EVEN THOUGH I GAVE IT 4 STARS ...
I still think this is bad. In fact I didn't even get to the end of 0.6 because the game was just giving me an aneurysm with all the mundane bs dialougue.
I don't want to be unfair though. The amount of detail and the amazing renders and scenes and fleshed out plot and dialogue show that there is obvious effort and quality present. If you see other reviews from people who like it, and think you align more with them, then it's probably a 4 or 5 star experience, for me it was more like a 2 (blue balls anybody? lmao.)
Firstly in this game YOU are not the MC. There are some very inconsequential decisions that you make here and there, and most of the decisions you might actually want a say in, you aren't even given a choice. Not only that, but the MC is such a passive, wet noodle with the charisma of a wet sock to boot. You are just going along being a pussy about everything, not even just towards the women in the game, but about everything and every decision. To add to that there are so many third person shots of the MC, that I am totally taken out of the immersion. This isn't a POV story where you are self inserting. This is a story about the limp-wristed nice guy that is the MC.
Every character in this story is a bundle of anxiety, low emotional intelligence and awkward conversation skills. IT IS DIFFICULT to bear through some of the patches of dialogue in this game. It is written fine enough grammatically, but it is like a joke without a punchline. Everywhere in the dialogue I am reading thinking I might be missing some substance, and yet line after line after paragraph there is none to be found. It actually drives me insane. (and there is barely any sexy stuff to break up the monotony).
The peeping tom and where's waldo (the donuts) hide and seek game is so fucking distracting again. If it's going to be story driven, can I at least not be pestered to try to look for things or constantly clicking on the peeping tom thing? It seems like a cool idea at first but goddamn does it just rapidly become a chore and a distraction. Not to mention the hotel ranking feature and tablet icon in the corner that don't really do anything at all. The creator seems to have one foot in the door of self-insert open world game, and one in 3rd person narrative driven VN, and neither end ups being very good.
Sex scenes are skipped over, locked behind 5-6hrs of reading dialogue (I'm not even sure that I am exaggerating.) or simply not even sex scenes, but more like 2nd or 3rd base. There doesn't seem to be any sort of rhyme or reason or escalation to the scenes either. Like, I've just finished reading 1000 lines of mundane conversation and, for a few scenes and three lines of text there is an erotic or sexy scene. No buildup, little tease, and little substance. I'm sorry, but you can't jerk off to this game. It's impossible.
If you can't tell by the wall of text for a review, I really wanted to like this game, especially given how phenomenal it is visually. It's just after enduring literal hours of it I had to stop. To much time spent getting headaches reading the dialogue while my peepee is limp and cold.