sophie 1
colette
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mira = 1
While the game isnt perfect, i still want to give it 5* just because its so much better than most of the stuff out there. The game is just perfect in so many ways i feel a lot more people should see and play it.
The artwork is good, while it is a bit scarse on detail, it is a lot better than most of the 3d DAZ engine stuff people spit out nowadays. There is plenty of sexy artwork and also some to help flesh out the story with non-sexy CG. The resolution is good too.
The story is good too, it got me invested It has some twists, and enough mystery to keep you reading long past the time you should go to sleep. There are a lot of choices, and they matter, as do standings with the different girls. This is unlike most games that promise a bunch of choices. The author actually bothered to go the extra mile and put hours into alternate routes. No matter if you want to stick with one side, want a good or bad end, or a perfect end, the game has the option for it. What helps is that the characters are all nice, they all have their own agendas and drives, and they all have reasons to do what they do. They dont feel like they wait for the protagonist to tell them what to do, or unreasonable. Them all being cute girls most certainly helps.
The sex is where the game starts to falter. The game has some unique CG for sexy times during the story. But these scenes are very short, and have a single or 2 CG, some of them even cut out before the main event. The game makes up for this for having a sex minigame, including sex toys and different girls having different preferences. However, there are some issues with this too, first the sex scene can be a bit dissociated from the story, the sex minigame is always the same, so the unique situation does not factor in.
There is also a management minigame, it is good on paper, but the big problem is is that every girl is skilled in one task, but can prefer to do another task during that day. So you have to pick between letting a girl serve (which shes best at) or clean (which she wants). Over the course of days they also build up stress, this can be reduced with sex, but the sex is highly storylimited so your chances to help an exhausted girl out are limited. It is a cool idea, work girls during the day, fuck the most tired one at night. But the game has too little "average" days where this mechanic can shine.
Replaying the game can also be tough. The save system is difficult to manage (you have to select a saveslot in the options menu, then click the floppy disk during the game to save) and the savegame is set to the start of the day, not the point where you saved. This means you cannot save your favorite sex scene or try out different choices. I guess this is to avoid savescumming, but all it does it make savescumming more tedious. This makes replaying the game for the different endings hell too.
NG+ seems to try and fix this issue, but it doesnt. First of all, every time you try to load a NG+ game it will ask you whether you want to load it, or use it to restart your game into a new NG+ save. Second, the girls have standings with you. If you want a bad end you want a girl to have low standings with you, but in NG+ you probably have some girls maxed out with little way of lowering it. The choices you can make also are hard to figure out since the standings are updated at the start of the next day. SO all you can do is just try out the choices, wait for the end of the day, then try something else. The only other choice is starting all over, but that takes a long time since you dont have any sex toys unlocked and have to grind out happiness with the girls. NG++ having some kind of affection manipulation mechanic would make this a lot easier. As cheat engine doesnt cooperate with me.
So that sounds negative, but im only negative because i love this game so much. I just wish the usuability was there. They have this huge gallery of not only ingame CG, but also promotional art. But then the game is like "yeah you have to grind out these sex tokens (freeplay doesnt give those ofc) and you wont get the story either, just the CG". And that makes this game not a 10/10, but a 9/10.