Curvy Cougar Street [Final]
Just finished this behemoth of a game and it’s definitely something to experience. If you’re a fan of curvy women of all ages and shapes, this is probably a must play. Packed with a couple dozen intimate scenes, you’re bound to find something you will like. The thing is - you have to look through a lot of content to get there. This is more Curvy Cougar Town than anything else.
STORY
Curvy Cougar is a continuation of ‘My Secret Fever’, a game where you eventually end up in a situationship with your mother. You flee for a new life together and at the start of the game, you get to live out that fantasy. Your sisters - who you are in different situationships with - fly along every now and then as you find your way in the new town you end up in.
While the game is filled with intimate events, the overall storytelling isn’t very strong. Characters rarely evolve after events - even though the sandbox is locked off - and by the end, the MC is just as much a dork who gets women thrown at him as he was in My Secret Fever. In fact, this game takes it into the extreme as more family members join the ‘fun’ while the MC doesn’t ask or corrupt anyone. It’s basically “Your package is big and I want some”.
The game often jumps directly into intimate acts after three lines of dialog, disabling the chance to build connections with characters. You end up with a map of a double dozen amount of women you can fuck, but won’t know much about them except that they want to see you more often. It makes many encounters forgettable and time-consuming.
Good thing there is a main story - which sadly really never gets fully resolved. You won’t feel the climax of solving the story, it simply settles with settling the issues over money and some sex. Which ironically are the two things this game cares about most.
Novel thing is that characters from earlier games interject themselves into the main story. It’s very fun until they hijack the story and side characters dictate what will happen. There are a few surprises here, but overall the MC and his mother are subject to whatever happens to them this week to eventually go back to their mundane lives.
While you meet and have fun with over 40+ women, very few are actually noteworthy and iconic. I couldn’t tell Dolly from Aude or Rose from Claudia apart from their looks - which means they are equally unimpressive. In the end, the story of Curvy Cougar street is enough. It’s not great and the dialog at times is still a bit dodgy - but it works for the illusion.
PRESENTATION
If anything, this game does feel like a full town of curvy cougars hunting you. You’ll see many interiors of houses, businesses, sometimes warehouses - there is a lot of attention to bringing the MC into different places or situations. Maybe even a bit too much. The same can be said for women in the game, maybe the choice is too much for comfort.
Models look believable most of the time, but I’ll guesstimate about 60% of women are overweight older women who aren’t up to today’s beauty standards. If that’s your demographic, this game will blow you away. If you like cute big women, you have about 15% of content to enjoy. If you don’t enjoy a bigger woman, you skip this at all costs.
Outfits are good, but some are recycled from earlier games and even recycled among women. That kind of makes sense in a town with one clothing store and 40+ big women, but since there’s so much emphasis on the visuals it takes away from the magic. Often outfits are just porn outfits and not related to a woman’s personality. It’s a missed opportunity.
GAMEPLAY
This is a sandbox game where the sandbox doesn’t fully shine. The format works for showing you how huge the town and the amount of content is. But often times, you’ll be skipping days to get to a certain point where a new story bit happens - and each story bit happens one after another to ensure continuity. Since choices don’t really matter, this might have worked better as a visual novel - where all the time building the sandbox could have gone into enriching the story.
Menu and UI are a bit clunky where you click on the minimap to go to a part of town, but eventually you can get the hang of it. Word of advice - don’t stray from the story path, offer intimate moments only when absolutely necessary and focus on the task at hand. Playing around in the sandbox gives you nothing other than recycled content, a few surprises aside.
Gameplay consists of daily tasks until new story bits unlock. It can get really tedious when an event is 5+ days away and sadly, it happened at least three times in my playthrough. If such a moment is followed by an uninteresting story bit, the game can start to feel like a chore. Good thing there’s more than enough content to enjoy if you’re willing to grind through the days.
OVERALL
Curvy Cougar Street was an enjoyable experience, even though it has serious flaws. There is too much filler content, the story doesn’t conclude in a natural way, there is little character development and the rush to intimate moments feels forced. Playing the earlier games from Chaixas helps in seeing the bigger story, so I would recommend doing that if possible.
If you are able to sustain the grind and treat this as episodic content that are separate stories with a small overarching story, you will have fun playing this. Just make sure you love looking at big, older women.