Review as of version 0.5b
Pros:
+ Beautiful
+ Has great potential in terms of variety of routes and maybe endings.
Cons:
- Potential only. So there isn't all that much in yet.
- UI is a bit clunky.
- Music is repetitive
In-depth:
I'll admit, at first I wanted to give this game a bit of a lower score.
The prologue is so annoyingly long I thought I'll just dump the game before finishing it, to be honest. I despise it when the games don't let you do anything for yourself.
Thankfully, it does get better after. You get your free time and get to choose who to spend it on, so no more (or, well, at least not as many) forced events. There are still a lot of dead ends, but at least it shows the game has some potential.
It also gets just a little grindy, clicking through the same events to get extra affection with the girls. It's not too much, you usually need about 5 events, but if there was a bit more of a variety of those, it would be a more pleasurable experience. Still, far from the worst culprit in that regard, it's barely noticeable.
The writing, while not necessarily bad (I've seen A LOT worse), is frustrating at times. The protagonist is infinitely annoying. I swear if I hear "I'm a man of virtue!" one more time I'm just never going to play this game again.
The dialogue also makes no sense sometimes, and the choices don't seem to affect much. It's especially weird with Vera. You get a choice to rape her, and just a couple days later be like "hey, want me to drive you home?", and she's like "yeah, sure, I'd love to". WTF?
Other than that, I like the character personalities. I'd say Vera, Senning and most definitely Theo are the best girls. But I do enjoy spending time with everyone.
The visuals are good. The girls are absolutely gorgeous, although with a very little variety in body types. Great body types, mind you, but a bit too samey nonetheless.
Sex scenes also look good, with some nice touches so they don't look like your standard copy-paste poses. I appreciate it.
I could say that it's also a nice UI, but unfortunately, while it looks nice, it's clunky and not entirely functional. Some locations break the interface, so it just disappears. The save screen, for whatever reason, reacts to RMB, so when you just try to close it it offers you to save your game. Things like this are somewhat frustrating. But let's see how it'll be once it's done and polished.
The music is fine. Not something I particularly care about, but it's not annoying and doesn't make me want to turn it off. It does get a bit repetitive if you play for a long time, but it's not a huge issue.
Overall, I'd say it definitely has a potential to be a great game. Especially if the routes will differ more than what we currently have with Vera, for example. I'm really looking forward to seeing what it looks like when it's done.