The star of Sakura Nova, the latest visual novel from Winged Cloud, is a royal knight in training named Mikage. With aspirations of surpassing his father, one of the most respected knights in the kingdom, Mikage joins a prestigious academy. Unfortunately, our hero has a rather rocky start to his training after walking in on two cute girls while they are busy getting dressed. It turns out that the two, Kaguya and Arisa, are actually his fellow team members, which doesn’t do the harmony of the squad any good. Due to the friction caused by their clashing personalities the three decide to move in together in an effort to become more in-sync with each other. Of course, with this being a Winged Cloud title, the lead characters almost spend more time getting intimate with each other than performing their duties as knights. Winged Cloud has garnered quite a reputation for their risqué visual novels, thanks to the abundance of fan-service and paper thin plots. Sakura Nova is no exception and, thanks to the free R-rated uncensor patch, it is also one of their titles that veers the closes to …show more content…
It is a pity that the nice visuals are not backed up by a better story. We actually liked the characters, from Mikage who is actually quite a competent fighter trying to escape the shadow of his father to the girls, both of whom have their own personality quirks. However, the story felt a little too disjointed to really draw us in and each scenario only serves as an excuse to dish up another H-scene. If that is all that you expect from Sakura Nova you’ll have fun, but if you want a visual novel with a story that will keep you hooked then there are better options available. There are enough titles in the series at this point for players to know more or less what they are getting themselves into though, so if you are a fan of the Sakura titles you should add this one to your