#conception 2

Like... on the surface it’s a sleazy harem game, where you go to this new school and find out you’re the most important guy ever (they literally call you God’s Gift), and you have to magically create ‘Star Children’ to be child soldiers and go into dungeons to fight alongside you and one of the seven girls you create the kids with through something called the ‘Classmating’ ritual, which is definitely not a metaphor for anything. And the school you go to is shaped like a giant dick.

So you meet all the girls and they’re mostly harem cliches (tsundere, genki girl, girl next door, etc.) and you get to know them. Some of them have wild backstories. And you do the Classmating ritual.

Which is when you find out that this game is, like... weirdly (for the genre) focused on the important of consent and communication. At certain intervals, you have to do these little interludes where you talk to the girls about Classmating. Do they enjoy it? Do they still want to do it, are they comfortable? What if we did this instead? Oh, you’ve done some research and think this would make it more pleasurable for you?

By doing this, you can create stronger Star Children and progress your relationships. Like, the big theme of the game appears to be ‘healthy communication and discussed, enthusiastic consent makes you and your relationships stronger’. It’s incredibly refreshing for a game in this genre. Everything is building up to the big school festival where you go on a date with the girl you choose as your endgame.