The Tower of Five Hearts Reviews

This relatively short yuri VN is, I believe, the second game from Tsuki Ware. I can easily reveal that my expectations of it being just another average, western product were quashed. The whole story occurs in a tower where you, a princess, reside with five maids/candidates vying for your heart. What is not typical is that they're all animal girls (including you) so not just personalities vary. It is rather straightforward, slice of life story, lacking surprises or twists. Still, writing is enjoyable and with plenty of fanservice and more. 5 main endings + mini harem ending and possible sad one provide enough playtime for the price asked. It is not an outstanding work but considering it is only their second title devs did more than I expected. Art is probably the weakest point of this VN. It is of rather average anime variety. Low on details and not very vibrant in colour. Ok considering typical western VNs but weak when compared to an average Japanese one offered in english (biased due to a quality sift of what is being translated but still...). Overall design is fine at least. Music is of medieval variety, which is very fitting, and is very relaxing. Only nitpick is the low variety. Too much repetition and in some cases mismatched with events. Still, definitely positive aspect of this title. No voice acting but price justifies this in my eyes. No bugs encountered but some annoyance might be provided by slow skip function and no history/backtrack option. Overall, a decent yuri title with multiple endings, average anime art and soothing music. I can safely recommend if this is your genre: 6.7/10

It's been sitting in my library for 4 years before I finally played through it.... It goes like this: This is a [b]neutral[/b] review. It is not bad. However, it is not great. It is also quite short, you can finish a route in a few hours. You have a small amount of CGs and backgrounds, but someone put an effort into making a small yuri-themed game. The artwork is a bit... simple, but it is clean and not awful. Writing could be better, and main character a irritated me. Heroines are a bit similar to each other visually, their faces specifically. So it could be bigger with more funding and time, but we've got what we've got in the end. If you have time and few bucks to burn you could get it. If you want somethin bigger and with more punch and more content, well, you could try "Spirits on the Roof" (18+, 24+ hours) or "Aoi Shiro" (15+, no adult content, 27+ hours).

It has caught my attention that the topic of this monologue discussion with the main point of allowing my person to share excerpt of my thoughts and critiques with greater audience interested in fictional stories with recognisable hand-drawn Japanese "anime" style about female human species with romantic and sexual attraction towards individuals with same gender, namely the digital semi-interactive text-focused game "The Tower of Five Hearts", has paid a substantial attention to the aspect of verbal narrative, needless to say, one of the crucial components of this type of entertainment media. Regarding to this matter, I would like to emphasize that described characteristic as over-complicated to be pleasurable in such amounts as it is uninteresting from narrative point of view because of its insufficiency of even more said over-complication to be humorous. That being said, this only serves as a impediment in process of advancement through the story, which on its own has barely anything exhilarant to bring into consideration. With also taking into attention the details of technical realisation, which quality is drastically below comfortable, and problematic graphical aspect, especially arts of main characters with low of insufficient visual quality, it is needless to say, that for me to call this product of art as flawlessly executed or providing considerable enjoyment will be a mockery. But nonetheless, due to the fact than this novel features lovable and pleasurable characters, who, fortunately, happens to have elaborated backstories and behavioural traits, in addition with romantic relationships between mentioned above, it would be necessary to say that I have experience some satisfactory episodes during my playthrough.

Even my idiot brain that yearns for any bit of Yuri content didn't enjoy this so much. I knew it was mostly porn going into it, but usually even smut has some character building or something interesting. This one's just so straight forward and bland and short that really... even as far as smut goes it has nothing of value. At least with the bad Russian naughty stuff I could laugh at the translations, but here there's nothing.

This is a really solid game with a bunch of good, well rounded characters. I enjoy how there are multiple endings and the characters are explicitly there to try to romance the MC. There is the occasional issue with the text but it does not detract from the story. I will say that there are relatively few branches based on your choices, so be prepared to read the same text with each play through. One good thing is that it is really hard to get the sad ending which I enjoy. I would have preferred it if they had added an epilogue or at least an epilogue image that tells us how things go between Marie and her wife/wives after the story. Overall I would say this is a solid 8/10. It is not my favorite, but it is still fun and compelling.

Fun and cute yuri game with kemonomimi girls (girls with animal attributes such as cat ears or tails). Story is interesting and all girls are adorable! Aiko and Kiri are the best! Would recommend it to anyone who likes yuri. P.S. Don`t mind my playtime. I played a non-steam version before but decided to buy game here as well just to support developers.

[h1]It's fine if you're looking for something simple. Could be more.[/h1] [b]The Good[/b] The Art: It's pleasant, well made and without any glaring flaws. The Music: As with the art, it's good enough to not become an issue, especially if left at a low volume. The Characters: They have a bit of depth to them, being more than simple one-note personalities. [b]The Bad[/b] The Main Character: While she's not a bad person, Marie seems very...empty of anything interesting or useful. More of an airhead than anything else. Somewhat difficult to relate to, and left me with a feeling of "You should be better than this." The Overall Storyline: Some of the writing hints at bigger conflicts, both within the character's motivations and their situation, but it's always completely brushed aside just as quickly as it comes up. After one point in the story, I was hoping that I'd have the option to turn the whole thing on it's head, but instead it's solved with a fairly ridiculous situation and you're left having to pick one of them regardless. The final feel of it is that while the writers were aware of the issues that could be adressed in the story with a more serious tone, they either were not able to or decided not to. Maybe I shouldn't be disappointed, but I am regardless. [b]Final Veredict[/b] If you're just looking for some cute Yuri without wanting to think deeper, it's perfectly fine. If you actually start caring about the situation and the character's inner conflicts however, be ready to have it all brushed aside with a very railroaded final choice.

It's not very long, it's not very deep and it's not voiced. The latter not being something negative per se, but I simply was not aware of that when buying it. But again, just my sillyness. My main gripe with this eroge(?) is, that there is no character development at all. You learn a tiny bit about each character in some brief conversations, but neither the main protagonist, nor the maids undergo any development. So if you have that, you at least need some solid lewd stuff in it. But it's only like 3 OK-ish masturbation scenes of the main protagonist and like 2 OK-ish lewd scenes per chosen one. And those are not very long, albeit the textual description is pretty good. Also, even if you are sure to have chosen the right decisions, you can still end up being rejected for no apparent reason. So I actually stopped playing it after getting 1 bad and 1 good ending. For me, this is average at max. But maybe I'm spoiled by all those 40 hrs VNs out there, with a lot of depth or chuckles, or drama, or stuff to remember. I just want either fleshed out characters for who I want to care, or really good lewd scenes. Or both. But this one delivered neither to my satisfaction. So, it's not "bad", but it didn't convince or captivate me. Therefore, I can't really recommend it, unless you are fine with a very simple eroge story to fill a weekend with. The price is also OK-ish.

I do enjoy this VN quite a bit, I want to say, and that's why I recommend it. Quite cute, and enjoyable, but I do have a few points that I want to address for potential buyers: - Don't expect a *deep* story. This is written as a cute eroge, so if you want something with more substance, I would advise you against this unfortunately. - There are some minor spelling errors that I saw. 'Mine' instead of 'Wine' in an instance, and a rather funny instance of '...me father', which had me giggling at the idea of the character in question speaking with a stereotypical Scottish accent. It's minor, but I have only completed one run, so there may be more. - The skip option is slow. Period. Multiple playthroughs may be a bit of a hassle because of this, and with multiple endings, well... These are the main gripes that I have with the game, albeit minor they may be. The developer has said that they are still working on the game, adding additional story content for free later, so I may update this then. As it stands, it's a recommendation on the basis that the girls are cute and the love is pure.

This review might seem a bit biased. I am a Staff Writer for TsukiWare, but I signed on to the group after this game was made. It was my love for TOFH that made me want to join up with TsukiWare, and I have had a blast ever since. I played the non-steam version of the game quite a bit. So far I have completed the Kiri and Tomiko routes, and I loved both. My eyes welled up a little during the Kiri route. The art is fantastic and the story is beautiful. I really connected on an emotional level with the protagonist.