The whole Aria Giovanni thing in this Lesson of Passion sim date, it's got that crusty Flash-era charm you can't fake. Picked the businessman profile because obviously, who doesn't want to throw money at problems, and the first meeting with her in that red dress is burned into my brain. The dialogue is so stupid it loops back around to genius, like you're saying the most basic "you look nice" and suddenly she's into it. Wish they'd done more with the dress up part though, bought all this expensive lingerie from the in game shop and half of it clips through her model during the actual sex scenes. Not a dealbreaker but come on, if I'm grinding that stupid beauty contest jury minigame for cash I want to see the results. And that minigame, jesus, it's basically just clicking through identical faces for twenty minutes. Had a stream poll about whether to bang a hooker or buy the lovedoll and chat went absolutely feral when the doll option was basically a stiff pose with zero physics.

Speaking of the sex scenes, the remodeled meetings with Aria are genuinely hot in a 2000s porn way, all bad lighting and awkward angles that somehow work. The sound design though, where did they find those stock moans, they loop every three seconds and I started matching the rhythm during a donation reading. Nicole Sheridian's route is surprisingly mean, you have to basically neg her into bed which feels weirdly specific for a sim this old. And Crissy Moran's scenes unlock so late I forgot she was even in the game until my second playthrough. The music is just... there's this one jazz track that plays during the Anita Dark dates and it's been stuck in my head for a week, I hum it doing dishes now. The RPG tag is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, your stats barely matter except for the technician class which breaks the seduction checks completely, you can just fix Aria's computer and skip half the content. Still, booting this up on a second monitor while sorting my OBS scenes feels right, like comfort food with tits.