It is horrible game and good at the same time.
There is a good setting storywise, there is a gradual corruption story, there is a card fighting game between 2 news hosts, there are hot scenes.
Now where things get ugly itself is the card game, it is disfunctional at its base mechanic level, and it is very slow, and it also has no interaction with cards.
- Sexual/other cards should have gone with animations or short cut-ins/text similar to karryns prison and other games like this.
Hosts are fighting until influence goes to zero, the problem here is that, you can run out of energy/money/blackmail and simply be unable to use any cards at all. While your opponent will keep playing until your influence goes to zero, meaning the more influence you have, the more gain she will get as you cannot do anything, nor you can give up.
Opponent can also rapidly drive you out of the stats you need to keep playing, which is based on RNG.
Card game is broken, not only it requires cheating and a vast range of maxxed out cards, it still sucks even then.
I would grade it 1/5, but there is a button in cheat menu, to skip card fights, and it allows you to watch progress scenes. Where normally you can only watch 1 scene per 1 fight/day, which would on one hand a huge grind/time investment on another hand a gameover/ending would come far earlier than you go through all the scenes.
One more thing to add, UI in general sucks, texts cover half of HCG, and you need to click a button to hide text to see image, which is stupid. What was the problem of making a bigger screen and moving text below the image?
There is a good setting storywise, there is a gradual corruption story, there is a card fighting game between 2 news hosts, there are hot scenes.
Now where things get ugly itself is the card game, it is disfunctional at its base mechanic level, and it is very slow, and it also has no interaction with cards.
- Sexual/other cards should have gone with animations or short cut-ins/text similar to karryns prison and other games like this.
Hosts are fighting until influence goes to zero, the problem here is that, you can run out of energy/money/blackmail and simply be unable to use any cards at all. While your opponent will keep playing until your influence goes to zero, meaning the more influence you have, the more gain she will get as you cannot do anything, nor you can give up.
Opponent can also rapidly drive you out of the stats you need to keep playing, which is based on RNG.
Card game is broken, not only it requires cheating and a vast range of maxxed out cards, it still sucks even then.
I would grade it 1/5, but there is a button in cheat menu, to skip card fights, and it allows you to watch progress scenes. Where normally you can only watch 1 scene per 1 fight/day, which would on one hand a huge grind/time investment on another hand a gameover/ending would come far earlier than you go through all the scenes.
One more thing to add, UI in general sucks, texts cover half of HCG, and you need to click a button to hide text to see image, which is stupid. What was the problem of making a bigger screen and moving text below the image?