I enjoyed IOV2 Episode 2, but I did not enjoy it nearly as much as before. Breaking down the sex scenes ...
Scene 1. Hildegard x Ariiya [sp]
Scene 2. Dark Reia [sp] x Duke
Scene 3. Ariiya x Duke
Scene 4a. all three girls x tentacles
Scene 4b. all three girls x ogre-demons
The only scene I really thoroughly enjoyed was Scene 2. And even then, it wasn't nearly as hot as it was in Episode 1 where she'd been struggling between her mind and her vagina, her loyalty to Odin and her lust for Duke, and she transformed into the Dark Valkyrie Reia.
Scenes 1 and 4 (involving Hildegard) I disliked because they featured two things a lot:
- loli (Hildegard at least had the breasts of an adult woman, but she was still the loli of the group, only a peg above the series' loliest girl, Skuld)
- futanari (Hildegard in Scene 1, Skuld and the hermaphrodite in Scene 4)
They had one thing I like (tentacles) and several things I love (women drowning in the pleasures of sex, pregnancy) but it was almost as if the animators were trying to balance between Group A-fans' disgust with pregnancy and Group B-fans' love of pregnancy by
hiding the pregnant bellies a lot. It was a real let down for me. I wasn't able to enjoy the scene in spite of the pregnancies because it bothered me so much that the bellies were hidden a lot and the references to being pregnant were (imo) too few. I understand that on the other hand Group A (like Rein) feel as if the pregnancy was just way too much and blah. I guess what I'd say to that is, "I think I felt the same way about the pregnancy as Rein probably did about the futa." Because the futa, honestly, wasn't all the prominent either. It was there enough to turn me off, but I recognize that if I liked futa I would have been pretty disappointed at how little time the camera focused on that or how little of the scene was dedicated to futa fucking rather than tentacles or ogre-demons.
Finally we've got Scene 3. This should have been hot because it was Ariiya's mind being broken in to that of a sex slut and of wanting to have Duke's child, but I felt the presentation was all wrong. I don't know if that's Black Lilith's fault or if it's the animation studio's, but some problems I had with the character/plot details were:
- they did it on the night of the full moon where Duke said Ariiya wouldn't be able to resist and also would have the highest chance of being fertilized. The latter I don't mind so much, but the former sort of weakens the moment for me. I love aphrodisiac and hypnotism hentai as much as the next guy (probably more!), but one of the things necessary for any of those stories to become truly hot is for the drug/hypnosis/whatever to wear off and for the girl to still be in heat and then she recognizes that she's in heat even though the [whatever] effects have worn off; but by that point, as an incarnation of lust, she no longer cares, and just giggles and moans and squirms in pleasure. For Ariiya, that was taken away from us. :\
- Ariiya really didn't seem to enjoy it. Even towards the end when she was moaning and her eyes were rolling back in their sockets, she still looked like a woman who was having physical convulsions but who felt like she'd been r***ing and wanted to die. Some guys might like that, but not me. I like for the girl to "come to the Dark Side" and enjoy the sex. Corruption, essentially. r*** without corruption isn't a turn-on for me. It's just cruel.
- Dark Valkyrie Reia was distractingly creepy in this scene.
- The combination of an enema with an impregnation bothered me. It was like, "Your belly's small. Now it's big because of fluid in your GI tract. Now it's small again because you shat all the liquid out. And now, eight months later, it's big again because now you're pregnant."
- Since the Valkyries are magical beings, it would have been a lot hotter if Ariiya had begun to show physical signs of pregnancy (breast engorgement or bulging belly) not too long after Duke ejaculated into her vagina -- especially since they made such a big deal about this being the special full moon night and whatnot. Yes, yes, I'm a fan of transformative things like that (e.g. how Reia transformed into Dark Reia).
- It would have been nice to see Ariiya become Dark Valkyrie Ariiya. I understand that this may not happen in the original game, but I don't see why Reia's the only one who becomes corrupted. And corruption scenes are fucking hot!!
Long story short,
Plot: 4/5 for a hentai
Characters: 4/5 for a hentai
Animation: 4/5 to 4.5/5, it was pretty top-notch
Sound (voices): 5/5, very erotic, especially Reia's voice actress
Sound (sfx, music): ??? not memorable
Replay Value:
low :\, like, 2/5
Overall: 3.5/5 or 4/5
Best of month? Maybe. I dunno. I forget what else I've seen recently. ^_^; All I know is, I'd give this a B, not an A. It was fun, but I was let down after how good IOV2 Episode 1 had been.