I honestly don’t know where I am when it comes to this game. When I first played it (a year ago!) it hit me as ridiculously beautiful with amazingly drawn women and a story line that was very different. The MC was a young man with major mommy issues, but the way you learned about them was unique and interesting. I really liked the minigames, it made me feel like I was the MC and had to work for those memories. It also began to make me understand why the MC would react to his sister the way he does. I also loved Kelly, she’s fun and a complete deviant, which I really like. The cheating MILF was a nice sideshow, but I didn’t give her much thought.
So I finished my first play through and immediately put this game in my top-10. In the meantime the decade of 2020 passed and I come back to find that the game has updated from 0.2.0 to 0.2.1…so progress? I jump in again and start a new game.
Summary Review of 0.2.1:
The first part of the game is still excellent. You are introduced to three major characters (Kelly, Sister, and Mom) plus your best friend Kevin, the cheating MILF, and the Lesbians next door. However, after that it begins to spin a little out of control. MC is introduced to even more new characters. Now there is “Little Sister” and “Past Maid” and “Punk Asian Secretary”. In addition our deviant friend Kelly is bringing in Stacy, Kelly’s Sister, and Kelly’s Mom. Plus, I think there is possibly something with Kevin’s Mom and a girl named Anna coming down the pipe. Grand total: 12 confirmed females plus two probable (Anna and Kevin’s Mom). For a total of 14 LI’s. That’s a lot, and its already kind of fraying the plotline. While I don’t mind lots of girls, one of the things that made this game really good at the start was that it was pretty tightly written, focused on Kelly, Mom, and Sister with the other females as clearly secondary to the plot. Now we’re going out with Aznu, meeting your former maid/nanny who happens to be the waitress at a local bar, and finding out that your little sister is in town and maybe, she too, would like to move in? Did I mention that your cheating MILF hookup also happens to be in the changing room of your little sister’s store right when you end up there? Yeah, things are getting out of hand. I’m not saying it will make the game bad, but it will simply make the game less. It will just become another fuck-fest fantasy VN, which would be a shame.
Other Observations:
Short Sex Scenes with too much cumming. I mean, I remember being 13 too, but four times in like 15 minutes? Then the guy goes home and does it again? Dude must be popping little blue pills. That or he’s a teenager…How old is this guy? I think Dev would be better to have longer sex scenes where MC finishes once or maybe twice.
But really, how old is this guy? His best friend seems to still be in High School, so does Kelly for that matter. Meanwhile his “Little Sister” is opening up a lingerie store by herself? I’m quite confused. Sure, Kevin and Kelly could be in College, but then then why do they act like they have High School restrictions? Kevin even steals his dad’s liquor. So is the MC a super rich 18 year old? Anyway, it hasn’t become a big issue yet, but it is a little confusing trying to figure out where MC and company are in their lives.
Grooming. This is actually not a negative: The dev uses a shit ton of grooming in this VN and it actually works really well. The Mom is grooming her very young son into having sexual relations with her. She is manipulative and cunning while doing so and it turns MC into the damaged person he is in the game. I think it adds some wonderfully dark realism into the game. It makes his behavior and world view much more believable and it is honestly refreshing. I’m tired of incest games being simply “hey bro/son your hot with a giant cock, let’s fuck! I LOVE YOU!”….I mean come on. I really enjoyed that the Mom is manipulative and did this on purpose and from a fucked-up place in her head. I also like that Stacy is getting some of the same treatment from her father. It makes some of the fucked-up happenings much more believable. And to me, believability is what makes a novel better.
Final verdict: Play this game. It’s beautiful and different. I really hope the dev can keep it that way.