(Heads up: Will be using quite a bit of sarcasm and a few spoilers.)
Right, so the artstyle is pretty good but, the main issue this game has is that it flip-flops heavily and constantly. Like, it doesn't seem to know what its doing or want to be.
For example: It starts off kinda bad in that: The game has misleading advertisement. And what I mean by that: You play as literally a schizophrenic succubus, that genderswaps into all but an incubus and changes personality, preferences and proportion whenever they do so. (In short: They turn into a futa, and nowhere is this mentioned. It's just thrown in your face with a "surprise!")
The succubus themselves are easily the worst part of the game. And not because they are futa. But because they are all over the freaking place. The lore makes no sense whatsoever. (Like: Incubuses rule the demon plane... despite the fact they are superfluous. They literally do nothing but fuck the succubi, since the succubi just genderswap INTO incubi/futa to seduce females. They serve the function of BOTH demons. Incubi only feel decorative.)
Atop that: They are as said: Extremely inconsistent in what they do. (This also applies to EVERYONE in the main cast.) For example: This main focus of the game is "corruption", but it's never specified what type of corruption. One moment the PC is encouraged to be a cockslut without needs or self-regard. (Or the succubi ranting about how much they loooove sucking dick and being abused/neglected.) But then the next scene is them going "No, wait: Actually, I DO have urges! Get that guy to give you oral!" (And the succubi her/himself swings like a pendulum between these as well. She see's a random dude? "Oh fuck yeah! I'm gonna be his sex toy, cum ALL over my face!" then the next second they are all "Oh, look at those tits! Better turn into an incubus and get my HUGE DEMON DICK all up in there!" it's extremely inconsistent and confusing about what is going on.
Every single female character seems like they had two writers that didn't communicate. One writing girl on girl. The other girl on guy. Most of the story is just watching the characters flipflop while I went "Make up your mind already!". You can have a character literally go from "Call me mistress. Make me cum, then thank me for the privilege of serving me worm!" and the next scene they are all "Uwu! Don't you just looove having males just use you for their own needs, then leaving you there like the trash you are?!"
The story and characters is close to nonexistent... there ARE some good moments. There are parts I REALLY like about the game. It's sadly just marred by the plot and consistency running around like a headless chicken. The in game rules and goals seem to change on a bi-weekly basis. One week the character is encouraged to sex up other girls. The next she's told girls "don't count" towards having sex.
But: Enough about the mess that is the story.
Originality wise... it's honestly in the same boat as the story. It jumps from novel idea to 70's porn plot back and forth constantly.
As for the models: They are overall good.
But they are highly inconsistent. (But only genital wise.)
Like, in one scene, a guy might have a dick 2 fingers in girth. The next frame his dick is 4 fingers. Or it reaches from her chin to her eyes, the next it goes past the forehead.
Or a girl goes from being flat downstairs, to having a labia, then back to no labia. Then a outie clit, then an innie. Atop that, basically every single girl has a copy pasted vag they share with each other. No variety, not even pubes. There's no difference between any of the girls. Atop this: There's a lot of renders that has problems with the anatomy, mainly where the perineum is located.
It gives it a very half-baked looked. Especially since you have some VERY good quality penises drawn. (even has visible frenulum.) And nearly all of these are semi-animated. (2-3 frame slideshows) Whereas most vags look kinda cheap, low budget copy paste. There are a few exceptions. But it feels very... "we blew the entire graphic budget on dicks so... we need to make some cuts..." leading to A LOT of the lesbian scenes looking rather lackluster or slapdash.
This is reflected in the writing. As you can go from a scene (unique or repeatable) that was animated with graphic description of how "you grasp hold of the big, pulsating penis. A shiver runs down your spine as the precum glistens majestically, making your knees weak." and then goes on and on about how the cum splatters all over the back of your throat with a VERY detailed and over the top cumshot visualized, taking over minute to go through properly. And... then you can come across a non-repeatable lesbian scene that's over in like, 10 seconds that's more or less: "You lick her pussy. She came."
So... there's a quite notable gap in quality between most scenes. It's like watching a movie where the actors phone it in every other scene. Then bends over backwards to give it their all in the next.
The sound is alright though. It doesn't get on your nerves. At least not mine.
It performs alright. It's a bit slow at times. (especially unskippable, grind events)
There's not too many bugs. And only had 2 that were game affecting. One removed the character model. The other made the screen darken (event color) but nothing played and you had to sleep to next day to get it fixed. This one did also affect your income. (Also had one bug play 3 weeks of events in a single day.)
There's a few grammatical errors here and there. But nothing too major.
I'm very split on this game. As it does a lot I enjoy. But then it turns around and slaps me in the face the next second. I want to like it but... it makes it very hard to like it.
It's just very wishy washy in what it is trying to do. And the poor+misleading information provided doesn't help.
Like, if I just go based off the game description:
"You are the succubus." (except when you're the incubus)
"Our game is not a typical visual novel." (This one is accurate. As, there's very little choice in what the character does. You are mostly railroaded around.)
"You will need to manage time." (This one is also very... ~eh... as there's really no time to manage. You cannot study. This is not a function in game. There are a FEW events that take time. But your primary method of passing time, is to work at the cafeteria. Speaking of which: You have a "wash dishes" option, that is basically useless. Since it does not count as having worked. It gives you a fixed amount of $5. But it doesn't count towards your salary. So it's always a loss. It's literally only useful if you notice you have 2 "hours" left on the day, and need exactly $5 to purchase an item. Otherwise it's just... a kinda wasted function. Any event takes up the entire day. So, if you plan to do an event, any "management" you do is literally just: work until the last hour of the day, trigger event. And sometimes: There's mandatory events, and they can spawn during friday, which is your payday. If this happens, you lose your entire salary for the week and gain no money.)
Parts I really liked as said is how the girls have sex drives... but that's only sometimes. Some of the dialogue and description are really good. (Like, they actually mention the clit, or reach around to rub themselves. Until they don't)
I'm not a fan of the any of the demon fluff, it's all just inexplicable and contradictory.
The mismatching anatomy on the models is also a turn off. Which is a shame. As: They otherwise have a really good, varied amount of body types.
All the girls are bisexual. Except they ALL ditch other girls in a heartbeat for a random dude. Which gets really stupid when you have a bit of a slow burn, teased romance and a character goes "So, I know we've been friends for months and slowly building up from kissing to petting to some sex but... this random dude I've never met before just offered me this GREAT opportunity to suck his dick at the glory hole. He'll give me nothing in return and refuse to reciprocate, but.... I CAN'T pass up a once in a lifetime chance like this! I've only done it 84 times in the past!" as said: It feels like we have two writers, that can't agree on what this game is about, or what the characters are like.
You can go from one event where you got rammed in the ass, then sucked 8 dicks. And then have the PC absolutely flustered to be offered to touch a penis. Or do a full frontal nudity without shame. Then almost crap herself when someone might have seen her panties. Like, what is this? Bipolar schizo, the game?
I don't want to be too harsh on the game. But I have to be objective here.
It HAS potential to be a GREAT game. But so much of it feels like its stumbling around aimlessly. And it does a lot of railroading, and "Surprise! I hope you like this fetish!" for a lot of events. It feels a bit lack of common courtesy at times. It needs to metaphorically take a shower, pull itself up by the bootstraps and get serious. This game can do better. And I hope it will.
I played it over 6 months ago. And it was mostly around 3-4 then. (lot of the same issues) And it has kinda... kept slipping up. Like, I started the game all "Oh, this is kinda cool!" and "Ooh! This has a lot of potential!". The tutorial is really slow and railroaded, but eh, not the worst. Then it starts with a few neat events. Roping you in. But then it gets distracted and wanders off for a few weeks in game time. Slowly going from a neat game, over to a bit of a chore. And eventually "Why did I play this?". Best comparison I can do is like... imagine an early access game. Where... I dunno, you get a jetpack. And it's THE SHIT. High paced platforming action. And you have it for a few levels. Then they take away your jetpack. And focus on slow underwater levels and political intrigue. But you keep playing, since every now and then they add a new level with the jetpack... okay, stupid analogy, but hope it made some sense xD
I think this game can be great. It just needs to figure out what it wants to be, and focus its efforts. Clean up the dialogue and art a bit. And be more straightforward in its advertisement. (I got in expecting one game, got another, and then it transformed into a third game halfway through.)
Well, my first review here. I hope I manged to do it correctly. I did my best to follow the guidelines.
If you for any reason would be interested in a more spoilery, rant filled deep dive into the game. (and mentioning some bugs.) Feel free to check out my gdocs review of it: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDENs4Q-2-KUF1PhyjOdPpBMprS5Kg_RFAI-nRN6CnU/edit?usp=sharing
(It mostly covers WHY I am annoyed by some of the objective errors. In a subjective manner.)
If I did any oops or forgot something, please let me know.