This game DLC was pretty average.
SPOILERS (though honestly, the only surprise in this story is that there is none!)
It starts off pretty well, but fails to bring across the coldness and desperation of the snowstorm the majority of the game plays in. It's really the little things there that don't add up:
Why are the zippers of the jackets down when it's so cold? Why are they having sex fully naked or pee with their trousers off, having sex on top of the snow without EVER mentioning that it MIGHT be cold. You know, because that's what this whole thing should be about? People freezing to death...
I expected necessary closeness in order to not freeze to death resulting in sexual tension that the protagonist feels morally conflicted about, not Sammy (the younger sister) offering sex and then pretending like they're in front of the chimney when there's not even sleeping bags in the tent!!
Overall this all felt more like the gf being lost in a holiday resort rather than in a terrible snowstorm. Doesn't help that the narrator puts away any possible suspension by letting us know before the story even starts that our gf is fine!
And what is this whole other story even? I expected the guy that picked her up to be a mass murderer and the note the sister slips the protagonist to say "he'll kill you when you're asleep!", not just "cum in my room" for an additional optional sex scene that adds NOTHING to the plot! Just like EVERY other sex scene!
"Well, if you don't like the story, why don't you write a better one?"
I will! And mind you this is not refined, but still way better than what we get! Here's how the story could've gone:
- No mention of Zoey's well-being, the player actually doesn't know whether she's dead or not. This way he doesn't just role his eyes when characters mention they're worried when he clearly knows they're fine.
- Everybody is wrapped up tight as they begin wandering the snowstorm. Appropriate snowstorm filters on the pictures, cold breath when they're speaking or even breathing.
- Actual survival gameplay! Choices that determine whether the player has a confortable place to sleep and food at night!
- Sexual tension when sleeping in the same bag! Choices of treating her good which results in her trying to seduce the player or making her feel a burden and unwanted: In that case the player can force himself onto her, making her aware on how dependent she is on him for survival.
The sis would cry, but broken as she is accept it as her new duty to be the player's fucktoy as that's all she's good at on this expedition! Cuckqueaning option when the player mentions she's only fucking her until he finds her sister!
- Traces of Zoey (gf) like baggage that got too heavy, blood etc., keeping the mc and sis uncertain whether she's still alive!
- When they finally find her, it's like in the game with her being in a guy's hut with his two daughters.
- They think everything is fine and the story ends (happy music and party!), but it turns out the guy she stayed with thought he could just keep Zoey as a sex slave once she has healed her wounds. The two "daughters" with him are other girls he abducted: One is already completely brainwashed (Stockholm Syndrome etc.), the other one is only pretending and helps the protagonists killing off the psychopath!
This story would be fun to play because it's exciting, has options besides sex/skip sex! There's the potential of nice-evil options like demanding upfront sex for helping the girls, raping blindfolded and chained Zoey in the basement while pretending to be the captivator, sacrificing the little sis to get raped by by the captivator as a distraction instead of interfering to safe the sis from the basement!
SPOILERS END
This story has so much potential! But as it is, it's flat as the netherland and it sucks!
Now, why 2 stars and not 1? Half a star is for the overall decent sex scene graphics (though it would've been sooooo much better with options, even if it had just been dialogue!). Another half goes to me feeling sorry for the sis when she reveals her concerns of only ever getting an abusive husband if ever. It really hurt my feels because it felt true. Also The sis has actual character besides the gf which is just very boring (albeit pretty) overall.