This is a very cozy game, and if the tags interest you, you'll likely enjoy booting up the game once for—not a quick fap—but a 3–4 hour game session where you might eventually get one fap at the first penetration scene you unlock, then you'll close the game. The game felt really good for a while. I like the art and scenes, and the amount of effort put into this game puts it far ahead of its peers that I've previously rated. This game deserves a 4/5.
However, it's unlikely you'll actually reload the game after that.
Like most NTR games, these games typically peak at one of the heroine's first penetration scenes. That's why there's a long period of tension and buildup before the first scene, but I have to admit that four hours is far too long to wait. And once you finally get the first big sex scene, it's like pulling the wrong jenga block; the tower collapses, and suddenly you'll get scene after scene non-stop, each feeling a little less special than the last. I don't envy any developer that has to balance this pacing, especially in a free roaming game like this, but I would like to point out some of the pitfalls and best qualities this game has for others to potentially learn from:
1. The player character has absolutely no agency or character. At several points, I felt more like I was playing a female-protagonist corruption game from an omniscient perspective. You could very easily swap the protagonist, and you wouldn't think this was an NTR game at all.
2. I've said this about several similar games, but no matter how cozy and easy to play your game is, four hours for a decent scene is just far too long. This is the main reason I won't be launching this game again.
3. Following up on the previous two points, there's no route for the main character. There is no buildup of sex scenes or romance whatsoever. I feel like this is a huge missed opportunity to really let you bond with the main character. Just because this is an NTR game doesn't mean absolutely every scene needs to be NTR. There could easily have been several scenes where you bond with the main girl, and that'll make it sting more when she inevitably gets whisked away by another man.
4. Speaking of the other men, they kind of all sucked. Every single one is introduced in almost the exact same way, with them blatantly harassing Ryoka in front of you and the protagonist not reacting at all—as if you're not even really there, with no agency at all. Ryoka will then smack them about and tell them off, but they always inevitably fall into their clutches. And is anyone else bored of ugly bastards, or is it just me? Can't we have a suave character that genuinely contends for the girl in a romantic sense? The absolute worst character was the gambling game one, where you have to win or lose an RNG game. The best was the blackmail character; it was the most interesting usage of blackmail I've seen in a game like this, as you get framed for molesting another student, and Ryoka is blackmailed by proxy into the scandal being covered up. This allowed Ryoka to both be disgusted with the protagonist, doubting whether you did or not, while still having to follow the blackmailer's orders. However, there was a big problem, which was...
5. RNG. All events are purely RNG, which means I once got the same character's NTR events 4 days in a row, and then not a single time within the next 14, completely killing the momentum of that particular route just as it was reaching its peak. Unfortunately, the more routes you enable, the more diluted the pool becomes and the slower the pace of the game gets. Furthermore, it seems that once Ryoka finishes an NTR route with 100% affection, they seem to lock into that character's ending and can't complete the events of anyone else. Now that's just dumb.
6. The way you actually activate all the NTR routes isn't that much smarter either. Essentially, if you don't do anything, you will never get cucked. You can just focus on the good ending, sleep to skip almost every day, and congratulations. This game makes the big mistake of forcing you to press the giant shiny 'get cucked over here' button to activate any events. This seriously deflates the tension. Why would I go up to the gross, ugly bastard and manually choose to activate him? Instead, the game should have made him active and given me an alternative way to disable him through gameplay.
7. And the gameplay... this is one of many games where you're presented with a world map where your heroines have active schedules and you can stumble into them getting up to mischief, but this is by far the most empty map of its type I've ever seen. There's almost absolutely nothing for you to do, and the "gameplay" of collecting stats is incredibly quick and easy to do. So often, you're just wandering around, realizing there's nothing to do, so you end up skipping most of your time. While I really enjoy the anonymous forum posts that give you image hints of what Ryoka has been up to, it really does feel like you have to 'play along' with the game to get the most out of it. The most effective way to play this game is to activate all routes, skip every single day by sleeping, and then rewatch all the events manually. That's kind of boring, yeah, but... the alternative is walking around an empty map until Ryoka occasionally gets into an event, and then maybe you can activate a door to hear some wet sounds behind it, or call her phone to hear her saying she's hanging out with a friend while moaning. It's basic stuff designed to fluff you up before you go use your powers of omniscience to replay the scene from her bedroom the next morning.
I don't think I've ever complained this much about a game I rated 4/5 stars; it's seriously flawed, and I might even be overrating it slightly. I can understand the mixed ratings here and on Steam, but I can also recognize that this is still one of the highest-effort games in the genre, and relatively to them, a 4 honestly seems quite fitting. It does so much more than those other games, and it lands more often than it misses in the long run.
Overall, I might reload this game and continue playing, but... I'm equally likely to try a new game instead. It was alright for one good fap, but it failed to invest me any more than that.
