It feels overhyped and overrated now.
Personally speaking, I think a lot of people gave this game 5 stars because it was their first introduction to porn games and its usually what people recommend to first timers who are new to the genre.
Story (6/10) [contains spoilers]: Initially, I think the start of the game is incredible and I still hold Season 1 with very high regard. The atmosphere is great and it feels immersive. You actually feel like you're a new college kid on campus getting into fights and enjoying great parties. The MC is a new college kid who gets to the campus and after some shenanigans happen, he ends up at a frat house known as the DIKs. There is some initiation process called "Hell Week" where he is hazed from his seniors into doing various challenges, but eventually, he joins and has fun at parties. Speaking of parties, the party atmosphere and the free roam sections is so good that it actually makes me feel like shit because I didn't experience anything like that in college, and maybe that holds true for a lot of players. Then in my opinion, the story just goes downhill pretty fast. For me, this happened around Season 2 when the alphas destroy your frat house. The tone of the story quickly shifts from a carefree fast paced porn game with alcohol and fun into somewhat of a serious tone where you have to act like a responsible adult fixing everything around you. Not only fixing your frat house, but also solving other character's emotional issues. In other words, it just becomes boring and melodramatic in my opinion. Eventually, out of nowhere, the MC wakes up one day in Episode 8 and decides he wants a serious relationship even if you've been sleeping around the campus with 10+ women and you're a DIK aligned MC. You will be forced to break it off and choose one of the following girls: Maya/Josy, Bella, Jill, and Sage. If you don't choose any of the above, you are forced to break it off with all of them and stay single for the "Others" path.
After that, the story transitions into Season 3 and introduces Zoey as a character who is the MC's ex girlfriend, who you are forced to play as. Thankfully, it was only a 20 minute read because I didn't find it that interesting. Also you can skip the interlude after you've read it once on subsequent playthroughs.
Season 3 begins with the Halloween Party and eventually another outdoor party. And to be brutally honest, it just doesn't feel the same anymore and it's not as fun. If you already decided on a love interest in Season 2, then in the Halloween Party, you are basically walking on eggshells if you try to flirt with other girls. There is some sort of hidden "cheating" meter which we don't know what impact this will have yet, but suffice to say, it probably isn't going to be good and it will most likely get you screwed over later on. The outdoor BBQ party in the latest episode felt ho hum and didn't really move the story forward that much.
There's a lot of side plots going on in the background. Quinn's drug dealing background. Vinny is introduced as some sort of pseudo antagonist. There is also probably a traitor among the DIKs. You try to help Maya with her daddy issues. But to be honest, I don't really know how much I care about all that because frankly speaking, I think the story peaked very early on in Season 1 and it's just been meandering through ever since. I just want to party, have fun, and have sex with girls. I know, maybe I am just simple minded but thats just the truth. Maybe some might argue and say that if you stay single and are on the "Others" path, you can still do all these things, but the truth is, even the writing and tone of the story shifted a lot from Season 1. You kind of just get this feeling that the MC himself is looking for something serious now, and he is not really that much into partying anymore.
Music (10/10): I unironically think the music in this game is God tier. I was blown away by it, especially the party music which helps you immerse into the atmosphere. When you compare it to other porn games on this site, I don't even think its a competition. Suffice to say, I think the music is the best part of this game. It's probably the only game on this site where I actively sought out some of the tracks for my playlists.
Gameplay (3/10): There's an alignment system in the game. CHICK and DIK. CHICK is generally when you act more polite and passive. DIK is when you act overly abrasive and mean. There is also a Neutral alignment if you can maintain it, but this is realistically only achievable with experienced players who already either played through it once already, or they have mods installed. Why the low score for gameplay if it sounds like a standard VN? The mini games are just out of control now. At first, they seemed okay and simple enough. It wasn't that bad. You are just doing simple English and Math tests and a memorization test with Gender Studies. Also there is some simple mini games where you move your mouse within a boundary. Then later on it just gets ridiculous. Fixing up the mansion was the first confusing one. I actually dropped this game for a year or two because of the mansion mini game. It just seems overly convoluted. Then years later, I pick the game back up again and just power through it with a guide. And then what happens in Season 3? More annoying mini games. Planning a party is now a mini game, and then the dev decided to put another annoying Chemistry and Minesweeper one.
Okay, so people will defend the mini games and tell you that they're optional and they can be turned off which is true. So I ended up doing a playthrough with them turned off. Then I realized that I failed to fix my mansion because if you decide to pick the VIP Pass to the stripper club, Rusty will tell you that you failed to fix the Mansion because you had mini games turned off and the game auto fails you because you picked the VIP Pass. What??? How is that even remotely fair? And how would I have known that??? If you have the Mini Games turned on, you can get the VIP Pass and still pass the Mansion Fixing section if you manually go through with it. So the dev just punishes you randomly if you decide to have his mini games off. And I don't know if hes going to do that with other ones, so I ended up abandoning that run.
Overall, when I look at this game and the lull between new content, I get this feeling that the dev spends way too much time on these random mini games and not on actual story content that people want. I guess so he can cater to his Steam audience??
Animations (9/10): The sex scenes are pretty good and look hot. Very high production value.
Characters and Girls [contains spoilers] (4/10): The characters are the meat of this game, but I really can't say that I enjoyed most of them unfortunately.
Maya - She has a lot of issues with her religious father because it turns out that she's bisexual and this doesn't bode well for their family I guess. She doesn't tell you this until later on which causes some melodrama. I think she is probably the worst character in this game and its killing my interest in the story honestly. She doesn't like partying and only joined the female sorority for "free tuition" which ended up being a lie, so then she cries about this later on because her father isn't funding her. Overall it's a mess, and I was rolling my eyes a lot.
Josy - In my opinion, she is probably the best main female love interest in the game because she has the least baggage. She was your girlfriend before you entered college. However, the problem is that she was also in a secret lesbian relationship with Maya. You eventually reconcile this into some sort of "threesome" path which doesn't make much sense. I am guessing the author will eventually put you into a situation where you have to choose one or the other, but considering that I already hate Maya, its already a done deal for me. I don't really get why you couldn't just convince Josy for a solo path to begin with. It feels railroaded and dumb. So unfortunately, her path isn't even that great either because Maya ruins it. There are some hints that a solo path is opening later on, but its not confirmed and just rumors.
Bella - She is the librarian at your school and is much older than you. Has a big bust. She looks good, but I think her personality is kind of bland. She has an Ice Queen cold personality which slowly melts over time. Then once the story transitions into down to earth serious relationship business, its hard to take it seriously when you consider the age gap.
Jill - She is a naive innocent princess type. She looks pretty good and hot, but her path is kind of tricky to open up unless you play as a pure CHICK MC or at the very least a Neutral one. Which means you're probably skipping a lot of sex scenes. And then once you actually end up reading her path, she's just not that interesting of a character. Her route is something you would do if you're going for a True Love and innocent type of route, which doesn't seem that appealing in a porn game.
Sage - There's a guy named Chad that cheated on her. Then for revenge, she basically starts sleeping with the MC to cheat on Chad. As far as main girls in the game, personally I'd say she was the 2nd best option. But the relationship has some pitfalls. Considering that she already cheated on her bf to begin with, she probably has some mental issues which could play a role later on in future content. I wouldn't be surprised at all if she ends up cheating on you. I don't think there is any NTR content yet in this game, but I wouldn't rule it out.
Zoey - She doesn't have a path, but she will probably get one in future content because she seems like an important character in the plot. She was only introduced recently, so there's not much to say about it. You can potentially let her sleep with one of your frat brothers, but I don't know what the benefits or consequences are yet. Basically there is almost no content, and whats there isn't very appealing. The interlude was kind of a time waste.
Quinn - She doesn't have a path, but considering that shes a major character in the plot, she will probably get one. I just don't really like her character personally. Looks wise and personality wise.
Side Girls - There's lots of other side girls in this game that don't have a "main path" yet. But ironically, I find that I actually end up liking the side girls way more than the main ones anyway because the main ones have too much emotional baggage. Though that could just be because the writer hasn't given the side girls proper character development yet. Honorable mentions go to Lily, Rinoa, and Sarah.
Derek - He's the best character in the game and the comic relief. He helps you get through some of the boring parts because of his comedy.
Overall Score (64/100)
tl;dr: Overall the game has its ups and downs. It's still a game worth playing through once because the beginning is really good. Season 3 just feels extremely meh and I'm not that excited about future content.
