Building and forming all the relationships is brilliant. Really capturing your imagination and desires for certain women. Following MCs various paths is some of the best in any VN ever made. Having to make decisions that will affect your current relationship, by flirting or having sex with others can have huge consequences. Very well thought out, with so many branching options depending on who you want to be with and how they will react to your decisions.
You're spoilt for choice with all the available women in the game. I think there's too many to choose from. Could easily get away with only having half or even two thirds instead. The more women means the longer the updates take with making sure each character has enough screen time, especially with so many branching options on top of that.
The scenes and situations just didn't feel sexy. Everything was romantic (not a bad thing but not great for fapping). Even cheating on a girlfriend with other women felt more romantic, no lust or heavy passion. So its very immersive and emotional but again not very sexy. Really feels like a woman is writing this, as they tend to sway to the more emotional moments and romantic words, where men write with more passion and have sexier moments.
I expected to have quite a few sneaky encounters with some women knowing that your girlfriend is around or going on group dates, etc. Sadly there's hardly anything like that. Almost always done in one on one situations. So that riskiness and fear of being caught is never really explored. Would have added a taboo aspect to the story with so many women all knowing each other but still wanting MC and risking getting caught. Missed some great opportunities for sexy encounters.
Fapability is actually quite poor for me. Sex scenes are very short and no hot teasing.
Valerias flirting scenes were very good though but still quite mild and Erryns jealousy if you are with Alexis is fun.
Some scenes go against the fabric of science and common sense - like locking Erryn and Lexi in her room so they have to make up. Bedroom doors don't lock from the outside lol. A couple other things like that, which made me bang my head and laugh at how stupid it was.
There's a lot of so called humour in the game. To me it was very hit and miss. Although it only comes across as cringe very rarely, most of the jokes didn't hit with me. Sometimes it was cute and clever.
Environments and backgrounds are quite good for the most part. Although props and extras (like extra people, cars, plants in background, etc) are missing quite a lot. Sometimes it does look full of life, other times scenes look empty with not enough detail.
Some things which were quite poorly implemeted:
-Constant flashbacks which were unnecessary. Could have just been told not shown, breaks the momentum of the game moving forward and shows Dev didn't have many paths written out originally.
-You can easily pick the plot twists of how characters are connected. Even for upcoming twists it's obvious. Yet MC and us are supposed to be shocked at these revelations.
-Playing this game without a walkthrough can be a nightmare. You can unknowingly end your main relationship and others with one tiny decision and not know you did it until afterwards.
-MC getting angry saying his father is not his real Dad after he finds out his Mom had a previous lover. The man raised and loved you, your entire life. He is your Dad, blood has nothing to do with it. Strangely it doesn't actually make a difference in the plot why MC feels this anyway.
The women have a very diverse range of looks. Most are stunning, although their bodies look extremely similar. D cups breasts, perfectly toned stomachs and bodies (even the Moms). Faces lack that skin texture detail although thats ok as they are perfectly fine and do a good job of relaying emotion and personality through the expressions and poses.
This probably doesn't sound like a 4 star review, more like a 1 or 2 but its one of the most immersive VN games ever created.
If you like to get involved into the world of a game and have meaningful relationships that have consequences and many options. This is up there with the best. Dialogue is near top notch most of the time. Yes there are small sections which are either unnecessary or don't fit that well. Overall its very well written. Story is engaging although not much of a plot. This is relationship building and the drama that comes with it. Its like a guilty addiction and pleasure. You originally play it to see the hot teasing and lewd scenes, find out they're poor. Then stay for the engaging story and drama.
You're spoilt for choice with all the available women in the game. I think there's too many to choose from. Could easily get away with only having half or even two thirds instead. The more women means the longer the updates take with making sure each character has enough screen time, especially with so many branching options on top of that.
The scenes and situations just didn't feel sexy. Everything was romantic (not a bad thing but not great for fapping). Even cheating on a girlfriend with other women felt more romantic, no lust or heavy passion. So its very immersive and emotional but again not very sexy. Really feels like a woman is writing this, as they tend to sway to the more emotional moments and romantic words, where men write with more passion and have sexier moments.
I expected to have quite a few sneaky encounters with some women knowing that your girlfriend is around or going on group dates, etc. Sadly there's hardly anything like that. Almost always done in one on one situations. So that riskiness and fear of being caught is never really explored. Would have added a taboo aspect to the story with so many women all knowing each other but still wanting MC and risking getting caught. Missed some great opportunities for sexy encounters.
Fapability is actually quite poor for me. Sex scenes are very short and no hot teasing.
Valerias flirting scenes were very good though but still quite mild and Erryns jealousy if you are with Alexis is fun.
Some scenes go against the fabric of science and common sense - like locking Erryn and Lexi in her room so they have to make up. Bedroom doors don't lock from the outside lol. A couple other things like that, which made me bang my head and laugh at how stupid it was.
There's a lot of so called humour in the game. To me it was very hit and miss. Although it only comes across as cringe very rarely, most of the jokes didn't hit with me. Sometimes it was cute and clever.
Environments and backgrounds are quite good for the most part. Although props and extras (like extra people, cars, plants in background, etc) are missing quite a lot. Sometimes it does look full of life, other times scenes look empty with not enough detail.
Some things which were quite poorly implemeted:
-Constant flashbacks which were unnecessary. Could have just been told not shown, breaks the momentum of the game moving forward and shows Dev didn't have many paths written out originally.
-You can easily pick the plot twists of how characters are connected. Even for upcoming twists it's obvious. Yet MC and us are supposed to be shocked at these revelations.
-Playing this game without a walkthrough can be a nightmare. You can unknowingly end your main relationship and others with one tiny decision and not know you did it until afterwards.
-MC getting angry saying his father is not his real Dad after he finds out his Mom had a previous lover. The man raised and loved you, your entire life. He is your Dad, blood has nothing to do with it. Strangely it doesn't actually make a difference in the plot why MC feels this anyway.
The women have a very diverse range of looks. Most are stunning, although their bodies look extremely similar. D cups breasts, perfectly toned stomachs and bodies (even the Moms). Faces lack that skin texture detail although thats ok as they are perfectly fine and do a good job of relaying emotion and personality through the expressions and poses.
This probably doesn't sound like a 4 star review, more like a 1 or 2 but its one of the most immersive VN games ever created.
If you like to get involved into the world of a game and have meaningful relationships that have consequences and many options. This is up there with the best. Dialogue is near top notch most of the time. Yes there are small sections which are either unnecessary or don't fit that well. Overall its very well written. Story is engaging although not much of a plot. This is relationship building and the drama that comes with it. Its like a guilty addiction and pleasure. You originally play it to see the hot teasing and lewd scenes, find out they're poor. Then stay for the engaging story and drama.
