The card game part. I turned it off after three minutes. Not because it's bad, I just wanted to see if the option actually worked, and it does, cleanly, no fuss. But that little toggle tells you something about the whole project. It's confident enough to include a whole separate gameplay loop, then shrug and let you skip it. Unreal Engine flexing under the hood, I can tell, even with the deliberately rough edges. The lighting on Anna Morgenstern's face in that first office scene, the way the shadows cut across her cheekbones while she's explaining the "restore their image" bullshit, that's not amateur hour. Someone knew exactly what they were doing with the subsurface scattering, then chose to leave a texture pop-in on Michael's jacket two seconds later. It's a choice. A weird one.

The masturbation scenes are where this gets interesting. You've got this photographer guy, Michael, total sad sack, and suddenly you're switching perspectives to the female heroes. The animated sequences are janky in that specific Source Filmmaker way, but the models, fuck me, the models are detailed. There's a moment with, I think her name is Celeste, where the animation loops and her hip movement doesn't quite sync with the sound, and I sat there wondering if that was a bug or a feature. Like, is this the "flawed but beautiful" thing the description talks about? Probably not. But it made me think about it more than any polished Illusion game ever did.

I wish the strategy tag meant something more than deck building I immediately disabled. The whole "public trust" meter feels like it should tie into the lewd content somehow, like, low trust means heroes are more desperate, more willing to... you know. But it doesn't. It's just a number. And the multiple protagonist switching, while cool for seeing different body types in action, loses track of Michael for so long I forgot he existed. Then he'd pop back up with his camera and I'd be like, right, this guy. The Watchmen inspiration is doing a lot of heavy lifting, but the Steins;Gate part? Maybe in the save system. I don't know. The truth is I kept clicking, kept reading, kept watching these broken superheroes get naked in ways that felt more sad than sexy, and that's probably the point. Probably.