My usual disclaimers when writing reviews on here are that A. I am here for the "plot" not the plot and B. I generally dislike visual novels. So take both of those into consideration for my review when thinking about this game.
Despite generally high ratings I think a lot of recent reviews have said most of what I'd want to say about WVM, but I'll quickly summarise them here in a pros/cons list before adding my own thoughts:
Pros
I think the single biggest issue with WVM is that Braindrop seems to not really know what he's making...
What WVM obviously is, is a carefree harem romp in which you (the perfect guy) gets to go to college, collect a harem of gorgeous babes, knock them all up and fuck them wherever you want. There's a bit of drama here and there, but not much more than spice on top of your perfect world... Even here it's not a top-tier harem game because the girls are basically dolls with no purpose outside of pleasing you, but it's harmless and good fun and smutty and sexy. 3.5/5 stars.
What he seems to THINK he's making is a genuinely realistic philosophical treatise on how to be an amazing human and have a polyamorous relationship. This is probably why every girl has to have a 20 minute segment explaining why it's perfectly reasonable, rational and realistic that she is happy to be just one girl in your harem and also won't see anyone else and also WANTS you to fuck other women. These women also have to spend a separate 20 minutes explaining why you're just so amazing and wonderful and how there's nobody else like you (to the point of being ridiculous and jarring). It's simply not realistic. Stop trying to pretend it is.
This happens so regularly that by day 3 I was done with the dialogue and started skipping my way through it. I knew I wasn't missing anything other than more unnecessary compliments (and, worse, the sex scenes actually started becoming less frequent).
Plus, as I've mentioned, one of the big reasons that the game could NEVER function as a realistic relationship sim is because literally all of the girls have no purpose other than existing your pleasure. They have no interests or desires except to remind you that you're a perfect specimen and father of their babies.
It's honestly a damn shame because the first hour was genuinely quite good fun, but then it just went off the rails and started taking itself way too seriously.
Despite generally high ratings I think a lot of recent reviews have said most of what I'd want to say about WVM, but I'll quickly summarise them here in a pros/cons list before adding my own thoughts:
Pros
- Great visuals - animations are smooth and renders are (broadly) pretty top tier.
- Sex scene quality - they're regular (again, broadly) and fun and the highlight of the whole thing.
- Gary Stu protagonist - the MC is an absolutely perfect specimen. He's got the best cock in the world, he's smart, refined, humble, has an unlimited source of money and charisma and is a philosophical genius who can make women fall in love with him as fast as fall onto his dick. Some people have listed this as a negative and some a positive. For me its a heavy positive (in theory) because, as stated, I'm here for the fucking, so if I can self-insert on someone basically perfect then that's just gravy. But I totally get that others are really turned off by this.
- Gary Stu protagonist - look, I know what I just said, but fucking hell it's SO over the top in this that even I was a bit thrown out of the experience.
- Cringey and unbelievable dialogue - I think probably the biggest detractor of the game as a whole.
- Plot is equally ridiculous and nonsensical
- VERY limited interaction and choice (worst sort of VN) which basically boils down to "do you want to see a sex scene for this girl?"
I think the single biggest issue with WVM is that Braindrop seems to not really know what he's making...
What WVM obviously is, is a carefree harem romp in which you (the perfect guy) gets to go to college, collect a harem of gorgeous babes, knock them all up and fuck them wherever you want. There's a bit of drama here and there, but not much more than spice on top of your perfect world... Even here it's not a top-tier harem game because the girls are basically dolls with no purpose outside of pleasing you, but it's harmless and good fun and smutty and sexy. 3.5/5 stars.
What he seems to THINK he's making is a genuinely realistic philosophical treatise on how to be an amazing human and have a polyamorous relationship. This is probably why every girl has to have a 20 minute segment explaining why it's perfectly reasonable, rational and realistic that she is happy to be just one girl in your harem and also won't see anyone else and also WANTS you to fuck other women. These women also have to spend a separate 20 minutes explaining why you're just so amazing and wonderful and how there's nobody else like you (to the point of being ridiculous and jarring). It's simply not realistic. Stop trying to pretend it is.
This happens so regularly that by day 3 I was done with the dialogue and started skipping my way through it. I knew I wasn't missing anything other than more unnecessary compliments (and, worse, the sex scenes actually started becoming less frequent).
Plus, as I've mentioned, one of the big reasons that the game could NEVER function as a realistic relationship sim is because literally all of the girls have no purpose other than existing your pleasure. They have no interests or desires except to remind you that you're a perfect specimen and father of their babies.
It's honestly a damn shame because the first hour was genuinely quite good fun, but then it just went off the rails and started taking itself way too seriously.