Unity - Completed - Love of Magic [B2 v1.2.6] [Droid Productions]

This is my first time actually writing a review, so that should speak to this game having some impact. Unfortunately, now that it's done, that impact is a bit of a mixed one.

Starting with the high points, the premise and the worldbuilding are fun and engaging. Magical realism generally walks a thin line between over-explaining and lampshading, and I think the bulk of this story walks that line very comfortably. It's rare playing an adult game and having its story really stick with you like this one does. Apart from at-times-mediocre romance and corny dialogue (especially from the MC) I think the writing is the major appeal here. I also want to give special praise for the combat system, because it's a fun and clever game with a fun in-universe justification.

That said, the writer(s) got a bit lost sniffing their own farts in Book 3. Where 1 & 2 were engaging, original, and tense, Book 3 becomes a bland power fantasy weighed down by a college freshman's purple prose. The RPG elements are largely, if not entirely, pointless in Book 3. Most conflict is resolved immediately by the MC's excessive powers, and what little combat is involved in Book 3 is laughably easy with the tools given. It's clear there were some behind-the-scenes issues in plot development, considering they really emphasize a new mechanic (rage) that ends up being irrelevant and abandoned by the middle of the book. The story wraps up with a milquetoast "happy ending" that spends too much time setting up entirely new plot threads for a sequel. Unfortunately, the finale just leaves everything on a sour note.

As far as the sex scenes, they're not great. Most of the character models are good quality and well-designed, but the scenes themselves are largely boring. It's almost entirely run-of-the-mill hetero vanilla sex, with a handful of group sex encounters, but the CGs are underwhelming and the animations are messy. I had hoped they'd improve those skills with time, but even at the end it wasn't much to look at.

At the end of Book 2, I likely would've given this a 5 based on writing and hope for the next installment. But after seeing how it all came together, I don't think I can put it above a 3. It's hard to get past the disappointment of seeing something interesting become boring.

One of the best adult games I have played and a personal favorite. Love of Magic features one of the best stories I've ever had the joy of experiencing. It felt like Camelot, Tolkien, and the MCU all colliding in the best way possible. I cared way more about the story and characters than the "adult" aspects of the game, not that some of those moments weren't great. Life changing experience that will have me following all the developer's future projects.

This game is just a wall of text with some janky adult content sprinkled in. There’s way too much dialogue, and none of it is interesting. Scenes are spaced out so far apart that by the time you get to one, you’ve already lost interest. The characters? Bland as hell. The story? Feels like a cringy fanfic written by a 13-year-old from tumblr.
The porn scenes are absolute garbage. The animations are stiff, the quality is bad, and there’s nothing but vanilla stuff—no spice, no variety, just straight-up boring. The models look weird and uncanny, which doesn’t help.
Even as a game, it sucks. The combat is boring, the progression is pointless, and the whole thing feels like it has no idea who it’s even made for. I honestly can’t think of a single reason to play this.

One of the best games on the site. The story is top rate, the visual stunning, and the UI pleasant (something that is rare for Unity games). The game is just as worthwhile for all the banter and inter-personal relationship building as for the lewd scenes (though those are good too). This is a massive game that is well worth every second spent on it.

This is a rough one to rate. Realistically i would put it at 3, since it's a solid story with extremely critical issues, but i leave it at 2 because this game is a liar and i do not appreciate being lied to, and it relies heavily on malicious obfuscation tactics, smoke and mirrors to hook you in. I will elaborate on this below.

First, you have to understand that it is a decent story for the most part, with overall good dialogues and interesting world. There is a possibility you will enjoy it, however many extremely standout and critical issues bring it so low the experience comes out as overall more negative. Let me first touch on the critical failures:

1) The game does not respect your time. At all. So you have a certain number of areas, and certain times of day (morning, evening, night, late night) in which you go around and trigger various events. All 3 books contain 288 days, and yeah some days are fully taken by story events but overall its 1152, let's round up to 1000, periods of time where the game expect you to visit 10+ spots, and in books 2-3 over 20 spots. You do not get ANY indications new events are now available, so you are conditioned to maniacally checked every single location like an OCD riddled raccoon digging into trash hoping someone threw something out. I hate playing with a walkthrough in one eye, but in this case it is downright mandatory to not waste your time.

2) Book 3 is offensively awful and retroactively ruins books 1 and 2. So a bit of a spoiler time, so can skip this part if you didn't play, books 1 and 2 are about a war on Outsiders, creatures from outside of known reality, which progresses fine enough until the culmination at the end of book 2. Book 3 decides to pull multiverse bullshit and pulls us into another reality, in which for around 80% of book 3, our grand finale of the trilogy, we repeat parts of books 1-2. And by the end of those 80% we are flung back, making most of the things we did there utterly meaningless as well. It was so unimaginably horrendous i could not believe the same person wrote it.

3) The combat system is a lie. The choices are a lie. The stakes are a lie. So for the first several hours i was... impressed by this poker based combat with a combination of gems and potentially your own builds and playstyles. I am a JRPG enjoyer and i WILL optimize my grinding methods and assume endgame have strong opponents, so when there was a time i went to paths (local dungeons) and abused save system to reshuffle cards and get strongest enemies for most exp. Took me a lot of time, unnecessary much time in fact. I did this for the entire book 1, but in book 2 something awful happened. I kinda just lost attention and got nuked and i lost... or so i thought. However i had 1 hp left, and accompanied by my very much raised eyebrows i checked if i can die at all. I could not. I checked in several more main story fights and, lo and behond, my hp simply refused to go below 1. You could not die, there was no point in all the gameplay i did and all my time wasted. There is no need to engage with gameplay at all. This is all a vile illusion, conjured to try and add more depth to experience.

Which it doesn't have even in choices. All you can do is activate certain triggers to watch several more scenes, however regardless of how many checks you fail, how weak you are, how much you ignore someone, you WILL have those characters, events and wins forced onto you. You will potentially see couple less scenes, but that's about it. It is a kinetic novel, trying to masquerade as a sandbox with choices. More obfuscation and lies.

And finally, by the end of book 3 it was clear the author was done with the project and finished main villain with couple sentences while rushing towards his next work. All while covering his narrative blunders with multiple realities, removing all stakes from the game.

4) Protagonist is a juvenile moronic bumbling idiot and everything falls into his arms. I will admit it's far from the WORST MC i have ever seen, but it's hardly a shining praise. Protagonist constantly worried about cheating on his only love, Emily, while shagging every side girl without a second thought. He never tries to do anything or find anything without others pushing him into it. It never crosses his mind to get dressed for a date, to get his wife a ring, to show appreciation, to think at least in a minimal capacity. Everything he has is gotten to him by almighty powers planning his entire existense for thousands of years, and he acts like he did it on his own and deserves it. Even every one of his "conquests" is because he quite literally radiates power and sexual energy and other crap he never deserved. I hated experiencing the world through his eyes and thoughts.

5) This is not a harem. Yes, there are multiple girls protagonist can bang, but he ever only loves one, and despite game trying to present his 3 Chosen as something deep and emotional they are in actuality just brainwashed eternal slaves. Once characters become Chosen they become entirely different people, essentially lose their personal goals and motives and live only to serve MC. I felt sorry for most people our MC crosses path with, not emotional attachment. And every other side character is there just for 1-2 times of casual sex because women and men do this i guess. If you are looking for a harem, this ain't it.

6) Beyond extreme reliance of deus ex machinaes. How did you know we needed to find you? Voices. What do we do now? Voices. How do we proceed now? Voices. Why do we need to do it? Voices. Get atound magical glyphs? Voices. Why do we suddenly need this BS we never heard about and never knew about? I dunno, Voices i guess. It is implied that one of the true Gods, The Mother, was behind the Voices and was guiding every Sorceress in existense all along, but this doesn't change the fact that OVER HALF of knowledge and actions of out main group is because Voices told them so. Not because they figured something out or deserved result of their actions. People just fumble around until Voices pop up and tell them where to be and what to do. Instead of crafting a real story, every plothole and inconsistency is plugged by the Voices. Truly awful writing.

7) Technical aspects are shit. Scenes look extremely dated, primitive and robotic, and the further you play the more game start falling apart, which is especially notable in barely functional book 3. I could not read some of the books at all, events from previous books started repeating themselves, for most of book 3 there are just no events and nothing to do. UI often get stuck and you are forced to save-load to get rid of a pop up achievement or quest, some of the stats like Swordsmanship is relevant for ONE time but you don't know that and can keep wasting time on it. Everywhere you look something doesn't work or fails and it's extremely distracting from the overall experience.

I could write so, so much more details on every on those points but this is already getting out of hand, so the conclusion i guess.

Unlike other unreasonably high rated games, i can understand how this one got the high ratings. By pretending it's something it is not and tricking people that don't know better. This is a good world and a good story in the hands of incompetent developers, which try to hide it as hard as they can. If you gonna play it, consider the points above and if those things are an issue to you or no.

This is a tough one to score because it does a few things well but can't seem to keep from shooting itself in the foot.

I like sandbox games, and this one is strong and engaging. While it doesn't make the mistakes that many do resulting in a grindy feel, it does something worse. The sandbox is fun to play in, but there's a timer so engaging non-optimally in the sandbox is punished.

I like the world building, in this game, but it's brought down by the dialogue. I have a feeling that the dialogue UI is also working against it, as you're presented with your responses before you see what you're responding to. Removing about 30% of the dialogue would probably be able to still deliver the same narrative, same world building, and may get below the threshold of feeling that you need to click spam through it.

Renders and animations are pretty average, and many of the videos feel like a distraction, especially with an odd UI presenting the embedded video.

Another example of a game where I wish I could do half stars. I really enjoyed this experience. The setting was interesting and with just enough tying it down that I didn't feel like the world was coming off overly silly, but really the character interactions were king and even during what felt like a perhaps slightly dragged out final book with more downtime than events I was very pleased by all the connections and dialogue I was having with everyone.

I also appreciated the attention to the harem dynamic which I find far too often lacking and will always advocate for more of. This may have been backed by sorcery shenanigans but having an top girl who helps keep the gears of the gangly mess of the harem machine going is a solid foundation and Emily worked very well in this role. Bella has a special place in my heart though and I do wish I got to spoil her more.

If I could I would have given 4.5 out of 5 because really the only thing I was sort of disappointed by was what I perceived to be a running out of steam kind of feeling by the time we got however far into book 3. If I had to nitpick anything more just for possible future considerations then the quests could have been worded more exactly or broken up into chunks so that I did not feel the need to run around checking locations every time change when really it was just a day marker that had no listing on the calendar and I wasn't going to miss an event by accident. I can't begin to count how many saves I made trying to make sure I would not miss anything with Katie when the quest seemed to imply that I myself needed to find a good time to talk with her and not just that I was waiting for the game to decide when a good time was going to come up.

In the grand scheme of things very few issues for what was overall a very enjoyable narrative. Will be supporting where I can and I look forward to more from this creator in the future.

Played all three parts, began to find it less and less interesting starting from the second part, and honestly found the third part a bit of a slog, raced through the last couple hours of gametime.

It's certainly got some fun moments, there are regular epic parts interspersed with some pretty grindy gameplay. I think for me personally I did not find the main LI Emily very attractive so that obviously had a negative impact. Honestly most of the side girls are way hotter. Molly and Jenny are best girls

The sex scenes are all very short and pretty dull. And you have a smokeshow like Chloe in your game why so few scenes with her!? Crazy.

That being said I enjoyed the game enough to get through it, and bought Morningstar to support the dev. There's a lot of effort and ambition here for sure

Here's an idea for Droid's next game, a female protag road trip game starring Molly and Jenny getting up to all sorts of naughty adventures. Think like a porny Thelma and Louise. You can have that one for free. Your welcome

Even though I have a few issues with this visual novel, the stellar writing alone is enough for me to give it five stars. The characters were all very interesting and distinct, although more time getting to know the separate races and pantheons would have been welcome. My strongest complaint is that the main character is kind of a buffoon without any tact. He is definitely the braun to Emily's brain and it was clear that his anger issues and rash behavior were intentional in portraying him as a young god with more responsibility than he is ready for.. there is really no resolution to it beyond Emily being his anchor. Relying on another to keep you from becoming a tyrannical psychopath is not a very healthy solution to these issues. The story makes it clear that the MC would be out of control without her but there was no real payoff to this. It's also messed up that the ending has the gods requiring worship to maintain their powers. That's going to make a fucked up society worth exploring in a story. Some gods wouldn't fair well in the public spotlight and others would whore themselves out in a competition for votes. People would be expecting things for their vote.

Not many games are made like this one. The storyline is phenomenal with so much theory crafting involved, a mix of many stories and subtle easter eggs to other games, movies, and books. One of the few games thatll remain at the top of my list.

One of the few games that managed to feel like a "real game" without being western non- RPG maker game, also huge props for excellent writing of both the characters and mythos, good even on the cake department.

I honestly don't understand such a high rating of this game. Almost every aspect of it is anecdotally bad.
Just for transparency: I finished ~80% of Book 1, couldn't anymore, deleted it altogether. So, maybe it becomes better later, but I couldn't see the point in continuing.

Good:
1) Interesting setting. Contemporary + medieval style with some gods and other references. Overall nice atmosphere.
2) Fine music
3) Native linux client (thank you, devs!)

Bad:
1) Writing. It has every bad smell imaginable. God-powered MC (Naruto on steroids + no development), deus ex machinas everywhere, random details or events contributing nothing to the story, while having little to no development of actual characters. And many more I couldn't remember at this point.
2) Romantic relationship. Again, horribly written. Every girl just wants to bang you or 'has' to bang you for whatever reason because.. because. The whole 'I have one girl that I love, and all others I just bang' plot is beyond ridiculous. And your 'loved', 'destined' one is totally ok with that. While simultaneously being a virgin who lets you after seeing you 5 times. And all other girls know that, and still want to bang you. It's just awful and makes no sense whatsoever.
3) Visuals. They are pretty outdated. Animations in H-scenes are either non-existent or lame at best. LIs are mid or worse.
4) Combat. Ooooh, the infamous combat mechanic. I honestly enjoyed it for the first few times, but later, oh boy.. You either lower the difficulty, which turns it into a time-waste, or you struggle for 5-20 minutes on each fight, because you have a horrible hand and have to replay it from save. And ideally, you have to do this almost every fucking in-game day!
5) Sandbox. I don't have any particular feelings about sandbox mechanics overall: I played a number of sandbox games, some I enjoyed, some -- I didn't. But this game takes it a step further into bs territory with TIMED sandbox. You have a limited amount of days, and without a walkthrough, you have absolutely no idea when some event might just end, and you have to replay this whole mess of a game just to get the scene or a dialogue. So, you either have to follow some guide precisely, or spend a few days devising an optimal strategy on every action you can take. And what for? This is not something worth so much effort.

Overall, I'm giving this game two stars only because it presents as a finished creation, and it is clear that some love is put into it. Pretty interesting ideas, but majorly failed execution. I hope the developers learn from it, because they have the potential.

One of the best stories of any of the many games I've encountered!
The game play was fun, minimal grind and the story absolutely captivating. if not already on steam it should be either as 3 separate books / volumes or rolled into one. looking forward to any future projects from Droid Productions

One of the best story based games I've played in this site. Every Book had great story lines with good scenes to back it up. Though the dialog box and choice selection placement could have been better, the gameplay and story overshadows it well. Usually I don't prefer unity games because of its size and gameplay structure but this game made me reconsider it and now I'm playing some unity games on regular as well.

It gets redundant relatively fast, the general plot, style and graphics are good, but the pacing is very slow. There are a lot of sections and locations and it feels like many of them are an afterthought.

Amazing story. I acutally enjoyed the story way more than the sex scenes. I wish the story continues, but a story must have an end. Damn.

There are bugs in the game, but it doesn't really affect the game play that much, I was able to bypass issues with save/load function in most of the time.

Have seen a lot of people saying this falls off in the third book, but I think this is overly generous. It really falls off halfway through the first book as the erotic content slows to a trickle and the story becomes a convoluted mess. The main plot has no sense of pacing or measured progression, considering there are three games what kind of fool levels up the main character to more than godlike power halfway through the first book? New characters and plot points are introduced and face into irrelevance before anything interesting happens.

They seem very proud of the "poker" game mechanic but it's an absolute mess with no real interactivity - you get a randomly drawn hand and there's generally one clear "best" move to make, and strategising is near useless as your opponents play on the same board, so anything you do to improve it for later turns also improves it for your opponent and is mostly pointless. It's quite telling how the boss fights all end up with you stalling for a few turns until some deus ex machina resolves the fight for you.

Erotic content is OK but there's relatively little of it, the camera angles aren't good, there are relatively few renders for each scene, and the first few models look like someone went too far with the sliders because they have weird proportions (Katie's face and Emily's body in particular)

Ok so I'm giving this game 5 stars after all, but those 5 stars may as well all be asterisks.

The positives:

• Fun magic system (like seriously, this is a NSFW game where certain parts of the gameplay are actual fun and the creator really did a good job creating a fun minigame)
• The characters and their dynamics are a lot of fun
• The game, especially in the first two books, gives you a great mix of freedom and guidance with the calendar system
• There Is A LOT of very high-quality content
• The music slaps
• The major action set pieces are fun

All of this is so much above what you could expect from any game on this site. Ironically I think this strength is also what makes some of the things I perceived to be flaws so jaring.

The negatives

• Book three's story. I did not like that at all, it felt so bad to do everything you did before and then end up like that (that's the most I can write without outright spoiling)
• Some sex scenes can be quite dull. The characters are all great but the animation sometimes does not match.
• Personal point: I really didn't like the MC's design, this game has so many interesting characters and we get to play as the lames one, a bit of a shame.
• Plot lines going nowhere. I don't know why or how but there are so many plot hreads that end up not mattering at all, or at least they feel like it, especially, once again, in book three.

Still, I highly recommend anyone try this game, book 1 at least. You don't see this high of a quality a lot here.

i really liked the start because there aren't a lot of games with an urban fantasy setting. however, things got a little out of hand at the end. i also think think that there were a lot of unanswered questions and mysteries especially act iii with the whole multiple timelines thing.
another thing that kinda disappointed me was the whole harem aspect. in a sense, you only truly love Emily so it is a fake harem. there really isn't a lot of sexual content outside of with her.

Great game, fun gameplay, good character designs I played when first came out and replayed again, so I could refresh before getting into the new chapters. Highly reccomend. Never rated game on here before but think this should be higher, but need to give more characters to submit my 5 star rating.