I really enjoyed this game. My taste in lewd games is usually more in the direction of sandbox management games or something with actual gameplay, so it's not typical at all for me to have this much fun with a game that's basically just a VN. I love the art and the story (even though I don't care about NTR stuff). I think this game has the potential to be a 5-star, but there's just too many elements that are unpolished for me to give it a perfect rating at this point (v0.18.2).
The biggest issue I have with this is how long it takes to get through scenes. The normal speed at which each new message shows up is ponderously slow. I personally don't care about maintaining the illusion that this is a real cell phone, so I don't need messages to take a realistic amount of time for the fictional character to type them. There's a fast-forward button, which only makes it go twice as fast, still a bit too slow for my patience level. I brought this up on the game's Itch page, and the dev replied that you can hold down the left mouse button to have messages show up at 10x speed (which is basically instant). The problem is that you can't hold down the button while you're clicking on your own responses, so this function is basically useless during dialogues that are a back and forth of one message per person. At other times, it's problematic because it causes you to miss notifications that show up at the top of the screen (and then disappear after one or two more messages have been sent). This should be an option in the Settings menu, to have it perpetually go that fast, and there should also be an option for the game to automatically send any messages from the MC that don't require a player choice. That would substantially decrease the clicking, and make getting through response-heavy scenes feel like less of a slog.
My second big complaint is that the FMC's progression with Matt (the NTR villain of the story) is too sudden. The game shows how it starts, then shows Matt doing little things to gradually corrupt her and warm her up over time... and then all of a sudden, she's sucking and fucking (if you're not on the "Lovers" path) with no real justification for what caused that major barrier to be crossed. It probably has something to do with your hacker friend updating the nanobots or whatever, but that's not a very sexy justification to me. I'd like that part of the story to be a lot more fleshed out.
I definitely plan to play this again in two or three months, to see how the story and hopefully the QoL improvements are coming along. If the dev keeps making it better with each new release and doesn't accept mediocrity, this game has real potential to be one of my favorites.
The biggest issue I have with this is how long it takes to get through scenes. The normal speed at which each new message shows up is ponderously slow. I personally don't care about maintaining the illusion that this is a real cell phone, so I don't need messages to take a realistic amount of time for the fictional character to type them. There's a fast-forward button, which only makes it go twice as fast, still a bit too slow for my patience level. I brought this up on the game's Itch page, and the dev replied that you can hold down the left mouse button to have messages show up at 10x speed (which is basically instant). The problem is that you can't hold down the button while you're clicking on your own responses, so this function is basically useless during dialogues that are a back and forth of one message per person. At other times, it's problematic because it causes you to miss notifications that show up at the top of the screen (and then disappear after one or two more messages have been sent). This should be an option in the Settings menu, to have it perpetually go that fast, and there should also be an option for the game to automatically send any messages from the MC that don't require a player choice. That would substantially decrease the clicking, and make getting through response-heavy scenes feel like less of a slog.
My second big complaint is that the FMC's progression with Matt (the NTR villain of the story) is too sudden. The game shows how it starts, then shows Matt doing little things to gradually corrupt her and warm her up over time... and then all of a sudden, she's sucking and fucking (if you're not on the "Lovers" path) with no real justification for what caused that major barrier to be crossed. It probably has something to do with your hacker friend updating the nanobots or whatever, but that's not a very sexy justification to me. I'd like that part of the story to be a lot more fleshed out.
I definitely plan to play this again in two or three months, to see how the story and hopefully the QoL improvements are coming along. If the dev keeps making it better with each new release and doesn't accept mediocrity, this game has real potential to be one of my favorites.