Not sure if this is a case of ambition exceeding the developer's reach, or of the developer being talented but not caring about their product.
There are great renders here, and a great opening. The backstory is delivered at a nice pace, with a sense that the writer knows what they're doing, and after the prologue, everything begins loaded with possibility and excitement. A rich premise and game mechanics that promise 3 ways to play through said premise? Great, I'm in.
But then....there aren't really any different ways to play. The most virtuous path and the darkest path have the protagonist doing basically the same things, which just makes the characterization more schizophrenic. I would have loved to have been able to play the MC as either an actually decent person or as a complete sociopath who just wants to dominate people. I was looking for divergent stories based on character choices. Instead, there's constant reassurance that the MC is a good guy, loveable, desireable, even when the game has him acting in completely antisocial ways.
Maybe I misunderstand incest as a fetish. Maybe this is exactly what someone wants, this exact range of behavior, this arbitrary set of reactions from characters that actually get more two-dimensional as the game goes on. But if the appeal of a visual novel over traditional porn is that there is a sense of agency and immersion that comes from depth of character and story, then this game simply fails to deliver. Agency is exactly what the player does not develop here, as the main character just feels more and more out of the player's control.
I would say that I would give the game another chance down the road, after more updates, but since those seem to be so few and far between, I think that this is effectively a closed book. And although the renders are hot and high quality, there are better ways to get off. There's plenty of fetish porn in the sea, as they say.
There are great renders here, and a great opening. The backstory is delivered at a nice pace, with a sense that the writer knows what they're doing, and after the prologue, everything begins loaded with possibility and excitement. A rich premise and game mechanics that promise 3 ways to play through said premise? Great, I'm in.
But then....there aren't really any different ways to play. The most virtuous path and the darkest path have the protagonist doing basically the same things, which just makes the characterization more schizophrenic. I would have loved to have been able to play the MC as either an actually decent person or as a complete sociopath who just wants to dominate people. I was looking for divergent stories based on character choices. Instead, there's constant reassurance that the MC is a good guy, loveable, desireable, even when the game has him acting in completely antisocial ways.
Maybe I misunderstand incest as a fetish. Maybe this is exactly what someone wants, this exact range of behavior, this arbitrary set of reactions from characters that actually get more two-dimensional as the game goes on. But if the appeal of a visual novel over traditional porn is that there is a sense of agency and immersion that comes from depth of character and story, then this game simply fails to deliver. Agency is exactly what the player does not develop here, as the main character just feels more and more out of the player's control.
I would say that I would give the game another chance down the road, after more updates, but since those seem to be so few and far between, I think that this is effectively a closed book. And although the renders are hot and high quality, there are better ways to get off. There's plenty of fetish porn in the sea, as they say.