The Original Inspiration
This is the game that directly inspired multiple other games. One of them directly brought me to it, after all;-) I might have mentioned that it reminded me of first watching a hollywood blockbuster, which was a remake of an asian movie. And then deciding to watch that few years older, original movie with subtitles... Which were missing. The peculiar looking art. The elusive narrative. The cryptic "walkthrough". The need to permorm the same action 80+ times, to finally get a different result. The dubious "open world", where your preferences don't matter, because without eating 10 pussies first, you won't get to fuck any dick. The quite unfortunate system of completely unrelated events being linked one to another to trigger at all. The early stage of the game, where you don't have access to things that make playing EASIER (ability to drink, ability to masturbate, ability to drink health bottle, ability to eat chocholate, ability to train in a gym...) at first, so you actually play harder level game earlier than you play later. Then the later stage of the game, where players would expect some relationships to develop a little, but only get some more dream sequences, trippy drug sequences, or "meditation" scenes instead. So, they simply move on to other games. Yet the other games sadly copy all these mechanics, which are only confusing, stupid and useless for the gameplay.
User UNfriendly
I played the Completed, most superior, version 1.08 Maxi. Still, the basics like the controls, have not been developed to players basic need: either to control this simple game with the mouse, OR with keyboard. Sadly both hands are needed for this fap game, ha ha. You can't make manual save where you would like. You can save at the end of each game day ONLY. You have 3 slots. If you want to make use of an additional slot, you have to do the WHOLE GAME AGAIN. The save files are not save files. They are somehow incorporated into the windows REGISTRY. Ouch. You need to first walk through each location inch by inch, to see what action is there, what things are actually clickable. It's like added mini-game. It really makes you work it. No conveniences were made for you. You can't look into your Inventory during dialogue. You can look into the hints of what steps you should take, but you are not sure about their "rewards". Might not be something that actually pleases you. The game does not follow your footsteps to open your prefered fetishes for you. Nope. If something is located right in the centre, with multiple roads leading to it, the game would limit which road you have to take first, to get to it. Thus limit the play variability and re-playbility. You are not allowed to simply order a tea in the cafe, BEFORE you go there on a date with a specific person, first. You are not allowed to know who your next door neighbour actually is, untill you perform some completely unrelated action with somebody else. The first game 7 days, when you are learning about everything, the game confuses you into believing that certain actions are not possible, while they actually are, just not the first 7 days. Or the first X days.
The Hentai
The sex scenes are difficult to rate. On one hand, they are horrible. Their animation is primitive. On the other hand, they are really exciting. Sometimes really mean and violent. The male NPCs faces never change, no matter what they are doing. They are just plastered like unchanged stickers on their bodies. But, then the climax would come, I appreciate male moan more than female one, and I appreciate that they would show the dick with a cumshot splashing onto MC's ass, not just side angle with nothing visible, not just black screen... Like the later developed, supposedly "superior" games.
The Music
Seems original. And seems good. If it does NOT annoy me after hundred hours of playing, then it's good.
The Content
The content is what draws you in, if this is what you want. Female protagonist. Reversed-harem setting. Large number of aggressive male NPCs who would take action, the female does not need to initiate everything, like most of the RPG. And the female does not need to only read about everything with occasional decision, which changes either too little or too much, like most of the VN. A lot of forward male characters, sex scenes ranging from taking advantage, molest, push, "dubious consent" to straight non-con. Which is the game's biggest turn-on. But, there also is lot of unexplainable content with no purpose than being "eccentric", unavoidable lesbian content, stupid combat scenes (if this was a fantasy world filled with monsters and pirates, then it could fit, but in insexsity, it's ridiculous), and weird story progress into something which is more laughable than exciting. Which is the game's biggest turn-off. Having our MC solving cases for the police, because police desperately needs masseuse to help them, is like UNintended parody and looks way worse, than if the game would stick with more "modest" goal, like to make multiple options for Kate to end up in relationship with one of the NPCs (all those with a name). Those various kind of NPCs would make quite various kind of relationships. Could be more exciting than Kate uncovering some crime secret. Is this a crime game? If yes, it's silly.
This is the game that directly inspired multiple other games. One of them directly brought me to it, after all;-) I might have mentioned that it reminded me of first watching a hollywood blockbuster, which was a remake of an asian movie. And then deciding to watch that few years older, original movie with subtitles... Which were missing. The peculiar looking art. The elusive narrative. The cryptic "walkthrough". The need to permorm the same action 80+ times, to finally get a different result. The dubious "open world", where your preferences don't matter, because without eating 10 pussies first, you won't get to fuck any dick. The quite unfortunate system of completely unrelated events being linked one to another to trigger at all. The early stage of the game, where you don't have access to things that make playing EASIER (ability to drink, ability to masturbate, ability to drink health bottle, ability to eat chocholate, ability to train in a gym...) at first, so you actually play harder level game earlier than you play later. Then the later stage of the game, where players would expect some relationships to develop a little, but only get some more dream sequences, trippy drug sequences, or "meditation" scenes instead. So, they simply move on to other games. Yet the other games sadly copy all these mechanics, which are only confusing, stupid and useless for the gameplay.
User UNfriendly
I played the Completed, most superior, version 1.08 Maxi. Still, the basics like the controls, have not been developed to players basic need: either to control this simple game with the mouse, OR with keyboard. Sadly both hands are needed for this fap game, ha ha. You can't make manual save where you would like. You can save at the end of each game day ONLY. You have 3 slots. If you want to make use of an additional slot, you have to do the WHOLE GAME AGAIN. The save files are not save files. They are somehow incorporated into the windows REGISTRY. Ouch. You need to first walk through each location inch by inch, to see what action is there, what things are actually clickable. It's like added mini-game. It really makes you work it. No conveniences were made for you. You can't look into your Inventory during dialogue. You can look into the hints of what steps you should take, but you are not sure about their "rewards". Might not be something that actually pleases you. The game does not follow your footsteps to open your prefered fetishes for you. Nope. If something is located right in the centre, with multiple roads leading to it, the game would limit which road you have to take first, to get to it. Thus limit the play variability and re-playbility. You are not allowed to simply order a tea in the cafe, BEFORE you go there on a date with a specific person, first. You are not allowed to know who your next door neighbour actually is, untill you perform some completely unrelated action with somebody else. The first game 7 days, when you are learning about everything, the game confuses you into believing that certain actions are not possible, while they actually are, just not the first 7 days. Or the first X days.
The Hentai
The sex scenes are difficult to rate. On one hand, they are horrible. Their animation is primitive. On the other hand, they are really exciting. Sometimes really mean and violent. The male NPCs faces never change, no matter what they are doing. They are just plastered like unchanged stickers on their bodies. But, then the climax would come, I appreciate male moan more than female one, and I appreciate that they would show the dick with a cumshot splashing onto MC's ass, not just side angle with nothing visible, not just black screen... Like the later developed, supposedly "superior" games.
The Music
Seems original. And seems good. If it does NOT annoy me after hundred hours of playing, then it's good.
The Content
The content is what draws you in, if this is what you want. Female protagonist. Reversed-harem setting. Large number of aggressive male NPCs who would take action, the female does not need to initiate everything, like most of the RPG. And the female does not need to only read about everything with occasional decision, which changes either too little or too much, like most of the VN. A lot of forward male characters, sex scenes ranging from taking advantage, molest, push, "dubious consent" to straight non-con. Which is the game's biggest turn-on. But, there also is lot of unexplainable content with no purpose than being "eccentric", unavoidable lesbian content, stupid combat scenes (if this was a fantasy world filled with monsters and pirates, then it could fit, but in insexsity, it's ridiculous), and weird story progress into something which is more laughable than exciting. Which is the game's biggest turn-off. Having our MC solving cases for the police, because police desperately needs masseuse to help them, is like UNintended parody and looks way worse, than if the game would stick with more "modest" goal, like to make multiple options for Kate to end up in relationship with one of the NPCs (all those with a name). Those various kind of NPCs would make quite various kind of relationships. Could be more exciting than Kate uncovering some crime secret. Is this a crime game? If yes, it's silly.