About this game
So the first thing that hits you is how deliberately unpolished this whole thing feels. Not in a bad way, like someone forgot to render, but in a way that makes the sex scenes hit different. The 3DCG models have this slightly off quality, like dolls with too much life in their eyes, and when Monique first gets cornered by that mechanic guy at the gas station, the animation is stiff but somehow that makes the groping more uncomfortable. More real. You can almost smell the oil on his hands.
The netorare stuff sneaks up on you. I was playing Olivia, thinking I had some control, and then suddenly she's in the back room of that bar with two guys from the town and the choices just... stop mattering. The game lets you pick dialogue but her body language is already saying yes before you click anything. There's this one scene where she's supposed to be looking for David but ends up in the motel with a stranger, and the oral sex animation loops in this hypnotic way that made me forget what I was originally doing. Which I think is the point. The sharing and prostitution paths feel less like choices and more like gravity. You just fall into them.
The multiple protagonists thing is weird because you'd think it would break immersion but instead it makes the voyeurism feel participatory. When you switch to David and watch Monique through a window, not knowing you were just controlling her five minutes ago, it creates this dirty feedback loop. The interracial scenes with the dock workers are animated with this jerky rhythm that shouldn't work but does, especially when the multiple penetration starts. The big tits physics are ridiculous, honestly. They move like water balloons in ways that defy the otherwise grounded tone. But then the lesbian scene between Monique and Olivia in the shower has this quiet, almost sad quality that made me forget to jerk off for a solid minute. The handjob animations are where the lack of polish really shows though, hands clipping through things, movements that look more like someone kneading dough. Still worked for me.
The secrets thing. I found a locked door in the clinic that only opens if you've made specific choices across all three characters, and behind it is this group sex scene that feels like the game's thesis statement. Everyone's there, all the tensions from the story collapsing into this one animated loop that goes on way too long. The music track during that part is just a low hum and wet sounds. I don't know if it's a bug or intentional but the audio cuts out sometimes during the teasing sequences, leaving just silence and the slight movement of 3D models breathing. Made my skin crawl in the best way.
The milf character, some neighbor lady whose name I already forgot, has this path where she teaches David things while Monique is out prostituting herself to pay rent. The game never acknowledges the irony and neither did I until just now. The replay gallery is there but using it feels wrong, like looking at evidence photos. I keep going back to one specific vaginal sex animation with Olivia and a guy she meets at the laundromat. The way her expression doesn't change even as the scene escalates. That's the whole game right there. Something wrong in Somnia Bay. You can feel it.