I've played the whole game for the first time during the last 3 days.
All in all I liked it. The story was interesting, full of action and adventure, as well as with the perfect touch of humour.
There was a lot of work behind that lore. It's very original, paying a lot of attention to detail.
Those cinematics are impressive, arguably the best in any game from this site that I have played so far (I repeat: that I have played).
Honestly, with the little money the dev is making on Patreon I can't grasp how they can afford to produce those videos and animations and also pay for some voice acting. That's great.
Now the cons.
- I hate this type of game mechanics that we can find in many games. I mean this kind of useless map where you click on different places just to choose the order in which you will see the scenes. It's boring, annoying, stupid...
- It takes an eternity for any button or object (or whatever it is that I want to click on) to highlight when I hover the mouse pointer over it. In other words, you have to place the mouse pointer over something and then wait until the game allows you to click on it. This is the first time I've encountered this problem in any Renpy game and it's a true pain. (Btw I downloaded the dev's new game Projekt Passion to check it this was also a problem there and it isn't; so there must be something weird about this game.)
- Sex scenes are terrible. Don't get me wrong: in principle, the animations are more than ok. But it's a shame that all sex scenes feel disconnected from the actual game, from the actual story. They just pop up, with little preparation, with no sensuality, no teasing, no nothing. And then they just consist of one or two robotic animations repeating from different angles at incredible speed. They are repetitive, cold, and totally lacking any sexiness whatsoever. The same applies to the sex scene right at the beginning of Projekt Passion. That's a shame.
- In reality, the MC doesn't give a fuck about any of the girls. The devs strived to establish a connection between him and the girls but in my opinion they failed. The relationships are superficial and forced, or at least that's how I felt. Indeed, that's one of the typical consequences of this sort of game mechanics. To put it differently: the overall story sucked me in, but the different fragmented stories with the females did not.
So I'm torn. I liked it but at the same time it left a bittersweet taste.
That's why I'd rather not write a review, because I'd like to give it 3.5 stars, but since that's not possible I'd surely end up giving it 3 stars and that would probably be unfair too. I wouldn't be able to bring myself give it 4 stars despite the gorgeous cinematics.