Just found this game a week ago and completed it yesterday. Looking at the banner, the girls that interested me before starting the game were Marissa, Harlow and Riley (since she looked similar to another VN girl i liked) Then i read the tags and saw it was harem, so i just went with everybody since usually in those, your fuckboy magical big dick always pull all the girls in.
Overall, i liked the game a lot, even tough a lot of the LI's lost points throughout the progression of the game and some even becoming unlikable, the cringeness and out of place of a lot of the flirty replies as well as the agressive decisions being almost always stupid, like pulling your dick out at the fashion show. It's like, WHY?.
For the characters, i went from liking most of them to now only liking Marissa and Harlow.
Erika was nice at first. Every VN's always have one easy sex LI so the player can have sex scenes without dreams of flashback sequences, and she's it. Then, the more you play, the more it look you both get attached, the less she gives you sex, mostly always refusing you and later on, you find out she still was lying to you all that time. When she finally reveals everything to you, she basically said she lured you with easy sex so you would stick to her. Then, when she felt you were reeled in, she just stop, don't tell you the reasons or anything. She even make you sleep on the couch while you stay with her. I grew to like her up to midway, then she became annoying. I also was tired of her always calling us slick. I know for her it means she like us a LOT since it was the same nickname she used for her brother which means she will be loyal to us 'till the end, but i found the word "slick" just unappealing, similar to the "King" nickname and the whole "bend the knee" schtick. Uptown maniac would have been a great nickname for the MC and also for a reveal of his underground career if photos for both would have started to appear on the social media (to boost even more the followers).
Harlow. She's the sweet inexperienced nerd virgin girl with no friends trope. She was writen sweetly and i did like the progression. I had fun getting her used to having a good time hanging out.
Kate. The 40's professor that say no to a series of cringefest lines, but still get attarcted to the MC's dick like a fly on honey. I didn't like her model too much. Still was going through the motions, then i picked the wrong choice and stayed friendly with her. I realised a bit later what i did, but i didn't think it was worth the effort to save scum and reload and left her in the friendzone. I now mostly pick blue replies with sometime a green if it's not stupid and i'm fine with it.
Riley. I started trying to work on her like all the other girls to realise, chapter after chapter, that it was just an annoyingly lame waste of time. 90% of the interactions they have is the MC trying to make a pass on her with some highschool line or recap, and her saying no, it's not gonna happen, and the MC rudely consistently pushing the point too far everytime. In the later chapters, i decided, like Kate that it was not worth my time on her. I now mostly pick blue or business related choices with her, and will mostly say no or avoid her when she inevitably fall for the MC stupid lines or see his magical dick. Now, i'm finding myself having a hard time reading her segments and like with Billy, i often just skim through the main lines and tab the rest, as i know it's gonna be the same bullshit again. Just let her go dude.
Vanessa. What an un-enjoyable and badly written LI. I understand the schtick of the emotionless elite girl that is supposed to slowly warm up to you, but the execution is horrible. She never really warm up to you, except with the dead mothers talk. She consistently tells you to fuck off and shut up, and the MC never stops yapping is mouth still. It even annoys myself and i wished the MC would just shut up. And i swear, most flirt line with her are horrible and makes the MC look really bad. I'd stay away from him if i was Vanessa. Then, out of the blue, you begin kissing with her. She still tells you to shut up, don't tell you to stop. The magical dick trap is set. Her attitude might not change, but the dev needs sex scenes for more than 5 girls in those 14 chapters. Introduce the worst implemented sex scenes i think in my AVN's history. She don't want to celebrate, then she takes you to her room, then randomly decide you'd like sex so why not and still appears unhappy about it, like she "had" to, to secure you. Even worst, for me, it felt like she was giving her virginity. If my hunch is true, it's even worst. Looked to me half the time she wanted to just cry. It's like from 0 to 60 in 2 chapters after it was 0 to 0 in the 12 before. Didn't feel satisfying at all.
All the other girls i assume are only side girls since they don't have a useless recap panel at the end of every chapter, so i'll put all of them here. The detective. Just wow. What was that. Plaster face just like Vanessa, then she takes you on a ride just to later ride your dick just before you made 2 or 3 remarks you'd fuck her. And she's investigating you. What a fuck up she is. It doesn't make any sense. Free sex scenes for the plebs i guess. Jordan. Another model that's in a lot of AVN's, but this time she's 56. Boring old had to shag. Just like the detective. Free scenes to boost the scenes number. Sophia. Too little too late. Boring middle of the pack randomly inserted student. She's basically a way to give more reasons to have scenes with Kate. Meh for me. Marissa. I loved Marissa. The stripper to get players free sex scenes while the LI's were in character developpment. For a character with the choices of: do you wanna fuck, yes/no, she was charming and interesting. She has a nice small side story and pop just enough for you not to forget her. I wish she will be in an ending, i'd probably pick her if the game was solo LI. I liked the dynamic. Lorelei, another weird random scenes. Goes randomly from fuck you to fuck me in like a chapter. Then you can cringe tell you'd sex choke her again in front of the other guy. What a class act champion the MC is. Grace is the same thing. You speak to her once, randomly tells the mega celeb, wanna fuck? and magical dick trap again! SHe's seduced and in the bed. A lot of these scenes with this girls could have been removed. They are forced and there just to pump the number of scenes per chapters, and i dislike this practice. Just make good character development and make shit happen between the main LI's and you won't have to create so many random sexual interactions. As for Billy, it was ok to establish some background to the MC at first, but now it is just obnoxious and i find myself skipping most of the Billy segments. Theres only so much "it's the best coffee" i can take every chapter. Just drop the job and move on.
I liked the fighting angle. I don't care that it's scripted and you win regardless without choices, but i liked having the fights instead of just a chat bubble recap of what happened. The only annoyance is Erika, every single fight telling you she made money (in the tens of thiousand and more) like never before and that she'll pay Jack and move from the slums, only to find, every single time that she didn't and that she's always betting 100% of what she has. We all know after some shenanigans that the MC will win. Diablo doesn't seem too much. Heat got puched like 35 times and was still mostly good to go, so we know he don't have a 1 hit punch and that when the MC's about to loose, they will figure out his gimmick. Then what? I assume after we win the tournament, that guy that think all the fighters aren't worth his time gonna challenge the MC to setup a big fight main event in the future. We need more of the Goku training arc! The power levels need to rise! Can't wait for the LI's to find out he's fighting, only to be swayed by the power of the magical dick and not be able to resist showing up to encourage him.
Even if i ended up not enjoying too much the LI's it is still a very enjoyable game that i will look to play when the updates are done. I'd just like that the MC wouldn't just every other scene just always blurt: wanna fuck? to every girl he comes across. That's creepy and not a turn on at all.