[v0.7.0]
This is a solid 4/5 VN,
BUT:
⠀⠀⠀The novel introduces everyone as dimwitted horny teenagers with zero personality and social responsibility, who are just down to fuck. Everyone talks about sex non-stop and constantly cracks sex jokes,
it's tiring. It's also off-putting.
⠀⠀⠀MC's childhood friend in particular deserves a better introduction to the story. Forming some sort of year-long "cherry-popping" agreement with him, instead of simply pursuing the relationship doesn't make any sense. She's clearly bold enough to offer sex, so
"shy" and
"terrified to push for more" argument doesn't apply. She claims she stayed a virgin because she only wants to do it with MC, yet in the next sentence she says
"don't get it to your head", because it will be business as usual to being just friends after the act. Is she bipolar? Like that conversation kinda destroyed her image for a while, but luckily author redeemed her eventually.
⠀⠀⠀Script and pacing suffers from
frequent exposition dumps that serve the purpose of acquainting readers with lore and characters, which is not the way to do it. It's kinda irritating to sit through yet another Q&A session or very long dialogue with a girl, you know? There are also dialogues which I could only describe as yapping, that serve no purpose other than to pad the runtime.
⠀⠀⠀Everyone describes and emphasizes that Sisterhood's members are all supermodels way above beauty standards, yet most of them look fairly average (compared to the rest of the characters), a bit of a visual-narrative dissonance here.
⠀⠀⠀There is technically a glossary that differentiates proper "love interest" apart from fuck buddies, but IMO there are only two actual LIs: Evelyn and Amber. Everyone else you just have sex with, and that's fine, but they're not really a wife/GF material, more like FWBs
⠀⠀⠀The comedy is fine: not cringe, sometimes kinda funny
when it's not yet another sex-related joke, but not "bursting with laughter" levels either.
⠀⠀⠀MC is often
pretty awkward, I wish he wasn't fanboying or drooling as much for half the character cast, feels so degrading.
⠀⠀⠀Sex scenes have
no animations and no sounds - sure, fine, but there's no gallery either (except for some random pictures), so you can't even re-watch them, so lame.
⠀⠀⠀Technically you can
"turn off lesbian content" and sure you won't see related sex scenes,
buuuuut everyone is still basically an open lesbian and
ALL WOMEN are constantly making remarks about being (or wishing to be) "intimate" with each other. Honestly at times it feels as though these wenches are more attracted to one another than to the protagonist.
And yet despite these shortcomings (some pretty subjective) it's a good VN:
visually appealing and
interesting to read.
Ember's both dads approve!