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.