Standard lockdown/trapped in house setup with a twist.
Gameplay: I couldn't believe someone was able to make a sandbox with mini-games kinetic visual novel with unstoppable dialogue and no rollback, but here we are. By the end, the introduction of memory games, I started skipping anything I couldn't solve quicker than 10 seconds (the early mini games, lockpicking, hacking and pipes aren't as bad). The adventure point and click get a huge inventory is probably gonna be a huge pain for most modern VN gamers, luckily I collected pretty much everything early and there was little double backing. All in all, it's a 1 star as the game doesn't know what it wants to be. Should the devs words be correct and they implement the roll back and dialogue skip, it might become a 2 star but it probably won't improve the overall final rating.
Sound and Music: Very few sound effects, mostly squeaky doors (one would think a handyman MC could oil some hinges every now and then and not just play real life Mario). Music is rather generic and on repeat, there's very few variations and the main house theme keeps looking forever, but being so generic becomes quickly forgettable and doesn't take away from the experience. The minigame hyper loud music though, does (pipes). Due to lack of a real soundtrack and perhaps voice soundeffects, possibly creaking beds or thumping against the wall, I can't go above a 2 star here.
Plot: There's is a great twist with the genre. Instead of a manipulative bastard step dad or MC's real father, we have a castrating mother. That's all the praise I can give it though. Porn plot aside, the mother's multi personality disorder is weird and the fact she was literally chemically castrating her own son, not to mention husband, made it so weird that I tried skipping all the bullshit sex scenes with her and made the end game rather difficult to enjoy due to the anxiety she'd so something heinous to the other girls. The older sister also becomes a meek sheep after being a domineering asshole for not reason (why would the mom give her asshole pills). 2 stars, only due to the early on setup. The porn plots quickly take over, though, so it remains at 2. The open ended ending is also weird and keeps the downhill trend.
Scenes and enjoy-ability: There's some really enjoyable scenes, none for the mom for me, honestly (I just wanted to throw her down that roof for half of the game). Some make little sense and the fact it's so kinetically progressive from one scene to the next, it's, honestly, annoying and betrays the sandbox situation. The fact he keeps growing as the months pass is great and the extra "insurance" scenes at the end would have been even better if they showed up with consequences for those one-night stands. Now to the critique. I might have missed it, but the lack of best friend's sister but scenes with the mother was a miss for me (not gonnado all the mini games from the save to check if there's an alternative if I turn her down). There's also a lack of variety of scenes,most girls only having 2 to 4 of them, even though it's implied months go by. Having the girl, even outside the plot, have their own repeatable scenes would seriously improve this, but alas, 3 stars is the max this can go.
Overall,it averages to a 2 star out of 5, and even without the 0 stars being possible as a rating, it seriously doesn't deserve a 3. Yet, I am highly critical and did manage to finish this, which might be something ahead of some other games, which I didn't even bother to rate.
Gameplay: I couldn't believe someone was able to make a sandbox with mini-games kinetic visual novel with unstoppable dialogue and no rollback, but here we are. By the end, the introduction of memory games, I started skipping anything I couldn't solve quicker than 10 seconds (the early mini games, lockpicking, hacking and pipes aren't as bad). The adventure point and click get a huge inventory is probably gonna be a huge pain for most modern VN gamers, luckily I collected pretty much everything early and there was little double backing. All in all, it's a 1 star as the game doesn't know what it wants to be. Should the devs words be correct and they implement the roll back and dialogue skip, it might become a 2 star but it probably won't improve the overall final rating.
Sound and Music: Very few sound effects, mostly squeaky doors (one would think a handyman MC could oil some hinges every now and then and not just play real life Mario). Music is rather generic and on repeat, there's very few variations and the main house theme keeps looking forever, but being so generic becomes quickly forgettable and doesn't take away from the experience. The minigame hyper loud music though, does (pipes). Due to lack of a real soundtrack and perhaps voice soundeffects, possibly creaking beds or thumping against the wall, I can't go above a 2 star here.
Plot: There's is a great twist with the genre. Instead of a manipulative bastard step dad or MC's real father, we have a castrating mother. That's all the praise I can give it though. Porn plot aside, the mother's multi personality disorder is weird and the fact she was literally chemically castrating her own son, not to mention husband, made it so weird that I tried skipping all the bullshit sex scenes with her and made the end game rather difficult to enjoy due to the anxiety she'd so something heinous to the other girls. The older sister also becomes a meek sheep after being a domineering asshole for not reason (why would the mom give her asshole pills). 2 stars, only due to the early on setup. The porn plots quickly take over, though, so it remains at 2. The open ended ending is also weird and keeps the downhill trend.
Scenes and enjoy-ability: There's some really enjoyable scenes, none for the mom for me, honestly (I just wanted to throw her down that roof for half of the game). Some make little sense and the fact it's so kinetically progressive from one scene to the next, it's, honestly, annoying and betrays the sandbox situation. The fact he keeps growing as the months pass is great and the extra "insurance" scenes at the end would have been even better if they showed up with consequences for those one-night stands. Now to the critique. I might have missed it, but the lack of best friend's sister but scenes with the mother was a miss for me (not gonnado all the mini games from the save to check if there's an alternative if I turn her down). There's also a lack of variety of scenes,most girls only having 2 to 4 of them, even though it's implied months go by. Having the girl, even outside the plot, have their own repeatable scenes would seriously improve this, but alas, 3 stars is the max this can go.
Overall,it averages to a 2 star out of 5, and even without the 0 stars being possible as a rating, it seriously doesn't deserve a 3. Yet, I am highly critical and did manage to finish this, which might be something ahead of some other games, which I didn't even bother to rate.