Played the 2.2.2 Demo.
Well if you enjoyed NTR Legend there's no reason you won't enjoy this either. If that's you, you don't need this review. Just go waste a few hours on it and no one will chastise you for cheating in more money or lust points because the grind truly is atrocious. What follows is an meaningless discharge of personal grievances. Pay it no mind, at least until after you get your faps in.
The game really misses the mark in terms of characterizing the main character. Without any dialogue, NTR Legend is able to present a sort of bum, slob of a man that has no prospects and lives in a garbage-filled room and despite this, manages to have a big monkey smile on his face at all times. This shameless oaf stumbles through life with a penchant for wrapping himself with odd people, odd jobs, but most importantly odd relationships through his obvious charm. Meanwhile, NTRaholic features a boring shell of a man that walks, fucks, and talks like any NTR villian ought to. Even his daily activities are a bore and non-descript - being a delivery man, working out, or reading self-improvement books. He is a character you don't really want to involve or inhabit, and is essentially a means to an end. NTRaholic misses out on the absurdity and humor which is what allowed NTR Legend to get away with basically being dialogue-less.
There's been a great deal to expand the characters and the story through dialogue and plot but it mostly falls short, especially when it relies on tired, tired tropes such as blackmailing the heroine into sex, and convenient failings of reason. The game tries to get you to care about the couple's relationship by having you read stale dialogue expositioning their history but again, the game failed from the start to get me to care about anything any of these characters have to say. Again, there is a failure in understanding the charm of NTR Legend in that the husband in the scenario is essentially a prop used to heighten the sexual tension. I did not have to know what food he likes, or how they met in order to enjoy the dinner scenario where he unknowingly takes sleeping pills and his wife screws the neighbor right in front of him.
The gameplay unfortunately blows. Stamina almost never runs out, so anything related to increasing that value is for the most part, wasted time. The only money venture is playing a flappy bird minigame that starts out frustratingly slow, and takes a minute and a half to reap the full rewards out. It's annoyingly padded out and because money is essential to doing a lot of the content and grinding, you can't avoid it. The minigame fails to test your speed and reaction times the way NTRLegend did, and the flappy bird minigame just does not respect your time. On top of not respecting your time, the game revives the worst part of NTRLegend, the sex grind of acquiring lust experience by slowing building up a pleasure bar and pinpointing the perfect sex speed. Complete waste of time and attention, to have to perform scenes countless times until you are sick of looking at them.
And so why 4 stars? It seems like there's nothing going right with the game. But there is. The raw, sexual content.
The demo alone is 60-70% close to matching version 1.0.2 of NTR Legend in terms of sex animations, and the final game appears to promise a lot more on top of upgrades to animation smoothness and appearance. Live2D CGs have also been added (the one upside to introducing the vn dialogue), and more scenarios have been added, opening the door to more engrossing scenes. I also respect that all of the scenarios and early game feature a lot of groping and fondling, which really builds up the atmosphere and makes them complete.
At the end of the day this is a porn game and if this kind of thing is your bag the game does it well, enough to stomach everything else. The story and character grievances are my own and you don't have to agree with it. I will look at you side-eyed if you enjoy any of the gameplay though.
