English:..........6/10
User Interface:...4/10
User Experience:..7/10
Art:..............7/10
Dialogue:.........7/10
Story:............4/10
Opinion:..........4/10................
Avg:...........5.57/10 [2.79/5]
EDIT: A few of the visual scenes I bring up that have graphical issues have been removed and I think a few minor scenes that were weak also. But MC is still Chuckie Finster and Cringelord alpha male at the same time. The writing needed work, focus on that.
I want to say this game's DEFAULT name for MC is "Aiden Black." How much more of an edgelord could you possibly want to be? Sounds like the diary of a delusionary emo kid wanting to be a vampire. Chill out. And when this first came out, the description was not in the best English. So here's hoping they took time to fix more than just that. And after you finally get to the sister barging in the room I remember... I've played this before. Sure, they "reworked" the opening scene to tell YOU, the player, MC is ACTUALLY some secret agent super-assassin that comes out of nowhere later in the game. Legitimately the whole game is a bunch of day-to-day nothings about a guy, his girlfriend, and a couple other women. Then BAM! For no discernable reason he fighting cyberpunk enemies and killing people. When people say "they want more action" in a game like this. It does NOT mean add fighting that comes out of nowhere. It means "Get to the sex, these characters are pretty boring." Which is true. There's one decent character and maybe two decent relationships that create alright back and forths. But other than that, it feels like characters just get added to add a trope someone mentions. I also think I started a review of this, but closed a window or something and lost it, so who knows. But one thing is very true about this game, as soon as the character drama finally starts to get halfway decent, MC becomes Rambo and suddenly the whole story just feels like nothing up to that point matters in the slightest.
The story opens to MC dreaming about a woman that is barely ever mentioned again. I'm assuming she's dead, but he misses her. Then it cuts to the most half-assed intro/backstory read that SCREAMS "We redid the intro because our story takes a jarring turn to MC becoming a psycho super soldier." The he's woken up by his [INSERT RELATIONSHIP HERE], Ashley. She lieterally can't be more than his step sister considering he's white as paper and eventually someone says she's black. Even though she just looks like someone that's been tanning since the dawn of time. Anyway, she's moving in with MC for REASONS. She won't say why, but she's having trouble with her fiance, and wont go back home. Never elaborated on. Then you meet Lily and Maya. Obsessed coworker(?) and boss respectively. MC helped Lily with something in the past and she's some elite super hacker that likes to watch MC. I guess. And Maya has Androphobia for everyone except MC. Lucky him. They do BUSINESS things and are a BUSINESS. Beyond that, I don't think it's ever stated what they do, however that's from current memory, so if otherwise stated, it was for sure not part of the story for a while. Moving on, you meet Cynthia, a tenant of MC because he also owns a building. Right. You also meet Mikayla and learn about Jen, that is hastily mentioned in the intro, she's in the hospital. Then the chapter rounds out with Cynthia masturbating to MC as loudly as possible and he... Acts like a creepy preteen and sneaks in to jerk off to her? Does NO ONE see that the sudden genre change later on was not planned in the slightest? You can't start a game with this creeper MC but he's also a disciplined elite soldier. That just doesn't work.
Chapter two opens to the conclusion of that event. Turns out, she knew he was there so that somehow absolves him of being a weirdo. It doesn't. So he goes home to jerk it in the shower after having to sneak away, and Ashley watches him. THAT is what this story was originally supposed to be. More proof. There's also a point where they're talking, and suddenly the background just completely changes, so it looks like they're on a flying couch. Then they decide to sleep in the same bed because logic doesn't exist in porn games. When MC wakes up.... He buys Cynthia a sex toy? Okay. Then goes to see Jen with Mikayla. You get the backstory of MC and Jen, then meet the only person you don't name, Jill. She's in love with MC but teases him too much so they still act like bully/victim. Even though it's later retconned that they fight crime together all the time. She also likes Jen, but mostly just to get to MC. And he still acts like a gradeschooler forced to interact with his bully by his mother. It's pretty stupid, frankly. Then, after getting to Jen, they "reconcile" by him getting her naked and fingering her. Probably because people were saying something like "I hate that MC is a creeper and not a peak alpha male like I, obviously, am!" So he is a creeping peeper and sexually dominant. Two very different mentalities, but whatever. Only to find out Jen's in debt(later revealed to be because of Mikayla) and is too stubborn to ask for help. Which almost rounds her out into a semi-decent character. Leading into meeting Tara, a new tenant that I'm pretty sure is MC's biological sister I guess. She disappears for most of the rest of the game.
Chapter three is... Nothing. MC talks to most of the girls again and tells everyone he's in an open relationship with Jen. That's it. Oh and MC miraculously grows hair, he was bald the first two chapters. Anyway, Chloe is a scientist doing science stuff. Funding it with OF, and, being her Landlord, when he requests the rent.... He sexually assaults her? Not only is all of this section completely disjointed, it's completely stupid. The last thing I want to see, playing a visual novel, is a fake, forced camgirl stream. And he notices someone else was cheating so... He wants to get with her too? What is this game? He already has at least 4 women frothing at the gash for him. Chloe makes no sense. bUt sHe dOeS sCiEnCe sTuFf fOr hIm lAtEr. is what I'm sure you'll say, or they could have called it in off screen. It just feels so cheap and undeserved. Then he's 'blackmailed' into sex with a virginesque nurse due to an underground blackmailing ring? And just after the camgirl stuff and domineering Jen, he acts like a bumbling moron with Sally. Every scene feels like it was written by someone else. What a laugh. What's even funnier is MC's penis CLIPS THROUGH HER ABDOMEN during the sex, my god. Then right after this and ALMOST learning about Jen and her sister, the game suddenly shifts to super assassin turbo cop mode. You start getting a bunch of lore, backstory and all this extra shit for something that was never even hinted at. Why? Why suddenly change to this? It makes no sense.
The bumbling idiot thing makes even less sense when Chloe appear again and he suddenly has a gaze that makes her unable to breathe. Come on. Am I the only one reading this? Enter the "noir cop" story about druglords and gangs. The English starts TANKING here. And DO NOT tell me "She let her niece to had a gun?" is anywhere near proper English. And after all that fighting and stuff, you get no proper nouns, no information, no reason to care what's going on at all. With a hard cut to Maya's nightmare. And a long winded scene about how Sam and Deja also want to have sex with him. And the skeezy uncle showing up. But still no details. Then he starts calling everyone baby girl and pet names like some dumbass "Alpha dom" there is no consistency in MC. And even still, I don't think I like ANY of the million sides of MC. The only thing of note that happens through to the end is a fight with Andrea, she's crazy because drugs. Wow, fun. And by the end YOU STILL KNOW NOTHING. A year and a half, and all you know is the story suddenly changed. Rough.
The English gets pretty laughable near the end. At first it was okay, but little by little verbage, tensing, wrong words, missing words, it's not great. The UI/UX is 95% stock, do something about that. The art is okay, constant clipping, wrong backgrounds being displayed, but its DAZ. The dialogue, for the most part, is actually not terrible. As long as MC isn't talking about sex, then I want to turn the game off. The story is schizophrenic. It can't decide if it's just a horny landlord or super soldier mafia story. Pick a lane, and fast. Either way, both stories are kinda meh. Maybe it's just because the other competing storyline keeps popping up, but I got whiplash out here my guy.