I've played My Dear Diary: Futa Desires [v2.0] [Sofia xxx] , so here's a review of it.
I found this game to be quite on the average side. It has some good parts going for it, but the story and character development needs some work. There is also very limited player interaction, which also drags down the score. The game would've been a solid 2, if it was tagged as a Kinetic novel. But since it isn't I rate it as a game that believes it has choice, but in reality offers none. That detracts 1 point, leaving it at 1 stars.
If what you want from a game is essentially a porn video with mouse clicks and FUTA content, then this game is definitely for you.
No pregnancy content
The reason I found this game was because of the pregnancy tag I suppose. However if you come here for the pregnancy content, then you'd be sorely disappointed. This game features a lot of talking about pregnancy - well, mostly Noras (the MC), thoughts about impregnating Jin, but not actually any pregnancy content yet.
Kinetic novel - very little player interaction
Although the game is a VN, I would argue that it should have the additional tag of "Kinetic Novel". The reason behind it is, that the choices that is far made has very little to no impact on the story. This may of course change at some point in the future, but so far this is what it is - a novel that you look through, but don't really interact with.
Poor story writing and shallow characters.
I play porn games because they offer a story where I can become invested in the events or characters. To become invested in any such story, some "suspension of disbelief" is necessary. This is something that the player/audience and the developer/instructor create together. The developer must provide a scenario and characters that is at least somewhat believable and the audience must on the other hand buy in on some of it.
I found that the characters in this story are hard to "buy in on". Jin is borderline retarded in my opinion and her perception is close to that of a blind, deaf and lame person. There are multiple times that Jin should've noticed that something was up, for instance when they briefly wrestled or when Jin surprised Nora with morning sex. These close encounters would've been interesting ways of implementing player choice - how do you handle this , how do Nora avoid getting "uncovered" and how does she deal with these situations. Lastly, it would've been a great avenue to develop Jin and Noras relationship.
Nora seems hell-bend on impregnating Jin, which really is the only character depth she has. While you do get some options of avoiding pregnancy, I would much rather have liked decisions where Nora could interact with friends who would give her advice - and where Nora could reflect why she wants this so badly, and why she can't be open about it.
I'm aware that not every porn game needs to be a deep story with emotional characters and whatnot. On the other hand, I personally find very little point in playing games that is a porn-film but with mouse clicking.
So, for those of you just want the summary:
The Good
The In-between
The Bad
I found this game to be quite on the average side. It has some good parts going for it, but the story and character development needs some work. There is also very limited player interaction, which also drags down the score. The game would've been a solid 2, if it was tagged as a Kinetic novel. But since it isn't I rate it as a game that believes it has choice, but in reality offers none. That detracts 1 point, leaving it at 1 stars.
If what you want from a game is essentially a porn video with mouse clicks and FUTA content, then this game is definitely for you.
No pregnancy content
The reason I found this game was because of the pregnancy tag I suppose. However if you come here for the pregnancy content, then you'd be sorely disappointed. This game features a lot of talking about pregnancy - well, mostly Noras (the MC), thoughts about impregnating Jin, but not actually any pregnancy content yet.
Kinetic novel - very little player interaction
Although the game is a VN, I would argue that it should have the additional tag of "Kinetic Novel". The reason behind it is, that the choices that is far made has very little to no impact on the story. This may of course change at some point in the future, but so far this is what it is - a novel that you look through, but don't really interact with.
Poor story writing and shallow characters.
I play porn games because they offer a story where I can become invested in the events or characters. To become invested in any such story, some "suspension of disbelief" is necessary. This is something that the player/audience and the developer/instructor create together. The developer must provide a scenario and characters that is at least somewhat believable and the audience must on the other hand buy in on some of it.
I found that the characters in this story are hard to "buy in on". Jin is borderline retarded in my opinion and her perception is close to that of a blind, deaf and lame person. There are multiple times that Jin should've noticed that something was up, for instance when they briefly wrestled or when Jin surprised Nora with morning sex. These close encounters would've been interesting ways of implementing player choice - how do you handle this , how do Nora avoid getting "uncovered" and how does she deal with these situations. Lastly, it would've been a great avenue to develop Jin and Noras relationship.
Nora seems hell-bend on impregnating Jin, which really is the only character depth she has. While you do get some options of avoiding pregnancy, I would much rather have liked decisions where Nora could interact with friends who would give her advice - and where Nora could reflect why she wants this so badly, and why she can't be open about it.
I'm aware that not every porn game needs to be a deep story with emotional characters and whatnot. On the other hand, I personally find very little point in playing games that is a porn-film but with mouse clicking.
So, for those of you just want the summary:
The Good
- The models are a bit lifeless, but otherwise pretty.
- The sexual content is fine, and you quickly get to it.
- Lots of FUTA stuff, and secrecy about it if you like that.
The In-between
- Once you've seen a couple of sex scenes it becomes a bit repetitive.
- Skip is disallowed unless you've already seen the scene.
- The text not great but not completely horrible either.
The Bad
- It is a missed opportunity that the relationship between Nora and Jin isn't developed more.
- It would have been great with player choices in those moments where Nora is almost discovered.
- In combination with the above; Jin seems too oblivious, and it would've been nice with some suspicion, player interaction and character relations development.
- Jin is oblivious to the point where leaking cum apparently isn't a thing because the MC "scoops it out", the smell and so on..
- Only talking about the pregnancy content - no real content yet.
- Very few player choices. Fewer still that has an impact.
- This is an untagged kinetic novel.