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Iwakura Aria
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13 reviews found95
NintendoBoy
Aug 24, 2025
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Checkpoint Gaming
Aug 12, 2025
MAGES. Inc. delivered and then some with Iwakura Aria. What’s within is an electric and rich visual novel story, a page-turner that is filled to the brim with memorable and beautiful prose as it expertly weaves its themes. Better yet, it sands off all the rough edges of the genre with quality-of-life improvements. Where there’s sacrifice and power found within the halls of the Iwakura mansion, there’s also love, adoration and devotion. Whether it’s in protagonist Ichiko’s investment in the illustrious Aria or the player following along at every beat, you’re both in for an artful and magnificent ride.
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NoobFeed
Aug 15, 2025
Iwakura Aria is not a game that you have to play quickly. It takes time, feels like meditation at times, and rewards patience. You're hooked by the early twist, but what keeps you playing late at night is how relationships, intentions, and truths slowly fall apart. Its love story is soft and complicated, based on shared pain as well as desire.
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Digitally Downloaded
Aug 18, 2025
Even as it is, Iwakura Aria is better than 99% of the other visual novels out there. It’s essential as-is, and right on the cusp of being a masterpiece, and that’s ultimately why I’m disappointed that it doesn’t quite get there.
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TheSixthAxis
Aug 8, 2025
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Game8
Aug 7, 2025
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Nindie Spotlight
Aug 20, 2025
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WayTooManyGames
Aug 7, 2025
You don’t watch Titanic hoping the boat will survive; you need to see Jack and Rose sharing a moment, however brief, in this dark, cold life. That, more than anything, is what you can take away from Iwakura Aria. Perhaps you’ll find the ending that I couldn’t and discover a happy ever after for everyone. But, even if such a thing doesn’t exist, the fact remains that the love is there, and, however fleeting, it’s real, and it burns and it chases shadows away. You may not put Iwakura Aria as your favorite visual novel of all time.
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GAMES.CH
Aug 7, 2025
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ZTGD
Aug 21, 2025
While Iwakura Aria isn’t Mages Inc’s best work, the mystery of the Iwakura family was one well worth uncovering, featuring a great sense of suspense and foreboding dread that kept me reading well past my bedtime.
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