Tag: Nachtigal

My impression of this game can be summed up in one word: Beautiful.

The design was beautiful. The art was beautiful. The music was beautiful. The characters were beautifully quirky. For a “short” game, it was well-paced and the characters were surprisingly well-developed. Overall, I really loved it and I suggest that anyone who loves otome games or vampires should play it. Seriously.

It’s available though a pay-what-you-want system (which I think it genius) and can be downloaded here. You don’t have to pay anything if you don’t want to, but the peeps at Cyanide Tea are behind a lot of really great, high-quality games (including Break Chance Memento, which I’ve been looking forward to forever), so support them if you can!

Warning: Possible spoilers for Luca ahead!

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from this game, it’s that if I were ever trapped in a house with sexy vampires, I would get myself killed in less than five minutes. Yeah…that’s encouraging, right?

Thankfully, though, through the heavy use of the rollback feature, I managed to get Luca’s ending. If you don’t know, Luca is this sexy mofo:

Let’s be frank: Luca is the classic cold-and-stoic-until-he-meets-the-right-girl type that I love, plus he wears a suit, which is an automatic +100 sexy points. There was very little chance that I could not like his route.

That said, here’s a little background: though he’s technically part of the Nachtigal family, Luca is more like Adrian’s butler servant. He’s cold at first, being quick to snap your neck at the slightest insolence (pro tip: don’t even try to talk out of turn), and in contrast to Adrian, he cares a lot about tradition and formalities.

However, once you melt his icy, icy heart with your optimism and wit, you realize that he’s not as stiff and mean as he seems at first (of course). In fact, he’s actually pretty laid-back and finds it fun to tease Miranda, which is pretty cute. They have a lot of great dialogue together, and seeing them gang up on Adrian in one scene was particularly hilarious.

Another of my favorite scenes was when Luca tells Miranda that he actually prefers her in her baggy jeans and jacket as opposed to the fine Victorian dress Adrian forces her into at the beginning. Just sort of shows that he only cares about formalities where the Nachtigal family – and specifically Adrian – is involved because that’s his ‘duty’, but when it’s just him, he doesn’t really care about all that.

So yeah… I’m pretty happy with my choice and I’m more than satisfied with how it played out. And Luca’s route gave me just enough insight into Adrian that I’m interested in playing his route, too, even though he’s not my usual type.

…Now to wait for the walkthrough so I can get all the other endings, haha. <3

Feel free to comment or discuss the game with me. I would love to hear your opinions!

Originally posted November 5, 2013 on Tumblr.