Love Esquire

Love Esquire

Steam Review

I give this game pretty high marks. It reminds me of the classic dating sims great visual novel style, and of course, the humor involved in it is grade A. Just so you know...the Mod makes the game even better in the long run. There is a part of me that would love to see another game like this or maybe even some addons that could make the game go even further. I know that is pushing it but I mean when you have something this good it is hard to walk away from it.

Expanded Review

Love Esquire is a Visual Novel with some RPG elements. While the RPG element is light it is actually something that you will want to do to progress through the game and get one of the better endings. The RPG aspect to me honestly lent itself greatly to this game and made this game even better than it already was with its witty humor, nice music scores, great artwork, and of course the number of endings based on different girls. 

You play as a Squire to a Knight in a kingdom that is preparing to go to war against the dreaded Barbarians. To that end as a Squire, you aspire to become a knight yourself but in the middle ages the only way for a Squire to become a Knight was to serve under one and through hard work, dedication, and merit through the war they a Squire could become a Knight. 

The squire (you) can change your name so you can make up whatever name you wish. The characters react to your character by calling him simply 'Squire' so that is actually not a bad thing. You live on a farm with your sister 'Amy' and your Father. I want to go on record by letting you know up front that they are not your biological father or sister but are simply the ones that took you in after your parents were killed by raiders...there is a reason why this is important.

So the game gives you 3 to 4 months (around 30 turns in each month) to do a wide variety of things from talk with different characters and get a relationship with different woman, train at the barracks, become charismatic at the local tavern, and study at the town Library. You can also go out in the field with Sir Hugh (your knight) and do missions to earn gold and experience that will help you progress through the series of quests and at the end of the questline (the fighting in the field area) you get a special item.

As a Squire you do not actually fight against the bests and bandits you help your knight and he does the fighting. As a Squire you can 'Taunt' your enemies which as you would expect would make them attack you instead of your knight, 'Loot' which again...as it states you will loot the gold your enemies drop after they are dead. Now please take a note that you HAVE to loot the gold if you want to keep it. Any gold let at the end of the battle that you did not pick up will not go into your bank. 'Heal' which will heal your Knight (Hugh) as well as yourself. 'Cheer' helps Hugh power up his attacks with one turn and in the following turn, his attack will deal more damage. As you do each of these skills you will earn points that when reaching max will unlock ultimates of each skill which increases their effectiveness and has a really neat and cool cutscene for them.

This game has a lot of humor and jokes and makes a lot of references to modern gaming concepts and ideas which makes this game even funnier. The humor in this game is one of its big selling points...well that and the sex and hot women...just to name a few things.

Speak of woman there are 5 different women that you can court so to speak and each one has their own personality traits, history, and ideas for the squire. 

The women that you can have relations with is Amy the not by blood-related sister (that's right no chromo), Giselle the nurse at the local clinic, Beatrice the Princess of the Kingdom, Kamala the Diplomat and daughter of the Sultan of the neighboring Kingdom, and Vel that lives a dual life as a warrior in the army of the Kingdom and a bar fighter that does odd jobs for different people. 

Because of the amount of information that there is on each girl, it would be extremely difficult to post it all in this article but let's just say this. Each girl is more certainly hot, interesting, and each has their own personality traits that will draw you or repel you from them. All that said though there are multiple endings that you can unlock so seeking a playthrough where you go after each one is advisable. I have played through this game multiple times and I still have yet to obtain every ending to this game at the time of this article. Not to say that further playthroughs will not eventually lead me to unlock them all. 

Love Esquire is a game that has a lot more potential and really develops a new concept in the Visual Novel industry in my opinion. I think this game could be developed further and even a new game created based on the lore and ideas leftover from this game. I would even go as far as suggesting that if there was to be, say a Love Esquire 2 in the works or in development that makes it where you import your last save game and maybe continue with the girl you have or maybe even seek out new girls?

The music tracks, cut scenes, and voice-overs also make this game even better crafted and to be honest this is one game that I recommend highly to get. I don't believe you will be upset with this purchase at all.