The artstyle sets this apart, visually speaking. Now that the obvious is out of the way...
You're the providential saviour who is going to pull whatever crawled up a bunch of women's ass out of there. Basically the Sex Messiah, and I'm not saying it, the game (kinda) does.
I've played for about two hours, painfully slogged through the first two chapters and I:
- didn't engage with any of the characters. I just... I just don't care. Sorry.
- cringed oh so very much at most of the dialogue.
- got offered "choices" that weren't choices because only one actually mattered, the other(s) sending you straight into a game over. I. Despise that. So much. To me, it's also proof the storyline isn't catchy enough and the writer knows it. I mean, if the story really were that good, the game wouldn't need to provide fake choices to the player to keep them awake and involved...
- waited during transitions that have no business being this slow.
- had to suffer through "pornographic" scenes I categorically refuse to qualify as sexy or even hot. In fact, I found them so incredibly bad, I laughed. It's like a blind director was trying to shoot porn: it always feels like the interesting bits are OUT OF FRAME. For the love of the holly, don't show me the stupid MC's stupid face. Show. Me. The. Girl.
(Also, seriously, what's with the transparency and fading effect and the images replacing one another? Am I reading a power point or what?)
- got reminded that using shadows to tease is cool and all but actual darkness where you cannot see a thing actually does not work.
- saw very bad, very cringe visual effects meant to picture climax. Fireworks, really? Instead of waisting time on game over screens, resources could have been funneled into actual climixing animations.
- heard moaning sounds ripped from actual porn that sounded like they have been through a blender. Embrace the art direction and forget bad sound effect. Add bubbles as in a comic, floating text, and whatever!
The artstyle alone is worth two stars but the writing and the "directing", oh, Lord...
You're the providential saviour who is going to pull whatever crawled up a bunch of women's ass out of there. Basically the Sex Messiah, and I'm not saying it, the game (kinda) does.
I've played for about two hours, painfully slogged through the first two chapters and I:
- didn't engage with any of the characters. I just... I just don't care. Sorry.
- cringed oh so very much at most of the dialogue.
- got offered "choices" that weren't choices because only one actually mattered, the other(s) sending you straight into a game over. I. Despise that. So much. To me, it's also proof the storyline isn't catchy enough and the writer knows it. I mean, if the story really were that good, the game wouldn't need to provide fake choices to the player to keep them awake and involved...
- waited during transitions that have no business being this slow.
- had to suffer through "pornographic" scenes I categorically refuse to qualify as sexy or even hot. In fact, I found them so incredibly bad, I laughed. It's like a blind director was trying to shoot porn: it always feels like the interesting bits are OUT OF FRAME. For the love of the holly, don't show me the stupid MC's stupid face. Show. Me. The. Girl.
(Also, seriously, what's with the transparency and fading effect and the images replacing one another? Am I reading a power point or what?)
- got reminded that using shadows to tease is cool and all but actual darkness where you cannot see a thing actually does not work.
- saw very bad, very cringe visual effects meant to picture climax. Fireworks, really? Instead of waisting time on game over screens, resources could have been funneled into actual climixing animations.
- heard moaning sounds ripped from actual porn that sounded like they have been through a blender. Embrace the art direction and forget bad sound effect. Add bubbles as in a comic, floating text, and whatever!
The artstyle alone is worth two stars but the writing and the "directing", oh, Lord...