About this game
So the opening scene is just Yu standing there in Tsunade's office and she's basically telling him his job is to do whatever she says. Real subtle setup. The art style is that specific kind of 2D where everyone looks slightly off model but somehow that makes it better, like finding an old doujin you forgot you downloaded. Tsunade's chest is absolutely ridiculous, physics defying, the kind of thing that makes you wonder if the artist has ever seen an actual human woman. It's great.
The sandbox stuff means you wander around the village bumping into characters and things just sort of happen. I spent way too long trying to trigger a scene with Kurenai because the game doesn't really tell you what to do. There's this one moment with Anko that comes out of nowhere, she's just there and then things escalate and the internal view thing kicks in which is a nice touch I guess. The animations are choppy, like they're missing half the frames, but honestly that adds to the whole experience. It feels grimy in a way that fits the source material. I wish there was more Hinata content early on but I know these games always save the shy ones for later.
The creampie scenes are everywhere, basically the default ending for every encounter. No surprises there. What got me was the Moegi scene, completely unexpected, and I'm still not sure how I feel about it. The game doesn't care about your feelings though. It just keeps throwing situations at you while you're supposedly investigating something strange in the village. I forgot about the plot for like an hour. The male protagonist is as bland as unbuttered toast but that's almost a requirement for these things. You're not here for his personality. The sound design is whatever, I had a podcast playing over it after five minutes. Still thinking about that Tsunade scene though, the one where she's sitting at her desk and the angle is all wrong but in the right way.