(as of v.12e)
Q: What did Tony the Tiger say on the witness stand?
A: Theeeeey'rrrrrre... okay...
This game is... okay. It's a pimp-fantasy, with a lot of raunch and humour, so like Risky Business meets Porkies. It pretends to be open-world, but is totally on rails. Two dozen locations but usually only something happening at one of them. I'm okay with that - saves a lot of time-wasting. There's lots of grinding, but each turn of the grinder has a little variation, which is clever. There is a shit-ton of content.
The renders are... okay. They're grainy, and there are long stretches with no variation, just straight two-shots, so there is need for more variety, more closeups. But sometimes the composition is really creative. The later scenes in the studio, for example, seem like they came from a totally different VN.
The women are... okay. It's like you're squinting, and in one render they look attractive, and in the next, eww... The LI is particularly bad for this. She's a weird design choice, imho, with her big nose and frizzy hair. She looks like Barbara Streisand... and, as a great man once said, that's a challenging wank.
And there's the thing where in the bottom of the screen there's a portrait. I don't mean to pick on this dev, lots do this, but do people think this actually adds value? I suppose it's meant to a) indicate the speaker, and b) indicate emotion. But if you can't tell who's talking, isn't that a writing problem? And for showing emotion, isn't that what the render is supposed to do?
The writing is... okay. It could really use a once-over by a native speaker, but again, that's true of 75% of the games on this site. There's lots of chatter, lots of inner monologing, and I just click through it. The humour is clever at times, and it's too bad it gets buried in all the nattering. And the constant refrain of "fuck bitches" gets boring real fast. You try saying it over and over again.
Again, not picking on this dev, but with things like The Wire and The Sopranos so readily accessible, why do devs have such a hard time making criminal activity believable? This one isn't as bad as some others, but still...
Anyway, yeah, it's... okay.