Truthfully I never really understood the new phone NTR AI slop epidemic that we've found ourselves in. Like yeah it's easier cause you don't have to worry about backgrounds, and presumably Godot makes the phone part easy, but still seemed a bit odd. Why NTR specifically too?
This game made me get it. The helplessness and voyeuristic nature of NTR games goes hand in hand with the naturalistic texting and photo posting of these phone games. It helps that this game legitimately does it really well too, something which I did NOT see coming. All interacial games are really fighting and uphill battle to not make all their characters absolutely braindead to serve their plot, and I'm happy to say that this game actually is different.
It doesn't mean the characters aren't stupid, of course not. Kind of hard to avoid given the premise, y'know? But they're stupid in a very fun way that feels real and unique. The incredibly rude and racist sister's obsession with poking fun at her brother that manifests as her taking out her anger with her awful white collar job. The way she unsubtly hints at her true feelings, and gets way too wasted while being way too honest. Every character has their little idiosyncrasies that make you want to see them more, while all having unique and distinct relationships with the main character.
I should also mention how well distributed the body archetypes are. Just perfectly spread out amongst the characters. Games that are specifically about asian girls tend to gravitate towards strictly black haired beauties, but this game makes sure that's not the case.
The way the game is spread out so evenly and cleanly makes me very confident that the creator knows what they're doing, and isn't going to overbloat the game with characters are relationships that aren't interesting. There is a strong, persistent focus on only the most interesting parts of the family + girlfriend's dynamic, and if they keep this up it could easily be a 5 star experience.
Even the MC isn't bad! Which I can only imagine is a rarity. He's not not a loser, but he isn't dumb. He has suspicions a lot of the time, and acts generally in the range for what a real person would be like (the bar is set in hell for NTR games understand). MC really does sweat his ass off caring for all the girls, and I appreciated that he wasn't a passive player in this situation. Is it insanely cringe that they confirm his password is BigBlackCocks and his wallpaper is Hinata/Raikage porn? Absolutely. But the further it goes on you see that he isn't just a cuck. He's an interesting cuck. I'd honestly play a maledom focused game with him seducing his family, that's how much I like him.
But maybe I just like the writer, cause he keeps the texts feeling like actual texts and not just a replacement for conversation. Props to the guy either way, and I hope this thing goes the distance. It's not shooting for a long run time, and it's been very efficient with the time it's had, so I genuinely believe that this won't be abandoned.
My ONLY real issue is that there's no way to save/load which makes things weird, and that sometimes I can't tell if the author wants us to like the bull or not. The way he's written gets a little funky sometimes, but perhaps that's done in an attempt to keep you on your toes. He's still done waaaaaaaay better than 90% of BBC bulls out there, so I didn't really mind.
Definitely worth a try if it's your thing. It's specific and pretty small scale, but that only heightens the quality. Very promising future.
P.S. That last scene with the older sister is a wtf moment LOL I have faith he'll deliver on the Yin shit though.