You know, I kept with this game from time to time early in its development, then i think the last update i followed was around the hospital, now i spend the whole night playing from zero (pressing skip here and there i will admit) and oh boy this must be one of the games that has left me the most satisfied in a while (in all senses of the word).
Where to start? Okay, lets start easy. The COMEDY IS FUCKING GOLD. If I had to pin down what is the most hilarious thing here it would be hard to say which made me laught the most but i guess the closest one to first place would be the whole prison segment which leads to my next statement: MIKE IS THE FUCKING BOSS.
The animation is really good and fluid, didn't imagine you could get these kind of results with Honey Select.
The sounds effect and soundtrack really nice.
The game isn't grindy and the minigames and puzzles are quite enjoyable and fun to do.
The plot is quite solid with some little nice twists here and there (even if some of them were telegraphed miles away). An enyojable story, straightforward but with a steady and nice flow that makes it enjoyable and easy to follow along and even feel invested in.
The characters are quite enjoyable from the possible LI to the secondary cast, everyone oozes personality, even the ones that appear in only one scene. This is also the biggest lack in the game, concerning the potential love interests. None is badly writen, maybe it feels they should have needed some more fleshing out, maybe its my simple desire to see more of them despite the story doing a fine job of characterizing them, I would certainly have loved to see more of Jasmine, Iris and Aiko, they arent main girls material, I get it, them lacking affection points and so, but still, would ahve loved to see more from them.
Carla coincidentially feels like the more cliché of the bunch and the most lacking in personality (even if some of her scenes where amongst the hottest ones), only feeling like she had a great characterization by the final act of the story. I wish Rebeccas's relationship didn't feel only mostly sexual.
That's another thing, the mix between being horny and having the feels wasn't that well balanced in the game with some of the romantic interests (Carla and Iris feeling at times specially like nymphos and nothing else, Rebecca could be included in this category too but at least she has the whole 'im in a relationship im not sure i still want' going for her, Jasmine certainly started as full on pure sexual thing but it was clear things were ramping up for more, but again, by this time, we were too close to the end of events). By contrast, the bonds with the two vet main girls (Judie and Lauren) and Aiko, despite how little there was of her, felt very genuine and the sex was a part of the relation, NOT the relation.
Another thing lacking or that would have been nice to see was characters interacting beyond our MC, sure we are the protagonist, the story revolves around us, but that doesn't mean the world does, i for one feel Iris interactions with Judie made a lot to flesh her out beyond 'girl that thirst for her best friends brother', would be nice to see more mother-daughter moments, or between Lauren and Aiko or Rebecca and one of the girls, there where moments here and there, just, some more of them.
Anyway, despite these, I actually feel them like personal peevs of mine that are also too insignificant to put a noticable dent in the overall quality of the game. And hopefully the DLCs will solve several of my complains about the game.
