This game is more like a VN, to be honest. There's barely any gameplay, though I understand why the developers wanted to do the gameplay segments. Technically, you CAN achieve ending A by being really skilled and being able to avoid enemies really well, but most just played NG+ and set ending A for last. It's not exactly a wasted effort since I do see how it plays into various mechanics and endings of the game, but it still is boring despite that.
Let's get the good out of the way first. I'm not one to write off a game for being story-heavy and being too much like a VN. Let me say this: the story is good, and it is engaging. Corruption is slow, gradual, and believable. I cannot emphasize this enough, but it truly is a well-written corruption/NTR story. I won't say the best since I haven't played enough NTR games, but for corruption games, it's among the top.
I really like the main antagonist. He's not the most sinister, and honestly it feels like he generally just wants to have fun by fucking around. You'll probably find someone like him in Shinjuku picking someone up. Despite that, a short introduction to his character has made me feel really irritated with him and I was honestly surprised when I felt that. I like that - I like how he was written.
But this is still a porn game. An RPGM porn game. I spent literally 2 hours on the opening exposition of the game - 2 hours before the main character loses her virginity. Look, for a lot of games, I generally skirt around events that will make the MC lose her virginity since I generally play the virgin runs first anyway (which saved my ass when I played Pray Game, but that's a different story). But seriously? 2 hours before the first H-scene? And visual-wise, it wasn't even that good. What's worse, the game literally recycles CGs throughout the entire fucking game.
To prove my point, kindly get full save file, load up the recollection menu, and check the outdoor masturbation scenes. There should be around 10 H-scenes there, but I kid you not, there's literally less than 10 CGs used for all those scenes. That's an average of 1 CG per H-scene. It would be like if a visual novel only showed a picture of the insertion and literally nothing else. No pistoning movements, no moans, no cum-shots. If you've played a VN like that elsewhere, I'm so sorry, and I hope you find better games to play.
Also, I'm glad this doesn't have the exhibitionism tag because, my god, it barely has exhibitionism content in it, which is fine, I know, but it feels like they barely fucking tried. They just want the spicyness of outdoor sex without the effort of writing it properly. Like BAM! you're fucking outside, ready to go. And again, the fucking CGs! If I remember correctly, scenes 1 to 4 literally have the exact same fucking CGs, and what do you get for the 5th and final one? A fucking recycled scene from the main ones, only this time with leg-locking. That's a huge disappointment. If you write scenes that have some sort of progression within a theme, there should be escalation. If you're writing the final scene in a series of scenes, the final one should be the nastiest and perviest scene you have! Players should be rewarded with something for unlocking that -- something that will make the player glad they held back from doing the deed until this very moment. Unfortunately, the outdoor sex line leads to a big bag of nothing.
I'm really losing motivation while writing this review. I just want to defend this game so much since it really has a good story, but there's just so much wrong with it that I can't. At the end of the day, it's a porn game, and unfortunately, I've played visual novels with more CGs than this.
5/5 if it were an erotic novel or a visual novel. 3/5 for being an RPG game.
Let's get the good out of the way first. I'm not one to write off a game for being story-heavy and being too much like a VN. Let me say this: the story is good, and it is engaging. Corruption is slow, gradual, and believable. I cannot emphasize this enough, but it truly is a well-written corruption/NTR story. I won't say the best since I haven't played enough NTR games, but for corruption games, it's among the top.
I really like the main antagonist. He's not the most sinister, and honestly it feels like he generally just wants to have fun by fucking around. You'll probably find someone like him in Shinjuku picking someone up. Despite that, a short introduction to his character has made me feel really irritated with him and I was honestly surprised when I felt that. I like that - I like how he was written.
But this is still a porn game. An RPGM porn game. I spent literally 2 hours on the opening exposition of the game - 2 hours before the main character loses her virginity. Look, for a lot of games, I generally skirt around events that will make the MC lose her virginity since I generally play the virgin runs first anyway (which saved my ass when I played Pray Game, but that's a different story). But seriously? 2 hours before the first H-scene? And visual-wise, it wasn't even that good. What's worse, the game literally recycles CGs throughout the entire fucking game.
To prove my point, kindly get full save file, load up the recollection menu, and check the outdoor masturbation scenes. There should be around 10 H-scenes there, but I kid you not, there's literally less than 10 CGs used for all those scenes. That's an average of 1 CG per H-scene. It would be like if a visual novel only showed a picture of the insertion and literally nothing else. No pistoning movements, no moans, no cum-shots. If you've played a VN like that elsewhere, I'm so sorry, and I hope you find better games to play.
Also, I'm glad this doesn't have the exhibitionism tag because, my god, it barely has exhibitionism content in it, which is fine, I know, but it feels like they barely fucking tried. They just want the spicyness of outdoor sex without the effort of writing it properly. Like BAM! you're fucking outside, ready to go. And again, the fucking CGs! If I remember correctly, scenes 1 to 4 literally have the exact same fucking CGs, and what do you get for the 5th and final one? A fucking recycled scene from the main ones, only this time with leg-locking. That's a huge disappointment. If you write scenes that have some sort of progression within a theme, there should be escalation. If you're writing the final scene in a series of scenes, the final one should be the nastiest and perviest scene you have! Players should be rewarded with something for unlocking that -- something that will make the player glad they held back from doing the deed until this very moment. Unfortunately, the outdoor sex line leads to a big bag of nothing.
I'm really losing motivation while writing this review. I just want to defend this game so much since it really has a good story, but there's just so much wrong with it that I can't. At the end of the day, it's a porn game, and unfortunately, I've played visual novels with more CGs than this.
5/5 if it were an erotic novel or a visual novel. 3/5 for being an RPG game.