Short review: a niche game with average individual sections of gameplay that come together to form a unique experience worth well beyond the sum of its parts (if the genre interests you).
This game is difficult to write an in-depth review on. It's separated into two distinct gameplay phases: the exhibition phase where the gyaru (Maki being the translated default name) roams around exposing herself at the behest of her BF/Husband to lure boys into having sex and the ero phase which is just the H-scene itself. By themselves these systems aren't particularly groundbreaking, they're just average.
The exhibitionism is the weakest of the two, if you're here for that alone and don't care for the rest of the game then this is not the game for you. Maki has very basic poses with variations depending on her exposure rating (effectively a corruption stat) and the ability to urinate and masturbate in public but that's it. Sure she can remove clothing but she can't perform partial flashes like lifting her shirt. It's a very simple system mostly because it's not actually about exhibition but instead exposing Maki to lead into the actual gameplay of this phase: reeling in a
fish boy.
This section is the hardest for new players, mostly because it's poorly explained, but to sum it up what you're actually playing is just a fishing minigame. Each boy has 2 invisible bars: an arousal bar and an alertness bar. Alertness is simple; the more lewd things Maki does the more likely you are to raise this and cause boys to run away shouting "stranger danger" at the top of their lungs. It's a fishing line tension meter, too hard or too fast and the line breaks. As Maki gains exposure she seems better at mitigating how much alertness each boy gains regardless of how lewd the acts she's performing are. Arousal is trickier. You need to get them just horny enough to accept her invitation but if you make them too horny they'll get an anime nosebleed and walk away in shame. Difficulty affects alertness but doesn't seem to affect arousal from my testing. Balance this successfully and you'll get your choice of location to take the boy for the ero phase.
Except I lied. There's a small driving to your destination phase that features Maki and the boy in a car where the PC can ask him questions about his experiences or tease him with what Maki will do. It's kind of shallow and the boy's responses (if any, sometimes they're just silent) aren't subtitled. They aren't complex responses either though, usually a yes or no so you can figure them out with basic Japanese knowledge. Overall this adds very little gameplay but put a pin in this, it's important for the conclusion.
The ero phase is just a 3d sex scene viewer. It features:
- Solid camera controls after an update the dev put out that features WASD movement with right mouse button direction changing.
- A set of pre-set camera angles with a camera recording overlay for voyeuristic filming enthusiasts.
- Multiple locations, though locations don't exactly have unique positions just set the list of positions up in different ways within the chosen location.
- Several postions for foreplay (mostly for the boy and some for Maki), sex (only vaginal but seperated into two categories for face to face or from behind positions), and a lot of HJ positions.
- Each position has several sub positions for limb placement that by default the game shuffles through to prevent the static looping animation problem that plagues 3d H-games.
Overall, for a first time 3d H-scene viewer it's pretty good if non-interactive. The only big negatives I have are a decent number of locations are actually inside the car from the driving phase just parked in different places and that there are no subtitles for Maki or the boy.
From there that's the gameplay loop. Maki's exposure rating increases exclusively based on whether or not she took off clothing during the exhibition phase and nothing else which is disappointing. You can reset it back to zero if you want more ENF content but that's the entire gameplay loop.
Lure, drive, fuck. But here's the thing,
that's what makes this game so good.
By combining these three phases of gameplay it really delivers the fantasy of corrupting a woman from a curious participant in the PC's NTS fantasy, into a shota devouring virgin hunter gal and her voyeur boyfriend. If this appeals to you then the game is only disappointing in that I wish there was more because nothing else really scratches that itch. If this isn't you then you'd probably best look elsewhere as otherwise the gameplay will become stale really quick especially if you only care about the H-scenes.
Easy 5 stars for a unique concept game that is well executed. Looking forward to what the dev does next.