Review for v0.4.4
Just not a very compelling experience for me based on the content I played before dropping it.
The opening therapy session did not have the intended affect I assume it was suppose to have on me. All I got out of it is that the MC has a very defeatist attitude, which gets pretty annoying since there's really no nuance to it. The game tries to describe him as intelligent when all I see is yet another horny brain MC crying about how girls don't love him. Hard to take him seriously when he doses off during it to dream about fucking his therapist (dream scenes suck btw), combined with dialogue like "I have to find a job, hang out with new people, and stick my cock in some holes!" Just shut up man.
The plot after that is pretty nonsensical as well. After learning our MC has a Tony Soprano style fixation on his therapist, an eccentric narcissist "information industry mogul" breaks into our apartment and starts talking about how masturbation is better than sex. Turns out he owes our late father a debt, which he is now repaying to you in exchange for proving his wife's infidelity so he can divorce her without her getting anything from it. We will do this by going under cover at Sassy Girl magazine as an intern. I suppose it works enough for a porn game, but it plays out rather unnaturally.
And that's the thing, how unnatural the game feels. The MC comes off as a creep with his weird flirting and perv thoughts, which the girls are abnormally receptive to of course. Then we get to the job interview, where we learn the inter position is unpaid and we might need a second job to make money. That's ok MC, instead of that I'll let you, a complete stranger, move into my mansion no problem! Then we meet Adele, who's personality is just an extremely exaggerated mega bitch. None of the other girls are any better really. All the characters feel like B list actors playing a role rather amateurly than feeling like real people.
I like the premise of working at a gossip magazine honestly, but the characters and overall writing aren't really doing it for me. I didn't play through all available content to be fair, but I don't feel like forcing myself to do so.
Just not a very compelling experience for me based on the content I played before dropping it.
The opening therapy session did not have the intended affect I assume it was suppose to have on me. All I got out of it is that the MC has a very defeatist attitude, which gets pretty annoying since there's really no nuance to it. The game tries to describe him as intelligent when all I see is yet another horny brain MC crying about how girls don't love him. Hard to take him seriously when he doses off during it to dream about fucking his therapist (dream scenes suck btw), combined with dialogue like "I have to find a job, hang out with new people, and stick my cock in some holes!" Just shut up man.
The plot after that is pretty nonsensical as well. After learning our MC has a Tony Soprano style fixation on his therapist, an eccentric narcissist "information industry mogul" breaks into our apartment and starts talking about how masturbation is better than sex. Turns out he owes our late father a debt, which he is now repaying to you in exchange for proving his wife's infidelity so he can divorce her without her getting anything from it. We will do this by going under cover at Sassy Girl magazine as an intern. I suppose it works enough for a porn game, but it plays out rather unnaturally.
And that's the thing, how unnatural the game feels. The MC comes off as a creep with his weird flirting and perv thoughts, which the girls are abnormally receptive to of course. Then we get to the job interview, where we learn the inter position is unpaid and we might need a second job to make money. That's ok MC, instead of that I'll let you, a complete stranger, move into my mansion no problem! Then we meet Adele, who's personality is just an extremely exaggerated mega bitch. None of the other girls are any better really. All the characters feel like B list actors playing a role rather amateurly than feeling like real people.
I like the premise of working at a gossip magazine honestly, but the characters and overall writing aren't really doing it for me. I didn't play through all available content to be fair, but I don't feel like forcing myself to do so.