
Being a visual novel, Sakura Nova has a ton of story. They are used as filler to connect one scene to the next. Porn stories are, at their worst, short and terrible. There is a very important reason why this is a bad idea: If you don’t have writers with the talent to create a riveting story, then you keep the story parts to a minimum to avoid boredom. Sakura Nova is a nukige delivered in an eroge visual novel format. They have little to no correlation with one another, and the order at which they occur is completely negligible.ĭon’t worry, this is completely normal.

Story events seem to be just pieced together. From this point on, the plot stagnates and never picks back up. Like brainwashed cultists, they accept this idea as true with little resistance. The confusion is cleared up when their instructor arrives and explains how it’s alright for them to be half-naked around each other because they are a team, and teammates are like family. The game starts off with Hikage meeting his new teammates, Kaguya and Arisa, in a compromising situation. While Hikage is still a cadet, Zero’s lifelong mentoring has made him stronger than current Royal Knights. He’s actually the adopted son of the kingdom’s strongest knight, Zero. He’s not your cliche, talentless loser that normally stars in many VNs. Sakura Nova puts readers in the role of Hikage. This is never something you want a girl to ask. While it may sound like they’re finally getting their act together, there is most definitely room for some more improvement.

Sakura Nova is a tad longer than the other Sakura titles, and that added length is due to an increased amount of sex scenes. For Sakura Nova, Winged Cloud appears to have taken some of that feedback to heart. Winged Cloud continues to garner infamy over its Sakura series, with bland characters, non-existent stories, and lack of actual sex scenes being the most common complaints. As long as people keep buying the series, they will most likely never change a thing.

Sakura Nova is yet another entry in Winged Cloud’s Sakura series.
