Review for v3
After playing through this, the advice I want to give right off the bat is to not go in expecting something that's going to blow you away with amazing writing and a good story etc etc. Odds are this won't do that for you. If you go in knowing that, I think you'll enjoy the game more.
This is your basic cookie cutter sandbox game. Incest, college setting, and you're returning to town after being gone for awhile. You've probably heard this before. Nothing in this game so far is really new or original. Innocent sexually frustrated mom, younger sister who loves you, older sister who hates you, flirty aunt, you get the idea. I could look past all of that personally, but this combined with the writing is what made it lose stars for me.
The writing isn't especially atrocious, it's just very bland. Nothing the characters say is that interesting, no real depth to anyone yet beyond the basic personality tropes. The MC isn't even really insufferable, he just doesn't have much of a personality. He basically talks and acts like a typical college student, which again is just kinda boring at the end of the day.
On the plus side the renders are really good and are probably this games saving grace. I liked most of the character models, and the animations aren't bad either. Some people will be put off by the sandbox element, but you're given pretty clear direction and the game plays pretty linear right now. I would like to be given more freedom honestly, but maybe it's working up to that. The sex scenes are pretty good overall, but most of lewd scenes so far are either dreams or the MC using his imagination.
I also find the constant goofy noises really annoying and distracting, and using the same basic song every time there is any type of lewd scene gets old fast. This is being worked on by 7 people "that have three or more years of game development experience." I would expect the dialogue and story to be much better to reflect that. Even if this is suppose to be a more casual game, that doesn't mean stuff like that needs to be slacked on imo.
I still somewhat enjoyed the game despite how critical my review is. It's rather early in development so I'm being optimistic for now and hope the parts I didn't like get better.