English:............6/10
User Interface:.....5/10
User Experience:....7/10
Art:................7/10
Dialogue:...........3/10
Story:..............2/10
Opinion:............4/10................
Avg:..............4.86/10 [2.43/5]
The visuals in this are great. Anyone who denies that is blind, a liar, or is one of those weird playstation guys that need the most realistic graphics ever to consider a game good. I want to get that out of the way first before I say all my criticisms. From what little I remember, the story is BORING. "A guy lives with his very asian caretaker and her TOTALLY not daughter." The end. Do things get lewd? Sure. But it's full of that weird peeping-tom energy that most people should grow out of leaving their mid-teens. All the dialogue is very sterile up until the brick wall when it isn't. It's also disjointed and frequently doesn't make sense. My faith is further diminished by the fact I can barely remember much about the game from the last time I played. I remember nothing happens with the main women, they're there to make some "love story" and MC leaves at night to do the sex with women that are horny for him before knowing he exists. By all means, like a game because the characters are hot. But don't try to tell people you "love everything about the game" when all you did was hold CTRL and skip the dialogue to see nudey bits. Even if the so-called "English" in this makes me want to do that.
The story starts with MC admiring Miyuki, the mother type, as she makes food. WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND, is she's making food in the kitchen... Then says "We're not eating this food, we're gonna go to the cafe to eat other food." And Miyuki exudes this "I'm your mother and am nostalgic for when you were a baby" type sentiment. And that's her character for the rest of the game. At least until the "temptation" side actually starts in 2 years when it's a sex-fest. Anyway, she asks MC to wake up Ayame. MC taps on her door, and instead, barges in and goes through her computer? To which she then wakes up to beg him not to see her being bullied. And MC, rightfully, says "Let me help you with that." But no, she bought a weapon to assault her bully? That's gonna go over well. Circling back, MC woke her up for nothing because Alice came over to hang out with Ayame. Then MC goes to the cafe with Miyuki and the English dies here, but you also meet the titular Sara. She's gonna move in and needs MCs help for no good reason, but Miyuki acts weird about it? Like she's already jealous of another human being interacting with him. Usually, I'd praise interpersonal drama and say that's an interesting thing. But it just feels weird because MC is obviously an adult and he could have not only said he'll go on his own, but been asked directly. Because at no point before then was he supposed to do anything else. He's literally just gone room to room to introduce characters. And the dialogue just changes sentiments mid-line. Miyuki will ask a question and talk about something else all at once.
Then, when the scene abruptly changes to meeting Sara at home, it does that again to follow her to the club. What help she needs from him? No one knows. She just wanted him to come to the club to... Rub against him in a rubber gimp suit? I guess for him to be her primary, or only, customer. You then get to see what is considered a penis in this game. The size is whatever, don't care. But the shape and texture make it look like a sausage with reptile scales. It looks very odd to me. It's also at this point I'm completely frustrated because the text speed DOES NOT WORK. I read fairly fast, and if the text isn't instant, or very fast, I have to wait for the text to finish displaying, limiting how I read this story. I hate it. Then after MC's virgin blowjob, he's pushed ito a private room with Kerry for no reason? An obvious hooker leaves her private phone out for a John to look at? That's how stalkers and problems are made. But for some reason Sara, who orchestrated this whole meeting, interrupts in the middle of Kerry's monologue about cheating on her husband, to say they need to leave? What is this story?
Next day, because baby boy MC fell asleep after being all tuckered out, is woken up by Miyuki to invite him to help buy clothes. Because that original idea is definitely not overused. And he's not allowed to say no? To which he's mad about? He hasn't been upset about being led around by the nose until this moment, why now? Everyone talks to MC without listening to him at all. Every word he's said is either inconsequential to what they want, or completely disregarded, even if he says what they want to hear. It's weird. I think the scene with Alice is the only time a character listens to what he says. And then the teacher goes on this weird sexual and ethical tirade about a bunch of made up talking points and I couldn't be bothered to listen to any of it. "Vegans and vegetarians are forced to eat meat for essential nutrients." I don't know where you live, but vegans and vegetarians are not forced to eat anything. If anything, they're very vocal about how other people eating meat offends them, personally. This weird conversation makes Alice cry for no reason as well. She's sad because the ideal person doesn't exist? Aren't they in college or some other censor evading grade? By the time you're 18 you should understand that not everyone is nice and no one is perfect. So I don't get how this is breaking her worldview. The 5 minute conversation also somehow takes up the entire class and it ends right there. Almost every interaction in this feels like padding. Helen says "Wait, I'm waiting for a call and don't want to say it yet" A time skip and MC dumbly walking in on her, contrivedly, changing later, she says "Alice needs someone to look out for her" Are you kidding me? She could have said that while she was at her desk without even looking at MC. But no. He needed a way to see her naked for some reason. I UNDERSTAND this is a sex game. But not every character needs to be naked right after meeting them. Leading to a game of truth or dare for 8 year olds.
The events in this are written, not only by someone that barely speaks English, but someone who seems to have never talked to, or been spoken to by a person above a 5th grade reading level. This has to be a joke. I get a lot of weirdos like younger girls, but to also treated like a child is odd. This next episode I guess they reworked Sara's model and explain it away as tanning? But Sara was in a gimp suit for 80% of their interactions so, even though it's only been 20 minutes since I saw her, I don't remember what she looked like. Good job drawing attention to something no one noticed. Also, tanning adds age because it's literally harming the skin so... And I also don't get why, because the MAIN THEME of the LIs in this game are MILFS and older women. Doesn't age come with that? Then she passes out and goes to the hopital because her neck hurts? There's infinite diseases, viruses, illnesses and whatever else in the world. You chose "her neck hurts?" I now think this story was a repressed memory of mine, that's why I don't remember it. Kerry shows up to the hospital to visit, whose only trait we know about is she wants money to leave her life behind, bought a new sportscar to show MC? The $100k you spent on the shitty convertible could have been used to... I dunno... Start a new life? The one thing she wanted? She also takes MC to drive with no gas and strands them in the middle of nowhere. There's stupid characters and then there's the characters in this, I swear. I went back to see what happens if you turn down Kerry and they just send you to Kerry anyway? There's the ol' illusion of choice! Why are we making choices if it all goes the same way? Sure, one or two "negative" points, but the only thing that might happen is you won't see sex scene 3A, only 3B. Leading up to them going to the beach.
The ride there has the "Alice has a secret" conversation. You met her two days ago, her business is her business. And at the beach you find another Japanese woman with insanely large boobs. Where is this demographic? Can you tell me? I will credit the writer here though, this is the first time I've seen an AVN have MC with a scantily clad LI approach other men that didn't immediately try to sexually assault her. I'm glad at least one thing in this isn't brain dead. But it goes right back to being stupid because Alice, now called Alisa, shouts that she's lied and she doesn't actually have parents. Sure, she lied, but that's a major part of her life and she's only known these people a month or less. And any time she's in the scene for more than no time at all, she has to start crying? Why? They then all gently coddle her because she's this poor little lamb. It's weird because the beach visit has now turned to a vacation, right after Sara was hospitalized. There doesn't seem to be anyone making this game that reads the work they wrote the day before. You can almost see the exact moments the writer left and came back because it continues to be disjointed. Like right after the crying scene, it hard cuts to MC being asleep next to Miyuki. And MC recently walked in on her changing, there could have been a bit more dialogue about that. He's obviously a weird peeping tom, wouldn't he have every thought under the sun about being in the same bed as her? No, because this game is made solely to lord the possibility of maybe one day having sex with Miyuki, one of the only decent looking characters. Yeah, you get a drugged up handjob from her, but it feels and reads empty. With that in mind, even though the game opened at a shady strip club and MC nearly having sex with Sara, this game should be called BlueBalls. If the story was good, I wouldn't care, but google translate can't even write a good sentence, much less a whole story.
The second 'season' opens up, once again, as if the last game just didn't happen. The last part ended after MC got an awkward handjob from Miyuki. And now we're just... Doing tiktok pranks? And introduce another new milf? There is ZERO planning going into this. The UI is greatly improved in the second season, but the renders all look worse. And the font and textbox changing does no favors for what little consistency there was in this. I'm 5 minutes into this next part and suddenly it's winter, Sara doesn't exist, Ayame's bullies suddenly exist again, MC had someone send him candid pictures of a new teacher, and she's strict to an almost evil degree. Oh, and MC walks in on the girls bathroom, where the bullies were and somehow he overheard something embarrassing? That she had to pee? People do that. It's not embarrassing. They've added even more unappealing characters to a new version of the game that seems to have NOTHING to do with the last version. I just don't get it. As well as an overall visual downgrade, it's a shame. His penis, that's finally revealed again is also like 3 inches longer. It's almost like the dev is scared of being consistent. Start of the game? Sex-fest. Next part? Slice of life boring. After that? Secret love affair. After that? Escaping to a pool party at the beach. And then a complete revamp in the next section. I honestly feel like the only person that read this. Because no one writing a story could possibly change everything this much.
This will give you whiplash. That's the best I can say. The English in season 1 is awful. It's inconsistent and adds to how robotic it feels. In season 2 it's fine, like they got one person to do it all so its only robotic and less "Engrish." The UI in part one is almost dead stock and part two is mostly fully customized. You know if you change the UI, saves are still compatible, right? The Art in part one is amazing. Yeah, Miyuki and Sara are the only attractive models, but the renders were all done really well. But part two takes a giant, noticeable dip in quality. The renders are grainy and the animations all have black bars or extra grain. I will say, all the models are the same. Giant hips, pigeon toed, and curvier than a slinky. Yeah, they added the new girl that isn't bustier than a museum. But not only is it too little too late, but she's pretty ugly too. I just don't get it though, how much terminal ADHD does one have to have to get to this point? The Dialogue and story are just nothing. There isn't one consistent point in this at all. And I swear Miyuki treats Ayame and MC younger and younger every sentence. I expected her to ask MC if he wants his blankie and baba by the time it was over. Frankly, this isn't one to keep your eye on. Maybe when it's fully completed in the next 3 years. But the next update could have them be interdimensional travellers that fight evil dinosaurs so you don't know if you'll like it. If this stuck to one theme or story, maybe. But as it stands, even the overview is now a lie, with Sara written away, based on how this game changes shape so much.
