S1 Ch.4 Fix 1 Steam Uncut Edition MOD...
This is truly a beautiful game to look at. The lighting, effects, shapes, colors, and atmosphere... The presentation is top tier. Remarkable.
The story is interesting, once you get to Chapter 4, when actual events start taking place that start to make sense.
Perhaps where the storytelling does not succeed as much is in Chapters 1 & 2, with the overall attitude of MC being unwanted, unworthy, and despised by every single character except Miru. This continues throughout the game. MC is rejected, spat upon, kicked, punched, slapped, and abused verbally by every single character.
If you are a masochist, you are gonna love this one.
The way the dev chose to alter family relationships is hap-hazard and makes everything feel... off, somehow. We are not told anything about his parents or what happened in the past until Chapter 3. Perhaps that's due to Helen and her husband originally being MC and Leia's parents in the original game... with Katie being their younger sister/cousin?
I went into the game knowing there were changes made. I hoped those changes would not be as noticeable or prevalent. They are downplayed, but constantly in the back of my head.
There are a few setups of what happened in the past that caused so many to despise MC. None have yet to properly pay off. For instance, something MC did to one girl humiliated the hell out of her. There is nuance in how things are set up, talked about, that leads me to believe it either resulted in an unwanted surprise (which was ended or let to gestate fully)... my mind going into overdrive hoping MC would meet a younger character who happened to potentially be the result of the embarrassing event. But nope. Nada.
What I enjoyed was the character drama.
What I did not enjoy was how almost all (most?) of the women have very obviously gotten breast implants. Especially MC's twin sister. Those are in no possible scenario natural. Even the areolas are artificial, looking plastic as hell. I'm fine with bigger/thicker characters and love interests. The dev certainly needs to cater to the "bigger than her head" crowd. I just wish more natural and less thick love interests existed, but that's just me.
It's your game, make it what you want it to be.
I was also perturbed with how absolutely devoted MC is to Miru. He is surrounded by over a dozen women who flaunt themselves, tease, go full frontal, sit on him, caress and play with him, kiss him, and he refuses to do more than a "I'm never going to fuck you" and "I'll hold your ass, squeeze your tits, kiss your clit for 10 seconds, but that's just horsing around, It means nothing."
Maybe I'm just too used to these situations becoming a harem, especially with one of the first Chapter 1 options being to ask about an open relationship (harem setup) with Miru. Miru is fine with MC screwing around on her in every possible way except that singular penis-in-vaj possibility. Foreplay and tease, tempt and twerk, but no "just the tip" allowed?
My hopes are that a Harem route might be possible... But I'm not going to wait for it.
I finished version S1 Ch.4 Fix 1 with that cliffhanger. I'll wait a few more updates (a year?) to see if something interesting happens.
Note: I do not write reviews in the review section of F95 anymore. This is the best I can do for now.