VN - Unity - Completed - HuniePop 2 Double Date [v1.1.0 Deluxe Edition] [Huniepot]

First of all, art style is a step down. Main portraits are not that good and they don't strip down. Character icons have simplistic, yet awful style that clashes with the main style. The few lewd pics there are, are OK quality but nothing special.

Dating mechanics from the HP1 are almost all gone so this is no longer resemble dating sim.

Puzzles were fast, simple and challenging in the original. As such they provided good enough barrier to the lewd stuff. Now puzzle aspect is more complex, frustrating and time consuming. Wins and loses feel like results of a die roll than consequences of your actions. All this makes task to reward ratio way unbalanced.

Girls seem far less unique and feel like fuck dolls that you just conquer after two puzzles. There seems to be no personal or relationship development here.

So, all the effort has gone to the wrong things, making HP2 surprisingly shallow and annoying sequel to a truly fun and smart game. It seems that developer did not really understand what made the first game really work. Shame.

No sex, no foreplay, no trans, just images. Kinda sad cuz this game been in the production for a looooooooooong time. just wish there was more. the game is fun but the "sexual" part of the game just leaves much to be desired.

1. Bad characters. Literally all the girls are just no-brain people.
2. Decent gameplay. Like the first game, this have that funny puzzles. A bit more challenging and sometimes annoying. Don't like the addition of handicaps.
3. Bad built of relationships. You just appear, say something stupid and go to date. I didn't even get to know the girls, there was no razon to that or incentive. Whoever, you don't want to know the girls, cuz that just mean you are gonna get handicaps on your dates.
4. There was some good music, but there was really bad music. Sometimes I just muted the game; it was impossible to hear that horrible themes.
5. Average art. You can like it more or less. In my opinion, since there was no progressive photos unlike the first Huniepop, just 3 dates and a two girls photo, I never felt arroused.

I think the game is a 2/5. Sorry for the bad english, I don't know very much how to express since I speak spanish. Don't recommend this game.

I'd say I was disappointed, but as I've been alive for more than a couple of days it was obvious to me that it was going to be some dumbed down bastardization of the first game with (from what I'd heard previously about it) some homosexual/futa elements to it.

Lo and behold that's exactly what it is. A game completely bereft of any of the charm and relationship build up of the original. Though I will admit that it's occasionally funny.

What I did not expect however was two things.

One, for them to completely destroy the puzzle game aspect in favor of some extreme micromanagement simulator where you need to sort through lists of unorganized gifts of various types over and over again with no indication of who gets what, and then during the actual bejeweled section play a completely counter-intuitive version where matching 4 and 5 of a kind is often detrimental to the new stamina system which makes the entire thing a chore.

And two, I was actually expecting the game to be much tamer and politically correct. What I was not expecting was for them to go in the complete opposite direction to the extreme and just be outright disgusting, treating sex and the female body in the same tone you'd expect from some skeezy 1970's porn dealer or other lowlife who's never had sex they didn't have to pay for. Not only do they (and EVERY character who are basically just carbon copies of each other anyway) treat sex in the most crass way possible, they often say the most disgusting things about the female anatomy. And I don't mean disgusting as in "disrespectful", I mean disgusting as in "unhygienic". In what way is that supposed to be sexy exactly??

This game is shit compared to the first game. But I'm not surprised.

I also think the artwork is inferior overall (though some of it is still good).

Waited 5 years for the sequel to come out......sad to say it doesn't hold a candle to the original.

Plus:
- our pink haired, dirty mouth favorite love fairy is back
- some music tracks are remixed and brought back.
- Art work of the girls are ok
- puzzle mechanics are somewhat the same

BAD:
- The dating aspect about learning about each girl and taking them out INDIVIDUALLY on a date is gone. WHY the double dating???!! because it's hunie pop 2? I would understand if the three some dating was introduced later in the game. But i feel like the third wheel listening to the sometime idiotic conversations between the two girls.

- The rewarding art work of "having a three some" is totally outdated with what has come out with other adult orientated games. I guess this is what happens waiting so long to release a sequel. The first game it was acceptable during that time. But just because you are introducing three somes doesn't make it better.

- Leveling up of MC is gone, gifting is ridiculous, and this Stamina system kills the game. matching a 4 or five a kind is enough to make the girls tired and sit out for a bit. and you lose not only when you run out of moves, but you lose also if both girls become tired.

so much more to say about this let down, but i will continue to play hopefully to change my mind.

This is one of those: if you liked the first one, you'll like this one. The gameplay has a bit more nuance than the first game. It's still Match 3 but this time, you're focusing on two girls for the date segments. Learning to balance stamina, when to accrue sentiment, and breaking the right affection tokens for the girls are key for success. Personally, I like the old currency system better since it was just one currency that you can spend on anything. The currency you earn will be skewed because you're trying to break the tokens that match the girls' preferences which has led me to having too much currency of two-three types and severe lacking in a fourth currency.

Unfortunately, none of my fav girls from part 1 made it here and I'm wondering what was the rationale for choosing who returned. I find the writing as whimsical and silly as the first game, but there are some voice actresses that I didn't think were very good. The customization options are quite varied since you can make most of the women look vastly different from the original designs.

So disappointing I actually refunded it on Steam. First game got me into porn games and was worth every penny. I think the magic is gone here. First off, it completely lost all of it's solid pacing as a dating sim from the first game. There you're a virgin with almost no women skills and just meeting these new chicks. You slowly have to progress, getting to know them and building an actual relationship, progressing intimacy and then it felt like a big payoff when you'd get to sex with them. It was relatable and fun progression and made for a charming dating sim on top of a fun match 3 game.

Here you're a "chad" banging a chick in the opening scenes and having threesomes on the 2nd date. The dating sim aspect is pretty much gone, it's basically a 1 night stand 3some sim now. All the girls, even the 1 or 2 "shy" ones, are just "easy" and want the D right away (2nd date already), or you've already banged them in the previous game, which makes it overall boring, there's no build up or anticipation anymore. Not to mention they seem more interested in the other chicks than you. The only semblence of relationship development is between the two girls, not between you and the girls. You feel very 3rd wheel on these "dates', which makes it almost NTR. Idk, it just doesn't appeal to me anymore, it feels boring not having to work for it or even get to know these waifus before you're plowing them. I think they shoulda just done a new "virgin" character and made the story similar to the first one (which makes sense because she says she helps other guys), rather than continuing this characters story.

And the sex "scenes" are just a joke compared to modern porn games. They don't lose clothes during the game now and all you get is 1 picture afterwards of 2 chicks nude covered in cum with pretty meh art. You don't even have any idea what happened during the "sex" just the aftermath, idk, just makes me shrug. It's just some random picture with no context, you have no idea what the sex included or if you even had sex or just ntr watched these 2 chicks go at it. Like I found it not even remotely fappable.

It's just outdated at the point now that we've got games with long, fully animated sex scenes and much better pacing/progression building up over multiple scenes towards sex. The game took so long to make you'd think thered be some drastic improvement and modernization of the sex scenes but nope, went in the opposite direction, they're even worse than the first game.

O well, the match 3 game itself is still fun and the humor is still pretty good as is the VO, it just doesn't do it anymore as a modern porn game imo.

I'll keep my review as short as I am able, and I'll try to address every major element in this game and why it doesn't hold a candle to HP 1. (There is a TLDR at the bottom for those who want the gist. )

Girls are not as interesting, they lack the personality difference and uniqueness each girl had in HP 1. Now half the roster are sluts and the other half are either girls from HP 1, or girls made to replace those that didn't make it.

The puzzle mechanic is more fun and I don't mind the double date system, but for players wanting a casual experience and not want to pull out their hairs later in the game, it's not a good addition.

Voice acting is of mixed quality. Some, like Kyu, and the returning cast from HP 1 are great, many of the new girls are plain terrible. Personally, Leilani was the only new girl whose VA I actually liked. Everyone else was either mediocre or downright cringe-worthy.


Gift mechanics and the removal of the hero's levelling-up is a bad move. Now the gifts are even more complicated than before, and you have to rely on them entirely to make any progress easier. And since you no longer have stats, and all the leveling goes to the girls individually, it means you need a million years to farm drinks to max every stat, for every Girl. EVERY GIRL, INDIVIDUALLY. Whomever in the Huniepot team thought this was a good idea should be fired immediately.

And finally, the porn. I would say something about the music as well, but it contains many remixed versions or similarly sounding versions of audio from HP1. The porn CGs themselves are still good, but not nearly as good as before. Why? Because there are no individual pictures, whatsoever. Every CG is threesome oriented and you have no say in the matter even if you don't like the pairing or the character in particular. So while the quality of the art itself is pretty, there is hardly any intimacy left in it. The relationship between the MC and the girls have also been reduced to nothing more than one-night stands rather than the actual feeling of 'Dating' someone that the first game did so splendidly.


Tldr; HP2 is a shadow of HP1. The creators completely misunderstood what made HP1 so good and decided to improve all the wrong aspects, and removed everything that gave the game soul. Not a terrible game by any means, it's just a bitter disappointment for the people who waited for 5 years for this to be released. If Huniepot ever decided to make a 3rd installment, I hope they wake up and smell the damned flowers before it wilts to shit.

This is not a bad game, but compared to the first Huniepop it is very disappointing. Especially after the long development time and many delays I had hoped the end result would be better.

All the positive things I can say about Huniepop 2 were already there in the first game:

• Nice artwork and hot girls
• Fun puzzle games
• Voiced

All the newly introduced stuff is annoying or unnecessary, and a lot of the nice aspects from the first game were removed:

• Especially the introduction of 'Stamina' killed a lot of the fun for me. Every freakin' thing you do costs stamina. It is strongly discouraged to talk to girls, since that will cost you stamina you later need during the date. And you are no longer rewarded for making 4 or 5-piece matches, but instead you are punished by losing extra stamina.
• The girls are stripped of any kind of personality. Most of them are pornstars or semi-pornstars, and they all just fuck you and each other after two dates.
• There is no more build-up or teasing. The whole feature where you received naughty pictures from the girls is removed, and instead you just go straight to the fucking (which is all lesbian now).
• The mechanisms involving gifts, date gifts and stats is extremely vague and overcomplicated in Huniepop 2.

So long story short: Huniepop 2 is decent, but it can't hold a candle to the first game. Everything that made the first Huniepop an exceptional dating puzzle game is now reduced to a generic Hentai soup.

What a letdown, cant even compare to the first game, the characters are fucking retarded (even more than 1), the gameplay just got worse, not worth even playing. If you came here for a good game with porn aspects then do yourself a favour and play the first game

Just download the cgs if you want to see this game, the girls are all entirely vapid sluts and there's no point to talking them. Game ditched the pseudo dating sim vibe, so now it's just bejewled with some nicely enough drawn scenes. Too bad the content of the scenes sucks since it's basically just 2 girls while you're an invisible voyeur looking in

**some initial thoughts, might update this when I’ve had more time with the game**

It's been over five godforsaken years since Huniepop was originally released and you could be forgiven for thinking a match-3 puzzle game would take less time to develop. Nontheless, the blue balls is over, and now we have new CGs, new girls and new mechanics. Huniepop 2 still thrives on the Bejewled style gameplay that made the first one addictive, but now the art is cleaner (but obviously filthier) and we have double dates to contend with. Whilst I can admire how balancing two girls adds some depth to the puzzles, I do have some reservations about the way this is handled. The voice acting, sadly, also seems to have taken a hit.

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The Good

- The game is graphically much prettier than it's predecessor, the UI makes things relatively clear despite the changes and additions from the first game.

- The porn is much prettier; gone is the amateur artist vibe we had in the first game that caused it to lag behind other titles at the time. I found a lot of the posing and jizz effects to be more pleasing to look at, so it's not just an upgrade in artist skills and fidelity but also an understanding of what makes a pick-up-and-fuck puzzle game sexy.

- The soundtrack is uniquely tropical and fairly pleasant. Someone went to some trouble to give this game a new identity, and it seems to have paid off.

- The puzzle gameplay relies highly on forward thinking but can be enjoyed with intuition alone. It's satisfying to complete a difficult date with judicious use of gifts whilst taking account of the girls preferences and stamina.

- The banter and talking sections are amusing and reward players who are paying attention to the women and previous events. Saying something that would otherwise be awkward or inappropriate is rightly humorous to the women of the game given the right context. This makes it fun and believable to act like a bumbling but highly successful playboy.

- I like that broken hearts now take girls out of action and puts them in a "mood". Mechanics like this mean you can be punished for building passion with one girl and totally ignoring the other, meaning you must carefully balance your approach or take a risk.

- Some of the girls sound great, such as Jessie, Kyuu and Abia.

- Mommy milkers.

The Bad (kinda)

- This might just be me, but I find Polly and Nora's voice acting highly unpleasant to listen to. I wasn't really interested in Polly but wanted to like Nora as Kyanna was one of my favourite girls from the first game. Unfortunately, listening to either of them makes my dick shrivel until it looks like a grilled raisin retreating back into my body like it's fucking Dunkirk. I don't know why Polly sounds like a Sopranos reject and I don't know why Nora sounds less like a tough girl and more like some girl impersonating a cartel underling. But that's not the worse part because Brooke has the most god-awful dried dogshit voice acting under the sun. I hope somebody got actually got laid that they let this be in the game, because even HP1 didn't have anything this bad. Where do they find these girls? Leave them there.

- Double dates remove some of the intimacy that made the first game charming. You ARE playing a guy who is fucking around with tons of women and has no attachments but the one-on-one aspect that made you feel like you were winning them over is lost. I guess what I'm trying to say it that there can be no romantic or sexual tension in a game like this so it simply can't be top tier spank material, but whether you feel the first game was any better is another question. Sometimes, the MC is treated more like a third wheel or a convenient flesh dildo, which might not be the fantasy some people are looking for.

- I don't really like the double date system. It's mechanically one of the biggest draws to play the game because I will admit that it makes the puzzles better. Switching perspectives means players must consider the passion, stamina, sentiment and token preferences of each girl, with the ability to combo gifts and exploit these attributes to make big gains on dates. However, one huge problem is that you are sometimes left dating a girl you don't want to get a girl that you do want. This can ruin CGs for some people. It's a situation where game mechanics and thematic qualities don't necesarily mix, especially if you don't really care for MFF threesomes (MFM for Polly, I guess).

- Levelling stats isn't explained, you have to buy smoothies when they appear and give them to the right girls for optimum stat increases. Don't know why they went with this idea, probably just because it ties seed acquisition and stats together.

- Sex is still match as fast as you can, kind of lame.

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I'm not in any way going to accuse the game of being bad because it's still really good, I just question one or two of the decisions made. After the success of HP1, I would have expected the sexy elements of the game to be expanded instead of the same thing in higher quality, but I don't know if the milder reception for Huniecam Studio has anything to do with that.

I would still recommend virtually everyone to play it, if only for their favorite characters.