About this game
Award for Most Unsettling Panty Shot goes straight to this one. There's a moment, early on, where you're just trying to figure out which dialogue option gets the gloomy girl to open up about her dead cat or whatever, and the camera just. Locks. On another character's feet. For like five solid seconds of unblinking footjob framing. It's not even a scene yet, just a weirdly intense stare during homeroom. I laughed, then felt a bit dirty, which I think is the whole deal.
The 3DCG models have that slightly waxy, dead eyed look but the animations are surprisingly fluid, especially when things get messy. The ahegao faces are straight up nightmare fuel in the best way, tongues lolling out during some very loud voiced vaginal scenes that had me fumbling for my volume knob. You're this blank slate dude, supposedly a virgin but somehow at the center of a harem that includes a teasing lesbian couple who seem to exist just for voyeurism opportunities. Makes total sense. The horror tag is doing all the heavy lifting for the plot, some primordial evil fog thing that whispers edgy nonsense while you decide whether to corrupt these school girls or save them. I wished the horror bits were more than just a purple filter and spooky text. It won't ever be a real horror game though, it's too busy showing you a masturbation tutorial masquerading as a dating sim. One minute you're picking a gift, next you've got a girl doing that cross eyed tongue out face while riding you. The tonal whiplash could break a neck. Honestly forgot about the whole "evil" thing for huge chunks of time while unlocking oral scenes in the library. The romance path feels like a joke the game is playing on you.