Ayako wakes up in a body that still remembers how to fight, how to fuck, how to obey certain voices in her head, but not who she really is. That is basically the opening mood here: this weird mix of horny confusion, old myth stuff and a girl who knows she used to be terrifying. The game throws you straight into her fake “normal” life, where she’s stuck in this glossy modern city that feels like a cheap set. She moves through it, clicking on doors, phones, neon-lit streets, and all the time the framing is like some animation storyboard that never got finished. Camera angles hold a bit too long, some cuts feel slightly off, like the editor went for a smoke and never came back. Honestly, I kind of like that. There is this rough timing in the cutscenes that makes Ayako’s blank stare feel more broken than sexy at first, and then suddenly the scene shifts and she’s on her knees, mouth open, because someone whispered the right phrase and that “hunter” instinct is now just a puppet string. The whole oral stuff is framed almost like ritual sometimes: slow shots of her lips, lingering on spit and tongue, like the camera is trying to remember something at the same time as her.

The lesbian tension is not subtle, and that is good. When Yumi shows up, she has this soft, almost gamer-girl vibe at first, but the way the shots linger on hands, thigh touches, that slow press of bodies when they think they’re alone, it feels like the animator is low‑key obsessed with girls grinding on each other. There is one scene where Ayako is supposed to focus on some mythological clue, some symbol tied to old Asian underworld lore, but instead the framing just keeps going back to her fingers twitching near her own pussy as Yumi talks, like her body is answering a different question. She ends up masturbating in a small side room while a demon voice in her head feeds her flashes of past battles mixed with images of Yumi’s tongue between her legs. The cut is brutal, no smooth build up, it just jumps from quiet mystery to her gasping and fingering herself, thighs shaking. Then back to plot like nothing happened. It’s messy, but it feels real in this porn-brain way. The mind control angle hits hardest when Rin appears. Rin doesn’t even need to touch her; the voice alone tilts the whole scene. You can see it in the way the camera slightly drops below eye level whenever Rin speaks, giving Ayako this small, almost lost look, then suddenly she’s taking orders, tasting demon essence on her tongue, half in ecstasy, half in terror, and we never really get a clean line between what she chooses and what’s being pushed into her skull. The supernatural stuff is everywhere in the background, glowing symbols, distorted shadows, those brief flashes of Yomi that burn through a frame like a glitch, but your eyes keep ending up on wet lips, shaking legs, two girls clinging to each other in the dark while something old and hungry watches. It feels less like a nice polished hentai movie and more like opening a horny animator’s rough cut folder where nothing is properly labeled, but everything is way too personal.

Beta Life feels like someone took every horny daydream you had in college, shuffled them in a weird order, and then told you “ok, you figure it out now.” You’re this freshman tossed into a campus that basically works like a giant sandbox: classes, dorms, parties, weird little side areas, a bunch of people who want something from you, and you’re the idiot trying to keep grades, booze, and sex under some kind of control. The game doesn’t hold your hand much, which is nice and also annoying. One moment you’re wandering around doing normal point and click stuff like checking rooms, poking at random hotspots, and teasing out tiny puzzle bits, and then suddenly you’re in a tense turn based fight because you mouthed off to some meathead at a party after too many drinks. That mix is kind of the main thing here. It’s horny, but not just a click-next-scene porn viewer. You actually set up your own mess, then watch it explode in your face. Sometimes literally, if you build your “reputation” the right way.

The best parts are small, stupid things that stick out. Like walking into a house party you weren’t really invited to, already a bit drunk from pregaming while scrolling Discord and pretending you’d study, then accidentally triggering a scene where you’re caught in some bedroom with a half-dressed classmate, both of you trying to be quiet while people yell in the hallway. That feeling of “shit, I shouldn’t be here, but I kinda really should” is spot on. Sex scenes aren’t shy at all. There’s grinding on couches, sloppy oral between classes, getting your hand shoved down someone’s jeans in a cramped bathroom, girls riding you slow while music thumps next door. Nothing feels censored. Sometimes it even feels a bit too raw, like the game is trying to outdo Pornhub comments section in how dirty it gets. And still, in between, you’re stuck solving some dumb little puzzle about getting access to a restricted room or figuring out how to time your schedule, which somehow makes the horny payoff better and also more frustrating. Because you know there’s a hot scene locked behind that one teacher you forgot to talk to on Tuesday, and the game will just shrug and let you miss it.

What actually surprised me is how the adventure part and the social life tangle up. You’re not just clicking “party” and suddenly naked bodies fall from the sky. You wander, you talk, you pick options, you piss off some people and charm others, then that affects who shows up drunk next to you later. Turn based combat is kind of stupid in a lovable way. Half the time I’m thinking “why am I doing RPG-lite moves in a sex game?” and then I remember I picked the path that made my character a cocky little asshole who starts fights after keg stands. The combat never gets very deep, but it does something important: your big mouth in a dialogue option can come back as a punch in the nose. Or you lose, and you look pathetic, and then there’s a lewd scene that is more humiliation than victory. Someone is going to love that. Or hate it. I kinda did both. One thing that annoyed me is how sometimes the point and click stuff becomes pixel hunting for the right hotspot while I just want to get back to making out with that girl from the lit class. I had one moment where I wandered around the campus map for way too long, completely forget what quest chain I was on, just because I missed one stupid clickable thing near a locker. Still, when you finally line everything up, hit the right choice at a party, and end up with a wild threesome in some trashy student apartment while empty beer bottles roll on the floor, you kinda forgive a lot. Then you notice the tiny bug in the dialogue text and it annoys you again, but by then you’re already saving so you can try a different path tomorrow.