About this game
The first thing that hits you is the voice acting. Or rather, the lack of it in places where you'd expect a moan, a gasp, something. Just this weird silence while the 3D models go through the motions. It's a proof of concept, they say. For something called Eternal Bonds. Right now it's more like a rough sketch of a handjob scene that forgot to render the sound of skin on skin.
The localization is a beautiful disaster. Someone clearly ran the dialogue through a translator that learned English from watching softcore Cinemax at 2 AM. "Your touch makes my lower parts feel electric" is an actual line. I laughed. Then I kept reading because honestly, that kind of earnest broken English has its own charm. Like finding a badly translated hentai doujin where the girl says "I am becoming the wet" and you just accept it as poetry. The male protagonist here, this faceless pair of hands mostly, gets a handjob from a girl who talks like she's reading from a medical textbook translated by an alien. Exhibitionism tag is there but it's more like... implied awkwardness. She's just sort of there, doing it, while the camera spins around like a confused drone.
The 3DCG models have that plastic sheen you get from early Daz Studio renders. Uncanny valley stuff where the eyes follow nothing and the mouths move half a second after the dialogue appears. But here's the thing. The masturbation scene later, the one where she's alone, actually works better. No dialogue to mess up. Just the sound of breathing and those stiff animations that somehow feel more honest when it's just one person and their own body. The lesbian content is teased, not delivered. A promise for the full game. Romance is there in the way she looks at the camera, I guess. Vaginal sex happens. It's fine. Oral sex is... also there. The kinetic novel format means you're just watching. No choices. No branches. Just this train ride through someone's first attempt at making porn.
I wish the cumshots weren't so... polite. Like they're afraid of making a mess on the 3D models. For a game about exhibitionism and raw sexuality, everything feels too clean. The textures are too smooth. The sweat doesn't glisten right. But then she says "I am feeling the pleasure in my chest area" and I'm back to being charmed by the whole thing. It's not good. But it's something.