Pyrite Heart

Short and sweet vn. There were some typos which isn't uncommon for these types of games. I loved the character development and the visuals were flawless.

This game taught me that if you are a really horrible beep, but "look good" (highly debatable) and treat everyone like sheet... Then you'll get to win the hearts of sexy men. Don't forget to freaking argue on every single word they say and also remember: everyone is your pawn. Everyone is beneath you... And if something isn't working out? It's that person/things fault. Never yours. Oh no, no... Not at all. You are so perfect and brilliant...

The book isn't poorly written. I actually WISH it was... At least I would've had SOMETHING to laugh at! The artwork is really nice too! Except when the beep is in it. No. She doesn't get the title of "MC". That's reserved for other games... Even the ones I yelled at. That's how low this one should be treated.

I will give credit though... There was a part where this sheet head didn't know jack about cooking. So when she went to "change" the ingredients/steps to her liking? I thought it was funny. Funny in a way that I hoped she'd eat it herself and get poisoned. (Sadly it never happened..........)

And yes, I was well aware of the warnings of others about this book, but I had to see it for myself. There was also a cute kitten. ^-^

I will tell you right now: IF you want (why...?) to pick up this book and HOPE that she grows... Becomes better or something like that? SHE WONT. SHE starts HORRIBLE and ends the SAME WAY. I guess if there was an "Adult Epilogue" (please don't write this...) then there might be a little sliver of hope... Yeah, right!

It also doesn't help that the two guys are feeding into her "psychotichness of beepchery". One of them might start out being against her and then... Then he becomes her butler to command. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!

There is also no time to develop anything! She has everything and ends up with more in the end. What kind of a lesson is that?!

Anyway. If you want to see a terrible person with a poisonous personality get everything in the end -> While everyone else (who are normal, smart people like us) pointing out that she is a piece of work... Then by all means! Have fun with this book!

There are no Achievements either. DO ENJOY!

I was literally praying to get one of the bad endings because none of the guys deserves to be with such insufferable female main character.

I got it for a little over a euro in a sale but my expectations weren't high because of the mixed reviews. Well worth it! Ahri the main character is really cute and both the male leads are too. It's a sweet and simple story and the art in the cg's is great. There's no cg folder which is mildly annoying but considering it's seven years old that much is understandable right? I enjoyed this game. My favourite was Ryuu.

Princess Ahri Remono is a royal tsundere... although not uncharming.

Pyrite Heart is a very short otome. How short? I like to play at a very casual pace, and I finished the two routes in under an hour and a half. But, if I had to describe it, it's "short and sweet," which is a little refreshing when other otome games can take upwards of 10 hours to 100%.

The story isn't anything groundbreaking; snobby Princess seeking a real challenge wants to attend a real high school. There she meets the class president, Ryuu (who she immediately declares her rival), and... her attractive butler, Kenta, who also attends school there? The story follows Ahri challenging Ryuu to see who is the best.

The art for the sprites and CGs is of surprisingly good quality, and there's a good number of them for both routes. I actually found myself smiling during Kenta's route where they fell asleep on each other in the library. D'aww!

The best endings are easy to achieve because the right choices to make are obvious, but the endings are really abrupt. Don't expect much after the feelings are recognised, because it's back to the title screen for you.

Pyrite Heart is a nice little game, worth picking up on sale (but probably not for full price) due to its length.

6/10 overall. Recommended.

I'll say it's cute, and the art is very nice, but the overall story was very lackluster. If you don't mind spending the money for about an hour of playtime, I say go for it, but otherwise, there's not much to say about it except her favorite word is probably "pleb."

The story was pretty rushed with little detail about anything, and the scenarios were exactly what you'd expect in a quicky VN.

Pyrite Heart is a cute, short yet vain visual novel without much depth or gameplay option. It certainly lacks character variety or story diversity. It might be considered eligible on means of display - with pretty enough art style, yet I find myself failing to recommend it due to it being completely stereotypical and uninteresting.

Here we have tsundere princess Ahri Remono: the snobbish, know-it-all heiress of the royal family. After getting into an argument with his elder brother, the crown prince, Ahri takes his brother's challenge to survive outside of the royal palace like an ordinary high school student for one week. For the duration of that one week, she has to attend an ordinary high school without the aid or observance of any of her servants. No one is to know that Ahri is a princess. As she has always been ready to do so, Ahri accepts the challenge and ventures out to learn some lessons, and possibly find love "unexpectedly".

Unexpected? Nah, not really. There are only 2 romance options to begin with and there are no significant characters beside those boys, Ahri and the crown prince anyway. A VN with 4 characters altogether. That felt a bit pathetic contrary to visuals and display of the game being in remarkable quality, accompanied with enjoyable soundtracks. Art style is beautiful and lively. It's like wrapping a lame, common gift in wondrously glamourous wrapping paper. It creates expectations only to fail living up to them.

I must say that the story is incredibly short, with only 2 quite obvious branching paths. Each romance has a good, bad and a grand ending reachable through 3-4 dialogue choices. As it goes with any tsundere, there is a brief period of self-importance and aggression coming from Ahri towards the romance option, and a realization period with tears of desperation and frustration. It depends whether there is a happy ending or not, but the formula is foolproof. It is cute, but it's nothing interesting. There is nothing to shock or surprise you, no secret to discover, nothing unforeseeable. Thus, you get bored of watching Ahri and 2 glamorously pretty boys either flirt or argue eventually.

It is nothing extraordinary, or remarkable. It sure is a sweet little game for your 3 dollars if you are strictly into VN gameplay and wouldn't like to miss anyone of them. As a final verdict, it is sadly passable.

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You assume the role of Ahri, a teenage princess challenged by her brother to survive a week in a typical high school setting. Driven by her competitive nature, Ahri willingly embraces the challenge, encountering various issues typical of the high school experience.

Two boys catch your character's interest: Ryuu, the class president, and Kenta, a palace servant. Throughout the game, you navigate different situations, making decisions that, while not significantly impactful, lead to a total of six different endings, including two considered the "best."

However, the disappointment lies in the game's brevity, as a playthrough takes only 30-60 minutes, lacking a substantial storyline. Despite its shortcomings, the game boasts beautiful artwork, a cute aesthetic, and a female protagonist.

Pros:

- Beautiful art
- Cute aesthetic
- Optional 1080P fullscreen mode

Cons:

- Abundant clichés
- Very short duration
- Lack of a substantial storyline
- Originally free before its release on Steam

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The good:

• Visual appearance: A fairly high amount of CGs for such a short game, and quality ones at that. The art department is solid, nothing to complain about it; bishies, check; mandatory cute kitten, check; good backgrounds, check.
  
• The script: somehow clichéd, though less so than others thanks to the protagonist's personality. It has its moments.
  
• The eyecandy is there, and it's not overemphasized.
  
• Scales well all the way up to 1080p in fullscreenmode, perhaps higher, haven't tested that.
  
• Steam cards, I guess.
  

The bad:

• Very short, expect to finish a playthrough and still have cards to drop (well, perhaps not now with the 2 hours rule, but back when I played this it took me two playthroughs and then some idling to get the cards, that's how short this is).
  
• The script: somehow clichéd, though less so than others thanks to the protagonist's personality. A tsundere protagonist is not something everyone will stomach, and many of the lines used to convey that feel forced or just ridiculous.
  
• You only get to pick one out of two routes, each has two endings and all end rather abruptly. Thus, there's very little replayability value. ERRATA: There are actually six endings, as pointed out by Alexia in the comments (who also made a handy guide about it). Even so, I feel that the replayability value remains quite low.
  
• As others pointed out, this used to be free and voice-acted. This is no longer the case on the Steam version.
  
[*]This is a very subjective opinion, but I found the protagonist unsufferable. Not because I dislike the tsundere archetype, but because I really found her unsufferable.

TL;DR:

I honestly do not know where to stand for this visual novel so therefore i am taking on a neutral review for this visual novel.
Meaning yes i do recommend it but to a certain extent. (Go to the bottom for reason of standing on a neutral ground)

The story

Audio and Visual elements

Visual elements

Audio elements

Reasons for a neutral stand

To sum up

+ Nice quality art. The included digital dakimakura enticed me to purchase this version
+ For the play length, there were a decent amount of CGs with many variations
+/- Plot is very simple, but doesn't go anywhere/is not explored in depth
+/- Refreshing personality for an otome MC (tsundere princess) who does exhibit growth. Most people would probably find her annoying, however she outshined any other character.
- Pretty short with only 2 routes. The card drops took longer than completing the entire game
- Romance felt flat. The male love interests have no depth.
- The first version of this game was free and voiced. I played that version before they removed it

I might recommended this if it were on sale and you need another basic otome game in your catalog. I decided not to recommend this because I do not like Winged Cloud's actions as a company. They treated their other otome game, "Guardian's Spell" and it's kickstarter backers so poorly that it has left a negative impression on me.

This Novel is about the lovely tsundere princess heroine Ahri from league of Legends (sry, had to be)
who makes a bet with her Brother to survive 1 week in the never "torturing hell" we call School (ofc for commoners)

There she gets to know her Rival Ryu who seems to be better in everything than her, or is that realy so?
You have to play it to find out

The Novel is an Otome (Female heroine) all ages romance Novel

In the Store it might have some unsave things for children or so, that was just because of the hugpillow cover that is a bit of a fanservice and as a thank you for the orderers, the novel is perfectly save for children. The Cover can be deleted and it is in the data of the game, so your children, if you buy it for them, wont even notice it exists.

This Novel has 4-5 choices and takes a bit less than 1 hour to finish.
It is a more or less Dating simulator with 2 targets, your loyal butler and your rival.
Altogether there should be 4 endings, 2 for each boy.

Pro:
- Hilarious Heroine
- Brilliantly suiting Music
- Choices
- A bet where you can "loose" hard (she gets to wear a maid uniform ^-^) or win (rival has to serve you)
- Completely all ages appropiate (many all ages still have some kind of indecent things in it, this is a pro for children, for adults it is neither pro nor con i gues) So you can give your children this Novel to play
- Multiple endings
- Awesome background drawings
- Cute Character designs
- Trading cards (i dont care that much about them, i rather have achievements, but for some it sure is a +)

Con:
- €/h ratio not perfect. A bit less than 1 hour playtime (~50 minutes) for 1 run. Thats not impressive €/h but still okay.
- Not voiced (not the worst, but always loved to have in Novels to make it more lively and enjoyable)

Rating: ~89/100 ?

A little too short for my liking, and the protagonist, Ahri, leaves a lot to be desired. Two story lines, the whole thing can be finished in less than 20 minutes. A serious lack of player choices.

Can't really recommend this game, I've seen free VN's that have done far better for none of the cost.

This is another game where I wish there were a more neutral option between whether your recommend it or not, or whether it was a positive or negative review. I didn't hate this game, but I wouldn't say I particularly liked it either. My biggest complain would definitely be that it's far too short. It takes less than a hour to get through the whole story once. Furthermore, it only took a couple of hours to view all the story paths.

Yes, this is a romance visual novel. This is not to be confused with a sim game, because there aren't any stats or daily choices. There are two guys to choose from. During the story, there will be prompts for choices during high points of events. What you choose determines if you end up with a guy at the end. The choices are pretty obvious. The gist is: Don't be a jerk to the person you want to end up with. There's basically a good and bad ending for each guy.

Another complaint would be the misuse of the word "love." I really hate that in stories, when people have known each other for, like, two seconds, and they say they're "in love." This story's duration is only 1 week, and yet there's characters proclaiming they're in love at the end. It would be "like" at best and infatuation at worst. I'm not saying that they couldn't make this game for that short of a duration, but it is ridiculous to use the word "love" in these circumstances. I would've enjoyed the game a bit more if they'd just had the characters proclaiming "like" instead.

Despite all its bad points, there are some things I did like about it. The main character's personality is very flawed. I like this, because many stories have main characters that are almost too perfect, and therefore, not realistic. By the end of the game, she's learned some things and become a slightly better person. While the romance choices (the two guys) aren't exactly unique, they're definitely not of the most common archetypes either. The best thing about game was the humor, I think. The game made me giggle. If a game can make me giggle, it can't be *that* bad, right?

Would I recommend it? Eh ... if you like very lighthearted visual novels and don't mind the flaws mentioned, then sure, but I would get it during a sale, at least.

I have played quite a bit of dating sim/VN/otome games...I'm not super proud to say that, but at the same time, I have a lot of experience with them and know what a good one looks like. Now, I'm not saying this game is perfect, but it's pretty solid. As you progress, it goes more into depth (not major depth, but a fair amount). The background of your character is a little thrown together, but once you play more, it gets better because you feel more connection with the two boys and your character. The art is AMAZING, props to whoever drew it all, it must have taken forever. My review is that I think this is worth getting (especially if it's on sale) because it's a solid dating sim/VN. It's not the best, but by far not the worst. The art is fantastic and although the game is short, I think it's worth playing, seeing as the dialogue is pretty good and it's just overall cute! :) I hope you'll give it a chance, even with everyones mixed reviews!!

This is hilariously terrible. Poor writing, so fast paced it's unbelievable (can be finished in 20 minutes) & there is not a single likeable character. I haven't laughed so hard at getting a bad ending in a long time. It's completely out of nowhere and has no build up at all. Even the good endings don't have much going for them. I have no words. I almost want to recommend this because it's such a mess. On the bright side, some of the art is actually pretty nice! That's about all the praise I can give it. Maybe one of the routes will be worthwhile.

Edit: Just got all the endings, took one hour. You can complete the game 100% before all the cards drop. I guess the Kenta good ending was sort of cute I guess? If this was just paced a bit better (make it triple the length) then this could have been halfway decent. As it stands, avoid it unless 20 minute long VN's that have worse writing than some 16 year old's LiveJournal in 2002 are your thing.

It's cute. It's short. It's cheap. There's 6 endings (good, normal, bad x2 ... I think). That's all you really need to know.

The main character is Ahri Remono, literally a spoiled princess who's been sheltered all her life. After a bet she made with her brother about being able survive out in the world for a week, she's off to go to school among the peasantry. There she meets a frustrating rival and an unexpected nuisance. Where it goes from there? Well, that's up to the player I guess.

It's notable that the title was previously free. I'm not sure if it's still readily available for free though. Personally I had the free version first and then picked this up on Steam.

If an few hours (maybe 1 to 3?) of entertainment for $5 seems a bit steep to you, you may want to wait for a sale.

While the premise was cute and the artwork was very lovely, this really lacked as an otome game. One route took me half an hour, while a good otome game should call for 2 or 3 hours per route at minimum. Simply, it went too quickly. In an otome game, you have to treat your story like any other. Have them slowly get to know each other or be able to go out and do things. Our choices for a love interest are slim and we don't get any events or story outside the rushed romance. I'm sorry, but all in all this wasn't a good game.

I would recommend this game, as it is very cute and enjoyable. However, it is very very short, and not really worth full price. There are a few choices you can make which extend the game, but all content can be played through in a few hours.

The artwork is beautiful making the game a pleasure to play through. The characters are cute and interesting, however there aren’t really enough of them. Especially for a VN about love, you expect more love interests and choices.

Overall, fun, enjoyable, but too short, and not enough characters to meet. Worth a play if you can get it on sale.

Pyrite Heart's an interesting VN because it seems like a lot of other otome games, but when you get into it, it lacks the personality or flair of those games. Whether it's because the set-up steers into the inciting argument within three lines or whether it's because the protagonist actively picks a fight with everyone and everything constantly, Pyrite Heart feels like it's missing something – and it may be heart.

To me it feels like Pyrite Heart took the easy way out on every turn. Instead of setting up the princess' personality at home, it immediately throws her into school. Instead of creating an opportunity for a natural relationship to happen, the princess forces it, attacking the first guy she sees, making him stand out as the main guy instantly but obviously. Of course, the protagonist is a very aggressive character, and that would be fine if she didn't feel like a shallow take on tsundere with more stubborn traits and an inferiority complex added in quickly. The love interests feel similarly shallow, with the option of either perfect-but-sensitive class president or sporty-and-mostly-loyal secret servant from home.

While the dare's time limit of a week is realistic for some silly dare, it takes way too much away from what could happen in the actual story. Drama is quick and incredibly easy to see coming, and the whole premise of royalty is kind of confusing since it's presented as the Japanese Imperial House but seems a lot like a take on western royalty.

Simple choices and good art be damned. This game is too quick to jump on reasons and challenges to give purpose and drive to its events, and in doing that leaves out some of the most important things you could find in an otome game: a moment of sincerity, a feeling of getting closer to someone, a semblance of fun.

Pyrite Heart doesn't have tens of hours of gameplay as some of the other visual novels, but it doesn't really matter. It actually suits me much more, as I can't focus on VNs when they take too long.
There aren't many choices in the game, it should take you about 3 hours to go through all of them.

Where this otome VN shines, is in an adorable story and beautiful art. Where can I find so attractive people? I want to know. I want my own Ryuu or (and? :>) Kenta.

Also, the hug pillow (size of the images is 1800x5402 by the way) is one of the cutest pictures I've ever seen.

Very short and very few options. It wasn't written particularly well or have much depth to it. The art was good but given the story seemed like it was written by a pre-teen (not a talented one either). Just... meh. Not terrible but not good.