Edited: There are more edited at the bottom, however this one is more important. I can't prove anything, but I feel and see things that don't make sense everywhere. I believe they heavily used AI on just about everything. I first noticed while I was looking at the birds. Looking back, it all makes sense as to why this game is completely broken. Seems like they are willing to go behind Steam's back and not disclose their games as using AI at all, than do honest work.
Okay, where do I even begin... Lets start off on the main menu I guess. Audio doesn't automatically detect my headset depict it highlighted as the only option. Cosmetics aren't saving when I start any run. To this day, I still have not been able to customize my character and have it save. Its very frustrating seeing the character look behind them every two seconds. This is not an exaggeration, it's actually every two seconds. There's leaderboards for some reason. It's a single player game and of course there are people who cheated to be at the top. Don't even know why in this case because every name on the list are just a bunch of stars, like this *. The default game mode the game started me on was the "new" content they added on X-Mas. So they wanted me to play has the Hunter which confused me. As the whole marketing for this game is about playing as the Red Hood, not the Wolf. And to top it off, it starts with NSFW mod turned off. With everything I mentioned, it already pissed me off and I haven't even started the game yet.
The game play, finally. You run around collecting spawning strawberry's one at a time while not having the Hunter touch you. You have 60 seconds to get to a strawberry and collecting one gives you 30 seconds. Get seven of them to get an option to make love with Hunter with a rhythm like button prompt. Took me a while to figure out that the bar needed to be fully depleted before pressing the button, instead of being full. Even knowing how it works, I'm still finding it extremely difficult to hit it correctly. I play rhythm games on the hardest difficulty and this bad hentai game is getting me pissed off because it's telling me I'm missing. At this point its either bugged, or not clear at all when you are actually supposed to hit the button. Really doesn't make sense to me why on both complaints, how BS these love sessions are, but yet another thing that I find so frustrated. When you are touched, or the time runs out, you are presented with a game over sex scene, which in my case broke every time. Your character model becomes twisted in wired ways. changing the scene to something else and back again fixes the issue. Yet another thing to add to the list. If you have a heart, you get a checkpoint spawning you back in a location, but without strawberry's. So you can hold down space bar to skip the sex scene entirely saving you time. Oh wait a minute, that doesn't spawn the Hunter with clothes on when you do that (Sometimes). Back to the list!
I find it hilarious that I'm basically going from point A to point B in of course a randomly generated way and I'm struggling so much on WHERE THE ♥♥♥♥ I'M I GOING!! Everything after that waterfall needs to be deleted. If it's so much of a problem, I'm seeing other people complain on Steam Discussion Page about also getting lost, what the hell was the devs smoking when making this abomination of a map. At the time of typing this up, I'm 6h in the game and I have yet to beat it. Like what the actual ♥♥♥♥ am I playing?! There's a neat mechanic during love sessions when spending a strawberry, you can see where another strawberry will spawn on the map. The massive issue with this is how strawberry's are even shown. They give off a white beam of light from the strawberry into the sky, but they do not go as high I like them too. They also can't be seen through walls. So when you are surround by large walls, which is what you will be dealing with a lot after the waterfall, you can't know where to go. So I have 60 seconds, while being chased, to figure out even my starting position. All while they can spawn in random locations and even behind you when running into a straight away. Out of every thing this game has that got me on edge, this is by far the worst ♥♥♥♥ I had to deal with and it's not even close.
You can unlock butt plugs as cosmetic items to equip. No clue how or why they show up so that's great. Realize the game keeps track of how many you have, but they aren't consumed at all. So it got me thinking on why that is, a couple of days later I look at my Steam inventory and what do you know, they are listed as Steam items. Like really?! This is completely unnecessary. Oh, by the way, achievements are buggy. They do pop, but you need to shut down the game to see them appear. However, the achievement that track things X amount of times, doesn't track well at all. This is only a guess, but it seems like only 10% of my progress is actually being tracked. Why after 6h have I only seen 16 love sessions and collected 71 strawberry's. I've tried keeping track myself, but nothing I do makes sense with what the achievement progress shows me. It doesn't help that I need to shut down the game for anything to update on this game. But don't worry, they fix the buggy achievements... Right? It's like I'm fighting the devs here. Everything that can go wrong will. This is such an awful experience!
This isn't my type of game, plain and simple. There's no amount of change, or fixes that will change my mind. The only reason as to why I purchased this was because I didn't fully understand what the game was about (that's on me I guess) and I did enjoy playing the devs other game, so I though it wouldn't be that bad of an experience. Seems like I was wrong. Normally I liked to 100% the achievements before posting a review, but in this case, I can't be bothered. I'll still try and complete it, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ this is miserable. I'll maybe update this review after I'm finished with final thoughts.
Edited:
11 hours of play time and I have finally found out you cannot win in this game. It attempt to loop, but breaks in the process. The first time I got back to the beginning, no amount of berry collection allowed me to move on to the next area. I found playing with NSFW mode turned off to be significantly easier due to not having to stop every 2-3 minutes because of a forced sex scene. I'm also convinced that some runs are just impossible because a strawberry not spawning near the end of the maps. Even after 5 more hours of play time my berries collected and love sessions have yet to increase within the steam achievements. Also learned that collecting the berry's give an incredibly low chance at getting a butt plug, that I remind you, can't even equip due to my settings not saving.
Hit the 15 hour mark and for some reason I keep having the same bug happen that's completely breaking my runs. When I collect the 7th berry, I should move on to the next area, but instead, it's now forcing me to the previous area. In some cases, that's impossible. With the added random chance that a berry doesn't even spawn, that makes completing three laps in the game near impossible to complete. (for achievement). Even if I were to have all the cards A-line, I'm still fighting with berry pick ups, run time and love sessions not counting.
Due to how broken this game is, I'm going to try getting a refund. It's not even the achievements at this point. There are too many bugs that prevent you from winning.
