Beauty and the Thug is a sandbox style game involving a naive beauty and the brutal mafia capo who has an unhealthy fascination with her. It seems to be early in development as of yet, as there isn't a huge amount of content, but there's the beginning of something somewhat interesting.
I think what bothers me most about the game is the MC feels like a seven year old stuffed in an eighteen year old's body. All her fond memories trace back to when she was very young, she engages with everything with a very youthful naivete, and she has raunchy dreams involving her doll. This might be only a me thing, but I have difficulty seeing her as any flavor of teenager. It makes me a little uncomfortable at times.
This doesn't pair well with the mafia capo with a heart of gold who seems to be the main love interest. The players have seen far more of him than she has, but the forced date with him makes it very evident who he is. Dating a guy (or girl) with the intention to "fix" them is a sure fire failure and I'm not looking forward to him chewing the MC up and spitting her out. I'm hoping there will be paths where the MC can minimize his interaction, but he seems uncomfortably obsessed for no justifiable reason.
There's a lot of lewd content in the game, but you basically need to follow a step by step walkthrough of the game to figure it out. Boosting fetishes requires you to find the right activity in the right order and it's not intuitive at all. For instance, boosting exhibitionism could be working at the car wash, going to the laundromat, ordering pizza, going to the beach, or going to the park. You need to figure out which one of these events will boost your stat, and several of them have multiple options, only one of which seems to work. It's frustrating in the extreme.
The renders and animations are quite good in the game. There appear to be a decent number of female characters, so hopefully we'll get to see a good bit of variety. There are already a pretty decent number of scenes... if you can find them.
Overall, I'm curious as to where this game will be in a few patches, but not super impressed with it as of yet. It feels like one of the many html style sandbox games on this site, only with good images and a lot more clicking to advance events. It has the potential to be better than this rating, but it isn't at the moment.