HTML - Lust for Life: A Sissy Story [v0.25] [MartinDrake]

UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE-
While my first rating(Long ago last Spring) lost points because of a download issue, this is not a problem anymore.
Trust me, this game is working, and "working well", and well worth the subscription.

This is a very, very old post. These problems are long gone.
I subscribed to this game because the description said I would be able to play the full version of the game with "the blocked content". Even though I downloaded the game I am playing right now, it doesn't mention that the full subscription I am paying for does not include a downloadable version?
When I asked about this I was told I would only be able to download the free version of the game. (with no premium content, and that it would be 1 version behind the current "subscriber version".). Nonetheless, I am still only able to see the download link for the game a full 2 game versions behind, with no premium content, and yet I pay $6.50 US a month for the game?
First, I am unaware of any other game using this "model" of subscription. Likely because it doesn't make a lot of sense, and is really pretty unfair. Especially when it doesn't mention this part of the deal on the download page.
While it is a good game, and why I wanted to support it, it does quite frankly, misrepresent what it promises when you pay for "THE FULL VERSION". Paying for the browser only version, for me, is ass backwards. That should be the free level, with blocked "premium" paths.
Of course it goes without saying that I will pull my money and interest if it isn't rectified soon.
Sorry for the bad review, and I hope to be able to positively update it in the near future.

Yeah well what can i say, it's a fetish of mine and a dream or a fantasy too, so this fits right in, i even like it better then PE and i love PE so this hits just the right spots for me and Ella Hollywood is hot and amazing so, yeah.

This game is getting there, albeit slowly, but the updates are definitely consistent. Maybe it's just me, but content feels deliberately measured in frequency and quantity. If so, that's arguably smart if the dev has a specific amount of time they want to spend on the game and money they want to earn from their supporters. Totally makes sense if you think about it.

Otherwise, it's worth the time to wait on it. It's more of a visual novel than any sort of CYOA, which is not a bad thing so long as you don't go into this game with any sort of sandbox expectations.

It's clean code (loads fast, saves don't kill your browser, etc.) and the UI/UX is one of the best you're going to find for one of these games. The writing is rather good too; it's colorful and salacious, but it isn't self-indulgent walls of purple prose (i.e. not like Blauz). The dev has also put the effort into providing clean, compressed, edited photos and video, and made sure that their actors are all consistent. That's saying a lot.

Overall, LFL:ASS has had a good start, the core loop is there, but I don't think we've got into the real meat of the game just yet. I'd say we're probably about 2/3rds halfway through Act 1, e.g. the protagonist hasn't had any actual oral or anal sex with another guy yet, but they're getting close to that milestone.

If I had to guess, at this rate I'd expect about 9 more planned updates by the Dev, with their roadmap targeting 1.0 (or 1.2 perhaps?) around October/November, although bug fixing might push that out to early 2024. Therefore, if you want to support their efforts on Patreon/Subscribestar, it won't be forever. Or, if you prefer to mooch and want to wait for the full game, come back in about 8 months.

EDIT: content per release has become unpredictable. At this rate, I'd say this game probably won't be complete until 2025. I hesitate to accuse the developer of throttling content and milking their supporters, but it's certainly starting to feel like it compared to previous releases. For this reason I've dropped it down to 3 stars.

Either way, if this type of content and visual novels are your thing? From what I've seen so far you won't be disappointed in any aspect of the complete experience.

A decent linear sissification themed game, it has a decent amount of content, though I hate the gatekeeping behind a paywall... Nothing against a voluntary call to action to donate, but not locking away content.

Other than that, the writing isn't terrible, and the media selection is pretty good, plus it hits a decent amount of sissy tropes like sph, femdom, interracial, and even close kin relationships (optionally pure incest if you chase you remove the step from stepmother lol).

tl;dr
a decent 30 minutes of mindless clicking my brain away

Review is for v0.1
Really not a bad start. Story line is pretty typical for a sissy corruption game, but there's nothing really wrong with that. I really like how everything is coming together, story and character wise. Only real negative right now, is the lack of content. As a v0.1 it's understandable, but right now it's just a slow starting game with lots of pictures of cocks and men in womans underware and nothing else to it.
Not a fan of the paywall for more content, but beggars can't be choosers so it is what it is.
Update for v0.4
Game is starting to feel very inflated and railroaded. You either have the option of Sitting through class, or an option the clearly states your advancing the main quest. It's just giving the player an illusion of choice. It's possible that more updates will expand everything enough to give more choice, but if that happens, then most of the content that has already been created needs to be condensed so the grind doesn't take as long.
Update for v0.10
It's starting to feel a lot better. Still railroaded, but a lot more full. Update speed isn't bad, but there still isn't a lot of content

One of the best start for this kind of game. It has a good interface. The images are great (nice to indicate the cast at the beginning). History is classic but I appreciate how history is made so that all quests are tangled. I hope you continue, and good luck to you.

I really like this game alot. It has all the things that it needs to make this kind of game special and interesting. Keep going like that. But please make a Hetero/Lesbian path to get all the players

Pretty good already
The MC/F content is a bit clichè but thats just because of the sheer amount of femdom/sissy games out there.

I think the dev should focus more on MC/M content in the future as the bully, gym teacher and plumber quests are by far the most promising

Cant wait to see more, a lot of good content so far. Has a decent slow burn going that I really like! Plenty of hot images too, really like Ella. Hopefully this wont be another game that gets abandoned. So far my favorite storyline is the friend, want to see where it goes.

Updated: as of 0.2, very little content added.

Summary: Skip for now, come back if this ever gets more then the intros it has.

If you've played this before, you've seen this whole stick over a dozen times before, odds are it'll also get abandoned fairly early on like basically all of these. Plus your save data won't carry anyways.

This is fairly typical for these, would say it's not really a game since you don't have to do anything other then click the progress story buttons, and largely do Home > School > Home

TLDR: I think it's a really good start, for a 0.1, it took me almost 3h to complete. I had a good time and hope to see more.

Quality is there, characters are well establish (except the mc who is very bland) and the UI is not bad.

But most important, get ready..... There is no grinding, I repeat, NO GRINDING! Finally a HTML game that respect my time. It's a linear story with random optional side events.

I will give you one more star, just for that


I would add that it's a bit sad that there's no choice or interaction between the different quests, I would like for them to react a bit about what happen in the other quests to give more realism to the world.

I've finished playing version 0.1 and nothing interesting happens, a few secondary nudes, but nothing with the main character.
Nothing incest, just some spy scene.

Not to mention, like all HTML games, extremely repetitive actions.

story too simple

I recommend waiting for the next update.