So I booted up Lovephobia expecting another one of those "returning home after a year abroad" setups where every girl just falls on your dick because you have a tan. And yeah, that part is there. The MC comes back from some Work and Travel thing and suddenly everyone remembers he exists. Fine. But the game has this weird honesty about it that I didn't expect.

The opening scene with the forced NTR picture? It's like the dev is grabbing your face and saying "this is not a safe space." You can't skip it. It just happens. And honestly? I respect that. Most games in this tag pretend the cheating is optional until it isn't. Here they tell you upfront. The main girl's love route is clean, no NTR, but the side girls? Different story. You have to actively avoid their side stories if you don't want to see them get railed by other dudes. The game doesn't hold your hand about it either. One wrong choice and suddenly you're watching a scene you didn't ask for. Or maybe you did ask for it. I don't know your life.

The slice of life pacing is slow. Like, really slow. Some conversations drag on about nothing. But then there's a moment where a girl you thought was just background noise turns out to have this whole connected fate thing going on. The "small world" tag is doing a lot of work here. Everyone knows everyone. It's almost claustrophobic.

I still don't understand why the first NTR scene is unskippable. It's not even a main character. Just some side chick. Maybe it's a tone setter. Maybe the dev just wanted to filter out the vanilla purists early. Either way, it worked on me. I kept playing just to see if the main route actually stays clean. It does. Mostly. I think. I haven't finished it yet. The game doesn't care if you finish it. It just keeps going.