This time manipulation visual novel hits different when you realize the protagonist isn't some noble hero wrestling with moral dilemmas. Nah, he's basically a horny dude who stumbled into godlike powers and decides to use them for exactly what you'd expect. The whole "what would you do if you could stop time" premise gets real explicit real fast, and honestly? It's refreshing to see a game that doesn't pretend otherwise.

The yaoi elements blend surprisingly well with the fantasy setting - there's this whole magical academy backdrop that gives context to why time magic exists, but let's be real, nobody's here for the worldbuilding. When our MC discovers he can freeze moments and mess around with whoever catches his eye, things escalate quickly. The art style captures those frozen expressions perfectly, which adds this weird voyeuristic layer that works better than it should. Some scenes drag on too long though, like the developers got carried away with their own concept. The dialogue tries to be clever about the whole time paradox thing but mostly just serves as setup for the next steamy encounter.

What caught me off guard was how the game handles consequences - or rather, how it completely ignores them for most of the runtime. You'd think there'd be some cosmic punishment for abusing temporal powers, but the story seems more interested in exploring every possible scenario our time-stopping protagonist can get into. The fantasy elements feel almost secondary to the gay romance and explicit content, which isn't necessarily bad but makes the genre tags feel a bit misleading. By the end, you're left wondering if the whole time manipulation gimmick was just an excuse to create the ultimate power fantasy scenario. Works for what it is, I guess, but don't expect any deep philosophical questions about free will or temporal ethics.

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.

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.

This one starts like some drunk superhero origin story you tell your Discord buddies and they all go “yeah sure bro.” You’re this regular college dude who should be worried about exams and shitty cafeteria food, but instead you get yeeted by a car while trying to play hero. You expect game over, fade to white, maybe some angel with big tits welcoming you. Nah. You wake up in a hospital bed with zero scratches, a nurse who is way too hot and way too weird about it, and a voice in your head that doesn’t feel like a hangover. That first stretch, when you’re clicking through, trying to figure if you’re dead, dreaming, or just horny, that’s where the game quietly grabs your balls. And it never really gives them back, it just squeezes differently each time.

It plays out like one of those story-heavy visual novels on RenPy where you tell yourself “I’m here for the plot” and five minutes later you’re staring at some magical girl’s cleavage, pretending you care about monster lore. Your “powers” don’t drop all at once. At first it’s these tiny creepy things: you hear thoughts that aren’t yours, see flashes of things that haven’t happened yet, feel this pull toward certain people on campus, like they glow for you. One of the early scenes that stayed in my head: you walk across the quad, trying to act normal, and suddenly time just kind of… stretches. You look at a classmate, that shy girl who always sits in the back, and you see her in two versions: cute hoodie now, and then completely naked, straddling you, eyes rolled back because you’re using something more than just your dick on her. You blink, time snaps back, and she just walks past, no idea you basically saw her future orgasm. It’s horny and a little fucked up and that’s exactly why it works. The game leans hard into that “should I be doing this” feeling. And yeah, you will absolutely click “yes” more than you like to admit.

Sex scenes hit that sweet spot between trashy and bizarre. You’re not just fucking, you’re playing with power. Stopping a monster’s tentacle mid-air while you slam its summoner against a wall. Holding a girl in place with nothing but your mind while she begs you to keep going. Hearing every filthy thought in her head while she tries to act “pure” for you. My favorite bit is one dorm encounter where your powers glitch: you try to read her thoughts and accidentally broadcast yours. She realizes exactly how hard you want to ruin her, and instead of freaking out, she gets hotter, starts whispering back at you in her head. It feels dirty in that “I should clear my browser history after” kind of way. The funny thing, the romance actually lands sometimes, in between all the cum and monsters. One moment you’re balls deep in a girl you just saved from some shadow creature, the next she’s talking about feeling safe with you and suddenly it’s all tender and shit. Then the scene keeps going and you’re back to pounding her against a locker. I liked that switch. I hated that one of the UIs has this stupid tiny button placement that kept making me skip a line I wanted to read, and it annoyed the hell out of me every time, and I’m still pissed about it. Also, don’t expect every route to feel fair. Some choices look like “heroic” and still reward you with the most depraved outcome. Which, honestly, kind of matches the whole vibe of the game: you’re a walking miracle with superpowers, trying to pretend you’re a good guy while reality keeps offering you monster girls, kinky nurses, and classmates who moan when you touch their mind. And you keep saying yes.