Not convinced
Well, to be honest I did not understand the hype around this game.
I almost gave up after 30 minutes, I didn't like it at all at first for many reasons. I gave a second chance the following night, it was sligthly more interesting...but still not convinced, I played like 2 hours in total, I have no idea how far I am in the current game, but anyway I will stop here.
--- Chara Design :
HS design and not even improved. Kinda Basic. A lot of variety of girls though. Their personality are quite stereotypical. We are supposed to see some character developpement, well... nothing striking so far.
--- Story/Background :
Ok let's put aside the setup of this game. It is just a weird excuse to put some spanking. I don't see what is great about that.
However, the story do progress more or less in a sensible way, with some side stories, and objectives to accomplish. The writing is ok.
The music is nice, probably the best feature of this game.
--- Animations/Sex Scene :
HS animations, plus some renders there or there. Maybe interesting for people who never played Honey Select...otherwise...
--- Gameplay/Contents :
Easy everlasting sandbox kind with some VN at times, it might become more complex at some point. I don't really like sandbox games, but here it is ok, I have seen worse. You have objectives to accomplish in whatever order you feel, it will take you weeks of spamming the same action at times, but thanks god sometimes the main story does interrupt your boring week with some scripted event.
I don't know if it is because I had the chance to play to much better games before this one, that I have a very different point of view than the majority of the people who rated this thread.
Or maybe the strong fetish and sandbox aspect was the appeal for those who rated it 5 stars. Anyway, it is not a bad game, but I don't really like it, I can't get into it.