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Trap for the Heir Review by Amjara

The Story

You play as Gwen, a tough and beautiful mercenary. An assignment comes your way from a mysterious customer to escort his friend to the capital of Pentagas, along with three other mercenaries and a squad of soldiers led by Commander Kalim.

I am not going to comment too much on the romances in this novel as they have a very interesting twist to them and I am not going to spoil them. However you can have two romance routes with bad, neutral and good endings for each (all accompanied by beautiful cg’s).

🌶️ Spice Level – Medium. Not because any of the images are graphic. There are some nice cg’s of kissing, holding each other and some topless male art but nothing lewd.

The Writing & Translation

The writing or translations for the most part are…really, really rough. There are sentence structure errors, spelling mistakes and grammatical errors. I have no doubt AI was used in the translation. To come across a word such as “interlocutor” is an odd word to use in casual conversation.

Settings, Features & Gameplay

Settings & features include; Display options, language, text skip options, text speed, audio controls.

Settings & features include; text options (skips and speed), display options, audio controls and language. There is a gallery to unlock as you play and lots of save slots. There are also 8 endings to unlock and collect.

The game does support a back (rewind) option, skip options and a history log. Also you can take screencaps by pressing H to hide the hud.

The Visuals & Audio

Visually I like the character art. Vibrant palette in a modern anime style. Well illustrated and colored. The backgrounds look good too and mesh well with the characters. The characters’ poses are static but do have some facial animations. Some backgrounds are also animated like when you’re riding in the carriage or when it is raining.

The music in the background is mainly a piano score, not intrusive and adds to the atmosphere nicely. There is no voice acting and some minimal ambient sounds such as someone knocking on a door.

Overall Experience

After much consideration I am going to recommend this one (with tagging it as informational in the groups I write for), with the warning of the translations being pretty rough. The story has some really neat twists and turns that made getting to the end worth it. Also some very gorgeous cg arts to unlock.

I also have to point out one strength that you do not see too often in dating sims or otome’s, you actually get to see, during the good endings, beyond the initial romance. For example, in one route you can see the actual marriage, which I really enjoyed.

However due to the very poor translation I encourage people to try out the demo first and buy it on a steep sale.


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