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My shortform review (v0.8.0)

Visuals

The game's renders are middling-quality. However the time saved here has clearly been used to extend the game's length (for the unaware, rendering takes a very long time).

The game uses a style of model which sits between anime and photorealistic. This is an appropriate choice given the rendering quality, but the models aren't as visually engaging as premium AVNs. The women mostly have large breasts, which is fine by me, but small-titty lovers will feel left out.

Writing

The plot starts slowly, but progressively gets more interesting. However, it is never the game's strongest point, as the game feels much more focused on telling each of the girls' stories. Thankfully, the characters are not cardboard cut-outs. As the game progresses, it carefully balances screen-time between all the important characters, which it uses to flesh them out with backstory, personality and development. However, the game falls into the trap of including too many women, reducing the amount of time which can be given to each one. This doesn't feel as egregious as something like My New Family, because the mc is not (yet) in anything approaching a serious relationship with anyone, so there isn't a feeling of disconnect between who the mc should be paying attention to versus where he is spending his time. But there are some women (notably Paige) who feel they should have been given more attention, due to their importance in the plot and the mc's backstory.

The mc is written without a strong personality. This avoids a common problem in AVNs, where strong mc personalities often lead to irritation or uncomfortable player-avatar disconnect. However, the mc's dialogue does sometimes come across as bland. The mc is intended to be morally upright in the plot, and thankfully this does come across in the writing. 

The line-to-line writing is strong. Dialogue feels natural and conversations aren't too short or too long. However, the style of speech does sometimes feel too similar between characters, though this is a common problem even among tier 1 AVNs.

Decisions

The game operates using a choice/points based system. Currently, there don't seem to be any major key choices impacting the story, and the points don't often make much of a difference to which scenes you see. In dialogue selection, there is normally either a "correct" choice which gives you the most points, or none of the choices give you any points and only change the dialogue slightly, or all of the options can be selected one after another before continuing. There are only a handful of places where there are several choices, none of which are truly "correct", which have an impact beyond a small dialogue change. This is certainly better than some games where the developer wastes too much time writing a bunch of branches and so confusing the story and delaying the game (I'm looking at you Where the Heart Is). We can expect to see some previous choices have more of an impact in future updates.

Sex

Sex scenes are frequent, and all (or at least almost all) are extended with multiple animations. The animations aren't very sophisticated, and they are so far all very vanilla (save some optional, fun lactation play). As always, your mileage will vary with how hot you find them.

Audio

Audio consists of some nice background music and the occasional sound effect. More could be done with audio during sex scenes, and there are occasional periods without background music which could benefit from something like ambient background sound.

Verdict

A strong entry into the AVN genre, with a surprisingly long playtime and good writing. While the visuals aren't tier 1 quality and the sex scenes somewhat basic, you can expect a decently engaging story with increasingly 3D characters.

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They wrote a whole god damn essay

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Was thinking the same thing

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Gotta kind of respect it tho

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Exactly. I still wont read it, tho.