"Spring at Dawn, I Am a Monster." is a psychological horror adventure exploring themes of salvation, dependency, morality, and ruin, featuring multiple endings shaped by your choices.
I've come across Studio Charon games as a lil baby, the rpgmaker stuff namely. Overall I held it in pretty decent esteem, I knew it wasn't the pinnacle of story telling nor was it the greatest execution but at the very least it was great food for thought and seemed decently handcrafted
My bad for not reading the warning on AI, however, but it goes from...
I'm almost certain that AI was used in more than just background images. Character route-start opening movies, some character talk-sprites and CGs looked, at the very least, AI-assisted, and at worst fully AI-generated based off some hand-drawn character sprites.
For what it's worth, I do believe there was some human creation behind the character art....
Edit after major update (9.9.2026): Re-read all routes and all endings. The writing and dialogue in the English translation has been majorly improved. Definitely much smoother reading experience now with the additional stuff and fixes. My previously mentioned errors have been also fixed.
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Art looks weird and inconsistent. Maybe the character art isn't AI generated but the intro animations definitely were. I don't think I'll refund since the price is very low but I can't recommend this game unless they give more details about their AI use. Clearly it is more than just the backgrounds.
Firstly, slightly biased as I am a fan of the older works from Charon. I will try to be fair though as I usually am.
First and foremost this a series of short stories (each roughly 30min-1hr depending on how fast you read) They're nothing amazing, the stories themselves give just enough time to understand the character a bit and perhaps bond with them...
