A puzzle game from the developer of one of the more successful adult titles on Steam. Are there any brilliant ideas here as well?
First, the gameplay fits the word 'casual' pretty well. It is focused on catching small stars and hearts appearing near the edge of the field as sudden stream bursts that are, for the most part, synchronized with the background music with a mouse-controlled head-cursor. Simply touching the stars generates your score, while collecting the hearts increases your score multiplier. The only thing to be wary of is the dreaded red squares. Every red square collected reduces your multiplier substantially. That is the main obstacle to high scores. Well, the cursor-hear also gets bigger as you continue feeding it, making evasion more tricky. Still, the challenge is casual, so more likely than not, you won't need to strain yourself too much.
I forgot to mention, there are also blue harts temporarily activating the hoover function, i.e., sucking everything except squares for a few seconds.
I see the gameplay as an interesting, casual idea, but the lack of substantial distinction between stages, as you make progress, prevents it from being catchy, resulting in monotone gameplay. Still, it is a relatively short endeavour, so the feeling of boredom is likely to never materialise before you collect the final star.
While the star collection serves as the main task, every stage has a total of three stars to earn. This is where the actual challenge lies. The easiest star to earn requires collecting a specified number of stars. The second star asks you to reach a certain value of multiplier by catching green hearts. Finally, the most imposing task, earning you the last star, demands earning a sufficient score. While the challenge is moderate, later stages may force you to restart several times. Still, completion of everything shouldn't take much longer than an hour.
Overall, I found the gameplay sufficiently amusing, but the short length and lack of variety deduct a few points from the final score.
The enticing ecchi anime art is what sells this product initially. Art quality is decent, and definitely enticing. Seven stages equal seven waifus to ogle, which is rather low considering similar products. Simple idle animations bring some life to the spectacle, and all in uncensored glory. After the stage completion, you can release your artistic beast by taking photos with various filters and zoom levels. Nice but tame reward. The rest of the design matches the waifu quality. Fine, but not flashy.
When you start going through stages, you'll notice a different track on each. The choice of dance genre is pretty fitting. I enjoyed listening to some of the tracks, so yeah, music enhanced my experience. I can even recall some music in my head as I write this review. Catchy.
No bugs were encountered.
In conclusion, if you seek a simple budget puzzle title with chill gameplay, voluptuous waifus, and catchy dance tunes, then you hardly could find a better offer. Also, good that the brevity of the experience is matched by the price. I can easily recommend this title for chill vibes alone: 5.3/10
