Between the subject matter and the renders, and elements in the underlying plot, this could have been a 5 star game.
Where it falls short, in my opinion, is the execution.
Mom/daughter seems a category that is under utilized, by itself. The daughter being the seducer/instigator works well too. So, what I hoped for, with this game, was:
Daughter reconnects with her mother, and both struggle with attraction rising to the surface, that eventually breaks through, and you get a sweet (and sexy) lesbian romance game.
And what we got... was so close to that that the ways it falls short seem to hurt the end product even more.
There is minimal drama when the characters are reunited. There is immediate sexual overtones to everything. There is no character or relationship building, merely a constant level of teasing that escalates. And even that feels awkward as characters seem to have inconsistent personalities, are inconsistent in how brazen or inhibited they are, or even in a single scene, inconsistent in whether they are jealous or not.
An example of the last point: at a spa while getting messages, Des is getting a massage while Liv watches. Liv starts jealous, but the starts to touch herself, and has dialog options to encourage things to go further, but if they do she gets upset and you get a bad end. And that'd just the "lewd content" part of the scene. Nothing else in that scene makes any real sense, either.
And lastly, the English translation (I'm assuming it is a translation) is remarkably awkward, which while not confusing, still makes the game hard to appreciate.
So, what would make the game better?
1) A small amount of drama. Liv goes to visit her mom who left her. We don't know why, but it seems Liv does, or has some idea at least. She never explains it to us, though, and seems totally OK with things between her and her mom.
I think this would have been handled better is Liv was happy to see her mother and mostly forgiven her, but still a little hurt, and unsure why her mom left. This allows for a slower paced character interaction where (without underlying animosity) they slowly get closer and open up more, with Des promising to explain everything in a few days (which allows for player tension as we wait to understand why Des ever left).
2) Seriously slow down the open sexual interest in one another. With Liv being obviously into girls, as the beginning with her friend shows, the initial meeting, and subsequent days as they reconnect and reestablish their bond, have Liv consider to herself how attractive her mother looks. How nice it felt to hug her.
Have Des, when they're talking and catching up, learn about Lib and be curious about her daughter's interest in other women. Have her consider to herself just how pretty her little girl grew up to be. Maybe even remove any idea that mom ever was with a woman before, and leave it that she was interested in women but never went for it, and have a slightly steamy conversation with Liv about what her daughter is attracted to in girls and have Liv tell her about what it was like to kiss a girl (all building some in-game sexual tension, curiosity, and even excuses to look at each other).
Sometimes you don't need a slow burn to be too slow, but that bit of buildup makes it more exciting, and more real. And sometimes, something that should feel like a slow burn, or at least earned, is given to you too fast, or too easy, and because of the lack of buildup, in either character development, story, or even just sexual desire between the two, the pacing feels so off that it crushes the soul of the product.
There is a strong potential for a 5 star game here. And lesbian games, and female protag games (worth playing) both seem to be at a minimum, so I REALLY wanted to enjoy this. But without re-writes and correction of pacing issues, instead of a sensual mother/daughter story of exploration and love... you get softcore fap material that falls flat on having enough character to draw you back into the game and the story, once you've rubbed one out.
Please, dev, refine this. Let it be the 5 star game it could be.