Edit to an old review: The game has only shown signs of decline. Many of the newer reviews cover it. Plot worse. Game becoming needlessly convoluted with now two separate versions instead of...I don't know...players having in-game choices? Like a game? Art is worse, and that was one of the biggest drivers. A classic case of trying to compromise with everyone by offering what no one wanted. None of the complaints I have in my original view were resolved, only worsened. All I can do is drop the score I give it.
Original review:
Okay, let's try and break this down because it's a big one. Consider much of the following to be like a sports fan ranting about the state of the sport. Doesn't matter how much negativity they show, you know they love it. Most of the issues I suspect are a result of the scale of the game and the work that goes into producing it.
First thing is, there's a lot of content right now. Places to go, people to see, dialogue to be had, stuff to buy. There's some minigames. Those minigames are skippable with the Patreon pass if you hate them, and that password is in the OP of the thread.
Next thing is the art work. That's the biggest draw to this game. You can use your own eyes and check out the screenshots. Don't expect particularly realistic proportions, but if you like big asses and big tits then this is probably for you. Personally, I fucking love it.
After that, we'll go dialogue. The script is good if you want a MC who is a total asshole and fairly well onto the rapey side of things. The MC has a split personality, but the good side isn't the one who does the "seducing". In with this I'll say the plot is interesting and keeps you wondering about where it'll go (obviously towards a massive harem, but I mean aside from that). I absolutely love the depravity, the exploitation, and some of the cruelty. It's not the most extreme game, it all stays within the boundaries of Patreon rules, but it certainly pushes it to the limits (by the way, did I mention that renaming Mary fits the dialogue better if you make it a shorter title beginning with an M?).
So why the need to break this game down in a review? Because I think the quality of what I've mentioned so far is very high, but there are some downsides coming and it's tough to balance. The plot, the porn, the art, the corruption, is all so good and the quantity is so impressive that it makes up for a ton. It just can't make up for everything.
Continuity matters! This game suffers from obvious rewrites. Again, not wanting to spoil anything but a character will leave town forever and then be seen in the background having conversations with no mention of the fact they just fled. It's just annoying. And I'm commenting after the latest update which was supposed to fix the many more problems like this in the past. Ugh.
Continuity also matters when you give me a quest that says "Talk to x" and then x appears in four different locations across the map at the same time but only talking to them in a specific one of those locations will satisfy the quest. Have fun guessing which on your first playthrough!
Bugs. There are some real pain in the ass bugs. One major one was supposed to be fixed for sure this time out and yet I managed to get it. I had to rollback an hour to an older save because I'm pretty sure the trigger is an inventory issue in spite of the devs apparently not being able to recreate this very common bug. There are cases of people getting stuck in rooms or buildings during quests. SAVE REGULARLY AND YOU'LL BE FINE BUT SAVE REGULARLY TO AVOID HEARTBREAK.
The issue of writing what people vote to see: people vote for their favourite character and not what actually develops the game in a sensible way. Currently a character has gone missing in the plot, but that character has not returned or really been mentioned because they aren't popular. I don't want janky half-finished stories and quests because that's not conducive to the narrative. Sure, people will be happy if their choice gets a good sex scene but the game suffers by not being driven by any rhyme or reason.
The game is both linear and not linear in an annoying way. I don't mind either, but it feels like another place where the devs flip flopped over what they were going for and ended up with neither. By which I mean, a lot of the time you have exactly one quest, and others you have several, and when there are several they're still sometimes written as though they shouldn't overlap or should be in a certain order for narrative reasons. This is more a minor quibble, it's just irritating now and then.
To get back where I started, I fucking loved this play through. I like the humour, I LOVE the artwork. I could watch these women get corrupted all day long. For any of the complaints I've made, which I think are legitimate criticisms and may bother some players, I will stand by the claim that the quality elsewhere more than compensates for it in terms of enjoyability. They're enough that I can't honestly give it full marks, and they've wound me up a bit, it's just that I can't stay mad at this game. Four stars it has to be and I wish I could give it more.
Token mention to the ever controversial NTR: you can skip it, but you can't skip the threat of it. Without risking spoilers, imagine you walk in on someone about to commit the most egregious crime of NTR but you stop it just in time (or not, but currently there's very little for the "or not" option). If you can't handle that then this game will enrage you a few times. If, on the other hand, you don't want to stop it at all then prepare to be underwhelmed by how little NTR is present.
