I overall liked it, I just didn't like the endgame as usual with this circle. I don't get how it always has to end with the villain whoring out the chicks he stole + making AVs of them, that stuff is so lame to me. I'm happy for everyone who is really into that stuff, I guess. Also, no foursome with the teacher inlcuded (except the boring gangbang stuff)? Why? So many missed opportunities here.
On the plus side: I liked that there was no hypnotismn here, actually. I like hypno stuff but it was a nice mixup this time by just having the villain have godlike fingering/sex skills. I thought it was conveyed pretty well how the heroines slowly drowned in pleasure and got corrupted (except the teacher who was addicted after one session which was stupid). I just wish the corruption would have seeped more into the daily life stuff as well - especially by having the teacher fawn over the villain in broad daylight as well or something like that...
8/10 NTR game imo with lots of potential and an okay story line but it ultimativly fell a bit short because the epilogue was so lackluster for me.
I'm of the opposite opinion from you @Ichini-ni, this game was an utter disappointment, i've been following this circle since their early games: minority hearts etc, and they always had hypnosis, particularly the last two: the Childhood Friends hypnosis games.
The First Childhood hypnosis game was a good mix on Hypnosis and ntr the final scene of the game was a good bit of loli hypnosis ntr, definitely a good game. Then came the Second Childhood hypnosis game a major improvement and expansion of the story of first game with a good formula of the main focus of hypnosis and ntr with loli and adult viewpoints, a really great game.
I especially remember the scene of the viewpoint of young Tomoya when he wakes up disoriented in his house and ignores the strangeness of the situation and recklessly enters the living room only to find his two childhood friends standing there but otherwise completely hypnotized.
This great scene epitomizes the whole game. (It hit all of my buttons and i come back often to replay it).
When i found out on their twitter account that there were making a new game i got very excited.... then after a few posts from them it got me worried about the next game.
e.g. ( the game's title had no hypnosis (saimin) in it , no loli characters designs, this game was not a sequel but a new game story).
Then the game releases and i played it immediately and after i've played for about 1/3 of the story i realized this was trash ..... i was so disappointed.... I agree with the early comments this game is so boring and generic ntr like you get release every other month i didn't even finish it, why ohh why did they removed the hypnosis focus what were they thinking they had the formula down in the second game they could have expanded the story further in a 3rd game like they did for the 2nd or created a new series following the same formula but instead we got this same old trash ntr game... i'm so pissed and disappointed with this circle...
@kamus6666 I'm on the other way hyped, I tried to play the previous games but just couldn't finish it because of mind control shit. Of course it's a matter of taste, but I just don't get it. It's just not fun for me when you turn a person into a puppet without real identity. That's why I really want to try this game! - Edit: So i played this game. As I expected, I liked it better without mind control, but in my opinion something is missing with the text. it's too neutral, a female character just 'moans' nothing more.. I think dirty talk is necessarily on this kind of story.
Sakurasaku Koubou's (桜咲く工房) works also apply. Some have hypnosis, so some homos will quibble, but the stories are great. The cruelty of the villain just saying, 'This girl is cute, I'm going to tear her from her loved ones and make her my plaything just because I can,' and knowing that no matter what the protagonist does or tries, he can't win is great. Deck is stacked against him and there's no chance of a happy ending. In the non-hypno story there's a part where one of the girls tries to do it with the protag in an effort to break away from the villain, but he can't focus because the bad guy is railing another girl in the room next door. Ultimately, the heroine leaves him to go next door. Voice work is aces.