English: 5
User Interface: 4
User Experience: 3
Art: 5
Dialogue: 2
Story: 3
Opinion: 1
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Avg: 3.29
I figure it's been about a year and I should come back to this, I changed how I review things, and honestly, I don't know why I would give some of these games benefit of the doubt. Especially given the "inspiration" this references BEFORE THE GAME EVEN STARTS. Like, c'mon man, have confidence in your own work to not say "I like this other game and wanted to make one just like it." Right as it starts. And once again "English isn't my native language" right after, like, just make the game in your native language, then hire a translator. Reading stiff and broken English, and I'm sure this is true for reading in any language, is one of the worst experiences you can have IN A GAME THAT IS MEANT TO BE READ. I get Americans are dumb, horny and throw money at literally nothing, but it just feels like a joke when you play something that's poorly localized. Now, that rant being said, what's here is just not good. It's the same "Dad and daughters suddenly want sex" drivel trying to appeal to the "wholesome" crowd and the sexual assault crowd at the same time.
There really isn't much of a story, Like you might read in my old review, Step-Dad comes home from prison after 16 years to reunite with three daughters "in hopes of redemption." Notice the quotes? It's because all MC does is say sorry, internalize EVERYTHING that just happened repeatedly, and say "I shouldn't look at my girls like that." then proceeds to look at his girls like that. I don't get it. I'm so unbelievably tired of this same dried out porn plot. Notice how I haven't continued the story yet? There is none, it's just MC walking from one room to another as another love interest says he's so different then sex happens. And that's if you do the "wholesome" route. Then all that pretense is gone and MC is just a sexually abusive asshole and honestly enjoying that route should get you put on a list somewhere. Every interaction, essentially, goes like this (and again I can barely only stomach the romance route):
MC meets the girl.
MC apologizes to the girl for being an ex-con.
The girl waves away MC's worries.
The girl proceeds to explain every character trait she has and every trauma she's been through.
MC says "But you're okay now."
The girl starts to swoon over him as if he was that most amazing man ever.
They then come up with a contrived reason to continue seeing each other for MC to leer at and ogle the girl.
Repeat.
And at this point in the story, MC has been home maybe 3 days. Enough to have sex dream about all his daughters. MC's internal monologue is completely unnecessary too. For every line of dialog said, MC has 5 lines that he thinks to himself dissecting the situation as if he knows everything. And a lot of it comes off as a little creepy too. I don't know, I don't want to continue to bash this, it's technically not the worst game I've played, but it takes too much from it's inspiration and MC ultimately acts like a scummy white knight.
The English is stiff, full of misspellings, and definitely needs work. The UI is slightly edited, the textbox and font, but the navigation menu is edited to make it hard to read which is hilarious. The art is fine. I think I'm one of the only advocates of having character sprites over a background, but the Dev refreshes the entire screen every single time a new sprite is shown. So it eliminates the cohesive look of sprites... My rants of the story and dialogue are all above. I'm glad I came back to this so I can accurately review it, but I don't think I will ever like this, nor will I try it again.
To the dev, if steam isn't coming out of your ears reading this. And you haven't flagged this to be deleted. I see where you're coming from, but you need to write characters better. Having 18-27 year old women act like their eight and MC monologuing constantly is not a good reading experience and is frankly weird. But anyway, best of luck to you.