Ren'Py - Harem Secrets [v2.2] [Akihiru Harem]

Game version: 2.2

The game wants to be a harem game, and I'm fine with that.
Why the dev of this game decided to put any progression behind bars of redundant, boring and even annoying choices is beyond my understanding.
The wording is bad, and you will get "punished" or "rewarded" for every choice with either negative or positive points on categories I don't know about. "Lust", "Trust" is in there, but what are they good for? No idea.
This game would be better if it was either just a pure VN or free-roaming with MUCH less grind.

Game ends moment i spend few dates with each girl
i unlocked sex with one girl
i get that there is no more event for her now, i understand
LET ME REPEAT SEX or maybe get max score with her for now and more sex options?
i don't know what author plans are but without option to repeat actions
and so little to do in the game best i can do is 2 stars

Models are fine, not ugly or AI
music is generic
sound effects if are its rare
it should be easy to make more sex scenes and repeat actions
animations are passable, but seen better
i wanna see this game developed better or author changing direction to keep people entertained befoe next version
it makes no sense to start new game just to repeat handjob on 3rd date...

Honey select basic chars, well fleshed out so nothing major to dislike there.
Writing and story are kinda nonsense and just plain weird at times.
Game itself is just mehh, fake sandbox with fake stats, so in essence a badly written kinetic novel.

Game: Harem Secrets
Version: V2.0

Pros:
- Good character designs, with a variety of large-breasted characters.
- No grind-heavy gameplay.
- Includes a wide range of fetishes.

Cons:
- Dialogue could use improvement.
- Character development feels rushed.

v2.0

+ really hot girls.
+ big boobs
+ sandbox is done well. no grind, pick any girl you want and go for her, in any order you want.
- animation is truly godawful and very janky.I literally got a headach just trying to ignore the animation and read the text dialog. horrible clipping, horrible physics bugs, very poor looping causing major jump every 2 seconds or so when the loop resets. low quality settings in honey select. I honestly didn't imagine you could make such a bad animation using honey select.
- I saw someone mention the stats are fake. So I dug into the code myself and it is true, the stats are fake. your choices don't matter. why even bother with fake stats? not having those fake stats would make the game better, as you would choose the dialog option you want rather than the dialog options that gives more stats (and thus is "better" according to the game). Initially I was picking choices by their stats rather than what I wanted to say.
- dialog and char development is rushed and rather nonsensical. you meet a girl for the first time, either compliment or flirt 2-3 conversations, then confess eternal love and fuck. With random additions like going on about how strong she is, or weird stuff like randomly catching her posing naked in the classroom after school without explanation.

Good Points
+ Women/Girls looks hot, but thanks to low-quality and bad animations it's kind of pointless as a good point.

Bad Points
- Sex scene animations are terrible & weird, quality and physics need big improvements along with characters facial expressions, currently, they weirdly stare the screen like robots.
- MC feels quite generic.
- The story has nothing special in it, in fact, the characters feel bit too out of place in the story and it's not well-written.
- HUD/UI can use some changes.

For The End
The idea behind the game is good, even tho it's cliche, but the execution is quite poor, wouldn't suggest playing with how it is now.

Basic Honey Select scenes and animations. The game pretends to have systems like lust and trust, but those variables don't actually appear in the code. The game is perfectly linear per character. The choices only slightly change the dialogue and each scene is going to happen.

Why pretend to have a trust and lust system if you don't? I don't get it. It seems very dishonest, plus every other review uses the exact same writing style and broken English. I'm pretty sure the same person wrote all of them (probably the developer or a friend of them.)

Anyways, just pass on this game. The women all look similar with huge tits and the story is nonsense. You can get the same thing just by playing Honey Select and watching scenes.