I almost feel bad giving this a low score, but I have to be realistic about what this game is. There are some neat ideas here, but the dev is simply not talented enough to pull any of them off. Normally, I like to play the entirety of what's available content wise, but I couldn't force myself with this one. I could tell right away that the is not enough care or polish on this to warrant further investigation.
The story is interesting, a classic fall from grace, requiring our MC to piece their life back together. A large portion of the cast has a long history with the MC that's revealed through your conversations with them. It's a shame the game is so uninterested with actually taking the time to explore any of that though. It skips all the narrative foreplay and jumps right into nonsensical sex scenes. The girls seem mildly interested in our main man, but without any care or grace he suddenly finds himself groping and then immediately going down on whoever he was talking with. It escalates far too quickly, and I have no reason to care about these polygons slamming into each other.
The koikatsu models are fine, much better than the average. The sex scenes use default poses, but those are usually serviceable enough. Except for the MC.
The MC's head is oblong and distractingly misshapen with some of the angles. I don't know if the model is actually like that, or if the way the images were compressed/resized messed with the aspect ratio. I could very much believe that, as they aren't high quality images. It would make sense that the dev didn't know how to shrink them properly and so they're left in this odd state, though I am speculating here. It wouldn't be the first thing of amateur skill level I saw.
The gameplay loop is grindy but acceptable. Wake up, go to work, chat with a girl at some point depending on their schedule, sleep, and repeat. The map interface is sleek and easy to use, and you can find everyone and every where easily. But working has a "build-up" mechanic where each day sees a number out of 50 rise by one. I found myself exhausting the available work, and thus couldn't progress because it hadn't built up enough yet. Which is not great because I believe you need to complete a certain amount of work to progress the story. I'm not sure what the thinking is there. It's far too easy to juggle talking to every girl and completing your work. There's no time management or sacrifice.
Honestly, the part that usually kills me on these projects, however, is the writing. I can excuse everything else as long as there's a story or characters I care about. But holy ESL Batman, the dialogue is nearly incomprehensible at times. Can anyone tell me what "As for me, a law firm is such a thing, but if you say that everything is fine.." is supposed to mean? I think it was meant to say something closer to "Your very own law firm? That seems tough. But if you think it's going well...", however, I can't be sure. The other two dialogue options in the tree spit out the exact same response, despite all three having extremely different connotations. There's plenty of other grammatical and syntax errors plaguing every conversation I saw. It's not so bad as to be indecipherable, aside from the above example. I was usually able to understand what was being said. Yet, it didn't inspire me with the will to keep going so I can see generic sex scenes with no emotional weight.
I think, if the dialogue was significantly reworked by another writer there might be something here. But as it stands, there's nothing about this game that I can say makes it stand out. If you like koikatsu games like I do, there's so many other options that don't have the poor writing this one does.
The story is interesting, a classic fall from grace, requiring our MC to piece their life back together. A large portion of the cast has a long history with the MC that's revealed through your conversations with them. It's a shame the game is so uninterested with actually taking the time to explore any of that though. It skips all the narrative foreplay and jumps right into nonsensical sex scenes. The girls seem mildly interested in our main man, but without any care or grace he suddenly finds himself groping and then immediately going down on whoever he was talking with. It escalates far too quickly, and I have no reason to care about these polygons slamming into each other.
The koikatsu models are fine, much better than the average. The sex scenes use default poses, but those are usually serviceable enough. Except for the MC.
The MC's head is oblong and distractingly misshapen with some of the angles. I don't know if the model is actually like that, or if the way the images were compressed/resized messed with the aspect ratio. I could very much believe that, as they aren't high quality images. It would make sense that the dev didn't know how to shrink them properly and so they're left in this odd state, though I am speculating here. It wouldn't be the first thing of amateur skill level I saw.
The gameplay loop is grindy but acceptable. Wake up, go to work, chat with a girl at some point depending on their schedule, sleep, and repeat. The map interface is sleek and easy to use, and you can find everyone and every where easily. But working has a "build-up" mechanic where each day sees a number out of 50 rise by one. I found myself exhausting the available work, and thus couldn't progress because it hadn't built up enough yet. Which is not great because I believe you need to complete a certain amount of work to progress the story. I'm not sure what the thinking is there. It's far too easy to juggle talking to every girl and completing your work. There's no time management or sacrifice.
Honestly, the part that usually kills me on these projects, however, is the writing. I can excuse everything else as long as there's a story or characters I care about. But holy ESL Batman, the dialogue is nearly incomprehensible at times. Can anyone tell me what "As for me, a law firm is such a thing, but if you say that everything is fine.." is supposed to mean? I think it was meant to say something closer to "Your very own law firm? That seems tough. But if you think it's going well...", however, I can't be sure. The other two dialogue options in the tree spit out the exact same response, despite all three having extremely different connotations. There's plenty of other grammatical and syntax errors plaguing every conversation I saw. It's not so bad as to be indecipherable, aside from the above example. I was usually able to understand what was being said. Yet, it didn't inspire me with the will to keep going so I can see generic sex scenes with no emotional weight.
I think, if the dialogue was significantly reworked by another writer there might be something here. But as it stands, there's nothing about this game that I can say makes it stand out. If you like koikatsu games like I do, there's so many other options that don't have the poor writing this one does.
