I wanted to love this one because the art is phenomenal and the UI is clean, but everything else drags it down a lot.
The prose and the writing in general is just so... wordy. It doesn't feel like real people exploring their relationship, it feels like this sterilized concept of people exploring their relationship put to text on a screen, where the developer has to describe exactly what every character is thinking or feeling at any given moment in order make sure the audience understands what is happening next and is completely satisfied with the excessively clear communication of current boundaries and fetishes. In a way, it makes the story feel way more bland and vanilla than the actual content would justify.
The "dirty talk" in sex scenes, for example, is so absurdly wordy and precise with each line's intent, that it feels like Chat GPT wrote it:
"Oh yes you're another man who isn't my husband and you're fucking me right now, oh yes I'm going to describe in excruciating detail what exactly is happening to me right now so that my husband can get a big boner, oh yes please cum inside me but actually cum in this condom because we haven't progressed to that part of the story yet! Are you getting all of this, audience? Do you understand exactly what's happening?"
It just goes on and on like this. It's so boring.
The art is so damn good but I can't recommend this game in good conscience when the writing just completely sabotages it. Zero subtext and zero room for interpretation or critical thinking; the dev already did all of that for you! How nice of them...
P.S. Brandon is literally a non-character, just a walking trope that borderlines on straight-up racism. If you want to add BBC fetish play to your game (already a bit questionable but whatever), there are certainly much less offensive ways of doing so.
The prose and the writing in general is just so... wordy. It doesn't feel like real people exploring their relationship, it feels like this sterilized concept of people exploring their relationship put to text on a screen, where the developer has to describe exactly what every character is thinking or feeling at any given moment in order make sure the audience understands what is happening next and is completely satisfied with the excessively clear communication of current boundaries and fetishes. In a way, it makes the story feel way more bland and vanilla than the actual content would justify.
The "dirty talk" in sex scenes, for example, is so absurdly wordy and precise with each line's intent, that it feels like Chat GPT wrote it:
"Oh yes you're another man who isn't my husband and you're fucking me right now, oh yes I'm going to describe in excruciating detail what exactly is happening to me right now so that my husband can get a big boner, oh yes please cum inside me but actually cum in this condom because we haven't progressed to that part of the story yet! Are you getting all of this, audience? Do you understand exactly what's happening?"
It just goes on and on like this. It's so boring.
The art is so damn good but I can't recommend this game in good conscience when the writing just completely sabotages it. Zero subtext and zero room for interpretation or critical thinking; the dev already did all of that for you! How nice of them...
P.S. Brandon is literally a non-character, just a walking trope that borderlines on straight-up racism. If you want to add BBC fetish play to your game (already a bit questionable but whatever), there are certainly much less offensive ways of doing so.