This is the gold standard for how to construct a "real porn" game: the selection, editing, and use of the images and clips is practically immaculate. Not only does it use a single model for each character (except the male MC), but the costumes and locations are kept largely consistent as well, and even things like changes in hair style and appearance are woven into the plot.
The videos, pictures and writing are pieced together extremely well, and this makes a huge difference in the suspension of disbelief: in creating the illusion that what we're seeing is actually the people in the story, moving around a real house and neighborhood and taking part in the events described, not just a bunch of images of porn stars harvested from different shoots in different locations that really have nothing to do with what the game pretends.
Other pros:
The videos, pictures and writing are pieced together extremely well, and this makes a huge difference in the suspension of disbelief: in creating the illusion that what we're seeing is actually the people in the story, moving around a real house and neighborhood and taking part in the events described, not just a bunch of images of porn stars harvested from different shoots in different locations that really have nothing to do with what the game pretends.
Other pros:
- Hot sex scenes
- Good writing, clearly well researched
- Good characterization of the LIs, creating lives and personalities for them outside of being sex objects
- Some interesting gameplay that requires attention to the story (or trial-and-error via save-scumming)
- The grind is extreme; do not play on default difficulty
- The story and gameplay run out of steam towards the end (you end up skipping through weeks of time just to wrap up the last few remaining events), and also go a bit off the rails, changing the characters' motivations and losing interest in the girls as anything other than sex objects; the ending itself is anticlimactic
- The ending for one of the main LIs was, to me, very depressing, and soured me on the whole thing. I know it's some people's kink, but I think some player agency to choose the outcome would really have gone a long way here:
You don't have permission to view the spoiler content. Log in or register now. - All girls and events are obligatory to progress. Fair enough, but some of the side-characters feel rather extraneous. One in particular (the lodger) should just have been cut from the game
- The custom Java engine is a pain. In particular, a single mis-click can easily skip a chunk of exposition, with no way of going back (and in this game, the exposition matters)
- Also, for me it launched in full-screen, with no apparent way to quit or switch to windowed mode, and not respecting OS control keys like Alt-Tab. You have to play through the whole intro (>5 mins) to get to settings or instructions for switching screen modes, or to save after defining names and relationships.