Review on v0.6e
Really conflicted on this one, some good stuff but IMO also a lot of bad stuff.
Pros:
+ Great visuals, including good rendering and good sex animation
+ Heaps of different women to have storylines with
+ Sandbox style where you can choose which storyline to pursue first
Cons:
- The MC looks like an underdeveloped preteen without any sort of muscles or body hair and is like half a head shorter than many women in the story, really offputting to me (plus his weird Justin Bieber hair, yuck, just makes him look like a girl)
- Because of the sandbox style, the storylines of the different women seem just not interconnected enough, for example, the relationship with one sister should at least somewhat inform the relationship with the other, but there's none of that which gives it a really unrealistic vibe, the polyamorous nature of the MC never really being explained or rationalised.
- Personally, just not a huge fan of the inherent ickiness of incest, don't know why apparently so many people like it, but especially so if that sort of dilemma is the only thing that sustains these incestuous relationships; characters seem to discuss nothing else than how problematic their relationship is. If you're gonna do incest, just do it, don't spend the whole game fretting about it.
- Same sort of thing, the whole revenge thing the MC has going on with the teach, yeah, not a huge fan. In these cases, the misogyny of the dev just jumps too clearly out to me. The teacher might be a bit too gleeful in her rejection of the MC, but still, the rejection is simply the most realistic part. For him to go on his frankly disturbing revenge quest (even proposed by his therapist, like what? Has the dev ever actually been to therapy?) is just not warranted and I can't get into it.
- Seems like this game has been in development since forever, not looking like there'll be new updates, so unfortunately many of the storylines are just cut off at a weird moment.
- If you're not using Lain's mod (which I would recommend), look forward to a lot of pointless grinding with memory games. I don't hate grinding, but it really depends on the amount and on the inherent enjoyability of the activity. Wasn't really well done in this case.
Might continue with this game if there were any more updates, mainly because of the good graphics, and the hints that future sexual partners are neither family members nor will the MC pursue them by revenge, but I don't see myself replaying the game otherwise.
It's in any case not better than so many other games like it. Try Man of the House if something like this is your thing. Or literally dozens of other, better ones.