This is a very... Interesting game.
Now, first off, I gotta explain the rating here. There's only 5 of them, and of them, for me, only 3 have any nuance. 5 is reserved for only the pretty much perfect games, and 1 is reserved for only the worst. That leaves me in a pickle - there's plenty of games that I have rated as 3s, and not all of them are created equal. If I was to rate this game the way I personally feel about it on a 10 point scale, it'd probably be a 6, and almost a 7 - it's a very very strong 3 alright. However, that is just my personal opinion, and I am most definitely not the person that this game is created for kink-wise.
Alright, allow me to explain. While the game has some things of a universal appeal, there are just so many well-executed things about this game, so much evident work and effort on the developer's part, that I was simply not able to get into, that were simply not my thing, that I am honestly pretty worried that I just didn't "get" this game.
Let's start with the good. One most definitely good thing about this game is the graphics. They are drop-dead gorgeous, especially later on in the game. Probably the best graphics in a porn game I've ever played. All models are beautiful in their own way, all action is nicely animated, every girl has her own distinctive features and body type, there is a very real sense of place to the environments, and so on. I am usually not a big sucker for graphics, I am frequently quite content with text-based games (in fact, one of the games that I honestly consider my favorites is a text-based game), but not gonna lie, the graphics have helped me get through some areas of the game that were definitely not my thing.
Another universal plus is that this game is so good at doing H-scenes, the content we're all here for. It doesn't provide that content frequently, it does do one hell of a lot of teasing, and it doesn't always go straight in for the dicks in the pussies even when giving you the H-scenes, like most other games do, but when it does, ooh boy does it deliver on the pent-up demand, with long, great scenes, with lots of foreplay. The game is like a tortoise, it always takes its time, and does things well.
This is something that people sometimes put against the game, but I am not one of those people. I enjoy a slow burn when it's done well. This game is not for a quick wank, and that's okay in my opinion. This is a game that you should play in long sessions, maybe like 6 hours long, and you will get your release in a climactic scene with one of the girls. However, this criticism does tie in with another criticism of this game, one that I'm just not heavily into.
This game leans significantly into tease-and-denial and quite a bit into femdom, and there's also a kink that I don't quite know how to put, but, uh... Premature climax would be a way. I don't know how to call it, I don't know if it's even a kink, but it probably is. Girls will do their best to tease and deny you, girls will try getting you to cum just before something nice happens, girls will insult you over your unsatisfactory performance, girls will be forceful to you and always take control, girls will be as creepy to you as you are to them, and you will be a good sub and take it all. The game will also have things happen just before something hot happens and interrupt it - that is a very frequent occurrence, you really gotta work to get your h-scene reward.
Now, I have 2 problems with that. First one is that the game is very heavily mistagged. There isn't a single mention of femdom anywhere in the tags. In fact, based on the tags, you'd think the game is the opposite - MC is the one dominating everyone, whether they like it or not, but no - there is plenty of femdom all over the damn place, and no tag to show for it. I don't know if there's a tease and denial tag, but there sure as hell should be. And the second problem - I'm just not that into those things.
The second problem is kinda related to the first. The author decided to go with a quite ordinary MC. He is not special. He doesn't have a pussy magnet on him (well, his pussy magnet is quite mute compared to other examples), he's shy, he's honestly very stupid, with horniness increasing his stupid to insane levels, he buckles quickly under pressure, he doesn't have anything special about him, and he is just generally a dork. His only superpower is the groundhog day that is happening to him, but he's nowhere near the best at using and abusing that. The situations that he finds himself in are on the realistic side, and he behaves like a complete dork in them, and that ties in very well with the lots of femdom, tone-wise. That's not a bad thing, in fact that's incredibly well executed. But I'm just not into that. I like power fantasies. I like MCs who at least take charge of something. I like MCs that are at least somewhat extraordinary. I like MCs that have at least some smarts about them, MCs that I don't consider stupid.
The third problem is more of a consequence of the premise. There is only so much you can do with a groundhog day type story. You only have one day of time to play with. You can only have character development in MC, not in anyone else. The events of the day are quite scripted. The author had to introduce weird events that helped the story progress. Even then, he couldn't let the characters evolve too much, else the premise would break. That's not a good thing. Character development is almost always nice.
Also, this game is full of fake choices. It is little more than an interactive movie. Now, a pretty good interactive movie, and the interactivity in there serves as a great illusion of control, and you can believe that you control something as you play, but you don't control shit. It is immediately noticeable, and the illusion completely breaks, when the game simply takes the wheel and plays itself for a couple hundred screens. There's a political joke in here somewhere. This wouldn't be so frustrating if the game didn't rip the illusion out of your hands, this illusion would simply be there as in many many games of similar genre. But as it happens, it sometimes does, and it is frustrating.
So uh... When you compile it all together, you have an incredible game, with great graphics, writing, and tons of effort, that just fell on my deaf ears. I honestly don't even want to write this review, because I somehow feel like it's my fault that I didn't get this game, that it just didn't, like, do much for me. This game is great, objectively great. But after seeing so many people leaving confused negative reviews, I felt like I'm justified in writing this one.
