In the shantytown of VN smut journeys, I find an odd one off the wayside that looks promising when glancing at the cover, but like the old saying goes, don't judge a book (or VN in this case) by its cover, and that goes doubly so for this rather seductive one.
In this, I'll try and be as honest as possible with what this journey gives. Bias-wise, I don't particularly play DOTA and not a fan of it, mainly due to me never really dabbling much in the moba-scene, so context-wise this game doesn't rock my socks in that regard.
What rocks my socks is more so the artstyle, which is about the only thing going for this game, alongside the lewd scenarios. They don't skimp, the art and smut aren't overtly vanilla or overtly perverse to the point of grotesqueness, it instead walks the fine line of kink. And that's nice, it even provides a pretty good line of dialogue, choice, and reasoning for the situations that lead to smut. Mainly with the heroine telling you about her misadventures as she gets more booze and questions. Kind of like gramps telling you stories about the war, but instead of gramps casually throwing severely outdated remarks when talking about the Vietnamese, we now instead get drunk sloot stories.
That's fun and all, but why the 2 stars, and why the 2 stars from everyone else? I mean, the VN isn't bad bad, and it actually has somewhat of a balance between smut, story, and dialogue, but...that leads to the true problem of the game.
Paywall, as stated by everyone. Now, I understand, this is a den of gentlemen obtaining products in a gentlemanly manner, yar har fiddly dee as they say, but even as a patron I'd be pissed at what this developer is trying to get away with. There are games here on the same caliber of visual quality, with their share of problems of course, but as mentioned they have the same quality of artwork, if not better, same plethora of lewd and kink, more mechanics than just click forward for context and tits, and they don't try and shaft you in seeing somebody's hentai foundry wetdream for $2-$15 a month, or MAKE YOU PAY FOR HAVING MORE THAN 1 SAVE SLOT. It's practically lazy, while yes, the smut industry is notoriously horrid for any type of stable revenue, this literally is a structure that can barely call itself both a VN or game, as it's only riding high on having only good artwork and lewdish situations, while trying to charge you in every corner for that sweet patron support. As if you see the scenes that are locked behind the paywall, they aren't that particularly rewarding, such as your normal typical lesbian scene that has probably numbed your senses in how standard it has become now being $2 to view.
It's sad, since out of anger I'd give it a 1 but that's really my wrinkled wallet talking mixing in with the audacity that I saw when playing, but the art and the choices are passable~. Choices being the main problem, if it didn't have you pay money to see normal scenes you get in any other game, have more than one save slot and/or SKIPPING TEXT not be a paid for feature, then I feel this game would be both worth supporting and would have a much higher rating. Overall, it truly is a hentai foundry profile locked within a VN surrounded by paywalls and nth amounts of DRM. 2/5, maybe a 4ish for what it's worth in terms of what it offers if they ever decided to take the paywall off, you'd be better off spending your time and money elsewhere to the myriad of games on this site that actually deserve it, or hell this site itself for showing you what it means to play before pay.
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