't see often in this anime-esque style. It sticks the landing just so between cutesy and more realistic proportions. This is certainly a non-standard catgirl protagonist design if I have ever seen one. But that's not what truly matters is it? The story of Soul Light is interesting no doubt, the worldbuilding is definitely there. It just falls a bit short on the tale it actually wants to show us. Anna and Hary are charming without question and Kaya's concept is at least servicable, but the game lacks the events to really connect everything. It feels like a somewhat simplistic journey with somewhat arbitrary choices and endings. There needed to be a little more investment in the characters beyond the two or three things the game focuses on I feel. This leads, at least in my perception, to Kaya's lack of personality or investment. Maybe I am wrong and it is intentional considering her power of Oneness and how emotions are tied to it, but I found Kaya a profoundly boring protagonist. And perhaps this is not even the story's fault, but something to do with the English translation. It appears to me that it was done by someone who is fluid in English, but also not comfortable enough with it to make the wording sound natural. It is better than a machine translation by any means, but a proof-reader or two would have gone a long way to make the game less stilted (the constant misuse of pronouns is a very obvious example). Overall I can tell the effort put in here and hope that a sequel or another story in this world can expand on it properly, because the worldbuilding was truly the most memorable part to me. I guess what I really want to say is that I would like more of this please. 6.5/10.

All in all a lovely game. At first I was worried if it would fall into the YA Novel Tropes pitfall, but as the game progressed on those wories were cast away. I think the writing and the characters are pretty nice and the 5,70 Euro I paid quite well worth. The English translation was at times a bit bothersome as it has a tendency to switch around pronouns for characters and objects willy nilly. Some translations were unnatural but still understandable though there were 3-4 times I had to use a bit of imagination to get what was meant. I would say the translations are not flawed enough to greatly hinder one's reading experience, just a bit weird.

I will be like this game: with 2 languages (and English is written not so good as Russian) Хорошая новелла про путешествие героини с 2 девушками, о которых мы узнаем в пути и может завести с ними отношения. В сеттинге есть необычные идеи, да и у всего происходящего присутствует глубина. Сюжет недолгий, но интересный, линейный, со временными расхождениями на 2 пути. Концовок 7 (гаремной нет, а всегда так хочется), но выборы для них должны быть уж слишком точными. Юри здесь милое, откровенных сцен нет, но очень много теплых моментов и пару раз можно увидеть девушек в интимной близости. Здесь яркий визуал, особенно музыка. С рисовкой всё на высоте, детализация и разрешение изображений отличное. Особенно радуют старославянские элементы на одежде у девушек. Good novel about journey of our female lead with 2 other girls, which we will learn closer on our way and will make one our dame of heart. Setting has some unusual ideas and overall there is depth to the narrative. Story is short, but involving, linear, with temporal branching on 2 routes. There is seven endings (and sadly no harem one, why so, my heart is not so small to not fit everyone), but choice requirements for them are a bit too strict. Yuri is very cute, there is no explicit love scenes, but instead a lot of warm moments and some intimate developments. Visuals are vivid, especially the music. Drawings are beautiful, detalization and resolution of images are splendid. And I pretty like these notes of Slavic culture on clothes of the girls.

I like it. If you like easy games where you can build relationships with other characters, you can play again and again for different outcomes, you'll love this game. +I love the art style and character designs +I really like the character stories +The music for the game is very fun