I think this game is the most underrated on the entire site, probably due to the fact that reviewers keep expecting A) incest and B) the same leap of quality that NLT has delivered previously. When this does not materialize, they are disappointed and give bad ratings, despite the game objectivly being one of the best on the site.
Pros
Pros
- Great renders and unique setting,
- Great models
- Great animations, including decent sound,
- Decent actual game play (very rare in porn games), reminiscent of point and click adventure games of the 80-ies and 90-ies like Kings Quest and Monkey Island.
- Slightly voiced
- Many Li
- Okayish looking MC, not scrawny midget as in The Treasure of Nadia and so many porn game titles...
- A lot of content for it's version and knowing NLT, it's going to be a huge game by the time it's finished.
- Very dependable updates
- Decent worldbuilding that conects NLT's three last games and means previous MC:s and LI:s return in cameo roles.
- No choices and no way to affect the story. Acceptable though, as this is an actual game, rather than a "choose your own story" visual novel like most other porn games.
- Shallow characters and very little relationshipbuilding. However, once more, not really the point of the game.
- Women fly to the MC:s cock. This can also be excused by the fact that the game isn't about relationship building, but rather about solving puzzles and being rewarded with sex scenes. However, see below.
- Tone not quite right. This is my only major gripe. In Lust epidemic the MC was an amoral and horny douche with a transactional view of sex and a penchant for incest. In The Treasure of Nadia, the MC was more of a good guy, still as horny but kind of goofy and not out to corrupt every woman in his vincinity.
Lust Epidemic had a dark tone that fitted the MC and his action. The Treasure of Nadia had a sillier tone, which worked well with the MC of that game. The Genesis Order seem to go for a more realistic vibe, but the MC is once more a hero, and this time not even that horny. Where previous MC:s sought out sex, the MC of The Genesis Order kind of stumble upon it instead. This silly setup for a game that doesn't really want to be silly doesn't work well and it exacerbates the "women flying to the MC:s cock" con.
I think it's a good thing that NLT has choosen once more to go for a darker and more realistic setting, as silliness dectract somewhat from the eroticism of a game, especially from serious and taboo fetishes such as incest (incest shouldn't be frivolous, if it is, you're doing it wrong). But that also means that the game can't get away with the same unrealistic story and development as it could have, had the game been of the silly variety (as The Treasure of Nadia). This means that we need an explanation for all the sex and why all these beautiful women fall for the MC at the drop of a pin. It also means its characters need more depth and the relationships could benifit from being fleshed out.
However, especially the latter could clash with the point and click-adventure type of game that all of NLT:s titles are. Personally, I think the recipie from Lust Epidemic actually worked best, as a creepy douche who is willing to do anything for sex and not beneath tricking, bartering or possible even fooling or blackmailing his potential Li:s works well with a darker and more realistic setting, while explaining all the casual sex that the MC is having left and right. Though I guess more people like to play the hero, so maybe that's just me. Regardless, there needs to be an explanation for all the sex, if the game want's to be taken seriously/realisticly.