TL;DR: I really, really, REALLY hope this is not the route the game decides to go down going forwards. The original demo was charming, had potential, and was a standout product even for how relatively short it was, and I was excited to see where it would go from there.
This is not that same game.
I really don't want to sound like I'm dogpiling POHG or this game, as I know he had to put a metric fuck ton of work into this remake, and I will unapologetically congratulate him for even finishing something of this scope and scale. The progress he's made as a developer from the first version of the game is immediately noticeable, and the potential he has is obvious. That being said, this remake
severely underwhelmed me to the point that I have to say something about it now or I'll be mad for the entire rest of the day.
This remake.
Sucks.
A lot.
I say this with no offence meant to POHG, but I don't think I've ever seen such a massive downgrade from one version of a game to the next outside of
No Love, an absolutely horrid game that had a similarly strong start in it's early phases.
Perfect Family: A Family of Perverts almost feels like a mean-spirited parody of the original meant to intentionally mock every good aspect of the demo. The diverse body types between the girls have all been thrown away form universally, near-disgustingly curvy girls. And that's coming form me, the guy who will play literally any game on this site if there's a fat ass in there somewhere. The reason Mika and characters with a body type like hers worked in the demo is because, while completely outrageous, they were the exceptions, and there were more mellowed out and grounded body-types to be had elsewhere. If you got tired of Mika's cartoonishly fat ass you could go fuck around with Nuts, Coco, your twin sister, etc.
Now, the constant flood of ridiculously thick thighs, asses, massive tits, etc. are so frequent and common that it loses any appeal it might've had due to oversaturation. Somehow even the MC ended up getting caught in the crossfire and has an ass just as huge as any of the other girls, and it somehow looks even worse on him than it does on them.
Secondly and personally more importantly, any of the fun, interesting dynamics between family members are simply gone. Everyone in this family is just insatiably and eternally hungry for YOUR dick, to the point where your suspension of disbelief cannot even begin to do enough mental gymnastics to make it believable. Your succubus wife? That's your cousin. Your twin sister? Now a blonde bimbo who's just as, if not more horny than the literal sex devil you married. The MC? Wakes up from a coma after 10 years and
immediately begins thinking about how large his
daughter's tits have gotten. It's so in-your-face that it just becomes off-putting after a point, like this isn't some hentai fantasy but a genuinely fucked up family of horrible, fucked up people.
Maybe it's just me, but part of the fun of incest is that it's a taboo. In the demo, you (the MC) had to be talked into the idea of even going for incest in the first place by your literal sex demon wife. And while it's made obvious that most of your family are either outwardly alright with the idea or not against it, they still all mostly have to be either coaxed into it or outright seduced.
Hell, for some of the girls like your blonde older sister in the demo, she's more of the clueless archetype than anything else (a personal fave of mine) and that dynamic was great. Your twin sister being mostly apathetic about the whole thing but also being interested in incest despite how she came off was also a neat dynamic. Your mother being into it but not outwardly, mostly taking the form of either teasing was
especially hot.
In this remake? No dice.
Everyone is just eternally horny, incest is cool and normal, your wife is wholly okay with you eyeing up your own kids and in fact actively encourages it, your sister is a massive pervert, the list just goes on.
Finally, and I promise I'm coming to a close soon, the story. While the demo's story wasn't anything groundbreaking, it did the job, and, more importantly, was unintrusive. The focus was on the character dynamics and the shenanigans you could get into with the various members of your family. Anything that happened in the plot was just a way for the dev to put a new, fun scene in there. Now though, the game's seemingly going to be centered around a very Twisted World-esque coma plotline, and while I don't think that's a problem by itself, the combination of the lack of any interesting character dynamics (or characters in general) really just means that it's boring. I don't give two shits about him being hit by a Mustang GT500, I don't care about him not seeing his own daughters grow up, mostly because the MC doesn't really care either. At least not more than he cares about fantasizing about just how much their tits and bodies have filled out in the time he was away.
Haaaaaaaaaah.
Okay, in summary, I really don't like this remake. It's managed to surgically remove almost any interesting, fun, or even genuinely sexy parts of the demo. It feels like it's trying way too hard to lean into the incest thing to the point where it normalises incest so much it's not actually a taboo, just another normal facet of these character's lives.
I just want to see
- The interesting character dynamics return. Let us shower our dog girl in affection and build a natural relationship that just so happens to end up with us fucking. Let us get teased by our very-obviously-into-incest mother and maybe make a play to take the initiative. Let us leer at our clueless older sister who either doesn't realise or doesn't mind the fact that we came into her room while she was only half-dressed. Just, anything more than what we have now.
- The body types get toned down, massively. Bring back the smaller body-types like Coco's. Huge asses and tits are great, but in moderation. Add some diversity in there so that we feel like the girl we're choosing to focus on fits our own personal types more and isn't just the one copy-paste of all the other girls we're just arbitrarily choosing to interact with. Similarly, it's okay for the girls to wear actually normal clothing. Seeing a girl naked gets FAR less arousing when she's only one fishnet away from being naked at all times anyways.
- Nuts.
- The easy-going, light-hearted nature of the original come back. It didn't take itself too seriously, and I doubt it expected you to, either. It was nice for what it was and wasn't trying to be anything more. it was a nice vibe.
Alright, that's all I got. Rant over. I really, really hope I can come back and change my review at some point in the future. I really want to like this game.