Unity - Completed - WISH - Paradise High [v1.3.0] [Momentum Games]

The artwork is incredible. The gameplay is fun. The dialog is incomprehensible. Worth playing for the artwork alone, even if you aren't a fan of match 3. It has a dating element, but most of the time the questions and responses are gibberish, so that part is trial and error and not at all interesting.

Pretty good. The only part of this game that matters is the sex, and you can skip all the minigames and get right to it. You might be missing out on some spots in the gallery, but it's not important since most of the CGs are just a progressive loss of clothing. On top of that, the graphics are hot, and while the girls all suffer from same-face syndrome, it's nonetheless an enjoyable, fappable experience.

As for the gameplay, it's just as annoying as all existing match 3 games. It's not terrible, it's just pointless. Getting 3 stars for each stage (which I painstakingly did) does not award you anything extra. So, they included gameplay in a game that does not require gameplay at all. They need to provide an incentive for the player to go through these minigames, like maybe unlocking different outfits or more sex positions for each character. Otherwise, it's just a waste of time.

However, porn is what's important, and it was good for what it is. No complaints in that department. 4/5

I think this game gets a worse rep than it deserves. In the H Match-3 world, there are two types of games: the huniepop variety involving more freedom of movement and dating mechanics and the candy crush variety where you can only move one place and there's clothing damage. This is of the latter and I think it does its job fairly well if you're looking for some fun matching macguffins with some interesting artwork.

The gameplay is pretty much Candy Crush but with the added H-twist of some blocks undressing the girls. I enjoyed this mechanic, actually. Not that it actually made a major difference in the gameplay itself but too often these sorts of games don't manage a link between the gameplay and the H-content. However, paradise high does try to add some pleasant imagery in between. I didn't find the gameplay too onerous, it was too easy if anything. Although I was sort of disappointed by the multiple objectives you had in each level, they distracted from the undressing.

What about the content itself? Solid, if unspectacular. The artstyle is unique and I've seen people give rave reviews to the artist so I assume most people like it. For me, it felt a bit painting-esque rather than digital art and while I appreciate that in proper art, I want solid lines and no blurring in my slutty stuff. But I still think its great. There are a number of girls here but they all look sorta samey and I barely paid attention to the story because it usually is highly irrelevant in puzzle games. In this case, you get one choice at the end of each exposition with your answer either blessing you with a buff or a debuff depending on whether you were paying attention. I mostly got the answers wrong but it didn't impact anything major and I got through the levels just fine so meh.

An okay game for the puzzle genre. It doesn't have the completed tag so I wonder if there's more to come.

It's really not that great and I don't feel putting in more effort than the developers did, because it really shows. This review will focus on the negative, because those really stuck out to me more than anything else.

TL;DR: This is basically the poor-mans Hunie Pop.

The only redeeming quality this game has are its artwork and animation which I think do hold up surprisingly well, the whole everything else bit does not hold up at all:

The gameplay, which is basically all there is to this:
-While servicable, it is remarkably bland and it misses something to spice the formula up and no, the girls do not really count for that. The powerups are basically what you would expect from a line/row clear, to star clear, to 3x3 bomb depending on how big the connected chain is.
-This is however drastically worsened by the design of some of the levels that make them frustratingly difficult to beat with just a single star (pass), let alone with all 3 stars which unlocks a bonus in the respective girls scene.
-The translation for english is abhorrent and makes reading it painful. For a product that is sold commercially, this is basically unacceptable, regardless of country of origin and asking price. Not only does it feel like it is machine translated, it also comes with typos in a whole sleuth of sentences that more often than not make no grammitical sense whatsoever.

Other niggles that sprung up:
-The game can straight-up freeze on transition from the last finished level for a girl to the scene transition. This happened multiple times throughout finishing this game.
-You can very leasily get deadlocked in this and have to wait for the game to re-calculate the level due to godawful design on some stages. Not just that, but the single solitary block that unclothes a girl while you are playing can get stuck on specific objects you are supposed to break, yet you can't move it out of the way of some obstacles straight-up (the chains) or only if you can combo a different group of 3 to move it, as the piece is supposed to hit the bottom of a row. In itself not that big of a deal, but with it guaranteed to spawn after your first match, it will quickly cost you one or more of your small amount of moves to get it unstuck and thus a potential reward for playing well (undressing the girls), becomes more of an obstacle. When this happens, your best bet might just to restart the level.
-The dialogue mechanic at the start of a level is absurdly pointless and feels tokenly thrown in. You get two dialogue choices, one gives you a small point bonus, the other one deducts turns for this level. If you mess up, just go back to the main menu and select the other one to get the bonus. Not only is it hard to pin down at times which response would be correct, but due to the godawful english this is more or less a guessing game than anything else. The problem here is that the punishment is harsh enough that the correct option is the only way to get 3 stars on a stage unless you get ungodly amounts of luck.
-Not only are the levels designed to the point where you have to "monkey->typewriter" some of them, the rewards for doing a 3-star clear for every level of a girl are absolutely not worth the bother. The only differences are a slightly different scene for the first girl (basically just another angle), a slightly altered animation for the last girl, and for all the others in between, it is the exact same scene with the only difference going from "partially nude" to "fully nude". This is an insultingly cheap reward when compared to the difficulty to obtain it in parts.

+ Artwork is great; bit weird to see Korean-looking girls speaking Japanese...but k
+ Animation is decent; needs a bit of polish but it's not bad

- Gameplay is bland and unengaging; it's supposed to leave you on your own, figure out what X means in 'missions', then finish the objectives through a match3...that's it
- Engrish; the devs are most likely non-native English speakers so I'll let this slide. This is still a minus on the current version (v1.1) since it really takes the value away from the characters' lines, sex dialogue, and it makes the choice-feature just a guessing game.
- Story has no transition or pacing or narration, etc.; ok so you're a film director...who takes cosplay photography on the side...but you're hitting on a yoga instructor during your class...let's go visit that yoga instructor's mom?
- Keeps crashing/getting stuck on blackscreen...but I'll give this a pass bc Unity amirite?

Overall, I'd say the gameplay and the 'story' are super meh. The visuals and scenes are definitely stunning but that's really only what the 'game' offers. You might as well use a gallery unlocker to view the animations or, better yet, look up the artist (KIDMO) for artwork compilations.

i really liked this, overall 8/10

visuals 9/10 - the art is fantastic. it can be a little rough around the edges (like literally, some of the edges are rough) but the renders of the forms are sooo good. the render/depth/dimension of the forms really make this stand out. the animation is not really true animation but it gets the job done and adds a lot the experience compared to if it was just a 2d still image.

story 7/10 - i think the dialogue seems like it's actually pretty good and there are pretty good grasps on distinct characters that are also attractive in different ways. the last character kinda has a weak personality or like the least effort was put into her story to make her attractive in that way but i liked the others a lot. i would've liked to have a seen a blonde/blue eyed (even a black girl in this style could be fantastic) character that had the same kind of treatment the first 4-5 asian characters had. BUT the translation is fucking awful. it's so bad, it's not even like minor mistakes that kinda break the mood. it's so bad that i have trouble understanding what's even intended. so that's why it's not like an 8-9 in story because the characters and personality seem like they're well written.

sounds good, nothing distracting, nothing particularly eroticism enhancing. scene audio is alright too. sounds kinda like a generic hentai porn to me.

gameplay - not too grindy but maybe gameplay barrier is a little higher than is ideal. i think it'd benefit to include random spawns of the super candies that you normally have to make. or make some of the levels a little easier like many people have said

overall, it's a good short game and has good content. i liked the poses a lot. would've liked to have seen some oral.

Jesus Christ the artwork in the game is so good and the game play is totally fine, not too easy for a puzzle player.

But lord help me the translation is terrible and there's a stupid mechanic that requires you to read, understand, and give a best suited answers for each character. The translation makes this mechanic impossible to adequately implement.

Should TOTALLY be a 5 star game, but it's not. What are you gonna do?