Recent reviews by Brandon White

Fake Lay is a standout casual simulator that can be completed in just two minutes. The game captivates with its humor and simplicity, creating a light and fun atmosphere. I got so hooked that I speedran it several times in a row, discovering something new each time. The controls are simple, and the graphics and sound add charm to the experience. A great pick for a quick and entertaining break!

i want to like it but the game just runs a bit choppy is all.

Absolutely love this game! Perfect for quick sessions, awesome events, and beautiful characters. 10/10 – highly recommended!

Found full Gallery on Google to jack off to it, no need to 100% it.

was decent til i noticed all the AI slop and i just cant support that. as for the game, it isn't THE most predatory free game but the constant pops ups do get old fast. Maybe put more time into writing and storylines than just using AI :)

As a lewd game, it's good game in simulation or management area. But, you can't progress the game fast if you not pay enough $$$. But, it still a good game for anyone who dreamed to own personal strip-club.

Great value. In a market flooded with lazy asset-flip 'adult puzzle games'--hoping to trick you into just taking a risk based on minimal pricing--it's extremely refreshing to uncover quality budget titles like "Rune Girl" here. You'll find all the tempted allure of those releases, but here with a genuine effort across all aspects: from puzzling, to animation, to story, to voiced content (not English but still nice and subtitles obviously). There's a genuine story arc linking each of the puzzles/gallery unlocks, and that is always a welcome addition for a subset genre that seldom bothers justifying its existence beyond "look boobs".

Here the 'puzzle' aspect is, as expected, rather simple, though still enjoyable beyond the common match-3 or literal puzzles of static images, often plagiarized despite such bland simplicity. In "Rune Girl" you essentially charge up an point meter as a ball rotating around a circle. The circle's origin point often releases burst of energy; colliding with them lowers your life bar. You've got to avoid these pulses by timing your movement with the left-mouse button to speed up or with your right-click weapon meter to disperse the active pulses. Once you've circled enough to get 100 points, more nudity on your way to unlocking all the characters.

As with everything, there is some room for improvement though. It seems there were achievement bugs, however I just finished them all successfully so that might be a null factor. The biggest issue left is no apparent way to reset each character's story-line to play-though again without deleting your whole game save to start everything over. It also seems to be missing the usual auto-play and text speed, though there is an option to skip through story segments.

Nevertheless, the game goes above and beyond all expectations. It's fun, well drawn, and filled with a nice variety of characters at minimal cost for a pretty great value. "Rune Girl" is fantastic reminder that genre/premise/pricing aren't the determinants of quality or worthy attention. There are still real gems like Rune Girl to find burred under Steam's "anything goes" market of cash-grab garbage releases... they're just a bit harder to track down these days.

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Although the art in this game is good with great designs for all the girls, unfortunately I can hardly recommend it.

First of all, although there is technically a language option to switch to English you have to click around until you manage to find it. After you do, you'll find that this turns about 20% of the game into awful, misspelled, maybe worse than machine translated text, and the other 80% remains untranslated.

Story mode is a visual novel type format. I played through the first story and... I think it was maybe charming? It's hard to say, because the English translation left a lot to be desired, with repeated lines, spelling mistakes, and awful grammar. But after the story ends, another one unlocks, and there's no gameplay? Overall, there is a lack of explaining how this game works at all. Even with the explanation at the beginning of why I'm doing this, I still have no clue why I'm meeting these women, and there is no gameplay at all in the first story, the story of the next girl just unlocks. Do I just read them all? What happens at the end?

Stage Mode seems to take you directly to gameplay. However, the extremely slow pace of the stages sucks all the fun out of it. You hardly get any targets and the balls take so long to shoot, so long to stop moving, and then the health bar of the girl barely moves. It honestly feels like a chore.

If there was more explanation about how the game worked and improved translation and gameplay speed, I think I might enjoy this game. If you could continue to aim the canon while shooting and shoot continuously and/or press a button to advance the scrolling of additional targets from the bottom, for example, it would feel much snappier to play.

However, I do have to give credit where credit is due. The art and designs of the girls is varied and enjoyable from what I observed. Unfortunately, it doesn't save this unguided, slow, and poorly translated mess.

Fully opinion based, includes personal bias.
Price 10/10
Many games in this category overcharge or are full of microtransactions. This game is a one time cost and I think the amount of content for the price is fair.
Story 7/10
While I found the story pretty lacking with no real ending, there were some plot twists along the way, urging me to unlock the next bit. It is riddled with typos, but for the price of the game, the story is actually pretty decent. I only wish more questions were answered, or that there was some sort of closing conversation after the final level.
Gameplay 6/10
Not for me. I enjoyed learning the mechanics and realistically the levels don't get harder, but it felt repetitive and the fixed camera makes some maneuvers a pain. I didn't go lower than a 6 because it does feel rewarding to complete some of the tougher obstacle combos and is a nice break from the dialogue.
Music/SFX 4/10
The music was engaging but the sounds felt out of place and awkward. This didn't ruin the game by any means, but the music and sound itself didn't hit many standards.
NSFW 7/10
Content was decent quality, if not good. The pics/animations take up more of the screen than I have seen in many games like this. but it still wasn't for me. I prefer "smaller assets" and none of girls really did it for me. The last one was ok I guess.

Overall 8/10
All things considered, this is pretty good for such a simple game. Of course I wish there was more content and more diverse content(gameplay and otherwise) I cant bash it too much, worth it if you are bored with a few spare bucks hanging out in the bank.

Shades of Sakura is a puzzle game all about using the power of physics and drawing to make two yin yang balls meet. The game has 40 levels, most of them having some story/visual novel elements in between them. To beat a level, you have to move one or both of the yin yang balls by creating distinct shapes with your mouse, as if you were drawing. The game isn't all too hard but if you do struggle with a level or just want to see the animated scenes, there is a skip button. Otherwise, the game isn't bad at all. Though simple, it was rather relaxing and satisfying to figure out all the puzzles!

The New Year has long passed, but this game makes my "New Year's mood" goes up.