Lula: The Sexy Empire

When I first played this as a teenager it had an obvious aura of "forbidden fruit". This was back in the days when you'd have to go to a VHS store/rental to get your hands on some actually dirty stuff (and obviously, I wouldn't be allowed to these places as I wasn't 18 yet). So even animated boobs felt like "something" :D Fast forward to present, with unlimited supply of ehm, much more exciting content just few clicks away and the "Sexy Empire" has completely lost its charm. I mean the art style is still decent but there's too many glaring flaws for this to be enjoyable for actual gameplay. In part 1, there's very few actions you can do so it quickly gets boring and repetitive. At least you get to part 2 rather quickly. This is probably the "best" part of the game but it has some serious issues on its own. Mainly, the resource management in this game is TERRIBLE. It's easy to go bankrupt at the very beginning when you don't know how to finish (and sale) a movie ASAP - but once you start selling anything, the ammount of cash flowing your way basically takes away any challange - the game actually becomes laughably easy clicking simulator (with really clunky UI at times - especially buying sex toys was a chore indeed). The game also does really bad job reflecting (or explaining) the impacts of micromanagement - e.g. every staff member has a "rating" (usually reflected by their wage) - but I didn't notice ANY impact of hiring more qualified staff for the same position - they don't do their jobs faster and there's basically no other metric that would tell you why they're "better" (really, it felt like I should have just hired the cheapest person for each job and stick with that). I ASSUME that the rating of your adult stars is tied to incomes from your movies but since you really start making insane ammount of money really fast it didn't really matter either. Similarly, buying any but the cheapest equipment felt useless... I got to part 3 and gave up. It's just not fun.

Easy to play and not complicated story wise.

Theres 3 stages and each is progressively more complex and harder. It also progressively increases how long it takes to get through each stage by a magnitude. The art is... very 90's and hyper sexy.

I remember playing this game a long time ago and had alot of fun with it. Becoming your own producer, Build up a empire, Name you own movies, Running the business with hiring and firing people. I tried it out again and its still alot of fun:)

I wanted to play this game for so long. And finally it was on gog. But A.D. 2018 and it would not work natively on Windows 10. If you are in the same dilemma: - Virtualise an Windows XP (get virtualbox or VMware workstation; make a new windows XP VM and install guest tools so you can drop and drag the offline installer in) - Install it - Works fine. Tested with SP2 and SP3. Remember, turn off the XP's internet adapter since it's a vacuum for nasty things.