Review of v0.7c
AVNs in the brother-sister genre normally follow the same pattern. The mc starts to notice how attractive his sister is, there's a lot of perving and teasing, and eventually through choosing the right dialogue options they get together, after which you get a bunch of lewd scenes and then the story ends. This is often strung out by having multiple other girls (typically including a mother).
My Sister & I bucks this pattern. Firstly, the brother and sister get together much sooner than typical. Secondly, there are no other love interests. And thirdly, this is a linear game: choices make very minor changes to scenes (e.g. what outfit someone wears) rather than change the direction of the story. Totilla Dreams is telling you the story of a single romance, and you are here to enjoy the ride.
This is refreshing, but also problematic. You see, there are good reasons for the usual brother-sister tropes. Once the siblings accept their love and get together, you lose the central tension in the story. My Sister & I has yet to solve this issue; nothing of import has really happened since that climax. The story feels aimless. And there aren't any other LIs to drive things forward. This isn't helped by the fact that the other girls in the game are both unobtainable and extremely attractive, teasing horny players like myself.
Still, the choice to restrict the mc to his sister has allowed for some beautiful moments which are ultimately why I am giving this 4 stars. Lines like "Even if it's odd, it's always nice when someone finds love, no matter what form it takes" hit me where it hurts (the heart).
It bears mentioning that the English is poor. It's evident that it's not the developer's first language. Gruesome grammar, incorrect idioms, poor punctuation and spelling snafus; it's all there. But ultimately I was able to overlook it and even found it a bit endearing. The meaning behind the words is still apparent and potent.
Some miscellaneous points:
AVNs in the brother-sister genre normally follow the same pattern. The mc starts to notice how attractive his sister is, there's a lot of perving and teasing, and eventually through choosing the right dialogue options they get together, after which you get a bunch of lewd scenes and then the story ends. This is often strung out by having multiple other girls (typically including a mother).
My Sister & I bucks this pattern. Firstly, the brother and sister get together much sooner than typical. Secondly, there are no other love interests. And thirdly, this is a linear game: choices make very minor changes to scenes (e.g. what outfit someone wears) rather than change the direction of the story. Totilla Dreams is telling you the story of a single romance, and you are here to enjoy the ride.
This is refreshing, but also problematic. You see, there are good reasons for the usual brother-sister tropes. Once the siblings accept their love and get together, you lose the central tension in the story. My Sister & I has yet to solve this issue; nothing of import has really happened since that climax. The story feels aimless. And there aren't any other LIs to drive things forward. This isn't helped by the fact that the other girls in the game are both unobtainable and extremely attractive, teasing horny players like myself.
Still, the choice to restrict the mc to his sister has allowed for some beautiful moments which are ultimately why I am giving this 4 stars. Lines like "Even if it's odd, it's always nice when someone finds love, no matter what form it takes" hit me where it hurts (the heart).
It bears mentioning that the English is poor. It's evident that it's not the developer's first language. Gruesome grammar, incorrect idioms, poor punctuation and spelling snafus; it's all there. But ultimately I was able to overlook it and even found it a bit endearing. The meaning behind the words is still apparent and potent.
Some miscellaneous points:
- It's a bit naughty of the dev to use music from things like Studio Ghibli without a licence, but that shit elevates anything it's used with (and we are on a piracy website...).
- There are some extremely janky "animations" at the start which were clearly recorded by moving the camera by hand, and even towards the end of the current version I found graphical glitches.
- The sister's model is very cute and attractive, but the blushing is overdone in my opinion.
- I don't know why AVN devs think that women get pleasure from shaking their breasts, but don't try it irl.
- I'm never a big fan of timeskips, and this game is very much guilty. At least give us a little text summarising what happened. And the idea that a tight-knit group of friends would wait 2 months between meetups is too depressingly real.
- We know the game isn't really loading, but those cards are kinda cute anyway.
- In the first proper sex scene the dialogue was awful, but this is (quite a lot) later given an explanation. Turns out the sister is a kinky degenerate like us .