While I am not exactly a fan of Honey Select as a source of visuals, I have played several games I enjoy, which uses it, and the premise of the game sounded promising enough. After all, "Sole man on an island with beautiful women", how does one fuck up with such a simple concept, right?
Well, right out of the gate there are some major issues. First off, during the intro scene, during the scene where the amazons confronts the MC and mother, the MC is the size of a freaking cat, compared to them, and the mother is the size of a teenage girl at most. I actually thought the amazons were 10 ft tall or something, until the next scene corrected their comparative sizes to each other.
The MC himself has some very (VERY) bright yellow hair, which doesnt mesh with the rest of his model at all, which makes me think I am playing with a Ken doll, who has stolen Barbies' wig.
On another note, the interface needs an overhaul. Seriously, I have no words for how much the ability to not click on the center on a location pissed me off during this playthrough. I thought I had an error in my game, or some serious lag, since I could see the outline glowing briefly on several occasions, before I realized that you need to click ON the outline itself, instead of the big icon in the middle. So, you have a very small area to click, which doesnt feel intuitive at all.
And, of course, the major issue, is the minigames and the 30 days of "Fuck-You-I-Have-Zero-Interest-In-Making-Fun-Gameplay-So-Go-Ahead-And-Punch-Yourself-In-The-Face-After-This-Shit-Of-A-Hassle" grind. When I first read the description saying that the game was very grindy, I didnt think too much of it. After all, I don't mind working for my reward, that is part of the fun. Of course the "During the first 30 days, you can only work and sleep" seemed a bit odd, but I figured I would still be allowed to interact with other characters during this time, and that the game simply tried to tell me that I would be spending a lot of my early days building up stats and favor points, which I am used to from other games.
NOPE! The description is to be taken litterally! You go to work, which is basically just one of the worst and most boring minigames I can recall ever playing, and then you see a girl stripping if you do well, which is impossible to not do, since the minigame is a cakewalk, unless you are color-blind, and then you go home, take a nap and then do the exact same thing over and over again, for 1 hour straight, until the game actally begins.
The girl stripping at least gives the player SOME form of excitement, I guess, but it doesnt make any sense. Why is there a girl stripping and masturbating while I am working? If she is there, then shouldnt she be working as well, instead of just playing around? If she isnt supposed to be there, I would assume she is there because she likes watching the MC and his bulging muscles work, but that doesnt make any sense either, since we are told repeatedly how much the women despise him.
If you somehow manage to complete the 30 days, you are then summoned to the nurse, who asks you to start fucking some babies into some of the amazons, because they suddenly figured they need to further their heritage somehow. How the hell they did it before the MC, I dont know, and if they knew they would be using him for this, then why the hell werent they showing him a tad more appreciation, so that he wouldnt tell them to go fuck themselves when they asked him for it?
The entire game seems half-assed and very uninspired. Like a homework assignment you wrote during breakfast, because you spent the last week playing computer all day and forgot all about it. I will be wishing the dev luck and hope he will manage to improve his game, but I can safely say that I will not be playing it again.