Ren'Py - Completed - My Real Desire [Epilogue Full] [Oldcat]

Reviewing the Completed Version

The Good

- The premise of the story is actually pretty cool and hooked me up easily
- The renders while in need of some customization(they're very basic HS2) are very good looking

The MEH

- The music is very hit or miss, some are good, some are just inappropriate for the moment(either sex-scenes or serious moments)
- The grammar isn't perfect, this game really needs a proofreader or a good grammar-checking program.

The Bad

- The characters are so one-dimensional, so flat and boring, and robotic, that you'd think they're AI in disguise and they based themselves on the worst written characters ever.
- And MC is so bad that he "earned" its own place in this list, if the other characters are one-dimensional, this guy is none-dimensional, the proof of his existence is the graphic that he is made off, everything else is just hot air, and wanna-be-sasuke. I rarely feel nothing toward a character, it's either love or hate or disappointment, here i felt boredom. I understand that emotionally stunted people can be like this, but jeez this guy can't even fake a personality. People who can write better than me already explained, but i want to insist on it: If the plot is somewhat interesting and curious enough to download the game, the MC really destroys any sense of interest but he does it by failing at meeting the expectations: because from someone this emotionally stunted/robot-y you'd expect a personality-improvement as the game goes on, but that doesn't happen, MC remains the same, but everyone else insist he is changing for the better, but does he? not really, at best he goes from "i hate this mission that my boss gave me" to absolute indifference, i don't ask for tears, but dude..more eloquent/more expressive dialogues should be the bare minimum.
- As i said the dialogue suffers because bad grammar, but it's not the only problem, i complained about MC being very cold and indifferent, and the problem applies to every character, many sentences are about "telling rather than showing".

Conclusion

This game was quite the journey, but not a pleasant one, nor a bad one, it's like drinking flat water, it's not bad but you could get something better, it's not good but you could have worse. It's right in the middle between a good game and a bad game, it's forgettable, no character leaves a mark, none of them are worthy to be remembered, or at least not for good reasons, but also they're not infuriatingly bad...they just...very boring, not well-developed, and at sometimes just too many, you recognize them from their hair-colour, but that's it, i already forgot their names. I can only wish the dev to have at least learned from this game and do better with the next one.

It had Good Renders of Love Interest but the ending is just bad and disappointing. Choice of ending was just bland sex scene with the chosen LI. Harem ending sex scene was just boring to watch. The Side with Criminal ending was bad and essentially ends the game earlier with LI Mila. Mila Criminal path felt rush and makes you question why it took so long to put when it was so short. Essentially Criminal path ends at Chapter 2 Ep. 4 while all other path ends at Chapter 2 Ep. 5. Overall, it felt like the ending was just rushed out just to end the game. Good renders and music just really bad ending that felt rush and boring.

I really loved this game, the character design. But the story was somewhat okay. The writing needs improvement. Thanks for such a wonderful game. Eagerly waiting for next project.

And as a fan, it's my request, if you can than please upgrade the graphics like others game.

This game has some good ideas and great-looking girls, but it trips over itself at almost every turn. The dialogue is repetitive to the point of absurdity—half the lines are about showering, eating, or being tired, and the other half sound like robots trying to figure out how humans talk. Conversations feel so lifeless that it’s hard to care about what’s happening, and the constant grammar mistakes don’t help.
The sex scenes? They’re a letdown. They look decent, but they all play out the same way: no build-up, no tension, just straight to the action, and then they’re over before you know it. The dialogue during these scenes is cringey at best and laughable at worst. After a few of them, it all feels like the same thing on repeat. And for a game with so many love interests, there’s barely any variety—just a couple of group scenes, which is criminal considering the lineup.
The story starts strong, with a decent mystery to keep you hooked, but it drags on way too long. By the end, you’re just slogging through pointless filler, wondering why you’re still playing. And the big emotional moments? They fall flat because the characters are so one-dimensional.
Sure, the girls look amazing, and the animations aren’t bad, but that’s about all this game has going for it. It’s not the worst thing out there, but it’s nowhere near deserving the hype it’s getting.
2 out of 5 stars
Good looks can’t save a game that feels this shallow, repetitive, and uninspired. If you’re desperate for something new, maybe give it a shot, but don’t expect much.

I think the girls look really good, but the grammar choices in the majority of the lines are not great, and the writing definitely could be improved. I'll still play the game, because I have nothing else I'm interested in at the moment. But.. for a game that is 4.5 stars, it definitely does not feel like it is on the same level as other top tier games. TLDR: It's not terrible, but it's not fantastic either, it's an ok game

This game has some of the best looking LIs in AVNs. Out of the 11 LIs, 9 of them are 10/10 (imo). I am writing this review because it's currently sitting at 4.5 stars and this game does not deserve such high rating. I get it, this game doesn't even come close to some of the slops out there and this an (almost) finished game, which is harder to come by than water in a desert, but that should not be part of the criteria when rating a game higher than it should be.

This game has so many flaws, I don't think I'll remember them all by the time I finish writing this.

Most of the characters (if not all) are very one note. I honestly can't distinguish one LI from the other from dialogues alone. Well maybe you can when they follow their designated trope. There is the caring older sister girl, the shy girls, the slut and the bossy (but I am actually shy when no ones around) girls.

Literally all the sex scenes are horribly written. All of them follow this same, exact flow (not an exaggeration):
1. Do you wanna have sex?
2. *Starts having sex*
3. I'm about to cum, lets change position.
4. Stop now. Get on top of me.
5. Feels good.
6. I'm cumming
Seriously speaking, I would bet my house that if the dev was only given the dialogues to match them to the correct sex scenes, he will fail to get even one of them right. This game has a set of the best looking LIs in AVN but I was so bored after the first few scenes, after I started noticing the pattern. The dev could've done so many things with these amazing LIs, it's just wasted potential. Also guess how how many scenes include multiple LIs. Just 2. The game has the same 30+ sex scenes but only 2 including 2 LIs. Let me repeat this again, a game with 11 of the best set of LIs has 2 threesome.

There is no build-up to any of these 30+ sex scenes. No foreplay. No dirty talks during sex. You are wearing clothes one moment, the next moment you are not and when the sex ends, they just go back to their normal bland state, as if nothing happened. If you read fast, I kid you not, the sex scenes wouldn't even last 30 seconds, not a single one. Also, the lack of variety among the scenes is criminal to say the least. Not saying the scenes need to get progressively more wilder or needs to incorporate more fetishes. It's just that the bland writing and lack of different scenarios, results in all the scenes being exactly the same.

The game has next to no romance. Not exaggerating, you really don't get to romance any of the LIs. I mean I get it, the MC had a really rough childhood and was brought up to be hyper focused on completing his mission. But when you meet another guy with similar background, brought up just like the MC, he just looks like a badly written character, as this other guy is relatively normal. The MC barely gives his thoughts about an LI or an event properly. Again, I know he is supposed to be stoic with "no feelings" but he isn't a zombie. It's fine at first but towards the middle you definitely would've wanted to see some change in the MC. A smile is not character development, even if you want the change to be subtle. And to make it worse, apart from a couple of scenes, we don't even see the LIs talk about the MC or their relationship with him. Again, so much wasted potential, I wanna cry.

A lot of the renders are wasted on dialogues such as: Hi, Let's take a shower, I am hungry, Let's go to bed, Take care, See ya later, Let's get some work done, I am tired, etc. It takes its toll after reading the same phrase for literally the 15th time in the game. So much of the playtime is wasted on insignificant dialogues like these, it's frustrating.

The renders were overall fine. Although some were a bit too bright and some were so dark you'd think they were in the void. Don't know what was going on with Felix or Angela's face. Felix looks like he washed his face with ashes before appearing on screen. While the permanent blush on Angela's face, makes it seem like she has rash or something.

There are a ton of grammatical errors, misspellings and missing words in the game. It didn't bother me at first but, by the end it got annoying. Just give someone to proofread the script. It should be a common practice by now, if your first language isn't english. (Not throwing shade. My first language isn't english either.)

The animation was alright. Nothing to criticize or praise here. I mean the sex scenes were so mediocre, I just didn't care for it.

The music was nice. I guess the dev got whatever royalty free music he could find and just shoved them in the game. Doesn't really fit some scenes but whatever, as I listened to my own music while playing.

The story started off as interesting but died down by the end. Things just tend to happen which favors the MC and it doesn't feel earned. Victor (the bad guy) knows about MC's betrayal but doesn't try to dispose of him or flee the country. He gives MC all the things he needed to make a move against him. He was touted as a smart ruthless guy but seeing him make a stupid decision like that was...well...stupid.

At the end, the MC just sits down in a large table, with literally all the LIs sitting down with him, and picks who he wants to spend the rest of his life with (lol it's so stupid). The LIs with whom he didn't have any connection or chemistry with, which is all of them.

I had huge expectations from the game because of how attractive the LIs are, but was massively disappointed. Kept thinking everything would start to get better as things progress, but it never did.

If you never played any ANV before, you might like it but if you did play a few decent ones, I don't see you enjoying the game. I played the game until Epilogue P1 (which had 2 endings) and at the time of writing this, P2 was already out. Just didn't bother with it because without even seeing I can tell that all the endings are the same (MC has sex with the LI and they live happily ever after). If you have seen 1 ending, you have seen them all, just like the sex scenes.

The game really is a mixed bad of everything. I found the story engaging though, you get enough of it through out the meandering slice of life stories with the LI's that keep me going forward without any issues. The girls are interesting enough, lots of different types, body, personality so a bit for everyone.

I think the sex is just enough to keep it spicy, the scenes are short and sweet and the dirty talk is pretty decent.

I like the the stoic MC who doesn't have his emotions at the surface, the game I think does an decent job of explaining why this is. Overall, I may have wanted to see some growth here over time, but not a huge deal. Though I can see why this turns off a lot of people.

My major gripes are the quality of the renders seem to come and go. Some of them just don't look great. Secondly some the side stories, do fall flat sometimes, some simply aren't interesting or just poor story telling.

Overall, I really enjoyed this VN's. Some polish here and there would have gone a long way with it but I would tell people to give it a shot.

If you want an MC that constantly (and I mean CONSTANTLY) says such profound sentences as "I need to shower, I stink" and "ok I've showered. Now lets go to my room." "Ok, now I'm in my room, let's get dressed." " Ok, now I'm dressed. I'm bored. Let's go to bed." this is the game for you. In general about 40% of the dialogue could be cut without any significant change. The characters keep saying the most irrelevant stuff, like how they are going to decide their mode of transport to and from work each and every day or the MC's absolute favorite "I'm going to go shower" fade to black "Ok now I've showered". It was sort of funny the first time the MC expressed surprise over the fact that sleeping infact does make time go fast after waking up one morning. But when he keeps reiterating it, it just makes you wonder if the MC has a serious brain injury.

Generally speaking, the MC is portrayed as someone that doesn't have a great way with words or ability to express feelings. Which was somewhat charming in the beginning. However, it falls kind of flat, since almost all characters sound like robots or aliens impersonating humans. MC is just extra roboty. I get that it's probably due to the dev not having english as a primary language, but it does start to grate signifcantly when every character goes some variation of "oh yes this food is very delicious" "Ah yes I agree the food was very delicious" "Yes, thanks for that very delicious food" ad nauseum almost every time you have lunch/dinner/breakfast with them (which again, is constantly). It does not help that there are countless grammar mistakes, wrong character names, and misspellings throughout.

Ok (I've showered), so text and dialogue aside, how are the sex scenes? They never have any sort of build up, it is always 0-100 in no time. Something like "Story related beat happens, not rarely something traumatic for one of the parties involved" fade to black, MC is in his room/office Hotgirl #X knocks on door/phones/invites to dinner, "Hey MC lets hang out. Ok lets fuck. "And then a sex scene that feels samey after the 5th nearly identical scene. They did get somewhat better towards the end (it is not a short game, so that is many many hours), but by then I was mostly just clicking past them.
The animations themselves are decent, but pretty standard for HS games.

There are loads of scenes that *could* have had amazing teasing and build up to a great sex scene, but they are over in one or two renders, and everyone is mostly fully clothed and mostly completely non sexual throughout. It is a shame, because you always get your hopes dashed. "Oh maybe the dev has finally learned that there is value in teasing and building up" "Oh the scene is already over. ok. I need to take a shower."


Okay so why on god did I play through this whole mess? The story was sort of intriguing. There is a mystery that is revelead throughout, but once it is revealed and understood, the game overstays its welcome by multiple hours. But by then I felt a bit too invested so I just wanted to see how it ends. And there are some heartfelt and nice moments with most of the characters. But unfortunately it is in no way able to compensate for the absolutely terrible dialogue.

If you're okay with the most advanced sentences being on the level of "I need to shower. Ok now I've showered" or "How are you going there? I will take the bus. Ok. "for multiple hours, I suppose it could still be worth it for the story, but I would honestly heavily recommend against it. Unless you have truly played them all and are desperate for something new, I would give this one a pass. There are tons of other games out there that are more worth your time. I genuinely do not understand how this is so highly rated.

Loved the gameplay, sex scenes, cool and unique characters, AND THE STORY, OH MY GOD, THAT'S MY FAVOURITE GAME. Story is very interesting, I wish story was longer, but all good things comes to an end...

Pretty average game. All sex have about the same way of going on :

- MC or LI get sucked/licked.
- Then the one getting sucked, sucke the other.
- After it's sex with 2 to 3 positions
- And what the LIs says is almost the same every time

Also these sentences :
- Give me your tongue
- I put it in
- I'll get adicted to you dick

Become really boring over time as it is with every LIs.

The plot is interesting, but conversations a bit awkwards and some lake of maturity.

The game is fine, if you can overlook what I said. It's not trash just pretty average IMO. But I give 2 stars as the dick of the MC is just clipping into the girls vagina. There is pretty good HS mods handeling penetration now a day.

Really decent game,yeah there are grammar mistakes every now and then but graphics and story wise really good.Currently in ch3 pt2-4 its a bit rushed with the story but regardless worth playing indeed.4/5

Version Ch.3 Ep.2 Full

A decent experience with enough content to last ~12 hours of gameplay as of Chapter 3 end, but the story pacing could do with more control and graphics and animations need to address basic HS limitations.

Story
MC is a spy sent by a criminal organization to conduct industrial espionage on a game company. The LIs are his colleagues and most of the interaction with them will be taking place in office or at home.

The first two chapters of the game focuses on light-hearted slice of life individual LI short stories with hardly any mention of the main plot in the background, but Chapter 3 abruptly takes on a very serious tone and advances the main story at rapid pace.

This transition could have been handled in a more measured way, it feels like I am playing two different games between Chapter 1/2 and 3. Maybe the developer was responding to complains the story isn’t moving, but this sudden switch in tone breaks the immersion and overall experience.

Game Mechanics
AVN with choices that are mostly for players to reject a certain LI. As far as I can tell, there is only one choice that affects the storyline which takes place at the end of Chapter 2.

Background / Character Renders
Off the shelf Honey Select assets for all the background and characters I have seen so far. I’m no HS expert, but these characters look like something I can create with basic HS modifications and they are kind of behind the competition in 2024.

Character Development
A strong area of MRD - though some of the characters do start off a bit troupey, many of them have individual stories that sort of builds up to why they are behaving the way they are. A few of them like Krystal, Eira and Faye are actually quite dramatic and emotional on their own and make for good reading.

MC is not the usual wuss which is a big plus and though there is an explanation for his unemotional demeanor, it feels awkward when the LIs start hurling themselves at him since players can't see his sexual appeal either.

Sex Scenes
Plenty of them but hits and misses along the way. I suspect many animations are made from old assets and some still suffer from well-known old HS issues i.e. fingers penetrating skin during masturbation, vagina penetration looking like a dick got sandwiched between thighs…

These are old HS issues that have long been resolved in many creative ways by developers, so it’s not very impressive to still see them in MRD so late into the game.

BGM and Sound Effects
BGM is mostly generic upbeat tracks though they do serve their purpose, some of the songs during lewd scenes are actually a tad too upbeat given the situation.

For e.g. what is supposedly a romantic scene has a techno song at the background, a somber scene where a LI got hurt and ended up in the hospital in need of emotional comfort through sex got matched with a high tempo positive song which is just weird.

Currently there are no sound effects.

Conclusion
MRD doesn’t have any fatal flaw that makes you want to abandon the game - it has a story that is interesting though the plot interweaving could have been done better. It’s rather voluminous as at end of Chapter 3 and looks like it can go for at least 2 more Chapters.

Graphics and character renders are meh, but I could still accept and prod along due to good character development. It is an all-in above average product that has a good chance of actually making to completion which is rare in a world of abandoned or semi-hiatus AVNs.

Game start with some interesting scene where MC leave his town and goes to another town because of his work, so typical but by the time goes it's starting to get really interesting like Alice is in love with him and he knows too but he's give a shit, that's cold but interesting at the same time, this is the first game where a girl is simping on MC not him simping on girls, really interesting.

To talk about MC, Protagonist is really really amazing nothing to say about him, he's just amazing like amazing, he's strong, smart, cold, loyal, proactive, cautious and many more, too many qualities in one man, almost good at everything accept cooking he said himself actually, totally love the MC nowadays it's really tough to find this type of game with this level of MC.

Now to talk about lis every girls looks good every girl have good attitude accept Yui and Faye, but I don't mind bitchy lis as long as MC is badass knows how to handle, every girls is cute, one of them is soo soo soo cute, like Krystal she's the best girl, every girl is good on their on way.

Renders and animation is good, about animation is not much good but renders is amazing I can say, animation is around average which is fine, music is ok too I don't have any problems with it.

About English I don't know what to say, literally poor english you won't even understand some sentence, because of english even english is not your 1st or 2nd lang, still you won't understand some sentence, but overall game is amazing definitely an amazing game one of my fav for sure.

I hope dev start working on toher route as soon as he can, this is not much interesting, maybe other route will be better than this one.

For now I'm out, but game is amazing, I can say, good luck with your game.

Just boring. The story is bleh, the girls are meh, the sex is meh.
The girls aren't very interesting. I think there are too many of them, and they all get pushed into being side characters. You don't really get to know any of them, and that makes them boring. The sex is mediocre, too; I was CTRL forwarding through all the scenes.
There are a lot of plot problems:
The first is that the early internal monologue doesn't establish that he's pretending to be a soulless robot zombie. So he just seems like the world's most antisocial fuck - I thought I had the honor of that title, but I've been blown away. Without the backstory of "I'm an undercover spy type thing", the character is terrible. With it, he's only boring.
The drunk thing with Yui is really stupid, in so many fucking ways. Ugh.
The stuff is poorly researched: at one point, the programmers are deciding game mechanics. That's not how companies work. Game mechanics are done by a completely different team than the code monkeys (speaking as a code monkey.)
The best (ie worst) part is when the protagonist drinks a beer, and he says “I’ve never drunk alcohol, because I didn’t see any reason to drink it. But it’s much more delicious than I expected it to be.” Has the writer ever had beer? It tastes like absolute ass until you get used to it/drunk enough not to care.
Furthermore, what the fuck kind of spy isn’t taught how to hold their liquor? That’s just terrible training.
Why does he have a tattoo of a secret organization? That's not how secrets are kept.
It's not terrible, but it does absolutely nothing for me.

This game feels like a VN, sure it has free roaming sometimes, but mostly its just like a VN, with choices and basically no free roaming, that is how i like it to be honest. The MC is kinda unique as well. Mc can fight, he is no simp and one thing about him that i found most interesting is the fact that at the beginning of the game he was more like a robot with no emotions, saying stuff like "focus on the mission" and "not interested in Love and Sex". Never met a guy like this before. and everytime he does something with a girl, he questions himself like "why did i do this" or "i have to blend in for the mission,... right?" This is the MC with the most character developement i have ever seen. from this emotionless guy to opening up to the most important people in his life, learning what love is, regain the things he lost. Beatiful.

Same thing for the girls. True supporters, Character development, Gorgeous, cute and def sexy, tons of virgins as well(surprising, hot tho)

5/5 stars definetly recommended

First a small warning the writting is just bad, theres sooooo many spelling issues, worng words, missing words, misplaced words....you get the idea, it gets quite annoying since it ruins your reading having to stop and check wtf the lines just said or tried to say.

Story 2/5
After that idiotic start it does get better, you can controle who you fuck or have a relationship with, which is the type of games i like to play, start did almost make me quit this one before ever getting to that point though.

Also Mila pissed me of, i had 0 interrest in her what so ever and for idiotic reasons you arent allowed to turn her down and thats really what annoys me since you have had a choice with every girl but then dev desides to force Mila on you, saying some shit about MC cant reject her? it just makes 0 sense since he can come up with any excuse to not fuck her on the beach, its just bad writting and makes for a poor story and also ruins any chance of staying faithfull to who ever you do like, you can skip the scene with her but that does nothing for me since it still happens which just ruined that game alot for me, i will never understand why Dev dident just make it an option to just say no when he clearly knows some players wont like her and wouldent want to be with her, its a sure way to fuck up the game.

After the Mila shit i just lost all interrest in the game really and just couldent see any reason to keep playing, i mean you lose the harem feeling since shes not a choice, you lose faithfull options and i just lost all respect for the game that was choice driven up to that point, so you pretty much lose every sense of freedom to play how you like to play.

The Mika girl dident really many any sense to me, you cant go after her as a LI even though shes around alot, its like her only reason is to be there to keep the other dude in the house bussy, would have been easiere just making him gay really.

I dident like MC much, the emotionless robot he is was ok to start with but it constantly leaves you wanting for more emotions like rage and getting mad, i mean MC gets raped hes like "Meh nothing worng" MC meets hes real family and hes "Meh not sure what to feel" it just makes for an extreemly boring MC and it makes any immersion in the story impossible.

Also story dosent really line up with choices all the time, take Wendy i told her that her hobby was a bad thing and that MC dident approve of it, yet she ask MC later if he can take nude photos of her to add new content for her followers...it feels a bit idiotic since it also means she dident pay any attention to what MC told her last time they talked about it, dev seems to lose track of details and choices made which is never a good thing.

Girls 2/5
Some are pretty cute, but the diversity in builds arent good, its has a heavy focus on big tit fetish which is just not my thing so its very limited in LIs that i would care about and it seems like most content is with the bimbos, i liked Wendy and Sally and Eira, but theres really not much content with them.

Animations 3/5
Pretty standard animations for this type of characters, like when a girl finger her self it looks like fingers are going trough skin instend of into her pussy, but like i said its average for this style they are still good enough for you to enjoy.

Music 4/5
It has some pretty good music in this one, not just stand tones but singing as well which is a really nice change to all the monotone tunes in so many games.

Choices 2/5
To me the most importen part is to be able to select and build your own harem and being able to turn down anyone you dont personaly like and for the most parts you can but it still fails to deliver on that when it forces multiple girls on you with no choice.

I used to enjoy this game a lot. But ever since the main story decided to go for the more serious route, it went downhill for me. To me it feels like the dev is trying way too hard to put out a serious story, while trying to show its still a porn game. But in games like these the characters and development for the girls are the most important and the dev kinda stopped halfway (for some girls barely at the start) and suddenly started a typical harem girlsinfighting, even tho the characters should get waaaaay more time to get attached more to the mc.
Half of the cast had so little development that it doesnt make sense to me that they are suddenly so clinqy to him.. even if they are suddenly in danger of his enemies...

The girl i liked the most was Krystal. it was interesting to see how the girl who fell deeply, slowly got used to society again.. i wanted to see more of it...

I tried really hard to like this game because it had a really nice cast of characters and i enjoyed it early really much... but the updates werent as interesting anymore. Frankly, the rushing of the main story destroyed any good relationship building for the rest of the game.
This is my first 3* review and it saddens me...

The game started good, but the later part I felt it underwhelming. I've played more than one game with the exact same plot. The portion of the game in which you are supposed to collect the pictures also feel a bit random. Interactions with the girls are repetitive and the sex scenes are too short (besides, having to click next and having the option to change positions but being forced to end in one specifically are two things I find innecesary). But, I like the character design of most except the main one.

Game is good, not exceptionnal, but it's ok.

Story is interesting albeit not that original, but that's why I started playing after reading the summary, and not disapointed so far.

LIs - Well, there's not really any "relationship building", only at the start when you meet the girls, but then not so much and the girls just come to have sex with you, it doesn't feel real to me, + I really have a problem with Wendy (Yui sometimes too), because of their head. I mean, just imagine them without hair, and you'll realize the shape of their head makes no sense it's like, way too long. (like a rugby ball, no joke, it feels really weird to me)

Dialogues are a bit cringy sometimes, and a lot, like a lot, of typos and other gramatical errors. I know this is just a H-game but, a little bit of proofreading would do wonders to this game + there's nothing new in those dialogues, like ever, it's almost always the same thing (especially in free roam mode, don't bother talking to people, just the ones you need to advance for the story, the rest is useless).

About the sandbox, I was really skeptical at first, as I hate the sandbox, but it's just a few parts of the game, you'll have 2/3mins of free roam looking for photos and talking to people and that's it, no grinding or anything, which is really good, because imo, sandbox/grinding, in most cases, just completely waste the game.

My Real Desire completely fails every goal of making a porn game and an AVN. The MC is basically an emotionless robot. Imagine Data from Star Trek TNG, with even less emotion. The MC doesn't care what any of the LIs are doing, whether they live or die, whether they see him or don't. Each LI, goes out of their way, inexplicably, to please the MC at every turn, and his response is basically "OK. Goodbye". There is some plot point about how his lonely childhood made him like that, but he never improves one iota, after years of game development.

Second, none of the LIs have any memorable personality to distinguish them from each other, except paper thin tropes seen in every bad slice of life porn game or bad anime. All the tropes are here, Jock Girl, Shy Girl, Motherly Type, Slut. But that is it about their characters. You already know from the first sentence of talking with them, everything you will ever know.

Is there a story? Something about the MCs orphan-like upbringing, and his long lost family trying to find him, a few characters from his past showing up, and industrial espionage, but it is all so half-done and bland, as a player it's impossible to care.

The sex scenes are all totally unexciting. There is so little passion between the MC and any of the LIs, as a player you are surpried to see any sex scenes at all. Maybe the LI's feel sorry for the MC, but the scenes are ice-cold as far as any passion or flirty fun interaction goes.

And the dialog. Oh my god the dialog. This is the second worst game I have every played, out of many hundreds here, for terrible empty dialog. Every scene is some variation of, "Hello", "How are you", "I am fine", "Did you have a good night", "Yes, I did", "Do you want to go to lunch.", "I haven't eaten yet. Ok". Bla, bla, bla. If you've read this paragraph, basically that is the entire game.

Finally, none of the choices make any difference at all in anything that happens, as a player there is no agency. It is just a boring MC, boring cookie cutter LIs, boring story, and just more of it.

The only slight positive, is that there is an overall mystery about the MCs past, with slow and steady reveals about his upbringing and the people involved, that there is a spark of interest as a player, just to find out what happened.

There is a hint of a decent AVN buried here that could be interesting and entertaining to play, if the dialog was not so god-awful terrible, boring, and repetitive, if the MC grew in some way as a character and cared about any of the LIs, and if each of the LIs had some distinguishing characteristics to make them in any way memorable or interesting.

Lastly, the quality has taken a nose-dive in chapter 3. The dialog is getting even more bland, the story, such that it is, seems to have been forgotten, and every day is just a bland go out with some LI and have a boring sex scene. You might as well play the actual Honey Select, than this game. It was never actually good, but it seems to have moved into actively bad territory. Maybe the main dev quit and left it up to someone else to write, and they don't have any idea where to take the story, so they just repeat pointless uninteresting scenes day after day.

I think this game was slightly below average from the first few chapters, but with Chapter 3 it seems all the issues with bland dialog and repetitive interactions with the LIs have gotten worse, and the story, such as it is, has been forgotten.

I give it 2 stars just because there are no obvious bugs making it unplayable, the images are pretty much standard-fare for Honey Select games. Not great, but not terrible. And there is some hint of an interesting story buried here.

Update:

The story has picked up a bit since the prior update, so that is an improvement. However, the story is still predictable and not very interesting. The latest update finally shows the MC starting to care about the other characters, just a tiny, tiny, bit, with the "story" coming to its apparent conclusion, at least regarding the main arc with the MC. Hard to believe it's possible, but the dialog is even more monotonous, predictable, and boring. I would think the dev is using AI, but I think AI would actually be more interesting and less predictable than what is here.

Summary:

Graphics: Passable, but no different than any HS game without mods.

Story: There is one, but it's predictable and not very interesting. I will admit that it is at least fairly original, for AVNs that is, and I get the sense that there are a few surprises in store. Worth an extra half star, so 2.5.

Characters: Terrible. All cliches no distinct personality whatsoever.

Dialog: The worst. 0/100.

Sex Scenes: Lifeless. No passion. If anything, they've gotten worse. The LIs are like a dead fish, so is the MC. So cold and dry, why bother. Imagine robots having sex based on what they saw in a movie. That is what we have here.

I have to say it is just on the edge of playability. Not bad enough for me to give up seeing where the story goes, just because of how much time it took to get here, but every line of dialog has my finger itching to press the skip button, which I never like to do with AVNs. The sex scenes, such as they are, now get the full skip treatment.