English:............5/10
User Interface:.....3/10
User Experience:....7/10
Art:................5/10
Dialogue:...........2/10
Story:..............3/10
Opinion:............1/10................
Avg:.............3.71/10 [1.85/5]
I've tried this one a few times. While I have played worse, this is not very good. It's your bog standard "MC walks room to room and females throw their vaginas at him." The English is not good, the UI is default aside from the main menu, and the models are odd looking. So all three pillars of what makes a visual novel are poor quality. There wasn't even enough to make a lasting impression for me to do my typical rambling intro paragraph. All I can hope for is that it sounds better in French. But even then, the rate at which this spirals can't be a pleasant experience. If nothing else, I'm happy that a game is being rated what it deserves to be rated.
This cold opens to MC moving into a new apartment. Sophie, a new neighbor, see him and thinks he's attractive, so she helps him unload. Then, SOMEHOW, he has no water in his apartment so she lets MC shower in her house. This game OPENS with a shower scene where a LI catches his penis in the shower. This scene is so overdone I shouldn't have to tell anyone why it feels lazy. And Sophie's daughter, that catches him, screams and nobody cares. Then he goes back home to suddenly have no power after they just showed his home having power. Is it too much to ask a writer to read what they wrote merely 10 lines before? It'd be funny if it wasn't sad. The models all have exaggerated faces too it's very uncanny. I can usually get behind a stylized look, but this looks more like a SFM movie with expressions that make it look wonky. At the table they ask about MC and vise versa, I guess they say the daughter has a lot of sex? Or masturbates a lot? I don't know it's poorly translated. Either way I don't know any mothers that would say any of that about their daughters. And the next day MC goes to work and... His boss lets her pussy flop out at him? Wow, so appealing. Later? Sophie gives him a drunk blowjob and is found out by Laura. I'm gonna call it now, MC was Sophie's ex and she's already re-in love with him. After that he goes to lunch with the girls from work and they all give brief summaries of their lives because these are not characters. These are DAZ models in a subpar sex novel.
Skipping ahead, Sophie finally talks to MC again. As a surprise to no one, MC was 100% right about why she was avoiding him. Because MC is right about everything. And super strong. And so handsome(even though he's really not). They have sex, and the next day she asks more about him. Because again, she literally only knows he said he has amnesia and works for an insurance company. He then says he liked photography in college. But he just graduated? The timeline of this really doesn't work. He JUST graduated, but hasn't been able to do photography because of college. But college was when he got interested in it? I'm sorry? Unless they mean before the coma. But he doesn't remember that? Hello? Is this real? Then he gets stuck in an elevator, porn trope #4905. They somehow get too hot and start stripping. And MC just leers at the woman like a degenerate. This guy's an asshole. And the fact she somehow has the only female underwear that turns transparent when wet? Have you never seen or felt a bra before? That's not how they work. Then at the end of the event, they're dressed and not sweaty and none of it mattered. And for him to say "I wonder what she looks like naked" when you could literally see everything means he's dumb. He has serious issues with self restraint. Any and every minor encounter with a woman gives him a need to start masturbating. And guess what? You, the player, who is 99% a male, gets to watch him masturbate? Why? We don't need, and I doubt want, to see this ugly manchild crank it. Then you find out she's Sophie's other daughter. To which he offers to talk to her after she runs off, embarrased? This man has amnesia, no sense of time, just got done jerking off to this girl, barely started dating Sophie, but suuuuure. Let HIM talk to her? Criminal parenting.
Eventually time skips forward and Miranda, MC's boss, is killed. She's already been edited because the "peak alpha males" that play this couldn't handle her femdom content. Now she's killed off. And nobody cared. She had no character. She did nothing in the story. MC only used her to cheat on his new girlfriend right away. The only thing the murder scene does is introduce a runescape character. If you didn't catch him, when Zoe hugs MC, on the right side of the screen you just have some menacing runescape model leering at the camera and it makes me laugh so hard. There's also a cop whose hair is clipping through her hat. Then that cop comes to talk to MC BUT THE CLIPPING IS STILL HAPPENING? It'd be one thing if this was animated, but these are all stills, you can fudge things from the camera's perspective. Why does this look so bad? Front and center it's so bad. And June isn't crying until she's alone. There's so many small details that really shouldn't be an issue but are completely overlooked. This is absurd. June even says "I learned a lot from her" But earlier in the game she said that Miranda started AFTER her and wasn't even qualified for the job. Again, do we not read what we wrote before? I know it's not good, but you are writing this, you have to know your own story. And she even cheats on whoever she's married to? That was one of the only things she talked about, being in a relationship. This is just bonkers. It then leads into Suzi acting like an actual child. She's going to college but cries her mom, a single working mother, can't be there. Then she goes to sleep at MC's place when it thunderstorms that night? She has a sister. She's also a grown ass woman. MC is still a stranger. I could see a world where this was written better and I'd have less of an issue, but we're not there. We're stuck in this one where the writing is bleh.
I actively checked out after that. Nothing redeeming happened. Suzi goes to college you meet her friend. She starts calling him daddy for some stupid reason. Another coworker suddenly thinks Miranda was amazing. That plot went nowhere. They go to a beach, MC beats up three bodybuilders no matter what you choose. Any time it cuts to the crappy phone, the images are all squashed or stretched because instead of cropping, they just scaled it weird. The only "problem" is if you decide to let MC sexually assault Suzi in her sleep. Again, I completely checked out and skimmed so I'm not 100% certain if it's revealed at another time, but in the bad end Sophie does reveal he was the father. So wow, never saw that coming... This is not worth your time. I'm sorry to the creator, but this is NOT good. Read a few real books, learn more about 3D modelling and posing and improve.
The English levels out toward the end, but the start it's awful. It's never good, but it is more tolerable. The UI/UX is stock like I said. The Art is not technically the worst I've seen but it's pretty bad for DAZ. Clipping, ugly characters, over exaggerated emotions, bad posing, low poly characters the list goes on. The dialogue is two robots programmed to have sex later that day interacting for the first time. And the story is nothing. Guy moves into apartment has amnesia for no reason, starts dating a woman he most likely abused. The end. Writing isn't easy, but it's not this hard. I could excuse ALL the visual stuff if it was proofread well and the story wasn't total crap. If the English, story, and dialogue are all on point and the art was mid with no UI changes that'd still be a 4/5. But this has next to no redeeming qualities. It's not even short enough to breeze through, sadly. If the dev somehow reads this, just work on a story. I don't care if it's this one or a new one, but write something you'd want to read. It doesn't need to be the next great novel or even very original. Just write decent characters and a story that isn't porn slop. And if this IS something you want to read, well... Count me out.
User Interface:.....3/10
User Experience:....7/10
Art:................5/10
Dialogue:...........2/10
Story:..............3/10
Opinion:............1/10................
Avg:.............3.71/10 [1.85/5]
I've tried this one a few times. While I have played worse, this is not very good. It's your bog standard "MC walks room to room and females throw their vaginas at him." The English is not good, the UI is default aside from the main menu, and the models are odd looking. So all three pillars of what makes a visual novel are poor quality. There wasn't even enough to make a lasting impression for me to do my typical rambling intro paragraph. All I can hope for is that it sounds better in French. But even then, the rate at which this spirals can't be a pleasant experience. If nothing else, I'm happy that a game is being rated what it deserves to be rated.
This cold opens to MC moving into a new apartment. Sophie, a new neighbor, see him and thinks he's attractive, so she helps him unload. Then, SOMEHOW, he has no water in his apartment so she lets MC shower in her house. This game OPENS with a shower scene where a LI catches his penis in the shower. This scene is so overdone I shouldn't have to tell anyone why it feels lazy. And Sophie's daughter, that catches him, screams and nobody cares. Then he goes back home to suddenly have no power after they just showed his home having power. Is it too much to ask a writer to read what they wrote merely 10 lines before? It'd be funny if it wasn't sad. The models all have exaggerated faces too it's very uncanny. I can usually get behind a stylized look, but this looks more like a SFM movie with expressions that make it look wonky. At the table they ask about MC and vise versa, I guess they say the daughter has a lot of sex? Or masturbates a lot? I don't know it's poorly translated. Either way I don't know any mothers that would say any of that about their daughters. And the next day MC goes to work and... His boss lets her pussy flop out at him? Wow, so appealing. Later? Sophie gives him a drunk blowjob and is found out by Laura. I'm gonna call it now, MC was Sophie's ex and she's already re-in love with him. After that he goes to lunch with the girls from work and they all give brief summaries of their lives because these are not characters. These are DAZ models in a subpar sex novel.
Skipping ahead, Sophie finally talks to MC again. As a surprise to no one, MC was 100% right about why she was avoiding him. Because MC is right about everything. And super strong. And so handsome(even though he's really not). They have sex, and the next day she asks more about him. Because again, she literally only knows he said he has amnesia and works for an insurance company. He then says he liked photography in college. But he just graduated? The timeline of this really doesn't work. He JUST graduated, but hasn't been able to do photography because of college. But college was when he got interested in it? I'm sorry? Unless they mean before the coma. But he doesn't remember that? Hello? Is this real? Then he gets stuck in an elevator, porn trope #4905. They somehow get too hot and start stripping. And MC just leers at the woman like a degenerate. This guy's an asshole. And the fact she somehow has the only female underwear that turns transparent when wet? Have you never seen or felt a bra before? That's not how they work. Then at the end of the event, they're dressed and not sweaty and none of it mattered. And for him to say "I wonder what she looks like naked" when you could literally see everything means he's dumb. He has serious issues with self restraint. Any and every minor encounter with a woman gives him a need to start masturbating. And guess what? You, the player, who is 99% a male, gets to watch him masturbate? Why? We don't need, and I doubt want, to see this ugly manchild crank it. Then you find out she's Sophie's other daughter. To which he offers to talk to her after she runs off, embarrased? This man has amnesia, no sense of time, just got done jerking off to this girl, barely started dating Sophie, but suuuuure. Let HIM talk to her? Criminal parenting.
Eventually time skips forward and Miranda, MC's boss, is killed. She's already been edited because the "peak alpha males" that play this couldn't handle her femdom content. Now she's killed off. And nobody cared. She had no character. She did nothing in the story. MC only used her to cheat on his new girlfriend right away. The only thing the murder scene does is introduce a runescape character. If you didn't catch him, when Zoe hugs MC, on the right side of the screen you just have some menacing runescape model leering at the camera and it makes me laugh so hard. There's also a cop whose hair is clipping through her hat. Then that cop comes to talk to MC BUT THE CLIPPING IS STILL HAPPENING? It'd be one thing if this was animated, but these are all stills, you can fudge things from the camera's perspective. Why does this look so bad? Front and center it's so bad. And June isn't crying until she's alone. There's so many small details that really shouldn't be an issue but are completely overlooked. This is absurd. June even says "I learned a lot from her" But earlier in the game she said that Miranda started AFTER her and wasn't even qualified for the job. Again, do we not read what we wrote before? I know it's not good, but you are writing this, you have to know your own story. And she even cheats on whoever she's married to? That was one of the only things she talked about, being in a relationship. This is just bonkers. It then leads into Suzi acting like an actual child. She's going to college but cries her mom, a single working mother, can't be there. Then she goes to sleep at MC's place when it thunderstorms that night? She has a sister. She's also a grown ass woman. MC is still a stranger. I could see a world where this was written better and I'd have less of an issue, but we're not there. We're stuck in this one where the writing is bleh.
I actively checked out after that. Nothing redeeming happened. Suzi goes to college you meet her friend. She starts calling him daddy for some stupid reason. Another coworker suddenly thinks Miranda was amazing. That plot went nowhere. They go to a beach, MC beats up three bodybuilders no matter what you choose. Any time it cuts to the crappy phone, the images are all squashed or stretched because instead of cropping, they just scaled it weird. The only "problem" is if you decide to let MC sexually assault Suzi in her sleep. Again, I completely checked out and skimmed so I'm not 100% certain if it's revealed at another time, but in the bad end Sophie does reveal he was the father. So wow, never saw that coming... This is not worth your time. I'm sorry to the creator, but this is NOT good. Read a few real books, learn more about 3D modelling and posing and improve.
The English levels out toward the end, but the start it's awful. It's never good, but it is more tolerable. The UI/UX is stock like I said. The Art is not technically the worst I've seen but it's pretty bad for DAZ. Clipping, ugly characters, over exaggerated emotions, bad posing, low poly characters the list goes on. The dialogue is two robots programmed to have sex later that day interacting for the first time. And the story is nothing. Guy moves into apartment has amnesia for no reason, starts dating a woman he most likely abused. The end. Writing isn't easy, but it's not this hard. I could excuse ALL the visual stuff if it was proofread well and the story wasn't total crap. If the English, story, and dialogue are all on point and the art was mid with no UI changes that'd still be a 4/5. But this has next to no redeeming qualities. It's not even short enough to breeze through, sadly. If the dev somehow reads this, just work on a story. I don't care if it's this one or a new one, but write something you'd want to read. It doesn't need to be the next great novel or even very original. Just write decent characters and a story that isn't porn slop. And if this IS something you want to read, well... Count me out.
