You know that feeling when a game's UI looks like it was designed by a committee that's never met? The Trevi Fountain background is actually kind of nice, real photo quality, but then the coins pop up with this weird animation that reminds me of PowerPoint 97 transitions. I spent most of the first level just watching a Roman woman in jeans and a white top look vaguely impatient while I clicked floating euros like a caffeinated tourist.

The whole catching coins thing is supposed to be about reflex but honestly, they float up so slowly you could make a sandwich between clicks. What's actually difficult is not going over 100 euros. The game punishes you for that, hard. You lose everything and she puts her clothes back on which is just cruel game design if you ask me. I found myself deliberately avoiding coins near the end of each level, letting them splash into the fountain while internally screaming. That's the real tension here. Not the catching. The deliberately not catching.

And oh god, the sound effects. The coin collection noise is a generic "ding" that sounds exactly like my phone's notification, so I kept checking my messages. That alone added a layer of psychological torment nobody asked for.

The woman is a real model apparently, and she does this slow motion shimmy when you reach each milestone. At 25 euros the jacket comes off. By 50 the top is gone. The striptease itself is looped video clips that are surprisingly high quality compared to everything else. It's like they blew the budget on the model's footage and forgot about everything else. There's this one move she does at 75 euros, some kind of hip roll, that got me to actually sit up. But then I had to play the coin thing again and the spell was broken. Eight levels total, each one slightly more revealing, and the last couple are genuinely something if you make it that far without throwing your mouse across the room because of that infuriating ding.