Rain and the Wolf Steam Charts & Stats

Love it.

The art is very pretty and I love fairytales! I'll get to it later but leaving a review in advance because noombers. Praying for the DLC to get here sooner!

While out foraging in the woods, Rain hurts himself and falls unconscious; (un?)luckily for him, Zero happened upon his body and begins to nurse him back to health. Rain and the Wolf is mostly about how Rain handles being somewhat of a prisoner to a seemingly benevolent, albeit monstrous, jailer. There are a number of choices in the story that lead to several different endings, both good and bad. I did enjoy the story overall, but the endings all felt a bit rushed to me. The mosaic-censored, externally downloaded patch render the few H-scenes impotent, as mosaics are wont to do, but the dialog was fine during them. If you're like me, the censorship is simply distracting and diminishes the overall experience; I've always felt no nudity is significantly better than censored nudity -- I'd rather 'censorship' be implemented such that their lower halves are under the sheets or something. I did like Rain and the Wolf and enjoyed the narrative well enough but keep in mind that without the patch, it feels like something is missing, but with the patch, it has censorship and is distracting. *Externally downloaded patch contains mosaic-censored H-scenes.

Rain and the Wolf is a rare branching VN from ebi-hime, and there's lots of fun(?) variety with the different endings you can get! They range from sweet, fairytale endings to much darker endings reminiscent of Nitro+ BL stuff. It's not particularly difficult to figure out which choices will lead you towards the good vs. the bad endings, so you won't be surprised by a bad end seemingly out of nowhere, but it is a bit tricky to get some of the more 'neutral endings'. I actually liked the love interest, Zero, way more than I liked the protagonist Rain LMAO but I think they are suited to one another in the good endings! Some of Rain's tsundere tendencies border on the malicious, but his standoffishness makes sense given the tragedies he's endured and the bigotry against werewolves that goes beyond just Rain's individual feelings. Zero continues to care for him despite this, and the more tender moments that they share on the good paths are really sweet. And on the other hand, if you want to see Rain punished for his cruelty.... >:) The art in this VN is beautiful and has a fun style - again, very Japanese BL VN -core, haha, which suits this story quite well. There's a large number of nice CGs, and even the sprites have lots of variations, too! I really like Zero's sprite in particular (his wolf tail and ears are just toooo cute LMAO). Rain is also gorgeous to look at - as is his dad???? [strike]Kind of a dilf tbh[/strike] This VN is definitely a worthwhile purchase if you're a BL fan; particularly if you like fucked-up bad endings, but if you're just in it for the fluff, those endings can be avoided easily in favor of the honey-sweet good endings! ^_^

A pleasant combination of coziness and angst. EDIT: oh my god. if you start a new save after getting all the endings, there's new writing. incredible. maybe you just need one of the good endings to unlock this. i wouldn't know.

I enjoyed this game a lot, unsurprisingly:) Though I didn't expect MC to piss me off so much ⋋_⋌ It really hurt to choose options obviously leading to bad outcomes. Poor werewolf didn't deserve to be treated that way, it's astonishing that that's how the roles were distributed :D Looking at cute little protagonist and a big scary wolf quite the opposite kind of interaction is initially envisioned. And that's the reason after all that verbal abuse and cruelty that 'bad bad gruesome' ending which the author even gave the chance to omit by the players not to be greatly disturbed O_o for me personally felt awesome! Even the most patient ppl can snap after a long period of maltreatment. The endings where MC realized how wrong he was were especially healing but I've suffered a lot with the wolf. It's funny how self-association may work in the novels :) Though the story was sometimes shown through wolf's eyes and there were even choices to choose by him not MC. So, as the title of the game has two names in it, one can argue who is the very main character here :) Anyway, all endings were emotional, I llove how diverse that experience was for a rather short novel. Some plot twists were startling, art is gorgeous, the story is well-written, I can't possibly demand more from the visual novels :) https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3346518532 [u]Praises[/u]: +Art is incredibly gorgeous! +Captivating, immersive story with many (for this length) different endings for all tastes. +Well-written \o/ I hope one day I'll read ebi-hime's novels without saving looots of screenshots with new vocabulary. No other novel ever was that educational and useful for practising a foreign language. I'm grateful! <3 +free adult patch, at the beginning of the game players can choose to omit rape scenes. [u]Complaints[/u]: --Mooooore save slots pleeaaase T_T I want to save all the choices, plus all the new chapters to enjoy their names, six pages is not nearly enough :( --To have that blurry censorship on such beautiful art felt almost sacrilegious :( --some typos. For me it was a real pleasure. I feel like replaying it some time again but I can understand that for some players it may be a bit extreme. I've typed it and thought about 'Sweet Pool' again. The author mentioned this game in her notes. I guess after some novels you reach a point of no return, and find some twisted pleasure in weirdest, unacceptable in reality things, honestly astonished what some ppl can find disturbing. Though a couple disgusting things from other ebi-hime's novels emerged in my memory where I was kinda accused in the comments of being too sensitive, lol. I guess it's always personal what kind of shit you actually find comfortable yourself with :) This novel was almost perfect, even unbearable Rain was vital for the story development, both bad and happy endings wouldn't be so powerful & unforgettable without him. I was about to stop here when I recollected the author's notes stating how it was obvious the story was about defining monster/man personalities. I didn't even dwell on it too much, lol. From the beginning judging by their actions it was crystal clear that Rain with his foul mouth treating his savior like filth because of stupid stereotypes was a real monster there ⋋_⋌ The only possibly monstrous part about the werewolf seemed to be his khm male organ but alas I have to trust the text description here due to mosaic censorship (｀□′)╯┴┴ [table] [tr] [th]More thoughts about the game in a [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/readingnook/discussions/0/7027393439966026454/] Reading Nook [/url][/th] [/tr] [/table]