TL;DR: Great artstyle and scene variety, interesting plot and fun puzzles, troubled by numerous bugs and extremely tedious combat and quests that drag on for way too long
Pros:
- Awesome artstyle, a breath of fresh air from the usual
- Scattered pin-ups make exploration rewarding and fun
- Plot is not terrible, kinda interested me at times
- Scene variety is great, lots of kinks and poses
- Some scenes are animated which is really pleasant
- Puzzles are not done in a boring way, they're simple but engaging
- 'Lewd' choices are marked in purple, so doing a pure run is not something that requires prior knowledge of the game itself
- Lots of content for a v0.5 game, though I will address this further in cons
Cons:
- Combat is very basic, yet the game has dozens upon dozens of combat encounters featuring the same few enemy types with no variety, lack of equipment variety also leads to combat becoming an extreme chore
- Many of the quests are just tedious on purpose, forcing the player to repeat the same process numerous times for little reward
- Game is very fucking buggy, achievements I got 5 hours ago keep popping up saying that I've completed them whenever I load a save. I've had Throb get stuck and/or get enemies stuck, rendering them unkillable and forcing me to restart the encounter, I've also had the UI bug out in a couple of combat encounters
- Many of the party members are extremely one-dimensional and boring, with some feeling like their only purpose was to throw one-liners and or be used as porn-bait, could have been better off as normal NPCs, but for some reason became prominent parts of the game and kept interrupting any chance for proper dialogue with their catch-phrases.
- A few small things like the save menu being clunky and ugly, skills lacking unique icons, and the UI just covering itself with oversized elements (Like during Jewel's dancing)
Game would be easily be a 4/5 with a full release being a 5/5 if it weren't so buggy and didn't rely on lame combat encounters / stretched-out questlines in order to pad game-time. Shame.