I want to start off by saying I really, really like HTML real porn games. One could even say I have an unreasonable fondness for them. I know all the common complaints. The porn doesn't always match the characters. The UI is terrible. There's so much grind. There's too many clicks to get from one scene to another. There's no sound (or there's too much sound that you can't turn off). They're just delivery systems for porn gifs. And on, and on, and on.
I don't necessarily disagree with these points. A lot of them do apply to many HTML real porn games. Even ones I like. But I can usually overlook them for one simple reason.
HTML porn games make me cum.
Or, if thinking of internet strangers cumming to a porn game bothers you for some reason, you can translate that to "most HTML porn games remember that they're porn first and game second."
New Life Project, however, seems to be one of the exceptions to that rule.
The dev likes to boast in the changelogs about how many words the game has, but most of those words seem to be dedicated to descriptions of the sandbox city your character lives in, and not, you know, the sex scenes. In fact, most sex scenes have very little description at all. In many cases, there's a lot of build up to a single sex gif, and then you get kicked right back to the area menu as if nothing had happened.
As an example:
One of the things I really like about female MC corruption games is the build up to the MC losing her virginity. It's a very sexy scenario to me, and I can spend hours edging in one of these games just getting to that point. NLP is one of the only female MC corruption games I've played where the payoff to that build does nothing for me. Because there is no payoff. No one reacts to your character no longer being a virgin, least of all your character. She just has sex, and then goes about her life like normal. Which is a theme for all the sex scenes. They all seem to happen in a vacuum. And while that can be overlooked if the sex scenes themselves are good, they're just not. Very little description, very little dialogue, very limited use of porn gifs, very little satisfaction to be found.
And that sucks, because I think this should be one of the better HTML games out there. The writing is pretty good, where it exists. Proper English, etc. But all the character are lifeless. Your roommate barely says two words to you, but if you're late with one payment he just rapes you and then you go back to living with him like nothing happened. Your dad has apparently been searching for you for months, and the first thing he does when you talk to him is he rapes you. You meet a female coworker at the cafe, and after talking to her once she just starts sending you nudes which your character thinks are hot, never once giving you any information about if she's previously found other women attractive or not, until you get to your fist sex scene with her (which comes out of nowhere the first time you randomly run into her at a bar), and she asks the MC if she likes having sex with women and the MC says "only if it's you". And that's the main issue with this game. Nothing has any consequence. Everything happens in its own separate world. The only thing that changes are the numbers next to your stats. The whole game feels off. And that unfortunately makes it one of the few HTML porn games that I just don't like.