Given my rating i can wholeheatedly say, i love the game. So i better get some of the small things that were not absolutely perfect out of the way. Most of it was nowhere near a dealbreaker for me, but who knows for some it might and a review should give you the chance to see such things coming. So you do not waste your time waiting for something that does not happen.
I think the dev misses out on perfectly good occassions to include a bit of leg erotica (or even feet which is not so much my thing). Lots of renders are cut off unfavourably or the girls posing is just not out to emphasize the legs. The models would absolutely allow this and it (really low) low key bugs me some opportunities were missed.
So far the game is a tad bit shorter then one might anticipate given the respectable filesize. Just a heads up for anyone as naive as i am. An hour before finishing the current version i was somehow counting on a few more in game days or maybe even a whole week and the game was done on the evening of that same in-game day. There are good reasons for that, i guess, which i will expand on later.
This point is a bit of a mixed bag, as it did not put me off actually. However tastes are different. There are injections in the flow of the story that might be considered "breaking immersion". Also sometimes parts of the story are told from an omniscient narrators point of view. All in all the narrators perspective is not consistent throughout the game. Just another heads up for those that care about such things.
Now come the parts which i consider the reasons to give this game a try or even go as far as supporting the dev according to ones abilities.
Narration : I rarely see "Show, don't tell" and "don't tell stuff that does not further the plot" so well implemented as i did in this novel so far. There is no constant repetition of previously mentioned tidbits or shown things to remind the player. The pacing is great, with a nice rythm of funny, cute and sexy interactions taking turns. There are timelapses when appropriate which shows the dev(s?) are confident in their narration skills.
Story : The actual baseline plot is a cliche for adult novels, but i think the devs found a nice tangent to set it up. The MC himself goes through a bit of a character development so all the pieces of the scenario intended end up in the place they need to be. Of course the whole framework needs to be quite a hyperbole in many regards. Inside that framework though the actions and motives of the MC and the LI become actually quite believable.
Technical&Small Stuff: I like the style and many design decision that where made. The phone is not in the least annoying or feels like it was latched on later on an already existing game. There are good old tried and tested inserts ("Meanwhile") mixed with custom transitions between scenes, which together give the game quite a bit of a "polished" feel despite its rather early stage. Even the goofy stuff with the male side characters feels like a welcome running gag and not out of place after a while.
Lots of animations, really lots of them, which in hindsight explains the rather big size of the game. The animations are also done very, very well. In my experience devs with these type of models (Honey Select ?) sometimes just do not care to "line up" body parts carefully making their animations look worse then a series of stills done with more care would have been. Not here ! The animations are flawless in this regard and also wet, if you know what i mean. In my opinion a giant plus.
Characters: Well, it is not like the wheel was reinvented for the game. Still the characters are in their own regard feeling fresh enough to be very interesting. Except maybe for the obligatory basic bitch (so far). One thing that is also not completely novel but for some reason rarely used. The (very much real life) fact that girls are also pervs/horny sometimes and love sex as much as men do without any prior "corruption" taking place. One of the characters even reminded me of a girl i used to date. Almost every character is at least somewhat fleshed out and not one-dimensional. At least those that you have more intense interactions with thus far. Even the less likeable characters interact in a way that makes it an enjoyable experience.
Well, i think it got long enough and i could probably tell quite some more of the stuff i really like about the game, but i also tried to avoid any hard spoilers. I really recommend you should give it a try.
All of this is only my opinion, i respect that you might not share all or any of my views.
