This review probably will be partial, since Freeloading Family is my favorite game of this site, but I'll do my best on writting this review.
The whole game can be summed in "Awesome! You NEED to play right now".
Now I'll post some of my story of the game and a detailed review.
Around March of 2019, after a pretty bad end of relationship, I was looking for a text-heavy game which would make me forget my ex-gf, and I find "Freeloading Family" looking around this forum. I saw Alice in a signature and I have to see. And I have to say that since that, my life significally changed because of that decision.
First, the obvious, the great work from FFCreations. The models are stellar, probably one of the best of this forum. The character models are great, the girls are charming and the scenes can be pretty hot, depending of the context. It's funny to say that, but it's pretty obvious that in the beginning the game had passed by some difficulties and a narrative feature of making a character in a PNG in a premade background was pretty much used all the time for the recurring situations. When the game gained support and the work of FFCreations soared beautifully, I felt myself kinda nostalgic about that, but it's good to think that he doesn't depend of that anymore to bring an excelent work.
About the story, it's pretty incredible to see how the characters have great personalities. With that, V.A.Laurie did an excelent work on not only bringing great and complex characters, but also bringing depth that isn't usual on general games like this one. Alice with her kindness, Melody with her crazyness, Leah with her disguised softness, all them have something to say, and has a lot more than meets the eye. Even the MC, which generally is just an avatar of the player, has some stellar dialogues, even when the main subject is his crazy military father. The humour of the writting is also great, and it's a breath of fresh air in a genre where the main objective is having sex with the protagonists or so. For that, I salute you.
Saying that, I'll make a brief "PROS and CONS" on it, because I think I need to be honest with the gamers and the developers.
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PROS:
Models are great, scenes are great and hot.
Personalities are awesome. It's a delight to only "hear" them talking or interacting with each other.
Soundtract: nightRain, by airtone. Is as complex as the Freeloading Family and brings a special charm to the story.
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CONS:
The story is, in some ways, too linear. This isn't actually a con, but sometimes I feel myself too tied with some situations that I wished to avoid. Not a big deal at all.
The perversion path is, in my opinion, funnier than the pacifism path. That doesn't remove the brilliance of the writting, but I don't feel myself motivated to play as "a good guy" on this game.
Lack of SFX: This is one of the few games that I feel that some of punctual effects would benefit the play.
Thank you for the awesome game both of you! I'm now a proud fan and patron and I wished that all the people that ever played your game would be able to support you and all your patron goals would be reached. I think that eventually that will happen, but I can only hope and cheer for your success! Thanks for the awesome experience an I hope to be a patron of yours for some more years now!
Have a good night!