This is a weird one. Usually if you look at the decisions a dev makes you can get a sense of what they are going for, regardless of how well they execute it. But I can't do that here. The overall collection of decisions made about how this game works is just all over the place. Each one individually is fine, but taken together they just weird. I have a hard time trying to pin down what the game is going for. It's almost like the dev has two very different visions in mind and each time he has to make a decision he just flips a coin as to which vision to follow.
Just as a basic example - the sex scenes. The game starts off with that cliche "don't play this if you want sex" warning. (Side note - I usually see that as a big red flag for what so often are fairly low effort games with a dev that has delusions of grandeur. Thankfully that's not the case here.) That warning isn't wrong. The sex scenes are pretty slow in coming. Except. Occasionally it shoehorns in sex randomly. All of the sudden you just get a full on scene of "imagination" with a porn star. Yeah. Even compared to games that just move from sex scene to sex scene, this is impressive. But then it actually cuts off the last bit of each scene. As soon as the MC cums, it's immediate black screen. There is no single image to actually cover that moment. It's just middle of sex scene, dialogue for cumming, black. This is impressively unsatisfying. I'd go so far as to call it blueballing.
So, just to be clear. The game moves real slow on the sex and is up-front about that. Fine. Then it does imagination porn star sex. Then it blueballs you after giving you like 99% of a full scene. It's enough to give you whiplash.
And this happens *constantly*. I would describe the entire game like this. Even the text. It's a story-focused game that is written at a native-speaker level. A good amount of care and effort has clearly gone into the game. Except it's fairly rare for "you're" to not be "your." There's not many other mistakes, but that one happens constantly, but not always. Occasionally you also lose capitalization. It's just so weird for these, and only these, errors to be so frequent.
I could go on and on. This extends... to almost everything in the game. Even just really basic attitudes towards things. Trying to think about this game or why it does what it does just leaves me extremely lost and confused. I've written various amounts about several other topics, but it's just more of the same. I can't make heads or tails of it.
But it's enjoyable if you don't try to analyze it. I would suggest the walkthrough mod though.
Just as a basic example - the sex scenes. The game starts off with that cliche "don't play this if you want sex" warning. (Side note - I usually see that as a big red flag for what so often are fairly low effort games with a dev that has delusions of grandeur. Thankfully that's not the case here.) That warning isn't wrong. The sex scenes are pretty slow in coming. Except. Occasionally it shoehorns in sex randomly. All of the sudden you just get a full on scene of "imagination" with a porn star. Yeah. Even compared to games that just move from sex scene to sex scene, this is impressive. But then it actually cuts off the last bit of each scene. As soon as the MC cums, it's immediate black screen. There is no single image to actually cover that moment. It's just middle of sex scene, dialogue for cumming, black. This is impressively unsatisfying. I'd go so far as to call it blueballing.
So, just to be clear. The game moves real slow on the sex and is up-front about that. Fine. Then it does imagination porn star sex. Then it blueballs you after giving you like 99% of a full scene. It's enough to give you whiplash.
And this happens *constantly*. I would describe the entire game like this. Even the text. It's a story-focused game that is written at a native-speaker level. A good amount of care and effort has clearly gone into the game. Except it's fairly rare for "you're" to not be "your." There's not many other mistakes, but that one happens constantly, but not always. Occasionally you also lose capitalization. It's just so weird for these, and only these, errors to be so frequent.
I could go on and on. This extends... to almost everything in the game. Even just really basic attitudes towards things. Trying to think about this game or why it does what it does just leaves me extremely lost and confused. I've written various amounts about several other topics, but it's just more of the same. I can't make heads or tails of it.
But it's enjoyable if you don't try to analyze it. I would suggest the walkthrough mod though.