So, I'm gonna split the review in 2 parts. Chapter 1, which is completed, and the vast majority of the game so far, and chapter 2, which only had 1 release as of the writing of this review, and is still in development.
Ch.1:
Story:
The game revolves around Anna, fresh out of college trying to make a living in a new city with her boyfriend. In the process, she gets involved with all sort of people, shaddy business, assholes, and fuck just about anyone.
First thing's first, if you haven't got it from my description, this game is an NTR fest. There are some nice people she hooks up with, and times where Anna is the one taking control and seducing people, but there's a LOT of harassment and blackmail, and pretty much everything is her cheating. So keep that in mind.
The story itself is ok, nothing special. Early on Anna suffers an accident, which damaged her brain to make her extra horny. It's meant to justify her change of behaviour, but it just comes out as way too convenient, specially considering her sister is hornier than her with no such thing. Even genetic pre-disposition would be a better explanation. The game is also very inconsistent in it's portrayal of Anna, not sure weather to make her a slut or a prude. You'll have things like her monologuing about how much she loves her bf in one scene, and on another scene, she's letting his dad fuck her right in front of him while he's blindfolded. It's a constant cycle of behaving like a slut, feeling guilty about it, then back to slut. The writing also has this very annoying habit of making everyone, man or woman adressing each other as "hun". However, the game does a good job of coming up with a wide variety of situations and problems for Anna to find herself in.
Gameplay;
The game is made in RPGM, but never really does anything interesting with it. The progression is very linear, you just walk from point A to B with no side activities, nothing to collect, nothing to unlock, no minigames. There are decisions in the game, but only a handful have you decide between scene A or B. Most of them have you decide between watching the character's scenes or not. That's actually a welcome feature, because some of the assholes are so insufferable that I was glad to make Anna not put up with their shit, even if that meant having less scenes. Regardless of your choices, the story plays mostly the same. The game is a VN with walking around a map added in.
Visuals:
This is what got me to play the game and what kept me playing. I could go on and on about how sexy Anna's character is, but you're better off looking at the pictures and taking your own conclusions. For me, she's the hottest character i've seen in any 3D game, and the sole reason the game is worth playing. The renders are also high quality in general.
Unfortunatle even the visuals come with caveats. The game has animations, but uses them too sparely. A sex encounter usually has 1, 2, or very rarely 3 animations, and most of the action happens through static images and text. Even presenting the same animation in different angles would go a long way, but you only get 1 angle for each animation.
The animations that are in here are also not the best. This game uses loops (like most), however it only animates half. Let me explain. Say you want to animate a scene of a dick going in and out. You can animate it going in, and just play that backwards for the coming out part. This works when there's only simple hip movements, but the game uses it for everything. When there are head or mouth movement in the scene, the whole thing can look pretty robotic. Overall, the game could use more frequent and better use of animations.
Another problem is that the game lacks a gallery.
Overall, if I were to rate chapter 1 only (which is the vast majority of the playtime at this point), it would be 3 stars. A game with an incredibly hot protagonist, great renders, but lacking in just about everything else.
Ch. 2 [0.01]
While Chapter 2 is still very early, it already provides very welcome changes to the game. First off, the game shifted from RPGM to Ren'Py, which is a lot more suitable for the game. No more walking around, just click on your destination, making the game a lot more straightforward and the visual style more consistent. It's still too early to tell, but the game also shows some hints of being just a bit more open. I've unwillingly missed a scene by taking a different path than I should.
Visually, the game also had improvements. While the animation techniques remain the same, the game now makes use of multiple camera angles for each animation, which is a simple, yet big step in making them feel more prominent and varied. Another much needed addition is a gallery.
Overall, while it's still early, Ch. 2 already adresses several of the complaints I had with Ch. 1, and gets me hopeful for the future of this game. With the improvements already in place, and hopefully more to come, maybe Anna Exciting Affection will finally be the game that her character deserves.
but deep knows me quite well hehe
