4 out of 5 stars sounds rather fair, mostly due to the sheer amount of total garbage I've found on this site. This one... is actually great! Not perfect by any means, but great. The animations and art are spectacular, far surpassing many of it's peers, and is what allows me to forgive a lot of the issues. The character writing and humor is great... which makes the overall arching plot even more apparent in it's shoddiness. It's a porn plot. I won't hold that against the game too much, it's just that it becomes more apparent as you interact with the characters, and the contrast kind of takes you out of it.
I won't go into deep story details if someone doesn't want spoilers, but the very beginning premise is you are a single man, with sexual harassment suits (though these aren't your fault, for once) and a massive debt, being sent by a company, to a vacation home of the company president, to care for said president's three indescribably hot daughters. ...Like I said, a porn plot that doesn't make a lick of sense, even towards the end. It's partially explained, but then it becomes apparent that a full half a year is totally unrealistic, there's no way a problem wouldn't come up waaaaay before the actual end. But yeah, won't hold that all too much against the game, it's a male fantasy after all.
...What I WILL hold against it is how some things get swept under the rug when they shouldn't! Another reviewer mentioned it, and indeed, you are drugged and raped by one of the girls basically in the very beginning. And it's... just sorta allowed. And then another one blackmails you for sexual favors using video of the rape. Also swept under the rug. That... doesn't sit well at all. Once you get past it, both girls are fine up to the end without such psycho behavior appearing again. But sweeping rape and blackmail under the rug because the MC is a guy being raped by a hot girl doesn't sit well. That's probably the biggest reason I took a star off. There's other complaints, but they're minor enough they don't affect the rating due to the overall quality of what is there, and I'll list these complaints below. These are mostly just things that feel like they could, and should, be more than they are, with a couple exceptions that need genuine tweaking.
First, as someone else said, there's a lot of mechanics which don't appear until you've essentially finished the game. Outfits? Can't buy those till you've essentially finished the individual story for the character you want to dress up, so you can't interact with that aspect much until like, the latter half of the game. And outfits are expensive to boot. The mechanic where the girls go into heat? Also past the halfway point of the game, I think you have to finish all the individual stories and then move onto the "common path" before that unlocks.
Secondly, on the outfits I mentioned. You'd think that buying them means if you dress them up, they'd wear the outfits in sex scenes, right? Nope. Every sex scene/position is unlocked by character progression, and if you initiate sex, and select said scene/position, they will be wearing the same outfit they wore in the initial scene, such as Shizuko's office outfit, even if she was in her lingerie when you initiated sex afterwards. As a result, the outfits feel rather pointless, only existing for when you interact with the character and chat with them in that little menu. There are special outfits that unlock specific scenes if you fulfill the requirements, but each character only gets one of those, and only one scene with said costume. The biggest sin of this, for instance, is Shizuku gets a bunny outfit, an EXCEPTIONALLY lewd one. And all you can do with her in that outfit is get a blowjob, nothing else. Can't use it in other scenes at all. As said, the outfits thing feels kinda tacked on, teasing something in-depth with a lot of interactivity but not delivering past a bare minimum, sometimes not even reaching that, such as with the outfits that don't even get used in sex scenes. Also, the lingerie designs are pretty boring, they're essentially just a bra and panties for each of the girls, where's the negligee?! ...okay, that last one is just whining, but come on, who thinks of just a bra and panties when it comes to LINGERIE?
RnG. There's a fair bit of it. Not crippling by any means, but some things require you to trigger them by chance, such as completing exploration jobs, and finding event triggers and items around the house. The journal will hint at what to do for most event triggers (except one hidden thing you can only get by clicking on Shizuko a lot when she's in a certain position in her apartment when the store is closed, that isn't hinted anywhere, and trust me, once you want her in that position, by god will she be in every single other position for a full week before taking it), thankfully, but still, sometimes it can take an unreasonable number of attempts just to get one thing done.
As was implied with the outfit thing... well, I'll preface by repeating that the sex scenes are great. The character designs are great. And it feels like an entitled, asshole thing to say... but especially with the outfits-not-going-into-sex-scenes thing, there's not ENOUGH sex scenes, and you can't change to another position within a sex scene either! Honestly, just making it so the outfits go into the scenes would add a feeling of freshness and variety to it from the get-go, and the ability to switch to other positions as well. It's mostly a feeling of "been there, done that," when the sex scenes look the exact same on repeat with no change except maybe it's a safe day, or they're in heat. And the former just means you don't need a condom, and the latter just gives them heart eyes and talking more horny.
Adding in the outfits would fix a lot of that, at least, and adjusting the dialogue to address changes in their relationship and the outfit would help too. But here's the biggest thing that feels... missing, and I fully realized it once I 100% beat the game. There is a harem ending, you likely can guess as much. The girls all get along pretty good, pretty quickly even when it isn't the harem end, except for the sisterly spats between Ayano and Shizuku. But... there is not one, single, threesome, foursome, or fivesome. It is always JUST you, and one of the girls, despite one of the earliest events being another sister recording you being raped and getting off to it. This is another entitled moment where I want something unreasonable, I know, which is why I'm not taking off stars for it. But really? Nothing with more than one of the girls at once? Even with the mc having a behemoth dick?
And then there's the daily loop. At first it's fine, everything is good, but eventually, the whole cooking and eating ritual wears thin. You can't escape it, you must sit for about 15 seconds every single time that it's time for dinner. These games always have this habit of having there be ONE blasted time waster thing at a minimum, and the dinnertime is it. It's nowhere near as bad as other games, but dangit, can't we skip the animation for the dinner after we've cooked each type of food once? We already know how they'll react to it at that point. Still, not as bad as other games with similar mechanics, so not docking a star for it, it's just a minor annoyance.
The character interaction. I noticed what was missing after awhile. There's... very little point to the girls being in different rooms of the house, except for event triggers, and when they go to the toilet, bathroom, or bedroom. What I mean is, you don't SEE them in any of the rooms, you go to the room and select the option to interact with them, and then they appear before you. And if you have sex, as said above, it just takes you to the default setting and outfit. Such as Ayano, who has a risky public sex scene. You find her in the hallway at the house, you initiate sex while she's wearing lingerie, select that scene... and you're both now back in that public location, with her wearing her casual clothes, doing the sex scene. There is one exception, and it is what makes me complain more about the dissonance with the house interactions... and it's Shizuko, when she's in her apartment. When she's in there, she's THERE, lounging on the couch, typing on her laptop, sometimes switching to a different spot... it feels lived in, like she's a part of the environment. You can even click on her to get some voicelines (and trigger a unique event in the right position, you will need to click several times though, and none of the other heroines get a scene like it!), and there's an item you can click on to trigger a brief conversation. That doesn't happen at all with the three sisters at the house, it's all menus, nothing organic, they don't exist outside of events and the interaction menus. None of the sisters can occupy the same room either. And with the sex scenes always going back to the initial spot, there's no chance of anything risky or dynamic, like hallway sex that could get you caught by the other sisters or something, or banging Shizuko at the store while hiding from customers.
You see what I mean by it feeling like it has a lot of potential but... not quite delivering? Again, this is an amazing game, I wholeheartedly recommend it, even if you're just opening it to unlock the gallery with a 100% save file for wanking, as it totally delivers, the sex scenes as they are are fantastically animated. It just manages to be excellent enough that it leaves you wanting more, and makes what flaws there are all the more glaring.
I won't go into deep story details if someone doesn't want spoilers, but the very beginning premise is you are a single man, with sexual harassment suits (though these aren't your fault, for once) and a massive debt, being sent by a company, to a vacation home of the company president, to care for said president's three indescribably hot daughters. ...Like I said, a porn plot that doesn't make a lick of sense, even towards the end. It's partially explained, but then it becomes apparent that a full half a year is totally unrealistic, there's no way a problem wouldn't come up waaaaay before the actual end. But yeah, won't hold that all too much against the game, it's a male fantasy after all.
...What I WILL hold against it is how some things get swept under the rug when they shouldn't! Another reviewer mentioned it, and indeed, you are drugged and raped by one of the girls basically in the very beginning. And it's... just sorta allowed. And then another one blackmails you for sexual favors using video of the rape. Also swept under the rug. That... doesn't sit well at all. Once you get past it, both girls are fine up to the end without such psycho behavior appearing again. But sweeping rape and blackmail under the rug because the MC is a guy being raped by a hot girl doesn't sit well. That's probably the biggest reason I took a star off. There's other complaints, but they're minor enough they don't affect the rating due to the overall quality of what is there, and I'll list these complaints below. These are mostly just things that feel like they could, and should, be more than they are, with a couple exceptions that need genuine tweaking.
First, as someone else said, there's a lot of mechanics which don't appear until you've essentially finished the game. Outfits? Can't buy those till you've essentially finished the individual story for the character you want to dress up, so you can't interact with that aspect much until like, the latter half of the game. And outfits are expensive to boot. The mechanic where the girls go into heat? Also past the halfway point of the game, I think you have to finish all the individual stories and then move onto the "common path" before that unlocks.
Secondly, on the outfits I mentioned. You'd think that buying them means if you dress them up, they'd wear the outfits in sex scenes, right? Nope. Every sex scene/position is unlocked by character progression, and if you initiate sex, and select said scene/position, they will be wearing the same outfit they wore in the initial scene, such as Shizuko's office outfit, even if she was in her lingerie when you initiated sex afterwards. As a result, the outfits feel rather pointless, only existing for when you interact with the character and chat with them in that little menu. There are special outfits that unlock specific scenes if you fulfill the requirements, but each character only gets one of those, and only one scene with said costume. The biggest sin of this, for instance, is Shizuku gets a bunny outfit, an EXCEPTIONALLY lewd one. And all you can do with her in that outfit is get a blowjob, nothing else. Can't use it in other scenes at all. As said, the outfits thing feels kinda tacked on, teasing something in-depth with a lot of interactivity but not delivering past a bare minimum, sometimes not even reaching that, such as with the outfits that don't even get used in sex scenes. Also, the lingerie designs are pretty boring, they're essentially just a bra and panties for each of the girls, where's the negligee?! ...okay, that last one is just whining, but come on, who thinks of just a bra and panties when it comes to LINGERIE?
RnG. There's a fair bit of it. Not crippling by any means, but some things require you to trigger them by chance, such as completing exploration jobs, and finding event triggers and items around the house. The journal will hint at what to do for most event triggers (except one hidden thing you can only get by clicking on Shizuko a lot when she's in a certain position in her apartment when the store is closed, that isn't hinted anywhere, and trust me, once you want her in that position, by god will she be in every single other position for a full week before taking it), thankfully, but still, sometimes it can take an unreasonable number of attempts just to get one thing done.
As was implied with the outfit thing... well, I'll preface by repeating that the sex scenes are great. The character designs are great. And it feels like an entitled, asshole thing to say... but especially with the outfits-not-going-into-sex-scenes thing, there's not ENOUGH sex scenes, and you can't change to another position within a sex scene either! Honestly, just making it so the outfits go into the scenes would add a feeling of freshness and variety to it from the get-go, and the ability to switch to other positions as well. It's mostly a feeling of "been there, done that," when the sex scenes look the exact same on repeat with no change except maybe it's a safe day, or they're in heat. And the former just means you don't need a condom, and the latter just gives them heart eyes and talking more horny.
Adding in the outfits would fix a lot of that, at least, and adjusting the dialogue to address changes in their relationship and the outfit would help too. But here's the biggest thing that feels... missing, and I fully realized it once I 100% beat the game. There is a harem ending, you likely can guess as much. The girls all get along pretty good, pretty quickly even when it isn't the harem end, except for the sisterly spats between Ayano and Shizuku. But... there is not one, single, threesome, foursome, or fivesome. It is always JUST you, and one of the girls, despite one of the earliest events being another sister recording you being raped and getting off to it. This is another entitled moment where I want something unreasonable, I know, which is why I'm not taking off stars for it. But really? Nothing with more than one of the girls at once? Even with the mc having a behemoth dick?
And then there's the daily loop. At first it's fine, everything is good, but eventually, the whole cooking and eating ritual wears thin. You can't escape it, you must sit for about 15 seconds every single time that it's time for dinner. These games always have this habit of having there be ONE blasted time waster thing at a minimum, and the dinnertime is it. It's nowhere near as bad as other games, but dangit, can't we skip the animation for the dinner after we've cooked each type of food once? We already know how they'll react to it at that point. Still, not as bad as other games with similar mechanics, so not docking a star for it, it's just a minor annoyance.
The character interaction. I noticed what was missing after awhile. There's... very little point to the girls being in different rooms of the house, except for event triggers, and when they go to the toilet, bathroom, or bedroom. What I mean is, you don't SEE them in any of the rooms, you go to the room and select the option to interact with them, and then they appear before you. And if you have sex, as said above, it just takes you to the default setting and outfit. Such as Ayano, who has a risky public sex scene. You find her in the hallway at the house, you initiate sex while she's wearing lingerie, select that scene... and you're both now back in that public location, with her wearing her casual clothes, doing the sex scene. There is one exception, and it is what makes me complain more about the dissonance with the house interactions... and it's Shizuko, when she's in her apartment. When she's in there, she's THERE, lounging on the couch, typing on her laptop, sometimes switching to a different spot... it feels lived in, like she's a part of the environment. You can even click on her to get some voicelines (and trigger a unique event in the right position, you will need to click several times though, and none of the other heroines get a scene like it!), and there's an item you can click on to trigger a brief conversation. That doesn't happen at all with the three sisters at the house, it's all menus, nothing organic, they don't exist outside of events and the interaction menus. None of the sisters can occupy the same room either. And with the sex scenes always going back to the initial spot, there's no chance of anything risky or dynamic, like hallway sex that could get you caught by the other sisters or something, or banging Shizuko at the store while hiding from customers.
You see what I mean by it feeling like it has a lot of potential but... not quite delivering? Again, this is an amazing game, I wholeheartedly recommend it, even if you're just opening it to unlock the gallery with a 100% save file for wanking, as it totally delivers, the sex scenes as they are are fantastically animated. It just manages to be excellent enough that it leaves you wanting more, and makes what flaws there are all the more glaring.
