TL;DR Bad story, inconsistent design. Read the old review for a little bit more of my griping. I changed my rating to One Star
So I'm back a few months later. v0.14. I wanted to follow up to see if anything about this has been improved. It hasn't. In fact the quality, especially in season 2 has gone DOWN. It's kind of remarkable, actually. Going back in and reading through everything, I'm positive that all the 5 star reviews are literally just because they saw sex in a "game." There are better places to see it than this VN.
You play as the MC who, no matter what you name him, is called Sunny for a while. Which gets confusing later on because THERE'S ANOTHER CHARACTER NAMED SONNY. REALLY? He has sunny blonde hair, that's why. His mother, Anastassja, gets pregnant by an italian mob boss but wants to focus on her career so she gives her son to her best friend, Valerie, that is a lesbian but wants a kid. Mind you she's married to a man, only on paper, to appease her parents. But the husband wants more, or at least sex so he's mad. It's poorly established that the birth mother doesn't want him to be spoiled and has to know that the world is cruel(?). And Valerie loves the MC unconditionally from the moment she sees him and all is perfect.
Three years later, Valerie and MC (I really don't want to say "you" because at no point did it feel like there was room for a self insert.) are happy and fine, however, the husband is still grumpy that Val only likes women and won't sleep with him. So he gets MC sent to a religious boarding school so he doesn't have to have you around. Valerie is hurt, MC is sad, the birth mother, Nat is upset to have to do that to you, and it tries to push itself as being a tragic backstory. But the dialog, writing, and engrish are so bad that you can't feel anything for these characters.
EVENTUALLY MC runs away from the school at 14 or so, and go to California, because he heard his mother was a model that lives there. Oh, I almost forgot, the writing doesn't let you forget that all the women are super attractive, or models, or just the pinnacle of human beauty. Anyway. MC makes it to Cali, and lives under a lifeguard tower for like a day. Then suddenly a young couple, Kelly and Gissell, find you and adopt MC on the spot because they are a carefree hippy couple but Kelly is also a super soldier that trains MC to fight? And MC has a happy life until Kelly dies at sea, Gissell mourns him and never loves again, but somehow MC still becomes god's gift to women. A long haired muscle clad adonis, with a psychology degree, trained in physical therapy, all yoga and erotic arts and whatever else needs to be Mary-Sue'd into the MC. When MC goes to get a job, miraculously, it's with Valerie. Who MC doesn't remember, and she's too depressed to remember MC.
THAT is 90% of the story in this. And I like to think I told it pretty well. The issue is all of that is written and established like total garbage in game. Also all of that is told before all the sex scenes. I mention that because this game jumps through sex scenes all the time. Which wouldn't be a bad thing if they didn't play out the exact same way every time: MC meets the girl, says one or two nice things, the girl voraciously throws herself at MC, you get one or two, if you're lucky, sex animation loops, the girl squirts (The game makes sure to point that out) and MC finishes inside her. Then she falls in love with him. EVERY SINGLE WOMAN in this game is either a virgin or pseudo virgin. Meaning before MC they've never felt pleasure from anything sex related and MC has descended from the heavens to have sex with them.
On top of all of that, the game changes its interface or style three times. It goes from Dating sim; Earning points with love interest of choice. To Kinetic Novel; Choosing yes or no to which girls you want to magically fall in love with you. And finally to a Sandbox in this latest update; You jump around to whichever girl you want to see content with. And in the latest update there's no repeatable content. So don't waste time making a new UI.
The scene quality goes down in season two as well. The MC goes back to his birth mother's family in Ukraine, and the textures and environment models are hilariously bad. The ground texture in the car workshop was probably a 240x240 image stretched out. And then when you make it to you grandmother's home, it's actually made out of construction paper. Not to mention the story "progress." The MC is essentially in a shadowy mob family that controls the world's wealth but only believe in incest. But as soon as thats thrust upon the MC it doesn't matter when he brings up his girlfriend. And this game really drive that incest thing. I think there is three different levels of that fetish. Your mother, Nat. Step-Mother, Val. And adoptive older sister/mother type, Gissell. And those aren't the only ones. And they try to do the whole "PLEASE TYPE YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THIS CHARACTER" thing. BUT ONE OF THE CHARACTERS GIVES BIRTH TO YOU. I don't get why people are into it so much. But whatever that's the prominent fetish and it never shut up about it.
I don't ask for much in these games, I just don't like when the story is just the MC walking 12 steps and tripping over sex. And all of the renders make the characters give the player the dumbest, most condescending looks through the whole story. And once again I wrote this long review, and if anyone made it this far into the review, you won't like the story to this game. You might laugh at the facial animations because there awful. And if you really need to see DAZ models having sex just download the program yourself, because this story doesn't add anything.
