Unity - Starmaker Story [v1.5c] [Arvus Games]

First Impression: Simply amazing presentation better than some of the VNs on this platform. What surprised me was that it was AI generated, which is very impressive! It does have some very big flaws, but they are fixable. It's very grindy, so I recommend you edit the save file with more money. The game becomes siginificantly more enjoyable.

Verdict: 8/10 (9/10 if they fix problematic bugs and add QoL improvements. 10/10 if flesh out the endings and added a bit more)

Pros:
- The character designs are wonderful! Many of the MILFs and women are simple, elegant, clean, and hot! It didn't feel like their character designs were forced to look unique.

- The story is a little weird, sometimes a head-scratcher in terms of common sense. But it's a porn fantasy where you just try your best to get into all of the women's pants.

- The sex scenes are still-images but there is a good amount of it with great angles! And the dialogue in the scenes are pretty spicy. If you love looking at anus, this game is for you lol

- Amazing presentation, the background especially with the VFX like the car driving or downtown is very cool. Do it for the rest of the backgrounds!

- Most NTR(Netori) and Sharing route is purely optional and avoidable. The dialogue choices(black bar) will warn you.

- Music and SFX is quite nice. It's not original since it's most likely bought assets, but it doesn't degrade in your ear. Though some of them are so loud, too bad there isn't an OPTION to lower the volume.

Cons:
- The endings completely suck. They are just plain text with a generic background with no rewards. A few of them were funny like the ascension, but majority of them just killed my boner harder than fucking a crab shell in a Siberian winter.

- Extremely grindy. The game will try very hard to make you pay in-game money. $250 for Groceries, $5000 for Health Insurance, $100 for Gym membership. and more. They added a lot of options to circumvent the money grind(buy money upgrades in Starmaker Page) [It is highly recommended you cheat money by editing the save.json in Appdata]

- Only one save... why? This extremely annoying when you make a "bad" choice or want to experiment on choices. It will only save after finishing the first activity. Sort of fixed, but the save slots are housed in 1 file. Replace that save file and the others die with it.

- Game-breaking or weird bugs. The ones I found are: Sleeping in bed sometimes require me to leave the room, navigation buttons sometimes stop working, pictures taken(bathroom) do not go away unless force a dialogue(fixed), Anna says she isn't ready for nude photos but is fine having sex with you(fixed), and more! [Highly recommend you make backup of saves]

- No options menu. Why? I can't seem to find a way to use ESC to pull up the main menu(if there is one). Let me tinker a few settings like dialogue speed, box opacity, volume, and windowed mode.

- Game would also benefit for having some kind of gallery, or relationship tracker, quest journal(semi-fixed), or tips.

- Mini-games feel simple and pointless. Doesn't add anything to the game play and needs to be skippable or removed.

Conclusion: I thoroughly enjoyed it from start to finish. Definitely a keeper for me and I hope the developer expands on it some more. I highly recommend you at least give it a try. Just make sure to have save backups(Appdata/LocalLow/Arvus Games)

This will be my first review on the site.

I rate the game a 3.5/5. The game is good, but the few issues it has are severe enough to knock it down a star, and the lackluster endings knock it down another half.

The good(earns points):
The character art, while AI generated, is pretty good, the filter must hide some defects because I wouldn't know if the game didn't admit it was AI. I appreciate plump milfs greatly.

The sex scenes themselves are pretty hot, nothing to really complain about there. The girl's anuses are pretty large and pronounced, I think the term people use when referring to this type is "donut" and while I find it hot as fuck, I guess a lot of people do not. I am a bit saddened that there is only a little bit of anal content when whoever prompted the AI really put emphasis on the anuses of the girls.

The mid(no point gain or loss):
the story. Its alright, could be better could be worse, but at the end of the day, it is a vessel in which to consume porn with, and it does that job.

Game cohesion. You never really get told what to do, just dropped into the world and let loose, however the game is pretty straightforward and is basically just a VN with a rudimentary sandbox feature. I'm a big fan of sandbox games, but I do this this game would have been better off as a straight up VN with choices. I got stuck for a while on the mom romance route, trying to figure out how to get her to quit being an alcoholic, turns out you just need to gift her wine a few times and choose the right answers during her drunken fits. That sure tripped me up.

Speaking about choices, the game has them, though only a few of them actually affect the story, the game marks these important story choices by... adding cinematic black boxes to the scene? Guess it could be worse. Very important choices like route choices are clearly labeled in the choice box too.

The bad(subtracts points):
The game has some unplayable routes due to gamebreaking bugs which softlock the game, persist through saves and even restarting the game, and only go away when you restart the entire game. I had to restart the game twice before I went into the appdata folder and made backups of the SINGLE saveslot the game has.

Speaking of save slots, the game, as stated, has only one. Now this wouldn't be the end of the world if the aforementioned gamebreaking softlock bug did not exist.

The endings. The game has 11 of them, though they feel VERY VERY rushed. You go through all the effort to grind out these girls and most of the endings are a just a few sentences of text on a background, most don't explain anything about the MC and his girl of choice's life together, and all the endings I got lacked a sex scene, plus most of the endings have the MC cutting ties with EVERYONE he knows, to go run away with his girl of choice. Its a bit of a slap in the face when you meticulously go through the game getting all the girl's scenes, choosing the love route, and the ending you're greeted with is 3 sentences about how the MC abandoned everyone and everything on a whim to go fuck him mom somewhere in another part of the world, and then not even get a sex scene showing that.

All in all the game is worth it, its free for everyone and was made in the dev's downtime from working on his other games, and the dev has expressed desire to add some stuff to the game later down the line, which I hope can fix the endings.

One more gripe is the fucking menial tasks you have to do. What does making the player buy groceries every other week, and pay off the mafia every Monday really bring to the story?