I'd say if you look at this as more of a visual novel, it's positive. I think Hina is incredibly cute and there's some good animated scenes here, plus a light-hearted simple story about a sex robot going to places with the MC and gaining emotions.
The actual gameplay though does feel like padding and you'd be justified to just skip them when given the choice, because they don't really add anything to the experience in my opinion.
THE GOOD:
- Hina is incredibly cute, especially once you get to the later stages of the game where she has emotions. Hard to put into words but I smiled a few times watching her during the story and also she's sexy when she wants to be.
- Big breasts
- Seeing her start off emotionless and then giggling to herself, caring about the MCs diet or making breakfast is very appealing. It's simple, but I liked watching her go from simple sex robot to wife material.
- I quite liked how much art there was during the story segments, more than I expected outside just watching her stand there. Theres a nice mix of both the animated scenes, static images for story moments and the chibi art used in the minigames.
- The animated scenes are decent enough, if you skip dialogue then parts of it can get messed up but I think whats here is good, with some variety if you buy some of the shop items. All of it is just her and the MC though, if you were expecting anything else.
THE OK:
- The gameplay entirely consists of just 6 different minigames repeated based on the location you go to, or during the emotion unlock scenes when you reach 25% intervals. Everything else is just dialogue and story with these sprinkled in as you progress.
While they aren't neccessarily "bad" minigames, they are pretty easy and can take less than a minute. Some of them don't even make sense, like pinching her nipples to "tune her". At the very least you can skip most of them as theres usually a skip button in the top left corner that instantly completes the minigame.
- There are a lot of story moments so if you are the kind of person who skips through the dialogue and just wants to see porn then you won't enjoy this as much as there is a pretty heavy focus on Hinas interactions with the MC at each location.
- It's never really explained how she gets away with having her tits out 24/7 in public. I guess people just see her as wearing clothes normally or something? Idk you have to just suspend disbelief for this one.
- There is one scene which jumpscares you with the MC fucking her nipples with his dick. Doesn't bother me but that might be a turn off for some people.
- Buying stuff in the store is a bit tedious. I just spammed the Concert Hall minigame because you can beat it in <10 seconds if you get lucky with the circle placement. While I liked some of the scenes from the store items, it was kinda annoying having to do the same minigame over and over for currency.
THE BAD:
- The AP system is basically pointless? You consume AP by going to locations or building something but it just moves to a new day and as far as I can tell theres no "fail state" if you take too long to restore her emotions. I could be wrong on that, but from what I experienced I never needed to optimise my AP usage. I just went to new locations that had an exclaimation point and built the stuff in R&D.
- The Day system is confusing because from what I gathered she has different "emotional states" every day, and that changes the nature of scenes you can get? This means if you want to find everything you have to waste AP to move to a new day and hope she feels different (which I assume is only noticeable based on her standing CG in the menu) and some CGs are (at least from what I gathered) locked to certain emotional states.
While the concept sounds interesting you can beat the entire game in like 6-7 days so you will have to intentionally waste time to visit locations on different days to see what changes when she has a different emotional state.
Tbh I don't even know how much this changes, but I did get 100% emotional sync and my gallery still had 2 locked events. So good luck if you want to see everything I guess because I was fairly sure I visited every location with an exclaimation point and still didn't fully unlock the gallery.
- Her standing CG never changes clothes, even during scenes where it should. At one point theres an image of her in sexy underwear, but then it swaps to her in normal clothes as she's talking. I guess they didn't want to animate her in different clothes, but it was noticeable during multiple scenes.
- Twice the game froze on me, but the game does auto save frequently so I didn't lose any progress thankfully.
I guess depending on what you value you could rate this as a 3 star game, but I will leave my review at 4 stars because I enjoyed the story and scenes a lot. The save files don't share how long you played, but it was probably 2-3 hours to get 100%.
Your experience might be different though, and I could definitely see why some people might not like this game.
