This game is annoying to say the least.
Here are 11 ways that this game is annoying. EDIT: Actually, 12 ways that the game annoys me. I thought up another reason later on in my review.
01.) The game starts off super loud, blasting your speakers, alerting everyone in a 10 block radius.
02.) Dragging the sound volume sliders all the way to the left has no effect and you will continue hearing really loud sounds. The only way to fix this is to just mute everything.
03.) Immediately upon starting the game you will be presented with a huge window blocking your progress telling you that you can pay to play. Then you are presented with some choices of how you want to play the game and immediately after you finish choosing you are once again presented with the same huge window blocking your progress telling you that you can pay to play.
04.) Then you are asked to name your character. Apparently, when naming yourself or other characters your name has to be all caps. That is not something that I appreciate. I like names with a capitalize first letter and lowercase other letters.
05.) Then the game gets really confusing. There is a graphic icon of a man and two females with the word "CONTINUE" underneath. I thought that the graphic icon and the word "CONTINUE" was one and the same button. So when I clicked the graphic icon, I got stuck. I spent three minutes trying to figure out how to get into the game. It just showed the male character and black silhouettes of the two females that can't be interacted with. And nothing else. No "CONTINUE" button, etc. Finally, I figured out that I have to keep exiting out of all those screens and go back to that aforementioned screen and click the text below the graphic icon.
06.) To make things even more annoying, when I'm exiting out of the Character screens, trying to get back to the screen with the "CONTINUE" text, it takes me to a menu page with Home, Settings, Save, Load, etc. Like, why in the world did I get sent to THAT menu page when I was just trying to get back to where I was before?
07.) When naming the two daughters, I am not allowed names with spaces in them. Why be so restrictive? It's a game. Let people have more freedom when creating names for characters.
08.) Then I got prompted THREE TIMES to change my name because the developer doesn't want me to roleplay as a "blood related" character. Like seriously, the game has already been so inconvient and annoying so far and I get prompted three times to change my name when each time I click "I want this name" and you STILL prompt me again?
09.) Anytime that I right click to go to the Save screen, I don't end up on the Save screen. Instead, I end up on another screen where I have to do an extra click to Save. This is inconvenient and undesirable behavior. On default settings, Ren'Py sends you to the Save screen AND YOU STILL have those other buttons like Home, Replay, Settings, etc. on the Save Screen. So you get everything from one screen. But the way the developer did it, you have to do extra screens. Very inconvenient. Plus I don't even like how this screen looks like. It blurs out the render images from the game and it just has a bad blurry look to it like "something is wrong" because of all the blur.
10.) Then when I click on the SAVE button and click on a save slot, there is a two second delay before it is saved. I've played hundreds of Ren'Py games and I can't remember that sort of delay in any of those games. I don't like the delay. I want things to be very speedy. Right click, click a slot, go back to playing. But the way this developer has it, I have to right click, see a blurry screen, click on a SAVE button, click a slot, wait two seconds for it to save, go back to the blurry screen a SECOND TIME, and THEN I can go back to playing.
11.) You have to click on X's on the top right or bottom right of the screen a lot. So like you get prompted to click "look at" something. Then you have to click out of it by clicking on that corner X button. Other than that, this X button is present on other screens too. Like when you get forced into the menu screen instead of the Save screen. And other times too. It's so annoying to have to click that X button hundreds of times within five minutes of game.
Okay, now that I vented about how annoying this game is. I will discuss the game itself.
The renders and lighting are great. It really feels like real life with the lighting. When you drive into a motel parking lot, it feels just like the movies or like you are driving into a real motel parking lot. The lighting is superb. The models and scenery look great too.
I don't like how this game injects loli content. Because of the realistic lighting and clear renders and this tough guy MC, playing this game is pretty much like going to a theater and watching a Blockbuster movie where a movie star character like Sylvestor S. escorts little girls around and pees in front of them and watches them pee on the side of the road. And then goes on to take these little girls to a motel where there are even more little girls. You'd never see the real Sylvestor do that, and it is just absurd. The girls in this game should be older, 18+, to make this an okay game, because they don't match up well with this tough MC or the plot scenario. This "do whatever you want" with these non-related minors in any public setting "just because" doesn't sit right with me. In other loli games, it's less offensive because it's just some silly, family incest game where the guy lives with a perverted family and every character in the house just wants to get it on in the safety of their house and usually has nothing to do with being hunted or hunting other people or going to motels. The characters in those games already have a great deal of familiarity and closeness and comfort around each other. Whereas this game is like going to the gym and finding the biggest, most muscular, strongest guy and placing that tough guy in a lewd situation with some random minor female and expecting that to be interesting and something worth paying for. Oh, that reminds me of the 12th thing about that game that annoys me. You keep getting prompted to pay to unlock VIP scenes. Hmmm. A game with hidden content is definitely worse than a game with visible content. So maybe I would be slightly affected if the VIP scenes were already included and I could see how it changes things. But here is the deal. This dev isn't too bright. I think that I read somewhere that he aged up the youngest girl to meet Patreon standards. But one, he should have never had the younger version of the girl in the first place. Two, he should have never used Patreon for a loli game. And three, even after he aged her up, she still looks 6-7 years too young. Which brings me to four, he should definitely not have this game on Patreon or Steam and it is bewildering that it is being allowed there where there are much better games featuring legal age females that get rejected on Steam - like Monolith Bay and Taste of Seduction.
I had all these complaints, and I never once thought about complaining about paywall content. But just as I am finishing up my review, I have to say, that bothers me a lot too. I think that developers are capable of getting subscribers without releasing games with locked away content (hoping to get people interested in paying). I think that they would actually garner more interest with unlocked content and less "Pay to Play" prompts every few seconds.
I honestly don't ever want to download this game ever again. But I have to admit, if a Patreon version was uploaded and someone informed me about it, I would probably DL it, skim through it, delete it, and never play it again. Basically just want to peep what was locked and missing. That is the only temptation. If the content is always going to be locked, then from what I see, the free parts aren't not my cup of tea and I won't ever play this game again. Chances are, it wouldn't be my cup of tea with the paid parts, but at least the idea of there being something I wasn't allowed to see existing piques my interest enough to have me tempted to give it a second look.
UPDATE: I read in the thread comments that the paid VIP version doesn't have any new content, like missing sex scenes or anything like that. It just shows the existing erotic scenes from a slightly different camera angle. Really boring. Also, I read many complaints that this dev has only released "bug fixes" for the past year or longer, and that there is no actual real new game content. Maybe some bonus content, but not main game content. One person said that a year ago they got to a scene where they were in a laundry mat and talked to someone named Creed and he said now, after a year later, he can still only progress that far and there is nothing new. So the developer is also milking this game and cheating people out of money. What a shame. I would rate this game -10 stars if I could. I'm glad that I did my research. Now I know for sure to never give this game another glance ever again.
