The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is Episode 1 through 11...
(14 April 2018 - Episode 1 through 11)
I have to say that I absolutely love this Visual Novel/Game... The romance stories for the primary love interests may be a bit slow, but they are so story rich and well developed...
I can tell there has been some very good improvements over the last year of development... The characters are for the most part completely believable with their own unique personalities, quirks, and check all the right boxes (just like mentioned in the story)… I can definitely now say that this is a relationship building story/game with just the right amount of sexiness, lots of romance, some teasing, the right amount of cheeky humor, and it all had me so entranced with the different love interest story lines, allowing you to make your own choices as to whom to ignore and/or seek out a relationship with... Many various women with different personality and wit and so on, that it allows for so much depth to the choices and story you want to experience...
It uses a mostly hidden point system for opening up story as well as events... That can be viewed at the end of each chapter... But because of how the story plays out, it actually offers some re-playability... There is some intrigue, and different things going on that make it a deep and rich story to read and play...
The visuals of the characters are unique and varied and perfect... Body proportions are realistic, with so many adorable women, that fit into all the various body types... There were a few model faces I've seen before, but not many... There are a few backdrops I've seen before, but most of the time you don't really notice, because the scenes are set up so well, and I was so entrenched in the story and well being of the love interest I chose to go for... There is not a huge amount of animations, and the ones there are tend to be short... But they were fine... It did sometimes feel like the love/sex sequence might have been a bit short sometimes (animated or not), but they were fine... They got the major points across...
There were moments when I laughed so hard, and others where I was getting misty eyed, and other times I just caught myself smiling (this actually happened a lot)... It's these kinds of stories, where you feel emotionally invested in the story and characters (to include the protagonist), that really makes visual novels like these shine the brightest for me... I'm so emotionally invested in this one now, that my heart is pumping for more... But, the way I operate, is by experiencing content in large chunks... So, even though I know another chapter will be coming out sometimes before the summer, I will just have to force myself to wait for several more content releases before revisiting... When I love something this much, I can't experience it piece mail... It's too disheartening and nerve wracking to see it in small installments...
If you don't like story rich visual novels and are expecting lots of back to back erotic sex scenes in this one, don't read or play it... But if you are like me, and love story rich erotic visual novels, told well, and romance is your schtick (like for me) then man, you have got to try this one... Lots of choice, with various love interests along with a few lust interests...
I think these developers already deserve a standing ovation... And this puppy isn't even done being developed... Bravo... Bravo...
(Original Review - 18 March 2018 - Episode 1 v0.2)
There are some aspects to the initial beginning of this visual novel/game that are very similar to the story setups of several other VN/Games I've played/read, which kind of hurts the originality scales...
The visuals of characters are decent, but the model of the mother looks very familiar, almost like it's just a slight alteration to some other characters in other VN/Games I've seen... The younger sister's breasts are also a bit bigger then her body frame would suggest, but not outrageously bigger... The backdrops are pretty normal looking... During the initial hugs with the mother character, it looked almost as if the protagonist is towering over the mother, but then when the POV pulled back it looked more like they were similar in height, seeing more eye to eye... May want to rethink the camera positions in a few pictures, as the views are supposed to be from the protagonists POV...
The script is pretty good, as I rarely saw any spelling/grammar errors... But there were several moments when the mother would be speaking, but it would show Katie as the name (which needs some fixing)... The plot revolves around a male protagonist who's mother died when he was a pre-teen, and his father died recently... He is visiting the family he lived with after his parents divorced, and grew up with them and his mother till she died... He hasn't seen or communicated with them in 8 years...
There is something mysterious that is also going on with how the communication was re-kindled after his fathers death, but not much else is mentioned in the current content... There are 3 women characters living in the home he's visiting... The mother, who seems a bit of a drinker, the older daughter who is very outspoken and athletic, and the younger daughter to is very shy and a bit of a recluse...
The whole premise of the story so far is becoming re-acquainted with the family he lived with so long ago... It offers lots and lots of options with regards to rebuilding his relationship with them... And there are many traps placed within those choices... And I mean a lot of temptation type choices attempting to trap you into taking things too far and reaching a game over... I am never a fan of Player Punishment Dead Ends, and this VN/game seems to be purposefully trying to tempt the reader/player into taking things too far, a lot... Normally if it was just a few moments in the beginning to teach you to be careful, then I wouldn't be overly bothered... But this game is constantly laying down choice traps... So be prepared to save game, a LOT...
The story telling itself seems rather straight forward... And the personalities of each character feel a slight bit stereotypical of a mother and 2 daughters setup... The struggling mother who just wants someone to care for her and love her, the daughter who is mouthy and very outgoing, and the daughter who is sweet, shy, and perhaps a bit naïve... It's a formula I wish I didn't see so much in the adult/erotic genre of VN/Games... Even so, at least neither of the sisters hates the protagonist or treats him like trash, because that is also an over used personality you see in some of these things...
Overall, I can sort of tell this is going to be a Relationship building game with the possibility of a Corruption motif as well... It was a nice read, but I was hoping there would be a bit more of a creative and unique backstory to this one... There is some story depth and meaningful story telling, so that is a plus... It's very early into production, so we should be seeing lots more content in the future... Will I revisit this one? Sure will, even with it's flaws and quirks, I still enjoyed the play through...
