My Pleasure starts out pretty ok for your typical family themed VN (applying the patch is recommended). The MC has to stay for several days at his aunt's house where the MC also meets his cousin, the scumbag current partner of the aunt, plus several friends of the family. The usual things happen, nothing that will surprise anyone. And of course the aunt's boyfriend is a complete scumbag and the first half or so of the VN is about two things: getting closer to the aunt, cousin and various other characters and exposing how much of a scumbag the partner of the aunt is.
But then the VN dramatically shifts direction when the MC returns back to his mother's house. While the aunt, cousin and a few side characters follow the MC to this new setting the focus is now put on the mother. The plot about the scumbag friend of the aunt is mostly left behind and instead the MC will interact with the various love interests. Eventually the mother can no longer contain her feelings (that she has for no apparent reason, just like the MC) and you can guess the rest.
And a weird and completely unneeded sideplot about quasi supernatural dreams that the MC, the mother and a side character share is introduced. This plot serves no purpose at all and is entirely skipworthy. It's a waste of resources.
There are also various non canonical holiday events in the VN, you can skip them entirely or play them if you like. They offer the usual but none of the scenes actually happen. Maybe the effort should have been spent on furthering the actual plot instead of non canonical special events? The holiday scenes are nice though, so that's at least that.
The renders are ok or even good, they are a bit overexposed, especially early in the game. There is music and background sound effects. The music is pretty good and the sound effects (ambient noise) are fine. Animations are merely "ok", they are fluid but not very long, the chosen camera angles are also not always that great, but the scenes do their job.
All in all My Pleasure could have been a really good experience but it falls prey to various grave mistakes so many other VNs also have.
Early in the game you do get choices for various characters, you can even reject a few. But once the MC moves back in his mother's house much of that is abandoned.
There are a few unskippable romances. the mother cannot be avoided at all. At one point the MC can tell his aunt that he genuinely loves her and wants her as his only partner and she tells him she feels and wants the same. But the game doesn't acknowledge that and railroads you into various scenes you simply cannot skip or avoid making that scene pretty silly, but it is apparently a prerequisite for the (potential) aunt solo ending.
At least you can eventually ditch the neighbor who lusts after the MC and avoid future scenes with her altogether. But if you didn't ditch one side character very early on (ditching her will punish you with not getting enough points early on for the aunt... unless you cheat) she becomes yet another unskippable mandatory LI you have no way of ditching. Even if you may really want to get rid of her, especially since the aunt is not too happy about the MC interacting with her friend behind her back (but she is of course ok with sharing while she's present, this is your standard trademarked VN character after all).
A solo path does not exist, neither for the mother nor the aunt or anyone else. Maybe eventually the game will let you decide whom to choose, but that will probably only be close to the end.
Another shortcoming is that there are a few unavoidable scenes with anal sex. Later on you usually DO get a choice, but several times before that you will have no input and the MC does what the script tells him to do. So many characters in the VN are anal sex fanatics for whatever reason, even the trademarked virgin character wants to have anal sex or fantasizes about it after her first time. I really wonder why devs make certain kinks mandatory and unavoidable and actually believe everyone wants anal sex. Yes, it does require more render time for animations when you offer options, but railroading the player into scenes is simply unforgivable.
So My Pleasure is your run of the mill family themed VN with unavoidable love interests and a few unskippable scenes with kinks you may not like.
And the drastic change in direction and tone at the halfway point is also very noticable.
Apparently things had become much too complex with too many branching paths that the devs decided to make things a lot easier and thus got rid of the love/lust points system entirely that was used earlier in the game and henceforth the game becomes a lot more linear with much fewer choices.
But the character models are pretty, even if the mother is yet another big breasted female (however the sliders were only pushed to 10, not 11, at least and hips etc are normal sized), but the aunt, the cousin and various others look realistic and also very pretty.
So My Pleasure is something you can have fun with, but expect nothing spectacular. The lack of an actual solo path is lamentable, forced love interests are also disappointing and forced kinks are almost unforgivable, but there are only few scenes like that and later there is choice.
It's also a bit disappointing that later in the game the VN devolves into jumping from sex scene to sex scene with various LIs, the usual pitfall of VNs that have various (unskippable) LIs.
And while the mother is "ok" as a character it's still not the best decision by the devs to make her such a huge unskippable focus, especially after establishing a connection with (most likely) the aunt in the first half, to the point even that the MC can tell the aunt he wants to marry her and maybe have kids with her and that she's his only one. But then the MC still goes on and merrily sexes everyone who won't be on top of a tree at the count of three five minutes later. Without player input of course.
If you can live with that My Pleasure is ok. It's pretty. It has good music. Updates are very frequent, the VN has a good chance of getting finished which is always something that is noteworthy and something the devs deserve high praise for, and the last update finally evolves the mother/son relationship to the last stage - so the very long tease is finally resolved.
Like so many other VNs My Pleasure could have been much better overall. I would have completely removed the mother from the equation and would have kept the story focused on the aunt, the cousin, a few of the side characters and the story about the scumbag boyfriend of the aunt. Nothing else was really needed. But devs apparently need to get projects going instead of finishing them - and thus more and more is added to the equation to the point that My Pleasure 0.26 is very, very different from what it used to be in the first half of the game.
But still, you can have some fun with it. Just don't be surprised if later in the game you will feel that various things are entirely skipworthy.
