I started this game yesterday at 9PM, expecting to run out of content in a couple of hours... ended up glued to the computer for almost 12 hours straight.
This game is really remarkable. It's set a new gold standard for me against which I'll measure all other erotic Ren'Py and text heavy games with semi-branching stories. The writing is good, the coding is solid, and the art is fantastic. The fact that it seems to be all the work of one person is kind of insane.
I did several playthroughs where I had Ash 'fall off the wagon' at various points, and they mostly made sense within the story, which I thought was pretty cool. I think the temptation with these kinds of games is to go for extreme binary playthroughs of fully chaste or fully slutty, but I actually think the best experience with GGGB is to be found somewhere in the middle.
Scattered thoughts:
- in one of the playthroughs, with some light savescumming I was able to get a character with moderately high (18-23ish) Good and Bad points. It's a little odd that I could have Ash whoring herself out to her boyfriend's dad and still be consider herself a 'good girl'. I could see this making sense with an Ash who does normal hookups like Doug, but Arthur definitely feels like a 'bad girl' fling.
- there needs to be more points of entry with the dad. As far as I can tell, you need to have enough Good points when the first dad event rolls around to even unlock the incest option, and if you miss that (rather high) point check very early on that's it, even though the game sort of hints at the dad viewing Ash in a sexual/romantic manner in several subsequent dad events. I was surprised that doing a good-girl Ash playthrough still gives you an in with Arthur, just later at the dinner table. I'd love for something similar with the dad, where a bad-girl Ash can still do something with him.
- I kinda thought there would be more stark negatives to drug use other than lowered inhibition. I wanted to see a storyline where Ash and Jessica/Eva spiral into becoming full-on junkies.
- it's distractingly weird that the stereotypical Latino gangbangers are called Wilson and Edgar.