I wanted to like this story. It had so much potential to me, but over time it's kind of lost touch with... well, reality. In no reality does a guy like Zack fall in love with a girl like Sophie for real. I've known guys like Zack in real life and even been friends with them.. It takes them changing before they finally are willing to settle down.. and usually a hard knock in the head while they're at it.
At first when I was going through it, I started to think maybe I'm just not as into NTR as I used to be? But no. After reading some other input from others here, I think I've come to understand the true reason I'm having issues with liking this.. It's that everyone here is suddenly acting completely out of character. There is a force going behind the scenes to bend over backwards to make this work the way some grand designer is wanting it to happen and you can plainly see it
When you start to see the issues and the crumpled edges that are being shoved together to start to make things work it starts to break the immersion and soon you're sitting there saying "Yeah. This is all stupid and ludicrous." Then you soon find yourself hating nearly every character in the story and next thing you know it's just not enjoyable.. at all..
Simple facts are that this story should have featured choices.. Making it so that people have some input on how things go is a decent step in the right direction towards making harder falls feel not as stupid.. especially as unbelievable as any of these are.. primarily because at that point we're the one who put them there and we're the ones who wanted to see the ludicrous thing. But if we're not given the choice, we're left analyzing what we were given which then reveals what this story actually is..
Which unfortunately isn't a story of NTR.. It's a story about abuse.. about lack of communication. Sophie is in fact no longer an appealing or attractive person inside or out by the end of the story.. What she had that made her unique is completely gone and I genuinely can't even see what Zack sees in her anymore as he's basically won and achieved what he's after.. (Which brings up a ton of other stupid questions But that's why I've started to dislike this title.. You're left with so many stupid questions)
Anyways. Maybe there will be something that pops up to prove me wrong or to change my mind. But I had this same problem with another game think it was called "A promise best left unkept" I started off thinking I liked it and expecting to get immersed in a story, but I started off almost immediately hating every character in the game.. The bull was a laugh, the story made no damn sense, the girl was an idiot, the cuck was a moron and unmemorable.
I know people would sooner think I'm a moron or discount my input for disliking either of these games.. Because it seems like these days people are more interested in either Defending or Attacking all NTR blindly without actually stopping to open their eyes and realize that there exists good and bad NTR.. not all NTR deserves to be attacked, not all NTR deserves to be defended.
In any case, this kind of stands as a middle of the road sort of piece for me. I could easily see how someone could end up liking it, I could easily see how someone ends up disliking it. I just wanted to put my thoughts to paper on it.
TLDR:
Pros:
+ You don't really have to wait all that long before you start getting scenes
+ Sophie Starts off as an alright character.
+ Has a mixture of Animated and unanimated scenes
+ Has a fairly strong start to the storyline if I'm being honest
Cons:
- Virtual Novel with no choices.. I just don't usually like them, more personal pick
- The ways that the NTR begins is... stupid.. The way that the heroine falls is.. generic..
- There really isn't a lot about this title that isn't already done. I genuinely don't understand why people are upholding this title in particular as being some sort of pinnacle for NTR, when I've not seen it do a single new or original thing..
- All of the characters in the story become pretty forgettable, pretty boring, and pretty generic.. Even Sophie becomes generic closer to the middle of the story so far.. So it's not even like.. towards the end of the story she starts to lose her mind, it's more like middle of the story she starts to lose her personality...
Edit: Came back and realized I'd rated this a 1 star. The game is definitely not a one star whether you like or dislike it. I'd followed this game for quite some time and had enjoyed it thoroughly in its earlier development phases, just overtime I've started to dislike the approach and path being taken by development. I apologize if anyone read this earlier and gathered a bad take on what I wrote..
Ultimately when people click to play these games, they don't care about the rating anyways. They look at the tags then look at the images and then click to play the game based on liking what they see and read there. For me, reviews is just a place to toss out a jumble of thoughts and takes after I've played a game.
Edit 2: The art is now becoming widely more inconsistent. Sophie is being drawn vastly differently in each scene it seems like. Sophie was never intended to be your typical bimbo or slut, the entire premise being sold to us upon introduction of the story was a girl with integrity taking a slow fall, the type of girl you'd think would forever be loyal falling for the guy that typically chases only after the hottest of girls.. This has stopped being the case and since become your average NTR setup.. Complete with squeezing all the wallets of every patron they can and spoon feeding us a story that has already lost all of its interesting points and values.. All there is now is the fap material, and if that's all you're here for, then this kinetic novel is likely perfect for you. But if you were hoping to find any sort of NTR revenge, deep thoughts, a girl regretting her decisions, getting her just desserts, or the bull getting lead to slaughter or the bull dropping the bomb on the slut.. That would be too sophisticated a story for the author of this it seems.. Though gaslighting and mental gymnastics that would make feminazis blush seems to be present.
Zack is legit settling and dating below his level if he settles for a girl like Sophie as she is now. Sophie wasn't designed in the first place to be hot girl material and she's supposed to be one of the smart girls. The fun in her corruption was supposed to be that she's extremely slow to corrupt and even after corruption would likely retain some of her prudishness, and is even smart enough to flip back if she sees through the lies. The fun with Sophie's type of character was always gojng to be in the journey of it and in the slow fall.
What we ended up getting instead is your standard story, with your standard NTR, with your standard bull, your standard cuck, lightning fast corruption and your less than average girl.. Bare in mind, Sophie wasn't created to be attractive, she's supposed to be a nerd. She isn't meant to fulfill the roles of the super hot Milfs or Bimbo type girls, she isn't the type of girl that has guys lining up and jumping at her heels for a turn with her in the sheets.. But yet now after they have all of their patrons and have sufficiently tricked enough of us into subscribing with the promise of a unique heroine and story.. We're sold the exact same damn story all over again. Nothing new. Nothing original. In fact it seems like they want to go back on the old artwork and just rewrite it and change it so that Sophie fits those roles I mentioned before better.. Which goes against her character.. And goes against the promise the devoloper gave to its earlier subscribers..
All in all, I'm changing my rating to a two. If the art actually starts to straighten back up, I might swap it back to three, but it'd take a lot for this series to actually regain my interest at this point.