The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is v0.050...
I spent about 6 or so hours playing this visual novel/game and I'm a bit confused by it honestly...
Visuals for the characters are sort of hentai inspired, and they don't appear all that often... The backdrops look like either real photo's and/or 3D backdrops that were put through a filter to make them appear more like paintings... And you get to see these still backdrops more than anything else... I'm unsure if they are placeholders or the actual intended backdrops... Not much creativity in using these types of backdrops... The user interface is creative and unique with all the script and text choices appearing on the left 1/3rd of the screen... I really wish the character models appeared more often, especially when the male protagonist is talking to characters, or interacting with characters... If I had to guestimate how often you see actual character models during story moments when you actually interacted or spoke with characters, i'ld say it was half the time... You don't even see any character models until the protagonist reaches the island...
The script is pretty well done, with only a few spelling/grammar errors that I saw... The script is also very long, and that is a lot of story content for being such a low version number... The main plot is a bit tough to really nail down, as it starts with the male protagonist applying for an internship to work on a secluded resort island, and shortly after arriving he mysteriously begins to sex change into a beautiful woman... The story then pretty much progresses with the now female protagonist doing her internship, meeting some new characters now and then, going through about 3 game weeks with tons of miscellaneous things occurring, nothing too outrageous, before the game ends when a VIP arrives at the resort...
The reason I say it's tough to nail down, is because you get to select some things to do when your work day is done, and in my play through I ran into what appears to be a bunch of mysterious things... Like when the character got stuck in the shower, where the door will not open until the water is turned off (this happened once and seemed rather bizarre)... Or when other interns talked about odd happenings with paintings and so on... Or when the protagonist hears some odd discussions a few times between employees... It was so darn difficult to nail down if they were sub-plots, main plot teasing, or just miscellaneous ramblings that had no real meaning at all... Another example is the dream sequences, which at first seemed to be maybe story linked, but then they became just as random and meaningless as normal dreams... I really think the author's were trying to portray some tiny hints at actual plot movement, mixed with the protagonist just having to come to terms with her new identity, mixed with just random events that may someday mean something or maybe nothing at all, mixed with just day to day existence and normal work activity, and so on... With all the story text content this VN/game has, I just expected more meaningful content... It just started to become a bit tedious and boring not knowing if any choices you made, really mattered all that much... I tried all types of combos, and sometimes I'ld see something new but short lived that didn't really seem to go anywhere meaningful, or I saw the same mundane and repeating thing as before, or something slightly new would occur but didn't seem to really matter much beyond just being somewhat different... At one point I began to wonder if maybe the place was haunted, or maybe the game would end with it all being a dream, but it was so hard to nail down a plot once the sex change occurred...
I loved the fact that this seems to be a very story driven VN/Game with lots of text to read... But once you get past a certain point, not much you experience seems to matter much or isn't around long enough to push the protagonists experience along very far... Here I played this VN/game for hours, reading and hoping to see more, and read more story that meant something to either the main plot or even a possible lasting sub-plot... And you do get events now and then, but they are spread out and don't seem to really lead anywhere before they're gone... With you going through the motions waiting for something else new to come along...
With all that said, in the very beginning, when you first load the game up, it sais very clearly: "This game is an artistic creation made for no other purpose than the entertainment of it's creator"... Which for me means this game was not created to entertain anyone else other then the person/s who created it... It is not intended to entertain others... Is this just the author/s being sarcastic? I don't know...
Overall, for the first half of this content I felt like this VN/Game showed a lot of promise, even though it seemed to be lacking in the visual department... But then I started to wonder what was going on? Do any of these short events have any real meaning for the story, or are they just thrown in as random events just to have random events? Will any relationships with other characters actually form, or is it just nothing but meet and greets every time? I can't tell if this is a relationship based game, a work simulator with a twist, a mystery with no answers, or what? The whole experience left me slightly confused as to what direction this game actually intends for it's readers/players...
There is a heck of a lot of script text for such little plot movement... And for erotic/adult stuff, you get to see your character nude sometimes, a few choices or job encounters showed some forms of nudity now and then, but not much really exists that I saw in my play through... I tried to form some relationships through some of my choices, but they didn't really playout much or get anywhere... If I had to sum up what I experienced, plus what the creator/s said on the load up screen, I'ld say this is more like a piece of artistic expression that probably means more to it's creator then anyone else who plays it... I may check back on this one when it is far closer to being done, but with as much time as I've already devoted to it, I'm wary if it will improve... Only time will tell...