The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs...
(Review Update - 01 July 2020) - Week 2 - Days 8-14 Final)
Well, it's been over a year since I last played/read and reviewed this project... Even though this review update will mostly only talk about the second week of this visual novels content, there is technically almost another complete in-game week still being fully developed... When that 3rd Week has reached it's Final stage then I will update this review again...
Visually this VN has not steered much beyond the quality levels we had from the first in-game week of content... With the exception of the addition of some Cell Phone Texting, which was a small but nice touch now and then... There is also a pull down menu in the form of a small blackened half circle that appears in the upper right corner now and then, but it's not always there, which I found strange... I also think the developers are taking a step backwards with some of the erotic content visuals... In some of the erotic events the developers decided to use a detached penis during a few of the animations... Not only does that look tacky, but destroys any sense of immersion... I also noticed in a few of the visuals where the protagonist was wearing a sleeveless white shirt, that some closeups had the shirt looking really low rez, almost like it was filled with static...
The script text is about the same quality as before...
It took me several hours, over several days, to get through this 1 week's worth of in-game time in the male protagonists life... And although I did like some of the new story content for several of the characters, in most cases you only get a thin slice dedicated towards any one character... And the biggest problem I'm beginning to see for this project is that, over a year later, and we're still seeing more and more new characters being added... Then you add to the fact that the developers have basically taken over a year and three months to put out a little under 2 weeks worth of in-game story time (i.e. week 2 final and days 15-21)... That's not a whole lot of in-game time for what is supposed to be a full years worth of eventual in-game content time to be created... So we're not even a full month of content yet into the planned content for this project, and it's been about 2 years, or more, worth of total development time...
Even though I enjoyed some of the content in this 2nd week of in-game content, I can see bad signs already... With all these characters, and barely much content designed around a mere handful of them, you don't get very far with most of them in this 1 week of story time... Because there are so many characters and so much going on each game day, for the protagonist... If this pattern keeps up, like this, in the 3rd week (which I have not read/played yet until it gets to it's Final stage) then you have to stand back and look at just how long it's going to REALLY take to finish a full year of in-game story in real development time... And because you get such small snap-shots of meaningful content for only a tiny number of the total number of characters (that continues to increase in number) in any given in-game week's worth of content, the story as a whole feels like it's just going too slow...
In this one in-game week of content there are so many mini-plots for various characters, new points of intrigue, new character introductions, and so on... That I really get a sense that there is entirely too many possible things going on for just one story... And it's going to take far too long to get through all these things that keep popping up, for it to feel like a worthwhile journey... Because if developers are going to only average around maybe 2 weeks of in-game content, based on the best estimates of current growth, it will be decades of real time before we get to a final conclusion... Just in this 2nd week, you can see plans for content in certain characters story lines that are a month of in-game time away... That's probably one to two years of content creation before we even see those couple plots even come to fruition... How long do the developers think people are gonna stick around, waiting for that?
The developers can be as ambitious as they want, but I just don't see this VN as being what they hope it will be in that amount of real time... And even though I did enjoy some of the content in this 2nd week, technically there is not enough meaningful content for even the few characters introduced in the 1st week, that we get to see continuing in this 2nd week... Almost 2 years and it feels like the developers are still primarily just introducing things, while mixing in even more characters then before (and there were a lot of characters already introduced in the 1st week of content)...
Overall, I did enjoy some of this 2nd weeks new content, but I really truly feel like it jumps around far too much... Probably because there are too many characters still being introduced... And the characters you feel should be the primary focus, based off the 1st in-game week, have only slivers of content each, now and then, in this 2nd week... The story as a whole feels too stretched out, with a real lack of focus... I truly believe this project is far too ambitious of a project... The main story itself feels like it's getting pulled in too many directions, with too many characters, which is causing the story to move too slowly as a whole...
I don't want to necessarily claim that the developers are possibly using this project to milk donators of their money, but in some ways, it's sorta starting to feel like it might... It's going to take far too long to complete this project, if it even ever gets completed... 2 weeks of content per real year, on average, for a planned in-game year is going to take forever... And because the developers are stretching the content out, using way too many characters, and probably way too many plot points, the story telling feels really stretched out and time consuming... For very little actual overall plot movement...
Not that it really mattered to me, but even the brief amounts of erotic content are largely spread out in this 2nd week of content... Many characters from the 1st week, barely have any content at all in this 2nd week... I really think the developers are not focused enough, and the cracks are going to eventually show as development continues... I really truly hope that this project isn't just another milking project designed to take forever and get hardly anywhere... But I gotta tell ya, how slowly a year's worth of in-game time is being released, and the slowness of the over all storytelling in general up to this point, really is pointing in that direction based off what I've seen so far from Week 2...
I do plan to play the 3rd week of content, once it's reached it's Final development stage... But I hope the developers are done introducing characters at this point, and don't continue the patterns I'm seeing in this 2nd week of content... Even though it looks like the developer, based off the Patreon page, is basically selling Custom Characters which is probably one of the reasons for several of the new characters... Which may be a good tactic to use for gaining money, but it is a poor tactic for making a good story based VN... Placing even more characters into an already over saturated tale...
(Original Review - 06 April 2019 - Day 1 thru Day 7 + 3 Holiday Events)
Just as a warning, this is going to be a long winded review....
Visually the game is fairly decent, using a Japanese hentai type theme with both the characters and surrounding backdrops... A majority of the characters appear unique, although there are a few characters now and then that have very similar facial appearances... The animations are typical of what you may find in many other Japanese themed 3D model based visual novels... Unsure what 3D modeling engine was actual used... The scenes throughout the whole VN/Game are well designed and immersive, as they follow the story... The backgrounds are mostly basic, with only a tiny handful that I've seen before in other VN/Games...
The script is done well, even though just a few times I felt as though it may have been a translation from another language into English... Probably because it does use some Japanese words here and there, and technically the story is based in Japan... There are lots of Japanese anime references now and then, that I and probably some of you may not always get... As it does appear the authors are huge anime and cos-play fans... So there are some anime stereo types with some of the characters...
The story itself is told very well, with lots of dialogue, inner monologue, and story text to keep you immersed in what is going on... The story primarily revolves around a male protagonist who moves to a small town with his family (waifu wife, 3 biological daughters, and 1 step-daughter) to work for a new progressive all-girls school in a small Japanese town... He doesn't appear to have sexual desire for his daughters, but there are tiny hints now and then that maybe eventually there will be incest in this VN/Game, but only time will tell... The protagonist has a mysterious history, but for the most part he is a kind and yet perverted teacher, who almost feels like an anti-hero... He cares for every woman/girl he lusts after (almost to the point of fanatical parental protective instincts)… While still willing to do whatever it takes to have his lustful way with any good looking female character... He is also very ambitious and highly protective of his family...
The story currently goes through his first week as the new male teacher in an all-girl school, aging from 9 to 18... The protagonist, thus far, only seems interested in those already through puberty or going through it... So be forewarned, there is underaged (under the age of 18) sexual encounters in this VN/Game with a few of the characters...
Not all characters are treated in the same way by the protagonist... You have you're a-typical slut type characters, to those just infatuated with the protagonist, to those who fall instantly in love with him, and so on... There are many characters in this story, with varying personalities... It's almost overwhelming at times, just how much is going on in the story with the many different characters thus far... There is definitely a hentai theme in this visual novel... From cat eared girls, to various bright hair colors, lots of Cos-Play, and a real love for Anime by many of the characters... It's not an overwhelming amount, and normally I would be turned off by stories with too much emphasis on Japanese anime in it's over all story, but there is enough of everything else, to balance it all out...
At first I was a bit hesitant to try this VN/Game out, mostly because of how much focus on anime based themes there are, but the story ended up sucking me in, and I was hooked by how well the story is told, and all the nuances of what the protagonist was dealing with...
I can not stress enough, how highly ambitious this VN/Game is for it's long term development... The developers are planning 365 in-game days of content... Right now there is only 7 in-game days with 3 special holiday events... According to the developers they plan on doing 2 in-game days per release of new content... And that is A LOT of development time, and probably the most ambitious promise for over all content I've seen in this genre, by an independent developer... Just for the basic content, that is almost 180+ releases of normal in-game content... Not even counting if they take breaks to put out holiday content for every holiday, each year... I'm not sure it's even possible to keep it going that long, especially when holiday content will keep interfering with normal content releases...
I really enjoyed the content thus far, but I may need to wait a year or more before revisiting this VN/Game just because of their release schedule and the ambition of content they claim they want to do... You have to take into account all the Real Life interferences and so forth... If it was a big publishing company with dozens of employees working on this project over a year and a half, pushing content quickly, I could see it working out in the long run, but not when its an independent and smaller group of normal folks doing it all... Guess we'll just need to wait and see, if they can do what they claim, over the very long-haul...
The only real huge negative, was the Halloween and X-Mas/New Years specials, which while being great masturbation material, just felt out of place and did nothing for the main story... The Valentines day special was the total opposite... And I wish more of these specials in other games followed suit... It was completely on par with the main game story, showing some backstory for the protagonist and his wife during their early relationships... Rather then just being pointless sex encounters that had no bearing on the main game... Bravo...
Overall, I did enjoy this VN/Game, and found myself staying up late hours into the night reading through all the 7 normal game days of content... As well as going through the 3 holiday specials... Right now the 7 game days are broken up into separate downloadable blocks (almost like separate games) but the developers plan to merge them together at some point into one download with perhaps a few new pieces of content, prior to continuing the series... This does cause a few issues for some folks as each piece needs to import data from previous save files... So just be forewarned...
The developers mixed in just the right amount of comedy elements, along with drama, romance, intrigue, character development and so forth, to keep you wanting more... There are an overwhelming number of characters introduced, that may or may not have relevancy as the story goes on, and there are moments you feel like the protagonist must be some sort of superman as he takes on so many different tasks and responsibilities... It can feel somewhat overwhelming at times... And yet I keep rooting for this guy... I don't want to see him fail, and I'ld probably be super upset if he did... But I really do feel what I've experienced so far has been fun and engaging... And I look forward to what they have in store as development continues...