I doubted whether this would be a 2 or a 3. I went with the 2 in the end because this kept screaming at me "mediocre".
The renders are nothing special, pretty basic stuff but nothing too bad jumps at you either, the light is correct, the colors are good.. .etc.
The animations are very, very basic, a couple of times, when having sex, the MC seems to be doing pushups. I rather not have animations than having whatever it is that is going on here.
The models of the characters are ok in general, they look like real people for the most part and there is a good variety of them. However their expressions and posing are quite lacking. The smiles are really, really bad, and many times the characters seem to be looking somewhere far off into the distance instead of at each other when talking. Some more care and attention to poses and face expressions would have helped this VN a lot.
The writing.... well, it is serviceable. There is some mystery with the dead parents, but it is not really elevated literature. Pretty basic stuff but we are here for the porn, right? so... how is the writing of the porn? well, as lacking as the rest of the story. The sex scenes jump at you nearly out of nowhere, there is a repetition of the dates (where they go, how the waiters talk to them, what they order, the walk after, and then touch ass, touch breast, touch clit and "oh, lets go home and fuck") , and the sex talk is pretty basic and not particularly arousing.
The worst part though is the dialogues and the progression of the relationships. It goes basically like this:
MC goes "hi, how are you doing?"
LI asks for help on something minor
MC helps
LI "wow you are amazing, I feel such connection"
MC "yeah, me too, it is crazy to feel like this, but I think I am falling for you"
Then they date, fuck, and join a polyamorous relationship
LI "I think I am falling also for your other GFs" (which she knows for all of 10 minutes and has had two basic conversations with)
There is no build up of tension, no progression of a relationship. They meet, the next day they are developing feelings, one date, and sex and full relationship. The same is true when there are previous issues in the relationship (which we do not see) like with Kat. The MC did something pretty awful, they meet for the first time after three years, the MC asks for forgiveness, she says yes, they resume their relationship and she happily joins the harem with no concerns at all, they have a date, and they fuck.
So.... if you do not have anything else to read at the moment, and are a fan of harem VNs were every woman is a virgin that falls for the MC without further questions, then you may enjoy this. Otherwise you will struggle to keep reading it. 2/5, a poor effort that could have done with some more character building, slow relationship evolution, care in poses and facial expressions, more work on the dialogues... and no need for the whole criminal mystery thing, it is nothing special and pretty silly.
The renders are nothing special, pretty basic stuff but nothing too bad jumps at you either, the light is correct, the colors are good.. .etc.
The animations are very, very basic, a couple of times, when having sex, the MC seems to be doing pushups. I rather not have animations than having whatever it is that is going on here.
The models of the characters are ok in general, they look like real people for the most part and there is a good variety of them. However their expressions and posing are quite lacking. The smiles are really, really bad, and many times the characters seem to be looking somewhere far off into the distance instead of at each other when talking. Some more care and attention to poses and face expressions would have helped this VN a lot.
The writing.... well, it is serviceable. There is some mystery with the dead parents, but it is not really elevated literature. Pretty basic stuff but we are here for the porn, right? so... how is the writing of the porn? well, as lacking as the rest of the story. The sex scenes jump at you nearly out of nowhere, there is a repetition of the dates (where they go, how the waiters talk to them, what they order, the walk after, and then touch ass, touch breast, touch clit and "oh, lets go home and fuck") , and the sex talk is pretty basic and not particularly arousing.
The worst part though is the dialogues and the progression of the relationships. It goes basically like this:
MC goes "hi, how are you doing?"
LI asks for help on something minor
MC helps
LI "wow you are amazing, I feel such connection"
MC "yeah, me too, it is crazy to feel like this, but I think I am falling for you"
Then they date, fuck, and join a polyamorous relationship
LI "I think I am falling also for your other GFs" (which she knows for all of 10 minutes and has had two basic conversations with)
There is no build up of tension, no progression of a relationship. They meet, the next day they are developing feelings, one date, and sex and full relationship. The same is true when there are previous issues in the relationship (which we do not see) like with Kat. The MC did something pretty awful, they meet for the first time after three years, the MC asks for forgiveness, she says yes, they resume their relationship and she happily joins the harem with no concerns at all, they have a date, and they fuck.
So.... if you do not have anything else to read at the moment, and are a fan of harem VNs were every woman is a virgin that falls for the MC without further questions, then you may enjoy this. Otherwise you will struggle to keep reading it. 2/5, a poor effort that could have done with some more character building, slow relationship evolution, care in poses and facial expressions, more work on the dialogues... and no need for the whole criminal mystery thing, it is nothing special and pretty silly.