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

Alright, alright alright. It's finally here. I bought it, played it, and now I'mma tell y'all about it.

Can't say I didn't expect to be disappointed, so I got what I expected. Plenty of charm from the first game is still here, but I think overall there are more fuck-ups than improvements. Here's what I've noticed so far:

First off, the main 'double date' puzzle gimmick

It adds a surprising amount of depth and complexity to the puzzles. I was hoping for a more difficult game, and in that regard it delivers. However, it also adds tedium & frustration.

The most disappointing new aspect of the puzzles is that you're punished for matching 4+ tokens, which costs more energy. This was the only outright terrible decision I've noticed about the new puzzles, but it is a serious fuck-up. Ignoring the difficulty it adds, it is completely anti-fun--and I love challenges. I often find myself having to go for 3 token matches because RNG hasn't blessed me with enough energy tokens to afford better matches. 'Losing' a date because of something like this really sucks. There are still some gifts which benefit you from getting 4+ matches, but you risk running out of Energy and therefore instantly losing the date if you go for them.

On top of managing Energy, you can also randomly activate a girl's 'Baggage' through conversation. It's difficult enough talking to girls given how conversation, puzzles, and gifting all share the same pool of Energy. But Baggage adds to the difficulty of the puzzles as a contextual gimmick, like giving Jessie Emphysema so she doesn't recover energy 20% of the time. By itself I kinda like the idea, but this is just one of several new challenges in the game and I worry how difficult it will become later. Puzzles still scale over time, requiring more points, but playing on Normal with about a dozen dates I'm already having some trouble.

Lastly, date gifts were given a significant nerf. I haven't found them all, but nothing seems as broken or exploitable as in HP1. Again, I like this change by itself, but it's yet another challenge on the pile. Each girl starts with only 1 Gift slot. You have to 'equip' the gift to her and only she can use it until you remove it. The way you gain Sentiment to use gifts works the same, except on top of costing you a turn it'll cost you energy as well, like every other match. This leaves me with a constant feeling that I'm wasting precious Energy going for Passion or Sentiment tokens over points.

All that said, I like the new puzzle mechanics overall. They take some getting used to, but there's a lot more puzzling to these puzzles and I'm fine with that. I'm not so confident others will be as charitable as I am, however. And if the game doesn't give me better tools later, I can see myself becoming a lot more frustrated by the increased reliance on RNG, specifically for Energy tokens.

The other aspect of the double date gimmick is the threesomes, seemingly the only way to get laid in this game. I wasn't sure if this was just me, but I have zero interest in threesomes. Maybe in the right time and place they can be cool, but they're generally just not sexy to me.

Then I read the other reviews on here and it seems like most everyone agrees. I much prefer the intimacy of 1-on-1 dating & sex, and that's totally missing from this game. It also stretches my suspension of disbelief that every single girl you run into is totally open to threesomes almost immediately. There were some sluts in HP1, but the girls mostly felt down-to-earth, even the alien from another planet.

In HP2, every girl is a slut without exception. Some people might be into that, but I imagine most people who liked HP1 appreciated the flirting and several dates they needed to earn the big pay-off. It was more realistic and rewarding. It actually gave you time to get to know the girls. In HP2, I haven't learned more than one detail about any girl before we were fucking. It's prohibitively difficult to get the Energy to talk to them (I'll get to that), and it feels like half the time I only trigger their Baggage anyway. So most of my interactions with the girls has been their scripted dialogue, which only leads me to the conclusion that they're all(?) lesbians because the first interaction is generally along the lines of 'I like sex' and 'I want to have sex with this other girl.' Supposedly some of the girls aren't compatible but I haven't found them yet.

As others have mentioned, the sex itself feels like you're only a 3rd wheel or voyeur, who I suppose just masturbated onto the girls while they were getting busy. That feeling is mostly due to the girls spending more time flirting with each other than with you. Maybe a girl playing this game would be into that, or it'd make some sense playing as a female MC, but undoubtedly most players will be guys playing with male MCs and it just doesn't fit with the situations.

I only liked a couple of girls from HP1, but I could talk to them, 'date' them and have a good time. I didn't care much for the erotic content anyway, but it was nice. Sadly, even if I was into the sluts from HP2, I would never get the same feeling of simulated intimacy, one of the few reasons to play a dating sim, right?

Lastly, I wanna complain about the conversation phases. As far as I can tell, these are the only chance to have 'one-on-one' time with the girls, though it's technically not 1-on-1 and the other girl will sometimes chime in with some mundane comment.

In HP1, you would always have enough energy to talk to your favorite girl Audrey a few times before your date. On top of that you'd almost always have food you could buy to talk with her more. It's technically optional, but there was no downside to doing so and you could potentially earn points for it.

In HP2, you can talk to either girl twice at most before dating. Each time you talk to them increases the difficulty of the date by reducing their pool of Energy and potentially triggering Baggage. Giving them gifts costs Energy from the same pool. You can buy food, but it seems like on average you get about 4-5 food items total each day to split between all the girls. That's 4-5 food items for 8 girls, and there are 4 different currencies to buy them with which you may or may not have when you need it. Food also perishes in about 1 day, for whatever reason.
In HP1, all food was bought with the same Munie and had a 1:100 ratio of Energy to Munie cost and never perished.

I thought the system in HP1 was a bit too simple and straightforward, but HP2 goes in a totally weird and wrong direction with it. Conversations shouldn't be a micromanagement game that makes dating more difficult. It should be a way to get to know the girl, build some mutual interest and relax before the 'date', i.e. the puzzle. HP2 just makes conversations part of the puzzle.

I haven't actually finished the game but I doubt any of these things will change unless the game gets updated. I will say my opinion is much higher than it would otherwise be because I always treated HuniePop as a ridiculous game with fun puzzles, and I don't totally dislike the new puzzles.

Last few notes about the game:

-music is about on par with HP1, average--some reused tracks were a bit disappointing though
-I haven't listened to much of the voice acting, but enough to know it's worse. That said, I think the VAs did a great job in HP1 so it set a high bar
-if you have to put an option at the start of the game to give a girl a penis or not, maybe just don't have it, or do have it but put the option elsewhere
-I like the outfit design more in HP2, though it's annoying that they are seemingly ALL absurdly slutty/revealing, at least that I've seen. A few tasteful casual outfits would be welcome
-art is slightly better I'd say, though I like the girls less personality-wise. Tits definitely look better, but it's a bit weird that there's only one girl who could be called "petite." Love big breasts but c'mon...
-also Kyu's tits are clearly bigger. Immersion destroyed
-I miss the pic texting from HP1, along with the girls who weren't dumb as fuck

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.