Unity - Completed - AI Shoujo [R15] [Illusion]

Given its status as a de facto successor to AG3, AI Shoujo is extremely underwhelming with lack of improvements or even downgrades more than 10 years later after its predecessor, largely owing to a confusing attempt to gain a more mainstream appeal of sorts by chopping off sexual components... as a smut game.

Story: Simple, very simple but it works..

Originality: Unoriginal.

Renders: Good graphic but extremely heavy

Sound: It's standard, nothing to say, nothing to comment

Playability: It's on Unity, everything I ever played on unity is terrible and basically unplayable, also alone this game is like 10 GB or something(then it has a 60 GB extra content TOTALLY OPTIONAL but in the same torrent of the main game), this game can be considered playable only if you have one hell of a PC(i mean a very good one, something that makes you play games at UltraHD 4k without lagging, that kind of stuff) and apparently some people with good PCs still manage to have issues...that's how much unplayable the game is.

Performance: [Read Playability]

Bugs: didn't notice them

Animations: the same stuff that you find on Renpy but ruined by how heavy Unity is on a normal PC

Voice Acting: Decent.

Grammar: it's understandable.

Amount of content: I couldn't play more...bc performance and playability...

Conclusion: if this game was made with Renpy i would put at least 4 stars, but Unity is what kills my PC (weak PC? Possibly, but who is the target for this game? People with RTX 3090? And with Intel Core I9-9900k?69 GB of RAM? I'm genuinely asking XD)

If you have download honey select 2 this game is pretty fucking pointless. its a really really basic survival/ building game with little to no actual game in it where you get to fuck the girls that you bring to the island.

Pros:
-Uses the honey select 2 engine so the girls look good and with mods the customization is pretty good.
- some sex scenes are contextual so it gives the different environments some meaning beyond the different materials
- the building system can be entertaining for an hour or two

meh:
- the fishing is alright. its better than almost all of the other "game mechanics"
- the relationship system is pretty bog standard. you give the girl some things and say some generic shit to them and heart go up.

cons:
- its REALLY REALLY GRINDY and the grind is picking shit up off the fuckin floor.
- takes a while to get more than one girl (atleast for me it did...like an hour or two?)
- crafting is fucking boring and you need to make new "tools" to gather the better material which just extends the grind unnecessarily
- with out mods its poorly translated, un-instructional, has little in the ways of customization and can be downright ugly.


Basically it comes down to did you want to see some honey select 2 girls frocking around while you pick garbage up off the floor like you were given mandatory community service? no? then just download honey select 2 and you can get to the hentai shit right away.

Uhh Nice art? There is no game, the rendering is really laggy on a powerful computer. Customization, the only thing Illusion is good for, is mostly limited to the environment, and that's limited, time to wait for Illusion to make another AA2 or AG3, but who am I kidding, that happens once a decade.

Autosave is shit and game crashes a bunch, controls aren't great. Who uses the middle mouse button to bring up the menu?
Camera is clumsy at best.
Can't be bothered to start the game for the 4 time. or save every few minutes.

Well that was disappointing...

This is basically a porn game, that is trying not to be a porn game. You have to do so much tedious grinding, even the relationship building is just a grind. There's no personality to it, it just feels incredibly random. The animations are decent, if you ignore all the clipping through body parts.

Overall this one is just a hard skip, nothing worth seeing here, especially not compared to their other games.

I spent many hours playing. You fill yourself with expectations but you end up disappointed because there are not many game options.
It takes too long to update. Too bad because it has a nice character character design.
I think it could be improved if I had more options when it comes to group sex.
Their translations are very wrong.

While the graphics are good, the gameplay is needlessly boring and poor. There is a lot of unnecessary grinding and it just doesn't feel right. Animations are average and certainly not the best illusion game.

Waifu Simulator - Or that fantasy of leaving everything behind / being stuck on an island with your ideal woman

This game appeals to that very specific and niche demographic who adds sexual mods to their Sims game. Therefore, it shouldn't have such a large audience. It's not straightforward h as Honey Select, neither is it (narrative? mini-game?)-centric as Sexy Beach. Indeed, the most similar game is Artificial Girl since it does develop the girls according to your actions and interactions. Except for the places; unless you build something, it's all gritty and post-apocalyptic.

And that's where the mystery lies: What happened to this world? Is the island abandoned? Did a disaster happened and it's actually post-apoc? The girls are artificial (pun not intended), but does that make the main character the last man on earth? - That's completely irrelevant. You can draw your own conclusions.

Make your own is this game's thing: After (or even during) unlocking all content and developing the girls, all that's left is a sandbox architectural builder with (very) chunky controls, but with pre-build modules and furnitures. You'll feel like you're designing something more on sketch-up than on the Sims. On one hand, you can do a lot of stuff, but you're limited to the elements you're given on the builder, and figure out their limitations. Plus the controls are uncomfortable.

It isn't just on the builder though; you'll have a learning curve when it comes to controls (reading the Help thing is useful for it) during gameplay and during scenes. I had to train myself not to use the Esc button (which will close the game without saving on Confirm), and instead channel EVERYTHING through the middle mouse button. It's just not intuitive. Worsening this issue, is the performance: The game isn't very well optimized, so you'll have to figure out your system's limits when it comes to handling this game.

The graphics are awesome; but I cannot judge this fairly since I disable a few things in order to not get dizzy or get a headache. All I can say is that, disabling blur and bloom makes this look great, so they aren't there to hide unpolished textures or rendering, but to give the game a cinematic feeling.

Sound is good as well, good BGM, it's fully voiced in Japanese (which is quite appropriate since the character creator is focused mainly on asian features), and you can adjust the voices for each character you create.

Only negative things I could say about this game is the lack of late game interactions and content; "eat rice together" gets old, and the lack of interactive dialog is noticeable when it starts getting repetitive. Also, there aren't many positions when playing as a female character or having threesomes.

The modding community is very active (thank you!) on this game so trying and testing stuff with new mods is entertaining by itself. Overall, the game is good, but modding makes it way better. 4 stars because I'll use one to eat rice together.

I like the game and I think that with decent new content and optimization fixes, and good amount of mods, it can be one of the best from Illusion...
Problem is, right now it's a goddamn mess, but still a beautiful one.

Good stuff:
-Character creation.
-Graphically, even without mod, Ai stands out pretty well in this new engine, with mods it makes it even more beautiful.
-Animations are quite decent and I suppose pussy/dick collision mod will mostly be perfected in the future.
-they got some ok ost in the game this time.
-building the girl and seeing how she forge herself is genuinely quite enjoyable.
-H dialogs are based on her own traits she builds by time, giving her more personality in the H act by time.
-there's quite a lot of modding going on for clothes and char creator.
-sandbox feels, this is not a VN, but has indeed a few dialogs.
-you can fucking fish.
-Decent translation mod.
-Interesting world building for the first time in AI.

Bad stuff:
-The grind has been poorly implemented and is really boring. Unlocking housing items is a pain in the ass.
-bugs. the game has quite a few bugs.
-Optimization is one of the worse in this title.
-No translation for dialogs in H scene yet.
-The game cries for more furniture, we got a huge island, but a few items only to build our paradise. Really hope modders would look into that.
-Rn modders looks to be focused on Neostudio mostly, not too good for the actual game.
-VN lovers wont understand what the plot is about and whats going on (yes, theres actually an interseting mini world building even if chars like Shan and some dialogs are absolutely trash)
-Need more interactions with the girls, and dialogs

PROS
- The best animations
- The best looking models (no uncanny valley horror!)
- Great Character Customization
- Fully voiced (it's japanese, though)
- Free roam/Sandbox
- A bunch of mods are available

CONS
- The worst optimization (low FPS; long load times)
- Grindy/Shallow/Unfun gameplay
- No story, romance, teasing; just mindless sex (you will have to fill the gaps with your imagination)

dissapointing.

honestly, i like the concept idea, but the realisation is very basic and honestly bad.
basically, to make it simple. you are "stuck" in an island with a dumb girl (yeah, more dumb than that, you die)
your goal is to grind, grind and grind various kind of shit to get ressources and craft a house or more. you can craft some cool shit. sadly its still pretty limited, but the building concept is very nice and open opportunity for futur games.
the girl do her own stuff all around the island, no need to give her orders or else. obviously, she do everything useless, soo you still have to "teach" her how to do stuff or ask her to do specific usefull stuff.
there is another girl, merchant, wich is as dumb as the other one... but whatever. that merchant will exchange stuff with you, soo more grind. yayyy.....nope -_-

on the sex side, its a critical way down compared to , let say, honey select.
yeah, no joke... not only because you cant have sex with the girls unless you grind (again) the relation with them. but also that they arent as much options as on HS (or even the other game home-something, i forget the title)

to be honest, this is a very dissapointing game from illusion.

it have some great idea (crafting , building for exempl or even cooking). but the realisation is terrible. additionaly to the abused grinding part of the game and the lack of feeling "rewarded" with the sex for all the hard work you do on that shitty small ass island.
i m taking free to give you a warning, this is NOT an open world at all, the island is basically some small places linked with corridor (kind of "dragon age" style levels)
yeah.. again, another dissapointing thing when we consider how (kind of) open world game like "sexy beach premium resort" was made.

soo, to make it short resume :

this game is dissapointing, an good opportunity to build something good being fucked by the lack of development concentration on the essential part.
its grindy, linear, boring, and lack soo much stuff that was accessible on the older games.

aint deserve more than 2 stars.

Good game which deserves 3/5 stars in my opinion.

To be fast, it's a game with AAA pretention, but without any content it's just not.


Why ?

• The Character Creator : Illusion Games are really awesome with them character creator. You can create any type of woman or man which you want, physically as the personnality even the things she likes and loves. The possibilites are increase if you've all dlc or add mod. Or you can just load a character.
  
  
• Graphisme : According in the previous point, the graphisme of this game is really nice. Nothing like AAA games, but really high than other H-Games which I played (At the moment, like 20+). The light with sunrise / sunset, the flaura etc... and of course characters, are really cool !
  
  
• Animation : Animation and H-Animation are really pretty cool. For the last one, you can have multiply possibiliy according the location which you've sex with your partner (near a wall, on the floor, bed, just standing etc...) with three categories of H-Animation : Pleasure for him, Pleasure for her, Pleasure for both (Sex). You can even have threesome if you ask to follow to one girl and go meet another one !
  
  
• Voiced : Nothing to add too. Voiced game are the best. And thanks to the Character Creator you have various voices according the personnality and tonality.
  
  
• Gameplay : I really like game with content and not just like novel. In this one you have gathering, fishing, cooking, crafting, HOUSING ! farming.
  
  
• Trading : I really like how the trading work in this game ! You have one NPC which will be your shop. And instead to buy or sell with gold, all item has trading value. So if you want an object with 500 value for the seller, you need to offer many items with low, medium or high value to trade with the shop. It's original and I like it !
  
  
• Housing : As I said in Gameplay, yes you read right, you have housing ! You have in the principal island 3 (little, medium, large) bases which you can build your own house entirly. And after you'll have your own island to build another house with a huge area. As the Character Creator, the possibilites can be increase with dlc or mod and you can save / load your island or another one.
  
  
• Relationship : I like games with relationship too and this one has a complete relationship, maybe too much. All of your girls (no NPC) has lot of various stats, 4 steps of relationship (illustrate by hearts). Girls have also two types of skills (which will be unlocked when you reach the 3th step of your relationship), the normal which can be good or not, like increase the fishing, gathering or even decrease the health, can be sick easier, don't have trust with you, no sociable or rebel, and the loves skills like nymphomaniac (can have sex without your permission, when your sleep etc...). In addition, as you live in lost island, girls have 4 anothers stats which are : Hunger, Tiredness, Temperature and Mood, according of these stats, the girl which want to have sex with you, will be sick and even to collapse. When you reach the 3th steps of relationship the girl system will be more complex (like motivation will be add etc...) but I let you discover it because it's a little too much for me.

Why not 5/5 ?

• Story (SPOIL !) : You woke up by a girl in a lost island. You're both don't know why and where you're here and you've amnesia. Interesting as beginning, until now no problem except the only thing you can say it's "......". With the girl you need to survive with cooking, housing, gathering, blablabla, thanks the didacticiel. A little after you will find a new girl which is a trader NPC. This girl is a Treasure Hunter and she will help you by trading item or continue the story. At the moment, the game say "Let the girl grow", so you need to take care of the girl, or you can just play and forget her until her stats grow enough. So you craft a little and you can go in a new area. It's okay now you find the new story point and guess what, the game say "Let the girl grow" again with an higher value. After this you craft a little and you can go again in a new area etc... Finally the island has only 3 area, you find a boat, I thought "Cool a boat, I can find anothers islands, girls, content !" but nope... you find just another one big deserted island just to make another house, it will be just your own island house with no content. After that, you can keep gathering to discover all items which you can craft, you can increase your relationship with the girl and NPC or spawn two more girls with terminals controlers (you still don't know why and how but you can fuck them so the dev thought you will have no problem with that), have sex and just sex sex sex without story. It's my big negative point with the next point and it's why this game lost 2 stars.
  
  
• H-Content : In contrario to the H-Animation, the H-Content is inexistant. I begin the game, I talked 2 time with the girl for the didacticiel, the 3th time when I wanted to talk with her I fuck her directly ? No teasing, no relationship, romance, gift, date, story etc... She was on the floor, me behind and I don't know why and how. I was really dissapointed with all the potential which has this game ! You will have a beautiful area with a nice waterwall, maybe the dev should have added peeping, catching and according your stats and relationship you can begin sex or not etc... Or even unlock various positions or "services" according your relationship like the dev tried with NPC trader.
  
  
• Lenght duration : According to the two previous point. Too short. Only 3-5 hours of game.
  
  
• Man content : Except the equipment with 3 level to have more action in the map, your character can do nothing, and has no feeling. You can't be tired, hungry, dried, sick, collapsed etc... like the other girls. You don't have stats (except fishing level, I don't know for what it's usefull) or skills. Too bad, I think it will be better with cooking level, charisma, sport, knowledge etc... to attract the girls, add event, teasing etc... You collapsed or you sick, random girl of your island take care of you if the relation is enough etc...

Thanks you if you've read my review, I hope it will help for your choice.
And sorry for my bad english, i'm french native.

Kind Regards,
SoulReaper.


PS : Actually I think I finished the game as I don't find any more content. Maybe some points is wrong and I will update it if they're.

this game has a lot of polish, as you'd expect from Illusion.. It's really fun if you like survival games.. It has fishing.. sadly i forgot the whole H scene thing existed because i was having too much fun with fishing and just randomly collecting stuff... lol
The mini-games are actually a lot of fun too. Requiring a little bit of skill, but mostly just requiring some interaction. This is nice for a change, as it keeps you engaged. There are a lot of mods for the game, and to be honest, the best ones are already included here, so if you want an install that's as hassle free as possible, this is the pack for you. Make sure you run the mod updater to get all the goodies working and ready to go! Enjoy!