UPDATED: Ugraded to 4 Stars. Some of the renders are still rough around the edges, and 23 Sisters is never going to wow you visually like some others in the genre, but hands-down, this is one of the funniest and liveliest games I've ever played, and the updates are frequent. Very good stuff.
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A young college graduate with a useless degree, stuck in a dead-end job, gets rescued by the terminally ill, billionaire, dead-beat dad he never knew he had, and Dad's got a proposition for him. He's one of 24 illegitimate children (Dad has a 'surprise, I came inside!' pregnancy fetish, ya' see), and he's the only son. The graduate has 23 sisters spread all over the world, and billionaire Dad wants him to visit, seduce (no rapin') and impregnate each and every one of them (it's all the better if they don't actually want you to cum inside them, that's hot, but you can't just rape 'em). If the MC manages to pull this off, ideally before his sickly father bites the big one, he'll inherit 12 Billion Dollars.
In Hollywood, they call this premise 'high-concept', which basically just means something that's immediately catchy, adventurous and succinct, like 'a group of mercenaries face off against a deadly, alien hunter in the jungle', or 'a vacationing police officer must rescue his wife from highly skilled terrorists in an LA skyscraper', or 'In a race against time, a college graduate must go on a globe-trotting adventure and incestuously impregnate all 23 of his sisters to win inconceivable wealth from a dying father'. See how that works? Doesn't it just immediately grip your sense of degenerate excitement?
Maybe I'm coming off as sarcastic, but I haven't downloaded something from F95 in a few months now, and when I read the premise I immediately pressed the MEGA button. As a concept, it works.
And when it works as a VN, it feels very much like a high-concept, 80's teen sex comedy if the script was written by Edward Lee. Reasonably detailed character models in decent lighting within colorful and decorated environments, spouting insane, off-the-wall, often incest-themed and topical dialogue at one another while everything is drenched in ten levels of satire. This game has genuinely made me laugh out loud several times. At points it's gloriously, aggressively offensive, and I'm not talking about the incest. When it works, this is absurdity to the point that it bumps against the edge of something awesome.
When it's not working, it feels like a shoddy, ramshackle first attempt at a DAZ Ren'Py game with no proofreading. Scary looking models in bad lighting within sparse, poorly decorated and barren environments, spouting wooden lines of incest-themed porn dialogue at one another. "You're a slut, and you want your brother's dick." "Yeah, I'm a slut, I want my brother's dick!"
BLACK SCREEN
"NARRATOR: After giving his sister some brother-dick and cumming all up in them guts until she passed out, Jim went to the airport and flew on his private jet to Chicago and bought a chili dog. The chili dog was not very good."
STILL BLACK SCREEN
"NARRATOR: Then Jim went clothes shopping and bought some astoundingly ugly clothes despite possessing a limitless credit card and went back to his private jet. You'll have to trust us on this, folks, we don't have the budget for the assets to show you, but Jim definitely has a private jet, and he absolutely goes places in it. It's super cool. Currently, he flies back home, gets in a cab and travels to the hospital.
SMASH CUT TO INTERIOR OF SOMETHING THAT VAGUELY RESEMBLES A HOSPITAL ROOM
-and the game resumes normally from there. This happens several times.
Currently I'd say the game works about 60% of the time. The other 40% is a low-low-budget, Canadian production, Vancouver-sewer-system-trying-to-pass-itself-off-as-New-York, hot mess.
I really like the premise. I really like the sense of humor and the surprising, 'fuck everybody' topical sensibility the game shows sometimes. It's fun and lively, and gives the game an edge it desperately needs to further differentiate itself from the 3.5 million other brother-fucks-family VN's on F95. This game is definitely unique in spirit.
I'm just not currently titillated by the actual sex scenes. There's no real build-up, no coaxing of the player's libido, and the 'dirty talk' doesn't really feel sexual, so much as keeping up with everything else the game has been doing. Like I said before, Edward Lee, aggressively offensive, yadda yadda. A whole lotta fun, just not particularly sexy. It doesn't help that your first sister is a dead ringer for a Chucky doll.
Side-note, kudos to the dev for the forward-thinking of applying to SubStar, cause this shit ain't gonna fly on Patreon for very long. I'll be stunned if it's still there in two weeks without some serious rewrites. The name of the game is sister-fuckin', and them shenanigans don't fly in the House of Patty.
Current version, 3 Stars. Sister Shoot-em-up, and your bullets are made of jizz. Will continue to follow this production, and wish the dev all the luck in the wide world of illegitimate female siblings needing a good fuckin'.