As I have commented before, an AVN needs 3 things to be great. Visuals, Dialogue, and Story.

The visuals and dialogue are definitely top tier. Excellent. Wonderful. The story that is being told is very well represented through the characters as they are relayed through the visuals and dialogue.

The story starts out being amazing. It's your typical harem builder hero's journey kind of thing with some pretty great plot points. There is a lot of content, plenty of good versus evil stuff. Lots of choices for how MC progresses, and who with. And you can literally choose to be with every single li you come across. And then chapter 5 happened.

I'll admit, it took me an hour or two into this new story line to see it. First there were the repeated scenes from things that already happened being used again for new situations in Chapters 4 and 5. But that's not the worst thing. Most of chapter 5 is a direct rip from The Lust City from Candylight studios. I mean, only the names have been changed, and what the characters look like. Otherwise it is blatant. This guy literally played the Lust City, and copied everything in it for chapter 5. And this whole side arch isn't even very well introduced or  related in any real way to the rest of the world the author did an amazing job setting uo.

I'll admit to liking the trials of the goddesses better than how the trials were handled in Lust City. But Overall, shame on author for laziness and plagiarism.

Before chapter 5 happened, I would have given this 4 to 5 stars. But now it's a 3. I'll stick around to see how this ends, but I am disappointed. I really liked it before the author gave up on it being good.