VERSION: Ch2
SUMMARY: The game feels wrong, poorly put together and doesn't sell itself as worth investing time into.
RATINGS: (out of 5):
- Models: 4
- Animations: X
- General Visuals: 3
- Characters: 2
- Story: 2
- Writing: 3
- UI & Gameplay: 3
- Content (amount): 3
- Sound & Music: 0
- Fetish & kinks: 0
Average: X of 50 possible points giving a X% rating i.e. X stars.
PROS:
- The writing itself is not bad, wrt the sentences and how its strung together, grammar and such.
- Visually it looks good, renders are good and characters look good.
CONS:
- Off the bat I am not overly fond of how the story is narrated, the dialogue is bland, void of any emotion, almost like some robot is droning on.
- The setting, house and everything is clinical if you can call it that, stark of any person items, doesn't feel like a home, feels like a lab.
- The MC is way too young to have 3 kids in college, while you can't see his face due to the game design, he looks otherwise very young. This is a big red flag and the story/game looses me immediately due to unrealistic settings and plot points.
- Plot itself is flimsy and poorly thought through, the MCs dialogue with Monica during first meeting suggests a weird relationship in the past that makes no sense in the "normal" realistic sense of the word. e.g. suggestive of a 3 some kind of relationship, which the MC seems to think is perfectly normal, at least as how the dialogue describes it. Again pointing to poor story, plot and planning for this game. This is further compounded by the MCs mother being jealous of his relationships, further suggesting a twisted theme and dichotomy in his family. Which would be acceptable if you pushing the incest angle, but NOT as a matter of common conversation out in the open as if its normal, its NOT normal, at best a kink, which the dev fails to capitalize on and if anything ruins completely.
- More kinetic than VN and really no choices at all. Added to the flimsy story it just drives another nail into this games coffin for me.
FINAL THOUGHTS & SUGGESTIONS:
- The game starts off immediately wrong, trying to set the stage for the MC and his life, but it does this very poorly, the way its done, it sounds like the MC was recently "turned on" like a computer and he just starts regurgitating a poor script with no emotion.
- The story is poorly structured and planned, it immediately puts me off to want to skip all the dialogue and just watch the pictures for possible fap content. When the story looses you so quickly and easily, your game will not work at all in my opinion.
- The dialogue is actually off putting and completely "wrong" for lack of a better term, e.g., with Kira, asking her if she is of legal age. This is not a way to ask unless you some predator trying to make sure you can get away with statutory rape. Why not ask normally, "so how old are you now" not "Are you of legal age", "Yes", "Oh, thats nice!" WTF man?
My impression of this game is that it is half baked at best. The immediate stage set for the game on looks and writing are simply bad/poor and unrealistic. The dev wants you to come into their world but its a stark, uninteresting and unrealistic one that has no history or anything that is interesting to create the cohesion needed to keep a player vested.
The renders are good, but thats it, sadly I just lost interest in what I would now call a bullshit story" Pity, as based on the renders alone the dev could make a good game, but the writing and story are just bad.