Lifeguard Holic

Yeah, I'm thinking GOTY 2026. Let me tell you why. Gameplay - Simple and easy enough. It exists to help the story progression or facilitate immersion. That's it. It doesn't need to be more than that. - Personally, I would've liked more teasing minigames, specially because of the swimming pool scenario, it's incredibly fitting and erotic. Not only that, I wish there was an option where minigame difficulty could be turned off, so you could just enjoy the teasing. - While a minor detail, I have to appreciate the fact that the working minigame had a bit of lewdness too. I think this is something that's often overlooked. Lewdness should be always the focus of a hentai. Whenever there is an opportunity to lewd something or create sexual tension, it should be done. Art and Animation - Animation is one of the best there is. Hands down. Although some will probably dislike it, I loved the wobblyness of it. For once, the game actually takes advantage of characters with large attributes, with the art and animation putting emphasis on how soft and squeezable they are. - There's one small detail that is incredibly fundamental for 5 stars score....and it's the zooming. Fucking finally . It's something that more recent Isometric NTR games just don't give value. Specially because of the chibi-like art, it helps a lot an extreme zoom to allow the enjoyment of the facial animations or if just one focus on one part of the action. - Character design is as always: amazing. Again, I'm usually not so much into large boobs, but the game and the art take advantage of it. The swimsuits tighthen the body. The breasts, although incredibly large have a parabolical teardrop like shape, giving the impression of something heavy and yet firm, not saggy like other "NTR bodies" hentai games unfortunately make this mistake. Although simple, the use of color to translate each heroines' personality is appreciated. It allows the art to speak for itself, rather than rely too much on dialogue. - A variety of sex scenes to enjoy that focus mainly on the swimming pool, although there's still other places, although with less scenes available. The highlight has to be the more well drawn, manga-like scenes. - I don't think this next critique is necessarily bad, but a testament of how good this game that I still wanted to see more of it. Personally, were other sex positions I would've like to see? Certainly. The game could've also take more advantage of sex scenes in the pool around day time, with the character hiding from other persons' or the bf's eyes. The game is also a victim of having the male character occupying too much of sex scenes blocking the view of the heroines, although this happens very few time. Story and Build-up - First of all, the decision of a NTR game in swimming pool already is fantastic. Out of all the fetishes or genre, NTR is probably the one that most benefits from scenarios where physical contact is frequent and almost necessary, which is perfect for the ambiguity and pushing of boundaries that make the act of wife/gf stealing so appealing. - It's not that these are necessarily innovating concepts, but classic concepts done really well. The timid girlfriend archetype works particularly well within the context of learning how to swim and the plot progression through more physical types of training is something that feel both natural and erotic. There isn't much psychological or trauma depth and it doesn't need to be. The story preys on the visceral fear that biological stimulus and pleasure beat friendly and loving bonds. The bf isn't that much of a loser or bad looking which only highlights the unfairness of it all. Dialogue is short enough and emotionally effective. - The beginning of the game is the part where I most liked and yet thought it could've received more attention. I don't wanna sound pretentious, but Quentin Tarantino describes suspense as a "stretching rubber band—prolonging a scene to build maximum tension" and I think this could be perfectly applied to sexual tension. Allowing more moments of embarassment of bf for failing to be masculine and assertive enough, moments of flirting and provaction between the gf and the bad guy or even moments where the bad guy is allowed to be looked more favourably(heroic or good-hearted). It makes the h-scenes more enjoyable. - Middle game is good as always. Tiramisu's games have a decent pacing all around that doesn't make the progression sound too much boring or repetitive. Late game is usually where people will have more divise opnions, since the outcome regarding the bf happens. Personally, I thought it was fine. - Particularly regarding the other two heroines, at first, putting characters that aren't in relationship in a NTR game doesn't make a lot of sense. But as I played, I finally understood the point and why, originally, they were supposed to be sisters, only that, to me , this doesn't sound like the whole truth, because there a moments where they act almost as mother and daughter . AND that's when I realized: it's the bully taking the mother from the son dynamic . It's same feeling. Personally, I would have made them mother and daughter, to allow at least one more ruined married woman or make them both daughters of the guy from which you take the pool in the beginning of the game. Final thoughts - A game with simple mechanics, yet incredibly well drawn and animated game with a variety of sex scenes and well execution of classical/standard concepts of the genre. The definition of comfy. - The game's biggest flaw is that it ends.

(DEMO REVIEW) Lifeguard Holic is the latest work of the developer Tiramisu, and it is a perfect example of how a developer improves their craft over time and projects. The game, despite being just a demo, is already pretty feature complete main gameplay loop wise. It is a business management sim with a public pool as the establishment. As you earn money, you get to fix-up and upgrade your pool, therefore increasing your earnings and vice versa. There are still outdoor locations with possibly even more minigames and interesting mechanics waiting to be explored to be implemented in the full game. The minigames arent challenging to the point of exhaustion, but they are fun enough to not get bored of immediately. Currently there is 1 main girl, developed to the point of multiple intercourse scenes, with the promise of more on the way, each more corrupted and depraved. The corruption isnt as fast as "I met you today and now I am your slave", but it isnt a slow burn either. The scenes are a mix of overworld animated sprites, static 2DCG, and fully animated full scenes. There are also multiple side-characters that are pursuable through the ticket selling events that are there for less involved scenes. The game is obviously building towards multiple main women with same content density alongside a bunch of side characters with a low amount of scenes. Similar to The Censor (Tiramisu's previous work). I just can't express enough how much Tiramisu hass improved their craft throughout the years. Starting from NTRaholic, you can see how much they've improved both their coding, as well as their presentation. Even the NTRaholic DLC is a step up from already good NTRaholic. Then, The Censor is a step up from NTRaholic + DLC and now Lifeguard Holic is shaping up to be their best work yet. I wish more devs took inspiration from Tiramisu as they are the perfect example of taking the attention and profit from your previous work, and using it to further improve future projects, whether that be improving their own skills, or outsourcing certain areas. I highly recommend playing not only this game, but all 3 of their main titles in order, they are all pretty good. And to think that we would never have games from the likes of Tiramisu and other developers whom rules dont allow me to mention, if the legend himself didnt make the original NTR Legend game. This genre, spawning from that game has quickly become the most innovative and interesting genre to witness. I wish every other common genre were as innovative as this, which I am now coining as "LegeNTRd-like" (Trademark pending). Seriously I generally dislike NTR and only rarely enjoy Netori, but these games are always a guilty pleasure of mine. One caveat I've got is that, it seems like with Tiramisu, we are now fully saying goodbye to pixel-art, which is a shame, but this is more of a personal opinion and pixel-art becoming standard 2DCG doesnt take anything away from the game.

I honestly loved the game and all the mini games. Has some fine art, story is interesting enough, but I can't judge much because it's my personal taste. As for the game itself, it has an interesting gameplay and it's not repetitive. Even if you do have to do repetitive things, there's always a new event or interesting figures to look at while doing that, so you won't get bored easily. Really nice game, keep it up!

Great game, this demo is more fun than some 'completed' games. Scenes and animations are amazing, management aspect of the game is simple but fun, and minigames are nice, plus the protag looks fine as fuck so the NTR element in this game makes sense.

I'm gonna go with 3.5 stars for this demo so far. I did everything there is to do currently. As a big fan of NTR Legend & NTRholic I'm excited for a new game continuing the spirit of it's predecessors. Even if that is where the similarities end. No more endearing pixel art. The sex scenes have been upgraded to Live2D animation but that seemingly came at the cost of being able to control them. Which is what made the older games unique imo. In NTRholic you could change positions, speed, duration of sex, number of orgasms, etc freely and could see changes in the heroine's reactions which made it feel like you were the participant almost but here it's more like you're just watching the same short scene loop until you press the cum button. For me the only part of the demo that captured that feeling was actually the minigames you did prior to sex but I wish the sex scenes themselves had that same interactivity. Some people wont mind but for me that takes it down a bit. Also being so limited on how you can fuck only once a day and your daily income actually decreasing once you're far enough that the heroine starts to auto-complete the ticket minigame for you was a detractor as well. Overall i am still excited for the finished product. I just wanted to give an honest baseline rating for what is available here in v0.92a

I’ve played games like this before, and this one and the massage game have been my favourites. This one feels more polished, the characters are hotter, and the sex scenes make it all worthwhile. The gameplay doesn’t disappoint and the progression is good – and that’s even though the game isn’t in its final stages yet. I’m excited to see the finished product.

Excellent game, i like much this games. This game is great, growing in this game is very satisfying. It's the first game from these developers that I've played, and it's already made me really want to support the project.

Idk why people are saying this game is lacking quality. Saw somebody talking about how bad the fingers look. Sure pal we came here to goon to fingers. In all seriousness this game has great art, great animations, and the game mechanics are easy to grasp. There's just the mechanic when the npc takes over ticket selling just completely ruins your score with no way to fix it, so I hope they fix that in the future

TLDR: It's mid af and clearly not their best work. All in all, I wouldn't say it's a deception because I wasn't expecting much from Tiramisu after some weird decisions they took and the lack of transparency and communication with their fanbase. This game feels like a downgrade to their last game. - Tutorial is way too long for such simple mini games. Maybe he thinks his audience is retarded. Maybe he's right... ? - Tickets mini game is the same as GB game (if you know...), except that instead of chickens, it's people. And it's way slower. - Others mini games are too long for what they are, which is "press a button and wait". - Sex scenes are boring with 0 interactions compared to their last game (well, if you call clicking on marks a couple time "interaction", I guess there are), this is the biggest disappointment. A shame for an H Game. No build up, no X-Ray anymore (aside from that cheap ass vagina you have to click on...), no more side windows that shows the face reaction of the girl, or anything of the sort, no speed slider, etc... It's just... boring and lazy... - I find the training parts very uninspired. The Live2D not super high quality compared to today standards, even blurry at time. - Seems like they put money on those Live2D, cos the "Pixel" Animations (which are not Pixel anymore, tbf) are, to my biaised opinion, a direct downgrade from the previous game aswell. - I find the portraits very low res/low quality compared to their competitors. - Some of the CG after sex scenes don't really fit the place where said sex scenes happen. - I suspect AI, or bad art direction. But that might be a "me" problem again, so don't quote me on that. - Purely subjective, the proportion of the girls are horrendous. But to each their own, I'm sure some folks love girls with boobs the size of their whole body. All in all, I think that by today standards, competitors who do the same type of game (like one where you're isekai'ed via a WC...) are way better than what Tiramisu is doing now. This game feels like a cheap android game compared to the last game. Fanbase seems to like it, so I suppose he has his audience. I loved their 1st game. I enjoyed their second game. But I now know I'm not the target audience anymore seeing how things are going. Best of luck to him.

Gameplay-wise it's definitely a fine game. "Content"-wise I'm a bit skeptical that LH will produce the kind of experience I am wanting. I want to see how the corruption of each girl changes how they act and interact with the world. I want them to become depraved—to do things they never would have done before, and see how the world reacts to that depravity. Think prostitution, exhibitionism, stripping, public sex, public use/free use, incest(I doubt it will, but it would be swell if it did)... Their previous game didn't go far enough for me, so I am worried that this one won't as well. I know it is stupid to make these assumptions based on an early demo, but based on the content in their other games, the only thing I can do is assume this game will follow suit.

Art is great, execution is lacking (which sadly seems to be the slogan for Tiramisu games so far). The art for the stretching is fantastic but the whole gameplay loop is kind of lacking, it lacks interactivity. The whole ticket section serves little purpose outside of gaining money (unless there will be some more fun interactions built into the full version, in which case I will update my review) and the whole interaction between the MC and the girls feels a bit hollow, almost like he just came, harasses them a bit and suddenly they open their legs for him. I would have preferred a more cohesive story than that but alas that is how it is often with these legend type games nowadays. Sex scenes and art from what is there is solid, altho I very much prefer the full CG's over the sprites.

Perfect demo so far. Love the main girl and there are a lot of good side girls to fuck. Gameplay is pretty simple, but it's good for the game actually. Good luck to the team. The project looks very ambitious, I hope to see more deviant NTR twists

Shaky starts. The tickets minigame is fine, but the stretching minigame is just tedious as it goes for so long, with no real skill, and the 'get caught' lines still play even when you arent actually caught which is confusing and ruins the scene. The next interaction you unlock is worse, and for some reason they flip the left click and right click colours from what was previously established.

Masterpiece as always. Pros: - Funny mini-games - Card/boosters system - lotta girls (but a few have interactions for now) - Pool ranking and developing systerm Cons: - Some H-scenes for minor characters are "low-quality" - H-scenes for "main girl" now look too "simple". Click at some points - few lines of text - click "orgasm" The game looks promising (as always from this DEV). It's 5 stars anyway because it's funny DEMO version

A masterpiece, like all his other games; you can only have high expectations, and they will be exceeded. I know this is just a test version, but if by chance the creator reads this, I would love to suggest that the characters and protagonists who frequent the pool can be "corrupted" and wear more revealing bikinis, and that there be some public sex in the pool with the students watching.