This is a review of Week 1, so it may or may not be true for future releases (should there be any).
Pros:
Honey Select + RenPy = win
Some creative ideas
The UI is not bad, although not extremely functional either
Cons:
Some characters are ugly
The music is REALLY annoying
The writing is... cringy at best
In-Depth:
So, I'll be honest, I've been avoiding this game like fire forever. Just one look at character faces made me go: "nope, that's just ugly".
But then I just thought - you know what, f it, I've got nothing else to play, may as well give it a try.
And so I did. And I... did not hate it.
While the characters, with a few exceptions, are still quite ugly, you get used to them. And their personalities, while mostly cliche, still make them somewhat likeable. Plus, the bodies are fine and varied. So ultimately, the adorkable butterfaces don't annoy me as much as I expected when I first saw this game.
The sex scenes don't look much better as well. To be fair, most of them just make me want to load some scene in the source game, with similar, but better looking characters, and fap to them isntead of this.
What does annoy me though is writing. Look, I'm an anime fan. And I love Japanese culture. And this will be the first time I get to use this term. But holy hell, this game was written by an honest to god weeb that keeps inserting useless Japanese trivia all the effing time, and putting Japanese words mid sentences for no reason at all.
Plus the amount of completely useless text like "muah!", "gulp!", stuff like that, that's just "water" that bloats your text for it to look bigger while bringing no substance at all is just ridiculous. And don't even get me started on all the "LOL"s...
The music gets annoying very fast, but thankfully you can turn it off, so, whatever.
The animation - I wish it wasn't there at all, because it's simply bad (at least pre day 5, but even then there are some pretty bad examples).
The size of the game is, obviously, atrocious. There is absolutely no need to download the uncompressed version and I strongly recommend against doing so. There's virtually no difference, the images often look like they've been upscaled in any version anyway. So just get the lightly compressed version and save yourself a ton of space.
So, why am I not giving it the worst review possible?
The amount of content, compared to many-many unfinished games out there is astonishing. Sure, the quality varies, but still, this is admirable.
The non-butterface characters are quite gorgeous. Which means that the decision to make them look like that was not simply bad taste or lack of skills, but a desire to bring variety, which is also cool. And there are also various gorgeous close-ups, even when it comes to uglier characters, to make them look way better, which also takes some skill. Great.
And then there's often a smart ratio of image to text bar, so that it doesn't close anything important or even stresses the good parts even if you don't hide it.
And I'll admit, as bad as writing is, the idea behind it is still fairly intriguing. I'm sure, it'll end up being another cliche by the end of it, but I'm still curious. Some jokes are funny (but really, you don't need to stress them with "lol" every bloody time) and some scenes are rather touching, even though the characters aren't particularly well developed.
The pacing isn't bad either. You would think that with a daily format you'll be dying of boredom and craving for some erotic content, but no, mundane scenes are filled with a lot of teases and there is usually enough payoff to not feel like you've wasted your precious eroge time on a game with no ero in it.
Sure, a lot of the events feel forced, since they happen in such a short amount of time, but I can live with it.
This game is a dumpster fire that I need to see to the end. And hey, maybe I will be pleasantly surprised.