Its basically 1room but alot better.
The plot is fairly standard stuff. Youre a restaurant owner, Lily's your cohabiting waitress/servant, and long story short you fuck her, because of course you do. Most of the story revolves around you running your restaurant with the aim of reaching higher status but its a fairly casual affair as there is no rent, timer, or even any game over sequences. Do it, because the alternative is to suck your thumb in a corner somewhere.
Gameplay is mostly a loop of buying ingredients, cooking food to earn money, and then using that money to buy more ingredients to cook better food to earn even more money. It is simplistic, but more importantly its inoffensive, so you can ignore this if all you want is to get your dick wet. There are other stuff like fishing minigames, but less said about that the better. Just buy your items, because you'll rarely if ever run out of cash anyway.
H gameplay is mostly just ported directly from 1room, which means theres this weird arousal meter with a speed up option (Is there anyone that doesnt use this? Why does this need to exist?), and there is a fuck ton of variety, from foreplay to actual sex, so youre unlikely to be disappointed. Happily, this game has animations, so no more lines of pretend movement, and VA as well, all done in good live2d action.
Artwork, splendid. Given its predecessor, this is entirely to be expected. The attention to detail on the clothing is a nice bonus.
CONCLUSION...
The games a clear upgrade on 1room, better gameplay, better plot, and the H is amazing, so what prevents this from being a 5 star game? Well, here's the thing:
- There's no character progression...again. Youd think that given the circumstances of how youve met Lily, the sex will need to be earned but thats not the case. Basically she will fuck on command, and thats really a shame because it cheapens the emotional connections. Not that Lily ever treat you any different no matter how many times youve made her cum the previous night. Shes more robot than human.
- Really wanted more girl variety that isnt just a cameo appearance. There are other girls around which you can insert your dick in, but these are just 1 repeatable scene and theres no reason to pursue it. I mean, youre supposedly running a high class restaurant and yet theres only two employees including yourself in it. Is it really that hard to code more girls in? At least it makes the AP actually matter in the late game.
But all in all, a fairly enjoyable game, though I found the H gameplay tedious at the very end. Theres no reason not to recommend this though, because for all its imperfections, its still really well done and will likely get your wood hard well into your 90s. Recommended, because why not.