Posted on: December 9, 2024
Unfallen_Satan
Verified ownerGames: 606 Reviews: 78
We are lucky to have this on GOG
I bought this game shortly after it came out on GOG because it was I think the highest rated AO game on Steam at the time and a top seller. I played a few minutes in the beginning and wasn't impressed. I thought it was going to be a shallow college f**kfest. So I put it off. I missed out. To be sure, there is a lot of sex. And a big part is frat life, though having never joined one, I don't know how accurate it is. However, it is not shallow. Here are some positive highlights: 1. A great male friend to the MC, the kind I wish I have more in real life. He gives some sage advice on life. You have a lot of fun, whacky adventures together. 2. Some genuinely interesting personal relationships. I see a lot of exotic characters in adult games, but interesting relationships are rarer. 3. A lot of humor, and most of it not slapstick. 4. Some of the best female models I've seen in a Ren'Py VN. Rarely cartoony. And the skin textures and body shapes in sex scenes really add to the realism. 5. Great music. 6. Despite not knowing if it's accurate, a sample of college frat life that most people don't have, that after playing, made me feel maybe I missed out, despite the hazing. 7. Some minigames that I actually found intellectually challenging and in different ways, but never annoying. 8. Some of the most balanced discussions on political correctness I have ever seen in a game, even AAA GOTY games. My only major complaint is that the DIK system begins to feel arbitrarily restrictive starting in Chapter 3, and going to 4. You could potentially miss out on a major plot line by making seemingly innocuous decisions. I would have, had I decided to smoke a joint. And you could miss out on a lot of the sex scenes. Ok, my other major complaint is the MC's internal struggle in Chapter 4 felt out-of-the-blue. Having experienced what he did, I kept asking, "What's [my] problem?" It resolves ok at the end, but I had to endure it for a while. I can't wait to play Season 2.
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