This is maybe the most interesting game I've ever reviewed.
Disclaimer: I enjoy femdom, I enjoy certain extreme kinks if the context/story is right. I believe a femdom relationship, while able to have uncomfortable and even brutal moments, is still at heart based on love between two people.
Pros:
-Its a finished game. In a world where every game is either abandoned, or on hold, or you doubt it'll ever actually finish...this game is a finished story.
-The story takes its time and is a slow burn at the start; builds anticipation well.
-No minigames, just story and action scenes. The scenes were all fine to me.
-The first 2-3 chapters were awesome
-The usage of multiple different aspects to femdom, including some more extreme ones, even if I'm not a personal fan of some.
-Having multiple endings...but(continued)
Cons:
-(continued)...specific endings can be hard to understand how to reach (I struggled on what choices make the wife good/bad)
-the players loses control of actual decisions almost immediately; Players being able to control what fetishes they want to see is awesome and there mostly, but you have no control of the story, and that's a problem...
-it is hard to be a passenger and not intervene on some of the stupider decisions. It's more frustrating due to the MC being a legendary idiot
-(biggest con by a mile) the wife is a complete psychopath too quickly, and is cajoled into it by two rough characters...
-...the mother character is hard to take seriously, she doesn't seem human. the best friend/boss is fine, but the wife becomes essentially a copy of her over night, despite being a completely different person at the start.
The first 2-3 chapters are the femdom game genre at it's peak. A woman discovering her dominant side, and a (sadly slow-minded, because otherwise this doesn't work) man who plays along in service of being loyal. This is my kind of story. A wife discovering dominance and a relucant husband resisting it, but eventually choosing to go with it for love. If you play this part, then bypass your way to the final 20-30 frames of the good ending, the story can be satisfying.
The problems start in the later chapters. They're extreme, and I'm not talking about the kinks either. The wife becomes monstrous insanely fast, and never has any qualities of redemption after. That's makes it hard to stomach. The game goes from an erotic femdom love story to something unerotic, hard to watch, and one the player can't control. At some point, it stopped being a porn game, and became a prayer by me that there would be redemption for any character at all...
I've seen the story-writing get knocked in other reviews, but I have to commend it.
There's warnings all over that this is extreme. I simply thought that meant the fetishes, not the story beats.
I'd love a remake of Moving Down that makes the wife's turn more controllable / gradual / believable.
As said above, femdom relationships to me are at a core still built on love; which makes anything that happens after the beginning hard to believe/stomach/enjoy. Some (2) of the endings are good though, at least for my part.
All that said, the components of this game make it arguably the best of the femdom genre that I've seen thus far, and with the same art, style, animations, and more control of the story, it would be the best. I just wish the wife had more options than completely unhinged evil surrounded by evil influence, because