This is an interesting AVN for me. Full disclosure, I like the devs previous game. It wasn't great, but they worked hard on it, it was pretty good and they completed it with some good endings.
For this AVN, you can clearly see the devs improvements in production quality and storytelling. We need to celebrate and encourage devs like this because there are not that many around. So for that reason alone, the dev earns one extra star to start.
I am enjoying the story and am looking forward to future conflicts with their business rival. I also like the relationships and the characters, although they are somewhat common tropes. Of course, I love the look and feel of it.
On the negative side, a lot of the characters are pulled directly from his first game. Also, some of the choices are limited and I hate being forced into a relationship and there seems to be a lot of that. Natalie is just horrible. Her looks suck. Her personality sucks. The last thing I wanted the MC to do was spend time with her, but there were no other choices. Then the annoying girl at the club. Could not ditch her either.
IDK, I really liked the first release, but this second one was just silly. It suddenly became an entirely different game and the new LIs are all such shallow, wastes of space. And some of the dialogue choices were limiting. Like the girl who gave the MC the docs in the elevator. I wanted to throw them out because she didn't give him a choice and walked away. Then at the bar I would have liked the MC to put her in her place more like say something like "if it were that important to you then you should have done it yourself rather than dump them on some stranger."
Anyway, this is similar to the devs first release in that I did not like a lot of the story elements. But again, the dev works hard and puts out solid, regular releases and for that they should be rewarded.
Good luck to the dev. I will be keeping an eye on this.
