I'm writing this review as someone who has recently become much more personally invested in the emotional highs and lows of stories built around NTR, with a massive emphasis on the interplay between husband and wife at the emotional core. While I used to enjoy netori (perspective of character who is stealing the girl) most, with the, uh, “heroine” being seduced by a corrupting pleasure, I’ve more recently found deeper enjoyment with the deep affection expressed between a husband and wife. This series is scratches exactly that itch.
I wish that there was even a minimal interaction with the narrative that would allow me to be actually involved in the husband’s decisions, either to revel in the perversion of making decisions that I know will go badly or to feel pride in guiding the married couple to a happy ending. If this “game” had that, this would be an easy 5-stars. As it is, I did enjoy the cast of characters and their erotic wife-lending game. The protagonist, Kenji, finds himself drawn to NTR by online message boards and convinces his wife, Marina, to fulfill this particular sexual fantasy for his sake (this being netorase, where the girl shared/loaned). I found Marina to be, in many ways, an ideal wife. A loving and skilled mother, having a voluptuous figure, devoted to her husband, and having an insane talent in giving him the best, most thrilling netorase experience possible. The moments through the story where Marina teases Kenji are phenomenal to me, much more engaging than her scenes with her other sex partner, Hiroto, which are also very good. The family scenes add a great deal of poignance and emotional depth allowing for a more well-rounded, complete characters. In the past, I would have been put off by a porn game with parents actively raising a young girl, but now, it speaks to me more profoundly as the husband and wife being real people engaged in a real kink. The art is good, albeit limited, and the wife’s voiced dialog is always serving its purpose well, whether being charming, chiding, or wonderfully erotic. Their daughter’s voice is also cute.
The downsides: it’s short, too few choices, and I wanted to throttle the protagonist for so egregiously misreading/ignoring his wife’s desires at one point in the story
. At the very least, I would have appreciated some reckoning with his wife for that particular bone-headed decision on his part.
After playing this, I sincerely felt invested in the happy ending for Kenji and Marina.