Whoever coded the rhythm minigame in this Haruhi thing, I want to talk. I'm not angry, I'm just... okay I'm a little angry. There I am, trying to get the tempo right, and the green circle keeps snapping back like a rubber band on meth. It's basically that mobile rhythm gacha I played for three weeks, Cytus or whatever, but somehow jankier. The whole thing is a flash game but not Flash because browsers murdered that, you know? The mouth animations stutter like a bad VR chat avatar when you miss a beat, which honestly adds to the whole "first time trying this" vibe they're going for. She looks terrified, eyes all big like a sparrow caught in a garage, which tracks with the anime I guess but where's the manic energy? Where's the girl who'd probably try to scientifically categorize the experience mid-act? Totally gone. They got her hair ribbon right though, small mercies.
The uniform stays on the whole time. Just hiked up. And there's this one frame where the blazer starchiness makes no anatomical sense, like her shoulder blade is trying to escape through the polyester. I kept clicking around hoping for a random event trigger, maybe Kyon opens the door and we all die of cringe, but no. It's just the bedroom. The same looping ambient sound of... is that a fish tank? Why is there a fish tank filter noise in a schoolgirl's bedroom during her first sexual awakening? The cumshot lands on her cheek and they didn't even bother to animate it sliding down, it's just a static splatter decal that appears like a stamp. For a game that's 80% about the facial finish, you'd think they'd put ten more pixels into that moment.
The pov angle switches three times but never lets you look down. My brother in Christ, I am the viewpoint character, am I not? So why does the camera keep panning to a weird ceiling corner when the action escalates? It's like accidentally hitting the right stick in a console port. The hentai tag is doing all the heavy lifting here because the art style oscillates between "screencap redraw" and "deviantArt trace job from 2009." I snorted when the dialogue box showed "Come on Haruhi! Suck that cock!" with the exact energy of a badly translated strategy guide. Which, honestly, perfect. No notes. I would've added a route where she gets bored halfway through and starts ranting about paradoxes, but that's just me being a fan.