The dev team does a great job of publishing regular, high-quality updates, and with the erotic scenes being many and really well done, this is a game I return to frequently.
But it's not without its problems...
The good first: I think this is one of the most beautifully illustrated games (actually a VN with choices) on the site. The scenes are wonderfully well-composed, and suffused with a soft-focus golden glow, like Playboy Magazine layouts from the 70s. The women are exquisite. You recognize the DAZ character assets, of course, but here they are so well framed and lit that you don't mind at all.
I think that the individual scenes are perhaps the best-composed of any game on this site. They have a cinematic quality, as if they were still photos from a movie. The creator uses the art-house technique of shifting views during conversations to oblique angles and unusual closeups, making what is actually a static (and dull) conversation seem very dynamic and weighty. Any would-be creator should review this game as an example of how to frame and compose your scenes.
Too bad the characters are so banal. The story is a soap-opera - high stakes over the pettiest issues. The protagonist lacks real agency - there is something about him being a bad boy and that's why he's living with his aunt, but it's all pretty trivial. The only reason women are attracted to him is because he is physically present.
Story and characterization are often the weakest points of these kinds of games/VNs, and with this game the issue is really glaring because of the contrast with the exceptionally high-quality images.
There is an attempt to give the characters personality, the nerdy cousin, the worldly aunt, the sexually-liberated yoga instructor.... But it's done very awkwardly. And, it's hard to find these people believable when they are all so incredibly beautiful. VNs are populated with beautiful women angsting over whether any man will like them.
So, I really enjoy this game, but what I do is use a gallery mod, and that way I can enjoy the incredibly well-composed erotic scenes without having to click-click-click through boring dialogue.
Btw, as noted, it's an VN with choices, and the outcomes of the choices are not obvious, which, I suppose implies replayability (but, y'know, gallery mods). So there is effort put into the plot.
What I would recommend the dev team for their next creation, is to do the Clueless trick - take a classic, well-plotted well-characterized story, like a Jane Austen novel, and update it, and apply their graphic image magic to that.
But it's not without its problems...
The good first: I think this is one of the most beautifully illustrated games (actually a VN with choices) on the site. The scenes are wonderfully well-composed, and suffused with a soft-focus golden glow, like Playboy Magazine layouts from the 70s. The women are exquisite. You recognize the DAZ character assets, of course, but here they are so well framed and lit that you don't mind at all.
I think that the individual scenes are perhaps the best-composed of any game on this site. They have a cinematic quality, as if they were still photos from a movie. The creator uses the art-house technique of shifting views during conversations to oblique angles and unusual closeups, making what is actually a static (and dull) conversation seem very dynamic and weighty. Any would-be creator should review this game as an example of how to frame and compose your scenes.
Too bad the characters are so banal. The story is a soap-opera - high stakes over the pettiest issues. The protagonist lacks real agency - there is something about him being a bad boy and that's why he's living with his aunt, but it's all pretty trivial. The only reason women are attracted to him is because he is physically present.
Story and characterization are often the weakest points of these kinds of games/VNs, and with this game the issue is really glaring because of the contrast with the exceptionally high-quality images.
There is an attempt to give the characters personality, the nerdy cousin, the worldly aunt, the sexually-liberated yoga instructor.... But it's done very awkwardly. And, it's hard to find these people believable when they are all so incredibly beautiful. VNs are populated with beautiful women angsting over whether any man will like them.
So, I really enjoy this game, but what I do is use a gallery mod, and that way I can enjoy the incredibly well-composed erotic scenes without having to click-click-click through boring dialogue.
Btw, as noted, it's an VN with choices, and the outcomes of the choices are not obvious, which, I suppose implies replayability (but, y'know, gallery mods). So there is effort put into the plot.
What I would recommend the dev team for their next creation, is to do the Clueless trick - take a classic, well-plotted well-characterized story, like a Jane Austen novel, and update it, and apply their graphic image magic to that.