Reviewed version R8.
An interesting take on the time-loop genre that falls down in its execution.
The game opens mid-story, which is fine. We've seen enough time-loops that we know how they work. You are a single parent of a teenage daughter living the same day over and over, but you have discovered that how you behave one day through the loop influences how she behaves in future loops. So you can either influence her to be your lover, or your slut.
Mechanically, you progress through the same core set of scenes each day, with a couple of straightforward branches. Each day, depending on your choices in previous days, new options unlock that progress the relationship and open up new scenes. On the surface this seems like a good setup for a story, the problem is that it doesn't quite translate to a good premise for a game.
Firstly, the repetition is just, well, repetitive. Expect to spend a lot of time leaning on the skip dialog, watching scenes you have seen a dozen times fly by, waiting to discover a new scene or choice. Spending more and more of theh game in fast-forward mode as you progress isn't that fun.
Secondly, decision-making is so binary you may as well have no decisions at all. You either pick all the obvious lust choices, and get increasing access to lust rewards, or all the obvious love choices and get increasing access to love rewards. Picking anything that isn't all one or all the other just means more loops through the day before your next reward.
Thirdly, the haphazard way that scenes unlock destroys any continuity. Because the story doesn't know in which order you will do the scenes you unlock, or whether they will occur in one day or spread across several, both MC's and the daughter's reaction to them happens in am awkward, context-free vacuum.
Fourthly, there's literally nobody in the world but the MC and his daughter, which further limits the variety available to you.
Finally, the game cheats its own premise. You are in a time-loop but somehow you keep the money you make, and items you buy, each day. And it's very hard to believe from the daughter's behaviour that she doesn't remember what has happened at least in some previous loops. By the end of my play-through, my sincere head-canon was that the MC is insane and imagining himself in a time loop, and the daughter is humouring him to stop him entirely falling apart.
The game has its good points. The daughter's model is fine, poses and facial expressions aren't weird or creepy, the sex scenes are well put together and well narrated, if a little repetitive and poorly animated. If you take the time to lean on that skip button you'll find some enjoyable content, if you've got nothing better to do in an evening.
