Retrieving The Past

Midplayz
Apr 11, 2022
5 min read

A Bit Of Everything Please!

I am not a big fan of VNs since I don’t usually like reading. But yeah, I do read some doujins since whenever I scroll through Reddit, if I see a doujin panel that catches my eyes, I tend to search for the sauce & give that a shot. Anyways, this game actually confused me. You’ll get to know why as you read through my review! ;)

I am just putting a warning here even though it’s very obvious, THIS IS A NSFW GAME, KEEP AWAY IF YOU ARE YOUNGER THAN 18 YEARS OLD! The Developers say the same thing when you start the game lol…

About This Game

Storyline

Aight so, this is a very story-intensive game. The beauty of VNs is their stories. If a VN has a horrible plotline, then the game is trash by default. These games usually have no major game mechanics involved apart from clicking to go to the next dialogue/scene.

So, the big question arises: Does this game have a good story? To be honest, I have mixed feelings about the game’s plot. Let me lay out the basic plotline then talk about what confused me:

Most of the game is narrated from the perspective of a very attractive male named Jensen, who is obviously the game’s protagonist. The game revolves around his sexual life along with a fair share of action & suspense. Jensen will meet a lot of women & have sexual relations with them. But who will he choose to be his lover? Play the game to find out!

The game is divided into three chapters. There’s a bit more content after the 3rd chapter gets over too. Each chapter takes about 1 hour to complete. Sometimes, even more, depending on how fast you read. So yeah, the game has a pretty lengthy plot.

This story sounds pretty normal, just a horny guy who has a sexual relationship with several women. But it just doesn’t stop there. For some reason, the army & Japanese Yakuza are involved. Along with the sexual stuff, there’s also a fair share of action & violence. People actually get killed in this NSFW VN. This is a first for me since the previous VNs I played only had sex & drama.

Then, there are a lot of weird things. The game starts off very weirdly. The main character, Jensen, he’s literally a chad. He is extremely attractive. I am sure they took reference from Ernest Khalimov (The guy from the Chad Memes) while modeling Jensen. So, when the game starts, Jensen complains about not having a sexual life. All of a sudden, he has a very active sexual life. Things escalated so quickly that it made no sense. He legit has intercourse with almost every woman he meets. His sexual body count is probably more than the number of people I know! Anyways, we pray & we move on.

In conclusion, the story is a mix of everything. It touches almost every genre there is. This makes it very easy to lose track of what is going on. But yeah, a lot of work & thought has been put into the storyline. It’s anything but boring. I recommend you to pay attention to what is happening or else you will easily lose track of what’s happening.

Gameplay Mechanics

Come on, it’s a VN. There’s not much to the gameplay part apart from clicking on the screen to go to the next scene/dialogue. You can either manually click or choose the auto option so it automatically proceeds to the next scene & watch the game as a movie.

The game gives you choices in some parts. There aren’t a lot of choices. If I am right, there are less than 20. Some of these choices have an impact on the storyline since there are a total of three endings. Getting all three endings is important if you want to earn all the achievements the game has to offer.

The game caters to a lot of fetishes, fantasies & kinks. Let me name a few here:

Intercourse with MILFs, Intercourse with Younger girls (18+ obviously), Lesbians, Feet Kink, Lewd Massage, Pool/Jacuzzi sex, Steam Room Sex, girls of different ethnicities (Latina, Asian, Ebony, etc), Sex at the beach, Cosplaying, Threesome, defloration, NTR, Shower Sex, Voyeurism, Elevator Sex, etc.

There are scenes depicting these. I am surprised how they squeezed all this into one game.

The saving feature is a bit annoying since the “Rename save file” prompt pops up every time you try to save the game. They should add a separate button to rename a save file instead of forcing us to see the screen whenever we try to overwrite a save. I also recommend adding a “Panic button” as other NSFW VNs have. If you don’t know what this is, it’s basically a feature that is bound to a key & upon pressing this key, it either closes the game immediately or brings up a random non-NSFW image. This is useful when someone walks in on you suddenly while you’re playing this game.

Visuals & Audio

The game has amazing visuals. The character models are amazing. Almost all the guys are ripped with chiseled bodies. The females are hot too. The animated scenes & sequences are well made too. There’s a bit of an issue in some of the animated scenes. There’s clipping in the models. For instance, in the beginning during the sauna scene where Jensen is in the Sauna with the three girls, Abigail’s hair clips through Jensen’s body when she’s giving him a blowjob. I mean, it’s fine if it’s not that noticeable. But here, it was very obvious & it made me feel uneasy for some reason.

The startup screen & main menu feel very low effort & unattractive. The English in the warning screen that shows up whenever you start the game is very broken. Hit me up devs, I can help you fix that! The English at the start of the game is also a bit broken & bland. But it improves as you play the game. Honestly, they need to re-work the UI. Right now, the UI is horrible.

Moving onto the aural part of the game. There are no dialogues whatsoever. Just random sounds here & there. The thing I disliked is that they recycled the same audio in many places. Like the crowd sounds when in a public place like a cafe. Another thing that stood out was that the audios in the sex scenes were odd. Some scenes had crisp audio while others had low-quality sounds that sounded as though someone recorded them using a microphone from a 5 dollar phone. It feels as though they stole the audio from some homemade porn video, who knows. I may be right or I may be wrong. I was unhappy with the aural part of the game so I just turned off all sounds during my playthrough & listened to music on Spotify instead.

Pros

A very long story that hits almost every genre.
Amazing character models & animations.
More than one ending which adds to the replayability value of the game.
I am sure the game caters to some of your fetishes.

Cons

Horrible UI design.
Broken English in some parts.
Audio is recycled in some parts. There’s also a difference in the quality of the audio during the intimate scenes which raises a bit of suspicion.

Conclusion

VNs aren’t really my type of game but I was invested in this particular game for a bit. I really admired the visuals of the game since they were all high quality. The game isn’t very expensive & has a decent amount of content. I feel it’s worth the base price but it doesn’t hurt to wait for a sale!

Rating: 7/10

Mei & Aikami are the hottest females in this game. I just like Asians better. ;)