So I tried
Being a LAWYER Layering A DIK Law School. It was scarcely mentioned before and I wouldn't talk about it if not for two reasons - to trigger jufot, and to point out a thing that it does that made it fail for me as a game.
Now, initially it didn't inspire much confidence in me, it's inspirations being blatantly obvious but seeing as the game is from the author of Entrepreneur and I had nothing better to do I decided to give it a go.
I'll start with the positives - production value is great, character models, although sometimes overused aren't bad. Visually it's a little bit like Summer Heat style dipped in glitter.
Visual composition is okay, it's a typical AVN fare, nothing particularly cinematic but it's inoffensive.
The strongest part of the game is undoubtedly character writing. There are hints of some kind of larger plot beat structure but as of season one it's 95% character subplots and those stories are very well written. The dialogue feels very natural (on reviewer even hilariously complained in a two star review that it's "too realistic") and all the characters, albeit tropey mostly read like actual human beings.
As for negatives - I would say that overall the game suffers from lacking a strong meaningful conflict and generally being very milk toast. There's a mock rivalry with one of your coeds that very obviously quickly falls for MC because of course she does (and so do like 90% of the girls, I suppose it's fair for what it is but it definitely didn't feel in any way earned) and a different one with another student and that one doesn't go anywhere either.
Now to circle back to the negative thing that made playing through this game rather frustrating for me. The MC himself is very bland despite the game having an "alignment" system where you have a score defining whether you're good, bad or neutral. Now, the problem I have with that is that LIs that you have access are for some inexplicable reason tied to your alignment, and there's absolutely no rhyme or reason that I could discern as to why they belong to one or the other category. So, as I was playing through the game making choices that I felt would be natural to make I suddenly found myself locked out of the LI I was interested in and so I was like "welp I guess that's a no LI playthrough then" (that's how you do it, Zero End).
It feels like a remarkable failure of a game getting in my way of trying to give cardboard MC some personality. I should be fair and say that there are "cross path" LIs that are available regardless of what path you're on, and the Rivals to Friends arc isn't that bad, but the game doesn't really do a good job of delineating whether you're actually having a platonic relationship because neither MC nor LIs stop making googly eyes at each other all the time.
Final thing I should mention is that there is a *lot* of content. Like a lot. I was begging for the season to end and there were more and more scenes. I mean general content, not sex scenes.
