HuniePop is run of the mill in every sense of the phrase. The match 3 portion is engaging enough, and kitting out your selection of date gifts adds a bit of strategy as the game gets more difficult, but in the end you can approach pretty much every puzzle scenario in the same way to succeed, and often (as is the case with many match 3s) you can just get very lucky. However, occasionally you do have an exciting game that comes in close to the wire. As a match 3, it's just totally fine. There's nothing particularly innovative or interesting about it. It's serviceable. As pornography (this is after having installed the patch to uncensor the game), there's nothing you will see here that won't be better than what you can find in 5 minutes of perusing the internet for hentai. The art is high quality, that is for sure, but there is no shortage of high quality anime smut available for free on the internet, so you might find yourself wondering why you're going to spend 5 matches (minimum) per girl (so 60 matches in total) to unlock 48 images that range from PG to ecchi to straight up hentai. It might be for the "dating" elements, but the game falls flat in that regard as well. None of the characters are especially interesting, and while they all have distinct personalities a lot of the conversation options are simply questions like "how tall are you" or "what is your favorite color?" No joke, there is nothing going on here. It would have been nice if the women in the game had more interesting stories that revealed themselves over the course of the 5 dates, so that you could get some sense of who the characters were on the road to unlocking the porn, and then they could have added all the filler for post-game shenanigans, but that's sadly not the case. As it is it just becomes a grind to finish all the dates and then after getting all the art you unlock a harder difficulty that is there for what reason exactly? TLDR: I finished it, it wasn't great.
