Summer in this game feels sticky, horny and a little bit mean, the way real teenage summer actually is when everyone pretends they’re “studying” but really just thinking about who they want to fuck. You play as Sam, that quiet guy in class who somehow ended up surrounded by people way hotter than he deserves. He lives with Riona, his mom who looks like she quit being a model only because having kids got in the way of her tight dresses, and Juno, the kind of sister that makes you think “yeah, this family would absolutely be banned from any normal anime.” They’re stacked, they’re always half-dressed at home because “it’s hot,” and it never feels like an accident when they bend over right in front of him. One moment you’re pretending to be a good son, the next you’re peeking through a half-open door while Riona fingers herself in the shower, trying not to moan too loud, and you have to decide if Sam just strokes himself in the dark or gets bolder and pushes the door a little wider.

The school side is where things get cruel. Jim and Jun act like classic bullies, but they’re not just stealing your lunch, they’re eyeing your childhood friend Angela and even your sister like they’re prizes to share. There’s this one scene on the rooftop where they “jokingly” push Sam around in front of her, and you can either swallow it and watch them get even chummier with her, or you finally snap and risk turning the whole thing into some messed up love triangle where you’re not sure who’s getting corrupted. Sometimes Angela shows up in this tight summer uniform that looks like it was tailored for porn, and she kinda leans on you, pretends she doesn’t notice your erection brushing her thigh, then later those same legs are wrapped around someone else in the locker room if you made the wrong choice earlier. The game likes to show you what you could have had and then twist the knife. One route has Juno on your lap late at night, pretending she’s drunk on soda, grinding “accidentally” while watching a movie, and the next playthrough she’s sending secret pics to one of the brothers while you sit alone in your room, jerking off to memories instead of her actual body. Romance and corruption are constantly fighting each other, and half the time it’s your own curiosity that ruins things. I still hate how the text notification sound in this game is slightly too loud, by the way. Every time it pops up during a quiet masturbation scene it scares the shit out of me, but the dev never fixes it and now I’m weirdly used to it.

The exhibitionism hits different too. There is this beach trip where your choices earlier control if Riona wears a normal swimsuit or something that might as well be painted on. If you pushed her a little on previous flirty moments, she actually asks Sam to rub sunscreen on her ass, in public, while some guys in the background pretend they’re not staring. You can go gentle and wholesome, or you just slide your fingers a bit too close to her pussy and she gives you that “don’t stop” look that no mother should ever give her son. Same with Angela at the festival, where you can talk her into not wearing panties under her yukata, then spend the whole evening brushing against her in the crowd, knowing one wrong move will flash her to half the school. Sometimes you’re the pervert pulling strings, sometimes you’re forced to just watch as someone else does it to the girls you wanted for yourself. The game is very much “pick your poison,” and whatever you do, somebody is going to end up moaning somewhere they shouldn’t, whether it’s a quiet classroom after hours, the bathroom at home, or under the covers with the door slightly open, just in case. It’s messy, horny, and kind of fucked up in all the right and wrong ways at the same time.

I keep thinking about the motorcycle crash. Not the crash itself, the game doesn't show it, but the way the screen flickers black for a second when the protagonist zones out in class. That little glitch. That's the whole vibe right there. You're this guy, total wreck inside, dead girlfriend and all, trying to just... exist at a new university. And the game is like, nah, here's a professor with tits that defy physics and a smile that says she knows exactly what you did. Or didn't do. I'm still not sure.

The sex stuff is aggressively direct. You get a handjob in a library between chapters about quantum whatever, and the animation loops in that janky way where her wrist seems to disconnect for a frame. I laughed. Then I didn't. Because the next scene is a slow strip tease from a girl in your dorm and the voice acting, or what passes for it, is just breathy moans layered over a royalty free lofi beat. It's so unpolished it circles back to being hypnotic. You're clicking through dialogue about dark secrets and then suddenly there's a close up of a big ass and the game asks if you want to cum inside or pull out. No romance, just mechanics. The milf character, some administrator, literally says "I've been a bad girl" and I choked on my drink. But then the voyeurism scene happens, watching a student through a crack in the door, and the whole thing shifts. The humor dies. There's a violence tag for a reason, and it's not just for show. A flashback hits with some genuinely nasty graphic stuff, blood and screaming, and it's rendered in the same dead eyed 3DCG as the oral sex scene five minutes earlier. The tonal whiplash is the point, I think? Or maybe the dev just threw everything at the wall.

The mystery is actually pulling me along. Strange texts, weird symbols on the campus walls, a feeling that the dead girlfriend is... not gone. The game forgets to be sexy for long stretches while you piece together clues. Then it remembers and throws a titjob in your face. Who is this for? Someone who wants their trauma with a side of animated fucking. Someone who finds the uncanny valley erotic. I don't know. I'm going back in. That professor knows something.