When I started this game, my thought was this guy gets it. I’ve seen a lot of complaints about the bland plot. However, this game never tries to be anything more than some simple fun. There is no grand world shattering plot that so many VNs attempt and fail at. Sure the families are a kind of scheme but even that’s more locally than globally. Realistically this is niche Harem game where the following apply:
- The MC makes sure to make it known that he is the ruler of his household without being rapey or abusive. Sure he’ll take the others opinions into account but he has final say.
- The plot is actually going somewhere with there being smaller subplots that get resolved with major ones spread accross several chapters. Too often even excellent writers forget to stop the plot from dragging out. Looking games that are reaching a decade of dev without any end in sight.
- The Harem doesn’t seem like it will devolve into Pokémon, where the number of girls never stops expanding, and even though there are stereotypical girls that’s fine as long as they have personalities and have not remained shallow. Even the quiet girl speaks volumes with what she doesn’t say.
- The relatively vanilla male-dom actually works because not every game needs to go full hardcore and this one is actually refreshing since it’s a de-escalation.
- It’s actually quite formulaic. There’s a lot of criticisms against this, but truthfully, they work when executed as intended.
- There’s pregnancy planned in the future.
- The smol (not the type of smol that shall not be named) tsundere.
- A lack of expressions that are needed to fully express and immerse the story.
- HS engine this is a double edged sword because it’s relatively fast to work with but is also limited to what HS can do.
- The number of settings/places have been limited so far.
- There is still seems something holding the MC’s more aggressive nature. Almost akin to a mental block.