I’ve been holding on reviewing this game for a while, because it’s quite difficult to cover everything. I figured the best (and longest) way to tackle this is to start off with generalizations that apply to the whole game, and then make separate sections addressing each chapter.
General Points:
The game covers the life of Max, from his sex awakening in his youth, to a grown businessman. The plot is nothing to write home about, as this is very much a fuckfest kind of game. The general structure consists of: Max meets a girl -> girl is in trouble -> Max helps said girl -> gets laid as a reward. The exception to this is Max’s family members, whose corruption is slower and more satisfactory.
The game follows a sandbox structure, but there is barely any grinding. However, you cannot avoid any girls. The game will offer a few storylines to progress, but you will have to finish them all to unlock the next batch of progression options.
The huge cast of LIs is a double-edged sword: on one hand, the game does a fantastic job of having a girl to cater to just about any taste. On another hand, the only girls that consistently get content are Max’s family members. If there’s another girl outside of that circle that you enjoy, you will be waiting for content for a while.
Now, to finally address the elephant in the room: the NTR. Let me start by saying I’ll be using the term “NTR” because the game itself uses it. Whether or not this game has NTR at all is debatable, depending on one’s own definition. What’s featured here is most definitely sharing though. The game has an “NTR switch”, which enables or disables the sharing content. Therefore, sharing is optional, but eventually it takes over as the focal point of the game. We’ll get to that.
CH 1:
Chapter 1 got a remake, and a damn good one at that. This is the whole “coming of age” arc, as Max starts his sexual endeavors. Here, the cast of characters are small enough that each girl is memorable, and the family members are still on their slow burn phase. The graphics are pretty good for a HS game, the character models are great, and there’s a few custom animations to make the sex scenes stand out. The dev also makes great use of different camera angles for the sex scenes (this remains true for the whole game).
As for the handling of NTR, this part does it very well. Sharing scenes are mainly for the less important LIs. Each sharing scene always has a non-sharing counterpart, and you can choose between the 2 versions even if you have NTR enabled. So, if there’s a particular girl you don’t mind sharing, but another you want to keep exclusive, you can (this remains true for CH 1 – CH 3).
CH 1 is a great experience, highly recommended.
Score: 5/5
CH 2:
Ch. 2 really shows why Ch. 1 needed a remake in the first place. It looks bad, it’s very buggy and there’s no hints, so a walkthrough is pretty much required. There was a time skip, so the girls went through redesigns that look substantially worse. There are no custom animations, and the sex scenes auto-play even if you don’t click anything.
I’ve met 2 progression-halting bugs. The first one I could circumvent, but the second one I couldn’t do anything about, and I had to skip the chapter. It’s a shame too, because story-wise, the most important moments happen here, but I had to watch them from a gallery…
Score: 1/5
CH. 3:
This is more in line with Ch. 1. Girls went through another redesign, which look much better than Ch. 2. The renders and animations are good again, there are clear hints for progression, and not many bugs that I can recall.
While Ch. 3 is pretty good, and still focuses mostly on Max, it plants a lot of controversial seeds. With the climax of the story done in Ch.2, with Max having sex with his whole family, it seems the dev wanted to do a “soft restart”. New family members get introduced and move in with Max. These are an aunt, her son and daughter. The girls represent another couple family members to go through the same corruption process the others went, while the cousin Steve is meant to go though the same “coming of age” arc Max did, and Max is placed in a “mentor” role. While Steve is a likable enough guy, shy and inexperienced at first, his introduction predictably leads to much of the controversy regarding the NTR vs non-NTR debate surrounding this game.
Score: 4/5
Ch. 4:
Visually, and technically, its not too different from Ch.3. Characters look great, sex scenes are great. What ramped up significantly was the depravity factor, for better or worse.
This is where I argue the game stopped being a harem game with NTR elements to becoming an NTR game struggling to keep the vanilla fanbase happy.
While up to Ch.3, the game squarely focused on Max, in here it seems most of the new developments are supposed to happen to Steve. Some developments already happened between Steve and his mom in Ch.3, but here Steve is just out to fuck Max’s whole family (with his consent; like I said, it’s sharing). The supposed main draw of the plot is less about what Max is doing and more about “when is Steve going to fuck X family member?”.
To further back up the point, the game no longer allows you to choose which version of the scene you want to see. If you have NTR enabled, you will automatically share everyone. That is because there are elaborate plotlines dedicated to Steve and who he fucks, so maintaining continuity while juggling between the 2 modes would be very difficult. Also, not every NTR scene has a vanilla counterpart anymore. For the non-NTR version, most of the NTR scenes are just cut, meaning the NTR path simply has more content.
All of this makes the non-sharing path feel very much like an awkward, stitched together edit of the full game (the NTR version). Things often bleed through, with girls getting very touchy with other dudes while naked, plus a handful of obvious cuts where the NTR event is supposed to happen.
More important than any of this is the fact that if you’re not experiencing Steve’s sexual conquests, there’s not much going on with Max. He’s just having the same sex with the same girls he always has. The sex scenes grow stale, and for a fuckfest game like this, it’s a big problem.
Score: 3/5
Ch. 5:
Ch. 5 seems to be the final one, and it’s mostly about closure. Max is running around trying to make all his many sex friends feel special, which does lead to some sweet moments. But once again, same girls, same sex. Meanwhile, Steve and now Max’s own grandpa are turning the whole family into a free-for-all orgy. While I think Max’s handling here is a bit better than it was on Ch.4, pretty much everything still applies, and fatigue of a very long game has set in.
Score: 3/5
Conclusion:
I really didn’t mean to write a “sharing bad” kind of review, but I feel a solid chunk of your enjoyment will ride on that. Ultimately, apart from chapter 2, this is a good, mindless fap game. It looks good, models are great, lots of women variety, and tons of sex. The staleness problem towards the end should be less of an issue if you get excited by the sharing stuff.
Avg. Score: 3.2/5
sorry, but I simply can't stand this type of searching in the dark to progress a game.
