Version: [Ep.5 - v0.005]
in 'Hard to Love' you get to play as a cop that falls asleep on a train back to his parents house, in which he plans to stay with his parents, 2 sisters and young daughter, as he recovers from a gunshot wound.
While sleeping the MC dreams about the mother of his child, a cute young woman that he fell for, she's pretty weird, constantly switching between 'uwu can't you see that I like you' to 'fuck off I don't care', I suspected some mental illness was involved until the rest of the characters showed up.
Well, MC kept dreaming about his past and eventually arrived at his parents house.
This is a good point to talk about how the game looks - which is pretty damn good, the girls are lovely and the renders are nice looking.
Unfortunately this is where the cracks start to show.
The writing is not great, the characters are pretty shallow and seems to only exist to play their part in MC's life, LI's keeps going from 'please let me suck your cock uwu' to 'fuck off perv' and back, the plot is pretty strange and, honestly, there's a lot of bloat when it comes to dialogues, could use some trimming down.
I gotta say, despite some issues I found 'Hard to Love' pretty charming up until this point, the LI's are hot, the setting is fun and the pacing is quite alright.
MC and his sister grow closer (and hornier), his mother is starting to give in to her desires, we are starting to get some more clues about the general plot and I was having a blast.
Then chapter 2 happened.
I assumed it was a rebuild of the code and some upgrades, but found out the mother and the sister are now hideous, a large part of the progress the MC made with them is simply gone (sister is very bitchy again, mother went back to 'eww incest is disgusting', it feels like their personality changed in general, the text bloat became more apparent and I was left frustrated which significantly less interest after the visual changes the LI's have gotten.
I'll say it plain and simple - chapter one was flawed in ways, but had plenty of charm to make up for it. I simply dislike everything about chapter two so far.
I'll probably check it out again in a year or so.
For the score - I'd rate it a 3.5 for the first part, unfortunately maybe a 2 for the second part, rounding up for the very apparent effort from the dev and the potential for a decent VN.