Café Stella and the Reaper's Butterflies Reviews

Cute

Good

Very comfy and wholesome romance visual novel. If you want to get started with Yuzusoft games, I highly recommend this one as it's easy to navigate and has a lot of content (took 50 hours to complete everything, including after stories). All the routes have a bunch of amazing moments if you're a romance fan like I am. My only main critiques would be that: 1.) The MC's horniness will get on your nerves sometimes. He'd keep pushing the fmc of that route and sometimes it just makes you feel uncomfortable or downright annoyed at him (this is most abundant in Natsume's main route and Mei's after story), and 2.) There are quite a few typos throughout the routes. Not to blame the translation team, but sometimes a word will be missing or will be arranged in the complete wrong way to where it takes you out of the immersion in order to complete their sentence (this problem is most abundant in Mei's main route). The plot isn't that strong, but it doesn't have to be for these types of games, as you get what you paid for with the 5 routes that all have pretty fulfilling endings. If you have the game but have not started yet, this is my personal opinion of the routes ranked best to worst: Kanna -> Natsume -> Nozomi -> Suzune -> Mei In terms of quality, I'd put Kanna and Natsume together and then the other 3 a little below that.

All routes are great. Stand outs for me was Shiki Natsume, she has a beautiful voice.

Natsume's route is excellent, deep, and quite the roller coaster towards the end. I just wish the 18+ shit was dumped in the fucking garbage. The jokes, the references, just throw it in the fucking trash so this TALENTED GROUP OF WRITERS can focus on the magic they bring forth from this medium. I know people who would ADORE the stories here, but the vulgar stuff prevents me from ever even considering the idea of bringing them up.

I would say it's a cozy yuzusoft game, especially for the bgm. It soothe the soul. I really like listening to it. Though in term of plot, it has less impact compare to previous tittle, but it's still fun enough to read. The romance progress is also smooth in each route. There's no like speed running love in it, like confess in next chapter after common route, bang after that, and end of story. Nope, none of that. So it's still a good VN in my book.

Did Kanna and Natsume route for now, plan to do Suzune next. If you read a Yuzusoft VN and enjoy it you probably will like this one too obviously. The common route is fine, but it's one of their weakest in my opinion. The route though I think they're great, wholesome and better than expected (for the ones I did at least). I don't regret buying it for sure. Natsume Shiki's route alone is worth your time and money,.... She's that great, TRUST ME.