English:............7/10
User Interface:.....4/10
User Experience:....7/10
Art:................7/10
Dialogue:...........3/10
Story:..............2/10
Opinion:............4/10................
Avg:..............4.86/10 [2.43/5]
I haven't started this yet and I already am not a fan. The premise is "MC is a teacher (full-time job), works as a tutor (part-time job), and gets a third job at the gym because reasons." (Found out, no the teacher and tutor are the same job, but this is how the synopsis reads to first time viewers)It also advertises "HD 60fps" on the main menu. That means NOTHING. I've seen the renders, the models look like the barbies in Small Soldiers, I will die on this hill. 1080 60 video of shit, is still shit. If it's written as poorly as the other Vilkas game, I'm glad I'm getting this out of the way early. The reviews I've skimmed through don't bode well for my sanity going through this, and what little I've seen so far doesn't help. I will admit, SO FAR, the English isn't gibberish. The story and conversation flow is still completely unnatural, however, and I'm barely at the coffee shop. The camera angles make no sense, and the visuals are so heavily over-dramatized it's almost funny. This whole story kicks off of a plot convenience, admittedly, that isn't always bad but it's not executed well. Also, yes, I'm going to nit-pick. If you're going to hide under another studio name, I have no problem being overly critical in light of the last flop. The one HUGE compliment I will give this though, is the player model is delightfully atypical. He doesn't look like alpha male trash or some weird demon creature. But all the female models look weird and I can't get over it.
The story starts with MC narrating his life. He became a teacher but can only tutor? I guess? And his manager is on his back to get more students. Then he has an internal monologue about nothing until he randomly goes to a coffee shop. Suddenly, Lilie comes out of nowhere, knows all about MC, and pushes him into the job he needs because the plot needs it to happen. Meanwhile the camera man has Parkinson's and can't keep a shot at any reasonable angle while the interview montage happens with Rosa and Olivia. The cracks in the English start to show during the interview but right after, MC says "(And she has become an even more beautiful.)" Beautiful what? Creature? She-witch? Sports mascot? We're all dying to know. Here is where I will say Lilie's face is somehow too big and too small at the same time. Maybe the size of her head or what have you, but her face is odd. Immediately after you get the tried and true useless dream scene. That's honestly a little funny because he couldn't even get laid in his dreams. When he finally gets to Rosa's house they call him "Teacher" and "Teacher [MC]." Which, in English, sounds awful. He also creeps around and gets hard due to her breast feeding. Teacher material right here. He also daydreams about doing it directly. Then is accosted by two girls smoking because he looked at them. "Don't look at people directly. It's the wrong way to behave." I'm sorry? What? Okay, I'll just communicate with people's feet. I'll live with my eyes closed. People don't behave like this. MC continues to be completely passive at his job being a gym trainer as well. I'm NEVER one to complain about MCs being passive or wishy-washy, but this guy is too much. The last game MC thought he was god's gift to women, this guy would be a doormat's doormat. Both extremes of the personality spectrum are awful. Insufferable asshats annoy me to no end. But when a character is this meek and submissive I end up WANTING him to be walked on. Which sucks because I'm supposed to be controlling this loser.
Eventually you meet Kelly, a woman who looks like she glued her hair to her head. It looks so bad. She also has more cleavage than shirt with a transparent bra. Mother of the year. Next day? Olivia, instagram mom that doesn't mind MC's slack-jawed attention. After which you get to see her husband having sex? Cheating on her. The English dies here, along with their marraige. After this it becomes the routines of going Girl A to Girl B and so on. Rosa's visit is almost comical, I'll give it that. But a fire extinguisher doesn't shoot water that makes a thick red top transparent. But gotta have some form of nudity in every interaction, I guess.. Jane is an almost normal character interaction, she seems nice enough, but is probably looking to cheat on someone with MC. Because everyone is. Props where it's due, the videos don't have a lot of quality loss compared to the stills. Only a little bit of grain, which is probably just a side effect of the compression. And I want to ask which universe has co-ed showers? Cause I'm not from that universe. He's also had TWO lessons with these kids but they already think he's amazing? And he thinks the kids are progressing a lot? It's a little Gary-Stu-ey to me. And, yet again, you see someone else having sex that shouldn't be having sex. I get the title of the story is about loyalty, as apparently no one is loyal, but it still feels odd. Everyone else getting it on except MC. My only note on meeting Maeve is: Carl isn't short for Charlie. When I say literally everyone else is having sex, I mean it. The ONE time MC gets to participate, the woman looks at his penis and he cums right away. And the second time you can force MC to assert himself, the husband comes home and the game ends abruptly. Fun.
Frankly this is a minor improvement. The last game is so bad the only place to go is up, so good on you, I guess. There's not enough here, the game's anemic. 60 FPS does nothing but bloat the game and render time, especially when they're tiny loops that still look like slow motion. The English is better. It still falls apart near the end, but there's only a few lines that are completely broken as opposed to half. The UI/UX is stock minus font and main menu. The buttons aren't intuitive and the Load icon looks like a replay or gallery icon, so change that. The art is good. The lighting quality, atmosphere and all that jazz are, as always, way above average. The bad part is the women, they're either ugly as sin or have outlandish body proportions. I guess I should say "and" because they ALL have the same body type. Which is boring. Size 2 waist with a size 14 ass and tits. Yeah I guess I could get into it, but all of them are the same, you're choosing them based on their hair color at this point. The dialogue and story are NOTHING. A guy is a tutor and gym trainer. The end. What's there to keep you? MC is such a docile lamb it's practically unbelievable. This also has the same issue of characters having empty two minute conversations that somehow skip HOURS of the day and it all ends up as idle pleasantries. MC might as well walk up to them and talk about the weather. They'll all like him anyway, for no reason, why make the effort to have an empty conversation? This is an almost pretty game with vapid characters and an empty story. If you like playing as the only character not having any sort of sex, here ya go. You might also be a cuck. So please take care of yourself. You deserve sex too, friend. Sure, MC finally imitates what it might be like to have a backbone in the last 48 seconds of the game. But I feel it's too little, too late, on top of it not feeling like there's a point to this story. Will I try again in 6 months to see if things improve? Sure. Might even redo this review. And I honestly do hope things improve because I know I sound like an ass, and no one likes that. All we can hope for is for as much time spent on the renders to be spent on the writing, it's obviously not yet.