I'm pretty mixed on this one; the game has great art, great voice work, and a lot of great scenes, although by the 3rd or 4th BJ scene I was getting bored, but the title of the game kind of hints there's going to be a lot of oral, so that should be expected. I also think the design of the main heroine is great.
My main problems come down to the story, which, yes, despite it being a nukige, I do think story is important in a VN; otherwise, people would just go watch porn since it has significantly less time investment. The story was really frustrating because the protagonist has an extreme lack of self-worth and just kind of rolls with being treated as an expendable side piece, which I guess can be explained by his backstory, but there's not really any character development, and everything ends up just happening to work out for him.
Another big problem was that the main heroine felt EXTREMELY manipulative of the protagonist and like she was taking advantage of his lack of self-worth and using him as essentially a free source of affection while she gets plowed by her boyfriend whenever he's available and not standing her up. The reason I say this is because, while, yeah, she's nice and bubbly on the outside, her actual actions show entirely different things; anybody with even the most minimal amount of relationship experience, no matter how twisted that experience may be, would understand that if you give a fat virgin dude with no relationship experience that much attention and sex favors, especially when you're a pretty girl, he's gonna catch feelings, and yet she did it anyways, and not only that, but she would go as far as having him play as a stand in when her boyfriend stood her up and holding his hand and taking him on what were undeniably dates while also going out of her way to tell him that she would never kiss or have sex with him and describing to him in detail stories of her having sex with her boyfriend. She essentially does everything possible to lead him on while still having plausible deniability if someone were to call her out on it. If that isn't manipulative, I don't know what is.
Chie is a girl that if she were real, she would be one of the biggest red flags ever. She's the girl that starts talking to one of your homies, runs through him like a bulldozer, and then your friend group has to spend the next six months to a year building him back up. This manipulation also never even gets slightly addressed, so my guess is the devs just didn't see it as a character flaw, which is worrying to me.
Lastly, I feel the boyfriend, who is arguably the main antagonist of the story, gets off way too lightly.
Overall it was entertaining enough, but I was just expecting more and didn't expect to get so frustrated by the story, enough to take the time to write this review. And I'm almost certainly thinking way deeper about this than the writers themselves probably were, they most likely just wanted a reason to write about a slutty gyaru screwing a virgin. Oh well, the scenes were hot, I guess. The after-story was a lot better though, I just wish everything that came before it was executed better.
My main problems come down to the story, which, yes, despite it being a nukige, I do think story is important in a VN; otherwise, people would just go watch porn since it has significantly less time investment. The story was really frustrating because the protagonist has an extreme lack of self-worth and just kind of rolls with being treated as an expendable side piece, which I guess can be explained by his backstory, but there's not really any character development, and everything ends up just happening to work out for him.
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Another big problem was that the main heroine felt EXTREMELY manipulative of the protagonist and like she was taking advantage of his lack of self-worth and using him as essentially a free source of affection while she gets plowed by her boyfriend whenever he's available and not standing her up. The reason I say this is because, while, yeah, she's nice and bubbly on the outside, her actual actions show entirely different things; anybody with even the most minimal amount of relationship experience, no matter how twisted that experience may be, would understand that if you give a fat virgin dude with no relationship experience that much attention and sex favors, especially when you're a pretty girl, he's gonna catch feelings, and yet she did it anyways, and not only that, but she would go as far as having him play as a stand in when her boyfriend stood her up and holding his hand and taking him on what were undeniably dates while also going out of her way to tell him that she would never kiss or have sex with him and describing to him in detail stories of her having sex with her boyfriend. She essentially does everything possible to lead him on while still having plausible deniability if someone were to call her out on it. If that isn't manipulative, I don't know what is.
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Lastly, I feel the boyfriend, who is arguably the main antagonist of the story, gets off way too lightly.
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Overall it was entertaining enough, but I was just expecting more and didn't expect to get so frustrated by the story, enough to take the time to write this review. And I'm almost certainly thinking way deeper about this than the writers themselves probably were, they most likely just wanted a reason to write about a slutty gyaru screwing a virgin. Oh well, the scenes were hot, I guess. The after-story was a lot better though, I just wish everything that came before it was executed better.