Five Pump Chump SImulator (with awesome graphics)
This review is of Guilty Pleasure V0.25 - andI really, genuinely hope it will not remain reflective of the game in future versions.
There's a lot to like about this Kinetic Novel, although obviously 'gameplay' isn't one of them, and that needs to be understood immediately. This is largely a kinetic novel, with a very few decision points that may or may not lead to significantly branching scenes or plotlines (leaning towards the unlikely to make much plot difference).
The plot isn't bad, what there is of it. It isn't wall-to-wall tropes of "Oh my sister saw my dick and now can only think of having sex", and indeed the mother fully resists a couple of exposures without an instant crisis over all her life choices. That's always a good sign.
However, there also isn't any real underlying narrative or plot direction to this story other than that we know it is building toward a harem that the MC doesn't actually start off wanting or considering. It feels a little directionless, and lacking any underlying story arc or hero's journey.
The models for all of the significant characters are fairly attractive, and certainly all the major female characters are attractive and well-chosen. There's a pretty good diversity of body types, which is always very welcome in a genre where certain boys who were never breastfed and never got past the trauma tend to insert unfeasibly (often impossibly) large breasts into every game and every character.
It is also nice to see that tokenism hasn't (yet) crept into the game, where it feels like every dev is checking off boxes for 'goth girl with tats and piercings' whether or not there's actually a backstory for such character choices. However, there's a definite lack of racial diversity - which is quite realistic for any small-town settings, but still maybe should be corrected - though obviously without the 'token chinese/korean girl' and the 'token black family', etc. The backdrop we see from the home windows shows a pretty significant looking city in the background after all.
The renders certainly have some flaws, for one example there's a scene where the MC's shoe has sunk through the decking in the back yard very noticeably, but they are certainly serviceable and good enough.
There's a lot of animation, and several of the animation loops are truly great, meaning that this could have had some of the best sex scenes... However this is where the games biggest annoyance comes in. The sex scenes are absolutely terrible. This is a five-pump-chump simulator, and that's being generous. In several scenes the girl no sooner gets her mouth on the MC's member than he's already cum and done.
This guy is so extremely premature that I think his ejaculations may be from the next day's scene. Most scenes are a few seconds in a single pose, and the use of animation in such a case only serves to magnify how this makes him seem like the world's absolute worst lay, ever.
Don't expect the MC to give a girl an orgasm with his fingers or mouth before giving her another couple in coitus before letting rip himself. No, this MC rarely bothers with foreplay at all, and doesn't have time for more than one position in most cases before, in literally about 5 total pumps, shooting his load. Sometimes he'll have 2 positions, and manage 4 strokes in each, but never once does he manage to let a girl have multiple orgasms, or even any realistic time to reach even one.
In a sexual game/novel, especially one where getting laid appears to be the ONLY plot or story, being absolutely terrible at sex, and every scene being a huge anti-climactic disappointment, is kind of a deal breaker. No matter how good the animation loop or the models, etc.