I dunno man, reviewing this game has me torn. On the one hand some aspects of the game are some of the best in the genre. But on the other hand those aspects build up such a huge amount of expectation right from the start of the game that the disappointment the game leave you with once finished was devastating. That for me is the worst feeling a game can give you, when such amazing potential is squandered.
Before I get into a bit more detail about the game, just to explain where I'm coming from I'd like to briefly talk about a non porn game that made me feel this way. My score and how the game made me feel overall are centered around this idea of wasted potential, and I feel I should give another example. (Ive put it in a spoiler given it isn't entirely relevant to this game)
Now this game hit me in a similar way. It wasn't that I was really hyped to play it, I had waited until it was finished before even trying it. It was that the game sucked me into its world and got me invested. I was enjoying the game not just for the amazing models and renders, but because I was engaged with the story as well. The story and the situations and the relationships were the key to this game. The renders were a great bonus and the scenes were decently posed, but it was why those scenes were happening and how they affected the world that elevated this game.
The beginning of the game had motivation, it had focus, it had characters, and it had momentum. But as the game went on all of those faded. The characters largely lost their identity, became less the unique people that they were and morphed more into the standard incest game stereotypes. They even morphed together somewhat, everyone became hungry for sex without the buildup and explanation that was there in the early chapters. By the end most of the characters were all just nymphos, with one or two major and unforgiveable exceptions. Those exceptions are cheap, one of them punishes the player for playing the game in all but a single way, and the other just punishes the player for playing the game at all.
Before entering into spoiler territory let’s talk about the art. It’s good. The rendering is in the top 5-10% of 3dcg games on the site. The character models are pretty varied and universally sexy. The posing is generally pretty decent, with some minor exceptions here and there. The animations are definitely the low point of the art. Theyre generally just two frames, and theyre often a bit wonky or stilted. In particular the orgasms. The penis jerks back and forth in two frames, often moving faster and with more weight outward rather than inward. Also the game talks about the immensity of cum released every bloody scene, but the cum itself is absent in probably ¾ of the related renders. That was a real immersion breaker in otherwise stellar scenes.
The spelling and grammar are quite good. There are reasonably frequent errors, but they are usually minor, and you are never left not understanding what is meant. The writing is good particularly at the start of the game, but as I mentioned earlier after your first vaginal sex act with each character it pretty quickly devolves into the same thing over and over again. “Gee I’ll never get over how big your cock is” “Yes MC, fill me up with your hot seed” “Her *insert orifice here* is amazing and is sucking me in” “I don’t think I’ll last long” “Wait, let’s cum together”. Just change the words slightly and you have pretty much every sex scene in the latter half of the game.
Now here’s my biggest gripe with the game. It loses all direction. You start off trying to build power by learning about the spell, reading the book, and then using the spell. Then you just sort of stop using the spell. There’s the apparition character whose motives are teased the whole game that has all this power to help you that is used arbitrarily for ease of writing. His goals and plot don’t get any conclusion at all. Most of the plot twists are visible a mile away, but even then the author fucking shows you whats happening outside of the MCs perspective to remove all doubt and mystery anyway. That happens in at least three major points in the second half of the game and there is no reason for it.
There are alternate outfits for scenes early on that actually effect what scenes you get and some character interactions. About a third of the way into the game they just become alt costumes that often don’t fit the character that change nothing but visuals. It’s just annoying and obtrusive.
The ending is beyond rushed, and has multiple cheap stunts to make it seem more emotive or deep when it really, really isn’t. People just show up deus ex machina style like 5 times in the space of five minutes. Then the game just ends.
But here’s the fucking kicks in the teeth. If you weren’t perfectly nice to one character AND made the arbitrary and untelegraphed decision to enter their dream, then
THEN if that weren’t enough, your innocent sister is (obviously for the last quarter of the game)
It literally makes all of the content with her and relationship with her bullshit. It was all fake and any emotion you had for her is spat back in your face by the dev for some cheap intrigue. If the game was made for a little longer it could have been developed meaningfully. It wasn’t.
Then we have the plot holes, or chasms.
. It’s just all intrigue for the sake of it. It’s like lost, or any other JJ Abrams diarrhoea spurt. You write the plot to be interesting in the moment. You write it to sell now. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have any idea how to end it, or what any of it means, it’s interesting now so do it. It’s amoral. It’s incredibly dishonest.
So I don’t know whether to recommend the game. The Cgs are definitely worth it, but getting invested in the story is a recipe for immense upset.
xD
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