VN - Others - Completed - Playing with My Brother's Wife [Final] [U･Me SOFT]

Playing with my brother's wife is a disappointing VN, where the only plus comes from a bittersweet feeling, derived from the ending. That's about it. Netori is no good, heroine is not just a pushover, she is an "enabler" (you just got married, offer some resistance), H-scenes are a lot "haahs" and weak visually, story is non-existent outside of brother not being around, low production values, and the list goes on. Don't bother with this, "unless sister-in-law" really gets you going.

Positive:
- Enough H-scenes for duration; Bittersweet love (basically, they love each other, rationalize things, and the crude implication is "bangin on the side"), the ending segment is the win here; Egg vibrator scene (for once, it didn't start immediately from scene transition, with all the hardware ready); Voice acting is fine during regular dialogue, during H-scenes the quality increases (to put it crudely again, the moaning is good).

Negative:
- It's dumb. There's no way the couple could hide an active sexual relationship, with 2 other people in the house. 1 ending should be "getting caught"; Heroine needs sex and it feels so good, which is fine, but most of her conflict is fearing getting caught. Her husband's feelings or any promises matter little (translation: a cheater at heart is not compelling); Only 1 ending (at the very least, a lot of skipping revealed only that, and no guide was available); Lazy writing (lots of "after that some time pass"), and simplistic scenario, resorting to all the tropes and textbook events.

Score: 4/10. It's a title that desperately needs common sense, and the appeal of the premise disappears almost immediately. Netori being lackluster is not a problem, portraying it properly takes skill, and a longer running time. Not even bothering with some extra endings born from the premise is inexcusable. Don't have quality, go with quantity. Not recommended, but "sister-in-law" is rare in the medium (and this one has an english translation), so an exception for big fans of this type of heroine is possible.

(H-scenes aren't great, there's not much point. The voice actress is selling them well though.)

Don't bother. It's trash.

This is officially one of the worst endings I've ever seen in a nukige. Nukiges are supposed to just give you fap material, often through unrealistic power fantasies or just blatant fetishism, but this one tries to be more than that by having a pretty unremarkable story with some moments that try to be emotional.

Let me just spoil the ending for you right now: MC and Miki don't end up together. They have sex one last time and make it all "just a memory." A few days after putting an end to their relationship, MC, Miki and the husband are seen having a meal together and everyone is all smiles. This turn of events is so sudden that even the game mentions the abruptness of the ending. The ending is called "Never-ending Secret" and there's a sprite of Miki holding the hand of a man, but neither of those things means anything. The game just ends after that and there is zero evidence that they're still having an affair. Plus, the man holding Mika's hand could be anyone, and even if it's the MC, it could still be totally platonic.

Basically, this is a netori game where you never actually "steal" the woman. Even though she has strong feelings for you and the husband is completely absent for the entirety of the story, in the end she just goes back to him. It's not even a bittersweet ending because there is no sweetness. This is basically a "friendship ending" and it's the only ending.

And even if you can get past the dogshit ending, the journey is not much better than the destination. There are a few good sex scenes here and there, but they're all very tame. The worst of all, however, is how the protagonist behaves in the beginning. This guy is uncomfortably creepy, and I'm not exaggerating. He's not even rapey in a kinky and over-the-top way. He actually comes off as a genuinely mentally ill guy. And god, when he goes silent and starts cornering Miki, or when she tries to run away and he grabs her, or when she tells him that it hurts but he keeps saying, "Haah... Haah... Miki-san... It feels good, right, Miki-san...?" And when he's done he kind of feels guilty over literally raping someone, but then a few minutes later his entire mentality flips back to rape mode, almost like a dissociative disorder or something. Seriously, I fap to rape games, but this isn't a rape game. This MC genuinely made my skin crawl at times. His rapey mentality is way too realistic, but Miki's reactions aren't. Even by eroge standards, some of the stuff this guy does would make anyone scream in absolute terror, yet Miki just lets him do whatever he wants and even blames herself for it. "It's my fault for not noticing your feelings" ?????? Then she falls in love with him, because who wouldn't?

It's also pretty laughable how in the first 5 minutes of reading the game already tries its best to tick every box of trashy eroge tropes; morning wood scene, caught in the changing room, masturbating with the door unlocked, the list goes on and on. It just doesn't feel like netori.

Anything more than this and I'll be ranting. This game isn't worth it. Boring sex scenes, creepy protagonist, awful ending. Avoid at all costs if you're here for the netori. It's less of a netori game and more of a vanilla game where the heroine happens to be in a relationship, except the heroine in question will be forever out of your reach.

The only good thing about this game is the fact that the incredibly talented Misonoo Mei is the one voicing Miki. Sometimes you just have to sit back and appreciate her great voicework, even if the game itself is pretty bad.