The first thing that hits you is the voice acting. Or the lack of it. It’s just this dead silence with text boxes and these 3D models that look like they escaped from a mid-2000s tech demo. The repairman guy, our hero, he’s got this thousand-yard stare like he’s already seen too many leaky pipes. The whole setup is so bare-bones it’s almost a vibe. You’re this dude, down on his luck, and then suddenly you’re not. The story just kind of throws you into it, no real tutorial, just “here’s a wrench, go fix your life.” The first real scene where things get going, he’s alone in some dingy apartment and just... goes for it. A full-on, unskippable masturbation sequence. The animation is jerky, like a robot learning to dance, and the sound is just this wet, rhythmic slapping that loops a beat too late. It’s so awkwardly sincere I couldn’t look away.

The CG hentai bits are the whole point, obviously. They’re static images that try to be animated with these weird, slow pans and zooms. It’s like someone discovered the Ken Burns effect and thought, “Yeah, this’ll make it hot.” The girls, when they finally show up, have that plastic, airbrushed look where their skin doesn’t quite sit right on their bones. But there’s this one scene with a client in a fancy house, the whole “I’m here to fix the cable” setup, and the sheer absurdity of it clicked. The dialogue is so blunt. No flirting, just “I am aroused, let’s proceed.” It’s a kinetic novel so you’re just a passenger, which is fine because making choices would imply the game cares what you think. It doesn’t.

Wish there was more of a game here, something to do with the repair jobs. Like a mini-game where you actually fix a dishwasher and the better you do, the more unhinged the reward scene gets. But no, it’s just a straight line from point broke to point boned. The service tag is a lie, he’s the worst repairman ever. I don’t know who this is for. People who find broken Source Filmmaker models genuinely erotic? It’s so unpolished it’s almost a parody of itself, but I’m not sure it’s in on the joke. I kept clicking, though. Something about that dead-eyed protagonist just going through the motions, one sticky situation to the next, it’s weirdly hypnotic. Like watching a car crash in slow motion where the cars are just really horny mannequins.

The wallpaper. This is what gets me stuck. There's a pattern on the wall in Katsumi's living room, and it's this beige floral thing that just keeps repeating, and at one point her shadow falls across it weird and I spent maybe five full minutes thinking about how nobody ever comments on the wallpaper in these games. The textures don't line up at the corner seam. You can see it if you catch the right angle during the uh, the repair.

Anyway she's married. Katsumi Reachman. The name sounds like someone tried to remember "Katsumi" and "something else" at the same time and just committed to both. She's got this bored housewife energy that's honestly more convincing than the later stuff. Her husband apparently exists but you know Lesson of Passion games, the husband exists in the same way a chair exists, he's just there for context. The repairman shows up and the choice system kicks in, not that the choices ever take you anywhere surprising. I picked "watch" first because I'm like that, and she just sort of... proceeds.

The cock is big. I mean obviously, it's right there in the tags, but what got me was her expression when she first looks at it. There's this half second where something flickers, like the animator accidentally drew a real emotion instead of the standard "oh dear" face. Then it's gone and we're into the interracial repairman blowjob proper, and she's on her knees, and the cumshot splashes across her face with this wet sound effect that's exactly the same stock clip used in every Lesson of Passion title back to 2006 probably.

I do wonder, and this isn't a criticism really but more of a curiosity, why the repairman never fixes anything. Like his toolbox is there, open, couple of wrenches sticking out, but the TV just stays broken the whole time. Maybe that's the point. The cycle continues. There's this one moment where the player has to click "continue" and the game just sort of hangs for a second, loading the next scene, and the audio pops, and it's so unpolished that it actually works better than if it were smooth.

The TV's dead and Mike's just sitting there. Not dramatic. Not sexy. Just a guy in a chair, waiting for his show, and the screen goes black. You know that moment. That quiet "fuck" under your breath before you start