VN - Ren'Py - WVM [S2 Ch. 1 Ep. 13 B5] [Braindrop]

I guess I have a somewhat controversial opinion about this game, but I'll try to explain my reasoning below.

First the pro points:
Render quality is pretty high. You won't find any grainy pictures in this one.
Whilst these aren't hugely important to me, the game does come with very well realized animations.
Text quality is very solid, no engrish or anything as far as a non-native-speaker like me can tell.
There's a lot of content, many girls, impressive playtime (caveats apply, see below).
Lots of content also means lots of adult content, some of which is quite spicy.

Now to the bad points:
Asset selection is a bit over the place. I've been dabbling around with DAZ myself, so I know how hard it is to find the content you want/need, so it's not something I would lower the score for, but it's still worth mentioning.
Many of the girls are flat out ugly to me (highly subjective, of course, so also not affecting the score). And there ARE some hotties.
Choices are mostly of the boring "I wanna see that girl's content" variety and otherwise lack consequence.
And now for the elephant in the room, which made me yawn and quit - something that shouldn't happen in an adult game, imo - the plot.
Or, maybe plot is the wrong term, I don't have a problem with the plot itself, as silly as it may be, but it's ... extremely verbose.
I wrote above that there are many girls, and that's definately the case, but here's an example of how there can be too much of a good thing.
All these girls have their own threads in the carpet that is the plot, and boy, the author is going to make sure you stay in the loop. Even "downvoting" a girl often won't stop her from appearing again and again.
It gets almost comical. You sit in a room. A girl appears. Minutes of talking. Another girl appears and joins the conversation. More minutes. Yet ANOTHER girl, the talking drags on and on. Cut to the next situation that plays out in the same fashion. Sometimes, between those dialogues, there's a kinky scene, followed by more dialogue.
It's just too much. There's a nice Bill Burr comedy where he describes listening to a woman, and that's exactly how I feel in this game.
Eventually, I started skipping the text, but even then, there's FAR too much of it. Even the skipping takes too long.
In my opinion, a good adult VN should use the text to setup conversations that make what's happening more exciting, and not story dump an endless avalanche of inconsequential information on you. My gold standard for this is EvaKiss' first game.
Obviously, quite a few people seem to enjoy the "slice of life" approach WVM takes, but for me, I'm out.

This game has quickly risen through my personal rankings for top VNs, definitely has a place in top 3 I've ever played, might even take the number one spot when all is said and done. The models and characters are amazing, love the story, especially once it really takes off in the later days. There's already a lot of content there (9 days as of the time I'm writing this) but I kinda just want it to go on forever and not end xD gonna be a sad but amazing day when the final version comes.

I have completed this game twice: going full cheat route with woman friend and going full "never want to have relationship with anyone except my GF" with trans friend. v0.9.5.1

I have really mixed feelings about the game and also about the reviews this game has. I don't quite understand lots of those reviews with same message "best game on F95" and "not a single game has same quality", but well... that's their opinion and here I will post my thoughts.

First of all I want to speak about the flaw of this game, it is absolutely not natural. First 3 days are absolutely boring, bad written and made me want to ragequit at that point, but I wanted to see where it all goes and I really wanted to share my opinion, though, it may be hard to write and may be not really useful to some folks, but I hope it will for those who care! After that it begins to openup a little and gets better a bit, you kinda get involved and have the urge to get to the end to see what happens next. While on your way to "the story" thing you will be disrupted by a lot of events and bad dialogues.

At first when you launch this game you feel like it is going to be that VN game where you have some kind of family story, driven by basketball topic and gaining fame, skill etc. while going through some events and stuff. So this is the first big NO here. This game has nothing to do with story and personal development of characters. If you ever wanted to play game where EVERY WOMAN wants to fuck with you every time you come nearby, to breed you children, to become your doll forever then this is a big YES for you.

Big story short: you begin as a star, super popular, super famous, best basketball player ever in the history of that world who has just finished school and goes into high school which had 0 wins in previous basketball season. You have girlfriend, girl/trans friend (you can choose before the game starts) and step mom. You are kind, brave, strong, healthy, friendly, good man, responsible and many many many others good things these girls tell about you and this is a BIG NO or you could say BIG LIE. You are nothing but a living sexmachine who doesn't have his own mind, can't say no (because if you say no, later on somehow it will still become a yes) and you don't own your destiny. You follow what other NPC's have for you, you can't change events, your answers really doesn't have impact on your life, only on how many sex content you will see. (going for cheat route is the best btw) Somehow you can manage 20 different things to do during a single evening, fucking every single girl who wanted to have sex or who you wanted to fuck at that day, be "nice" to everyone, solving "hard life stuff" and "helping". Be aware, this has no meaning. Before you go and play this make your mindset for a harem, where every woman is your fuckable object and you are a sex monster. See a girl for the first time? Fuck her. She is shy? Fuck her hand then. You have lots of things to do and can't manage your time? Fuck with that, fuck everyone around you, you will get exactly everywhere on time and not miss a single minute out there. Heh... really had to say that, that's one of my disappointment for this game, because I had high expectations and they were ruined right of the bat.

Next is visuals. They get better from day to day, last 3 days have really nice stuff to look at, first days are not that good. What I don't like throughout the game - you are obsessed with boobs and asses. Every time you can you try to look at one of "sweet" spot. Every single damn time. It is so tiring. Also, lots of same frames with girls' faces turned to you, they don't feel realistic at all, when you see same face expression almost every minute. Talking about nudity, penis feels unrealistic at all, no pre-cum, as big as elephant's thing, every scene you have is finished with 1 or 2 animations and almost everytime it is just put your dick inside, one-two-three, cum wherever you want, sex scene finished. No foreplay, no dialogue, no love while having sex, nothing, it is just plain put in, fuck, cum, put out, get dressed. Really disappointed with this, because after playing some others less popular titles with much better sex scenes and character development and storyline... I never had a thought such a game can become a hit, because it lacks all of that in comparison.

Girls. There are a lot of girls in your life, they pop out everywhere, they are hungry for your cock and you choose whether to give it to them or not. If you want to have pleasant gameplay and get more good emotions go for having every single of them. (cheat route) I really hate original GF, both in how she looks and her personality too. I wish Shauna was GF and the GF (I have already forgotten her name, damn xD) was that friend. Shaunda is more beautiful, has better personality and better story so far and I kinda like her. Don't like Jamie at all, she makes you to fuck Shauna later despite of which dialogue options you choose, you can't change that, it is written so that you will have threesome any way you play this. Jamie is a psycho - wants you to fuck and breed with everyone around, because if you make happy others, then she is happy too. Ye ye. Such a silly stuff is everywhere here. I really loved the renders for Shauna, Natalie, Zoe, Cedey, Rainn, Mabel and Belle. There were 3 or 4 women I absolutely hate both for looks and for how they interact with us, but I haven't remembered their names, so, just saying, girls are good and beautiful here, though still dummies for reasons I have described at the start of review.

At first I wanted to rate this game as 4 (actually 3.5 would fit better) but after replaying it with extra loyal path and Shauna being trans I had to remove one star. You get absolutely same content with less sex scenes (because you refuse to fuck everyone or even date) and you get all the same scenes with Jamie and Shauna (now Shaunda has small dick instead of pussy in every sex scene). Your choices doesn't change story, they don't even make some events to not happen on have a different result. This hurt a lot.

So, tl;dr what we've got here:
- bad personality of characters
- bad dialogues
- lots of simple sex scenes
- no impact on story when going different choices
+ good girls renders
- you start game already beinga star
- very little basketball content
- girls are just a fuckable objects, not meant to have some story and impact on your character personality
- MC is just a fucking sumerman machine, without emotions, feelings and flaws, which wants to make everything with his own hands, kinda of a hero for everyone, but still nobody is hero for him

So, as you see, I got lost of minuses and only one plus. Yes, visual stuff is the only one that you can expect to be not bad here...

What I want to be changed/added/remade bu dev are such things:
- make MC alive, he deserves to be more alive and feeling both in dialogues and in sex scenes too
- there is a scene where Shauna pulls her "dirty" hand toward your face and says "you can lick it" and I wanted to do it at that moment, but you don't have an option, just joke her around and no action can be done to change it, you have to had an option to do such small things with girls
- make girls do something in their life, not just going everywhere with MC and asking for sex, it felt that they don't have life, only MCs dick in their head and life
- add scenes with cuddling and spending time with girls without sex scenes and nudity all the time, give them some life, not just nudity and baby baby baby stuff

Probably I just felt betrayed with how this game seems to look and how it is really inside. Still I recommend to try it out for everyone who loves VNs, just be careful not to misjudge the game by its cover, inside is not that bright as it may seem.

[reviewed as of Day 9, v0.9.5.1]

TLDR; This is my favorite game on this site. 5/5, play this game if you haven't already.


To get more into the details, I'll go over my positives first before ending off with the negatives.

Pros:

• Renders: The renders in this game are gorgeous. The girls are all hot, none of the bodies look absurd except for Rachel but that's just my opinion, I'm sure she's someone's favorite because she's still pretty hot. The renders are all varied and cover lots of body types and looks, I will touch on a specific aspect of that some more with my final Pro down below.
  
  Importantly, the game also doesn't skimp on the MC render either. They avoid what I will call "Hideous Main Character Syndrome", or HMCS, that so many games suffer from (looking at you Midlife Crisis). They do this, not just by not even giving the MC a face, but they also make him tall, muscular, and give him a giant dong. Nothing turns me off like playing a character with HMCS.
  
  
• Character Writing: The character writing and dialogue is not perfect in this game. I will bring it up again in the cons section but for now, I want to mention some things I appreciated. First off, I like that it's actually somewhat believable how the MC attracts so many women. Is it taken to a level of absurdity? Yes, it's a porn game. But the fact that the MC is kind, caring, confident, smart, attractive etc... makes it believable that people would fall for him.
  
  So many games have MCs who are fucking braindead morons with HMCS spouting nothing but memes, and women drop their panties at the first sight of them. I also appreciate that there are some decently written male characters in this game, though they admittedly fall by the wayside as more LIs are introduced.
  
  Finally, I really love that the LIs are all aware of the Harem. No forced and trite drama between LIs trying to be the MC's favorite or arguments caused by someone in the Harem not knowing about the other girls. Clear communication and boundaries are the keys to poly relationships in real life, and this game knows that (although it's dialed up to 11 because porn game).
  
  
• Setting/Plot: A lot of games are set in high schools or college, but a lot of them just kind of follow the same boring structure of the MC just trying to make his way through classes and somehow attracting a Harem. The added twist of the MC in WVM being a star celebrity athlete on a full-ride scholarship is really interesting, and I found some of the aspects that dealt with that side of the plot to be some of the most interesting. I hope future updates will finally get into it a bit more.
  
  
• Content: This game has a boat-load of content. There are hours and hours of game to get through and many faps to be had along the way. Even if you skip all the story and dialogue (I don't recommend it), you'll still get value out of this game because of the volume and quality of h-scenes. And unlike Honey Select games, it's not just the same 3 sex positions and camera angles for each scene.
  
  
• TRANS CONTENT: Finally, I want to gush about the Trans content in this game. I'm so fuckin' sick of games on this site that have the futa/trans or trap tags and little more than zero content for it. It's so frustrating when you download a game with that tag and, in 6+ hours of content, there are only one or two renders (not even a full scene!) of futa/trans content -- sometimes even in completed games.
  
  This game, assuming you opt into the trans content, has not 1, not 2, but 3 trans characters! One of them being one of the main girls in the game with some of the most content out of everyone. This is such a fucking treat and it's a big reason why this game is one of my favorites. Shauna and Penny are best girls.

Cons:

• Writing: Okay it's not all pretty. I said I would get into this a bit in the Cons section so here we are. While most of the time, characters behave believably, there are some moments where this game's writing made me cringe. Particularly at the beginning of the game, when Shauna, Jaime, and Azel just stand around the MC and talk about how amazing he is. They just shower him with praise for things the player had nothing to do with and it's just cringy. You can write characters who love eachother without just telling the players directly how much and why they love you at the very beginning of the game. This happens a few times over the course of the story where characters will just sit around and praise the MC for even minor things like just not being a total dickhead. It's a little much.
  
  I also wish the MC had at least 1 more character flaw, even just a minor one. He seems a little too perfect aside from his occasional mistake like:
  
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• Misc little stuff:
  • The release schedule for this game is pretty slow. Before this version [v0.9.5.1], I last played this game like more than a year ago and barely anything has been added. I ended just before the pool party started, and now over a year later, the pool party is basically just ending. That's way too slow and this game will lose a lot of support if it keeps up that bad release schedule
  • It's a little weird how this game has no incest but constantly has the MC kissing his relatives. Like I'm fine with no incest in a game, this game has so much content and so many LIs that it's not needed. But if you're not going to have incest, maybe don't have your MC make out with their mom?
  • I mentioned this before, but it kinda sucks how many of the male characters get tossed aside. I really liked Ayden and I liked Damien at first as well. Dubaku seems nice but he's quiet, and I basically forget that Lee or Mackey exist until they are on-screen. This game has some decent male characters but they have no screen time except for the ones you're supposed to hate.

All-in-all, the positives far outweigh the negatives for this game, and even if it literally never gets anymore updates and the dev abandons it, I would still consider this a top 5 adult game. It's that good. Play it.

Other than the Godzilla dick and a few personal opinions on the models, the game is very good.

The story is strong and has good flow. The backstory has good depth as does the backstory for the girls.

Honestly the only reason it took me so long to try this game out was the main girlfriend model. The lips just are weird.

My main complaint is the aforementioned Godzilla dick. I understand wanting to not put a grub worm on the main protagonist, but damn make it somewhat realistic. It is actually a major turn off for me and if it was not for the story and other girls, I would probably have dropped this game already.

Pros:
*MC can be played in a way that actually shows concern for his romantic partners.
*Game has a well conceived and executed view of consent.
*LI are cute and somewhat diverse.
*Romance is taken seriously in the game and it gives you those positive feels.
*Taking a hard stance on not including sexual content for Incest content but still allowing for some sexual vibe b/t those characters creates a fun tension.

Cons:
*Not a lot of actual game elements
*Plot lacks enough hooks to be interesting on its own.
*Loyalty route has less content than cheating
*Lack of consequence.
*Games pacing is very sporadic / nonsensical

Suggestions:
*Enhance game elements like stats points or currency.
*Provide a larger benefit for the loyalty path play-through; (I.e. one super cute and innocent gal who will only join you on that path.)
*Add some benefits and consequences to both routes

Very good game, with an excellent story. Characters with a good background and good development so far. The game introduces a mix of romance and sex, along with drama that doesn't make VN too repetitive.

This game is a general microcosm of the world we live in. Everyone gets a participation trophy, everyone is special, success is guaranteed and there are no consequences to your actions. VNs all have a degree of escapism and separation from reality but this takes it to another level. Every woman is docile, willing to sacrifice her very personality at the altar of sex. The MC has no flaws, overcomes all issues and is a general plank of wood.

I know the response to this is that it is one of the most popular VNs out there so I have to be an idiot to not like it. I actually see all the popularity in this game as a symptom to the bigger problem of a world where no expectations and instant gratification is all that matters.

I will say the initial story had somewhat of a decent hook but now it is just plain garbage. Renders are cute and unique so it was worthy of 2 stars but man people, develop some standards and stop throwing money at garbage you only incentivize more garbage.

This game is just fantastic. I had no idea what I was getting into when I started it up the first time, but it became one of those games that was impossible to put down , like a good book. I don't know at what point I stopped even caring about the amount of sex in the game (and there is a lot) and became engrossed with the story.

Anyone giving this game a bad review is doing so based on very specific complaints because the overall package is one of the best ive played on this site.

It's not going to win any awards for "most realistic" scenario, but the amount of heart in this game makes it stand out from the pack.

That seems like an odd thing to say about a porn game but at some point I stopped viewing it as a porn game and just got wrapped up in all the characters and how heartwarming and uplifting the way they interact with each other was.

Found myself genuinely caring about each of the girls and the MC is just an all around great guy which was refreshing. yes there are a lot of women throwing themselves at him, yes its unrealistic, but the MC is likeable enough that you can suspend your disbelief. Just the three in the promo graphic at the top of the page are enough to make this game special.

And Jaime, at first was rolling my eyes a bit "oh here we go, stuck up prude girlfriend" and then bam out of nowhere she is winning "Best Girlfriend Ever" contests all over the place. Just absolutely the best girlfriend character in any game ive played on this site.

Shauna is also just adorable as fuck, could totally understand why she is the MCs best friend (and more), shes the kind of girl anyone would be lucky to have in their life and that most people would hunt down and kill anyone who hurt her.

and Azel (hated the name so changed it) is just the most caring, selfless, loyal, kindhearted and warm character that its impossible not to feel what the MC feels for her. if everyone had a mom like her the world would be a better place.

The game just makes you feel good after playing it, the characters are lovable and the story is upbeat and happy even when dealing with some heavy subjects. Yes there is a lot of suspension of disbelief required over certain topics. like im pretty sure the game is set on Mars given how long the days appear to be based on how much you fit into each day. but after about 15 minutes into the game you stop caring.

This game was nothing that I was expecting when I downloaded it and has become one of my favorites to date. with so many characters you would think it would be confusing to follow them all or easy to find a favorite, but each one of the girls is easy to find loveable and memorable in their own way even the more side character ones who have had some time to develop are lovely.

Just such a refreshing upbeat heartwarming change from all the darker and grittier stories a lot of the better games on this site go with. Not something I generally expect in an adult VN

The Most Overrated Adult VN on Patreon(and here) PERIOD

Given how insane amount of money the Dev makes and how much people love this game almost unanimously; I had to write this review knowing that people won't like my views at all. Well everyone has their free will.

The game started off as a bit rough at release, specially the renders and facial expressions. But I understand that this is Dev's first project so I overlooked those. Since then the renders have become a lot better in recent releases. Dev has learned a lot and the twin Titan RTXs help. Now the renders really shine and that's why my rating is not one star but two.

Now onto why the other 3 stars are missing unlike almost every other review.

1. Every single girl/woman in every single render has one expression. Puppy eyed brainwashed face looking for the master to throw a bone. It creeps the hell out of me. I wish it had magical mind control in story to justify that but no; it's just MC's personality and his dick. The Earth revolves around the latter.

2. Zero consequences. Seriously, this is not a game of choices. The only decision making this game offers is whether or not you want to sleep with a girl. THAT'S IT. And speaking of consequences, SPOILER ALERT; MC's starting GF and later childhood friend turned GF, both become Pimps. There's no other way to put it when they literally ask you which girls you wanna bang and they are super excited for that to happen. Only the money transactions are missing. Oh wait! MC impregnates women for money. Ah Doi!

3. So you got every single girl and everyone is happy with you banging literally(Wait, not literally cause read later points) everyone else. YAY! Awesome. My counter is that every Honey select based Japanese style Harem game does it hundred times better with a mild sense of believability sprinkled in. Here, please turn off your brain and imagine you live in a different galaxy where all women live only to please you. You are the Alpha and the Omega. The only girl I liked was the purple haired girl that was bitch to MC at start but then she became MC's sister and her character was murdered and turned into a mindless drone like every other girl in the game. People talking about different girls having different personalities is the biggest load of crap I've ever read in my life. Also a harem which now seems with 20+ girls??? MC having sex with 5-6 different girls in one evening, even though he was physically injured and recovering? YUP YUP YUP! Absolutely believable.

4. STOP overly sexualising the two mothers and long lost sister if you are adamant on following Patreon rules. Those kisses are not innocent. They are getting creepier each time they do it. And what's with focusing on their boobs and butts all the time if you are not doing incest at all. Reminds me of Will Ferrell making out with his Dad in Daddy's Home 2. I guess the game needs a Comedy Tag.

5. Finally the story. Well nuts to that. I started skipping when I realized nothing matters. When the game started I had so many theories running in my mind. "Is MC gonna cheat with his best friend?" "What will be the consequences?" "Will his first GF leave?" "Is this going to be cheating vs being good guy kind of game?" dot dot dot As I said, nothing matters. Add a Princess who lives in a basement and whom you'll bang in future cause that's exciting, right? Also what's up with all women sleeping with mc on one bed clothed? The mother of a kid you once played basketball with is there too? Is it just the craving for warm flesh grinding on top of MC? I had wet dreams like those when I was five. Here again, it's just creepy. And that's the one word I can describe this whole game with, "CREEPY". Not a single older woman has a husband(or they don't care) and all younger women unlocked their chastity belt just for MC. So cool.

Conclusion: This is the VN equivalent of "TWILIGHT" or "Fifty Shades of Grey". Sex sells and people pay for it more when it's overdone. The game is popular in the same way "Billionaire Handsome Vampire/Warewolf" based romantic books make the highest amount of money cause women love those. Same principle is applied here. I guess this is what men(and also some women) like. Sigh!

This game started very nicely, ive been playing since the first release and it was one of the few ones i waited anxiously for the next update; but lately quality dropped a lot and more than that, it became really boring. Some scenes from the recent updates are laughable; plus every girl throw themselves at the mc like he is the only male on planet, everyone loves him and cant live without him after a couple days.
Recent updates made this game below average and forgettable.

Brilliant VN game.
Just Amazing! This is now my 2nd favorite just behind Being A Dik but has way more sex scenes.
So many girls, what's not to love? Thankfully the MC has unlimited energy so no one gets left out.
Great story and great girls!
Anyone who doesn't rate this 5 stars seriously needs to re-evaluate why they play these games. I'm sick of people complaining about lack of realism, if I wanted boring real life and an average penis I'd just look at myself in the mirror. This is highly enjoyable escapism at it's very best.
I salute the dev BD, you are a genius!
Can't wait for the next update.

- Diversity of models (for all tastes ) i really appreciate this
- Great characters (Each one with his own style and personality)
- Good story
- Overall Excellent game for me

Excited for future updates.
(Hoping for some action with Azel, Harper or Wendy )

Best harem game right now, hand down.

Realistic? Nah, but provides great variety and decent story/sex balance.
Good options to choose, would be great if there was more kinks or if you could go down slightly a darker path at least with some girls (mc be far to mr.nice guy imo) but yeah all around should be higher rated. Enjoy

I dont really mind games where the protagonist can have more than one interest, but if the number of girls is so numerous that its impossible to remember all of their names its probably too much. There are a lot of very different girls and basically everyone will find some that fancy their interest, but you wont get close with any of the side characters.

I started playing this game since version 9.4 and have generally liked it. HOWEVER, the further you go in the game, the more stagnant the game becomes and the more turned off by the game I become.

As for the renders, they are good. I have no issue with this. Actually, the only issue I did have was fixed by the developer by recreating the look of the character. The story....oh the story. It seems like it has taken a huge left turn from what the game was once centered on (which was college basketball). This backdrop seems to not even exist anymore. The massive amounts of girls in this game also leaves me baffled. I have just become numb trying to remember everyone and their story. I am fine with harems...BUT...there is no option to reject the girls. The MC is stuck with them. If the MC could gain the choice of rejecting girls, then my rating would go up.

This game has LOTS of potential. This is why I gave it an average review. It isn't horrible. Its simply irritating.

Pros

Unabashed sexual fantasy, slower pacing allowing as much 'action' as possible, unbridled seduction allows for some novel and interesting story developments and relationships, renders are very good, models very attractive and have attractive facial features and are unique looking, the hair of models is very nice, Thoughtful 'progression' system with courting the sexual partners,

Cons

Environments feels lifeless making the MC's college Harem feel like it exists in a vaccum, 'Harpers' skin is too dark, it has a certain wow factor because of the never-ending Harem but it eventually becomes stale because there is literally nothing you can do to not end up fucking all the women, the story is also pretty lack-lustre and that feeds into the lifeless environments.... obviously most VN's have a pretty bare-bones story as it just provides a backdrop to the funky-times but there's bare bones and then there is this. There is nothing that suggests this isn't 100% babe fantasy which doesn't offer much dynamism to the experience.

If this site had a list of "Greatest Hits" like PS2 games did this one deserves to be on it.

The women are all 10/10, storyline 8.5/10 and no grinding or hoping and waiting for something new to happen. Only issue is the women I think are the sexiest are taking the longest to fuck lol

I very rarely write reviews, but as I've probably spent more time playing this game than any other game on here, I figured I'd give it a shot. I've followed this VN pretty much from the start, and was a long-time patron. Braindrop is clearly a hard-working dev, and is as interactive with his supporters as any I've seen. Had I left a review of this game 12 months ago, it might have been a 5 star rating, but as each new update has come out, the appeal of the game for me has slowly but steadily dropped.

First, I'll offer what I find to be the game's major PROs:
* The main premise of the story. I found the main story - the MC being a massively hyped athlete attending a small school where he is put on a pedestal - interesting and engaging from the start. In most of the games I've played with a school setting, the MC is an anonymous nobody, if not viewed by his peers as a wimpy loser. Having the MC as an admired and respected character is a nice change of pace from those other games.
* The MC is likeable. Yes, some people may find him to be too much of a God-like character, where everybody immediately loves him and wants to have sex with him, but I prefer it to how so many other games give us an MC that is a creepy pervert who tries to manipulate the women around him into his sexual desires. This MC is neither a pushover nor an asshole, and has genuine concern for the feelings of those around him, including the few characters he's not actively having sex with.
* The renders and animations, for the most part, are very good. There are a massive amount of female characters, and most of them are very attractive.
* The writing is clear and understandable. While I'll address some of my specific issues with Braindrop's writing below, I appreciate that the massive amounts of text and dialog are grammatically correct and in perfect English, with only a handful of typos sprinkled in. It's clear that the dev has consistently taken the time to proofread everything before publishing, something not enough devs do.
* The balance of plot and sex scenes. I think for most games, one of the hardest things to do is find the right balance of sex and story. I think Braindrop has done this better than most, as this game has a ton of very high quality sex scenes, and rather than simply throw them in with no lead-up, for the most part there is plenty of dialog and story in between.

There are a couple things which somehow are both PROs and CONs:
* The number of characters. The dev is incredibly ambitious with the sheer number of characters in this game. As it's the epitome of a harem game, having a lot of different women/sexual partners is generally a big plus. However, and let me preface this with saying that I know plenty of people disagree, for me there are simply too many characters. It's difficult to keep track of who each of the girls are, and what their backstories are. With each update, I find myself having to replay large portions of the game again simply to try to remember who is who. Possibly adding a tab or button in the game that displays a roster of characters and brief synopses of their backstory/relationship with MC would remedy this particular issue.
* The numerous sub-plots. I like that there is significant depth to the story, that there is not merely one single plot line, and that multiple characters are having to deal with particular challenges or conflicts. However, much like the previous bullet point, due to the sheer number of characters, it becomes difficult to track each storyline, as there are often hours of gameplay between a plot point being mentioned. For example, I honestly am having a hard time remembering when the last time anything related to actually playing basketball, which is presumably the main theme, has occurred.

The CONs:
* Many of the story lines are either absurd or stupid, or both. For me, the MC's back-story, aside from testing our ability to suspend belief, is both convoluted and simply not interesting. I don't expect a porn game, especially a harem one, to be particularly realistic. If I did, as someone else cleverly pointed out, the title should be changed to "NCAA Violations: the Game."
However, the fact that a number of people from MC's past, who he had barely any memories of, somehow came back into his life independently and through sheer luck within a couple of days, and immediately are constantly telling each other how much they love one another, is hard to get past.
The one story line that I have the biggest issue with is MC's decision to try to have a baby with Jamie. To be fair, I am not somebody who has a pregnancy/breeding fetish (whether that's because I have a child, and am well aware of all of the non-sexy aspects of pregnancy, I can't say for certain), though I generally have no issues with pregnancy in these kinds of games. That said, the sub-plot where the MC is being paid by Rachael to knock up her clients works well for this game IMO. Similarly, if one of the older characters, like Rachael or Veronica, etc., wanted MC to impregnate them, I think that would work fine for the plot. However, I just can't get over how ridiculous it is that two teenagers with no jobs who are in their first week of college think it's a great idea to try to have a baby right away, and that nobody seems to think there is anything wrong with this plan. Even with all of this, if the pregnancy route was optional, I'd be able to overlook the absurdity of it. I am fine with this VN being linear and having few meaningful options, but I wish this was a storyline that could be avoided.
FWIW, I also think the Talisma plot-line is pretty stupid and annoying, but that may just be me.
* The often mind-numbing repetitiveness. At least with the last few updates, the advancing of the game has been a series of virtually identical conversations and events. The MC is with a group of girls, asks one of the girls if they can talk in private (or vice versa), gets halfway through their conversation, and then gets interrupted by another girl who wants to talk (and who usually has been already told that the MC wants to have a conversation with the previous girl and will talk to her later).
Similarly, in the last update, the MC's insistence on trying to get each of the girls to declare that they are officially his girlfriend seemed both repetitive and childish.
* Trying to distinguish between characters. As I mentioned above, the sheer number of girls can be difficult to keep track of. What makes it exponentially harder is that for some reason, the dev has decided to have all the girls wear identical outfits. I don't know whether Braindrop simply didn't want to have to spend the time rendering different clothing for each girl, or wants there to effectively be a uniform for all the members of the harem, but it makes things slightly confusing.
* The incredibly cringy dialog. Honestly, all the "BruBru" and "Cedey" dialog is so painful to get through it has made me want to delete the game. Similarly, if I go through the rest of my life without having to read "Mwah," it'll be too soon. Additionally, the fact that MC's primary girlfriends have to constantly come up to him, give him a kiss and tell him that they love him and he's the best boyfriend ever, has gotten beyond tedious.
* Certain characters' appearances. While I acknowledge that it has to be difficult to create so many different characters and try to make them look different enough that they are distinguishable, and I think by and large Braindrop has made the girls look good, a few of them look weird to me. I know this may not be a popular opinion, but Jamie in particular, with her cartoonishly large eyes and bizarrely shaped lips, is off-putting.

Ultimately, for me this game is much like a TV show (like GOT, for example) that started off really strong and got you hooked, then stagnated or petered out in quality in later seasons. But, since you've already invested so much time into watching, you find yourself compelled to stick with it until the finale, just to see how things get wrapped up. I still find the game interesting and worth playing, and will likely continue to play as updates come out in the future, but I am not nearly as high on this game as I was in the earlier chapters.

I have followed the game since the beginning and due to the dissappointment I have experienced recently I decided to write a review.
First, it is important to say that the game started really good and looked promising! The game has great renders, had an interesting story and some interesting characters as well as decissions that appeared to affect the story.
However, there has been a huge downfall in the quality of the story starting by the main issue, there are too many girls cbeing constantly introduced to the point in which is impossible to remember all of their names. On top of that none of the recent additions really bring anything of value to the story. What this causes is a visual novel with a weird pacing in which no girl really shines or has a deep development outside of the "main" 2 girls.
After a while playing it also became clear that choices not had a real impact on the story outside of whether you wanted to bang a girl or not which is another upsetting characteritic of the game.
Finally, the story has totally lost its focus due to immense amount of girls that it has, its been more than a year and the mc has yet to play his first friendly basketball with the team (which is the focus on the story at the beginning)
If you dislike games in which the character is some kind of magic enthity which makes all the girls around him attracted to his giant dick without getting to know him better than that, please save your time and dont play this game.