The soundtrack in Old Friends and Public Transport is doing something weird to my brain. It's this lo-fi beat thing that sounds like it was recorded in someone's bathroom, all muffled bass and these little synth stabs that come in at the wrong moments. During the bus scene where James first spots his mom's old friend, the music just... stops. Dead silence for like four seconds while she's adjusting her blouse. Then this single piano note drops and I swear I felt it in my teeth. Not in a good way either, more like when you bite aluminum foil by accident. The whole audio mix is kinda fucked honestly, levels jumping around like the dev just dragged sliders randomly. But here's the thing, it works for the horny parts. When they're back at her place and she's pouring wine, there's this bassline that's way too loud and it vibrates through my shitty laptop speakers in a way that made me check if someone was actually knocking. The sex scenes have these breathy vocal samples that are probably from some free sound pack, you know the ones, where the actress is clearly just reading lines in a booth. "Oh James, your mother can never know about this" delivered with all the passion of someone ordering a sandwich. But the reverb on it is so excessive it becomes this ghostly echo that hangs around way after the line ends. I keep thinking about that one track during the kitchen scene, the one with the weird flute thing. It's supposed to be seductive I guess but it sounds more like a ringtone from 2006. Can't get it out of my head though. Been humming it at work. People stare. The whole OST is like eight tracks total and three of them are just variations on the same melody but pitched differently. Lazy as hell but I've definitely heard worse in these VN games. At least it's not the same thirty second loop for two hours like that one game about the demon girls and the... wait what was I talking about. Right, the milf. She's got these absolutely ridiculous proportions, like her back must be made of titanium or something. The CG art is actually pretty decent when it finally shows up, which takes forever because the game really wants you to read every single line of dialogue about bus schedules and apartment hunting. James is boring as fuck obviously, just a blank slate with a dick, but the friend's mom character has this one expression where she bites her lip and looks away that the artist clearly spent way more time on than anything else. Respect the priorities. Wish there was a gallery mode though, having to replay the whole thing just to see the one scene where she's bent over the couch is annoying. The writing is whatever, typical "oh no I'm so lonely in this new city" setup that exists purely to get to the part where she answers the door in a robe. But that one CG where her tits are basically defying several laws of physics? Worth the twenty minutes of clicking through text about James's boring job. The jiggle animation is so over the top it loops back around to being hypnotic. Like watching jello in an earthquake. I don't know man, the game knows what it is. The audio is a mess, the pacing is glacial, but when it finally delivers the goods it's like... yeah okay fine. Just fix the volume mixing next time. My ears are still ringing from that one transition.