I am a huge fan of NTR games. I love the corruption aspect of a woman cheating on their significant other, of being seduced and enticed into giving into their desires, of doing something they know is wrong because it feels too good not to. So I downloaded this 4.5 gb monster of an AVN and sat down to give it a go. Here's my experiences playing it.
Story: 0/10
What can I say about King of Summer? It is the timeless tale of the seduction of a mentally handicapped, green-haired woman by her boyfriend's uncle during a 7-month stay at a beach resort. I know what you're thinking, how can someone seduce a mentally handicapped woman? Easy! By lifting her up in the pool once per day for 2 or 3 days in a row! That's all it takes to get her to bring you back to her hotel room and start handing out bj's like they're after-dinner mints. (No, I'm not joking. Yes, that's really what happens in the game).
Mechanics: 0/10
There's nothing like a good old sandbox to make a player feel like they're immersed in a world where they can decide what happens! Unless, of course, that sandbox consists of the same events repeated over and over to 'grind' your arbitrary manliness stat up to the level needed to see the next scene. That would just make the whole sandbox thing a pointless time-sink designed to do nothing more than stretch out content to give the game the appearance of having a lot of content without the actual substance.
But whatever, I play video games all the time! I once spent 30 hours leveling my party in Final Fantasy! What really matters are the choices. I get to decide the course of the story, that's what VN's are all about, brah!
Yea... yea, in theory that's true. But have you considered how much better it would be to have the illusion of choice? Just think - I'll give you 3 options, and 2 of them will do nothing but loop back to the same 3 options. You can choose your own path as many times as you like (until you make the singular choice I want, which will move the story forward). Isn't that way better???
Totally, brah!
(yes that's really how the game works. You can spend the equivalent in-game of a full decade of choosing "take a nap" and never see a single new scene. I guess the universe blinks out of existence whenever the boyfriend closes his eyes. Ironically, if that were the case, it would have improved the story greatly)
Visuals: 5/10
I can't create art for shit, so I don't bag on the graphics unless they're truly eye-gouging. These are fine. Anime/manga characters aren't particularly hot to me, but I don't think they are grotesque.... except for the penises, which let's be honest, look pretty silly in real life, too, so who among us has any room to talk?
Overall: 3/10
This game misses the mark. There's next-to-no build up. You never have the sense that the mentally handicapped girl cares about her boyfriend at all. From the very beginning, it seems like she's only with him for the free trip to the beach, so the whole "NTR" aspect doesn't land at all. The supposedly 'old' uncle looks younger than I did when I was 25. There's is nothing at all in this plot that makes you interested in seeing what happens next, because the mentally handicapped girl isn't intellectually equipped to have any cognizance of being corrupted. The boyfriend is given no personality and almost no screen time, so there's none of the 'agony of loss' NTR is meant to evoke.