Warning. I will make no considerations for spoilers below here. Do not read this if you have no finished the game. It is worth it, absolutely. It is freely available and genuinely one of the better stories I've recently had the pleasure of experiencing. Do yourself a favour and PLAY THIS GAME.
Alright then!
Game finished, game bought. Time to tell you my thoughts. Don't worry, across the board I loved it, though there are a few things I'd like to note.
Your sense of humour throughout this game was honestly just impeccable. -37 Will to Live will probably be a meme I keep repeating and no-one will ever understand it. You have a very good sense of humour that you apply with a nigh expert precision. The right moment, with the right editing, and the right timing. I can tell that you worked very hard on it, and I'll have more to say on it in a little bit. In particular, Todd knocking out the student and dragging them behind the bushes was fantastic and had me tearing up from laughter.
I'll alternate positive feedback and negative feedback. But I want to ask you to remember that this game had me hooked. You'll read soon to what degree as well. Please don't let the negative sides dominate your mind. You deserve to feel good about what you've achieved here.
One of the things that bothered me was, frankly, the fat shaming. Fat Jack was a comedy relief character and had it stayed with him it'd have been... not amazing, but overall great. Then Ruth happened. Every scene she was in was used to illustrate how the male characters would be unlucky to end up with her in a romantic or sexual sense. Heck, Oliver has a comedic scene that fell completely flat as he genuinely struggled to choose between a stone statue of an elephant and Ruth, in a skimpy dress, standing in front of a bed. It's just... rude. I can't call it anything else. Had you made Ruth ugly to the point of it parodying the ugly girl trope, that'd have been something else. But no, she was just fat plus not conventionally beautiful. Not cool. Young women do not need this in their lives. Perhaps the engine limited you, but it was still your choice to put her in the game as she was.
Okay, that's rough to read... Sorry. Quickly, let's move on to a positive thing!
The personalities. So, this is the big one for me! GODS I love these characters. You set them up expertly; in no time creating easily distinguishable characteristics and personality traits that were all also entirely reasonable and believable. Lauren wasn't just the jock and science girl. Judie wasn't just the nerd girl. No-one in the main cast was one-note. Not even Aiko, and she got oh so little time. Having the girls already be comfortable, and very friendly, with the main character was such a sight for sore eyes. That made for such a wholesome and good feeling place the start the story in. I am not exaggerating when I tell you now that, all sex parts aside, these are some of my favourite characters in storytelling from the past decade. The attention to consistency, the individual quirks, not relying on tired tropes. Chef's Kiss, Caribdis. Take this kind of writing into the professional business and ... you'll probably be forced to adhere to tired tropes for marketability sake, but that's mainstream media's fault. If they just let you do your thing, I know that whatever you made would be good. And I'd be right there for it. Moreover, you made me believe in the fantasy that these girls were being charmed, ever so slowly, by the MC, in a somewhat realistic way (more on the somewhat in a bit). They didn't just fall all over themselves to get dicked just because it's a porn game and COME ON LETS START THE PORN ALREADY. I could believe the romance aspect wholly. The denial, the slow growth of emotions, breaking down inhibitions over a long period of time...
Yeah, loved it. Next point!
So here's a negative one. There were no "good" male characters aside from the main character.
Todd and Jason were assholes, (no the spray on Todd does not count, being forced into being nice is not a good look),
Jack was okay but was just a comic relief character start to finish,
Oliver was introduced for the purpose of being a pathetic playboy with no redeeming qualities, and to reinforce how into the MC the girls were, so he definitely doesn't qualify as a likable male character.
Every other male character is either scummy, a criminal, a villain, a drug dealer, a mass murderer (sorry Mike, I love you!), or has 1-2 scenes in the whole game.
I know, limited time, and male characters aren't important in a porn game, but I think it is important to not fall down the trap of making every male side character serve an antagonistic or comedic relief character. What's sad about this is that you already have a character who could have filled this role; Jason! In this iteration he's a less-violent version of Todd. But imagine if instead Jason was Todd's best friend, but also trying to slow down Todd's violent tendencies (before getting swept up in them). Once Todd got sprayed, the violence stopped being important anyway. Jason didn't serve a role anymore. There were a lot of opportunities to tell a background story with him, maybe involving Olivia, and so doing presenting a positive, traditionally likable male character who is not the main character. Being a good person without being the main character shouldn't be an oddity in my opinion.
Yikes, that went long. Second to last positive note I have, then three minor things I just wanted to mention, alright?
God. Damn. Your pacing. Hollywood could stand to learn from you how to use tension and release. Your pacing was spot on, you have a fantastic sense for when, and how, to increase the stakes and tension, and when to release it. When to introduce a question, add a mystery, and when to resolve one of them. I had no idea that I needed the game show scene, but I did. It came at just the right time. Your skill at alternating what is happening, where the focus lies, when to pull out the jokes and when to put them the F away is remarkable. You don't see that often. A lot of writers will see a serious situation and think you need to, HAVE TO, put in comedy relief. But you avoided this, you kept the pressure on when it needed to be there and the serious scenes, such as the hospital, were all the better for its. I have nothing but praise for you. I do think the church scene with Judie was a bit abrupt, but perhaps that was needed to hammer home that yes, this is serious, no, this is not a b-plot, this is actually happening. Anyway, yeah, you have a fantastic capacity for introducing side plots, reasons for people to be in places that keep in line with their personalities, and then introducing those situations at the right times to keep you hooked. No joke, I finished this game in just 3 days, and it only took me that long because I needed to recharge!
Speaking of recharging, damn.
You know how to use the HoneySelect engine, don't you? Wow.
It was unfortunate that you were somewhat inconsistent in showing what and how many alternate views were available, and honestly the "penetrate her" prompts were more an annoyance because they only showed up sometimes and I always had to move my mouse, taking me mentally out of the scene, but dang. The angles were very good. The animation was solid throughout and obviously just kept getting better. You just kept amazing me with what you could put together, and how creative you could get with it. This game would have a place on my drive even for just the porn scenes.
Okay. Time for minor end notes.
So, was the MC, uhhh, using demon powers? About halfway through I got the idea that, maybe, it was because of his fragment of the demon soul that all the girls were flocking around him. And that raised all kinds of moralistic questions about free will. Every girl seemed to become essentially charmed and horny the moment his dick got involved, pretty much always resulting in them going further than they initially said they would. As if they weren't in a normal state of mind. I imagine it wasn't your intent to give that idea... but only because it never got addressed in the game. I think this could have been addressed near the end, with the MC being worried he's forcing people, and Judie and Lauren talking him down that they feel like they are making their own decisions, and that is enough for them.
The early parts of the game had relatively little sound. After an opening with so much (fantastic!) background music, this got weird. I ended up checking my headset a few times, see if the audio was working. I imagine that's something you learned from already, though.
Last bit: The pregnancy question at the start is a bit... weak? I didn't know what the implication was. Girls who were pregnant, full stop? Scenes of giving birth? Impregnation and consequences? Sex scenes with obviously pregnant girls? There's a lot of things you can assume there, and some you'd be okay with, some you wouldn't be. You might want to check out the game Ravager on this site, the content didn't gel with me, but the at-launch information piece/questionnaire about what fetishes you would and would not be okay with seeing was downright the best and most respectful way I've seen these things handled so far. In particular how there is context given for each fetish. Ravager proves that you don't need to spoiler things to give people a fair heads up about what's in the game.
I want to reiterate that, all in all, this is a superb game, with fantastic storytelling, lifelike characters, excellent pacing, and a truly amazing sense of humour. I enjoyed 99% of my time with it, and will remember this great gem of a game and story for many years to come. If I had friends I could recommend a porn game to, I would recommend this above all others I've found so far. You've more than earned the 20 euros I donated. I wish you all the best, and I am looking forward to seeing what you'll do with Eternum.
Stay healthy, stay safe, and please; keep working your magic.