I really want to like this game, but it's hard to have a positive opinion about it when the experience is hampered by boring grind, ugly faces, and an MC with a horrible inconsistent personality.
I would've had a better time, if I could better relate to the MC but when he starts out he's a bit timid ready to shy away from every encounter every chance he gets, and then at some point he does a heel turn and outright abuses some characters even going as far as to use chloroform on one lady he just met. This game could do well with some sort of corruption mechanic, or the ability to choose negative actions with some sort of narrative impact.
Now, beauty is a subjective topic, and some may find the faces here perfectly fine, however in my opinion the faces in this game can range from average semi-realistic to downright horrendous caricatures. It would do the developer some good to conduct a bit of art study focused around faces to find a better balance between realism and artistic beauty. Though, throughout the game we encounter a fairly healthy variety of body types. I enjoyed their designs, I just had to look away from their faces to do so.
The game features animation and cgs and while good the first time through, quickly becomes repetitive and kind of boring to watch. The game also lacks variance, when you have sex with a character, it’s usually the same one blowjob cg, one tease, one vaginal, and two anal. Don’t get me wrong, I love anal (I’d love more games to include it.), but when you don’t have the choice, and every character accepts it(right away or not) it cheapens the experience and devalues the nature of the fetish. It’d be better if I, the player, could choose to offer to the LI and then depending on the character they’d refuse or accept, it makes the characters feel more realistic, and the game feel more reactionary and dynamic. Maybe a character who refuses your proposals slowly begins to accept your advances and so on.
As another user pointed out, the sex in this game is scheduled and quickly becomes akin to clockwork. After your first encounter with a character they become available for use again on a specific day, at a specific time. And yes I mean for use as the characters never take advantage of your newly acquired relationship. It’s all very static and with all the monotonous grind, it’s easy to forgo any other romances after the first or second time. To the point that I played (because I just couldn’t finish it), the only character who would do something dynamic is the MC’s step-sister, and even that felt mechanical and planned, unlike the story in this game...
Which brings me to my biggest issue with this game. The tedious grind it's gameplay is focused around. you spend several in-game days clicking around the map (go to school, come home, sleep, etc.) waiting for the next thing to pop up without any idea what to do or where to go and kind of just stumble onto a new scene or story thread. There is also a quest tracker however most of the time it just says "nothing special to do." while the other portion of time it will regurgitate the info you already know like "You need X item" without hinting at where or how to find said item. My advice to the developer would be to adjust the quest tracker to say things like “I need X, I think there might be some around Y.” and to cut out a majority of the bloat in the game.
Also, a small pet peeve of mine is when games of this calibur outright show off the MC’s face, especially when the intent of the story is to insert yourself in that character’s shoes. Though I recognize not many people will feel the same way I do on this subject.
And one last thing, this game’s writing isn’t exactly prose. I’m fairly certain that english isn’t the developer’s first language. If that sort of thing bothers you then you might want to look elsewhere. My advice to the dev is to hire an editor to look after your work, but I understand that isn’t always feasible, and this isn’t exactly the worst writing I’ve come across.
In the end we are left with a relatively barebones story, a boring unrelatable MC that lacks a moral compass, and little to no choices that change the course of the story or even what kind of sex we get to have. It’s such a shame because we don’t usually see the kind of diversity this game offers in terms of character appearances in this genre, but as it stands the game’s inadequacies overshadow it’s qualities. Best luck to the developers moving forward with this and their future projects.
