(Review of S2 v7.00)
First things first, I didn't intend to play this because of the school setting coupled with a sandbox format. Both tags are in my list of red flags for boring stuff to avoid because they're such a beaten path, and the fact that I found my favourite LI (Sophie) right from the start contributed to kill what little incentive I had. However, I'm
moderately happy I finally decided to give this a vote of confidence instead of uninstalling it.
***
Short: an AVN where the good makes up (mostly) for the bad.
Long:
Visuals are very good. but animations in particular is where this game excels. They may not be perfect (because nothing ever is...) but they get close and I dare say the best I've found so far overall. Not only are they aesthetically pleasant but they come with excellent sound support, including the moans, the screams, the slaps... all of it in perfect sync. They are smooth and instead of being segmented with icons to select angles or poses, the camera rotates on its own at regular intervals to show the best angles, and all of this happens without skipping a frame. Kudos to the developer team for this feat and the work behind it, but if I may, here are two suggestions to turn excellence into awesomeness:
1. If you're under the effects of viagra and absolutely desperate for release into a willing partner you don't fuck at "normal" speed (where "normal" is actually quite slow in most adult games compared to RL anyway).
I mean specifically a forced facefuck with certain aunt. That animation in particular felt botched and a blemish in the middle of stunning animation work for the most part.
2. Please, FFS can some animator get creampies right and mimic Illusion at their best? The moment the MC cums he should jerk in and out several times at different rates. Yes, I know this isn't necessarily realistic and yes, it would pose significant extra work but it's certainly
way more exciting and fulfilling than simply seeing the dick out as the last static render and a couple of "aahhhhs" and "ooohhs" in the text box. I don't care if this is an extra for patrons only and I never get to see them, I know and you know that I'm right.
Some animations shouldn't be there at all. Nearly the end of S2 V7.00 you hate the guts of Olivia and yet you keep staring at her ass in the kitchen? Really...?
There's not a single "I love you" in the whole game from the part of the MC, too many times he behaves like a robot, walking away totally detached from his partner as a sex scene is over.
The one where he finally beds Sophie is particularly anticlimatic, but then again that scene is already ruined by the way it ends; this screwup alone should be grounds for a -20% penalty in the rating, I was royally disappointed.
Plot holes.
The most serious one is clearly Henry cheating Sophie. I mean, sure, that paves the way for the MC to step in and get her but seriously, what male with a working brain would give Sophie of all people a cold shoulder? Come on, you can do better than this.
There's also the way Olivia for the second time tries (and manages, because we aren't given an option) to
coerce the MC into helping her *again* to get into Cynthia's pants. I mean, at that point I felt seriously tempted to quit. If the MC can become a retard in a matter of minutes I can only deduct the scriptwriter was replaced at some point or something along those lines, otherwise I can't fathom how the plot could be ruined this fast by a character who at that point I'd remove from the game without a second thought if I could. This is a very poor writing decision and one of the key reasons for this game not to deserve 5 stars in my book. I'm positive the person responsible is also related to the misplaced erotic stuff I mentioned above about Olivia. I'd call names but I don't want this review to be removed after all the time I spent on this.
The part with the absurd TV contest could be removed entirely. You save time and filesize and the game spares us the embarrassment of a totally idiotic and superfluous sequence of events. Make it an outtake if you will but be sure to axe it.
At a certain point the MC and Sophie are about to fuck in the couch and end up cockblocked, then the next day Sophie is all self-conscious when both are together in the shower? WTF?
Some minor bugs I found, as a public service:
(1) When Cynthia messages the MC rushing him to be ready to go shopping, the last three messages are wrongly attributed to the MC.
(2) The thoughts of Rose after Mrs. Williams's "demonstration" to the MC are expressed as dialogue.
(3) The task of speaking to the three girls at home after the "issue" with Henry is assigned to you too soon, resulting in the task being flagged as failed, then as done the next day or whenever you finally get to it.
(4) Around the time the "issue" with Henry happens there's a scene in the kitchen with the MC and Sophie viewed from above. One of the renders here makes the MC look taller than Sophie, then he looks normal again.
(5) The face of the PE teacher makes her look like an alien at a certain point while she's confronted with Sarah's new look.
(6) For some unknown reason rolling back takes way too long.
(7) After walking Rose home you "teleport" back to college.
(8) Having a single option show up in a modal way that you have to click to proceed is wrong; there should be at least two options, or none at all. It gets tiresome having to click a single option several times while in a long dialogue when there's really no point in having them in the first place.
Despite all the flaws, I recommend this game for MILF lovers and those with student/teacher fantasies. Not all the teachers are great but I assure you at the very least one of them won't disappoint.
That's it.
