Review for
Breeze of Passion v6.0.0 Steam:
Overall: 3/5 - This game starts off like the developer asked an AI to create a game based off of their previous game. I guess you can give the dev credit for recycling, but it feels like they slapped together a game with the absolute least amount of effort purely as a money-grab. However, the game has become better over time. Hopefully, it continues to do so, but I don't expect it to be any better than the developer's previous game that currently has an overall 3.4 out of 5.0 rating, which is close to where I would rate it.
Story: 3/5 - It's a rehash of the dev's previous game. Even the overview is similar. So many of the situations, interactions, and events are nonsensical, also like the other game. The story progression is actually better though, so maybe all is not lost, but, given it's so much like the other game, I'm betting the story will stall while the game goes off on side-story tangents.
Writing: 2/5 - The English is full of awkward translations. I think there's supposed to be humor, but it was lost in translation. The translation is so bad that it goes from reading like dialogue between two 5-year-olds to reading where a PhD is required. Some of the dialogue is completely retarded. E.g., there's a render where the MC comes home, walks into the living room, stands in front of Emma who is sitting on the sofa and then he says, "Are you home yet, Emma?"
Renders: 4/5 - The renders are generally good. There are occasionally some weird lighting/reflections issues (e.g., MC's shiny underwear) and weird compression artifacts (e.g., beach close-ups), and clipping. The models are pretty although hardly unique.
Animations: 4/5 - The lewd scene animations are great. So are some of the detailed idle animations like eye blinking. However, the bobbing/panning around girls' butts and breasts gets old to the point you'll think to yourself "Damn it, not again!".
Sound: 2/5 - The background music is better than average, and a few sound effects like walking and closing doors are OK, but holy fuck, some of the sound effects are terrible. The electric guitar that plays while the MC is gawking at a girl's butt/breasts got really old. The cartoon sounds of whistling when the MC gawks at a girl, and the frequent swish, whoop, and boing sounds during conversations are infantile. And, yeah, it's all recycled from the other game, too.
Content: 4/5 - The amount of content is a better than I expected. The dev used a trick to get lewd (although disposable) content early in the game by having the MC watch videos on his phone of him and his ex-girlfriend. There's more lewd content, too, and the quality is good.
Gameplay: 2/5 - So far, the sandbox is useless. The game is almost completely linear. It's not 100% linear, but it's certainly not worth having a sandbox. All the sandbox does is waste the player's time. Most of the player choices don't seem to have any real impact, either. It kind of felt like there was going to be some resource management of money, time, employees, etc., but that never materialized.
Bugs: 3/5 - I encountered
a lot of bugs in updates through v0.4. The only bug that I know still exists is that rollback will occasionally do really weird things, like dump out of the game to the main menu. None of the bugs I encountered were game-breaking, but they were immersion-breaking. Hopefully, most are fixed now, but I haven't gone back and replayed from the beginning.
General annoyances:
- The game really needs a button to advance time.
- The game really needs the map button to be available from anywhere.
- When you're told to call someone, you actually text them.
- Texting is painful. You have to wait for each person to "type" in their messages and you can't skip those delays. I don't know why any developer ever thought this was something players would like.
General WTFs:
- MC has unprotected sex with a stranger he saw intentionally exposing herself on the beach at night and later has unprotected sex with a prostitute.
- Nobody works at the hotel reception in the evening.
- The luxury suites in the hotel are on the same floor with staff rooms and utility/laundry rooms and exposed pipes in the ceiling.
- The laundry room for a hotel has 1 washer and 1 dryer.