Technical/Mechanics:

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There’s not really much to this game as it is a visual novel. It offered very little in the way of branching choice. There is one involving your family, but as it takes everyone involved with your “Evil” Dad, it probably fucks over several possible relationships. Maybe even the one with your sister. I don’t know as I went the let’s not be outright antagonists option instead. I liked his assistant, sue me.

Other than that, the branching choices consist so far of solely which girl you like, and how far you may or may not want things to progress. However, the problem is choosing no doesn’t lock them from future content. Choosing yes to all will certainly get you screwed down the road – just not in the fun way. Or at least, not only.

For example, you can choose to bed your eighteen year old band mate, and later in the story the game makes it quite clear she’s probably Bi. At least, bi curious. There’s a distinct difference. You can probably get away with a three way with her.

However it’s not implemented. You can invest in a path with your boss, who is implied strongly to have a crush on her boss. Since she’s a girl, and possible invested in you, that might also be a three way to come. I don’t know, and I’m sure there are going to be future consequences to trying.

You can focus on your sister’s best friend, but rejecting her probably won’t go well for continued relations with the one family member you think you can trust.

Or you can go with a barista, who doesn’t have much content yet, or her black more overt friend who skips right to the sex and has only one scene. You can also pursue a nurse student looking to be a doctor, who’s a better choice than the wild nymph she first seems.

Problem being control-freak Mommy, and the direct option to pursue her as well, comes right after deciding to commit to a real relationship with her more vulnerable daughter.

There would be a threesome in the end but I didn’t know that because of how the characters are presented.

So in conclusion of this part, two points. The creators did a great job with the art and the investment angles. You grow and get to know these women in incrementally responsive bonds of relationship. However, it should be made clear whether this is a harem game. Or that it most certainly is not. One allows freedom to pursue all paths at once.

The other, accepts multiple playthroughs as necessary right off the bat, but you know that going in. I don’t have a problem with the art, it was good enough to grant kudos to. Aside from the story and character developments, it is the only major technical feature to speak of.

Story:

There isn’t all that much of one. As far as the deeper core goes. You are the free-spirit of the family who has untold – literally, it’s very vague – amount of power and influence. He was never stated to be a mos boss, but your father is controlling and conniving enough.

Apart from one contrived plot point that’s meant to humanize and fails because it comes off the side, and far too late, he’s thoroughly been a major dick to you. You’re forced to be the “pull up my boot-straps” type who scrounges to the top from the very bottom.

Now, I don’t technically have a problem with riches to rags to riches under my own power stories… but in the music business, after Knapster; yeah I see the antagonist’s point. There’s a reason I don’t actually have an English degree guys. It wasn’t boredom, or lack of respect for the pedigree.

You of course are certain that you’ll succeed, and of your band’s talent (because we’ve never heard that before) It paints you as very much like your father, and it’s subtle. The fact you can choose to pursue all girls at once might also, and again, it’s very subtle. I like that it’s something you have to actually consider and can be firmly blind to.

Now, aside from that, the story only lets you take baby steps to the end goal so far. I can see dependent on choice investments, several branches that would be NTR to someone playing who invested in the character, but in certain rejected paths chosen to see where they’d lead, can’t actually call it NTR.

I do like they don’t all instantly want to gobble your shaft, but for a couple females making availability more clear from the start, would help. Jade I’m looking at you. She’s mysterious enough in past already started in the music world, and that’s another point.

She failed once, so why does she think this time will be better? Is it the power of the MC’s presence, his money she shouldn’t know about… the ahem, massive tent he sometimes might be sporting??? We just don’t know. I’d mark it as one with potential for both power fantasy and break the woobie. The family business angle being more welcome to the dark side, cause we all know how romantic soul-sucking, blood-drinking ‘work before everything else’ is, am I right?

Again to conclude, perhaps a mark of the style in game from the start is recommendable. I don’t mind pitfalls as much, if I can see them coming. It makes it worse when you know you might be able to pursue all, but you can just tell… down in the pit of your black little heart, it’s going to bite you in the ass by the end. Of course, that might just be the developer’s ‘evil’ dungeon master, so far be it for me to decry the fact. It might be best to keep in mind reality then.

Yes, a rockstar can get many and varied “groupies.” Almost all of them certainly willing to fuck the unholy stars out of him. Even do things she’d never normally allow, but answer me this; how many rockers end up in long-standing successful relationships if they go the path of one cock to rule them all, and all the kitty for me.

Conclusion:

At the end, the game is surprisingly deep as far as investments of the future yet to be made. I can see many branching paths to make a labyrinth. Which can, but is not always guaranteed to, be a good thing. The story is well enough crafted and the art is very well done.

The major focus in girls is obviously your young band mate. She does have the problem of being most earnest – maybe – but slowest to progress. Here is a tip though, and it goes for all developers. We all already know what it’s like to have to wait on pins and needles for something we really want. Nobody likes it, and yes I get she’s ‘innocent.’ Debatable as it is. Thing is, it shows she really wants him too, and is the same horny teen, if she lets him take more of the lead. If she trusts he’s not going to harm her, because that young, she SHOULD NOT have that instinct.

Older women get that, so I’m giving the pass to Jane, a younger woman with that much passion and mostly obvious investment, should not be so damned vexing to pursue. She doesn’t know how much competition she has, but the fact she has some – and she should be aware that it’s possible just from what she feels about the MC in general – should make her more willing to cede sooner, and cement more of a place in his heart. The first relationship is often passionate, sometimes quick to burn out, and usually, at the end, it’ll seem worth it. Until experience and wants truly manifest and call to light the problems that some never really work out.

I’ll say for my last point, you can tease with paetron bait to a certain extent, but it should never be with the main girl. She’s the dream girl, not the tease. You can’t put something wicked on that high a pedestal if you have any survival instinct at all. Overall, it’s a good game with potential. I’d recommend putting it on the playlist once, and hopefully, you don’t think you’re getting Rick-Rolled.

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For starters, the switch to Ren’py is a good one as visual novel style suits many of the games in this genre a lot better.

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For most of the “rpg mechanic” based story-driven games, it’s a good flow.

Now, as to the story, you are again the lackluster blank slate token. I don’t (always) have a problem with that. In this case, there are two paths.

One gives you over time, a more dominant perspective and control of your ‘harem’ that you spend time building.

You are a college student, and there are a few mysteries the story tries for that I think could be a little less inferred.

Some things in the structure should be made clear from the start. For example, it’s best not to create two paths, and have one of the said paths take multiple variants.

I’ll explain. In the dominant path, you would expect that you end up being dominant. Right? Good. Still with me then.

It should be fairly straight forward in the writing at that point that the MC is dominant.

However, when you take an extremely dominant stance with your originally more “alpha” new best friend and tell him to stay away from your family, of course he doesn’t listen. And you don’t get the option to punch him and make it a LOT more clear there are consequences.

I also have a problem with the cuckold thing. It still seems to be implied to be happening as you try to build the dominant path.

This is massively confusing in context and could be easily mended by simply stating in the intro tutorial. That explains there are multiple paths, an option that allows any given player to choose if they want to be the “alpha” or the “Beta.”

There should never be a question of which outcome you’re going to get. Most people will have their tastes clearly defined by the age they want to play this type of game, and I personally did not like the question mark as to where the dominance lay.

I did see some improvement, but for the two or more hours it took me to get through all that is currently in this update, there was not much actual sex.

He is still a virgin by the end of the game so far. In dreams doesn’t count, and if a person is playing this game, titillation only goes so damned far. Games of this nature are meant to be fun.

They are not meant to be challenging, and I absolutely detest when a developer does a multiple-choice questionnaire as a mini-game.

If I wanted to think that hard about whether I was going to have a shot to win the girl, I’d bother being on the computer a lot fewer hours guys.

People get enough frustration sexually and otherwise in reality, and there is something detrimental to adding too much “immersion” or “realism” into this genre of gaming.

There is also the problem of how the teachers act in the story because that IS a point of realism I would have expected to be there. It’s not.
The calculus teacher is a dom who takes one hot girl’s skirt down – she’s barely wearing underwear – and beats her arse bloody with a switch. First problem legal consequences.

Pretty much immediately after said student got home I guarantee it. No dean, no matter how corrupt or lackadaisical, would EVER allow a teacher to do this to a student who’d paid tuition.

Hell, they can get fired for a freaking hug these days. A hug! Another teacher is basically either a stripper or prostitute and of course, she’s the Latin bio teacher.. but I digress.

As I said, if it was clear that the Dom path belongs ONLY to the MC, and/or he is presented with a CLEAR way to detract those who hold certain authority over the objects of his attentions in-game, I would be a lot happier with the course of gameplay.

That girl bent over the desk to be beaten is the “current best girl” of your new alpha friend, but you can (sort of) one-up him.

Though there is nothing definitive to it right now, and I think she’s mostly there to be dragged out as all hell.

If you as the MC and a supposed Dom path can’t actually make your “best buddy” back off chasing your step-sister or step-mom, how in the ever-living holy hell are you supposed to “steal” his girl? I mean, it’s not rocket science.

It’s called suspension of disbelief. That calc teacher may as well be teaching rocket science though. And, since she’s a Dom character herself, I doubt very highly that you’ll ever get the option to “break” her.

I personally don’t go in for that kind of dominance. It’s actually a show of weakness when one thinks about it.

The same with humiliation, but I know there’s probably a lot of people who’ll disagree with my view on that.

All told, I’m mostly disappointed here because the story does have some potential as a power fantasy, escapist release.

That’s what it should be, what it can be, and what I hope it actually will be. At least one day when it’s fully done. The artwork is well enough done. The mystery needs to be a little more concrete as far as being able to solve it. Also, the paths could use a weed whacker for clearing the maze of options that fuck something over.

Why for example on the “alpha path” do I want my females to be corrupted or sluts for any reason? The only one a harem centre Dom would want them focused on at all is him. Plain, simple. At least, it should be.

As I’ve stated, there is a bit of progress that implies they grow in interest. However it’s far too subtle right now, and far too slowly done. I do see a diamond to work with, for those that like the power theme, and don’t mind a gradual growth.

It’s just that right now, there’s still a hell of a lot of coal to dust off before it really gets there.

Oh well, at least the beach has some spectacular views, am I right Gamers?

I’d catch you all on the flip-side, but I’m really not one to tan.

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This game is very much like the REALLY old school sims. There are three main stats you must have to get anything done in game. Charm, Knowledge and Fitness.

However, the means to improve is minuscule and randomly given. That’s the first problem. The second is that it has a stat system outside of those three things; hygiene, hunger, and energy.  You start as a loser at a dead-end job. Meet two girls who frankly aren’t that invested or endearing at the start. Quirky does not mean someone you can invest in.

You’re backstory as the sad sack continues as your first roommate moved out with his girl, who was also your roommate. Whom you naturally had a crush on.

She chose the other guy. For some reason, she’s still in the bloody game. I’d call that choice the end point and let people focus on other matters. There are many.

One time of the five I’ve installed this highly frustrating juggling act, did I manage to get anywhere near the sex. This most recent one in fact. Ask me how and I couldn’t tell you.

EVERY thing is random. It’s easier to code, yes. It’s also badly done. The computer often put me in situations where I could not get any of the outcomes I wanted, because I had not enough of any of the given stats above. Or not enough money.

Also, the dates… just, Jesus. If, by some miracle you can figure out what she likes to get to 95% or better, you win sex. Except that you have to have the energy to do that as well or one of the two is going to end the date.

So you lose. Someone needs to tell whoever designed this that a bit of difficulty is fine, but grinding like that and then not just granting a pass to the sex, it’s almost criminal.

The game is not that large. For the fact it has now about eight girls that you can choose to get with. Again, if you can be bothered. They all have different likes and dislikes. It seemed to me even with the walkthrough that I swear to god has not been updated in the four times I’ve seen the game be posted to the site, you will be getting a lot more negative stats than positive ones.

I think the coding has gone wrong somewhere, and yes that’s exactly why I’m not a fan of Skyrim style let’s just randomize everything. Urgh.
The plus side is, you can get three girls of the number pregnant. I admit I didn’t play near far enough to figure out if there was consequence to that, but I’m sure they’ll add one. Hard. I did for both Sasha and Bree, but I was in the middle of trying to get Bree’s second date before I found a pregnancy test. It took one time.

I can’t say if that’s random, but it’s the first time I’ve seen that in any game. I admit, since it actually is my ‘fetish’ and I don’t mind harems, I can’t mark that as bad. I’m just not sure it’s good either. Since there is a definite problem with all the malus’ in the coding, I don’t doubt it could be means to go to a darker path in story eventually.

I don’t know if there’s stuff for threesome marked in game. There might be, but lord knows I’ll never see it. If you miss one date, you lose 10 points with any girl. If you barely had enough to start dating, that’s going to take a LONG time to recoup.

For the record, I don’t mind some necessity of realism in any game. I don’t mind having the food, the shower the energy. BUT, each thing should have been one tick. Each time you did those things it should have filled the damned bar.

A human does not need to eat that often in a day. Note; I said NEED to eat. Yes, you will be hungry but it’s not like you will pass out from not eating for six hours. I’ve gone up to a day and a half at times and it’s not fun, by any stretch, but I’m not dead.

Penalizing the player by not having a defined icon that doesn’t disappear if you go at the wrong time, doesn’t help anyone build their defining stats up. There is a fight scene to the intro to one of the girls who is patreon based, that you need fifty fitness or twenty-five if you take the martial arts trait, to win. That’s ridiculous for how early you get the scene in many cases.

That alone has made me uninstall it twice. Making the stats drain too often, or too far in one go, is the same issue in different skin.

The game does not have a lot of actual event content to it, and it feels like the devs only made gaining stuff you need so hard, to pad it out. If the girls you lived within rl were that indifferent to you, attractive or not I guarantee you’d not bother trying to invest in their lives.

So really, what was the point of this game? It certainly isn’t fun, and that’s more the shame because I can see it has a fair potential.

I think at the end, that’s what blazes my embers the most. Lightening up on the curve, and not punishing the player for wanting to see the sex scenes someone took a good deal of care to draw out, would be a good start to achieving that potential.

Also, straightening out the ex roommate story line to be less complex would as well. Make it more clear she’s not as certain as she could be about running off to marry captain hot pants… or make her blind in love, refusing to listen and broken in consequence.

Which would be when you make the move. The main character should not have further involvement with her than that.

She ripped out his heart. Would you, as any kind of person seeking to build yourself back up, chase the female for being the ‘one who got away.’ Maybe it’s just me but they made this poor bastard one of the worst kinds of masochists. As a fan of dating sim games, there are some things that just don’t need to be that complex.

Or that anal, for realism. Most people have enough imagination to at least consider what it would be like to be in those shoes. Immersion doesn’t need to be I’m actually walking in his, exactly like he would people. T

hat’s not what the word means. As to all the side characters, I would have left them out until the mains were completely done. As in the whole story, and you end up in any given actual relationship including marriage or a poly agreed bond. Either way, they are superfluous attempts to throw a wider net. You don’t have to chase them, but it’s still annoying that most of them are paetron bait or half finished.

My conclusion is simple. The artwork is good. The story has potential and the writing might be hot enough. I don’t know, I skipped over much of it. I’ve installed this game I’m fairly certain for the last time. I wish I could say there was more to recommend it. It’s not bad, if this is the creator’s first attempt, but it’s far too punitive to be called fun.

Until next time, my friends, play safe and stay wild.

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