So i've been looking forward to this for quite awhile and to finally have a demo in hand, I was pretty excited to give it a look over. After having played it, I have some opinions.
Starting with the good, the visuals of the rendered images are stunning and the models are super attractive. I love me some big ole, fuzzy daddies and this demo hasn't disappointed me in that department. Also, Sam is really cute and him being more twunk then twink is a nice change of pace compared to some other VN's.
And now for what's kind of been bothering me. The use of Ai is pretty contentious and I've seen games get review bombed simply for that fact. The VA and the animations I'm pretty certain are Ai and although they can help make the development go quicker and save money, I think it could end up hurting in the long run. I will say that I personally didn't mind the VA too much. They sounded pretty decent, with a few instances where they were pretty deadpan.
The one that really bothered me were the animations. The Ai animations are probably the most distracting part for me and I feel like they could hurt more then help. Some of them looks decent, but with the reversing loop it just looks off at times. Secondly, the transitions from animation to render is pretty apparent since their is a pretty visible drop in quality. In this instance, I'd much rather prefer just image renders with text describing the scene. If you are set on using the Ai anaimations, then I hope that the quality can be improved on and that instead of reverse looping, just having the animation loop naturally so it isn't off putting for some.
All in all, the game looks pretty good, models are really well down, VA is decent but not horrible, and the animations needs some work to make them look more natural and transition more smoothly. I will say that for $10 on release, it seems like it'll be well worth the money.