Not That Stream

The game isn't bad, but I admit it only really picked up around the last chapter, chapter 4, and here's why. The beginning is very slow, with lots of comics, cosplay, anime, and PC games, but the truth is it lacks eroticism and strong characters. It's only when Aurelius enters the scene that the story changes a bit. I hope they continue to increase the eroticism in the next chapter.

I wanted to ride a fun sharing + loving relationship route, but wasn't able to find what I was looking for here. Might be my misunderstanding with the tags and description, I realize there's a lot of nuance in how stories in this genre are told. I did enjoy the setup with the MC Nate working in a comic shop with his buddy and luckboxing into a rising camgirl's DMs. There are the usual AI art quirks present, particularly with the backgrounds, but overall the game and character sprites look very good. Unfortunately Aurelius, and in particular FMC Ellie's infatuation with him, sours the mood of the entire story for me. Nate's brand new girlfriend Ellie meets the streamer she's formed a parasocial relationship with a few days after agreeing to date Nate. Ellie consistently pushes to remain in Aurelius' orbit once they make contact, almost like she begins to regret starting a relationship with Nate so soon but doesn't know how to break it to him. Instead she follows the prep an upgrade boyfriend before breaking up with your current one playbook, and our protagonist happens to like it. Ellie and Aurelius spend every single moment of their screen time together angling to fuck each other. "Hey baby listen, I need to go get molested by this guy on a public set then in a storage closet for a bit to get some important information out of him, just trust me." Then she doesn't use that time to interrogate Aurelius at all, just fluffs him while getting molested and making out for 15 minutes... "Baby, I found out that he wants to fuck me!" Great work, girlfriend of the year! All it took was sacrificing Nate as a clueless beta loser in front of this rich and famous asshole who we know loves to rub everything in his face! She's defending Aurelius as just a nice and misunderstood guy that she feels bad for as he tries to fuck her with her boyfriend present and is contacting an OF streamer whore for hookups hours after he "convinced" Ellie he fell in love with her. There are other things that become annoying over time, like Ellie absolutely flipping out over minor things that might harm her contract , but then throwing caution to the wind every time Nate or Lana warn her about the risks with something Aurelius is asking her to do. In the last few updates almost every time Ellie contacts Nate it's revealed she just wants permission to do something with Aurelius. Our protagonist is not dating a loyal, smart, kinky Bond girl in this one... more like a puppy that will drown itself in a puddle if we aren't constantly monitoring it (while it also prefers another owner). So while the characters are sweet, and I do like Ellie and Nate's relationship overall, the sharing is forced with one of the worst bull archetypes I can imagine in one of the most cucked approaches possible. Like an ice cream sundae where the ice cream flavor combinations are on point but it's covered in horrible mismatched toppings. Will keep checking back to see how this one evolves over the next few updates since I don't think it's irredeemable, depending on how the author plans to wrap up the loose threads with this Aurelius arc.

It looks great, plays well, writing is solid and fun and flows fast. Great moments from starting a relationship to finding out and accepting each others kinks and desires, all written with efficient error free dialogue, for fun characters. There's even some choices which is always nice, I can't stand Kinetic Novels that funnel me down a route I don't like. Anyway this is a slick, well made NTS AI entry and I'm excited for future updates.

Not That Stream is yet another kinetic AI CG VN touting NTS content. I tried to add another acronym but ran out. I can't be completely certain, but I'm fairly sure it's running on AI writing and not just AI art. The story is absurd in that not-quite-human way that only an AI can manage. It features a beginner nerd working in a gamer shop, a girl streamer who responded to a random DM, and a number of justly slightly misunderstood metaphors that a human who understands the language wouldn’t miss. Most of the descriptions feel like an alien describing standard human sights. Next, all of the content in the game is artificially non-specific. Everything that the characters talk about from games and comics, to their jobs, to their life and eating food just has that slight vibe to it as if the writer has never experienced it. The jokes have that uncomfortable “see I totally get it” feel to them that someone who actually experienced or understood them could never create. Everything just has that slight veneer of “how do you do fellow humans” that just doesn’t feel right. The story adds to the feeling as well. Characters have no personality. Events happen as if drawn from a hat. The events in the story feel like they happen without fanfare, planning, or standard human chaos making them feel spacy and unreal. It’s not any one thing, but just every little thing at once that make me feel like there was little to no human oversight on this one. As for the art, no points are awarded for AI CG. I feel I tolerate it better than many, but if you're going to off-load your art, your story better be on point. There's nothing particularly special about the AI art here. In fact, some of the guys take very girly poses and there's a couple shots of the MC with some porn level lip filler. Overall, the only reason I could recommend playing this one is if you want to see if it’s got AI writing vibes as well. There’s nothing worth reading or seeing here.

I really like the game. The characters are believable and endearing. At some point, you can identify with the main character. The story is well told, with good rendering and well-handled AI. The NTS is well integrated and adds a certain intrigue. It's worth playing.

Version chapter 4-Again saves are broken. Im not interesting in replaying this game from the beginning each update, so i'll have to drop the rating to 2 stars...i'm sure most people will agree. It had promise that's for sure. now it's just a rip the renders and enjoy the art. I could understand if you changed the save system to allow renaming of files or something for one time, but repeated issues, that's just someone not caring about variables, or code, or the users for that fact. Version chapter 3-So i got bored one day and started from the beginning, hope that's the last i'll have to do it, or i will really stop playing again. Story wise the update is moving at a steady pace. The story is still interesting. Don't want to give too many spoilers here. But we will see where it goes. And i'll reevaluate on the next update if it goes up a star, stays, or down. If save files are broke again, it will definitely go down. Version chapter 3-I can see my saves and all do not work, so i'll just be ripping the pics and giving up on this game unless there's a way to fix it. Not a fan of every update the saves break which i see so often in these games. I loved the story up till this moment, and i'm not willing to start over from the cafe.For that i'm changing my rating from 4 stars to 3. The only thing stopping me from doing 2 stars is how i enjoyed it up till this point. version chapter 2-The renders are ai done well. Ellie is the most Gorgeous one of this game. No animations in this game. The story is at a nice pace. Every once in a while the game will not take the space/mouse button input but after a second its unfrozen. The music is ok, i turned it down a ton. Yet another game with truth or dare in it. I swear that and spin the bottle are the only 2 games that avn's do...why not truth or dare twister or naked twister or something else? They are playing truth or dare in a room with a couch...but the image still shows them outside, that's a little lazy rendering i think. Some story does not match the render presented. There is moaning sounds in the game and some laughter. When you talk to ellie at lunch, the text is cut off on the phone on the right side. I do like that you have difficulty settings in the avn.