Woah, I never expected something of similiar quality to blurred line and the way on rpg maker again for sure...

I simply can't put my words into how amazing this game is, thanks a lot for your effort on translation!

I can't believe it's so underrated.. I simply had to make an account to comment this, while I never realy bothered before, even with blurred line it only made me ponder..

I will separate into sections and try to explain why the game deserves more love in my opinion:

1) Gameplay:
This is something I both enjoyed and hated at the same time..

The game starts out rather easy, you can learn it's mechanics, which is fine. It becomes totally brutal halfway in though...

I love challenge and tactics, but this is challenging... in a wrong way - basically as game is heavy on text, usually before you fight an important boss battle - you will need to see the dialogues for 5-10 minutes. Afterwards starts the boss fight, where boss uses a trick or a strength you could NEVER predict, even if it was hinted somehow before, resulting in a complete failure as first try big time. The most frustrating was boss you had to poison.. I had no chance to do it first time, simply because at that point in the game support was rather useless. As for other bosses.. you actually had the chance if you got the 'stars align' kind of luck and managed to discover bosses trick before he putted it up, which mostly was keeping the table clear of all elements.. until bosses started to get void ability and it went crazy...

What is weird is that difficulty dropped a tonn when it got closer to last few chapters.. monsters gave too much exp and you pretty much overpowered most bosses with general equipment, not needing any tactics at all..

Balance is huge issue.. mages seem.. lacking to say the least... yan is a truly OP killing machine late game if build for critical with correct equipment.. get her to ~120 crit along with her self ability - results in ~90% crit chance with insane attack speed and attack which is VERY close to cap. Pretty much she dealt more dmg than other 3 characters.. well, 2, considering 1 mostly healed.

Overall I enjoyed the challenging aspects of the game, especially late game mini bosses.. but main bosses could realy use some tweaks.. instead of being random figure out what this boss does and swap into needed equip..

2) Sound:

Rather atmospheric, but the variety is lacking, considering game takes so much time >>

3) Graphics:

Not the strongest aspect of the game, just like blurred lines it's mostly weak, but at least a lot of stuff is custom made, and there are rather pretty artworks as well.

4) Characters:

The best there can be - characters you can actually relate to, both the variety and depth of characters is impressive to say the least. Unlike most JRPG's.. ah, let's be honest - 99% of RPG's are based on rainbows and friendship as a virtue.
The only fact is - some characters lacked development, like vene.. even though she was my favourite character, I could say she was rather flawed.. not in a way of personality, but in a way of contradicting herself big time.
But outside of a few minor flaws - that's one set of characters I will actually remember out of hundreds and hundreds of RPG's.

5) Story:

Again a mixed opinion - it started out well, went better, then went downhill, then better again, then downhill again and the final wrap up was rather satisfying.. this is a rather weird summary, but I can't reveal much more without spoiling too much..
I guess I will still spoil a little though - antagonists were simply lackluster.. especially the trio family. Vene responded rather greatly to their ideas - 'shut up, bitch', pretty much summarised my opinion on how stupid their reasons actually were.. It was pretty much a facepalm throughout whole dialogs...

Instead of viewing it as an usual black vs white type of story, it's better to view it as a story of a change in one's character. A dark story about the reality of feelings and growth of one as a persona.


Overall: A lengthy(52 hours was my last save, and that's not counting I had to replay some battles, which easily puts it to 55-60 hours if we also add up the time for final battle + ending) rpg which packs you enough challenges to keep you entertained combat wise, a rather good pacing of leveling(you won't realy have to grind if you are good), while offering a rather interesting world, story and a set of main characters, lifes of whom intervene in different ways.

You can rarely encounter an RPG aimed at mature audithory, which is not all about good beating evil and friendship, so it's a game I thoroughly enjoyed in the end. I would definitely pay for this instead of crappy RPG's we get nowadays.

I will only say onr thing: YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!
Translating Seraphic Blue, and now thinking in translating Nocturne: Rebirth AND Hat World. You gained a fan here \^o^/
I'm waiting to see more of your projects (of your own or translated ones)

And I'll say again: YOU ARE AWESOME!!!!!!

author=Drifloon

author=CecilAsten
Um, not sure if it is right to ask this in comments, but I have lost all save data for this game due to a blue screen a long time ago. I still remember, that I was at the tower before the Second Fight with Virginie Gal. Would it be possible to ask if you have any save files upto that point?

Oh, I have one from around that point! Here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zvqtft3twzb7ky2/Save01.lsd?dl=0

Thank you so much, this will really help me out right here!

Um, not sure if it is right to ask this in comments, but I have lost all save data for this game due to a blue screen a long time ago. I still remember, that I was at the tower before the Second Fight with Virginie Gal. Would it be possible to ask if you have any save files upto that point?