All in all, this seems like a fantastic game in the making and the demo gives me all the reason to believe it will be a favorite of mine and many other players. I would suggest to go and support the developer if you can afford to do so.
However, it is not perfect. There are SO many things done right (which I will go over very quickly because there are about 40 other reviews detailing them), but at least one thing in my opinion which needs to be improved in future releases.
The strong points of this game are first and foremost, the visuals. Most things look stunning. The renders are high quality, the backgrounds seem natural. The models are unique and very, very attractive. Not only are they not the standard DAZ models, but I think the dev did a great job of making the family look similar to one another (you could guess the girls are sisters and that they are their mother's daughters) but still distinct from each other.
The English is also very good. There are no grammar or punctuation errors (which might seem trivial but these things can really break immersion) and for the most part, the dialog really seems natural -- the way I (as a person whose first language is English) would expect English speaking people to talk. The amount of content and length of the game are also very good for a first release and there is a decent balance of build-up and some action.
The one thing that bothers me is that the writing is inconsistent. Sometimes it can be very good (like Gracie's letter to the MC) and sometimes it can feel VERY contrived. An example would be how in the intro the MC is referred to as a "nerd" and is obviously outside the clique of the cool kids on the one hand (Gracie even says that she wouldn't have ignored him just because he's not overly popular), but on the other hand he's presented as a football star. This makes very little sense, and happens several times in the story. Mostly it feels like in some cases the writers knew what they wanted to achieve so they didn't really bother themselves with writing something believable that achieves it. They preferred to make life easy for themselves. Another example is how the MC is obsessed with a girl who appears in his dreams every night, and whose name he knows, but doesn't do anything to find her for several years. I mean, I get that he doesn't remember most thing from before his accident but he knows who he was and where he went to school. He was 18 when he had his accident, so there's like a 90% chance he knew her from school or from his old neighborhood. How hard could it be to track down someone whose name you know and went to school with you? Again, doesn't make any sense but is written very conveniently story-wise. There are a few more cases like this which seem lazy.
Edit: after re-reading my review, I feel like it might have been a little harsh. I stand behind everything I've written, but I feel like I haven't stressed enough that in most places, the writing is as good as the visuals. The MC seems like a real person and not a caricature, the girls all have personalities and some scenes are really heartfelt. I just wish every dialog and every scene would be up to the (very high) standards set by the majority of the writing.
However, it is not perfect. There are SO many things done right (which I will go over very quickly because there are about 40 other reviews detailing them), but at least one thing in my opinion which needs to be improved in future releases.
The strong points of this game are first and foremost, the visuals. Most things look stunning. The renders are high quality, the backgrounds seem natural. The models are unique and very, very attractive. Not only are they not the standard DAZ models, but I think the dev did a great job of making the family look similar to one another (you could guess the girls are sisters and that they are their mother's daughters) but still distinct from each other.
The English is also very good. There are no grammar or punctuation errors (which might seem trivial but these things can really break immersion) and for the most part, the dialog really seems natural -- the way I (as a person whose first language is English) would expect English speaking people to talk. The amount of content and length of the game are also very good for a first release and there is a decent balance of build-up and some action.
The one thing that bothers me is that the writing is inconsistent. Sometimes it can be very good (like Gracie's letter to the MC) and sometimes it can feel VERY contrived. An example would be how in the intro the MC is referred to as a "nerd" and is obviously outside the clique of the cool kids on the one hand (Gracie even says that she wouldn't have ignored him just because he's not overly popular), but on the other hand he's presented as a football star. This makes very little sense, and happens several times in the story. Mostly it feels like in some cases the writers knew what they wanted to achieve so they didn't really bother themselves with writing something believable that achieves it. They preferred to make life easy for themselves. Another example is how the MC is obsessed with a girl who appears in his dreams every night, and whose name he knows, but doesn't do anything to find her for several years. I mean, I get that he doesn't remember most thing from before his accident but he knows who he was and where he went to school. He was 18 when he had his accident, so there's like a 90% chance he knew her from school or from his old neighborhood. How hard could it be to track down someone whose name you know and went to school with you? Again, doesn't make any sense but is written very conveniently story-wise. There are a few more cases like this which seem lazy.
Edit: after re-reading my review, I feel like it might have been a little harsh. I stand behind everything I've written, but I feel like I haven't stressed enough that in most places, the writing is as good as the visuals. The MC seems like a real person and not a caricature, the girls all have personalities and some scenes are really heartfelt. I just wish every dialog and every scene would be up to the (very high) standards set by the majority of the writing.
