TL;DR: My main reason to not give it five stars is stupid and stretched story elements and poor job on many of the models and facial expressions (which also often undermines their sex appeal).
★★★★★ Renders quality
★★★★★ Dialogs and humor
★★★★☆ Story
★★★☆☆ Models
★★☆☆☆ Facial expressions
★★★☆☆ Sex scenes
+ The story is large, rich with details and branching, full of emotions. Dialogs are spot-on and full of humor. Characters are interesting and attractive.
- On the other hand, there are many stretches in the story. Many details range from stupid to just nonsensical. The plot elements related to law wouldn't be possible in real world, because it's not how it is. Psychology is often either flawed, or at least not well explained.
Examples (trying to avoid spoilers):
1. If a document is "not finalized", it means it has zero legal power. (As if it wouldn't exist at all). If someone pretends to act on the basis of such non-existent document, especially adding or changing its conditions, it's most likely a felony that no lawyer in their right mind would ever commit.
3. Pharmaceutical research is easier done by privately owned companies, because unlike public ones they don't need to do so much disclosure on what they do. The reason to go public is mainly to expand, i.e. to get investments, which is hardly necessary for a pharmaceutical company which worth went from zero to billions in just 15 years. What would've happened for them to not have huge cash flow? (MC seems to think that to give control over the company to its CEO you need to make it public. What kind of freaked up idea is that?)
5. I won't go into details here, but the resolution of the law drama and the future of the company are just cringeworthy.
+ Characters are attractive, and some of them are kinda beautiful.
- But the sloppy work with models and expressions pretty much kills their visual appeal.
Examples:
1. Jaye has pitch black eyebrows, which (especially combined with not the most natural IMHO hair color) shows that her hair is dyed. To me, it's big way off-putting. And her hair often looks a bit messy, sloppily done. FYI, changing eyebrows' color (in Blender or something) is a matter of a minute or two.
2. Other models are often copies of Jaye (like Lisa, just different coloring) or only minimally changed.
3. Mallory model doesn't really look appealing. The eyes' colors are too saturated, the eyebrows are too V-shaped, etc.
4. Facial expressions are mostly weird (whether you call Mallory's smile stupid or cryptic, it's still a bit weird). When Mallory and Jaye are shown as amused or surprised or something, I bet you never saw that expression in real life, unless that person just shitted their pants.
- Sex scenes could be good, but because of sloppy models and expressions they aren't. Not mentioning that perhaps all tits in the game are saggy.
- PS. Other reviewers also mentioned the lack of sounds sometimes, the cringe scene with extraction of a sick girl through a Vietnam border, instead of more meaningful scenes, etc. Totally agree with them.
All in all, it's a very good and enjoyable game, and I wish the developers to avoid those sad defects and next time create a masterpiece that deserves their talents.
[v1.10a Completed]