VN - Ren'Py - Love & Jealousy [Act 2] [Professor Amethyst Games]

Wow, this game! I was reserved at first if to play it or not based on the screenshots, but the story, the characters, this is one of the best AVN games I have ever played! The NTR element is very nontraditional, but very interesting either way. Very non standard game, more about mind manipulation, but so well written!

Seriously, don't even think about starting this unless you've got a clear evening.
I sat down just to check it out for a few minutes.
Next thing I knew, hours had vanished and I was completely hooked.

The characters in this story? Man, they feel so unbelievably real.
I found myself genuinely worried for the main guy, as if he were someone I actually knew.
This thing is an absolute emotional gut-punch, in the best way possible.
The writing is just on another level, especially when it handles the heavier themes.

Every single conversation feels packed with so much meaning and suspense.
You genuinely have no idea what's going to happen next; it constantly keeps you on your toes.
This is one of those experiences that's going to stick with me for a long, long time.
The amount of story you get right from the jump is just staggering.

It’s been a while since a narrative has grabbed me this intensely from start to finish.
Just a brilliantly crafted world that pulls you in and absolutely refuses to let go.

I realize I'm in the minority here with my rating, but its how I see it for me.

My poor rating is not a hate on NTR. I actually like all the "N" variants. My real issue is with the mechanics.

To start with, this is VN (no real meaningful choices). However, it really is more of NV - novel with limited visuals.

The novel part is really really well written. Kudos to the dev, they have amazing writing skills, with entertaining dialogue from a clearly native English speaker. The novel's overarching strategy/concept, however, suffers no matter how good the author's writing ability. The events are just too artificial and contain way to many gimmicks to engineer yet another betrayal from the main LI. With a cheesy fap-fest VN this is not a problem. With this seriously legit novel, however, where the story is everything, these storyline gimmicks are a huge liability.

The visuals are stunning, but few and far between. Placeholders really, for what is mostly a text based story. And that text based story is ENDLESS. That is my other serious criticism. Its way too much text. Even spamming my ctrl key I was able to fully follow the story by stopping every 10 seconds, reading one line, and engaging CTRL again. There are too many emotion-vent sessions throughout the story.

Incredibly compelling story that had me very emotional many times. It is amazing how many different conflicting things I felt for the characters at the same time, and my first session of the game was for six hours because I could not put it down.

Hands down the most emotional I've ever been playing a game on this site, with the second place going to "Leap of Faith".

I eagerly look forward to the next update

This game reminded me when I lost faith in true love many years ago. The MC's reaction makes it feel like it comes from a true story. I never truly understood how could a girl pretend true love and go slut around, especially in someone's back. I might have some mental issues about being territorial and old fashioned.

Still, I usually enjoy some NTR here and there. In most games I end up usually make both parties cheat on each other and it's quite exciting in the end. But this one, I barely made it to 1 fap and instead spent hours reading the text and having mixed feelings all over. I don't recommend this for people sensitive to NTR as I am rarely shocked by anything but this one got deep through me.

As it was stated before, this game could use a lot more animations, voices, content, etc. Some people might find this way too long to read. As for sure I feel like I spent so much time reading and almost felt addicted to know what was coming next.

Also, the end felt rushed as somebody else stated. I know the game is not quite finished. This is why I'm still leaving 5 stars here. Mainly because I think it will takes me days or weeks to get over what I felt in this game. The psychological impact reminded me clearly how reality sometimes doesn't fit my hopes and expectations. I hope this game just get better and doesn't fall short and rushed and it seems to be heading lately.

Great start, Interesting and unusual story, lively and interesting characters and all this turns into a stupid farce with a harem, femboys and MC with one glance forcing all the girls within a kilometer radius to jump on his magic penis ...
I am terribly upset that potentially the best novel I have ever come across turned into a rotten pumpkin

If you don't want to be disappointed like me, then don't start
or stop at the point where FMC cucked you, then the nonsense begins, which seems to have been written by another author

Upd: Darn i finaly finished 1 act and changed my rating from 1 to 4. Exept the ridiculous harem route whole story fckn emotional and capturing so 5 for story and -1 for harem bulshit
Upd 2: This VN is so depressing and sad. I worried about MC like never before as if it were a real living person
So a solid - 5+

"This is a story about a boy who tried to save a girl,
and how she accidentally drowned him instead"

This is not a review, this is a warning.

And this? This is not a game. This is a study of the endless human capacity for self destruction, and of the rippling consequences of choices that cannot be escaped. Choices matter, not only to ourselves but to those with whom our lives we are intertwined. The older I become the more I learn that scars heal, memory fades, but regret?.....regret lasts forever. And that compassion comes at a cost; to open yourself to the pain of others means you take on their pain as your own, and are wounded by it.

I meant to skim through and check this new "game" out. I resurfaced 11 hours later in emotional crises. Whoever wrote this has lived portions of it, and there are poignant truths within that hit entirely too close to home. Drug use, abuse, enabling, compromised world views, self-destruction spirals, emotional masochism, and the crumbling fortitude of a man who struggles to save others as he destroys himself in the process.

This is a brilliantly written story; the MC is intelligent, capable and generally well liked and likable. The FMC is portrayed entirely too accurately; naive, sweet, emotionally withdrawn, compromised, haunted, broken. Unable to take accountability because her defense mechanism lies within her never acknowledging the consequences of her choices. Which just allows her to keep doing the same self destructive things, while the MC, fully aware of what is going on, struggles to stop it while being wounded over, and over, and over as he is sucked into the whirlpool of destruction and begins to loose himself. If you've seen Forest Gump or read the Kingkiller Chronicles, then you know the relationship I mean, though this story gets far more in-depth with the consequences of a hero trying to save the life of his broken love.

This likely needs to be a novel; there is nothing fappening about this project. If you want to see the CGI's just open the folder and look at them, there is a lot of reading. If you are a young or relatively trauma free person, you probably shouldn't play this, as it will not scratch any itches for you and may leave you depressed and/or frustrated. If you've been through life for a while, if you've watched friends or loved ones drown in a whirlpool of self destruction and addiction....well, you know what you are getting into. Though cathartic in some ways, removing our pain from its box and subjecting ourselves once again to its ravages has its own consequences.

review based on 0.5:
The game has a top rating so far - so why do i rate it only 1 star?
Pretty simple - it's basically "just" a book - not a game - at least it feels like that.
The MASSIVE textwall is just something else. It's right - the story is written very well - maybe even TOO WELL.
Whenever there's such a textwall, the renders and animations have to make up for the whole long reading - but that's the point:
- no animations
- no renders (YES, i don't call that primitive work "renders")
Let me explain why:
render = putting different assets together into one picture (mostly unique)
But over here, you have just plain simple basic backgrounds, which are re-used over and over again, and in front of them, the characters are simply put in overlay (like sprites). The background doesn't even change during scenes, just the characters swap from left to the right (if you are lucky).
The sex scenes also constantly done just showing 2-3 different images, that's it. No buildup, no immersion - plain, plumb and not fleshed out at all - compared to the rest of the story, sex scenes are WAYYYYY inferior written.
I assume (i still can be wrong about that), the reason for the sex scenes not being fleshed out like the rest of the story is just because AI refuse to generate fleshed out sex scenes because of restrictions - that's the only way i can explain why the sex scenes are that inferior compared to the rest of the story.

TL/DR:
Would this be a book, it most definitively deserve a top rating of 4-5 stars. But neither as a pure kinetic novel, and even less as an adult game, this would justify a top rating.
So compared to other real games out there, this one is simply a book with basic illustrations - nothing to get excited about.

Don't get me wrong - the story and storytelling might be intersting to some people, but i can't rate a primitive illustrated book like this (even with top writing) the same way as i do with other games which are really showing "true" rendering, or at least having top animated scenes - sorry!

To sum up:
All together, this is most likely a PURE AI generated story with simple illustrations - nothing i really like. Others may have a different view, which is fair enough - but i don't

Some spoilers ahead. I didn't enjoy reading this, and quit, never to return, but I still have to give it 4*. Why? The writing is damn good. Much of the dialogue and internal monologue is superb. You will likely feel the pain the main character feels. It's a story of broken, codependent people, and they feel authentic enough for you to get very invested. Up to a point, I empathized with the main character. Then, you get to the three branching paths. It should have been obvious then that I should bow out, based on the kinds of stories I enjoy reading, as the main character was not going to pull his head out of his ass, and Lacey was going to continue being destructive to everyone she's close to. The dev had me curious still at that point, though.

I got as far as I could take before quitting (the MC's fortress of solitude, perhaps near the end of v0.2). For me, it would be far more satisfying if the main character would leave Lacey once she cheated on him. While I hated Lacey in the end, I also ultimately ended up hating the main character. When I stopped caring at all about him, that's when I quit.

Mia was a criminally toxic influence on Lacey in college, and manipulative toward the main character once she started getting to know him. She never grew on me, but the main character has so few friends that he latched onto her, too, I'm guessing. It never became obvious to me what he liked about her other than honesty, and that he thought she was attractive. So what. Anna, usually the voice of reason, needs to move a long ways away from the MC, Lacey, and Mia, and cut all contact.

One question for the dev. What's up with the recurring comments stemming from Anna of "fragile male ego"? It did seem like something in character for Mia to say, but not Anna. Everyone, male or female, needs words of affirmation, respect, and to not be treated like garbage by someone they're friends with or in a romantic relationship with. Seemed like something Anna would know. Maybe I was giving her too much credit.

A general overview of this title after act 1 – a really engaging and deep story that hits you in the gut and keeps you wanting more, but you have to stick till the end of the story to actually appreciate it. At the beginning or in the middle of it I wanted to rate it 3/5, but after reaching till the end of the first act I’ve changed my mind to 5/5 and here’s why:

• The story – this is the biggest pro of this title (as I wouldn’t call it a game, at least at this stage, as choices seem to be a minor influence on only few scenes). It’s a dark theme, but you have to stick till the end of it to actually understand what or why is happening. I think it might not be for everyone, especially it you’re looking for something fast to satiate your more mundane needs. The story kept me engaged so much, that it was difficult to stop reading and my mind constantly circled around it when I wasn’t reading it. And as previously stated – you have to read it till the end to understand it all and appreciate it.
• The writing – well, it’s good, even excellent when dealing with the tough topics. But sometimes it drops below the level of good and below the level of the whole story. I believe that there are a lot parts in this title where writing could be better or the story could be deepened. Sometimes it felt like gliding on the matter and omitting some important things that could be exploited to provide more insight to the story. I also believe that the beginning of the game (like first 5h or so) could really be extended even more as the amount of material provided to the reader could actually constitute a separate game. I also believe that there was a lot of emotions that could be better explored and showed. Numerous times I felt like the author segued to other topic leaving me hanging and frustrated instead of digging deeper into emotions. I believe that author should put more attention or pressure on the emotions he instigates and not extinguish them brutally by changing the topic or narrating the story other way. But still – it’s a solid writing and thanks to that the story is well told.
• The visual and audio parts – here the game lacks the most and base on that I would rate the game 2/5. Visually – AI CG is of good quality, the characters are really pleasant to the eye, but you can witness individual renders thrown onto the background and mostly it’s for the reader to visualize everyone and that would be it. Audio – well, most of the playtime you don’t hear anything, but sometimes there is music (quite well chosen), but it lacks in this department, especially to strengthen the story in big moments.

To sum some thing up: the game is for those that like long games and man – I’m really impressed by this title in that department! You get like 15-20h of playing in just first release! It’s not like most of the other titles when you have long and small updates – you can jump right into this title and really enjoy the content without waiting for something to happen after years of waiting for updates. And thanks to the sheer amount of content and the quality of the content – this game absolutely deserves 5 our of 5 stars though it’s not a perfect game. I’m more then ok with more basic audio & visual content just to get an excellent quality of story & writing & huge chunk of the story!

Really can’t wait for more parts of this amazing title!

Let me start off by saying I absolutely hate NTR games with a passion. I don't even like movies with unfaithful spouses, men or women. I don't like it because I'm an emotional creature and I don't like seeing people in pain whether it's a book I'm reading or whatever it is that I am doing.
With that being said I don't know why I like this one. The MC is a complete pushover. His wife is the queen of cunts. Mia starts off as a piece of shit but she grew on me pretty quickly. Anna and Kelly are the two females in this story that make it bearable honestly. I hate how much the MC is constantly hurt by his "brain damaged" wife, it honestly makes me feel like shit.
I think the only reason I have been keeping up with this is because I'm honestly a fan of Prof Amethyst writing capabilities. Bro he's so good.
I'm just really hoping there is some light at the end of this tunnel to make it all worth it. His other two games (one of which had a shitty ending) are also very good. But I gotta know, who hurt you dude? The writing is so dark, but it's so well done that it's addictive. I am a book nerd by nature so I quickly drop VNs that don't satisfy my need for a well written story. I'll likely keep up with this one. And the only reason I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars is because the art is very lazy.

Visual Novel Review – Love & Jealousy [Act 1]

(Spoiler-light, emotional focus)
To make sure my emotions and personal feelings didn’t influence this review, I decided to finish the game and wait a few days before writing. But I quickly realized… that’s easier said than done.


A Few Tips Before You Play:

• If you're looking for a pure porn game, stay away.
• If you don't enjoy reading, stay away.
• If you take the "cuckold" genre too seriously and feel intense, unbearable emotions around it — stay far away.

(Minor Spoiler)
I'm generally neutral about the cuckold element in games. I don’t find it realistic or serious — I usually just ignore it.
But in this game, there's one specific unavoidable scene that represents one of the darkest examples of cuckoldry I’ve encountered. Even I found it disturbing.
(End Spoiler)

Technical Aspects
Pros:

• The AI-generated CGs are very realistic and visually beautiful.
• Character faces are attractive and expressive.
• There’s a good variety in breast sizes.
• Character diversity is solid — each one feels unique and believable.
• Music is sometimes present and generally matches the tone of the scenes very well.
• The writing is simple but emotionally powerful. The author has a strong sense of narrative voice, especially in inner monologues.
• Choices are limited but effective; they do impact the story meaningfully. In my experience, the choices I made influenced key events.

Cons:
– There are no animations at all. Even in sex scenes, the number of images is very limited.
– Music is missing from some emotional scenes, where it could’ve amplified the impact.
– Sometimes the characters' faces appear too childlike, which felt uncomfortable.
– Female characters lack any visible hip curves — it's oddly noticeable and unrealistic.
– Choices are relatively limited, which may frustrate players expecting more interactivity.
– Some players have reported missing crucial choices in specific scenes (e.g., bar scene), though I personally did get those options.


Thoughts on the MC (Main Character)
Strengths / Good Traits:

• The MC is emotionally deep and expressive. His inner monologues are well-written and convey vulnerability in a believable way.
• He is selfless, protective, and nurturing. In many situations, he puts others’ needs above his own.
• He has a strong desire to heal and comfort the people around him, both emotionally and mentally.
• His empathy and sensitivity help the emotional storytelling shine — you can feel what he's going through, which adds to the immersion.

Weaknesses / Negative Traits:

• The MC often acts more like a female character than a male one, especially in emotionally or socially intense situations.
• His responses to threats or confrontations — especially from male rivals — lack assertiveness or any traditionally masculine energy.
• Even his flirting style doesn't resemble male behavior; it's soft, indirect, and at times confusing.
• The female characters often speak about him in a way that feels more like they’re describing a fellow woman they’re emotionally connected to, rather than a man they’re attracted to.
• In general, the MC lacks the behavioral traits of someone with testosterone-driven instincts. It can be immersion-breaking if you're expecting a typical male lead.

Thoughts on Lacey (Female MC)
Strengths / Good Traits:

• Beautiful face, sexy body, and a no-limits attitude in bed.

Weaknesses / Negative Traits:

• Lacey is selfish. She shows little to no concern for the emotions or needs of others unless it directly affects her.
• She’s manipulative — she bends situations to her advantage without hesitation.
• She selectively uses her brain injury as an excuse. When it’s convenient, she plays the victim; when it's not, she acts sharply and uses her intelligence to manipulate the MC.
• She's extremely jealous, but treats the MC’s jealousy like a flaw that needs to be “corrected.” At the same time, she clearly finds it arousing — which is both hypocritical and emotionally confusing.
• She claims to love the MC deeply, but it feels like she clings to him out of self-interest — not genuine affection. She doesn’t want to lose him, not because of love, but because of what he provides her.
• She’s a liar. She doesn't hesitate to twist facts or tell half-truths when it serves her purposes.

Thoughts on the Supporting Female Characters

• All the supporting female characters are well-written except for Mia.
• Mia’s character has noticeable inconsistencies that can feel jarring.

Thoughts on the Femboy Character

• There is a femboy character with whom you can choose to have a relationship or not.
• For players uncomfortable with this, the option to end the relationship is available.

Memorable Moments

• The game contains many powerful scenes, but the most impactful is a conversation near the end of Act 1 between the MC and Lacey about 243 rules from their past.
• To avoid spoilers, I won’t go into detail, but this dialogue was the deepest, most powerful, and most emotionally affecting I’ve encountered in any game I’ve played so far.
• It brilliantly highlights the MC’s observational skills and protective nature through excellent writing.

Criticism

• The game delivers an emotionally exhausting experience. Just as one traumatic event ends, another one begins — over and over. The chain of emotional turmoil can feel overwhelming and mentally draining. I personally had to take breaks while playing because of how heavy it became.
• Some problems seem unsolvable and severe enough to lead to suicide, yet they get resolved rather quickly.
• This may be the only weak point I can find in the writing, as it occasionally sacrifices realism for narrative convenience.

Final Rating
Even if its strengths and weaknesses were balanced, the excellent writing and emotional intensity alone make it absolutely worth playing.
If I had to score it: 4.5/5 – The emotional writing and narrative weight elevate it above its technical shortcomings.


Analytical Summary
This visual novel excels at emotional storytelling, character introspection, and psychological realism. While technically limited (no animations, minimal image variety), the narrative compensates with exceptional depth. Some characters — especially Lacey — may provoke strong reactions due to their manipulative or inconsistent behavior, but these emotional responses also demonstrate how well the game pulls the player into its world.
Despite its flaws, it achieves something rare: emotional exhaustion that feels earned. It’s not for everyone, but for players who value story over visuals, this is an experience that lingers.
Recommended rating: 4.5/5

I hate this game.



It has some of my favourite themes, which was what attracted me to it. What I had not elected was to meet an amalgamation of several of my girlfriends sat across a lot of my own actions and reactions over time. The pain of noticing another person’s pain, the creation of rules, of breaking yourself to try to save another, to heal them at the cost of yourself. Seeing my own words and actions play out in a slightly different way.

This was meant to be a short game, forgetting that I had previously skipped this game as I found the themes a bit too heavy, but this time merely read the tags. A short game that turned into a 15 hour binge session as the game finished, still wanting more.

I found it to realistic, to real, the patterns of reactions, the “logical” thought processes of one who has been so brutally traumatised, triggered flashbacks of pain, sadness and caring. Wanting to hug Lacey so many times, holding her tight and telling her that it wasn’t her fault, just I have done in real life.

I hate that this game made me relive those memories, and more where saving or helping another to heal tore my soul apart. But must of all that at least Lacey grew to try and help and understand the MC and evolve together. That hurt the most.

Hope to see part 2 sometime in the future, cause this will take some time before I ready for the second part.

Ignore the low ratings from people who didn't finish ACT 1...

If you don't like reading, this VN is a slog.
If you're just looking for good porn and a quick fap, you'll be disappointed.
If you're looking for a story with sunshine, rainbows, and puppy dogs, this ain't it...

Life is messy. There's shit that happens that most people can't even dream of.
Yet, they'll be the first to harshly criticize those who live it and preach about how they should have handled it better...

This story, how you interpret it, what you think of the characters, will reveal more about yourself than the story actually reveals about the characters.

Really looking forward to ACT II to see where the dev is going to take the characters and story. Will it be a happy(ish) ending? or an absolute train wreck with no survivors...

Phenomenal game, as good as a game can be with AI cg. Don’t be alarmed by it only being act 1, as act 1 has a beginning, middle, and end, and is longer that a lot of complete porn games I’ve played. It's a lot of reading, but honestly, I feel it’s necessary for an NTR game to be good. Genuinely felt my heart sink several times reading and that's impressive.

Maybe I'm tweaking but I feel like what fuels true NTR is the heartbreak, in which this game does a good job at delivering. Most NTR games fail at mimicking the environment to genuinely deliver the sexual fantasy. This game takes the time and effort to establish the plot and emotional connections and then expresses the very confusing and tumultuous shattering of the relationship.

Most imperfections on this game come from the fact that its AI CG, and it’s not very good AI. AI CG games are popping out left right and center, and I'm not a huge fan. Only time I find it excusable is when it’s exploring very niche games that might not garner a ton of financial support, such as, an NTR game that isn’t just sex scene after sex scene but actually tries to establish a plot with narratives. I wish this game wasn’t AI, and I wish it had some animations for the sex scenes, and there are a couple of things I think could be explored more in terms of plot development, but maybe that will come in the next iteration of the game. Another thing this game lacks is choice, you can choose to have sex with certain characters, and you can choose how you’d like your wife to role-play in a few scenes, but overall major plot choices? There really isn’t any. With how much writing there is, I can understand why its not super choice heavy, but if a game is AI CG, I think it’s reasonable to be left wanting a bit, when there isn’t animation, choices, etc…

Overall, I’d rate this game a solid 7/10
9/10 writing
10/10 game length
8/10 fetish exploration
3/10 for visuals and graphics
4/10 for sex scenes (no animation, vanilla poor AI visuals but it does have contextual flavor)

I like NTR games, I like NTS games.
Most NTR that I like is pretty straight forward - Girl is shitty person -> Girl cheats on guy. It works because the girl knows she's shitty, the game knows she's shitty, and eventually, the MC knows she's shitty too, OR the girl is corrupted into being shitty (love that).
Most NTS I like are pretty straight forward too. Couple has a fetish that they either discover or build up to sharing with each other, and then they engage with that fetish in a fun and exciting way.

In this game, EVERYONE is shitty.
The MC is a complete waste of a human.
The LI is selfish and irresponsible and seems to WANT to be shitty.
All the side characters feel like they're either there to justify the LI's actions, or to make the MC give in to his baser desires which circles around again to justifying the LI's actions.
I can tolerate playing a game from the perspective of an idiot, I don't mind when the LI's is an awful person, what I HATE is when it feels like the author is trying to tell me "well actually, you can't blame her for ANYTHING because *trauma*" it's lazy and despite what other people seem to think, lacks any actual nuance, also, no good reason for the MC to be such a dumbass. Yes, people are capable of being good, while also doing shitty things, I can believe that someone could do something shitty, despite thinking that they're in the right, what I DON'T buy is that the MC and EVERYONE around them could be such pathetic push-overs and tolerate it for so long, I'll address Anna in the spoiler section.
Yes, the LI has had a traumatic past, that excuses a lot of things, BUT there is a line, as an adult, you have some agency, and you have to take responsibility at some point, especially when your actions are directly impacting other peoples lives, this is what separates a sympathetic, damaged person from an asshole. If she where to physically hurt someone, would she be free from consequence or blame? Or does this logic only apply when it's convenient? Does it only apply when they're emotionally or mentally hurting someone?
My frustration isn't that the LI is doing shitty things, it's that the game wants to have it's cake and eat it too, it wants her do these shitty things, but also still be a completely good and sympathetic character. It also wants the MC to have this strong backbone, while also being a total push-over in excusing everything she does. It feels like it's using the trauma as a shield from criticism and proper character building, rather than giving it any actual respect and depth.

*Spoiler time*

Where to start?

I didn't finish the game, I can't, I played through most of it, but I just can't stand these people anymore. Imagine being such a dramatic and irresponsible person that you manage to drag like five other people into your relationship drama, imagine you're one of those people, they don't bother to actually get any real, professional help at all, and then imagine your ADULT friend, or EMPLOYEE constantly bitches about their cheating spouse, you try to be there for them, they don't seem to give a shit at all about YOUR personal life, they don't ever seem to ask you about YOUR relationships or troubles, they KNOW that their spouse has done awful shit, and yet when they're dumb enough to stay with them, not seek any professional help, and lo and behold, something bad happens AGAIN (who could have seen that coming), then, they run off to stand on the edge of a cliff to "kill themselves" like a teenager, you and the other people involved all have to run off in the middle of the night to talk them down, one of those people present has ALREADY done this once before. Why are these people friends with the MC or the LI? EVERYTHING revolves around them and their drama.

Lets address each person.
Mia, a sexual predator and a genuinely awful person, not a friend AT ALL.
She took advantage of a traumatized, sexually abused woman, while she was high on K AND OR drunk.
If she was a man, she'd be framed as deserving of jail time.
She's basically Diddy.
She framed it as "helping" while also talking about how she liked being able to control and manipulate a vulnerable woman.
How am I supposed to feel positively about this character?
I don't have a problem with this type of character, WHEN the game acknowledges that they ARE in fact an evil person, these characters exist in many NTR games, but AGAIN, everyone else glosses over what she actually did as if it were something you can just forgive because she acts nice now. Pushovers, the lot of them.

The MC.
What a pathetic waste of a man.
You're telling me that he couldn't get over this chick over the period of FOUR years at uni? That without ANY contact from the LI in those four years, he didn't meet someone else, get laid, and realize that being damaged doesn't make you some one in a million human being that can NEVER be replaced?
He's supposedly very handsome, in good shape etc, and he didn't get laid ONCE in his FOUR years in uni? Not even by happenstance? What a wet noodle.
He calls her EVERY DAY? Leaves her hundreds of unread messages? Honestly, this is like psycho shit, if I were her, I would have blocked his ass and got a restraining order.
Once he finds out that the LI has LITERAL brain damage from drug abuse, does he make getting the supposed treatment a priority? Does he seek out medical advice? NO, he lets her go through with her dumbfuck "plan" instead, and whaddaya know? She takes MORE drugs, because she apparently can't do the "plan" without the drugs, you know, the drugs that make her stupid? The drugs that conveniently made all her slutty actions *not her fault*? Yeah, THOSE drugs. She took them to go through with her "plan", the "plan" that would "fix" their relationship the "easy" way, as opposed to the "long" way (just being faithful and earning each others trust)... Jesus, and the MC just sat on his hands like "oh yeah, I know she's literally brain damaged, but lets let her do this on her own, she's proven to have GREAT decision making abilities in the recent past."

The LI.
Holy shit, what do I even say?
I have trauma, not to the degree she has, but someone out there almost certainly does.
You know what a responsible person does when they have trauma, and they think it's going to keep them from a relationship with someone they apparently "can't live without"?
They get professional help.
You know what an irresponsible person does? They drink and fuck a lot, and push other people away. They're self destructive and reckless.
Good, I can buy that, that's realistic, I can empathize with that, what she did in uni was extreme, but I can buy it, it makes sense.
Cooking your brain on drugs, KNOWING that it's been cooked, KNOWING that nothing you did was good or healthy, ACKNOWLEDGING this, swearing off that behavior, and then getting fucking MARRIED without getting professional help FIRST, or being honest about any of it with your HUSBAND... Absolutely inexcusable dumbfuck behavior.
That brings me to my next point.

Back to the MC.
What an absolute moron.
You got MARRIED to someone, WITHOUT dating or even having sex with them first...
Are you genuinely braindead?
Am I supposed to play from his perspective and think "Yeah, you know what, this is what a reasonable person would do. I totally connect with this story."?
And what's with this harem shit? He's jealous of people hitting on Anna AND Mia? Really? And they're totally cool with that because they're just barbie dolls that stand around for the purpose of the MC and the LI right?
So unbelievably stupid.
MC is an incel, BUT, you can't say that, because he already called it out in the game, and if the writer acknowledges it before you do, then its obviously not true right?

Anna.
The writers little shield.
She's there to call out all the shitty things that happen, to say what the player is thinking, to tell the LI that she's being stupid... And then just sit on her ass and do nothing about it.
Brilliant.
You know what's worse than an idiot doing shitty things?
Someone who isn't an idiot watching while the idiot does shitty things, and doing nothing about it.
You wanna steal the MC away and give him the relationship he deserves? THEN DO IT or go and find someone else.
Why does everyone in this game have this weird, almost childish view of love and relationships?
I get it with the LI, she's traumatized and her brain is smol, I don't know why the MC and Anna are so pathetic though. MOVE ON. Go and date an actually functioning human that WANTS to improve and grow, why do you just sit there and waste your life away for ONE person?
Crazy shit, these people are like cardboard cutouts, none of them have depth beyond the MC and the LI's lives.

The "art".
Sometimes the LI looks really off-putting, like an alien. I found the "art" to overall be pretty forgettable, if not straight up gross at times (the crying especially).
Image gen is not ready for varied NSFW realism, do something with an art-style that can avoid the "uncanny" vibe.

I can't write any more, but there really is SO much more, I just can't be bothered.
Other people might lead you to believe this game has depth, and I'll admit, I thought that initially too, because the writing is pretty good at the start compared to what you usually find... Until you realize that NONE of the characters actually have any depth at all, except for the LI, and her depth boils down to - Has been abused and has brain damage, so nothing she does is actually her fault, and I swear that she actually REALLY deeply loves the MC unconditionally, despite having no care or consideration for his feelings or thoughts.

I can't stand ANY of the characters in this game, and there is so much of their bullshit you have to go through to even get any sexual gratification. Maybe that's the point? Maybe the writer WANTS a game full of annoying, dramatic assholes? I just don't want to read any of it. Good luck to them with it.

To each their own, but this is not for me, I'd rather a schlocky, porn brained excuse for a script that gets me off than some pseudo deep story that just leaves me pissed off without any of the upside I usually get from NTR/NTS.

The best game I have played in years and definitely my new favorite.
The storyline is captivation and draws you in, but is definitely not for the fainthearted.
My main quarrel is that is slow to update as the developer is working on multiple project simultaneously

Easy 5 starts for me.
Really caught me by surprise as I wasn't expecting such deep and detailed narrative and backstory.
Such a rare thing for a game like this to be able to really make you feel something about the characters and the situations but this one really does it well!
Would love for the author to continue Act 2

I've thought about how to write a review for this game and its pretty difficult, applause to those below who i wholeheartedly agree with. The writing is 5/5 and yes it is AI art. Those two things should have already separated who will play and who will not. i'd add a third and that is if want fap-fuel then game not for you. Now, i could harp on about the writing and gush but its already been done. Instead my review is on the effect of this game. It's been a week+ since i played this and i can tell you that i think about this game almost hourly since. I've thought about people i havent thought about in years who the characters resemble. i've thought about my relationships and the dynamics that played out in them. I've thought of that simp guy i knew in high school and wondered if he is still with that her. i've understood that i couldn't save that one girl i had a deep conversation with at 4 am at a bus stop. And the thoughts are still going. This game has had a profound effect on how i see things and see other people especially the flaws and i cant praise it enough for that. Is it an NTR game, i thought it was but now i'm not so sure. Is it NTS with a side of something else, i thought that towards the middle but i'm not so sure now. there's a bit of everything i've concluded, except cest but who knows in part II. What i can say for sure is that is seems to be hyperreal and not just realistic because all these things couldn't happen to one person or group in quick succession but at the very least one of these situations has happened and/or will happen to all of us at least once in our lifetimes. Through this game i started to see ah... is this what caused those situations? This is what those people were going through... And this could have been the outcome and consequence, in a non black and white but have to live with way. i am trying my best not to spoil things but i hope my point still comes across. You will love them, you will hate them, you will hate yourself for starting to understand them, you will forgive yourself for judging and then you will come to the point i am, where you accept them and love them. Does this count as a review, i'm not even sure, because the game is still ongoing in my head right now.

Came for a quick fap, but halfway through the game I took my hand off the Ctrl and started reading the story attentively.

The basic visuals do their job — you see the characters and it's enough to make you believe you're really talking to them (or having sex with them).
As for the story, it's pretty unusual: a girl with a BROKEN mind and a horrible past, doing all kinds of insane stuff but genuinely loving you. Do what you want with that.
I wouldn’t say it breaks the fourth wall or is some grand breakthrough, but the author definitely knows how to write.

P.S. It's still a pretty decent game, especially if nothing surprises you anymore and you just want to quickly scroll through a story. The sex scenes are actually quite good, and—no sarcasm—the dialogues leading up to them are really well-written.