Everyone that plays AVN's and use this forum will know about and probably have already played this game. And its not surprising, this game is great. 5 stars for sure. One of the best in the genre, no doubt. All of its qualities are easy to find in 99% of the other reviews, be it the graphics or writing, character personalities, whatever it is, Its already mentioned by many.
I want to talk about its flaws. As I said, its still a 5 star game, but its not perfect.
First point of discussion to me is how utterly boring is the MC. And hey, I get it, blank slate MC that should help you shape your playthrough to your liking, maybe self-insert your personality and beliefs? Sure, lots of games opt to go that route. For me that would be fine, exept I cant choose not to be extremely dull, a drama-queen and/or dumb as fuck.
Social studies? Don't know what that means. Yuck.
Did your mother never told you not to be a creep and steal underwear from a girls dorm? Well AKSHUALLY, my mom is dEAd. Hm, yes, that changes things.-Said the almost 40 years wold teacher, obviously (Ugh).
Seriously, the game is full of things like that, that to me are just unbelieavable cringy and just stupid. Which brings me to my next point:
The story.
Now, the writing isn't bad. Grammatically, the English is pretty much perfect, all well proof-read, and the majority of the dialogue feels natural, specially in the unremarkable parts of day-to-day and life in general.
As for plot plot, I could go on and on about some... let's say leaps of logic in the main hooks presented to us as the player, specially in regard to the main LI's, but its probably for the best for that to be left as it usually is: the game is made to be more lighthearted, American Pie inspired, and that's fine. It works, and personally, as long as it keeps being recognized as that, I'm fine.
That argument and line of thought, however, weakens when it comes to the logic applied in the every-day situations that occur throughout the game.
The problems begin, for me, in some of those situations, in examples such as I listed above, where obviously a 19 year old, in COLLEGE, is excused of stealing underwear because his mother is dead, and without a mother to tell you how creepy and/or wrong that is, it's obviously not that big of a deal and you are free to forgo social rules and decency. That logic, coming from an almost 40 years old teacher, who is portrayed as this cold, logical and serious person, exemplifies perfectly for me, how mediocre some portions of the plot/writing are.
With all that out of my chest, playing the game is still very much worth it, and I think it will always be, considering the quality of the vast majority of its competitors.
The last note I guess is that if you play this merely for the sex, as a porn alternatie, and not for the story, everything said above can be ignored. The animations are great, altough the writing is not particulary erotic or inspired in the sex scenes.
