This comment is gonna be a short review, I'll do a longer one once my account has permission.
I had real life, a lot of personal changes, a move across country, a new job, and more get in the way of my playing this game back around .10/.11. I recall intending when I downloaded whichever version it was that I was gonna replay from the beginning and give Runey my thoughts on the changes theyd started doing to better flesh out the basic archetypes that Lin, Kali, Ashley, Maria, and Android initially were. However I never finished that playthrough and I don't think I got to say much about it. So this time, I did just that, downloading this latest version day of release here and palying it to completion over the last week or so.
Frankly, I loved it so much more than I used to, and I've always been a big fan. The girls no longer feel like shallow archetypes, but rather real people with personal traumas just trying to find their place in a society that either explicitly makes them outcasts, as with Lin, Android, Kali, and Ashley, or who find themselves able to fit in, but not liking who that makes them, as with Maria, and the clones as soon as they get over themselves. And as the story goes on, exploring how these realities for these characters reach into the core of Syl'anari society and how many of these characters feel a drive to end the systems that caused their pain and trauma, frankly, I can't believe this is happening in an adult game, especially not one as popular as HH.
I've talked two of my roommates' ears off about how well done some of the elements of this game are, in a way I see some people railing against in negative reviews, but have been happy to see so much positivity as well. Despite the fact that they know I'm talking about a porn game, they too are incredulous that it's saying the things its saying while retaining that sexual outlet side of it.
Legitimately well done Runey... I'll probably come back to the discord and talk some more about this in detail later, but I wanted to boost the game here first.
