Travis Bruno of Capsule Computers writes:
"Japan has long held dominance over the visual novel market. For every twenty visual novels released in Japanese, English speaking audiences are lucky to receive even one official English release. As such when Sekai Project and MangaGamer released the English developed Sakura Spirit it came as quite a surprise that even caught Japanese fans of the genre off guard. The question is, now that Winged Cloud has released Sakura Spirit, was this surprise a pleasant one?"
"Sakura Spirit, the short adult-oriented visual novel from Winged Cloud, was the game to signal the coming of what some may call the Steam Pornocalypse. For this game and its shiny assets caused a stir about just how or why visual novels were selling on Steam. And with the short game starting a whole series of similar titles, you have to wonder what it’s all about." - Rice Digital
Pedro writes "Sakura Spirit is a very short Visual Novel with a fantasy-like feudal Japan setting. The plot centers around Takahiro, a normal teen from modern-Japan who is magically cast into a world that contains cute kemonomimi girls"
Sakura Spirit is a mature, entertaining visual novel that is available on the Steam Network. Just in case you are not familiar with visual novels: they can be very similar to a Choose Your Own Adventure, allowing the player to make decisions that will affect the story. Not all visual novels carry a mature rating, but Sakura Spirit is the exception. Even though it has a mature rating, it’s mostly due to the explicit sexual dialog and nothing to do with full frontal nudity.
