NTR lovers always boggle me. Either you guys have zero standards, or you have slim pickings for content that you can justify as 'good', cause this is NOT worth 5 stars. at time of writing, the current release is [v0.2].
First off, the claim that all NTR is optional/avoidable is a LIE. I think, first and foremost, false advertising or inaccurate descriptions should be addressed, especially for people who choose to play it BECAUSE of that claim. This also isn't me just talking out of my ass, this is me using the definition in the game by the DEV. The dev establishes that your gf standing ned to an old flasher and letting a gross voyeur look at your gf naked is defined as NTR, and yet the story has your supposedly loyal girlfriend kissing a COMPLETE STRANGER after he spouts a fucking stupid fake story about a disrespectful ex he wants to make jealous. only AFTER kissing him, does she decide to call her bf and ask if it's okay to take more photos. How looking but not touching would justify as NTR is beyond me.
Next up is the much applauded writing, which is again pretty middling. From my viewing, I am assuming the main story is meant to be a physically and verbally abusive boss attempting to blackmail the protagonist. Okay, sure. But then they add this "don't look in the basement" plot thread for some reason, which is somehow linked to two neighbours who you've never seen actually interact with each other who are written COMPLETELY differently, but then you also have her family deciding to live near you? I assume it's meant to be a compensation to try and make it seem more even for male-to-female content, but it's also totally nonsensical. Why not have the family already be in the city, so it's the reason they move there? Why establish the female neighbour as being concerned about the well-being of the protagonists, but simultaneously have secret dealings with the dude who shows literally zero care for anyone else besides himself in what I assume to be some depraved sex dungeon or another similar plot-line?
This disconnect is even apparent in the TONE. They have multiple characters go into non-sexual intimate details of their lives like the gf's dead father and a co-worker's sister with cancer, but then also have totally tasteless scenes with the boss just abusing staff and the other comically evil males. Either pick the realistic angle or the absurd stupid angle, the in-between is just needlessly jarring.
The visuals are decent but nothing to write home about, with good models but multiple instances of stilted posing, odd lighting and strange background objects. I should note though that chapter 2 definitely shows improvement over chapter 1, so there's clearly improvements being made.
For sex scenes, there's really only one FULL penetrative sex scene, which isn't even with the protagonists. There's almost one near the beginning, but it gets interrupted no matter what choice you make, and instead of finishing what you started, she just gives her bf a blowjob later? Sure, I guess?
The fact that there IS sexual content for both is good, but there is a clear and definitive lean towards NTR. If it was going to be actually consistent, it would make sense for the protagonists' sex life to be the foundation and then for the dev to add onto it, which would ALLOW for forking and branching. Instead, it's built around the NTR, so if you dismiss the NTR you're just shortening the main line, not just cutting a branch.
A positive is at least the characters acknowlege the choices through some minor dialogue and through available choices, however it gives the illusion of choice on at least three occasions, which leads me to believe the kinda system they're using to register choices and what's important is more simplistic than what would be believed.
First off, the claim that all NTR is optional/avoidable is a LIE. I think, first and foremost, false advertising or inaccurate descriptions should be addressed, especially for people who choose to play it BECAUSE of that claim. This also isn't me just talking out of my ass, this is me using the definition in the game by the DEV. The dev establishes that your gf standing ned to an old flasher and letting a gross voyeur look at your gf naked is defined as NTR, and yet the story has your supposedly loyal girlfriend kissing a COMPLETE STRANGER after he spouts a fucking stupid fake story about a disrespectful ex he wants to make jealous. only AFTER kissing him, does she decide to call her bf and ask if it's okay to take more photos. How looking but not touching would justify as NTR is beyond me.
Next up is the much applauded writing, which is again pretty middling. From my viewing, I am assuming the main story is meant to be a physically and verbally abusive boss attempting to blackmail the protagonist. Okay, sure. But then they add this "don't look in the basement" plot thread for some reason, which is somehow linked to two neighbours who you've never seen actually interact with each other who are written COMPLETELY differently, but then you also have her family deciding to live near you? I assume it's meant to be a compensation to try and make it seem more even for male-to-female content, but it's also totally nonsensical. Why not have the family already be in the city, so it's the reason they move there? Why establish the female neighbour as being concerned about the well-being of the protagonists, but simultaneously have secret dealings with the dude who shows literally zero care for anyone else besides himself in what I assume to be some depraved sex dungeon or another similar plot-line?
This disconnect is even apparent in the TONE. They have multiple characters go into non-sexual intimate details of their lives like the gf's dead father and a co-worker's sister with cancer, but then also have totally tasteless scenes with the boss just abusing staff and the other comically evil males. Either pick the realistic angle or the absurd stupid angle, the in-between is just needlessly jarring.
The visuals are decent but nothing to write home about, with good models but multiple instances of stilted posing, odd lighting and strange background objects. I should note though that chapter 2 definitely shows improvement over chapter 1, so there's clearly improvements being made.
For sex scenes, there's really only one FULL penetrative sex scene, which isn't even with the protagonists. There's almost one near the beginning, but it gets interrupted no matter what choice you make, and instead of finishing what you started, she just gives her bf a blowjob later? Sure, I guess?
The fact that there IS sexual content for both is good, but there is a clear and definitive lean towards NTR. If it was going to be actually consistent, it would make sense for the protagonists' sex life to be the foundation and then for the dev to add onto it, which would ALLOW for forking and branching. Instead, it's built around the NTR, so if you dismiss the NTR you're just shortening the main line, not just cutting a branch.
A positive is at least the characters acknowlege the choices through some minor dialogue and through available choices, however it gives the illusion of choice on at least three occasions, which leads me to believe the kinda system they're using to register choices and what's important is more simplistic than what would be believed.
