Review of S2 E9
Imagine this game like a preparation of a cake, you can see every ingredient that is top quality.
The flour of amazing renders, the milk of fluid writing, the eggs of an interesting plot, the sugar of voice acting… you get the gist of it.
You can’t expect the chef to ruin it, you are there looking at the perfect potential vn…
And then the chef starts smashing the eggs into the bowl with the shells, he throws the entire bag of flour in it, fricking goes “Howtobasic” style, spilling the milk all over the kitchen and putting the entire mass of half worked materials in the oven at the maximum power, and then the oven explodes.
The result is a burned coal, flaming, overcooked, indigestible piece of hazard waste.
And watching that unrecognizable mass of Lovecraftian elements, you ask yourself: “What the hell happened?”.
That’s Lust theory, a game that had all the keys to be if not amazing, great and memorable, but too many elements ruin the fun and enjoyment.
The plot, it’s a typical groundhog day style plot, the day keeps repeating from scratchc with some other shenanigans happening.
It’s fairly common trope now, but if executed well can be really fun.
It isn’t fun, the game takes a linear turn where instead of actually understanding what’s happening by your own logic, makes you keep pursuing the event till you get laid.
Meaning that you’ll see the same event with different flavors and different parts of knowledge but you cannot act if not with some scripted “right” answers.
And so the sandbox element (that isn’t even grindy), and multiple routes are all fake choices to believe you are doing something, but in reality you have no choice here aside from some small ones elements.
So it’s an half kinetic game with some railroad elements that doesn’t really let the player be free, but that’s fine if the game can give me an interesting plot and fun dialogues.
It doesn’t.
The MC other than being a pervert or a sociopath (two common tropes I see) it’s also a genius… and a complete idiot when the plot needs him to be.
He’ll either resolve the enigmas with actual interesting solutions or 90% of the time with the most ridiculous ex deus machina I have ever seen in a videogame!
Talk about logic or actual solutions!
The MC just needs to show his magnum gun or penis to half the women to win or use the most stupid solutions ever.
And let’s talk about the penis situation for one second.
I am tired that basically half of the situations here are resolved by the MC giant reproductive organ, whenever a female sees it, now she is under control of the lust, thinking about “how is so big” or “I want to taste it” or other clichè phrases that destroy every conversation or build up.
It’s cheap, it’s the cheapest way ever to make a character to fall in love(?!) with the MC.
And this happens more than twice.
Writing is smooth and has some funny jokes here and there but when you have characters that aren’t close to have a cardboard personality, it’s all useless.
The little sister is a little sister but horny, the best friend is an ignorant degenerate, the mother is a depressed and horny milf…
It goes on, some characters save themselves like the Teacher, but you are thrown into a sea of mediocrity and unmemorable personalities.
Also don’t expect character development, especially from the MC, it’s a rookie mistake, and if you believe there is hope for the second part of the game, boy you aren’t going to have a good time.
There is voice acting in the game, but trust me after a while I just turned it off, it felt really weird sometimes and the VA seemed kinda bored, especially with the mom.
To talk about the incest, as another reviewer said here, it feels terribly fake.
If you came here for the incest you’ll remain deluded.
It doesn’t feel like a family, but like a couple of half strangers that really don’t feel emotions for each other, pretending to role play a family.
It all feels off, beyond the boundaries of reality, this is what probably a couple of aliens would do if they wanted to play “human family” while stealing cows with ufos.
(Sorry for all aliens out there btw).
Yeah graphic and models are really good, you can see how realistic or high detailed some faces, breasts and other stuff are.
Even if some movements are kinda robotic it’s pretty solid.
That’s Lust theory for me, do I recommend it?
Sure if you wanna kill time or understand how bad writing or decisions can affect an entire game, but I don’t recommend it, if you truly believe this could be your next masterpiece of porn games.