Overall vote: 7.5
Ok I'm making this review after giving this game a "second chance".
This game was one of the very next Atelier Sakura games that I've read years ago after Marina 1 (the very first AS game of me and many others).
On my first playthrough at that time I thought this game sucked, the only good thing was that the FEMC was super hot but the rest of it was garbage.
Now years laters after AS has closed so no more AS games RIP and after giving Tomodachi Sex too a second chance i really thought that I should've given this too a second read
Ok let's go bit by bit
• First thing you need to know is that if you wanna read this one you wanna read it for the sex scenes and that's it, if you're someone like me who enjoys a good plot then go somewhere else or if you really are like me a diehard fan of AS then be prepared
• This uses a "really" peculiar sistem.
Like I said you play this game for sex scene and those all happen on the GF POV but to get that you will need to "complete" this game (not too worry it's super short aside from the sex scenes) 3 times.
On first playthrough you are locked on the early bad ending and on your second you get the choice the lead you to the "real" path of the game.
Then you will use the 2nd and 3rd playthrough to simply "check out" the choices of whether you wanna peep on her cheating or listen on her cheating.
And that's it you unlock the GF POV and can now really "enjoy" the fun.
• on my first run years ago the whole plot aspect really bothered me.
The MC is a total masochistic loser cuck!!!
A good chunck of the cucks in the other AS at least have one good ending (alongside bad endings) on which they at least get some justice for themselves ....
I really wanted them to at least add an ending where he beats the shit out of the bull and leaves her gf ...
Anyway on this second run years later after getting more experience (after reading other messed up NTR games) while still being pissed off I can at least look past it.
• even if you don't wanna do multiple "true" endings (which to me is ideal) at least give us a conclusive ending and no what we got here.
That one ending that we got is so open-ended! settles nothing and is another reason people look upon this game with frown.
Even with a bad plot at least a decent ending can salvage things you know.
• The one little "praise" that I can give this plot is that is way different from everything else AS has made, uniqueness is good if done right but here they didn't
• I can honestly say that AS have put all the budget on the sex aspect of this game and zero on the actual plot.
The FEMC is called Sae and she's a nominee of HOTTEST heroine of all AS games!
CGs art too in this game are possibly the best that they ever made! you can truly feel the immense quality that they have poured here.
I could say that no other AS game have had their budget so unbalanced in this regard.
• sex scenes like i said great, maybe a little bit too long and it's a shame cause cutting down the sex scenes a little bit would not have hurt the game AT ALL and they could have done more stuff with MC which is what this game really NEEDED ...
So yeah on one hand everything except the fap material sucks.
On the other hand the quality that this fap material has is perhaps unrivaled within the whole AS catalogue ...
Let me reiterate you got possibly best heroine, best CG art AND best sex scenes here!
It's a shame cause the plot aspect if AS did invest even 1/5 of the fap budget on it, personally it did have some potential ...
Ok I'm making this review after giving this game a "second chance".
This game was one of the very next Atelier Sakura games that I've read years ago after Marina 1 (the very first AS game of me and many others).
On my first playthrough at that time I thought this game sucked, the only good thing was that the FEMC was super hot but the rest of it was garbage.
Now years laters after AS has closed so no more AS games RIP and after giving Tomodachi Sex too a second chance i really thought that I should've given this too a second read
Ok let's go bit by bit
• First thing you need to know is that if you wanna read this one you wanna read it for the sex scenes and that's it, if you're someone like me who enjoys a good plot then go somewhere else or if you really are like me a diehard fan of AS then be prepared
• This uses a "really" peculiar sistem.
Like I said you play this game for sex scene and those all happen on the GF POV but to get that you will need to "complete" this game (not too worry it's super short aside from the sex scenes) 3 times.
On first playthrough you are locked on the early bad ending and on your second you get the choice the lead you to the "real" path of the game.
Then you will use the 2nd and 3rd playthrough to simply "check out" the choices of whether you wanna peep on her cheating or listen on her cheating.
And that's it you unlock the GF POV and can now really "enjoy" the fun.
• on my first run years ago the whole plot aspect really bothered me.
The MC is a total masochistic loser cuck!!!
A good chunck of the cucks in the other AS at least have one good ending (alongside bad endings) on which they at least get some justice for themselves ....
I really wanted them to at least add an ending where he beats the shit out of the bull and leaves her gf ...
Anyway on this second run years later after getting more experience (after reading other messed up NTR games) while still being pissed off I can at least look past it.
• even if you don't wanna do multiple "true" endings (which to me is ideal) at least give us a conclusive ending and no what we got here.
That one ending that we got is so open-ended! settles nothing and is another reason people look upon this game with frown.
Even with a bad plot at least a decent ending can salvage things you know.
• The one little "praise" that I can give this plot is that is way different from everything else AS has made, uniqueness is good if done right but here they didn't
• I can honestly say that AS have put all the budget on the sex aspect of this game and zero on the actual plot.
The FEMC is called Sae and she's a nominee of HOTTEST heroine of all AS games!
CGs art too in this game are possibly the best that they ever made! you can truly feel the immense quality that they have poured here.
I could say that no other AS game have had their budget so unbalanced in this regard.
• sex scenes like i said great, maybe a little bit too long and it's a shame cause cutting down the sex scenes a little bit would not have hurt the game AT ALL and they could have done more stuff with MC which is what this game really NEEDED ...
So yeah on one hand everything except the fap material sucks.
On the other hand the quality that this fap material has is perhaps unrivaled within the whole AS catalogue ...
Let me reiterate you got possibly best heroine, best CG art AND best sex scenes here!
It's a shame cause the plot aspect if AS did invest even 1/5 of the fap budget on it, personally it did have some potential ...