The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is v0.03...
Originally Reviewed on 12/14/2017
Well, even though this visual novel is in it's early stages of development, I'm not totally impressed thus far...
The visuals of the characters are fairly good, but the backdrops are very generic even though high quality... I did like that most shots of the characters, looked like natural positions, not a bunch of photo shoot modeling poses... There is a mini-game to perform stealth maneuvers, but I found it a bit daunting for several reasons... To level the skill up involves a mini-game that requires a bit of good reflexes with the mouse and a good eye to find the lightly shaded footprints that randomly appear all over the screen, which you need to click on (sometimes multiple times for it to register a click) in rapid succession with very little time to think or move your mouse... It was a creative idea, but poor execution, as you have to do this 5 or more times for each skill up... And the skill level required for your very first practical use of the skill is 5... So you need to waste a lot of time in your room practicing on the rug... And this mini-game happens several more times throughout the story progression...
Eventually, not too long after helping one of the protagonists sisters with her toe nail polish (another mini-game happens there, but no skill up), he needs to sneak into the other sisters room again, and this time the skill needs to be even higher, hence tons of more training attempts... You waste more time doing the annoying mini-game that it takes away from the fun of reading the novel... There is a short semi-animated scene in the very beginning, but I think it was more or less there to throw an erotic scene into what little content there is for the moment, as it had no real bearing on the plot and was the only real erotic scene included so far... Not sure why the skill required keeps going up so drastically every time it's required for a scene (i.e. 5 then 10 then 15 etc...).
The interface is a bit weird... The buttons at the top of the screen move the scene from room to room, but while in the protagonists bedroom, you have to click a large right arrow to make the room menu appear... And not all the rooms are completed, hence not all the room buttons do anything... To click on the few objects that currently exist, they highlight as you move over them, which is always a nicety... Looks like there will be a money generating mini-game on the laptop, but it isn't done yet and it looks like a very similar mini-game to the stealth skill (yeahhhhhh!)...
The story is yet another in a long line of family sex stories... With the son being the protagonist, along with 3 sisters and a mom... The premise or driving force is using stealth to move the story along, so you're forced to do the mini-game a lot... There is a tiny bit of humor in how the story progresses, but since the current content is so short, that isn't saying much... There also seems to be some drama beginning with one of the sisters, but it's more or less a teaser of plot to come... You do not get a whole lot of introduction into the story, so for now I'll chop that up to work in progress... Not a bunch to do once you unlock the sisters phone for the first time, so it pretty much ends there for the time being...
I really hope this does not become a linear grind type VN/game, because the stealth mini-game is already tedious enough without also having a bunch of grinding elements... And this VN/game is very early in it's development so it is unclear what direction it will be taking... Either a bunch of back to back erotica, or a fun and interesting story with just the occasional erotic scene... For now, because of the plot topic, most likely the first one... I'm on the fence if I'll re-visit this one, because I'm not a fan of that mini-game (not enough time to find the footprint, let alone click it half the time)...