Well here we are, one of the games that has been an icon in the world of esoteric niche hentai games, Fleeting Iris. And boy it sure is... underwhelming!
I played this game through years ago sometime around 2016/2017, and I remember thinking at the time what a boring slog the game was for a large portion of it's run time. They pride themselves on being one of the largest hentai games ever! And having so much content to play through! And with all the hype surrounding this game you'd think it was the next Violated Heroine. But it's not, and today in 2024 it's still a boring slog.
Don't get me wrong. The art is good. Not amazing but it is genuinely good. The sex scenes are vanilla at times, but still good. The corruption system in my opinion is severely lacking, but it's there. But the amount of effort you'll have to put in, walking back and forth, doing this then that, making sure your stats are at this number at this time before you can view this scene... it's just not up to snuff with the modern Hentai game scene.
And their claim of being the largest hentai game ever, may be true, (Tho by what metric and by who's judgement idk)the phrase "As wide as an ocean as deep as a puddle" comes to mind. The routes in this game are plentiful, but none of them besides maybe 2 are really fully realized or with any real satisfying conclusions.
I think a modern game in 2024 to compare this to would be something like the upcoming game MY... A game that fundamentally follows a lot of the same themes/tropes, and utilizes the RPG maker medium as well, but to much greater effect. The game is currently only in demo form, but even there you can see a plethora of options you have to do things in the game besides just walking back and forth. Multiple clothing options, multiple characters to seduce or not, and easily accessible random H scenes that fill out the world by your own choice, and a corruption system with actual substance as well as an mental health system. Oh and stellar art direction as well!
Fleeting Iris comes off as dated, and not respecting of the players time. It would be understandable if this game came out 5-10 years ago, but the genre has continued to improve while this game never seemed to get the memo throughout it's very long dev time. You can and will cum while playing this game, but you'll probably find yourself asking "was that really worth the time?" afterwards. A shame, but I'm hoping Heaven Studios can show us they are capable of making a modern experience with their next effort.