My Wife's a Star is a sandbox style VN where you play as a talent agent engaged to your agency's biggest talent. While it has some excellent scenes and great images, it’s unfortunately completely destroyed by its gameplay and story.
Gameplay generally consists of navigating the MC through the day, choosing actions to take and people to meet along the way. This would work fine... if it weren't for the fact that you don't actually have a choice over 90% of the time. While all of the buttons for interacting with characters and locations are available to click on at all times, they don't do anything unless an action is actually available, which it almost never is. As such, the core gameplay loop currently consists of clicking on two dozen buttons a day to see if any actions are available, before clicking on the one button that actually does work to advance. You do this each in game day. It's unacceptable. Each button should only be visible if there’s a reason to click it, or a notification should be offered if an events is available.
Every once in a while, an event is actually available, which tend to be pretty good. My Wife's a Star is good at creating erotic circumstances and the writing is also solid. If the game had actually buckled and just been the VN it should have been in the first place I'd have less complaints.
Unfortunately, from a story line perspective, the events are problematic. While events are individually strong, what they spell for the plot and the MC's relationship sucks. The fun part of a sharing or ntr game is either the consent of all parties or the distinct lack respectively. My Wife's a Star does neither. The MCs don't discuss who they're fucking, not like keeping a secret, but they simply don't interact about it. As a result, you don't get the fun scenes where the MCs are either guilty or getting off about their secret sex. You also don’t get scenes where the MCs ask permission to fuck someone else or ask for an open relationship. Frankly, it’s like the MCs aren’t even in a relationship at all; they’re more like roommates with benefits.
Events also tend to be either 0 or 100, meaning that Val is either doing nothing erotic or fucking on a whim. While this might work out fine for the hard ntr fans out there, it kinda sucks for anyone looking for a shade of grey in the middle or any kind of good guy/girl style player. If most of the scenes aren’t going to offer things that aren’t ntr, just write an ntr story.
The gradient for corruption is pretty bad as well. Much like the above, the MCs will start fucking other people with no remorse almost immediately after having a few raunchy conversations. No guilt, no slow slide into depravity, just fucking around immediately. Why even have a story?
I really want to like My Wife’s a Star more than I do. There are some great scenes hidden in this mess of a game in a mess of a story, but it’s just not currently worth digging them out. If you’re into hard ntr, it might be worth digging through it, but anyone else shouldn’t bother.