My first one star rating... yay!
This is f'n ridiculous. Childish dialog. Blank one dimensional characters. Absurd (and cliche) plot. I barely made it through 3 days of this and had to shut it off...
It's not the premise... or the theme... I came for those... it's the presentation... it's the writing... it's 110% the writing.
Ok, you are estranged from your wife for 10 years or something like that, then you come back supposedly changed from your former dick ways... and within 24 hours you've totally boned your not-at-all apprehensive wife, slept with her, caught your elder daughter masturbating to you... and been told by your youngest daughter than she liked the tingly sensation she got when she thought about seeing you stoinking Mom. It's supposed to be a fantasy... I get it... sure we're supposed to get the taboo that you don't get in real life. But this is absurdly simplistic and right out of a 12 year old's mind.
And then there is the situational story telling. In that same 24 hour period you fight off three would be rapists and a guy filming your daughter taking a leak in a restaurant bathroom. It makes you wonder how this nearly adult daughter made it all these years without being the victim of dozens of sexual assaults... the way she attracts them. One of these assaults would have been almost acceptable if the story had done more to make me care about these people before this happened, but it happened way too soon in the story... and having back-to-back episodes of the same situation... just bad story telling.
And in the scene where the daughter is being filmed in the bathroom, you stand there and listen to a dozen or so lines of dialog from this guy while his arm is still hanging over the stall, camera faced down... and you're left there feeling like a cuck waiting for the chance to stop him.
The main character is weak. But no so weak that he doesn't get the option to "SHOW OFF" via a button when you finally get a chance to stop the perv... there totally is a button that allows you to show off before you stop your daughter's assaulter. I felt that was worth repeating and clarifying.
And all of these situations are strung together by mundane scenes of dialog about things that have nothing to do with anything. Inconsequential.
"What are you doing today, Honey..." "I don't know, what are you doing..." "I was thinking maybe of doing..." "But shouldn't we do...?" Just mundane pointless drivel to string together obviously plotted situations. It's horrible. It's soooo bad.
And then there is the choice system... three lines of dialog in you're given the option of "forgive her" or "don't forgive her" to your wife showing up at a bar... this immediately gives you the idea that you have an option of playing this nice or playing it mean... sound's cool right? But it isn't that... if you're a dick, it's game over two options later. It demands you play it nice while throwing chances to be a dick at you every five lines of dialog. It's a tedious and unnecessary mechanic.
And the scenes where it gives you three options to cover a discussion (something I've seen before in games) is totally unnecessary, too. It gives the illusion of interaction, but in the end, we're going to see all three lines of dialog so what does it matter having to pick what we discuss? This would have been better served to just be one conversation where this stuff comes out. But even that would have been tedious because it's all so pointless.
(She's taking a long time)
"I"m sorry for taking such a long time"
"Don't worry, you didn't take a long time"
That's three frames with their own renders in this game. Pointless extending of already inconsequential scenes just to get to the next chance to offer a damning lewd choice and a ubiquitous requital of affection.
The characterization was hamstrung by too many characters being introduced at once and yet nothing learned about any of those characters (except that one attracts sexual assaults), implied backgrounds that you know nothing about because you just turned on the game, and blatant exposition.
The fight mechanic was kinda interesting but again, pointless... once you got it down you will win every fight you encounter and then it's just another excuse to have you clicking buttons.
I cannot imagine that any of the high-star reviews on this site actually read the story or gave it much thought... it had to be the visuals for them. It had to be.
This is awful... just really awful. Oh... well, the two daughters are kinda cute. I guess it has that....
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EDIT TO ADD: Ok... two days later, still thinking about this turd, and a part of me thought "what if it's a parody? did I get it wrong?"
So I loaded it back up today, and made it a few days further... I should be rewarded for that act of perseverance. Cuz it actually got worse...
Ok... no matter what you do, you're going to bang everyone, I can see it now. I played with the choices, trying to avoid contact at all costs, even with the wife... it's impossible... they are throwing themselves at you.
On day two when you deny your elder daughter's advances she basically breaks. And the only thing that will fix her is your cock.
And there is another sexual assault... the younger daughter has some intruder break into her room and jizz on her face... which thankfully we don't see.
So that's three sexual assaults in 48 hours. These daughters probably have a rare gene or something...
But she didn't know it was jizz... so innocent... so without my input or control, I proceed to make sure my daughter knows it was jizz when she absolutely didn't need to know... she didn't even know what jizz was... of course I explained that too... and to further make my point, whatever that is, I tell her to go watch some porn and masturbate. Kid you not... immediately after she wakes with a stranger tugging it over her bed... she has to get my uncontrolled input.
This shit...
And now you meet your sister, which you have an already existing affair with--not your choice, you walk into the story with this baggage, and there is no way of avoiding the daughter's friend from knowing about it... and then the older daughter when she walks in on an unavoidable fling you're having with your sister in the bathroom.
And on night three, the elder daughter tells the wife that she loves you and they both know she wants your body. And Mom isn't freaking out... this is the same Mom (and wife) that 48 hours earlier told you "game over" for having 1 drink in a bar in your first play-through and your first encounter with her.
And meanwhile, even when totally playing it cool, the daughter's friend is throwing herself at you and is cool with you banging your sister. You're forced into meeting her a few times without your choice, advancing a relationship, without your choice... which leads to her to revealing that she's being sexually assaulted by a gang that her mother owes drug money to.
So if you're keeping score... four sexual assaults in around 3 days...
Maybe it's not genes... maybe it's in the water?
And fittingly, my response to this girl who just revealed her horrors to me is to give it to her with 30 or so lines of "fuck this" and "fuck that"... berating her into making the right choice... while she is sitting there bleeding from the eye, hair all cut off... this isn't about her pain though... it's about HOW MAD I AM!!! Ra!
This is so much worse than I originally credited it with. This is supposed to be a choose your own adventure type thing... but this adventure is pre-plotted, allowing for no deviation. You cannot avoid dramatic situations. You're a cheater with your own sister, and everyone is going to know about it. Your children are like bait on the end of a fishing line for every predator... which includes you. You're going to date your daughter's friend (and probably kill her mom? I bet it happens, this story... I'll never know)...
And even though your wife has the personality of cardboard... you must love her.
This should have just been one long (actually short because everything important about building these types of relationships comes in the first 48 hours) and pointless story without a single choice attached. It would have been boring, pointless, devoid of emotion or immersion... exactly like it is now. But at least it would be less clicks.
Just scroll back through all I typed... all that happened in 72 hours of story. It's insane. World record speed.
Throughout it all, me playing hard to get, my inner dialog is telling me that it's because I want to remain faithful to my cardboard wife. That's been my verbal justification for denying each come-on. It's never "I don't want to sleep with you because your my daughter...or my daughter's friend" rather it's "I don't want to sleep with you because I'd be unfaithful..." Meanwhile, my inner dialog is also more than happy to check out everyone's body every chance I get... and even flick the nipple of my topless youngest daughter while cuddling her in bed.
"I only promised I wouldn't peak"
His actions and thoughts and emotions are all over the map, and totally contradicting. Terrible main character... if you can identify with this guy, you're a 14 year old confused and angry kid who is probably going to kill his own father, if you haven't already... get help.
And some might argue that I'm giving everything away... I've told the whole plot... and I'd answer, "But I only revealed 3 days... isn't your question making my point?"
Still awful. It won't let me give zero stars... that's a travesty.
And finally... the next morning the elder daughter rapes you with a handjob in your wife's bed while your younger daughter is asleep on your chest, topless, and your sister is on the bed egging on the handjob.
Five sexual assaults in three days? It's definitely the water.
Maybe it is a parody... the more I insult it, the better it sounds... my review reads like it's kinda genius... I swear it's not.
(I was wrong... you don't get to bed everyone... by playing it straight, you get a "Good Ending" as the faithful husband... all I had to do was promise the cardboard wife I'd be faithful... this happens on day four with all those unresolved threads tied up nicely with my single line of conviction... I guess I did give the whole plot... sorry... but if you're a masochist, there are apparently four other endings...)