TLDR: This game is a hot mess of good and bad, often "intertwined" (pun intended! 
), meaning that the good has a bad counterpart. Had it been possible I would have given it a score of 3.5, but since that isn't possible, it get's a 3 to even out all the over the top favourable reviews.
Pros
), meaning that the good has a bad counterpart. Had it been possible I would have given it a score of 3.5, but since that isn't possible, it get's a 3 to even out all the over the top favourable reviews.Pros
- Choices really do matter. Both in terms of collecting romance points and branching the story.
- MC is physically attractive. Muscled and built and has kind of a handsome face from the front.
- MC is intelligent, confident and decently charming and assertive. Together with his looks makes it more believable that all those beautiful women lust after him. And of course a pro for any straight woman playing the game...
- Good looking female models.
- Jealousy. The women don't like the idea of the MC fucking other women. That's realistic and gives the game some nerve.
- Nice looking sex-animations towards the end.
- Many women to seduce. Though most won't lead to anything as of version 0.7.
- Sex early on in the game. You don't have to play for hours before you get your first sex scene.
- Slow burn incest romance. Or at least that's if there is to be an incest angle, but there is a good looking mom who you get romance points for being nice to, so everything points in that direction.
- No grind.
- Proper English. No engrish.
- Opaque consequences. In some cases it's difficult to discern what consequence a choice will have. Sometimes you even decide branching paths by complete random things. Without a walkthrough, this game is very difficult to predict and thereby play.
- All men are midgets. Including the MC. The fact that all characters, men and women, with or without stiletto heels, are equally tall makes it a little less egregious, as it's obvious that it's due to the dev being to lazy to do height differentiation, but it's still a bad look and fucks with the sex scenes, as it makes the male MC sometimes look smaller than the women he's fucking (also fucks with things like cock size, because what looks big on him won't look as big next to a woman who is as large as he is).
- MC look like shit in profile, as he has no chin whatsoever. It also makes him look very boyish. Screws with his supposed good looks. A look he by the way share with almost all men in the game, se below.
- Characters look alike. Especially the men. Many of them look like the exact same person with different hairdoes. But also some of the women look very much alike.
- Family members do not resemble each other. Extra annoying considering the above.
- Player/MC forced to choose between women. Happens all the time and the women not choosen becomes unavailable or at the very least severely bumped back in line. That means a hefty portion of sexscenes are unavailable regardless of how well the game is played. This is bad because
a) most players are not likely to replay the game, meaning a lot of romantic encounters and sex scenes (=effort) is lost
and
b) in these kind of games, the sexual conquests are part of what's arousing and exciting, and limiting the number of love interests even though the sex animations and everything are ready to go, kind of defeats the purpose of the game. The player will just be teased with all the attractive women the MC won't be able to get with.
- As if this was not bad enough on it's own, many times the forced choice is in itself forced and stilted and sometimes it's not even conscious. Example: if the MC is nice to the woman sitting next to him on the plane, he'll have a sexual relationship with her, if he's not, he'll have a sexual relationship with a stewardess instead. That being nice or
not being nicebeing an autistic dick will have such far reaching implications is impossible for the player to figure out beforehand.
- Player penalized for having multiple relationships. If the above (X2) isn't bad enough, when the MC chooses to engage in non romantic sex with side characters, he will always be punished for it sooner or later. Just as above, the way he gets punished is often forced, stilted and ridiculous (what are the odds that the MC and his love interest would stumble upon his teenage one night stand the one day he's back visiting his old home town and that the one night stand would think it a good idea to randomly spill to the love interest that she and the MC had sex once?). I don't mind that there might be consequences to risk taking in a game, but this is just ridiculous.
- Women fly to the MC:s cock. Yes, it's good that he's portrayed as someone who's very attractive on multiple fronts. But virtually no gorgeous woman would have sex with a total stranger on an airplane lavatory, just because the stranger is handsome. And especially not a stewardess working on said airplane. The women fall head over heels in love with the MC way too quickly and way too many are willing to have sex with him without knowing him at all.
- Still, slow burn. Despite what's said above, it takes a lot of time for the MC to bed some of the female characters who are more or less in love with him from day one. A more assertive MC should have the option to move quicker (possibly at the price of having his chances of a long time relationship diminish).
- Constant mind reading. Shatters first person immersion, as the MC isn't a mind reader. Many times the thoughts are redundant, as it's quite clear what the female character is thinking from her action anyways. If the dev doesn't trust his/her player base to figure things out for themselves, then he/she can let the MC muse/speculate on what he thinks the women are thinking, thereby giving the neccessary clues to what's going on in the head of the women, without breaking first person immersion.
- MC charm not allways so charming in reality. Sometime the dev nails the charm, but other times the dialoge is flat and boring. It's heavily implied that all women find the MC very charming and endearing, but when the dialogue feels anything but, it kind of ruins the illusion. No biggie though, it's not *that* bad.
- Childish and immature at times. For instance, almost all men apart from the MC are portrayed as assholes or idiots or both, maybe that's so that the MC will seem even more fantastic in comparison? A lot of fistfighting that wouldn't take place in the real world. I don't mind the fighting, but if you're going to have those kind of conflicts, why not have the men fight openly about the women and have the winner fuck the woman as the spoils of war/victory? I mean, if you wanna go down that road anyway, do it properly and have some real alpha male dominance (it would still be unrealistic, but at least it would serve a purpose as a sexual fantasy).
- To much talking to bros and too many banal and pointless conversations. Not a huge gripe though, most conversations are on point, if a bit long winded (like this review... ).
- MC morality conflicting. The MC doesn't seem to know what kind of dude he is. On the one hand, it's very much implied he's a good guy who acts decent, caring and altruistic in general. On the other hand, he has multiply love interest that he strings along by telling them that he loves them and that he will break up with the other women he's seeing (while doing no such thing). Despite that, he doesn't seem to have that many thoughts about what he's doing or why. As if earnestly telling multiple women that you love them and only them, while at the same time holding a raging hate boner for unfaithfullness is something normal. He also gets into one fight after another, favouring violence as a problem solving method. Don't get me wrong, I prefer playing a bad guy rather than a good guy when I play erotic games, because that opens up both fetishes/fantasies and opportunities. But I get a little annoyed when neither the MC, nor the dev (especially the dev) seem to realise that the MC actions kind of preclude him from being a hero. If you're going to let your MC do douchy and assholy things, then accept and embrace that he's kind of a bad guy. Doesn't mean he has to be a freaking psycho or anything, but you know, let the MC be aware of what he's doing and give us some more bad guy options, like putting pressure on love interest to get to the sexy parts.
