Unity - Completed - The Sassy Girl and the Invisible Ghost [v1.0.2] [BouSoft]

The concept seemed fun, you're a ghost and you touch a girl, but in gameplay you could not have been a ghost and it'd make no difference.

Bousoft games have always been grindy but this takes it to another level. Each day has 4 time slots, and you have to interact and do stuff in each of them. Leveling body parts takes ages and every time you feed her, you have to stand around just looking at her since there's nothing for you to do.

Even tho it's a game about living together in a house. It could have been an empty white room and it'd make no difference, since the girl doesn't interact with a single object in the house and just stands around like she's on fent.

Customization is lackluster. There's barely 2 options for each piece of clothing and a thousand color retextures.
You can edit the girl body based on the foods you give her, but you won't be able to see what food does what until hours into the game.

For some reason they decided to drop the standard that 99% of 3d porn games set to rotate camera with right click and move it with middle click, for move it with right click and rotate holding both mouse buttons at the same time. There's several other weird design choices that make the game feel clunky and unpolished.

Overall super dissapointed, I gave it a try for several hours just because it's a Bousoft game but I ended up just giving up.

Honestly, I don't think this is a very good H-game. It requires 2 hands to play (given how it's 3D with wasd movement), the controls are very clunky so you have to actively fight the game to touch where you want, it also requires multiple hours of grind to unlock nudity and undressing. All in all, if you want to masturbate to this, good luck.

However, I'm still giving 3 stars because if you disregard the H aspects and play for the story and the sheer absurdity of the game, then good time can be had. Genuinely had a couple laughs due to how absurd the jank or the writing was.

Still, it's grindy as hell, having you play through a 30 min prologue and at least 12 days (if you're optimal) that last ~20 minutes if you want to reach the ending, pretty much following the exact same gameplay loop.

The game is completed, the 3D visuals and physics are mostly OK. Those are about all the positives that come to mind.
The girls proportions are wierd, acts like a teenage girl, in a body of a middle aged woman. Weird sounds and voice acting, weird in a non sexy way. Buggy. sometimes the touching minigame doesn't work so I have to restart the game in order to progress. Way too many dialogues and bad translation.

Review is for 1.0.0 ver.

I've only played the dev's most previous game which I really liked and found to be endearing despite its flaws (especially the art style which I am not a fan of.)

I didn't run into any game breaking bugs, just awful cloth physics and a little wonky pathing. The latter was easily fixed in my case by just calling Chika over. Sometimes she just gets stuck or decides to stare at a wall for the entire time slot, but that fixed it in all cases.

I played up until day 2 after the "ending" of the story. It was certainly an interesting choice to essentially have the game only really open up after the story segments. It's essentially one long tutorial even though the prologue itself initially is presented as the only tutorial. I have the patience to sit through all of it, especially because the story itself was very charming. The ending was wild.
I could see many not having the patience to keep playing. The tutorial period is really repetitive. Chika does do other things AFTER that part (i.e. bath, take naps, use the toilet) but you're stuck with "eat, stare at wall, stalk ouji-san" until that point. Really, if you're only interested in playing to jork it, it's not going to work well. The game is near unplayable one-handed anyways, which is normally a deal breaker for me, but again, I find this to be a very endearing game. So I'm playing for that alone.

The outfit system is another oddity. As far as I can tell, there's no way to actually dress Chika in whatever you want. She decides her own outfits for each time segment. You can buy and give her clothes, but in my time playing, she never wore what I bought her. I did see one thing in the washer, once, but she didn't wear it. Unless I'm missing something, the only way to dress her is to steal and keep whatever you don't want her wearing later. Then she'll eventually only have what you gave her. I haven't tried that, but it should work, in theory. Regardless, I'm fine if she only dresses herself, it helps keep her from feeling like she's just a sex doll.

The touch sim part of the game can be a bit annoying, but once you unlock the lock on mode and get used to the quirks, it's fine. Lock on keeps her from moving, so you can easily get to smaller body parts and if that's not enough (it always was for me) you also eventually get the ability to move and lock her limbs in place. Personally, I'll just lock on to her and whenever arms get in the way, I'll touch either her neck or armpit, and that's enough for her to move them.

The game is pretty slow as a whole, but I don't ever feel like my time is being wasted. Even after I finish washing laundry, feeding Chika, meeting the touch xp quota, I find merit in just touching her more. Body part sensitivity levels as you touch them. As long as you don't over touch one single spot, the sensitivity will only go up over time. I guess this is just enough "number go up" for me to find enjoyment. Plus, seeing Chika squirm around trying and failing to block me is amusing in its own right.

I really enjoyed what I played. Is it better than what I played previously? No. Does the addition of co-habitation mechanics detract from the touch sim? I don't think so. Would I recommend it? Only to those with great patience, but absolutely. I look forward to playing more, at least until I get tired of the gameplay loop and get all I wanted out of it.

For 1.0.0

That is to low for bousoft, but is fair

First of all, for now game contains some bugs, like broken collision of clothes, some softlocks(i personally met to of them, fir when game say that I unlock climax cycler, but nope. The second with function of changing clothes i think(in start of the day, girl say that now i can chose what she wearing, but there is no function for this, and also she keeps saying that every next days))

The second is more horrible cause is about core mechanics of game itself. If u play prev game of bousoft, u could notice that in action you cant chose certain bart of the body, cause girl twitches like a worm in hot frying pan. In this game that elevated to the absolute. Why the fuck of god there is no something like favorite list for bodyparts, is not a VR game, but is try to behave like it is, and it's not enough that you have to pixelhunt for certain part, you also every time have to fight with camera, because is fucken broken.

Why the second reasons is horrible, because if you have core mechanics that doesn’t work or behave like they have to, mean, that game has two path, the first were developer change them, and the second, when developer just say fuck u all, and do nothing. The second one is what happened with prev game, that stays raw for nowadays, boumen just add DLC that add some clothes, and that’s all.

In conclusion, we can say that most likely the game will continue to be unplayable(hope I wrong), but there is to much for change. After that game I reset my save data for YOTOGIMICHI, and oh god, is like ambrosia in comparison to this peace of “somthing” despite that is hasnt free posing. So YOTOGIMICHI gameplay more pleasant and nutteble despite that is 2D crap behaving like 3D, also games before YOTOGIMICHI also more pleasant and nutteble. Why the fuck is 3 steps back, and not a single forward.

In conclusion(second try) game broken on every level, and if lack of content is fixable, the game itself cannot. Only if boumen decide to fix this, instead of going on a drinking binge for new one, where not one problem will fixed, but acquire a new one or more. But the fact of that game is unplayable stays as it is, at least for now. Better play in YOTOGIMICHI or “Fairy Picturebook of Hero and Sorceress” cause they just better and in same mechanics of nutt gameplay

It's a shame that i can only give this a very mid rating, because i enjoyed previous game of this developer, Yotogimichi, quite a lot despite all it's flaws (at least this time girl doesn't look like shrunk titan). However somehow compared to projects from years back it's one step forward and two steps back.

Like his previous games, it's essentially a 3d simulator with physics and individual body parts being main focus, and it implements systems from Yotogimichi and Dereah like body positioning and others, so your goal is to quickly get through boring stuff and get to the main events.

This is where the issues begin. I was very much fine with one hour long prologue, since it's actually an improvement in storytelling and was a fine setup for the situation, but i can imagine an hour before getting into such a game can be an issue for people. Well, the thing is, it's just the beginning. Once you are done with prologue the REAL prologue begins where you slowly trudge through the days, increasing your level while unlocking other abilities like taking off accessories and clothes one item at a time. It was the same in Yotogimichi and it worked fine, but in here it takes UNHOLY amount of time to get through due to how game is structured. You have several time slots now instead of every location change progressing time, which slows the pace to a ridiculous degree.

Thus, the game loop: you take money out of the drawer, turn on washing machine, buy food from the TV, place food for the girl, wait until she eats (twice a day is generally enough), and the rest is you touching her inappropriately. The issue is, you have to repeat touching for every time slot instead of every day now, if you want to get this exp quicker to progress, which becomes a chore and like a speedrunner you start optimizing the gains with getting just enough experience to get to the next level.

To get to actual penetration, you repeat this shit for HOURS on end, and no im not exaggerating. While the prologue was fine, the prologue 2.0 takes absurd amount of time and kills your desire to do anything along the way by making everything a chore with a gameplay loop that fails to engage.

It doesn't help that, despite mechanical improvements such as actually having exp visible at all, you need to right click on her to see her alert and ecstasy meters (which is important since early on certain ecstasy will force her to stop), and it's only visible above her head, so you have to adjust it too. It sounds like a little thing but what it becomes is you touch her couple times, unlock your hands, look at her head, right click, check ecstasy/alert levels, wait until they go down, touch couple more times, repeat. It becomes less of an issue the further you go in but the beginning is a nightmare.

Which is made worse by general lack of polish, such as braindead AI (girl just stand and stare at the wall if you don't engage her), she can barely do pathing and walk into walls constantly, clothes freaking out and going through itself and bodies on a regular basis, and general emptiness of the world. Imagine, IMAGINE what it could be if she had a life cycle and you could do perverted ghost things when she, say, reads a book, is in a zoom call, invites a friend, having a bath and hundreds other situations, insane wasted potential.

And the main appeal, the whole controllable 3d sex thing, it just feels... worse? I can't really explain it with logic but it simply feels worse than it was in Yotogimichi.

I could be something really amazing but it just isn't. So many flaws, empty world, boring gameplay loop, VERY long progression until game actually begins, clunky feeling all around. I just can't in good faith say that it's worth playing it, but if you are a fan of previous works at least try it out and see for yourself how it is.

I like Bousoft's games, they scratch that interaction itch that most games lack. However, this game is pretty clunky and is lacking in the most important features. The whole routine is all too simple and pointless; collect allowance, buy food, put food on table, and do laundry. You can grope during all of these but it gets boring. Variety comes from having different clothing options and new tools you can use when you level up. While new things are introduced at a steady rate, I would rather the developer work on fixing the groping/sex modes. Touching modes are annoying since you have to precisely click on certain body parts while the camera bugs out and the girl turns around. Performance is another glaring issue, I can't believe that this game looks worse than marvel rivals and actually runs worse than it as well. I have a middle end pc build and am constantly stuck at 30-50 frames per second, typically going under if there are any light sources around. While this game is like other Bousoft games, I ultimately think it's a downgrade from them.

quite similar to bousoft's other games. i enjoyed the simple/wholesome prologue, though it is about an hour long. even after the prologue though, the gameplay pacing is kinda slow. you should NOT spend the maximum amount of time in the beginning of the game, you can only get enough EXP to level up to the next level, so i would recommend only getting enough points to the next level and then skip the rest of the day.
anyways, i will say this game shares a lot of the same mechanics as the other games. i cant exactly remember whats new, but regardless i think its as enjoyable as the other ones. especially later on, you can do some weirddd stuff and thats fun. i was kinda hoping the game would be more about being invisible/unknown, but in the end that gimmick didnt really get utilized. still, im having funnnn

2 * is very disappointing rating, for such a good developer like BouSoft.
2 - because after about 10 mins in the game there is nothing to do. Repeat same process over and over? Meh.
Sex animations are somehow WORSE then in his previous 2D game - there is no separate auto-trusters for penis or tongue - so no tongue kissing during sex. Thats just one of a few moments that are just bad.

The girl itself behaves like a Chat GPT or Sim in Sims 2. Sometimes she just stares into the wall and does nothing. Thats also disappointing, because the flat itself is decorated nicely, and there are a lot of places for her to do something. Like watch tv or make some tea, or look outside the window. But. sadly, she just feels like a plastic doll.

2 * is fucking low for BouSoft, but i cant rate this game higher.
Oh, also, all clothes are just the same. No lewd ones. Like in his 2D game where was a shitton of them. Another meh.