"Revenge manhwa" the AVN, featuring "The Room"-level script.
Writing:
I've read a bunch of manhwas back in the day and the writing in Regressor is a 1-to-1 copy-and-paste of the same exact tropes and clichés frequently used in those Korean comics, except even worse with a
terrible boring plot, and
cardboard cut-out characters. First these bitches (because this is essentially what they are) hate MC for no reason, then they fall for him for no reason. Sometimes their motivations are as primitive as animal instincts, other times they are a complete mystery. Why did MC blackmail Olivia to do his bidding, when she was
already in love with him? A bit more corruption and she'd do everything willingly, but for some reason he decided to drop the ball on this one, or did he? Because sometime later she sees him with other woman and gets jealous.
Why? How? She hated him just now,
what happened? I don't get it. Also what's the point of "training" Jessica, when she's
already so devoted? Anyways, on top of repulsive/boring one-dimensional characters with zero personality, the dialogue is
also terrible, so bad that even Tommy Wiseau would be jealous. Not sure if it's on translation or it was bad originally, but the fact is all the same. The story on top of being a dogshit dumpster-fire, is also pretty inconsistent. Like at first it says that Emily and her fiancé are paying off mortgage debt for the house, but then turns out they were renting it? First he was supposed to be fiancé, but at some point everyone began referring him as a husband. When did Emily manage to marry him? When he was hospitalized? Ebony literally used to be white, but then turned black (Naked Gun reference?). Beside these there is the ever-present sandbox inconsistency, where the narrative continuity is broken and events play out of intended sequence, like when characters talk about stuff that isn't supposed to happen yet. Also what's with everyone feeling someone's gazes and presence? Does every Korean have such superpower? Btw,
there is no proper ending, MC finds out that Chloe was a demon all along -> they have sex -> black screen with
"story has concluded" caption.
""Gameplay"":
Gameplay mechanics are obtuse and awkward. You will be skipping time a lot, and for some reason you can only do it at home. Your main source of income is crypto gambling, which you can only access from the office, even tho there is a dedicated 'PC' button at home. Anyways, you have to manually calculate the amount you can buy and type the number in the appropriate number field, instead of choosing from predetermined amounts or going all in for player's convenience (like in any normal game). That's already 3 redundant actions that you have to do on a regular. You also can't use your time rewind ability to gamble and have to resort to save scumming like a pleb, which
creates a dissonance between narrative and the gameplay. Spending ability usage on hints is pointless, since you can, you know,
r o l l b a c k. Overall the game's not quite grindy: there is only one resource (money), and it's easy to farm enough for the whole playthrough with a little bit of save scumming and rollback, so not a huge time waster here. As for this being a part VN,
none of the choices seem to matter for anything. I mean the very first one that you get to make is
literally fake, so that's already not a good sign. Checked a bunch of others and they have the same exact code behind them. Cumming inside or outside is just different jpegs and flavor text.
Storyline appears to be at least 90% kinetic, if not 100.
Visuals/erotic content:
Graphics are already
below average for HS2 rendered game, yet they become
extra blurry during animations. Character models are pretty stock with some minor author's touch. Too many models have
balloon tits. The very first sex scene happened so suddenly, I almost got jump scared.
Literally zero buildup. Animations are alright,
mostly default HS2, camera angles are often
way off and body parts
tend to clip, and transitions are
pretty crude as well. There are claps and moans, which is nice. The piss-drinking stuff is weird,
why piss? Why not cum instead? Overall content quality is not the worst, but
there is almost no context and no impact.
Verdict: a boring point&click VN with unseemly UI/UX, primitive unlikable characters and a story so dumb, my brain hurts. Unfortunately the quality of erotic content isn't high enough to balance it out.
p.s: there is some half-decent netori with two girls, so you might want to check it out for that, regardless of the aformentioned flaws.
playtime: ~8-10 hours