Miki looks like the kind of guy your eyes slide past in a train. Soft voice, polite, boring on purpose. That is exactly why watching him slowly get tangled up with Sara hits so hard. The game drops you into his head, and it is not dramatic or poetic, it is mostly quiet, horny, and a little pathetic in a way that feels way too real. He notices the tiny things about her first: the way she presses her lips together when she lies, the way her blouse is always buttoned one hole higher than it should be for that body, the way her voice lowers when she says she is “fine.” The sex stuff does not jump out from nowhere, it leaks in. First a lingering look at the mole on her chest, then the camera stays one second too long on her thighs when she sits down on the low couch, then the text sits there describing the very specific shape of her bra strap under thin fabric. By the time she shows up in those tight home leggings and an old shirt with no bra, you already know Miki is fucked. And you kind of are too.

What surprised me is how “adult” here is not just the porn, it is the awkwardness around it. There is this early scene where he accidentally overhears her on the phone, talking all polite to some guy, then the route quietly forces you to sit with his jealousy while absolutely nothing “bad” happens. No music sting, no big twist. Just him scrolling his messages, not sending anything, horny and angry and ashamed in one go. Then later, the game rewards that slow burn with Sara dropping the act during a late visit. She is exhausted, her makeup half gone, her blouse wrinkled. She asks him to stay a bit longer, and the choice menu appears in the least sexy moment possible. If you pick the bolder option, the kiss is not smooth. Teeth knock, she pulls back, actually laughs a bit, then grabs his shirt and pulls him in again harder. When it finally goes full erotic model mode, it stops pretending she is just a classy office lady. She rides him with her hair messy, shirt open, tits out, saying filthy things in this low voice that does not match her “graceful” public image at all. There is a handjob scene in the kitchen where she keeps apologizing while stroking him faster, which is absurd and hot at the same time. The camera is unnecessarily obsessed with the veins on his cock there, like the artist had a personal mission, but I was not complaining. What did annoy me a bit is that sometimes the script leans too hard into Miki’s inner monologue, circling the same insecurity for too many lines, right when I just want him to shut up and put his mouth on her nipples again. Also the auto mode is weirdly fast on emotional lines and slower on the dirty ones, like the game knows exactly why you are here but is shy about admitting it.

The milf angle with Sara is handled more like a slow confession than a joke. You feel the age gap without the story screaming it at you. There is a moment when she is looking at herself in the mirror, fixing her hair, and the text makes her think about the small wrinkles at the corner of her mouth. Not in a tragic way, just like, “Yeah, I am tired and not 20.” Right after that, she drops her towel and asks him if he still wants her. That insecurity turns into this hungry, almost greedy sex where she climbs on top and uses him like she has decided this is her last chance to really feel wanted, which is way hotter than any fake porn confidence. The game lets you push her a bit too, like making her say what she actually fantasized about, making her spell out that she thought of him while touching herself. They could have gone further there. A DLC where she has to pretend to be all proper in front of other people while wearing something only he picked under her clothes would be perfect, with text messages popping up while she tries to keep her face straight. There is definitely room to mess with public risk and more explicit control, since the base story already toys with the idea that this “ordinary” woman has been hiding a dirty voice and now Miki has his hand right on her throat, literally in one route, during a slow, breathy fuck against the wall where she keeps whispering his name like she is scared the neighbors will hear and also kind of wants them to. I caught myself alt-tabbing from Discord just to rewatch that one scene and read the lines again, which is stupid and also exactly why this game works. It makes you feel like you are intruding on something actually private, then lets you keep going anyway.

Brother comes back home after vanishing for years and the game just throws you into that weird mix of “family reunion” and “what the hell actually happened”. It starts pretty normal: school days, awkward small talk, sister trying to act cool but clearly obsessed that her missing brother is finally back. She waited nine years, she’s not sane, let’s be real. At first it feels like standard romance VN with a bit of teasing, some tits bouncing in your face every other click, that classic “I’m your sister but I look like a hentai search result” thing. Her ass is huge, her chest is huge, her emotional issues are somehow even bigger. The game really leans into that contrast: cute everyday stuff at school, then you go home and there’s this constant tension, like everyone is lying and only the MC is too horny and confused to notice.

The interesting part is how the erotic scenes are tied to progression. You don’t just click through to unlock CGs, you poke into the wrong room, ask the wrong question, check a phone you shouldn’t, and suddenly the sister’s route heats up because you showed “concern”. Affection feels like a stat, but it isn’t just “do nice things, get boobs”; sometimes the right choice is actually rude, suspicious, almost cruel. I liked that you can be a bit of a shit and the game still rewards you. One moment you’re in a sweet, almost wholesome scene, touching her carefully, she’s trembling because she’s still technically a virgin and doesn’t even understand her own arousal. Next moment it cuts back to some brutal flashback with blood on the pavement, and people yelling, and your dick has to just sit there and deal with unresolved trauma. It’s kind of funny and fucked up at the same time. Pornhub tab energy but with guilt.

There’s actual investigation stuff too. You go around, ask classmates weird questions, dig through old reports, follow shady hints at night. Sometimes you’re chasing ghosts, sometimes it feels like a straight crime story, like someone in the family did something really bad and covered it with this whole paranormal angle. The game likes to mess with you: you’ll be in the middle of a clue chain and suddenly you’re in a softcore scene with your stacked sister pressed against you in the hallway, her ass grinding your crotch while she whispers about how scared she is of losing you again. It should kill the tension, but it kind of doesn’t. Or maybe it does and I just didn’t care because her tits were right there. The MC is that usual clueless male protagonist, virgin brain but thrown into a house full of secrets, and sometimes he acts sharp and suspicious, then in the next scene he forgets everything because she bends over in a short skirt. The mix of horror, crime, and incest-flavored romance is messy, not subtle at all, and honestly that’s why it sticks in your head more than it probably deserves to.

Black Balance Collapse feels like someone took a messy relationship group chat and just left you alone with it while everything goes to shit in slow motion. You’re basically living inside Lucas’s phone, watching his world shrink to a green WhatsApp bubble and those fake-perfect Instagram squares while his girl Frida starts getting way too comfortable in a neighborhood she clearly wasn’t ready for. No long intro, you’re just there, scrolling messages, reacting, overthinking every emoji she sends, and comparing yourself to a bunch of huge dudes you barely even see at first, but you feel them in every line of text. They’re taller, darker, more confident, more broke-but-chill than you, and the game keeps poking that insecurity until it hurts a bit.

What got me is how horny and pathetic it feels at the same time. You see Frida posting thirst-trappy photos, a bit more skin each time, a new comment from one of the guys, maybe a DM that pops up just off-screen, and your brain instantly goes “she’s getting dick right now” even when nothing explicit happened yet. Then, later, it does happen. Or maybe it doesn’t, depending on how you play, but the tension is already there. There’s a scene where you’re reading their conversation and she “forgets” to tell you she went to hang out with them again, late, and the chat bubble just hangs there while the music is doing that chill lo-fi beat, like something from those 24/7 YouTube study streams, only here you’re not studying, you’re waiting to find out if your girl is getting stretched on some nasty old couch. The soundtrack is too calm for the shit that’s going on, and I actually like that. It makes the corruption feel slow, like rust, not like porn logic.

Sex scenes aren’t just “click and fap”. You get the voyeur feeling hard. Sometimes Lucas gets a pic, sometimes just a line like “they were joking about me” and your imagination fills in way worse stuff than the CG actually shows. There’s dirty talk over the phone, her describing what they did, or him listening to some audio she “accidentally” sends. Interracial angle is not subtle at all. They’re black, they’re big, they know it, and Lucas is just this average dude counting bills and wondering if he’ll ever make her moan like that again. You get anal, oral, all the usual, but what sticks is when she starts enjoying the attention way too much and you still click the option to trust her, like an idiot. Or you lean into it, push the corruption stat, and watch her go from shy girlfriend to exhibitionist who doesn’t really bother to hide her cheating anymore, even posing for Instagram like it’s normal to have those bruised thighs and tired smile after “a long night with friends”. NTR being avoidable is funny, because the game keeps tempting you to fuck up your own peace of mind, and half the time you’re horny enough to let it happen. And yeah, sometimes I wished the phone UI had one more little sound effect on message popups, some tiny detail like that, but whatever, I’m still thinking of that one scene where she’s on video call, lights low, hand between her legs, telling you she misses you while you both know exactly whose cum is still dripping out of her.

Revenge stories in porn games usually feel like some edgy teenager’s wet dream, but this one actually leans into the petty, ugly side of it instead of pretending it’s some noble crusade. You play a guy who’s been fucked over in the past and never really got over it, stuck in this school environment where everyone pretends to be mature and romantic while doing the same toxic shit all over again. The game doesn’t rush to the sex, it sort of lets the tension rot first. You watch the MILF teacher with the perfect fake smile lean over your desk, tits almost falling out of her blouse, talking about discipline while you both know neither of you is thinking about grades. Then you have the teasing from girls who used to treat you like a nobody, now suddenly flirting, leaning in too close, “accidentally” brushing your cock, acting like they didn’t help break you back then. It all feels a bit too real sometimes, in a cheap way, like reading old chat logs you wish you deleted.

Since it’s a kinetic novel, you’re basically locked on rails, which I actually liked here. There’s no pretending your “choices matter” when they don’t. You just let the story drag you through this messy mix of resentment and lust. One moment you’re getting a slow, almost mocking titfuck from a big tits classmate who once laughed at you, watching her push her slick boobs together while she smirks like she still owns you, and the next moment you’re buried in someone’s big ass, pounding her hard because the game wants you to believe that fucking equals payback. It doesn’t, obviously, but that tension makes it hotter. The oral scenes are written like power plays instead of love scenes. You feel that in the way some woman drops to her knees, keeps eye contact the whole time, tongue working you over while she half insults you. It’s not sweet, it’s not “making love,” it’s closer to mutual blackmail with orgasms. The romance tag is almost funny, because yeah, there are tender lines and soft lights and those cliché “I always cared about you” confessions, but it’s all happening over the wreckage of what they did before. You get a creampie scene where you finally finish inside a woman who used to treat you like you were beneath her, and it should feel like a victory. Instead it feels messy, like both of you lost something and are pretending you won.

The female domination streak is not full hardcore mistress stuff, more like psychological choking. You get these women who know exactly what they’re doing, guiding the male protagonist by his dick and his grudges. They tease him, drag out the handjobs, sit on his lap with that slow grind that leaves him shaking, give him just enough pleasure so he keeps chasing, keeps dancing to their rhythm. Sometimes they flip it and act soft, almost apologetic, during vaginal sex scenes, riding him slowly, touching his face, whispering all the nice romantic words you wish someone said to you years ago. Then the next scene, they’re cold again, or using him, or reminding him who had the power all along. It’s twisted, but it matches how people actually behave when they mix revenge and romance: they say “I love you” with a knife behind their back. The 3dcg bodies are exaggerated in all the expected ways, huge tits bouncing while she rides you, big ass slapping against your hips when you go rough, but the expressions sell more than the flesh. A smirk at the wrong moment can make a blowjob feel like humiliation instead of comfort. A tiny eye-roll during a kiss can ruin the illusion of romance the script tries to build. That fits the whole mood: sex is hot, yeah, but it never really fixes the past, it just makes it easier to lie about how much it still hurts.

Vacation sex is already the best kind of sex, right? Sun on the skin, cheap cocktails, hotel room that smells like chlorine and bad decisions. This game takes that exact vibe and just keeps poking at it until everything feels too hot and kinda wrong in the best way. You start with this couple who actually look like people who fuck a lot: she’s stacked, soft in the right places, ass that eats a bikini, big tits trying to escape every outfit; he’s got that “I’m pretending I’m in control but my dick does all the thinking” energy. Both of them playable, which I didn’t expect at all for a horny mobile thing I launched in Chrome while pretending to check Slack. It’s not some shy tease about “feelings” either. You see their normal stuff first: lazy morning blowjob, her straddling him on that too-small hotel bed, her masturbating in the shower because she’s still wet from last night. Animated, slow, with those little hip twitches and nipple grabs that make you pause and replay the same loop like a trash gremlin.

Then this “game offer” drops on them and the story just stops pretending to be romantic getaway. It becomes this constant “how far will you go for a fat stack of money and some attention” thing. Every choice is like: do I want to protect them as a couple, or do I want to see her get slowly corrupted and start enjoying being watched, touched, cheated on, all that messy shit. One scene you’re picking her bikini color and laughing, next scene you’re deciding if she’ll let a stranger grope her in an elevator while her boyfriend stands there trying to pretend it doesn’t turn him on. The corruption is not just instant slut-mode, it’s those tiny steps: she shows a bit more sideboob, she lets a hand stay on her ass a second longer, she “accidentally” flashes pussy when she bends. By the time she’s grinding on some guy’s thigh during one of the challenges, you’re like yeah, ok, this is who she is now and I kinda helped.

What I liked a stupid amount is how often the game makes you play the guy too, stuck between jealousy, boner and greed. There’s this bit where he has to keep a straight face while another dude is eating her out poolside “for points”, and you get little dialogue options that are all awful in different ways. You can act cool, get mad, or pretend it’s just strategy, but whatever you pick, you still watch her melt from someone else’s tongue. And she looks back at him like “you did this”. The animations really lean into hands: groping, spanking, fingers sliding under wet panties, slow handjobs under the table while they negotiate the next challenge. There’s one masturbation scene with her alone on the balcony, phone light on her face, whispering his name at first, then someone else’s, and it kinda hits harder than the full-on sex because you see the switch flip. Only thing that bugged me is sometimes the pacing stumbles, like you jump straight from soft teasing to full dick-in without enough buildup, but then there’s a quick little oral scene with spit and gaggy sounds and my brain forgets to be annoyed. Classic horny goldfish memory. Anyway, if you like watching a sexy couple talk themselves into breaking their own rules while you push every wrong button, this thing is filthy in a very “oh shit I shouldn’t like this so much” way.

Summoning a demon for revenge sounds cool in theory, right? You light some candles from Dollar Store, mumble a half-remembered chant you found on some shady forum, and expect a dramatic but classy spirit to show up and help you screw over your enemies. Instead, this game hands you a horny vengeance demon who absolutely did not get the memo about “professional boundaries”. You play as this poor human guy who clearly thought he was in some edgy occult story, but the second that circle lights up, it turns into something way closer to “I accidentally ordered a sex-obsessed monster from hell and it’s not accepting refunds”. The tone is very “this was supposed to be scary, why is he licking my neck and asking about my taste in guys”.

What I really like is that the demon isn’t just a generic muscle dude with horns slapped on. He looks wrong in a hot way. Eyes a little too sharp, posture too confident, smile just on the edge of predatory. He’s got this vibe where he talks about tearing out someone’s soul, then immediately pivots into teasing the protagonist about being “tempted already, aren’t you?”. The game keeps mixing violence talk and sexual stuff, like he describes revenge as if it’s foreplay, and sometimes it is actually hard to tell if he wants to rip the bully apart or watch the bully fuck you until you cry, for “punishment”. There are a couple scenes where he sits too close and touches a bit too long, and the art really sells that feeling of “I should not be turned on by this, but I am”. When his claws rest on the MC’s throat during a “friendly” chat, yeah, that detail stays in your head.

The writing leans into the gay tension without pretending it’s healthy. This is not soft-boy BL. The protagonist is in over his head and the demon knows it and enjoys it. There are lines like “You called me here to hurt them, but look at you, already trembling from my fingers. Maybe you were the real offering.” He says stuff like that while dragging his claws over bare skin and you just know it will leave marks later. The game doesn’t jump into instant sex; it teases, presses, corners. The first time the MC wakes up with the demon in his bed, half shifted, tail coiled around his leg, hand low on his stomach, that’s the turning point where it stops being “oops, magic went wrong” and becomes “I belong to something not human and he’s enjoying breaking me in”. The sex when it finally happens is intense and rough, full of that “you asked for this” dirty talk that borders on humiliating. The demon treats the MC like both toy and worshipper, grabs his hair, forces eye contact, uses strength he clearly doesn’t need, drags out his orgasm until he’s crying, then casually reminds him that their pact isn’t finished yet. If you like your yaoi with claws, teeth, possessive monsters and a protagonist who gradually gives in to it all, this hits that exact spot where fear and arousal tangle up so much you can’t see the line anymore.

Guy gets turned into roadkill, wakes up in horny fantasy land, and the first thing the world says is basically “congrats, you’re the protagonist, go ruin everybody’s morals.” That’s the vibe. It looks like some dev took an isekai light novel, poured milk all over it, and then asked “ok but what if every side quest slowly turned nice people into cock-drunk pervs with huge tits.” You wander around clicking on stuff like a regular point and click sandbox, but half the time you’re just peeking at thick milfs bending over, and the other half you’re getting sucked off behind some tavern while a slime monster pretends not to watch. The animated scenes are the real hook: boobs bouncing, milk dripping, asses shaking, all that 3D porn game energy where every character has a spine made of rubber and an ass that would absolutely kill your actual back. One minute you’re in a “normal” fantasy town, next minute you’re sneaking into a bedroom, watching a sleeping woman’s blankets slowly slide off her massive tits, and the game just quietly suggests “hey, what if you corrupt her while she sleeps.” It doesn’t ask if you’re a good person. It assumes you’re not.

What surprised me is how often it tries to be funny and actually lands it, then goes straight into some really fucked up humiliation or slave stuff without warning. There’s this milf with a huge ass who talks to you like you’re a useless little nerd, then three quests later she’s stripped in public, face red, tits out, calling you “master” while pretending she hates it and clearly loving every second. The corruption vibe is slow burn if you click around and talk to people, but if you’re impatient you can just stumble into scenes where a monster gets involved and suddenly that “adventure” tag stops feeling heroic real quick. Oral, vaginal, creampie, sleep sex, voyeur stuff, it’s all there, and the game’s not shy. I had one scene where I was hiding behind a door, watching a thick chick lactate all over herself while she tried to clean up, and I honestly spent more time nudging the camera just to see how the milk rolled down her stomach than progressing the actual quest. Stupid thing that bothered me: sometimes the sandbox pacing feels like the game forgot what it wanted you to do. You’ll be horny, you’ll have your dick in hand, and it’s like “go click this random barrel three times.” But then you get rewarded with some animated stripping scene where a monster girl does this slow, teasing dance that absolutely doesn’t match the silly fantasy tone and somehow that clash makes it hotter. It kinda feels like your browser history got reincarnated with you.

You run this tiny magic shop crammed between two other buildings that look like they’re about to fall apart, and honestly the place feels more like a porn stash with shelves than some noble wizard workshop. Bottles with glowing liquids, cursed trinkets, scrolls that clearly no one reads, and then these four big walking trouble magnets keep drifting in and out like they half live there. They kinda do. Wolf mercenary who smells like sweat and steel, tiger knight polishing his armor like he’s posing for a calendar, bear wizard that looks soft but has that slow, dirty smile, and a dragon shaman who talks like everything is “spiritual” while his eyes crawl over your body. You’re supposed to be the owner, the “normal” guy, but the game doesn’t even pretend you’re normal. From the first time you catch the wolf in the back room, paw halfway down his pants while he’s pretending to check crossbow bolts, you know where this is going. It plays like a dating sim that got drunk, stumbled into a fantasy RPG, then forgot to finish the combat system because it was too busy staring at big asses and bulges under armor. You open the shop, click through customers, do the usual buy low sell high stuff, but half the fun is ignoring all that and watching which of your four walking fetishes decides to hang around that day.

The voyeur stuff sneaks in so naturally that it feels like you’re the perv, not the dev. Tiny things. Tiger knight comes back from a “patrol”, goes to the side room to take off his plate armor. You get a little notification that the door is “slightly open”. You don’t have to peek. The game does not force you. Of course you peek. Inside, it switches to 2D CG and he’s facing away, that striped tail flicking while he bends down, fat ass framed by that tight undershirt that’s rolled up just enough to show lower back fur and a hint of crack. You can stay there, just watching him peel off layers, muscles moving under the fur, the outline in his underwear getting heavier. There’s even a moment he pauses, tilts his head like he hears something, and if you stay too long he turns, stares right at “the camera” and his smirk changes depending on how far you pushed your relationship earlier. I got the version where he steps closer, grabs his junk and gives this lazy squeeze, like “since you’re spying anyway, don’t pretend you’re shy”. I swear I was sitting with my phone like I got caught in real life. And the game knows you’re jerking it on the other side of the screen. It gives you these short, sharp h scenes, not huge walls of text, but focused: heavy breathing, rustle of cloth, low growls, little bits of dirty talk that feel like they were written by someone who actually masturbates, not some PG-13 writer. The dragon shaman one where he’s “purifying” a charm with his hand under his robe is just filthy. You see the robe move, his throat bobbing, claws tensing, and if you tap at the wrong time he stops and whispers that you’re “disturbing the ritual” which is just rude because he’s the one stroking himself behind the shop shelves.

It’s kinda fun that travel still matters. You pack up with whichever guy you want, head to some ruin or forest or weird temple, do a bit of simple adventure stuff, then at camp it becomes pure thirst. There was this night run I did with the wolf merc where we took a job too far out just so I could trigger his tent event. We clear some bandit nonsense, collect loot, nothing fancy. At camp, he says he’ll “keep watch”. Game gives you the option to sleep or “check the perimeter”. Of course I mess with the perimeter. You walk just far enough to see him sitting on a rock, pants open, stroking that thick cock while looking at the stars like it’s some romantic gesture. No music, just chirping insects, his low panting and a wet sound that made me fumble the phone. I liked that it lets you either stay hidden and just watch him finish, cum dripping on his abs while he grunts and relaxes, or go up to him, which turns it into a direct scene with more teasing and some mutual touching. Both feel different enough that I actually reloaded like a degenerate to see them. The only thing that annoyed me was the mobile UI being a bit fiddly at the bottom of the screen, my stupid thumb kept hitting the wrong response when things got spicy, like the game knows when I’m one-handed. Also I’m still mad that the bear wizard’s big ass always gets framed beautifully in the bath CG but never quite fully nude from the angle I want, like he’s doing this on purpose to torture me. But the way each guy has their own pace, from the knight pretending to be noble while clearly turned on by being watched, to the dragon calling your masturbation “another form of trance”, makes the whole thing feel like you’re running a sex-charged little back alley den where everyone acts holy until someone bends over to pick up a potion and suddenly all the air is gone.

Aladdin finally getting to be a horny little creep in Agrabah is honestly something I didn’t know I needed until this game slapped me with it. It looks like a dumb parody at first, like some meme you’d scroll past on Reddit while half awake, but then you click one more line, one more choice, and suddenly you’re basically her royal pervert coach. Everything runs on that trainer style thing: you poke Jasmine’s limits, raise stats, push obedience, wiggle around her attitude, and every scene feels like you’re nudging the story into a slightly dirtier fork. The dev clearly watched the original movie too many times and went “yeah but what if the street rat didn’t fix his morals and instead slowly turned the most stubborn princess into his personal pet.” It’s kind of fucked up and kind of fun and my brain hates that combination.

What I liked is that it feels like one of those old choose your own adventure books I read when I was a kid, only now the page numbers lead to blowjob scenes and weird schemes in the palace instead of dragons. You try this dialogue option, she gets offended, you think you messed up, and ten minutes later that same humiliation pops back as a new kink flag and she’s suddenly blushing when you order her to strip for “training.” The writing jumps between stupid internet humor and surprisingly sharp dirty talk, like one moment the genie cracks some fourth wall crap and the next moment you’re making Jasmine crawl on all fours in her room while she pretends she still has any dignity. I wish the game tracked choices even harder, like really remembered tiny stuff from early scenes and used it to punish you later, but I know that’s never gonna happen and it annoys me every time I replay. Also the gold grind and some of the click-repeat actions feel like when you keep doomscrolling TikTok without wanting to, but here you’re just grinding obedience points while your browser has six other tabs open and Spotify is looping the same playlist for the hundredth time. It’s lazy, but I still did it.

There’s a nice corruption curve where Jasmine starts all proud and “I’m the princess of Agrabah, how dare you” and ends up with her tits out, begging for more “lessons,” and somehow the transition doesn’t feel like just a switch flip. She flinches, argues, bargains, then she starts asking weird questions, then she’s testing you back. Some scenes are surprisingly intimate, like when you train her to dance for you, not the public, and you control how rough or soft you go. Next moment you’re selling her out in some shady scenario and laughing at how this is absolutely not the Disney canon. The game doesn’t care if you’re nice or a total bastard, it just quietly adjusts the flavor of the filth. I also kept noticing small jokes in the background that made me snort, like little digs at other trainer games or fans who only care about “big boobs jasmine now.” And then there is this one little thing that drives me nuts: the way some scenes reuse the same line of reaction text, like copy paste, right when I’m most horny and focused. It’s tiny, but it pulls me out every time and I keep thinking the dev will fix it, and they just never do. Anyway, if your brain likes branching choices and your dick likes watching a spoiled princess slowly break and love it, this scratches that itch in a messy, stupid, pretty satisfying way.