This is going to be a longer review. It contains a lot of
spoilers.
This is my own opinion!
This is one of a few games that I'm actively following.
1. The Story.
2. Choices
3. Renders & Animations
4. TL DR
1. The Story
Especially in an NTR game, you need a solid story. A reason 'why' and antagonists that got character. This game isn't delivering it.
First, the game starts off good. Everything is going slowly and and.. but the moment you reach the hotel resort, the game gets totally lost.
At the hotel, Anne is finally able to have actual sex with someone else.
But all these men there have no personality whatsoever. There are just there. No introduction, nothing.
These people are irrelevant. They're just fuck props.
- Anne flashes the waiter -> They fuck. -> The end.
- Randall puts suncream on Anne's back -> They fuck. -> The end.
- This Will guy puts suncream on Anne's back -> They fuck (at least with more foreplay) -> The end.
- The pool bartender, Anne just shows some see-through -> She blows him -> The end
- Then Anna can have a lesbian experience at the hotel -> They fuck -> The end.
- Anne goes to the movies -> And she just blows a random guy/hj if you go with her
- She gets a tattoo -> He gropes and masturbates her -> The end.
You see where I am going with this. There are a lot more 1-time encounters with random people who don't matter.
And it all started with some suncream.
It's like the dev just throws guys at her because he doesn't know what else to do.
The best example is with Martin. Anne fucks Martin at the beach and 2mins later another random guy appears, who..(
who would've thought?) puts
suncream on her back -> They fuck -> He invites her later to the Spa -> She fucks more non-personality guys.
But the part that really shocked me is.. You can get a "
Game over" if you get picky and don't want Anne to fuck these irrelevant characters at the resort.
You then get a message with "
Guess you're not ready for this game".
Seriously? Guess you're too lazy to write an additional path where she isn't a whore.
I might be the only one who sees it like this, but almost none of these characters have a buildup at all. They appear, they fuck and they vanish.
And this ****** Elena. I always told her off and she still wants to give me a blowjob. Do these choices even matter?
There are exceptions. People where both parties have a reason to fuck.
Like with Mike, Eric, Kenny & Martin.
And this Phil & Donny. Both are disgusting and still, you can't tell them off. Anne will kiss & fuck them anyways.
NTR should make you feel jealous and the only route that has a little bit of it is the Martin-Cheating route. Everything else is 0815 everyone-fucks-her-with-no-story porn. Just boring.
And please don't come with "ThIs Is a PoRn GaMe wHaT sToRy dO yOu ExPeCt?!" It's not 2008 anymore. Adult games can have some great stories.
And as it seems the dev is only testing the routes where Anne fucks someone. There are many bugs in other menu choices.
2 people sit on the park bench and Anne can either tease them or not.
Click "No." and you get an error.
Some missing pictures in some of the "No" routes.
2. Choices
Most of them don't seem to matter at all.
- You tell Elena off -> She still wants to give you a blowjob.
- You tell Ryan not Stay at your place -> He stays anyways.
- I never ever did visit the massage place -> I still get the option to visit Fernanda -> And they act as I visited her all along?! I was never ever there before.
3. Renders & Animations
He revamped his game. Most of the renders look good now. I'd give them a solid 6.5/ 10.
But there are still renders that have either too much lightning or grain.
But I was really surprised to see that he didn't rework one of the old animations. There are some really terrible animations.
(Why the hell did that revamp took you so long?)
- Martin fingers Anne at the beach - 2(?) Frame animation that was cooked for 10 seconds. (I guess it was a new one.)
- Martin's missionary in the hotel. I think everyone knows which one I'm talking about. The one that looks like an unrendered scene. It has been in the game since chapter 9? And this animation says a lot about the mindset of the dev. He must've seen how bad it looked and still decided to leave it in the game.
TL DR:
No feeling of jealousy because Anne just fucks everybody. A lot of random non-personality guys get thrown at her.
She fucks so many irrelevant people that it is just way too much now. From a fat plumber to an old ugly guy to 2 "kids" who want to learn from her.
It's
Quantity > Quality.
Choices don't seem to really matter.
There are still some bugs from before the revamp. I did see some improvement in the still renders. But the animations are still mediocre to very bad.
I know that the fatigue level must've been high but it was his choice to redo it. And in my eyes, it wasn't worth it.
I was about to give the game 3* because it's one of the only games I was looking forward to.
But after writing and think about all this, I couldn't do it. No matter how much I want this game to succeed, it's just 2*.
I was still thinking about "It still has potential IF.." But it's already been 10 revamped chapters. I guess he has chosen his path.
My tip: Cut all these irrelevant filler characters out of the game and build up Anne's relationship with a few individuals.
Edit: Chapter 11.
Chapter 11 follows the same mistakes. Again a lot of blank new characters get introduced.
The story is still almost nonexistent and only here to advance from one blank sex scene to another.
The game again features many bugs on the routes where you say "No." These are simple "Yes/No" choices. It would take "One-click" to see if the route works properly.
He also didn't fix any of the old errors.
He did add some more content to the old versions with characters you will never see again.
But bug fixing seems to be too much.
I have the feeling he doesn't really care anymore.