Sword of Asumi

A femme looking person looking at themselves in a mirror. Text reads 'A knock on the door startles Asumi from her thoughts.'.
A visual novel about assassins identifying other assassins? Yes please! Only, maybe not this one.

I wanted to love this story about Asumi, a blue-haired girl who goes to a school that’s essentially designed to teach her to kick butt, but unfortunately it suffered from the same problems as many other VNs before it – unnecessary sexualisation and shallow characterization. Though you can choose from a variety of characters to “date” throughout the course of the story (and the protagonist seems to be canonically bisexual no matter who you choose, which is cool) they don’t exist to do much beyond tell Asumi she’s cute and encourage her to do certain activities. Schooling-related activities, that is, but that doesn’t stop the game from getting Asumi to take her clothes off at an oddly frequent rate.

You should play this if…

You want to go through a visual novel about spies and assassins, and you aren’t bothered by it being a little unnecessarily sexualized. This game also has the weirdest boob art that I’ve ever seen – I’m pretty sure it’s physically impossible for shirts to sit around boobs the way they do here. I was pretty baffled.