Okay, I played and I have something to say. Even though I'm going to post most negative points, keep in mind that the positive outweight the negative by a landslide.
a) I don't like how we didn't have a choice on using the power on Rose's father, and one to ignore the mc completely on top of that. That's why I rarely play anything with mind control, because of brainwashing tactics like this, it's just a cheap shot. The mc already read minds, just have a conversation with him without power and blackmail, he can know exactly what to say instead changing someone else's behavior.
b) There's a point at the mc's house where you choose to be a slave or for Emilie be a slave. I wish that was a third option "don't use power", because I didn't want either of those two available. I tested both routes extensively and if you are a slave, you sat on the chair during the birthday party and you rarely interact with the girls. If you choose Emilie to be a slave, she's the one that seats on the chair and barely participates. I wish that was a third option where we are all together and no power involved.
c) This one hurts the most, you have to use power on the mother to watch her masturbate, seriously, my heart sank a little during that scene. I understand that no mother would just let you watch her masturbate out of nowhere, but I think at that point in the story, the writing should have pushed her in that direction. For example, that scene where she caught the mc masturbating, they should have talked about it, raising her corruption, destroying a little bit of that barrier. Also, The mc should have told her that he found the box of her toys and ask her about the function of each toy, that would be another brick of the barrier down. Maybe another random scene in the bathroom here and there as well, so by the time you reach the masturbation scene, the mc could have said to her that's he's having difficulty in pleasing a woman and ask for a lesson just like Mia did. She could feel bad and allow him to watch.
I have more to say, but I will post tomorrow, I promise it won't be all negative, but as you can see, all my issues so far has been because of the power, I hate using them, which I was dreading in the first place. But like I said in the beginning, the pros way outweight the cons.
Okay, back for more.
I gotta give credit to the dev for not going down on the same trope most of the devs go by creating a sibling rivalry. It's just so tiring when you play a game and your sister is a freaking bitch towards you for no reason, it's so overdone. I had sibling rivalry growing up, BUT I WAS 10, but on these games we are all suppose be 18+ man(rant over). Getting back on track here, Mia, what a trooper, I just love her, mc and her not only get along well, they openly talk to each other about sex. She's mature enough, there's no "what's an orgasm?" kinda crap from younger sisters that we see in some games. Even though I'm a mommy's boy in games, Mia so far is my favorite, of course it's because we have a lot more scenes with her than the milf. Regardless, she's great, although she was terribly missed at the apartment's party
. With her, I'm letting her experience as much as she possibly can with the characters (including the mc) and I'm quite happy with her route so far, even the unexpected sex, I was shocked but pleased. An exception for her route it's her birthday party like I posted previously where the mc or Emilie has to be more absent of the fun.
Elise, the game try to push her hard into the mc and I rejected her as much as possible, I don't want to get between her and Steve, I'm not sure if that's part of the plot or because I told her to be careful with Steve in the beginning of the game, I didn't know what I was choosing back then and I'm too lazy to replay from the beginning to find out.
Rose, she's so awesome and I try to be with her as much as possible. As an ass man, we fucker her ass twice at the party, what more could I possibly want? Of course I will always choose Mia and mother over her, no doubt about it.
Bao, I'm indifferent about her, I didn't have sex with her at the party because I think you have to use your powers at some point and I just played clean, not a big loss for me. Not to mention, we will probably have a chance with her as a reward for winning, but like I said, I'm indifferent about her, so it doesn't matter.
Emilie, I like her and I pushed for her relationship with Mia, I just wish we could have a better relationship without the slave route non sense.
Kate (mom), always my main goal in games and as long as I get to be with her as well, let her enjoy the others as much as she can. I know she's been having someone on the side and I hope we get to see it in action soon
. The only thing I'm sad about her is that we used the powers on her. I was hoping for something more organic like it went down with Mia. Also, here's hoping the next party is at their house with her present.
Okay, that brings me back to some of the choices that we are blindly making in the game. A big one is have the father separate or not from the mother. Without context, I have no idea which one fits my play style. On my save, I have them separate because I find it hotter that the mother's seeing someone on the side, since I don't know if she's going to stop seeing that person if they get back together. It would be ideal if the dev was more clear on these kind of choices, some sort of a hint. If having the father back and nothing change between the mother's affair, I would choose to keep the father, the more the merrier I would say. Or the most importantly, have a third option to keep as is.
That was another choice that I would like to talk about it but I forgot which. Either way, this is already too long. As for the game, even though I hate doing some of those scummy power choices, most of the game it's pretty great. From awesome character designs to down to earth personalities and most important on my books, family setting, I'm definitely keep an eye on this one. You just got a subscriber dev.
