The pixel art for this one is weirdly flat, like someone traced over a PS1 render but forgot to add shading. I keep fixating on the inventory screen. It's this ugly brown thing with a single slot that shows a rusty key and I spent maybe fifteen minutes just clicking it, listening to the same 8bit click sound over and over. The sound design overall is a mess. Footsteps are too loud, the moans are compressed to hell, and there's this one ambient drone that sounds exactly like my old fridge before it died. It's perfect.

So you're in Castle Dimitrescu, right. The whole setup is you're some guy with a weird glowing hand thing, a superpower I guess, and you have to navigate these halls while Lady D and her daughters hunt you. But the combat is just a timing minigame. You press space when the circle closes and if you miss, you get grabbed. The first time the tall vampire lady caught me, the animation glitched and her model stretched across the screen like taffy. I laughed so hard I choked on my drink. Then the titfuck scene started and I stopped laughing because honestly the ahegao face they gave her is unsettling in a way I can't describe. Her eyes roll back but the pupils don't move, they just... vanish. It's like looking at a doll.

The writing tries to be serious. There's logs about experiments and a dystopian sci-fi twist on the virus that I didn't care about. I just wanted more of the daughters. The one with the red hair has a handjob scene that's animated surprisingly smooth, way better than the vaginal sex scene with Lady D herself which feels rushed and the creampie texture looks like someone spilled yogurt on the screen. I wish there was more romance elements because the male protagonist has this dumb earnest dialogue that would be hilarious in a dating sim context but no, it's just horror beats and then sex. The female domination tag is doing heavy lifting here, every encounter is her pinning you down and the power dynamic never shifts even with the superpower thing. What was the point of the glowing hand then. I kept waiting for a moment where you could use it during a scene but it never happens. Just keys and doors. Keys and doors and that fridge sound.