Ma-Gi: Marginal

Ma-Gi – Marginal: Shio lost his parents when he was young and lived with his grandfather since then. When he is at border of death, he gives Shio the key to a house located in a village and tells him that he has the right to choose if he wants to live there. Thus, he goes to the village thinking that the house is abandoned, but he finds that five maids live there. Soon, another maid who came from the woods joins them. Shio starts living with them at the house and thus, his new life begins…
When the protagonist in Merge Marginal loses both parents in a tragic accident, grandpa’s home is opened to him. When gramps himself passes on, he leaves the mansion to the player who must maintain the estate with a staff of six girls (Merge Feuerbach, Ameria Phosrylase, Erika Brown, Fin Tonnies, Phoneme Tonnies-daughter of Fin, and Konoha Minashiro). Perhaps the hero will find happiness with one of the girls and escape the specter of death that has trailed him since the outset of the game.
From the piano ditty to the theme song that plays during the intro to Merge, one gets the impression that Marginal is a highly polished affair. The introduction names the girls in the game and shows a few of them seemingly casting magic spells – or at least one of them is doing something with a pentagram.
Arriving at the gates of grandpa’s manse, a lovely maid named Fin Tonnies introduced herself and our character buried himself into her bosom in an overly friendly embrace. The game interface consists of a VCR-like mini-menu where conversations may be fast-forwarded or simply played in normal speed. After Fin opens up the gates to the mansion (to a lot of creaking and shrieking metal), the player meets Merge Feuerbach and the fiery tempered Phoneme Tonnies who lays the smackdown in the early moments of our first meeting…