Short version: Better than Koikatsu without mods and add-on, worse than SVS.
Usual Illusion job I would say.
You are the only guy. Girls interacts with bench, pool and so on while you stand like a pole all along.
You have a bar to fill to get to the next relationship, the more it is advanced, the easier you can get to sexual acts. Though, answers does not change unless they are at the last stage.
Another one for the arousal, which do not seem to be able to do much, maybe just having the girl asking for sex after being in a close relationship.
There is also experience for some body parts and how much the girl is used to sex.
In other words, just like Koikatsu.
It falls mostly flat comparatively to Koikatsu because you can't peep (which sucked by the way) nor are the girls actually interacting with you. They do not come to speak to you and stay mostly in place besides the running one, going to the coffee shop or the occasional masturbation. You also can't interact with some doing a special action such as swimming.
The bar is slow to fill with normal options, the answers depending on the preferences of the character (just like Koikatsu) so spamming the heart one seems better. But, preferences and rng may kill you even in that case, making the normal options better sometimes. At some point, choosing enough of those options gives a talk with the character on their preferences on yours being close, unlocking a date spot, but it doesn't translate in bonus to fill the bar and they are all just saying the same thing. Just like Koikatsu.
The randomization of the answer is really huge, to the point of being able to fuck a friend quite easily without much arousal, while having a hard time with a max arousal. The result being that just spamming the command will probably get you a yes sooner or later making you... Spam the command or using save/load and spamming.
The experience for the development of the body part is slow as fuck in sex scene, the only good option being massaging the girl. The problem is that the massage action is cut short in 3 parts making you reset the action, furthermore, the girl actually protects most of her body randomly with a reroll after some time, no matter on how much you were arousing her. Making it a pain to raise those values. Koikatsu was able to do it while fucking and without interruption. While intimacy lower the guard chances, it does not stop it either. As such, the massage feels like a loss of time.
The sexual experience (which, seems completely unrelated to the body part one by the way) increase by doing sex and some acts in it. A good idea on the paper, but, unfortunately, there isn't much to be able to do to begin with making basically every sex scene the same of making the girl come 3 times with one being at the same time as the Mc. So, it is boring.
I may add that the girls will almost always pee on her selves because there is no such thing as a value. The animation can be changed to seen or unseen but the act and sentences will still happen. So it is forced, even though it wasn't in previous games.
On another point, since it is really like Koikatsu, I'll mention that this time you can go for anal right away and there is no condom, making the play even more monotonous.
Unto more work around.
The game still sucks at optimization, like always, making music (and probably animation) stuttering in the loading screen.
The map being mostly one big one is better than Koikatsu to navigate but many invisible walls are there making us uselessly take roundabout way to get to the wanted place. Without mentioning the library really hard to find, because it is just beside the pool, a place without a doubt, really fitting for putting books at.
Customization is mostly the same as Honey Come which is, besides the multicolor hair, mostly the same as Koikatsu, meaning that the haircut and such are mostly the same since the 15 last years.
I admit that it does look a bit better. Though, clipping is worse than ever having the guy ball going through his pants by default and breasts suddenly suck for no apparent reason. Without forgetting that the character customization is nerfed, as it is the trend to stop all flat chests to exist because only children have flat chest. Sound proof logic.
The focus cross also keeps on coming back even when deactivated, making remembering the shortcut a must if it bothers you.
But what about the spotlights of the game? The massage and dating?
The massage, as mentioned above, is a chore but it does indeed allow to go to sex when the characters cum. A good idea, without a doubt. If you didn't need to have the girl at the 3rd affection stage on 4th for the option to go from massage to sex to appear. At that point, going for sex directly is faster since you can actually choose it at the 2nd stage. Cheery on the cake, the option doesn't appear if the girl is a virgin.
Doing the action also increase the arousal but only when coming back from the sequence, meaning that going directly to sex will make the increase not happen and the girls do have a special state when it is at max, just like Koikatsu you guessed it, making the whole process going against one of the few mechanics of the game.
Massaging does not work as a sneaky sex, being in fact a roundabout way. Creating a loss of time more than anything else.
The dating is divided on 2 part: petit-dating, the week, and dating, the last day of the week.
Petit-dating happen when you ask the girl to go with you. She'll loveably take your hand and comment on some spots on the way, you'll also be able to take her to more secluded maps.
While the handholding is endearing, the feeling will cut short the moment you'll move because there is no animation of the both walking/running together. You are also faster than her when running, making you going alone like the rest of the game. Illusion was aware of that flaw and added a voice for hers complaint, which was a very sound move way more important than adding the animation. Actually, Artificial Girl had the handholding too and the girl stayed with you while running, who would have thought that a game from 15 years would be so resourceful? Really a wonder.
By the way, the secluded maps have no special interaction there, just a few new sex animations.
Dating is the same as Koikatsu, but the devs have learnt that making 3 sex scenes in a row was way too much and just cut off all sex making the date at the length of 15 sentences with half being our very interesting Mc and nothing else until the second date which unlock sex. How thoughtful of them.
There is a festival date which happen every 3 weeks probably (It did happen the second week the first time), and allows some special confession just as interesting as the rest of the game. It seems that there is some special sex too if the girl is a virgin, but sex being the only good part of the game, it would be pretty weird to not do it until then.
The main problem here is the pacing of a period of time. You can speak with every girl and still the period will not end, making it ends manually being the only reasonable option. As a result, surviving until the date is quite a chore and, by design, going through more than one with the same character is something that is quite of a pain to do.
And again, that was something that Artificial Academy had taken care of by making the sex taking the period, or a bit less for a quickie. But I can understand that thinking that going through a sexual act would take nearly a whole hour is quite a stretching thought for some people.
As a result, the only strong point of Aicomi is the sex which isn't bad if you can understand what the girls say. But this is the exact same point that keep on being recycled since at least 8 years making SVS a way better option, which at least, does have a gameplay.
So It's just your usual useless Illusion game. Another proof of the sheer stupidity of the higher ups that had a gem better than CM3D but just had to make it a one-shot rather than something becoming bigger and better along the years.
Usual Illusion job I would say.
You are the only guy. Girls interacts with bench, pool and so on while you stand like a pole all along.
You have a bar to fill to get to the next relationship, the more it is advanced, the easier you can get to sexual acts. Though, answers does not change unless they are at the last stage.
Another one for the arousal, which do not seem to be able to do much, maybe just having the girl asking for sex after being in a close relationship.
There is also experience for some body parts and how much the girl is used to sex.
In other words, just like Koikatsu.
It falls mostly flat comparatively to Koikatsu because you can't peep (which sucked by the way) nor are the girls actually interacting with you. They do not come to speak to you and stay mostly in place besides the running one, going to the coffee shop or the occasional masturbation. You also can't interact with some doing a special action such as swimming.
The bar is slow to fill with normal options, the answers depending on the preferences of the character (just like Koikatsu) so spamming the heart one seems better. But, preferences and rng may kill you even in that case, making the normal options better sometimes. At some point, choosing enough of those options gives a talk with the character on their preferences on yours being close, unlocking a date spot, but it doesn't translate in bonus to fill the bar and they are all just saying the same thing. Just like Koikatsu.
The randomization of the answer is really huge, to the point of being able to fuck a friend quite easily without much arousal, while having a hard time with a max arousal. The result being that just spamming the command will probably get you a yes sooner or later making you... Spam the command or using save/load and spamming.
The experience for the development of the body part is slow as fuck in sex scene, the only good option being massaging the girl. The problem is that the massage action is cut short in 3 parts making you reset the action, furthermore, the girl actually protects most of her body randomly with a reroll after some time, no matter on how much you were arousing her. Making it a pain to raise those values. Koikatsu was able to do it while fucking and without interruption. While intimacy lower the guard chances, it does not stop it either. As such, the massage feels like a loss of time.
The sexual experience (which, seems completely unrelated to the body part one by the way) increase by doing sex and some acts in it. A good idea on the paper, but, unfortunately, there isn't much to be able to do to begin with making basically every sex scene the same of making the girl come 3 times with one being at the same time as the Mc. So, it is boring.
I may add that the girls will almost always pee on her selves because there is no such thing as a value. The animation can be changed to seen or unseen but the act and sentences will still happen. So it is forced, even though it wasn't in previous games.
On another point, since it is really like Koikatsu, I'll mention that this time you can go for anal right away and there is no condom, making the play even more monotonous.
Unto more work around.
The game still sucks at optimization, like always, making music (and probably animation) stuttering in the loading screen.
The map being mostly one big one is better than Koikatsu to navigate but many invisible walls are there making us uselessly take roundabout way to get to the wanted place. Without mentioning the library really hard to find, because it is just beside the pool, a place without a doubt, really fitting for putting books at.
Customization is mostly the same as Honey Come which is, besides the multicolor hair, mostly the same as Koikatsu, meaning that the haircut and such are mostly the same since the 15 last years.
I admit that it does look a bit better. Though, clipping is worse than ever having the guy ball going through his pants by default and breasts suddenly suck for no apparent reason. Without forgetting that the character customization is nerfed, as it is the trend to stop all flat chests to exist because only children have flat chest. Sound proof logic.
The focus cross also keeps on coming back even when deactivated, making remembering the shortcut a must if it bothers you.
But what about the spotlights of the game? The massage and dating?
The massage, as mentioned above, is a chore but it does indeed allow to go to sex when the characters cum. A good idea, without a doubt. If you didn't need to have the girl at the 3rd affection stage on 4th for the option to go from massage to sex to appear. At that point, going for sex directly is faster since you can actually choose it at the 2nd stage. Cheery on the cake, the option doesn't appear if the girl is a virgin.
Doing the action also increase the arousal but only when coming back from the sequence, meaning that going directly to sex will make the increase not happen and the girls do have a special state when it is at max, just like Koikatsu you guessed it, making the whole process going against one of the few mechanics of the game.
Massaging does not work as a sneaky sex, being in fact a roundabout way. Creating a loss of time more than anything else.
The dating is divided on 2 part: petit-dating, the week, and dating, the last day of the week.
Petit-dating happen when you ask the girl to go with you. She'll loveably take your hand and comment on some spots on the way, you'll also be able to take her to more secluded maps.
While the handholding is endearing, the feeling will cut short the moment you'll move because there is no animation of the both walking/running together. You are also faster than her when running, making you going alone like the rest of the game. Illusion was aware of that flaw and added a voice for hers complaint, which was a very sound move way more important than adding the animation. Actually, Artificial Girl had the handholding too and the girl stayed with you while running, who would have thought that a game from 15 years would be so resourceful? Really a wonder.
By the way, the secluded maps have no special interaction there, just a few new sex animations.
Dating is the same as Koikatsu, but the devs have learnt that making 3 sex scenes in a row was way too much and just cut off all sex making the date at the length of 15 sentences with half being our very interesting Mc and nothing else until the second date which unlock sex. How thoughtful of them.
There is a festival date which happen every 3 weeks probably (It did happen the second week the first time), and allows some special confession just as interesting as the rest of the game. It seems that there is some special sex too if the girl is a virgin, but sex being the only good part of the game, it would be pretty weird to not do it until then.
The main problem here is the pacing of a period of time. You can speak with every girl and still the period will not end, making it ends manually being the only reasonable option. As a result, surviving until the date is quite a chore and, by design, going through more than one with the same character is something that is quite of a pain to do.
And again, that was something that Artificial Academy had taken care of by making the sex taking the period, or a bit less for a quickie. But I can understand that thinking that going through a sexual act would take nearly a whole hour is quite a stretching thought for some people.
As a result, the only strong point of Aicomi is the sex which isn't bad if you can understand what the girls say. But this is the exact same point that keep on being recycled since at least 8 years making SVS a way better option, which at least, does have a gameplay.
So It's just your usual useless Illusion game. Another proof of the sheer stupidity of the higher ups that had a gem better than CM3D but just had to make it a one-shot rather than something becoming bigger and better along the years.
