Oh boy this one came out of nowhere. Premise you can kind of guess just from the title; the quality of the writing , scenes, and dialogue though was the most surprising to me however.
Firstly the characters. Unique as they are, it's effects/expressions of the characters is really impressive, kind of like the single scenes you'd see of people who really know their stuff in Koikatsu, or at the very least customize features to give it a different look than generic Koikatsu look; about time we see some of it in-game. The main character Riko is a pretty shy and feminine guy, and while normally you'd see them coupled with all very bold heroines, that isn't the case here which is nice. It does take some time to get used to the MC's eye being visible though the hair(Which normally I don't see but given their hair and the various angles I kind of see why it was necessary for some angles). The other characters introduced are pretty varied in personality and appearance; it was really hard to pick a favorite from the get-go, but as it went on I was a fan of Eri; her dialogue and expressions in the last event were really fun to read.
The story is pretty straightforward, I think the writing of dialogue carries it through though pretty well. If it makes sense to say, it reads more like a Japanese VN than a Western VN in terms of dialogue, and I don't mean that in the badly translated way. Rather, onomatopeias, archtypes, and the sort of flow in scenes are sort of what you'd expect in an anime are present here. A couple times I would see a scene and think this is almost exactly what an artist would have drawn had this been a Japanese VN. Honestly more than the genre (Of Futas) I think that's what currently sets it apart; though I'm sure it's the Futas that will bring people here first.
Only gripe I have is the affection seems to be needlessly long to get the next event, whether unintentional or to pad playing time, in an open-world kind of game it just means I hold CTRL through affection grinding events I've seen before, so I hope next update that gets fixed. No full on lewd scenes yet, which despite my impatience with the affection grinding, I have no problem with a slow burn affection system.
All-in-all, pretty happy with this, and after reading their plans it seems like they have a good idea where the story is going. Excited to see where this goes with future updates.
Firstly the characters. Unique as they are, it's effects/expressions of the characters is really impressive, kind of like the single scenes you'd see of people who really know their stuff in Koikatsu, or at the very least customize features to give it a different look than generic Koikatsu look; about time we see some of it in-game. The main character Riko is a pretty shy and feminine guy, and while normally you'd see them coupled with all very bold heroines, that isn't the case here which is nice. It does take some time to get used to the MC's eye being visible though the hair(Which normally I don't see but given their hair and the various angles I kind of see why it was necessary for some angles). The other characters introduced are pretty varied in personality and appearance; it was really hard to pick a favorite from the get-go, but as it went on I was a fan of Eri; her dialogue and expressions in the last event were really fun to read.
The story is pretty straightforward, I think the writing of dialogue carries it through though pretty well. If it makes sense to say, it reads more like a Japanese VN than a Western VN in terms of dialogue, and I don't mean that in the badly translated way. Rather, onomatopeias, archtypes, and the sort of flow in scenes are sort of what you'd expect in an anime are present here. A couple times I would see a scene and think this is almost exactly what an artist would have drawn had this been a Japanese VN. Honestly more than the genre (Of Futas) I think that's what currently sets it apart; though I'm sure it's the Futas that will bring people here first.
Only gripe I have is the affection seems to be needlessly long to get the next event, whether unintentional or to pad playing time, in an open-world kind of game it just means I hold CTRL through affection grinding events I've seen before, so I hope next update that gets fixed. No full on lewd scenes yet, which despite my impatience with the affection grinding, I have no problem with a slow burn affection system.
All-in-all, pretty happy with this, and after reading their plans it seems like they have a good idea where the story is going. Excited to see where this goes with future updates.