For a game that titles itself simply as FUTANARI in all caps, there's a surprising amount of effectively straight content in this game. What I mean by "effectively straight" is that each scene does have a futa girl in it, but far too many times, they're penetrating a cis gendered woman who is the actual focal point of the scene. In good number of these scenes, the futa girl's head isn't even in the shot.
A ton of these scenes are also first person perspective blowjob scenes where you are the actual futa girl, and the only thing representing your "futaness" is your two tits protruding from your own first person view. In these particular scenes, you can't see the futa girls face since it's just you in first person, and again, the focal point becomes the woman you're looking at. It's incredibly cheap feeling given how often these types of scenes appear.
Also, a ton of the scenes are literally the same scene recycled with different women. I lost count of how many leg held full nelson scenes I saw, and the same goes for BJ scenes. A good number of them are literally at the same angles too, which essentially makes a ton of these scenes just re-skins. This game advertises itself as having over 100 scenes, but too much of the aforementioned makes that a padded out number. There are good scenes, but so many of them feel wasteful.
As a game, don't expect much, like at all. It's just brick breaker in it's most basic form, and I mean white bread basic. This is one of those porn games where you merely put up with the gameplay to unlock the scenes, and no, you can't bypass this by going into the game's files to view the scenes from there. You actually have to play the game.
The game does offer a skip button, but if you skip a level, you don't unlock the scene it's attached to, which makes me feel like this game took itself way too seriously for what it is.
Also worth mentioning, every few levels, the game challenges the player with a "skill check". It's the only variation in challenge that this game offers, and it is not well done. You basically have to break all the blocks while only making contact with the ball a certain number of times, but this game's jankiness has no business having that as a gameplay mix up. In almost every instance where this challenge appears, you'll frequently experience that hitting the ball once has the potential to register multiple hits, which makes this a largely unfair challenge. The number of times you're allowed to make contact with the ball by default was already pretty limited, but the buginess of the game itself just makes it brutal at times. The game just doesn't feel like it earned the right to have these kinds of challenges attached to it.
This game can be fairly frustrating, which is the last thing most people would ever expect from this type of a game. In your frustration, this game will dangle the skip button in front of you like a golden carrot, yet if you take it, the scenes still stay locked. Many other games in this game's category allow you to skip challenges, and they just hand you the scenes upon skipping. Those other games have a fundamental understanding that the actual content is the art, not the game. This game demands that the player earns it all, which feels like unearned entitlement given how low effort and buggy the gameplay is.
This game also has weird issues with saving. I noticed that when I'd get up to a certain stage, the next time I visited the stage select screen, I'd be several levels behind where I actually left off. Sometime after level 100 (I think around levels 112-115) I got to a screen that said "The End" indicating that I had beat the last level, but it didn't unlock the final achievement, nor was I allowed to properly exit. All I could do was hit reset, and upon doing so, another new level popped up. Beating that one prompted another "The End" screen. This went on for quite a few levels before I finally got to the final "The End" screen, to which I was basically forced into quitting to the main menu due to the game just staying there. No final achievement unlock, and like usual, none of my progress for these last few stages saved.
One nice thing that I can say about this game is that the music hits. It's likely AI generated, just like the rest of the game, but I can't lie, I was jammin' to some of it.
There are very good AI animations in here, and the music is nice, but since:
- Too much of the 100+ scenes are padded out.
- The game takes itself way too seriously in an unearned manner.
- Buggy gameplay jankiness and save glitch issues are all too prominent.
I cannot in good conscience give this game a thumbs up. Sorry dev, but this needs to be fixed.
Update: This game has been out for nine days now, and no update patch has been rolled out, nor any kind of acknowledgement post from the dev regarding any of this game's issues.
