A Soldier's Struggle

Roger
4 days ago
3 min read

Home Sweet Home

Returning home after years in the army with PTSD and scars. Welcomed back with open arms and love from your old roomie & landlady.

With their love, the distant years between the last time they met. Their relationship grows stronger once more, even during the difficult times in this troublesome apartment building.

Story - Content

The story begins with our protagonist on his way back to the city where he lived with his roommate, landlady, and horrible/abusive landlord.

Stepping off at the last bus stop, our protagonist, lost in his thoughts, spots a car passing by that suddenly hits the brakes. And it goes in reverse, stopping right beside our protagonist.

Turns out it’s a friend of our protagonist’s landlady and wouldn’t mind the hassle of driving him home as it’s on her route. Once outside your old apartment building, you recognize an old face, Misses Papadopoulos. Always smoking and always having her tits hanging more out than in.

Stepping inside the untreated building and seeing it is as shitty as when you left, you head to your old apartment and walk in, seeing no one at home. At least not until you walk into your old bedroom, finding your (still shorty) roommate (who molded some curves) lying asleep on top of your bed.

With a gentle stroke on the cheek, she mumbles until she opens her eyes and pounces onto our protagonist, hugging him so tightly he is having trouble breathing.

After some chatter, we get to know that our landlady is working double jobs to provide a living and comes home later.

The game is short, around 4.5 hours of gameplay, more or less, depending on the reader. But it is about the healing of/from relationships of any kind, and no matter how old or distant they can be, their light never truly gets blown out.

The rest of the story you need to explore yourself in this short visual novel.

Visual & Audio

Visuals

The graphics and environment for the game overall look wonderful, taking usage of different props instead of using the same ones every time.

There aren’t that many places we get to see so the developers got their time to detail the few places we do get an eye on.

When it comes to the sensual intimate scenes, it’s not any sort of animation. Simply just moving images that move a bit, making it look like actual movement and not single picture by picture. But still no animation.

So, during intimate scenes with either handplay or penetration, it’s moving scene by scene, and most times each scene gets some text, so it’s not possible to go forward quickly to make it look like it’s animated. And the events are too small/short to try it either.

The only animation spotted is in the main menu, which even then is short and on repeat.

Audio

There are settings for Music Volume – Sound Volume – and Voice Volume. But when actually playing the game, there isn’t any type of audio at all whatsoever.

Would have given more depth to the game, but it works without it; at least they could’ve removed the Volume tabs in settings.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Story
Interior/Prop Design
Character Design

Cons

Intimate Scenes - Gallery Doesn’t Unlock 100% after Finishing Game 100%
No Audio at All
Price
Too Few Scenes with Roommate
Scenery

My final little thoughts

I was expecting a lot more from this game since Moonbox’s first released game was amazing. It actually had intimate animations, a cheaper price, detailed surroundings, more story characters, a good story, and even when short, it felt long enough.

A Soldier’s Struggle is maybe a bit longer but overall depends on one’s reading speed. But it doesn’t have any audio at all, the price is almost double, and it doesn’t have any intimate animations. And the intimate scenery we get is not the greatest either.

It’s more with a woman double the protagonist’s age and not a lot with his very attractive and interesting roommate, who seems to “like” him a lot. If both of the girls got the same number of scenes, sure. But when the “apartment mother” has more than double the amounts of scenes, it’s a bit unfair, and I'm not the biggest fan of Cougars.

Unfortunately, I have to say that this game is Not Recommended. I would recommend Grandma’s House: College Days more, though; same Devs.

Rating: 4/10

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