The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is v0.4.2...
Originally Reviewed on 12/09/2017
I have to say this game/visual novel is ok... It does have it's share of issues, but it was very creative being sci-fi themed and the visuals were excellent, much better then a lot of vn's out there that use a lot of the same backdrops... It does have some of the overused Family Sex stuff, unfortunately...
The visuals for the characters were very very good, even though in situations where they were just hanging out in rooms, they seemed more like fashion models posing for the camera rather than being busy working in those sections, which kinda breaks the immersion a little bit... Don't get me wrong, they looked good, but perhaps randomizing them a bit with other types of posing sometimes, perahaps looking busy working, that way it would be less of a distraction from the story... Some did change depending on how deep into the main story line you were, which was very nice, even though they stayed in those poses each day you went back to those rooms, until the story went further... Once again the randomizing would be a nice touch...
The script was fun and interesting, although I am totally confused as to what is really happening, it's almost like several main stories are playing out all at the same time with very little tying them together, or lack of any hints as to what is really going on... I mean, you begin with a A.I. killing everyone for no apparent reason (story line one), then you almost immediately have the protagonist and his family beginning to have sexual thoughts about one another, amidst all this carnage and death in a situation where real survival should be more prevalent... But I dismissed it as creative license with the authors pushing the erotic story line much harder than the reality of what was happening... Then you have the supposed earth males wanting to sell porn scenes from the station, just out of the blue, and they don't get caught which is suspicious (story line two)... Then some perverted crew members attacking the protagonist, and fornicating for no apparent reason, other then to keep having sex together every day with the mystery guy filming them (story line three)... I get the feeling that they are mentally insane people who wanted to turn the station into a sex commune and used the AI to kill everyone off to achieve their goal, but who knows if that is actually the case, at this point is all a bit confusing... Then you have the mother of the stepsister arrive out of the blue, and she appears thus far just to be a focus for more sex scenes since that is all she could talk about and think about the entire time she's been on the station (possible story line four)... There is just far too much sub-plotting going on mixed with a bunch of erotic scenes that repeat, that the story begins to lose the fervor that it began with... The story starts strong, but then it just becomes a sex scene fest, filled with grinding...
Then we come to, what I suppose is a hidden, stat grind to fill the time between smaller scenes intended to push the plot along... There really isn't much to fill the game days with, other then a very small handful of actions before going on to the next game day... I spent so much time clicking on every station section between doing actual meaningful actions, just to make sure I didn't miss anything... This took up way more time than it should, because there really wasn't much to really do story wise until you grinded that all out for a while, which was very boring, repetitive, and tedious... The grind isn't as bad as some other vn/games, but it was bad enough to take away from the story and experience... Then when you got some more plot, it wasn't huge amounts of story movement, then you were back to the grind again... It began to look like grind grind grind, sex scene/small plot movement, grind grind grind, more of the same... Even the dice game, although it was a nice touch, became tedious because it was just repeating the same time sink for the same scene...
Over all, the main plot started off really strong, but became more of a sex romp with only a few plot twists (which were confusing) and actual story... Which was disappointing, as I thought the story had real potential, and in reality it became less of a visual novel and more of a porn grind fest... You can't really call it Open World, as you have very little in the way of places to go, and not much that you can actually do in those places, that isn't highly repetitive... You can't call it a Sandbox, because the story is very linear, and just because you can visit rooms and do a very small handful of repetitive activities doesn't make it a Sandbox...
I'ld say it had potential, but it focuses way too much on sex scenes followed by more sex scenes followed by more desire for sex scenes, lol, to be a meaningful and great visual novel... It's still not completed based on it's version number, but unless there is far more content added to all levels of the game, I will probably not re-visit this one, as I prefer it had more substance...