Too long, didn’t read review: While the gameplay is pleasant, it’s in service to repetitive low-quality adult content that doesn’t justify the time commitment.
Longer review:
I’ll admit I’m new to this relatively old game that’s been in development for 6 years or so, and I haven’t completed all the content. I’m about 8 – 10 hours in and I suspect there’s still plenty left to do. However, my motivation for continuing is linked more towards the gameplay, which I admit can be fun for a time, rather than the adult content which is subpar at best, and at times almost insultingly simplistic.
You play as Lex Luthor, the famous villain of the DC universe, and having been released from prison have decided to use your newly developed mind control device to kidnap superheroes and subject them to various stages of debauchery. There’s a clear progression which is both a strength and a weakness. A strength because progression is important for the player to feel like there’s better stuff ahead. Sure, you’ve just gotten them to dance and maybe strip, but earn enough money and corrupt them enough and they’ll be airtight in the middle of a bukkake ring! Take that, Wonder Woman! That said, it’s a weakness because the content begins to feel a bit same-y after a while.
You begin with a strip club and eventually upgrade to a Bordello, and from there you can bring them back to Luther’s headquarters for a more one-on-one day-by-day corruption. The problem is two-fold:
1. With a couple of exceptions, the progression is the same. Strip club dancer, strip club stripper, strip club public masturbation, Bordello sex worker, Bordello personal sex worker, Bordello group-sex worker. If you decide to switch the captive to Lex’s place, the progression becomes: Dancing 3x, Stripping 3x, Handjob 3x, Blowjob 3x, Sex 3x, Anal 3x, mixed in with new outfits. You don’t have to do anything other than keep revisiting the character every day.
2. The actual adult content is lackluster at best. Perhaps it’s more difficult to animate characters like this compared to the typical Honey Select or similar type, but it’s disappointing to go through all that grind only to see a still frame of a female superhero with her breasts out, or a still frame of her sucking your cock, or a still frame of… but you get the idea. I don’t mind still frames as two of my favorite games have no animation yet work quite well for masturbation, but that’s because there was more than one still frame. If I were still in my teens or early twenties, I’m sure these panning still frame shots of cartoon pornography would work for me, but I’m a bit older and therefore need a bit more effort put into the adult content for it to work for me. I need either multiple different still frames with dialogue, or animation, preferably with multiple stages. Most of the adult content is Something Unlimited are single still frames with dialogue, and that’s just not enough to warrant the grind it takes to get there. After 8 hours of gameplay I’ve managed to get off a grand total of once, and it took 3 hours, and repeated use of the one of maybe 6 or 7 animated scenes.
You’ll eventually find yourself fast forwarding through a lot of the adult content just out of boredom. “Oh look, a still frame of Cheshire taking it in the ass. Huh. Well maybe the next conquest will have some animation to it.”
There are only a handful of multi-stage scenes, and even the in-between moments like undressing or moving to the bed are off-screen to prevent having to render more content. The author clearly isn’t lazy given amount of content, but more attention should have been given to the reason we came here in the first place.
I still plan on continuing the game at least for a little while. The story is ridiculous but still kind of fun, and I’m currently hunting for more scenes that involve animations. A list of those would be nice, but oh well.
Would I recommend it? If you’re young and can still get off to a dirty magazine, and you’re also a fan of the DC Universe, sure, why not? If you’re like me who prefer less grind and more attention given to the adult content, there are other, far better games out there for that. They may not contain a superhero theme like this one, but you won’t end your night quitting the game to load a different one, or to peruse Pornhub for an outlet.
A few more gripes and praise. The businesses that make you the most money need a serious rework. As it is, you have to reset the lineup and then manually move each superhero to the job you want them to do before confirming. How much money they earn quickly diminishes requiring that you repeat the process every 5 in-game days for the strip club and every 10 for the bordello. There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason to who goes into what slot which makes the grind a bit more annoying than it could have been. I would have liked to have seen some unique events as well as some repeatable ones that would increase/decrease your income and which would change depending on who you had stripping, or masturbating, or dancing at the club. As it is, there’s virtually no dialogue with the captives until you’ve advanced them past the end of the Bordello and brought them to Lex’s place for one-on-one corruption. These early stages would benefit from more variation.
As I mentioned before, the reward for most stages is merely a panning shot of a still frame with some dialogue. I’m sure it would take a lot of effort and rendering time on a good computer, but some animation, or at least more still shots would go a long way to making the game more enjoyable and the grind feel more worth doing.
Two out of 5? Three out of 5? I’m torn. In deference to the effort put in, I’ll round it up to 3. I think the author would benefit from focusing a few updates on making the current adult content more interesting as opposed to “finishing” the various superhero lines, though it is annoying that quite a few of the Bordello group scenes aren’t done yet, even though the finished content is just more still frames. At least there are three different still frames for the group-sex Bordello work, so that’s something I guess.
