I love the games models, scenes, characters, dialogue, creativity, options. A lot of it's great. When you unlock a scene, even with a character you're not that attracted to, there is usually a good twist to entertain you about the scene to make the worst looking characters good looking. A must for this game is the cheat console with SHIFT + O. Normally, this would be a problem, but I'm doing it so often, it's practically a part of the game's mechanics. You still get the scene after a few seconds of changing energy levels or lust stats..... exploring the game takes too long without them, and if you didn't have that option, this'd be an unplayable game. I started over twice after found it doesn't take too long to get back to where you are if you start over and know where to go to get the scenes.
To me, there are 2 major flaws to the game....but at this point I don't know if they're flaws or designs to compel playing. Either way, I can't say it's a great game because of these to issues. The biggest is lack of direction of the main story. Side story, you can look everywhere, and pusuit anything, but the main story.... no advancement at all. Father is still in his cell, the pattern of life can go on for thousands of days, once you screw the characters you want, you can do it agian but you get to a point of.... "what next" or "what for" that is never really addressed.
The other major issue is that I don't know what's in the game. It's kinda fine because the discovery of scenes is great, but if the game is not complete and you get to a certain point of exploration of a character, you don't know if that's the end of the even chain or if you just didn't find the one element to push beyond the event chain. Under the "progress" section, all you see is "still effective" which tells you you can do something again, and it raises tension, but at the bottom of the progress screen, it says there may be more scenes in this chain..... but those are the only hints you get after already unlocking a scene...once you get to "too depraved", there's no direction on where to explore to unlock more scenes. You hit a lot of brick walls, and you don't know if it's an under development brick wall or a "you have to be at the bathroom on the second floor of this house at 2:45 in the afternoon on a Thursday under a new moon" brick wall you have to search this forum to find. This really should be something in the gallery or progress screen of what % has yet to be unlocked an option for a full list of "Not yet discovered" so you can see what and where are the missing scenes. If those 2 issues were resolved, it'd be great, but as is.... it's good.