Editor's Rating
Story - The narrative manages to hit a few intriguing notes, especially with the backdrop of sports. However, the execution leaves much to be desired. The main plot focuses heavily on training sessions and massages rather than fun interactions or character development that players crave. The protagonist's cringe-worthy, immature reactions to intimate scenarios ultimately detract from the overall story. - 59%
Visual - On the visual front, The Beautiful Game scores decent points. The character renders are generally impressive, featuring attractive designs and a variety of girls, though the ratio leans heavily towards bimbos with big assets. The art style is solid, matching the youthful atmosphere, but the lack of diversity in character types might not appeal to everyone. - 75%
Engagement - Engagement hinges on how invested players feel in the characters and plot. Unfortunately, many players have noted the protagonist's lack of agency and backbone, often feeling like a passive participant rather than an active player on the field of romance. The dialogue can be stale, and the forced scenarios break immersion, killing the thrill of choice. - 53%
Core Loop - This is where The Beautiful Game really stumbles. The core loop feels more like a sprint to the finish line without any of the exhilarating touches. The choices are very limited; players often feel like they’re being led along rather than steering their course. Forced paths and scenes—without giving players the chance to explore characters properly—hinder replayability and overall enjoyment. - 50%
59%
out off 100%
This review is based on author's perspective and actual experience may differ on individual's own preferences.
Another clueless dumbfuck MC. Delete.
In Planned Tags in the Info Tab:
harem, pregnancy
You also state: No NTR & as a KEY POINT –
Some other points of interest:
– This is a harem game. MC will be able to have nice relationships with almost all of the LIs at the same time
LOOK AT THE VERY FIRST PICTURE IN THE DAMNED LIST DEV!!!
First – Harem = I pick the girls I want to be in the harem, and can have anyone I want in the harem. That’s the way that works.
You have listed ONE actual player (the asian chick with the “interesting” tattoos) in the list so far (and the list is way too small to have ever included the actual team – even if it was JUST the team) You DO NOT do that. The TEAM is the draw as far as what you’ve clearly gone for in aesthetics here. I don’t give a fuck about Ivy as the head coach (there are SO MANY problems with her as a character if you actually know anything about business – and she DOES NOT get to be a FEM DOM without Player Input asshole. You have “kinks” for every damned girl listed = only TWO of them are actually something you let us turn off, and they’re the most fucking vanilla ones you can think of! * What the fuck even is Phirya’s kink anyway???)
There should be NO GIRL over the age of 35 IF you’re actually going to do pregnancy content. The girl from HR really needs to be fired (and or re-rendered) because she’s the ugliest one of them all) * It’s not okay for him to “date” the players or anyone else at the business – according to miss DICK MEASURING DOES NOT GET TO HAPPEN IN A HAREM: HE is the LEADER, which he’s NOT going to do if you write him like the COSTUME of Clark Kent = Clark as he actually is, IS still SUPERMAN, he just pretends to be that polite/dorky/clumsy to DISTRACT people. Jesus… – BUT all of the ladies can say or do exactly what he gets randomly accused of being a perv/creep stalker for… FUCK OFF. Do you even know what a double standard is?
If there had been an “incident” beforehand [ and I originally took Kimora (side note; I’ve seen in my whole life exactly ONE dark skinned girl with freckles. She didn’t have more than a light dusting across the cheeks, and she was Ethiopian – You designed a character who has a CELTIC trait, to look black, with a fucking Asian name. How. In the fuck, do you want me to take that seriously?) to have been a victim of that incident rather than Autistic – which is also much less common in females, alongside aspergers, and generally less pronounced] then the GENERAL MANAGER & The Owner WOULD NEVER HAVE ALLOWED A MALE TO BE HIRED. The head coach is NOT the one that makes those decisions. She HAS NO POWER TO FIRE HIS ASS. She CAN go to the general manager and the owner if there is a problem – the HEAD COACH ONLY COACHES. There’s also the fact you made this arse an ASSISTANT sports scientist (read glorified professional massager – which is all kinds of trouble just waiting to happen) so where the fuck is the ACTUAL sports scientist. Hell you make Ivy go off on a tangent that would’ve seen any applicant with any sense state right off: Okay, I can tell I’m not actually welcome here. Good luck to you, and by the way fuck off. For the gaslighting in bringing me here under what’s obviously a false pretense, for the unwarranted attack, and the general assumption I have untoward intentions. [You do know she’s with that ONE scene, never mind every other one she’s in as long as she keeps up the attitude, opened the company up to slander allegations. Discrimination proceedings. If he does get fired, he can take them to court so damned quickly for half the shit you’ve pulled so far, it would make their heads spin * No actual professional is allowed to ask or assert half the things she did in that “interview” legally speaking and no one with any fucking sense in their heads given how desperate the situation is would have gone there. The point was to WELCOME him. Jesus fucking Christ = are you the one on the spectrum buddy? Because a BRICK should understand that] She does NOT get to say no dating the team. She does not get to say don’t you dare do anything sexual if about 3 Scenes later you show a pink haired twat in the showers MASTURBATING! (Pro tip dipshit; it might be JUST females in the space, but it’s still PUBLIC – no one with any sense is going to do that when they don’t know if they’re going to get caught, just because YOU assume every one of them in the organization is somehow a closet lesbian… Fuck. Right. Off) The binary choice to ask whether Ivy has a boyfriend or a husband = of course not. Not with her attitude. And again: ASK me if I WANT TO SEE Femdom shit. It IS A KINK. You dick. It IS CONTROVERSIAL CONTENT and it directly impedes the MALE Power Fantasy that a harem is supposed to be. Ivy is one character that doesn’t belong on the list. Whatever the fuck Phriya’s Kink is better actually be clearly explained and I’d say demotes her to not on the list. Jenny as your mom’s “best friend” (who was such a friend that she was literally EXCOMMUNICATED…) does not get to do the whole cougar I’m the one in control bit… SHE SHOULD BE ENCOURAGING MC TO BE THE ONE TO TAKE THE LEAD AND ACTUALLY FUCKING HAVE THE CONFIDENCE SHE WANTS HIM TO HAVE!!! Especially if she does suspect he’s been abused by an over-bearing anaconda of a helicopter mom. It’s fine if you want to explain that’s the SOURCE of why this fuckwit is so passive… it’s NOT OKAY to keep going with that. At all. Or to have every single female that’s SUPPOSED to be shown to want a romantic entanglement (which implies they’ll actually care about this literal social retard) take massive advantage to push him around. They should be BUILDING him up – from the second any one of them finds out about it; and PENNY being included to TELL THEM about it, would’ve actually been a good start = why the fuck is she in the game, nevermind on the list. You didn’t even give us the option to actually say we liked her, so there would be a path open for her to join later [I’m willing to entertain the notion she might take the spot of the one with the knee injury… but in that case fuck the mountain climbing and SHOW THE TWO OF THEM PRACTICING SOCCER! So that it will make actual logical sense she has any reason to bloody join the team at the college level * Suspension of Disbelief isn’t an infinite get out of corners I’ve needlessly written myself into free card…]
Seriously, put in an option of whether we want Ivy to be the Domme or the Sub. That would fix her arc. You can share that an incident has happened that makes them guarded – but doesn’t make her come off as a dick and actually makes her sympathetic to the audience. Without just assuming because it’s happened once already and some guys are assholes, it should be taken there’s automatic sympathy… and every assholish thing she says to the GUY SHE NEEDS – in more than one way frankly – should be given a pass. Take her age down to 32, with a max of 35. It doesn’t need to go farther than that. That way you have time to actually build up to the inclusion of eventually everyone in the harem is A) Okay with the idea of pregnancy and then B) WANTS to and CAN get pregnant. Without having to senselessly rush into baby crazy territory because it’s damned near too late. Get rid of SOME of Phriya’s chunk in the trunk. She doesn’t look that way in the picture rendered; so it was a bit disconcerting how wide framed you made her. (By the way – a dancer would not have that build. Make Grieselda a track and field athelete, or a former olympian female body builder; I’d believe it. A dancer… no. They need to be light framed enough that a MALE dancer is going to be able to lift her as her partner… as she stands, unless that guy is Arnold’s second cousin or the Grey Hulk… no. Just no. Do note: She IS attractive, and I don’t mind the build necessarily – the backstory needs work)
There’s also the point in a harem there’s NO NEED for “side girls.” And if you insist on the differentiation fuck the soccer field and add a second list so that we can see who clearly is SIDE CONTENT. Yet still to be considered a part of the harem. So A) Add in the WHOLE of the rest of the soccer team to the harem; including Miss I used to be a soccer player like you, until I took a left fielder to the knee (and you can fix Ivy’s current path by adding in The Owner as the ultimate I’m Untouchable – so Ivy CANNOT do a damned thing to MC, and may actually be made to SUBMIT to MC – if she wants to keep her job; wherein the MC being as soft hearted as he is can work to his advantage to “tame” her aggression by not holding her to that arrangement, and teasing that they do only when the Boss is around, so that Ivy will decide on her own she actually WANTS to surrender to him) B) Tone down the female predation, and awkward assed situations [Really, you treat the fuck like he’s some sort of sexual predator; but you make his FIRST SUGGESTION in a team meeting be Hey, let’s do a NUDE calender – oh, but please, don’t think I’m just like every other guy… WHAT. The. ACTUAL. FUCK. is wrong with you dude?] and C) re-work that whole intro so he actually feels like they WANT him to be there. Jesus. Do you want like 90% of your audience to tap out before the game gets going? Because I rage quit for a good few hours at the point Ivy did her little bipolar bullshit during that introduction interview. If this is the best character writing you’ve got to offer, it’s not going to matter if you SAY it’s a harem, and that pregnancy will be added. It’s not going to be in a way I want to see.
Whoa. What happened here? You okay?
I’m pefectly fine.
I just get very annoyed when someone should know the genre they’re writing – if they have enough wherewithal to comfort the intended audience about what will and will not be in the game – and then they actively go against everything good about that specific genre.
1) Harem is a MALE power fantasy; it’s fine if the MC was abused (in expositional context – it’s not actually okay that he was abused – and that happens more than some people think. Especially in the way it’s related in this game) but it’s NOT okay for the females that are supposed to be pursued to keep going with the abuse.
2) If you’re going to write about the business side of the sports franchise – KNOW the legalities inherent within. This dev does not. The head coach is incredibly abrasive (also really should be the most sexually submissive character in the game – just to ease off exactly how much abuse of her own authority she might have) to a new hire. Asking questions that are not legally allowable. Making incredibly accusatory assertions in assumption – which would see most of those literal day one employees walk right out the door. Compound it by her shown interest in MC in certain body language contexts it’s incredibly tonally jarring.
3) The MC should be confident enough to be the LEADER of the Harem. That’s how he’ll actually GAIN the harem. Just to start – and no guy’s going to keep around someone that makes him feel that uncomfortable given his stated emotional scarring. NONE of the girls needed to be “Femdom” content (I care less that it exists, than that unlike with Pregnancy and Lesbianism – it can’t be turned off) because that actively counters any actual confidence he MIGHT be able to scrape together at some point. It’s contradictory to the whole damned genre. No girl is going to randomly chase after a guy that is that level of Meek. It’s not just about him being “nice.” And if he’s that dense, he has no shot at getting laid in the first place. Like I said above – we didn’t even get the chance to CHOOSE to tell Penny that we liked her, as a means to actually open up content with her later in the game. She’s on the list for exactly no reason.
4) Every one of the players on the team, and basically all of the staff that THE PLAYER chooses yes or not, should have a slot on that list. The very first picture shown in the list of pictures is the roster of the team. That leads to certain expectations, and will feel like a massive let down if only the Asian tattooed chick ends up scoring a goal by letting MC into her field, if you get what I mean. It really did irk me that the dev wrote in several sections of Ivy saying “No. You can’t date the players, or the staff…” And also treated him like he was an insta sexual predator; but the game lets the girls do the exact same thing to him. With no consequence = and this is supposed to be “empowering.” How? It’s a double standard, and that doesn’t belong in the harem genre either. That point was also tonally jarring against the fact she can be convinced it’s a good idea to let the team do a freaking nude calendar. By the very male she’s accusing of being that level of leering, lecherous jackass to start with. It would be something if the player could actually answer back, and counter Ivy or start calling these witches out on their assumptive bullshit about him… but we both know the dev’s never going to do that. It would actually show him having confidence.
You might also note I put in a few points wherein you can easily correct the narrative, by involving the general manager or the owner more specifically (It was mentioned in the prologue that she had marital problems – or may be currently having them; it wasn’t exactly clear which owner was for what team) * So she does have some precedent to take interest in the MC; and him getting involved with/breeding her would grant him immunity from Ivy’s assholishness.
Because the story is so unoriginal, only guy in a only women school/office, therefore the sex scenes are also meh.
Also MC is a pussy, way to much unnecessary text, and way too much woke/activist haircuts.
IGN 7/10
Game sucks. Pushing woke agendas through AVN’s is a dumbest thing to do
very mid.. looks nice but man the writing….
so much unnecessary narration and shop-talk that nobody cares about.
and mc is typical timid virgin-type
waste of time, couldnt finish this.
get virgin incels out of sex games already nobody likes them 4 good reasons
what are the 4 good reasons?
1. ery1 hates incels
2. ery1 hates virgin incels
3 and 4. same
oh look another VN with a MC who ends up at an all girls school and after he gets there all of them apparently magically want his dick yawn ZZZZZZ boring please for the love of fuck Devs come up with something original that has not been done a thousand times before I don’t even need to download this to know it’s gonna be garbage
If you like to be touched, flirted with and tricked to strip by an annoying gay black man this game is something for you. If not better stay away because the dev locks you out of four (!!!) potencial love interests if you don´t move along with him
let me guess a bunch of black guys fucked and wrecked your ass so now all you see is gay content every where, but you apparently missed the part where it states It’s all girls
I see, you didn´t played it, good for you. It doesn´t change the fact that if you don´t endure the flirting and touching while moving to the art event and there being forced to strip as a newcomer you miss out the monstertruck girl, the injured player, the more hardcore art event and you don´t get the terrible pickupline for the goth chick. The dev wants you to be confortable with this gay stuff, you even have to pretend to be gay to enter the club later on. And that is not my cup of tea and I am pretty sure most of the players don´t like it as well.
A short advise for you, don´t believe everything a promotion says, it will make you do stupid comments and you don´t want to be seen as stupid, do you ?!?