Do you know how difficult it is to find twink BL games in general, let alone ones that have been translated into English? This Backloggd page didn't even exist before I intervened. Hell, before I discovered someone made a Ren'Py remake a few years back the only place I could find this game in English was some shady Spanish WordPress site that probably hasn't been updated since Obama was in office.

Let's get this outta the way first, this game was fan-translated in 2014, and as such it makes heavy use of the word "trap", which while at the time was used as a term for femboy/crossdresser, is now more or less universally accepted as being a slur for transgender people. While I'm sure there was no ill-intent on the translator's part, as that was at the time the generally accepted English equivalent to the Japanese "otokonoko", it's definitely jarring seeing it with a modern perspective. Thankfully, there's a patch for the Ren'Py port that fixes this, but you have to do some digging for it.

As for the game itself, it's a bit all over the place. The art is nice enough, but the voice acting and music are kinda insufferable. Outdated terminology aside, the writing is kinda weird, and characters (Aoi in particular) sometime feel completely different from scene-to-scene. Still, the game did occasionally make me feel good with some wholesome moments along the "good routes", and I gotta admit those bad endings do make you feel absolutely terrible, which I guess is a success.

The dialog in H-Scenes is painful, even by eroge standards, and the mosaics are so intense unless you're an appreciator of twink ass and tummy they probably won't do much for you. The game's biggest sin is making the hottest boy the main character's older brother, so you can't even be mad about him not having any scenes.

But yeah, I'm pretty sure I've put more energy into this game's existence than the collective population of Earth has in the last five years. Much like Captain Ahab, I will continue my futile quest to find the White Whale that is a good twink boylove game.