VN - Unity - Starmaker Story [v1.2B] [Arvus Games]

  1. 4.00 star(s)

    daycallmebiggnutt

    This will be my first review on the site.

    I rate the game a 3.5/5. The game is good, but the few issues it has are severe enough to knock it down a star, and the lackluster endings knock it down another half.

    The good(earns points):
    The character art, while AI generated, is pretty good, the filter must hide some defects because I wouldn't know if the game didn't admit it was AI. I appreciate plump milfs greatly.

    The sex scenes themselves are pretty hot, nothing to really complain about there. The girl's anuses are pretty large and pronounced, I think the term people use when referring to this type is "donut" and while I find it hot as fuck, I guess a lot of people do not. I am a bit saddened that there is only a little bit of anal content when whoever prompted the AI really put emphasis on the anuses of the girls.

    The mid(no point gain or loss):
    the story. Its alright, could be better could be worse, but at the end of the day, it is a vessel in which to consume porn with, and it does that job.

    Game cohesion. You never really get told what to do, just dropped into the world and let loose, however the game is pretty straightforward and is basically just a VN with a rudimentary sandbox feature. I'm a big fan of sandbox games, but I do this this game would have been better off as a straight up VN with choices. I got stuck for a while on the mom romance route, trying to figure out how to get her to quit being an alcoholic, turns out you just need to gift her wine a few times and choose the right answers during her drunken fits. That sure tripped me up.

    Speaking about choices, the game has them, though only a few of them actually affect the story, the game marks these important story choices by... adding cinematic black boxes to the scene? Guess it could be worse. Very important choices like route choices are clearly labeled in the choice box too.

    The bad(subtracts points):
    The game has some unplayable routes due to gamebreaking bugs which softlock the game, persist through saves and even restarting the game, and only go away when you restart the entire game. I had to restart the game twice before I went into the appdata folder and made backups of the SINGLE saveslot the game has.

    Speaking of save slots, the game, as stated, has only one. Now this wouldn't be the end of the world if the aforementioned gamebreaking softlock bug did not exist.

    The endings. The game has 11 of them, though they feel VERY VERY rushed. You go through all the effort to grind out these girls and most of the endings are a just a few sentences of text on a background, most don't explain anything about the MC and his girl of choice's life together, and all the endings I got lacked a sex scene, plus most of the endings have the MC cutting ties with EVERYONE he knows, to go run away with his girl of choice. Its a bit of a slap in the face when you meticulously go through the game getting all the girl's scenes, choosing the love route, and the ending you're greeted with is 3 sentences about how the MC abandoned everyone and everything on a whim to go fuck him mom somewhere in another part of the world, and then not even get a sex scene showing that.

    All in all the game is worth it, its free for everyone and was made in the dev's downtime from working on his other games, and the dev has expressed desire to add some stuff to the game later down the line, which I hope can fix the endings.

    One more gripe is the fucking menial tasks you have to do. What does making the player buy groceries every other week, and pay off the mafia every Monday really bring to the story?