Okay, I tried this. I honestly did (I even revisited this). This is a kinetic sandbox where the MC is treated like the he's a sidekick. His lesbian best friend is the true main character and it's absolutely absurd. The entire time I kept trying to figure out why the story felt like the MC was just there to observe ... it's because it's an NTR kink. That's exactly what this is. Always watching, rarely participating (a blowjob being the exception). Fucking bizarre. I gave up after the Sidekick (he's not an MC) got back home and found out his mom had been turned into a lesbian by the MC (Kim). That was enough. I couldn't take this bullshit anymore.
Choices are nonexistent with pointless dialogue queues are there in order to obtain specific puzzle pieces at points. Otherwise, zero use. The sandbox ... absolutely useless. What is it with devs thinking that giving readers a sandbox, that for the most part just serves as delay points, somehow adds some depth? Then there's the characters who have about as much depth as a dip and spread stick for cheese and crackers. The Sidekick is a clueless bent who can't judge other people's intentions for shit. Kim (the real MC at this point) is a self-serving piece of shit just begging to get her slit licked by any woman living (I'm assuming dead is out of the question I don't know I didn't get that far) including the sidekick's mom when they find themselves in the past and she disappears, still don't know why it was necessary for sidekick to go, to take his younger mom to a water tower ... THE FUCK?!
Natalie, the sidekick's sister, had about as much personality as a bitch in heat just trying to get laid. The MC's mom seemed nice and gaging for it but ... nothing. Just fishing for complements from the sidekick. Penelope, straight in the past, gave the sidekick a blowjob right in front of her mom and ... nope, now she's gay. Basically, at this point I'm assuming sidekick's true ability is to turn all women into lesbians.
Great VN dev -__- . Look I'm not opposed to this idea. You have the building blocks here. You just should make the reader follow Kim because being the dipshit sidekick sucks ass. It's boring and going nowhere. You might as well turn him into a nerd who hides in a closet wearing a superman cap jacking off while his moms fuck. He's not a character I want to root for and with the cockblocking MC it's starting to seem like a cucking VN, which I didn't sign up for.
Sorry, I'm just tired of sandbox bullshit that unnecessarily wastes my time. Why are you wasting my time? I like my time. If I could I'd get a refund on my life you've just wasted. On top of that, this is all kinetic. So why have the sandbox at all. If you want to make a specific story where choices don't matter, take the wheel. Own the shit out of that. Give us a compelling story that doesn't mess around with the extra nonsense and lay it all out. Adding a sandbox and dressing dialogue "choices" up as if they matter makes me think you didn't feel your story was good enough to stand on its own. They don't trigger anything specific and I don't see any other outcomes possible from how this is laid out. I mean, there's literally no way to have this sidekick leave without finding Kim and his mom. Why not? Why can't he just go bone the fuck out of Penelope? If the MC is going to do whatever the fuck she wants why can't he? But he can't there's no alternate outcomes so just take away the sandbox and the illusion of choice and just tell us the story you want to tell. I'm guessing it'll cut down on development time too. So I say go for it.
Hold up!
I decided to give this another shot. The sidekick does get some action. It's decent in that aspect. But it's still taking way to long for him to become the main character. lol Still not there yet in my opinion. That opener needs some serious work. It's still a fucked off story that holds no consequences to for his actions/dialogue "choices" so that portion still stands. It's just a kinetic novel masquerading as a choose your own adventure. There's still absolutely no reason for the sandbox and it largely feels like a waste of time. Not just for the reader but for the dev too. Wouldn't it be easier to let this experience be on rails? Just saying. I don't know. It's probably just me. But I will say this. EZ mode for your mini games ... personally I'd just remove them, nothing about these seem fun, but ... but having an actual EZ mode, my dude. Chef's kiss. No joke. Fucking brilliant and thank you. Other things to praise, the models are great. Seriously, I saw a negative comment about the models before trying this out and couldn't disagree more. The milfs are hot and the younger chicks are beautiful. Well done. Overall, this is 3/5. It's not as awful as I thought, still not great, but there's room to improve.
All and all this clearly is not for me as of right now, version 0.8. As always I still wish the developer all the best. I genuinely hope they've found their audience and the support they deserve. If you liked this, don't let my opinion change yours at all. Just like assholes we all are one ... have one
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