This is a difficult game to rate. I mean, there's lots to say, lots of good, lots of bad. But to actually give it a score? I dunno, flawed masterpiece is pretentious, but there is something about the sheer complexity of the whole thing, and the dev has pretty much stuck to their vision since Day 1.
MC learns that he's adopted (or... is he?), mommy is sexually frustrated, and sis is conflicted about anal. That's the start, and from there, you roam around the town, meeting people, building up relationship points, and eventually enrolling them all into this complex melange a vingt (slightly rounding up). There are quite a few games here with similar scenarios, so that's not what makes this one special.
Let's talk about the two elephants: First, you cannot play this without a walkthru. Doing so is guaranteed to make you rage-quit. Which is really too bad, because it's a sandbox, and the best part of a sandbox is going off the path to do your own thing. Alduin can wait. A good in-game hint system would have gone far to solve this problem, but what's there is bare-bones.
Second, the MC is hard to identify with, unless you're fourteen. He's supposed to be older... I think. But he sure doesn't look or talk like it. Like, there's a scene where the father confronts the mother, and she replies with a good scolding, and the MC pops out from behind her and says, "yeah," like he's a Bugs Bunny character or something. There are times when the MC is with a woman, and it looks like he's at risk of falling inside her. But there are so many fetishes in this game, maybe that's intentional?
The artwork is not your typical HS or DAZ assets, and may not be to everyone's taste, but I strongly urge you to give it a chance. The posing is very skillful, and the dev uses the cartoonist's trick where if you can't make something highly detailed, then you just emphasize one or two key characteristics. Like the Mom's cheekbones, or the friend's mom's rear end, or the teacher's legs. The result is that, despite the lack of detail, the women characters are all very striking. And there is a lot of cleverness in how scenes are composed, with subtle animations that make the sex scenes impressively dynamic. There's a 3D gimmick in that you can take control of the camera and zoom around the pose if you want.
There is a lot of humour, and some of it is quite subtle, which is kind of impressive considering how fetish-laden and just plain filthy things get. I love the mom's expression of shock at the beginning, as the MC makes his moves on her, or the funny little moment when the sister catches him spying on her in the bath. Or Billy, who plays the role of the creepy best-friend horndog you may know from 80s teen sex comedies.
Lots of fetishes. The game is like making the Playboy Mansion out of Lego. You put one brick on top of the other, until you end up with excess. It's all a matter of personal preference, I know, but I find the early game way more fun than the later game. I mean, so, you fed your mom lactation pills and got her to dress up as a cow so you could milk her, now what?
A few other things: moving from location to location is slow, especially on a lower-end machine. I suspect frustration with that is the number reason why people give up. Time of day etc. are important, and lots of events occur based on percentages, so even with the walkthru you can spend time cycling through the week waiting for a specific event to progress things. This game is in desperate need of quality-of-life improvements.
So I award this 2 stars. Or maybe 4. It's really hard to decide.
MC learns that he's adopted (or... is he?), mommy is sexually frustrated, and sis is conflicted about anal. That's the start, and from there, you roam around the town, meeting people, building up relationship points, and eventually enrolling them all into this complex melange a vingt (slightly rounding up). There are quite a few games here with similar scenarios, so that's not what makes this one special.
Let's talk about the two elephants: First, you cannot play this without a walkthru. Doing so is guaranteed to make you rage-quit. Which is really too bad, because it's a sandbox, and the best part of a sandbox is going off the path to do your own thing. Alduin can wait. A good in-game hint system would have gone far to solve this problem, but what's there is bare-bones.
Second, the MC is hard to identify with, unless you're fourteen. He's supposed to be older... I think. But he sure doesn't look or talk like it. Like, there's a scene where the father confronts the mother, and she replies with a good scolding, and the MC pops out from behind her and says, "yeah," like he's a Bugs Bunny character or something. There are times when the MC is with a woman, and it looks like he's at risk of falling inside her. But there are so many fetishes in this game, maybe that's intentional?
The artwork is not your typical HS or DAZ assets, and may not be to everyone's taste, but I strongly urge you to give it a chance. The posing is very skillful, and the dev uses the cartoonist's trick where if you can't make something highly detailed, then you just emphasize one or two key characteristics. Like the Mom's cheekbones, or the friend's mom's rear end, or the teacher's legs. The result is that, despite the lack of detail, the women characters are all very striking. And there is a lot of cleverness in how scenes are composed, with subtle animations that make the sex scenes impressively dynamic. There's a 3D gimmick in that you can take control of the camera and zoom around the pose if you want.
There is a lot of humour, and some of it is quite subtle, which is kind of impressive considering how fetish-laden and just plain filthy things get. I love the mom's expression of shock at the beginning, as the MC makes his moves on her, or the funny little moment when the sister catches him spying on her in the bath. Or Billy, who plays the role of the creepy best-friend horndog you may know from 80s teen sex comedies.
Lots of fetishes. The game is like making the Playboy Mansion out of Lego. You put one brick on top of the other, until you end up with excess. It's all a matter of personal preference, I know, but I find the early game way more fun than the later game. I mean, so, you fed your mom lactation pills and got her to dress up as a cow so you could milk her, now what?
A few other things: moving from location to location is slow, especially on a lower-end machine. I suspect frustration with that is the number reason why people give up. Time of day etc. are important, and lots of events occur based on percentages, so even with the walkthru you can spend time cycling through the week waiting for a specific event to progress things. This game is in desperate need of quality-of-life improvements.
So I award this 2 stars. Or maybe 4. It's really hard to decide.