- Mar 20, 2019
- 44
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The visuals are great, the various women are fine.. but damn the story is absurdism run amuck, the situations take me right out of the story and into "watching nonsensical shit in a VN on my screen".
There's so much emphasis on the MC visually. Over and over and over I see his face (more than the women sometimes), it's weird. If we wanted voyeur pr0n we'd watch that or play cuck VNs. Dev, we want to ride in the MC seat. That's critical. That fantasy is degraded by continually showing his over-indulgently (borderline comical) expressive face.
The situations don't make sense (and, fine.. he's got amnesia.. it's half a rung higher than the cheapest fiction trope of time travel).
I found myself wondering if the sex situations were real or him dreaming again. That's a fail-point for me. Some of the sex scenes even had vignetting and felt out of sync with the female characters, and yet they apparently happened. I thought that was meant to be a clue that it was a dreamstate. WTF? I actually found myself going "Don't get sucked into this - it's probably another bullshit dream event". Only to find out it actually happened within the story: And by then, too late for confused me.
Edit: So, the 'Russian' endurance test (sans bear) has thrown me for a loop yet again. It's like slapstick comedy now. Was Freshwomen always supposed to be clownish/humorous and I missed it or did it take a really odd turn there?
There's so much emphasis on the MC visually. Over and over and over I see his face (more than the women sometimes), it's weird. If we wanted voyeur pr0n we'd watch that or play cuck VNs. Dev, we want to ride in the MC seat. That's critical. That fantasy is degraded by continually showing his over-indulgently (borderline comical) expressive face.
The situations don't make sense (and, fine.. he's got amnesia.. it's half a rung higher than the cheapest fiction trope of time travel).
I found myself wondering if the sex situations were real or him dreaming again. That's a fail-point for me. Some of the sex scenes even had vignetting and felt out of sync with the female characters, and yet they apparently happened. I thought that was meant to be a clue that it was a dreamstate. WTF? I actually found myself going "Don't get sucked into this - it's probably another bullshit dream event". Only to find out it actually happened within the story: And by then, too late for confused me.
Edit: So, the 'Russian' endurance test (sans bear) has thrown me for a loop yet again. It's like slapstick comedy now. Was Freshwomen always supposed to be clownish/humorous and I missed it or did it take a really odd turn there?
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