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Ok....so there is a lot of mellodramatic stuff here, not sure about how lauded everything about it is getting... but I think for something which is clearly inspired by a bunch of other things... it is not done poorly.

The cases, murder, incest... the mystery of the serial killer.... the secret government programme... the drama of very mature themes like incestuous r*pe and such... it could all be REALLY badly done.

This does not do that, does not mishandle them so badly in strays in to the offensive. But it is not anything groundbreaking either. I found myself skipping the back end of a lot of conversations... and occasionally I needed scroll back.... but MOSTLY I did not because it went exactly as I suspected.

The twists were interesting... though the last one seems to be ... idk... tbh, I just do not vibe that has any significant meaning... OK.. so someone is someone else's offspring? Cool beans. That guy is the guy who knew the other guys, including thee guy who might be a bad guy, and those guys did bad things for what they though was good reasons for Uncle Sam... then went away.... but the offspring's father brought the programme back, and the offspring is his child... and ... Ok.. yeah.... so um... OK?

But even with all this drama... all this edgy epicness.... there seems to be a lot less sex than an AVN this long should have.

That is the MOST important part of an AVN, and in this instance, A... or ADULT... means ADULT CONTENT (not mature content or adult themes, I can list a dozen VN format games which deal with the same subject matter as this one, throw in Genocide and War Crimes and suicide and mental illness of all kinds too for that matter... which are NOT classed a Adult Media, because they have NO explicit sexual content... and the Adult bit in Adult Visual Novel means the same as in Adult Film, or Adult Bookstore.. not adult themes).

What there was was pretty well done. But there was NOT much this deep in to the game.

I get it is a Romance AVN...but if you want a man to buy a cow, you need to let him taste the milk... preferably MORE than ONCE.

Also... like.... if I am NOT in to Armenian chicks because I Kardashians wrecked them in my eyes.... what is a man meant to do for an LI in this one? The comment blow me nails it with this Jaime slapper.... that is dead end central.... and then there is the Offspring.... who turns out to be that..... and then there is the Blonde Pocket Rocket who SHOULD be calling you Daddy... but instead... well... let me not ruin anything.

Yet this feels like all I have then, is the Cop, who is not my type....I mean, most of them ARE NOT, like...Jaime would have been had she actually been ride or die instead of just chasing what cannot have until she catches it..then like a grey hound who catches the rabbit, is over it. But blondie was too.... pure... and ...something... I just go the vibe she'd be ... to self orientated and not the sort to be second fiddle a career man and rising star in the world of law... but that moot anyway.... Offspring seemed to be like she was, actually at heart, and demure and loving, tender, caring girl... who just had to harden up and be a boss girl.. who COULD have complimented the MC.... until she kicked him out her apartment. From then, she was nothing to me. But all three of them, were all more attractive than Cop lady.

I might have missed something but at no point did I see a path get with the Senators assistant... even though she was only in it later on... maybe she'd have been cool. Or Korean Woman... whatever her name is...I mean, I know she is married with kid.... but she might have been some fun, I would have been prepared to destroy that in a haze of lust. Even the DA, big boss lady, who forbids the MC contact with certain people... or the little dark skinned ringlet haired jjunior prosecutor he does the Murder case with.... she looked like fun.

But NOPE....none of them were on the menu...leaving only ONE of the four main LIs who is NOT, had not proven to be, WHOLLY incompatible with the MC.... and she is the least attractive of them all.

I mean, I seemed to have not had enough rizz to take home the girls at the bar... which sucks... there should be some clues for getting rizzy enough to ace that... I might have liked that, they were both cute... and it would be one more sex scene, which this game needs more of badly....but I was not allowed that one.

Nah... basically this feels like the Dev is foisting ONE choice on you. The only one that seemed .... normal.. and not going to complicate your life, and did not treat you like trash. I do not like that in a game.

2 Stars for the story.

Maybe like.. a solid 6 out of 10, for now at least, might try it again when done.

knuglidi11 hours ago(+1)(-1)

There is lot of room in the AVN tent and lots of different stories within it. Sorry it's not the epic brainless fuck fest you were looking for.

It was obvious from your comments months ago that you weren't going to enjoy it.

Hope you find something you would like.

Apis48 hours ago

Meh, fuckfests are the BEST AVNs for sure, and they DO NOT need to be Brainless.... such a term is always slung about with them, but the BEST games in the Genre are Harem/Poly fuckfests....yet also incredibly well written and conceived, just saying

...but even with a Romance/Monogamy AVN with limited sex, you need something to fall back on. My real problem is not only is there a limited roster of LI's... which CAN be a good thing, if they are impeccable goddesses which really force you to feel torn and unsure who the MC should choose (though there needs be enough sex that you know that part is golden no matter whom thy choose).... but evidently, three out of four are 'Bad' choices.

One is an IMPOSSIBLE choice... even when you try to not care (hey, I invited her on the Wine Tasting vacation, because she felt like it worth pretending things were not what they actually were, but she did not go for it)...so that was a dead end. One is a Dog that catches the car, and then does not know what to do with it, doesnt even pee on the tyre. One is basically untrustworthy and in cahoots with people who are way too dangerous to want anything to do with. That leaves ONE option.

Even with 'rich' story, what it all actually boils down to, is thus far, five chapters deep, there's only seemingly ONE love interest which is NOT problematic, and there is NO real side women (well you get a random encounter at a bar, but I had apparently not been cool enough to go with them), no plan Bs. If you could have a fling with Korean Girl, or Black Junior DA or like.. Anna was it? Or even the big boss lady..... until you accepted you had to choose the best of a bad bunch or something... well that'd be OK. But there is no options there.

That leaves this a Romance AVN which goes that pathway of extreme constraint and consequences, no poly or Harem moments even if then tightening to monogamy..... and they exist.... but, unlike the BEST which make that choice and play out that way (though yes, for me that is the worst way an AVN can go)... it also lacks the one thing which makes them passable, namely that one gorgeous, loyal, eager, willing, ride or die bitch, forever yours, fallback option. That BFF-FWB sidekick chick who even often facilitates the encounters with main LIs, who will do anything for the MC, even watch him fall in love with someone else...though she is in love with him more than anyone... because she loves him so much she wants him to have all he wants.

That is critical in a game like this, because the more complicated a slow burn the story, the more complicated, unique, individual and deep the LIs, the more chance that actually, none of them will be worth it, all of them could be problematic for any given player in their own way. Like for me in this. One puts her career equal to her love life, or more, in advance of it, or even of the MCs, one is unstable and full of BS..proven when she kicks out the MC in a given moment, one is not willing to sacrifice everything for love. proven by her NOT coming on that wine tasting vacation .... embrace the taboo bitch, or get lost I say.... and one seems to be a Kardashian homage... ewwwwwwwww. So a nice fallback, plan B, simple, monodimensional, but hot, and DTF BFF to focus on... even if a cliche and boring and not much depth to her, with little direct importance to the story....is essential in such games... because that leaves the player a participation award at least.

Nothing worse than playing this kind of AVN only to discover the entire batch of LI's are horrible choices with terrible personalities that the player themselves, finds unattractive, and so would not choose any of them. I mean, for me, choosing the one I chose, the one you can offer the wine tasting to... was basically me choosing the best of a bad bunch, and look at how that turns out even once you DO the pull the trigger. So if I am going to go down the story rich monogamy romance AVN path, and that one be one with very deep long blown out story, and very limited roster of LIs, and thus have very high potential for them to all be repulsive in some way... then having that one participation award chick, that can be a fallback choice, that gives players SOMETHING for the time spent on the game, is CRITICAL.

If this game had that, one 'cant go wrong' option, always hovering about in the wings, just in case all the main LIs are fucking useless.. and for me, they turned out to be.. it would be pretty good. Sadly it does not, so it just wasted my time even when I tried to give it a chance.

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