HuniePop

It is a game to play for the dialogues and end up with some quirky ideas on what hooking up is.

Maybe it's because this is the first puzzle game I've played in a while, but I'm having more fun than I was expecting.

the "reward" pics are pretty lame tho

I enjoy match3 games, some more than others if they have great art design and/or unique and interesting stories added on. This game (and others in the same series) has ok match3 elements but I was very turned off by the personalities of all the females. The trope of having to prove yourself by lavishing the girls with gifts and praising them with the right words only to have them slowly treat you with increasing levels of civility just seems like dating 101 from the stone age. Most of the girls act like princesses far above your station in life. Some of them are outright cruel to the protagonist with cutting comments and derision. These are girls I'm supposed to want to "conquer" though the use of gifts and manipulation? Not me. I've never been the slightest bit socially interested in cruel people of any gender so I certainly would not be interested in spending time "softening them up" by buying them gifts or conversing with them in ways they find pleasing. I realize this is all probably far too serious of a critique for a silly match3 game, but I was so repulsed by the presentation of the females as superior prizes to be won no matter how poorly they initially treat you, that I wanted to add my opinion. I consider the whole relationship dynamic in this game to be archaic and pernicious.

The match 3 system is addictive enough to keep your interest. The characters & dialogue are written just well enough to not bore you and the game doesn't take itself particualrly seriously. Whether you enjoy the humor is a matter of personal taste. And let me address the elephant in the room: the unlockable pin-ups. The game doesn't contain any hardcore porn, just anime nudie pics. Nothing you can't find by simply typing 'hentai' into image search. There's even an uncensor patch freely available if you wanna remove dem panties. Is HuniePop the end of human decency? Is it another nail in the coffin that once was feminism? ...Nah. It's harmless, brainless smut. Also cookie points for letting you play a female protagonist in case your preference swings more towards yuri.