I won't go too detailed into what I have to say because otherwise I'll end up writing my own 20 page essay and no one wants that.
I'm going to straight up and just come out and say that this is a Solid game that I would rate a good 8/10. And it's one that I seriously recommending you play and possibly even use for research for your own games down the road.
For a more indepth look
Music : The game's choice of sound tracks are honestly pretty interesting and they are some good head bobs however I will very much admit that the tracks don't always match with what's going on especially what is typically used as the main Background track especially with the music being so loud compared to other audio cues. When the Dev has to put "Warnings" about turning the music back up because they themselves know you most likely would have lowered it down or just out right muted it is..
All I really need to say. This is the area that has the most issues and keeps it from being anything higher then an 8
Animation: For a Repy Game that has your typical models that you would find in most of these games, the animations are actually by far one of the best I seen from this catagory. The Erotic animations are very well done and the models aren't overly warped or Distorted in the way other games tend to make their characters to try and over emphasize size and girth. From the PC's Dick to the Girl's Breast and body. It doesn't have that "Hentai over Exaggeration " That plagues Repy games these days just because they really want to express that X person has the biggest tits. Not only that but non Sexual animations are amazing, the fighting animations that are included are actually so well done that i could almost see these being slowed down versions of Tekken fighting. Like they are polished and so well executed. The Dance segments are also just so amazingly done and I rarely if ever see any kind of Model Clipping either with their own body, the PC's Length or their hair or clothes. The Animater clearly put a fuck ton of time into this and I'm honestly impressed.
Characters: At First I had some issues with the characters mainly specifically the MC as he comes out as being way too hostile to everyone and his inclination to always result everything to a sex scene. It made it difficult to place him as my Character input in the story or honestly to side with his actions. In some cases it makes sense like with how he treats his StepMom for being a emotionally distance, neglectful alcholic PoS. But then there's another character who just lost their Father and is asking you to help them in getting revenge and the MC demands for a sexual favor or they are out of the picture. That makes honestly no sense. And it's like that with everyone no matter if the person has done anything to him or if they been kind to him He always results and forces himself onto the girls. Very much resulting in a game about getting revenge for how you where treated to you being the person basically abusing everyone you interact with. One of the things I originally wanted to credit the writers for also ends up supporting how terrible the MC is, in which unlike other Games where the girls after having sexual releations with the MC starts to fall for them/ become addicted and even seeks the MC for more sex. Here every situation minus a select few has the Girl not being overall excited or happy to be having intercourse with the MC. Since as stated earlier 9 times out of 10 the only reason they are going to have any kind of sex is because the MC is blackmailing or twisting their arm into doing it, again even the girls who basically haven't done jack to him. And these girls continue to not really act that way, of course not until much later in their Stories when the MC starts being a lot less rapey with them but by then that just seems like them coping from abuse.
Lastly Story: Honestly? It's okay. With the concept of the Game it's clear that so much of it is going to be written to constantly give the MC some rhyme or reason to be the way he is towards the girls, from how his sister who apparently is a straight up Bro-Con being neglective and isolationist when it came to him, to his mother that only cares for drinking herself stupid and a dad who ran off to make another family and our MC some how being "forced" to go back to his mom and sister to help support them. It just seems way too...well forced. The MC is quick to anger, quick to blame, quick to want to hurt/punish and quick on choosing options that results in damaging his relationship with everyone he interacts with. From blackmailing a cute gamer goth girl who invites him into her home to play games who uses her body to distract him for a cheap win, apparently it's justification for him to take pics of her body to then use to blackmail her. Or another character that basically lives in the streets that he decides to allow to sleep with him at night, but because she's basically a cat and acts like one and wakes him up at night. It's justification to them basically turn her into his personal kitty slave. It's just really odd, because other characters are written quiet well with their character development actually really well done, granted there are cases where the MC catches himself realizing that "Yeah actually no dick move" and backsteps but honestly most of the time it's too late.
Overall This game has excellent Animations, Decent sound tracks but a very annoying main background. The Girls we get to interact with are well developed, they look really good with good models and there is a lack of any glitches clipping and over exaggeration of their body features. Lastly the story is alright at times quickly paced with a strange desire to always place the MC in some way shape or form in being "in the right" for their actions despite the fact that the MC themselves honestly does way more hurt then the girls do to him. The MC is a good example of that Fake Dom mentality you would see in Media like 50 Shades and those that corrupt the BDSM community with their "alpha" attuides.
This has been my overall Review for V1.9 and just the overall journey of this game
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No worries The music was something that Admittedly did kill some of the vibe and how often I was asked to raise the volume up, expecting for something to happen just to get hit with a musical segment was. It was interesting to say the least xD
But I do know what ya was going for it just wasn't my taste, could defin be others tho
And Yeah Personally I just had some issues with the Mc since it really made it look like he was supposively had gone through so much to hate the world and everyone in it but, all he really was at the end of it was neglected. He wasn't beaten, he wasn't really emotionally abused, he wasn't harassed or bullied by people around him, cheaten on nearly killed nothing. So for him to be going around like what is basically a Emo Kid with a chip on his shoulder saying that the world owes him and that everyone in his life is at fault for his ruined childhood it just really bring up to mind those types of people that go "I have a problem and now it's going to become everyone's problem" And the types that go "Well yeah? I got hurt 15 years ago so fuck you"
Granted that could be exactly the character he is and what you are going for as I stated in the review and will again that He DOES call himself out and catch himself when other people really push it into his head that he's just going too far for absolutely no reason. Like his interactions with Nina, The blond goth girl and so forth. But it does end with him usually some how justifying to himself that he's just treating people the way he's owed to.
But yeah no real reason to really edit it in anyway since it is your story and if that's how you planned on writing the character (which i believe to be the case since again, you made very clear callouts to how he is) that's honestly perfectly fine!
Not everyone needs to agree or even like a character even if they are the Protagonist. Nina is a very beloved character and im sure there are people out there that Hate her just as well as people that Agree completely with everything the Protag is doing. So just keep doing what you gotta do because it is very much working I've pretty much completely done everything that is to do with this update and I only ever had that one bug that was mentioned with Needing to go to your Discord to get the fix. Didn't see no real Typos or bugs or glitches so its a very well polished game
"He wasn't beaten, he wasn't really emotionally abused, he wasn't harassed or bullied by people around him"
I have to remind you that you are currently reviewing an Ongoing game, it is far from being completed.
Therefore, such assumptions like the one I've quoted from you are factually wrong. You haven't met his dad yet, nor seen any portion of MC's past yet except for Anna and Alice.
In my humble opinion, I think you're writing way too much on the only aspect of the game which cannot be objectively criticized due to the game being currently in devlopment.
I suggest you don't dwell on this aspect too much as long as you don't have all the elements.
Of course there is always the "Well it hasn't been introduced yet" but that's a bit of an escape for what exist and what is written and visible now because yes you are correct in that I am focusing on something that isn't fully fleshed out and has much more context and story that is needed to be added to better understand, but as that isn't here nor will it be here for x amount of time I will go based on what is here and what I see as of now. It's a similar crux of (since it's May the 4th) Watching the original Trilogy of Star Wars and looking into Darth Vader's character and judging him for what he is then and there.
Of course there's the prequels, there's the cartoon clone wars series, the books, the comics and all that that later helps flesh out why Vader is the way he is and all the hardship he went into.
But if it was just with what was available at the time? Vader wasn't very much of a fleshed out character, he was just a subservent whiny angry man.
So yeah i'm not making this out to be something like I'm already cemented who this character is and that nothing would change my mind on it, I've stated in the previous Review and my earlier comment that I can see that there is much more there that you probably have in the works and that the character itself does seem to be whats the word. "Amending?" His current treatment of people
Just that from what is here that's how i see the guy. And once this game is fully released I'll do another review for that once im able to fully see this character from A to Z and see if I end up recorrecting any of my previous points