[Review of version 0.5]
The East Block is the "classic" tale of corruption, where two souls very much in love find themselves in a new environment filled with temptations on all sides - will you let the happy couple fall to their lustful urges or help keep them together through thick & thin?
Positives:
The East Block is the "classic" tale of corruption, where two souls very much in love find themselves in a new environment filled with temptations on all sides - will you let the happy couple fall to their lustful urges or help keep them together through thick & thin?
Positives:
- Renders: Great quality renders (4/5), not the best you've ever probably seen. However, this fact does not hinder the experience, as the models are beautiful to look at, and more importantly - allow frequent updates.
- Story: This tale of corruption is on the slower side, but plenty of action is available before Kathryn takes the final plunge and actually has sex with someone else. The dev promises actual consequences for the actions you've chosen during the game (Luke's and Kathryn's), some of which includes true NTR and pregnancy. Other than that, dialogue is decent (not the best, again), and there are very few grammatical errors. Your eyes won't be bleeding in agony while enjoying this game, so feel free to take the time to read properly.
- Kinky: the game contains (or will contain) fetishes like Netorare, Netorase, Sharing, Corruption, Pregnancy, Cuckolding - all depending on your choices.
- No animations. Instead, they are pseudo-replaced with quickly alternating still frames, which are decent, but clearly not the same thing. If the absence of these allows the developer to maintain their 2-month update schedule, I am all for it.
- Kathryn (the female MC) started out as relatively naive girl, but recent updates have revealed that she has a very raunchy past as a college student, before meeting Luke. Normally this wouldn't be a big issue, as noone expected her to be a nun, but her naivety at the start of this game loses all meaning when her naughty past has been described (by the dev himself) as "very wild". Dev claims she left that life behind when she met the male MC, Luke, but we all know that the corruption aspect only really works on the innocent - not born-again virgins. A disappointment to be sure. There is even a prequel game planned that will showcase Kathryn's wild younger years, not sure why that would ever be worth of production, as it doesn't look like it will offer anything that games like Anna's Exciting Affection or Jennifer's Life don't already do - unless you are really that into Kathryn's model.