Played: Twisted World [v0.5 Public] - Rating 3.5/5 (Rounded up to 4).
Quick Summary: A must play for those that enjoy Futa (Avoidable), Trap (Avoidable), or greatly exaggerated proportions. The story starts out intriguing and a built-in walkthrough will ensure you don't get stuck in the sandbox portion. Plenty of sexy scenes are already available in the game with animations. However, while it is a sandbox, there appears to be little actual choice so far other than to choose what to avoid.
Pros:
-Interesting intro and for the most part enjoyable writing
-Lots of animations
-Wide variety of content (sex) already in the game or clearly coming down the pipe. Scenes that some of the more opinionated (and loud) posters may have a problem with are avoidable.
-Some characters are well written. The brother character was perhaps the most interesting (Even though they aren’t my cup of tea I still played all their scenes).
-Nameable MC.
-Sandbox that continues to expand as you progress the main story.
-MC is enjoyable a lot of the time. I like his pervy nature (Though some may hate the lack of choice in this).
Meh:
-I found some characters a tad boring (so far). Such as the mother character.
-While the game clearly has plans for repeatable (sexy) scenes, they just aren’t in there yet for the most part. This is annoying for a sandbox. However, it will clearly be remedied at some point.
-While the sex scenes are all animated, I felt some of them were subpar and the angles were off. I feel this may be because of the proportions of some characters. The animations would probably look off or ridiculous from some of the more interesting angles. This probably forced some scenes to be a little conservative.
-Wish the family members were nameable, but completely understandable that they aren’t. I do like that they all use ‘J’ names though.
-Some very slight spelling or grammar issues. However, for the most part very well written. Better than I can write in any case.
-You do need to progress some stories you may not have much interest in to open up the sandbox. Not a big deal and makes 100% complete sense for how the story is progressing, but may be a bit draining in the enjoyment department for some.
Cons:
-MC is just downright annoying at times attempting to be overly cute. Not much choice at how to approach a situation as the MC.
-Some parts of the sandbox just have annoying. Such as one day of the week where a character needs to be in order for you to progress the story. You do have the option to skip time, but for example I still find it annoying that you need to wait for the one day of the week where a character will sit on the couch in the afternoon. Sundays also appear to be a small bottleneck as well. Still, I prefer this to a more linear VN style.
Random Thoughts:
This game has quite the tag list (Though there is quite the debate if one or two aren’t missing). Sandboxes are great as you can usually use this to avoid content you do not like. And to a degree you can do that in this game. However, you still need to progress some characters to start opening the game up more. I am not a fan or large proportions. Since I don’t find them rather attractive it means that a character is even more reliant on their writing to hold my interest. Unfortunately, I just found the mother’s plot to be rather boring, but you need to go through some of it in order to progress the story and open up the game more. Though on the flip side I will say I also don’t like Trap content. The brother though had probably the best arcs and I found myself enjoying it.
I greatly enjoy sandboxes, but really did not like how some things were so bottlenecked at times. Such as characters only showing up at this one area in their house once a week (Fuck that afternoon couch). Yes, you can skip periods and days but usually I try not to waste a whole day. Sundays were also another bottleneck. While from a character standpoint this makes sense (Especially with the mother’s story), I could not help but feel extremely annoyed at times with nothing to do for days and then having to decide on which story to progress as I now have 3 characters in one of their rare spots for the week at the same time (Or their story eats up several time slots meaning I got to wait until next week for the others). I believe there is a better order I could have done things to fill in those gaps a bit better, but for a first-time player it is quite easy to fall into that pit.
I think the combination of some characters not being all that enjoyable (to me) and being bottlenecked in the sandbox at times left me in a state where I was happy to have reached the end of the current content (A bit rare for me). Though the story did suck me in at the start, but as time went on I seemed to lose interest in it. While I feel like I may want to revisit the game again in the future I doubt it will be before a Finished tag is added. However, I don’t feel too bad because I am happy that a lot of people are enjoying this game and hopefully it will continue to help fill the gap in this underserved niche for people that enjoy many of these tags.