Sex Hill

Review for Demo Dude I gotta say this first, brighten up your sex scene renders!!!!!!!! This is now like the 5th lewd game I've checked out in recent memory where the sex scenes are dark as hell. There's something to be said for leaving a little to the imagination, but that doesn't seem like the intention here. Rather it's just dark as fuck and you can't see the good stuff very well. With that out of the way, this game comes from a dev who's previous game I really did not like to put it nicely. However I will say this feels like a solid step up, and that's cool to see. The game feels a bit more focused compared to the last. My overall opinion though is that this has some interesting ideas but the execution of those ideas isn't landing for me. We have this town of Sex Hill, where every resident is a former criminal. Ok neat, how will the game expand on that? Not at all it turns out! Not a single character talks AT ALL about their crime or how they ended up here. Or even why a town like this exists in the first place. The MC tells you he literally doesn't know, it just works! Except it kind of doesn't, since even though it's supposed to be a heavily scrutinized town of former criminals where the death penalty is enforced on things like stealing, people still pull all sorts of financial crime. The town just functions completely normal like any other, which is very strange again given the concept. It's like the dev created it and then didn't do anything with it. It seems like the game wants to be a sort of serious psychological horror. Which again can be neat in idea. I got two problems though: the first being the translation. I'm not shitting one someone who speaks a second language trying to make a game in English, but the translation IS important to me when it's trying to be a narratively intense and serious game. The ESL of the dev IS noticeable, but I always find it very hard to judge how much of it is just a script issue as well. That builds into my other problem. The characters are boring. The setting states everyone in this town is trying to start over and avoid punishment for some assumedly serious crime. But as mentioned no one talks about it! In a way where it's like not even acknowledged. Maybe it's some sort of taboo in the town? But that's not stated anywhere. You play as John Finance with milf wife and young son. Your wife "has big boobs and a big ass, and a nice personality too" and you love your son. Wohoo! They aren't really deeper than that though. All the conversations are very surface level. Kind of how someone thinks a family would conversate. The big "problem" thus far is that the MC stayed up too late fucking his wife and then he ended up being late for work and taking his son to school. Idk why he's that stressed about it but whatever. Besides that, strange hallucinations. Guess we'll see where that goes. You do meet a younger girl in a grocery store that's newer in town and struggling, where you're given the option of trying to help her like you did for someone else. That's a neat potential relationship of trying to help someone who wants a second chance at life. Hope that goes in a nice direction. I don't mind free roam, but so far it feels a little pointless. One section is just you clicking on two plants and the MC saying "hmm plants never really interest me" and maybe you find a special render. The cooking minigame also just didn't work for me, but weirdly enough that wasn't a free roam thing. It's just not expanding on anything relevant. Trying to be constructive with the criticism here. Dev has an interesting premise for a horror game, but I'm not hooked based on the demo. Will keep an eye on it though.

version-demo-The story seems pretty good so far, and you feel the bonding with the wife. Right now it's just setting the ground work. The pace is steady. I could have done without some of the mini games. The flashlight one for example it took me a few mins to find the last item, and it was tiny. They definitely slow down the game and the immersion. While the flashlight one works because of the genre, the cleaning dishes one, was it really needed? I know dev said rather have us due something then show us. The wife is thickk, so you have to like that to like her. The detective has some promise. The renders are well done. The animations are smooth and vanilla at this point. Most are only 2 seconds long, it would have been nice if they where a little longer, but they get the job done. There's not a lot of play time here, and it ends on a cliff hanger like most demos. I'll give the dev a benefit of a doubt and give it 4 stars, but will reevaluate when the next update comes out.