For the TLR crowd:
Pros:
And now, a brief rant.
It’s frustrating to see so many one and two star reviews for a game that has as much content as Lust Theory does. You have a lengthy first season that is fully voice acted with a pleasant slow burn and a unique premise followed by a second season that rewards the first season’s slow burn with consistent, persistent escalation in the sex scenes. I’ve revisited favorite scenes in Lust Theory more than most games and there’s enough story and variety that I expect to keep returning in the near future. I find the one and two star reviews overly critical, as if the fact that the writing isn’t Shakespeare means the literally thousands of unique and well-crafted animations are just so much piffle. If you’re like me you’re here for both the story and the sex, but I’ll happily take a weaker story if it means the sex scenes are as high of quality as they are in Lust Theory.
Finally, the review!
The premise of the game is a simple one. You play as a young adult who lives at home with his mother and two sisters who, for reasons unknown, finds himself stuck in a Groundhog Day scenario where the day keeps repeating. After the MC adjusts to this new reality, he uses it to try, and eventually succeed in, getting into the pants of any female within a five mile radius. The first season is a bit of a slow burn with only one or two sex scenes and a handful of oral scenes. The second season could be considered a reward for pushing through the slow burn of the first with a steady escalation from oral to sex to multi-stage sex, to lengthy multi-stage sex, to multi-stage FMF scenes, to multi-stage MFM scenes (not NTR. For plot reasons, the MC occupies both male slots in the MFM scenes) and eventually multi-stage orgies. There are a great many different combinations of angles, positions and love interests in the later threesome scenes as well as in the orgies. It’s as if the plot exists so that the MC can check off as many male sexual fantasies as the author can think of, and it succeeds beautifully.
The story isn’t deep but it doesn’t need to be. This is an adult visual novel after all. The story is a means to pull you in and make the sex scenes more believable, and the story works just fine to this end. People who complain that the increased rate of sex scenes in the second season get in the way of the story baffle me, and are clearly here for a very different reason than I am.
The game is not without its flaws. The music is sparse as are the sound effects and only the first season is voice acted. I occasionally loaded a game with better music which I let play in the background while playing this one. The spelling and grammar drop off a little in the later parts of the second season while the renders and animation quality continue to go up. It’s clear the author wanted a big finish and decided to cut corners with the writing rather than the renders and animation.
The real question is this: Does the game work? More than most. While the story drops off a bit in the second season, this is made up for by the sheer quantity, quality, and variety of sex scenes that, from within the stories framework, are believable enough that I could suspend disbelief and forgive the occasional spelling error or silly decision made by the MC.
Pros:
- Render quality
- First season is fully voice acted
- Second season has an almost unheard-of variety of quality, lengthy, multi-stage animations involving all of the various love interests.
- Strong story in the first season with an interesting premise.
- Story takes a back-seat to the sex in the second season, though I’m not sure if this is a con or not.
And now, a brief rant.
It’s frustrating to see so many one and two star reviews for a game that has as much content as Lust Theory does. You have a lengthy first season that is fully voice acted with a pleasant slow burn and a unique premise followed by a second season that rewards the first season’s slow burn with consistent, persistent escalation in the sex scenes. I’ve revisited favorite scenes in Lust Theory more than most games and there’s enough story and variety that I expect to keep returning in the near future. I find the one and two star reviews overly critical, as if the fact that the writing isn’t Shakespeare means the literally thousands of unique and well-crafted animations are just so much piffle. If you’re like me you’re here for both the story and the sex, but I’ll happily take a weaker story if it means the sex scenes are as high of quality as they are in Lust Theory.
Finally, the review!
The premise of the game is a simple one. You play as a young adult who lives at home with his mother and two sisters who, for reasons unknown, finds himself stuck in a Groundhog Day scenario where the day keeps repeating. After the MC adjusts to this new reality, he uses it to try, and eventually succeed in, getting into the pants of any female within a five mile radius. The first season is a bit of a slow burn with only one or two sex scenes and a handful of oral scenes. The second season could be considered a reward for pushing through the slow burn of the first with a steady escalation from oral to sex to multi-stage sex, to lengthy multi-stage sex, to multi-stage FMF scenes, to multi-stage MFM scenes (not NTR. For plot reasons, the MC occupies both male slots in the MFM scenes) and eventually multi-stage orgies. There are a great many different combinations of angles, positions and love interests in the later threesome scenes as well as in the orgies. It’s as if the plot exists so that the MC can check off as many male sexual fantasies as the author can think of, and it succeeds beautifully.
The story isn’t deep but it doesn’t need to be. This is an adult visual novel after all. The story is a means to pull you in and make the sex scenes more believable, and the story works just fine to this end. People who complain that the increased rate of sex scenes in the second season get in the way of the story baffle me, and are clearly here for a very different reason than I am.
The game is not without its flaws. The music is sparse as are the sound effects and only the first season is voice acted. I occasionally loaded a game with better music which I let play in the background while playing this one. The spelling and grammar drop off a little in the later parts of the second season while the renders and animation quality continue to go up. It’s clear the author wanted a big finish and decided to cut corners with the writing rather than the renders and animation.
The real question is this: Does the game work? More than most. While the story drops off a bit in the second season, this is made up for by the sheer quantity, quality, and variety of sex scenes that, from within the stories framework, are believable enough that I could suspend disbelief and forgive the occasional spelling error or silly decision made by the MC.