Getting Intimate

[Ch.2 Part C] Writing: ⠀⠀⠀The game introduces our depressed MC in his flat sometime after his mother's death. Suddenly he gets contacted by his mother's friend Melinda who proposes that he moves in with her. Now what I don't understand is why does he feel grateful to her for this opportunity? He's got his own apartment and it is not established that he's struggling financially so I don't get it. I get it that he's lonely, but why wasn't he meeting new people on his own? And if he wanted to reunite with Melinda and her daughter, why didn't he down anything himself? This whole thing is just not well-explained and not elaborated enough. What I also don't get is why is he consoling HER and why does he feel sympathetic towards HER ? She's a family's friend and you're literally the son of the deceased. You should have exponentially more grief than her, so shouldn't be the other way around? Upon the meeting he goes: "Shit! Mom's illness.. Everything we went through.. It's a delicate subject for her. I should've kept my mouth shut." - this stuff boggles my mind. You had to abandon your life and work multiple jobs to pay off your mother's medical bills while this "friend" couldn't even attend her funeral and you're afraid to hurt HER feelings? WTF? He later says: "I want to make up for all the years we were apart" - why are you talking as if this is your fault? Why does he have to comfort her when she gets all soppy when it is him who suffered the most loss, not her ? ⠀⠀⠀You know, this feels awfully like the plot used to be something different and was hastily rewritten. Almost like an [incest] plot, that got quickly shut down because of [payment processors] or something, but the author couldn't actually bother to rewrite everything from scratch, hmmmm ..... curious innit? ⠀⠀⠀Besides the introduction, the loss of a mother isn't that big of deal in the narrative and doesn't generate any drama, protag is gonna casually mention it a few times but it seems like he's more traumatized by his memories of the childhood friend than his dead mother. Now what grinds my gears besides illogical intro is the dialogue. It's a combination of awkward millennial writing with zero creativity and substance and the final result is either boring or embarrassing ro read, depending on the conversation. All of the authors attempts at making funny banter fail miserably IMO. ⠀⠀⠀The way protagonist meets new girls is just plain stupid. The very next day after he settles, Melinda (or should I call her "landlady"?) already sent him on errand to return a book to a library, which is just a very lame excuse for him to meet a new girl. There he gets jumpscared by a quirky redhead who pretends to be a librarian. Then they have a long-winded small talk about whole lotta nothing at the end of which she invites him for a date out of the blue and they hook up. Then one extremely cringy word exchange in the boutique later, MC's walking down the street and some bafoon bumps into him and falls over even tho both road and the sidewalk are completely empty. Then this clown basically confesses love for our MC and hides in the nearest trash can from his angry sister. The sister approaches you and asks where he is, you can choose to tell her, then all of them eat ice cream at nearest cafe and this is how they hook up. Then MC visits his childhood friend's apartment and is greeted by her roommate, who decides to greet a complete stranger half naked, not only that, but also give him a handjob 5 minutes later. You'd think she's a slut, but no - she's a shy virgin farm girl. If you haven't lost all your brain cells yet, brace yourself - next one takes the cake. So MC's walking down the road and some hooded mugger grabs his phone and runs away. So MC catches him and it turns out it was the next love interest who claims that she stole the phone and got caught on purpose because she wanted to talk. Excuse me, what the fuck? Then she invites him to an abandoned warehouse and gives him a boobjob......... if you think this is beyond retarded - it gets worse. Turns out she's a fashion model and a celebrity and she starts sending him nudes after this incident. What? This is so wrong on so many levels man. Choices: ⠀⠀⠀Just a standard set of options for this kind of harem VNs: dialogue flavor, skip/see a sex scene and accept/reject a love interest. There are two choices which I've found interesting and they're both near the end of the current update so we don't know the consequences yet. First one is to either visit Cassandra or go back home and if you choose the latter then you don't get a piece of evidence about your missing childhood friend but instead deepen your bond with Melinda. And the second choice is to either take things slow with Cassandra or give in to lust and have sex with her on the spot - does that actually alter your relationship with her or you just skip a sex scene? Guess will have to find out later. Erotic content: ⠀⠀⠀ I wasn't impressed . The few sex scenes that we have feature too many fade outs and animations with very stiff unnatural movement. Overall stage direction for those leave a lot to be desired. Sound design could also be better, we have sound effects but they're poorly mixed, it's like they're coming from a different room, there is no reverb, no echo, no layering, nothing. Sex scene with Erica was so awkward that it left me with confusion rather than arousal. Conclusion: this VN was a letdown for me in terms of writing and porn, but I think it's looking up in the second chapter? The renders are pretty, the love interests are lovely and the soundtrack is pretty nice, i think the story is maybe getting interesting too? Idk, I'm kinda looking forward to the drama that's been teased and being cautiously optimistic about future updates. I guess we'll see.

5/5 just so I'm clear doesn't mean this is a perfect game. It's simply that I found it excellent for what it is currently. It very much is in the same vibe as intertwined (without 99% of the drama), in that there are important past events that are kept purposely obscured to push the main mystery forward. and you'll meet a friend of someone who OMG is ANOTHER girl you've already MET!!! It's done well here I think for the most part, and the dev doesn't spend too much time on flashbacks (although there are a few). I actually enjoy the faux drama of some of this because it's very mild here, and is fun to watch. The main character for the most part is charismatic, doesn't have these overly long drawn out inner monologues (although he does it more than I'd like), and generally is believable as an attractive charismatic guy, who is actually fairly introverted, but also very confident. It's a weird mix, but it mostly works. Only a couple of times was I like "holy shit man, you can't be this dense". The LIs are pretty special here actually. Some of them are truly irritating at first, and you'll be wanting to hate them very quickly. I would push through with them though, as I can see some decent payout for following through. Some are walking red flags, like a married professor, who I personally rejected eventually as it wasn't really my vibe. The rest of the LIs though are just honestly really lovable, kind people. they all have their own issues of course, but they're just really fun to be around, and the build up is fairly slow for most of them, which I like. Also, bonus in that there aren't 15+ LIs ( at least so far ). Although the main LI which drives the entire plot forward has yet to enter the picture, so that's going to be...weird. Not sure how the dev will write her into the game when you've built up all of these relationships with the other LIs. Also, bonus for having males in the game that aren't antagonistic, and actually quite funny sometimes. Overall, a fun time. Give it a shot if you're looking for a harem-esk (so far at least) game with a very player power-fantasy vibe.

Ch.2 Part C Review This is your standard "guy moves back to a childhood hometown" story. With almost all the same trifles and affectations. The osananajimi, the mother figure, etc. The story is alright, but there's not really much to it. By that, i mean that, like in most of these kinds of games, there's not much of an overarching link to everyone and everything thats happening other than "guy moves back to old hometown". you can technically build a lot off of that, but it doesn't really lead anywhere. there's the whole Lily thing, which pushes the MC towards a few other characters (Cass n Deph, in particular), but if you're not interested in those characters, he just goes and works out or does whatever the next event with the new next girl of the hour is. Most of the girls. and really most of the characters, ARE interesting to some degree, which helps this game a lot. Because you're not gunna impress the reader/player if you don't have interesting characters. But I found Dephne and Sayuri quite boring, and even though I found Sayuri mildly physically attractive, the scenes she's in don't really lend more credence to my thoughts on her personality or situation. Daphne, I'm just not attracted to at all. I usually wanna fast forward any scene with her. But characters like Beth, Cass, even Stella, much more interesting, and lead to much more interesting events. Beth is unbelievably hot, but I would have probably never engaged with someone like her IRL. However, the English dialogue is definitely in need of a pass-over by a native anglophone. As mentioned by others, it's quite stilted and strange, giving off Silent Hill dialogue moreso than shiny bright AVN type dialogue. Also, there are FAR too many ellipses in this story. like, every 3 lines of normal dialogue, 2-3 ellipses. It's absurd. It's just padding. The visuals are quite good in this, however, and several of the women are very attractive, with Beth, Melinda and Stella as standouts (the goth on the right, the dark haired mother in the middle, and the blonde on the left, in the title picture). The visuals are easily the best part of this game, and posing is decent most of the time too, but sometimes it's distracting. There are some animations, and they're inconsistent in quality. Even during the same scenes. For example, in the 2nd encounter with Beth, She blows you, and in the opening 2 animations, it looks like she's really going for it, it looks hot, she's taking it deep and making it look real. But in the next 2-3 anims, it looks like she's just kinda....wrestling with it? moving her head all around while the dick is in her mouth, instead of pistoning it like, you know, a real fucking blowjob. And supposedly the guy is feeling even better, good enough to cum. Nonsense. Overall, i think this is a great game, marred by about a third of poor decisions all throughout. 3.5/5, or 7/10.

version ch2 part c. It's a kinetic novel so the choices usually only effect if you get a lewd scene or not, or a little more backstory on a character. The renders are pretty well done. There are a few animations, not many. It seems like random characters that you meet, but as the story goes you will see how they know some other's that you do. It's like the six degrees of separation. The story has a steady pace. The main focus here is the narrative over lewd. Everything is vanila. It's not for everyone, but it wasn't a bad story of love/friendship/loss. I look forward to the next update to see where things go.

I can endure messed UI interface, boring storyline, terrible characters, as long as MC gets solid sex scenes. However, when MC shows his ridiculously huge worm-shaped penis, jiggling like crawling on the ground, I quit the game and delete it immediately. I've never seen such a disgusting dick in any adult game before.

MangoWorks has served up a compelling story, with a large cast of diverse and interesting characters. This is ambitious story-telling, with the M.C. doing his best to navigate through several multi-layered relationships. There are also some touching and beautifully written scenes, such as the sweet and meandering conversation that the M.C. and Daphne had when the M.C. first spent the night in her bedroom. The artwork is also first-rate; I particularly like the models used for Melinda and Daphne. My only concern is that the author has introduced so many characters that I fear the author won't have time to fully develop some of those characters. Nor will it be a simple matter for the M.C. to prioritize and make time for his many possible love interests. With so many attractive love interests in his corner of the world, it would seem to be quite a challenge for the M.C. to maintain his reputation as a decent and honorable man.

Thor's meat serpent! These renders are amazing, best Li is Cassandra and so far it has a decent amount of content. But by Hel's tit the lewd scenes could be done so much better. Tis animated like a discombobulated whoreson, tensions are lacking and the dialogue is confusing. You don't know if an option is suppose to be good or bad. The good dev is working diligently for now and I hope he can improve.

Only just started the game, I've seen the train ride, first night, and up to shopping the following day. Not far at all, but I do have an issue already I want to note. So, starting at 5 Stars and docking one for this. All the dialogue is stilted and awkward. Think of strangers riding in an elevator together, and neither likes awkward silences. So they're talking about the weather, local sports teams - just stunted filler. Except in this game, the woman he's staying with he grew up with her daughter for YEARS. The first thing they did when seeing each other again, after 2 years of not seeing each other, was hug. And that first night, it was like he was a nerd trying to talk up a girl he finds attractive - just awful. If you play out these lines aloud like you're delivering the scene, it is painfully obvious how unnatural it is given the history of the characters. Yes, the MC does appear to be an introvert, head down and let me work kind of guy. So he WOULD be reluctant to talk (with Daphne, appropriate), but we're talking like 10 years, if not more, with Valerie and Mel. Daily time spent at length, sleep-overs; he's practically siblings with Mel. Val was like a sister to the MC's mother. It should be emotional to talk about their feelings about the MC's mother's death and how it affected them. To not be able to be there for the MC or his mother for 2 years of a terminal illness. But the whole thing when he arrived of them wanting to "talk later" after his shower, but then didn't talk about the past 2 years, just vague apologies, minor regret, tea, and awkwardness. It plays out like they more acquaintances than near family. They even have them MC refer to them as "acquaintances" later, which given the history they (the writer/dev) gave them (Val, Mel) and the MC completely misses the definition of the word. Anyhow, the last review said this was a "slow burn" in a good way, so I'll see. But I already see a massive amount of inner monologue from the MC used as completely useless narration as a "plucky sidekick" vehicle for forced humor - again, none of it plays out like people actually behave, speak, and interact. This is all forced - you're just being told everything and not experiencing it. With good writing, it's like you're a voyeur, simply witnessing real things transpire. You get pulled into it and that's what makes you keep reading/playing/just one more turn. It's compelling. None of that is what you get when it's like a baby bird's mama chewing the food and then ramming it down your gullet and spewing. See you later, maybe... I completely swapped the girl's names. Above, Mel is the 39-year-old and Val is the 21-year-old. He called them acquaintances again... smh. Want an example of good writing? Play Origin Story. But even stuff like Being a DIK, Leap of Faith, Eterum, Pale Carnations - off the top of my head. I don't even like Being a DIK anymore, we have too, too different design disagreements, but it's well written. **Update** This may be the last one. I'm fast losing patience with this. Absolutely nothing flows naturally. I'm starting to think this was AI written, with how disjointed and chaotic this writing is. EVERYTHING is only ever "because I said so" as the basis for its existence, and they HAVE to tell you how the character's think and feel at the moment because you won't have a chance at understanding this on your own. Sure, you're in the dark about the "why" reasons for the uniqueness or issues that drives each of these characters. And one could argue that is the basis of a progression arc for characters. But again, none of this was handled with anything except a sledgehammer in the hands of a mutated toddler. I'm not sitting here intrigued by what drives Val's roommate to greet people in her underwear when someone knocks on their door and then turns around and throws herself at her roommates best friend, whom she has spoken of in detail for some time. And manages to get said best friend to also pants himself and throw himself at her, with his best friend barely a room away in the shower. Then suddenly both of suddenly kind of panic and agree to stop, and the roommate runs away. Intrigued? No, it gives me a headache. Nothing organically flowing, it's like a strobe light endlessly flashing in your eyes. Everything is like this. Meeting Daphne in the library. Meeting Stella in her Dad's boutique, then she IMMEDIATELY goes Bipolar and reverts her personality back to irrational, spoiled bitch as soon as the MC steps foot outside the Boutique. Meeting Sayuri and her brother (was he supposed to be funny? WTF even was this??). The girl who stole his phone, this is what triggered this update. HOW did she even get close enough to snatch it, with those open sight lines?? And she got HALFWAY down the alley before he even started to move or say something - is she Usain Bolt?? And what the hell is this entire meeting?? "I've got this new hot character model, but I need a scene to user her in...hmm, I'll just like my Magic 8 Ball decide how the scene goes." I'm guessing something random like that. She has no ties to anything or anyone in the story, but neither did Sayuri and Satoshi, or Daphne, or Stella - man, almost every is just randomly dropped in the game "just because". I'm losing the "slow burn" fight, quickly. This feels like a lost in translation thing, too, possibly. For one brief moment, they decided to suddenly have us know what Val was thinking while playing console games and then "POOF!" back to the MC. WHY? How was this necessary to the story and couldn't be communicated ANY other way? Plus, they disabled rollback. What a joke. What is the rationale in disabling rollback? A feature staple in almost all of these games. Is it to add gravitas to the decisions player's have in the story? All it does is force them to make additional clicks to go to Autosaves and load the most recent one. It makes your game more annoying. Next you'll be adding phantom-clicks and click-delay to be even more "artistic" and as a result more annoying. What a mess...

I have to say its a slow burn and to me that is a good thing. I love games that build up, have a bit of mystery, and the characters all show promise to develop more. Your just getting to know people in the game so I feel their true personalities will develop organically just like a real friendship or relationship. This game may very well turn into a five for me in the future and the reason for the four is that its promising, but not without some questions. I mean I get the overall story of a guy working hard and giving up his dreams for family and finding a new start. That is a great beginning and shows the character is a good and moral person (not a complete idiot or dbag like most in games here). I do have a problem with his direction. Is he going to go to school as was his original plan? Get a job? I do not know and the game does not really point to any direction outside of that was his original goal and now I do not know what he is doing. It would be a cool arc if we got to choose his major if he does go to college and that way it gives the player more agency over his choices. I am sure the developer is working hard on this and that was just where it is a 4 now, but definitely could be a five as the characters get flushed out more.

This game shows promise despite a generic beginning. The MC returns to his childhood city and moves in with his late mother’s friend and her daughter. While several attractive female characters are introduced early on, most lack depth and distinct personalities, making the story feel average. However, there’s potential for improvement—suggestions include giving characters like Stella, Sayuri, and Erika stronger, more defined traits to enhance engagement. Satori stands out as well-developed comic relief. The MC can remain bland if the supporting cast is dynamic. The game currently lacks a clear narrative or goal, which could affect its popularity unless a central purpose or mystery is introduced. Visually, the game excels with excellent renders and a solid image-to-dialogue balance. Although it's only 2 chapters released, it earns 3 out of 5 stars for now, but it could reach 4 stars if the developer continues to improve and get better with the overall story and character writing.

Getting Intimate [Ch.2 Part B] Getting Intimate is pretty cool overall. I feel a bit weird calling it "average," but at the same time, it’s not exactly excellent either. I'd say it's around a 3.5-star experience if that were a thing. The main story didn’t really grab me on a deeper level , it mostly feels like a structure to support events and character interactions. But honestly, that’s fine for what this game is going for. The girls are generally attractive. Bodies, skin, and little details are nicely done. Sometimes the faces feel a bit “plastic” to me, but that could totally just be personal taste. I’m sure the dev poured a chunk of their mental health and soul into this project and I respect that a lot. Daphne is really interesting. Erika has her moments (and scenes, hehe) — I hope she comes back at some point. Sayuri is also quite likable, though I feel a bit weird "playing a stepfather" to Satoshi, who’s barely older than the MC. Satoshi, is kind of easy-going (read: simple), is an "interesting human"... xd I’m genuinely curious where that dynamic is going… because well, it won’t be boring but I’m slightly scared of what it might become. Valerie is fine, but didn’t really stand out to me. Overall, I’d rate it as solid. It’s not weak by any means, but aside from a few standout moments, it doesn’t blow me away either. I’ll definitely be playing the next update, and I wish MangoWorks lots of success and patience! Thanks for reading.

This game is absolutely amazing! I highly recommend everyone to play it. The renders are stunning, and incredibly well-made. It offers an immersive and engaging history and experience that keeps you hooked . If you love great visuals and really hot girls, this is definitely a must-play! Cant wait to see more in the futture!

Renders are really good and some of the models seem rare in appearande. The story is all over the place and nothing makes any sense at all. The MC is a 23y old 10y old. Beautiful renders and the models are really good. But the story is so weird, not one of the interractions in these 2 chapters make´s any sense at all. Wasted opportunity.

The game's pretty and all but it suffers from rather hard story issues really holds it back I saw a video once and it was the South Park creators talking about what you need for a good story. They said something like "When you have a set of story beats and you can put the words “and then” in-between each one–“you’re fucked. This games whole story is basically scenes sandwiched between "and then"'s and it really suffers as a result. So the story is like "you go back to a place and then you meet some people and then you go to the library and meet another girl and then and then you go to a shop and meet another girl and then you go home and then a girl steals your phone and then you go to an art exhibit with some people and then you go to the beach and meet more women Interesting but too disjointed. Like the dev doesn't want to commit too much to their own story so gives us a few random scenes with forgettable women. The renders are nice, all the girls look pretty and they're all big chested but really they feel all samey. It feels a bit like the type of game that would benefit from a menu I could call back to so I could be reminded who x or y was. The game THROWS women at you initially and some have so little screen time that when you see them again you're left wondering who they are again. On the flip side you have some characters who are interesting then disappear because all the other girls need some time. The South Park quote goes on to state for an engaging story you need your beats to be separated by "but" or "therefore" and there are interesting beats in there. "You have a childhood friend but she moves away but you promise to keep in touch but your mom dies therefore you lose contact but years later you see a piece of art you're sure is from her therefore you go to the teacher who ran the exhibit to ask for her help but she wants something in return" That's an interesting story but it's buried amongst generic AVN get your dick wet fodder. Personally I feel the dev needs to strip out more than half the characters, give the remainder more screen time and actually try to engage with the player as opposed to throwing as many renders at the player as their graphics card can process in the hope one of them will stick.

It should be illegal to make the writing and story so bad when having insanely high quality renders like these. The story is just boring and the interactions are completely unrealistic. Just such a wasted opportunity

Great characters animation story ofc its not perfect but its way better than most games here MC isnt a horny dumb ass like all the others and you can chose something that other games dont let you do over all Great game the devs are onto something and thats it

Bit of a slow burn with what appears to be the main Li. There are some quality lewd scenes. The story itself is fresh with some recycled elements. MC drops the prospect of college to work his ass off in order to care and provide treatment for his mom. Sadly she passes away after a 4 year battle with cancer. The story really begins after that. Top tier renders. Top tier animations. The strong silent type mc who attracts females but they aren't necessarily throwing themselves at him. Based on Ch2 Part B the story is really about to pick up with the next update. I'm highly looking forward to that.

Review of [Ch.2 Part B] I don't like to give too few stars for the sake of giving, I think that any GAME has its own potential but with this one I made an exception. I want to make constructive criticism but it's hard for me. My English is not very good and I play games in Spanish , but SURPRISE this one DOESN'T HAVE IT. Even so, English is terrible from what I read... the absurd story... the girls get into your life without any sense and want to fuck you. I really like to fuck what you can with good animations and such but this doesn't make sense, ''a girl steals your phone, takes you somewhere and sucks your cock'' just like that... NOT SENSE! You go to the house of a MILF who is cheating on her husband but won't let you fuck her just rub his cock... it doesn't make any sense PROS Good renders Attractive girls Decent animations with audio CONS POOR STORY The sound is poor... there are parts where there is music but then for a long time there isn't... it's quite annoying Very forced sex scenes... too much Whatever you decide, your decisions have no impact on the story. RATING : Content: ⭐⭐ Sound: ⭐⭐ Renders: ⭐⭐⭐ Characters: ⭐ Animations: ⭐⭐⭐ Final conclusion: ⭐⭐ POOR GAME I'm not going to say if I recommend it or not, I'll leave it to your choice...

This VN has some very clear pro's and cons and that makes this VN average. The renders are very good, the women look sexy and the MC looks good to. Animation of the seks scenes are good as well. So just based on the visuals I would have given it 5 stars. The story is fine but not great. It is a little hard to follow in some occasion, and it creates problems that are very farfetched and ignores sometimes some very Obvious solutions just to push the story in a certain direction. In general there are a lot of situations wich turns sexual unrealisticly, but this is a porn game so that is to be expected and it doesn't bother me. The biggest problem for me is the MC. He is not a very likable character. He act like he is some holier than jesus character, but ignores that he himself is doing similar things to what he judges others for. For exemple he judges one guy for being lazy for not getting a job, while he is not even looking for a job himself at that point. He judges this girl that she did sexual things with him the first time they met, ignoring that he himself is doing the exact same thing (at least in my playtrough). This is a game breaker issue for me, if the MC is not likable than the VN becomes unplayable. I still give it 3 stars because it is clear that the developer is good at the Visuals of it all, but the story needs a serius redo.

Well. You had many work to rebuilt. However, I stand still. Nice story. A little "blindness" for the MC... Of course, Daphne is gorgeous and remembered about all. She's just standing there and wanting to be certain for his feelings... Also, Melinda and Cassandra, are top "notch". Waiting for the development of that sensitive love story.