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.