Let me preface by saying, I appreciate all the hard work the devs have put into the demo build of the game. I gave it a star solely for that. I'll also preface that I am not an ardent OW player, (played the game for like 30 mins tops and saw the memes and the ocean-wide amount of NSFW content) so for any lore of backstory that was presented in this game I do not blame the devs, but rather Blizzard for a piss poor job at worldbuilding if that's what happened in their lore.
The intro to the game is fine, it's fast and meant to fast-track us to the part we want to get to, the Overwatch section. They did a pretty good job of explaining the logistics of the time skip. But, I did not appreciate how the game starts the OW section. At first, seeing Mercy with her iconic Angel Wings is exactly how the game should start. Usually, every time we see her with those wings out, she's doing something heroic or saving someone. Only, it turns out she's been using you as a sex toy for the last 90 days while your brain was frozen and you were an unwilling subject. That's not a good way to introduce your marquee girl, but I'll let it slide. But keep it in mind, we'll come back to this point later. While Mercy gives you a full tour of the OW facility, the game makes it clear you are a horny man who cannot control their erection. I'll also give this a pass because at least they explain why you are constantly horny, it's thanks to the experiment done to you before you went into freezing. The thing is, however, your being constantly horny is the main reason why you are even relevant to the story at all. Ana orders you to be thawed out so you can get to banging her employees so they can stay in tip-top shape, but otherwise, you are meat to them thanks to their asexual society. Mercy even says she has a "wife" and admits it so again, which was a total boner killer since she says this right before you were gonna get it on again. Oh speaking of Ana, she also rapes you in your room on your first night. Again, we are not getting great impressions of the girls in this game. I can't tell who to blame here, either Blizzard's bad worldbuilding and the devs have to work within the confines of the lore, or the devs seriously expect us to like being meat for these girls and you have no say in it. You could argue that the more you bang them, the more you could corrupt them into just being your sex slaves, but I don't have the patience to find out.
Perhaps we could rewrite the story to still fit the OW verse and just remove the entire you are stupendously horny gimmick. When I was playing, I was thinking, man wouldn't it be cool if I could do something more than just be meat for the girls? They even acknowledge you have no combat skills and are useless in the field. Maybe they could pull a Null Hypothesis and have you develop your powers over time, and be useful here. Maybe that's what the devs have planned, but I honestly got so turned off by Mercy and Ana that I did not care to even keep going with this game.
Again, I appreciate the work put into this project and I hope the devs have a long and successful development cycle. But unless they rework the premise and give us, the player, a bit more say in what's going on, then unfortunately I won't be coming back until more time is put in. Maybe they can turn it around and keep the premise, just make it so the girls don't feel like emotionless meat sacks that need to get fucked. It felt unearned like here you get sex for just logging in. But anyways, here's some quick bullet points.
Pros: Artstyle is lovely, I do hope if they integrate AI art, it's only for very filler scenes or backgrounds that we won't pay much attention to, never for character art, as that ruins the whole point of the development.
AI voice was fine, until it started to show that it was AI voiced lmao.
The 4th wall breaks were funny.
UI is clean for the most part, much better than most games on this site.
Cons: Marquee characters leave a bad taste in your mouth with their introductions.
The story has potential, but it elects to take the easy way out. We don't expect masterclass writing for a porn game, but make it a little less obvious.
The lore. It feels generic and uninteresting. Again, this would be a criticism if the devs made this, but otherwise, if Blizzard made it, then no harm done.