This is probably the worst game I've ever downloaded and played. That doesn't mean it's the worst game on this site, but it does mean I was uniquely bamboozled by the art and expectation of a brothel-setting dating sim.
It's best to just explain what you are getting into. There are 6 girls. You choose a girl and to unlock her scenes you need to complete 3 minigames. The minigames have the same format for each girl and you can freely swap between girls without losing progress. Progress is not shared between girls so you need to successfully complete each minigame 6 times to unlock everything. Progress is saved after completing each game so you don't need to repeat individual games for each girl.
Sound fine so far?
The first minigame has you playing a dice game against the girl. I say "game" but this is a lie. You roll 3 dice and the winner is the player with the higher sum. You must win a best of 5 series to advance. There is no strategy here. No element of gameplay or choice. You are clicking the dice roll button repeatedly hoping to rng into a victory. You've got about a 40% chance of winning and there's no penalty for failure, but it's just a nuisance. This is the first time you start to wonder, "why did they even include this in the game?"
The second minigame has you snooping through your waifu's room while she is out. This takes the form of spam clicking on the background CG until you mouse over the hidden objects. You have a time limit to find enough objects to proceed to the next state. Mercifully, this minigame is easy. Any insight into the girl's character provided by the text accompanying each found object is lost in translation.
Before discussing the final minigame, it's important to discuss the MTL featured in the game. I'm pretty MTL tolerant. I'll wade through some poetry under promise of a good time. This is not the worst MTL I've seen, but it's pretty rough. You get the general gist of what the characters are saying but I get the distinct impression that there's a significant amount of dialogue nuance that is just lost.
The translation issues come to a head with the final minigame. The NPC will recite a line of
literal Chinese poetry to you and ask you to respond with the next line. The original poetry has been run through the MTL poetry-ifier and we've entered poetry-ception. The lines are absolute fucking word salad nonsense straight out of a fever dream and if there's any rhyme or reason to choosing the correct option then it's far beyond me. I tried googling to see if there's any historic significance to the lines to indicate that native Chinese speakers would at least have a clue what was going on here, but found nothing.
Perhaps an example is in order. This is copied directly from the game. One npc will say:
- "The red roots are fragrant, the jade mushrooms are in autumn, and I am gently undressing my robe and boarding the orchid boat alone."
Your responses:
- "There is no way to remove this feeling. It's only when you're under the brow that your heart goes up."
- "Who sends a letter in the clouds? When the geese return, the moon fills the western tower."
- "The flowers are floating on their own, the water flowing on its own. A kind of love for each other, two places of leisurely sorrow."
Clearly the correct answer is #2. I mean, obviously. What are you, dumb? Time to brush up on your ancient Chinese literature.
Each NPC has 5 unique questions and you must
respond with guess the correct answer at least 3 times to advance. You can use guess and check while keeping notes on successes to brute force your way through this minigame but come on man have some self respect and please just avoid downloading this in the first place.
I was mad enough at this game that I redownloaded it after deleting just so I could copy the poetry verbatim and use it as a dire warning for future explorers. Please heed my warning and honor my sacrifice. The art isn't worth it and the cervix x-rays scenes scared me.