I reached day 7, and honestly just stopped playing.
I love the renders, but the game itself frustrates me.
The love and lust system just seems more like it is designed to force you to replay the game over and over to get different results. I get close to scenes only to be told that they can't/won't progress because there is not enough lust score, but I don't know if I'm missing out by going love, or if it is better in the end, but it means very little content for me, so far.
I'm also, honestly, confused by characters.
Is the MC a good person or a borderline rapist? Has he fucked just his friend's mom, or hundreds of girls? Even when playing the love route, does he care about anyone, or just want to maneuver the situation into his advantage?
As Barbara asks him, is he really a nice guy, or is it all a facade, to try to get into Lori's pants?
Lori. Is she really so innocent she doesn't even swear? Despite eating the carrot she just masturbated with? And... actually, I got nothing else. She is sweet, adorable... and gets little "screen time" which means that as much as you don't want to say anything bad about her, she's boring.
Barbara bothers me a lot though. If you are going the route where you don't forgive her, why does she get so chummy on game night? Why is she trying to entice you the whole time, if she hates you? It feels like I'm being put on too linear a path... and the fact that she admits she prefers men more than women just makes the way she treats you, and her lust for Lori, more difficult to understand.
I don't know if Cassandra is my mom or step mom. I'm not sure if my Dad is Cornell's brother or his childhood friend. I don't know if Julia is Cassandra's childhood friend or her sister. All I honestly know is that Daphne is a whore, which, while it makes for decent content for a porn game, is actually not very enticing.
Writing goes back and forth from being clever and feeling like actual characters, to everyone talking like how a 12 year old would imagine a collage age guy would talk. Even the MC, who claims to "know how to act like a gentleman," doesn't seem to think twice about telling his aunt how much pussy he gets... look, day 8, when sexual tensions have risen, that works. Day two... who talks to their aunt like that?
There are too many qualities to this game that I REALLY like a lot. And just enough that bug me that I find it frustrating to bother to play it.
I don't know. Maybe I just need to come back to this one when I'm in a more laid-back headspace, or want a fap. I was hoping for something deeper to kill time with on my day off, and the romance tag and love points in the game made me think this was it, but I don't think it is.