I came back to this game today for the first time in several updates (Maybe ep 6 or 7? A little bit after the "rework" hiatus). I really enjoyed it for the most part when it came out. The renders are pretty good, and the sex scenes can be pretty hot for the most part (though too many of them are always, always, ALWAYS interrupted in some way. Like just let a man finish for fucks sake!)
So going back to this, my first thought 15 minutes in was
"Man, the pacing of this game has gotten way worse."
After spamming my space bar (between sex scenes) for what seemed like hours, I had to stop at day 33 -I just wanted to finish the basketball game, but it rarely gives you a good stopping point. You are always in the middle of dialogue somehow. And that's when I decided to write a review for this finally.
MC has to talk to every girl in the room multiple times, repeating the same feelings, maybe a couple new ones, going back and forth and back again, everyone gets a kiss, then you can move on to the next room, repeat ad nauseam. There is no break, it just keeps going and going. Room to room... or hallway, or bathroom, or corridor, etc.
There is so much exposition and unneeded dialogue, so much pointless involvement, that not only does it bore me to tears and make my eyes roll out of my head, but I realized using renders as a measuring stick for progress is completely meaningless.
Look, I can suspend disbelief in a harem porn game where the MC has a magic dick everyone wants, but you're also going to throw him into every single person's petty squabbles, or have someone get involved in his, and then have him be the solution to everyone's problem, right then, right there? Especially when there are so many damn characters to keep track of? C'mon, man, get on with it already!
Look, I really enjoy the sweetness/lighthearted nature of the game, it's actually a selling point for me. I also really enjoy some of the kinks, I mean it's rare to find any good games with a cuckquean, let alone a cuckquean and a harem! But whoever is writing the dialogue/story really needs to be more concise, and let events breathe. You ARE allowed to show, and not tell. All I wanted to do was get to the damn basketball game, and it was a total slog getting through that whole day.
I know the Dev has gotten a lot of flak for updates and stuff, and for the most part, I don't really care about that as much as a lot of people here do. I still really like the game, but I was disappointed in how this turned into a click fest. Sometimes, less is more. Despite all that, I will check back with the game occasionally and probably still enjoy it, though I'll keep my hopes up that my space bar will not be doing a lot of work.