You could say that you needn’t take it seriously and the overall plot is certainly ludicrous, but I found this too hard to ignore, especially now that the characters get more dialogue than ever before.Ī saving grace here is that the gameplay is much improved. Don’t worry, sex will cure your childhood traumas You just listen to her when she talks about regretting ever having a child, just to get an extra move when you take on her a pool date right after it completely brings down the mood and is very fucking weird. All of this is brought up in conversation, but none of it leads to any kind of story or character arc. On top of all that, she has become increasingly estranged from her daughter, which has contributed to her developing a depression. She is an alcoholic and a lifetime of smoking has left her lungs severely damaged, leading to painful coughing fits. She is a single mother and former pornstar, who is now becoming irrelevant to her business due to her age. The game brings up topics like depression, religious persecution, abortion, and drug addiction, and you can’t meaningfully engage with any of it.
However, these stories are often jarringly grim and horrendously out-of-place in this otherwise carefree comedy game. An effort is made to characterize the girls, so you can ask them various things and sometimes they’ll bring up parts of their backstory of their volition. The writing as a whole feels a little off in this game. Picking up an edgy cousin at the airport for some potentially-incestuous fun Sarah and Candace are characterized as being obnoxiously loud and stupid, Lillian is an angsty teen who can’t have a single conversation without talking about suicide, and Abia, the much-advertised Muslim inclusion, is obsessed with sex and will similarly work it into every line of her dialogue. The diversity is very nice and it certainly makes the game unique, but not everybody in the cast I found to be likable at all, whereas I had no such issue with any character in the first HuniePop. Now we got characters like the dark-skinned cyber-goth Denise or the retro beauty vlogger Polly. HuniePop was already kinda unique for featuring characters that you wouldn’t typically see in anime or hentai and this sequel goes even further with that. Once again we have a varied cast of characters available for our romantic conquests, none of which are very easy to define.
Here we have to seduce a cast of potential lovers and convince them to partake in some group activities. Kyu takes us to the island nation of Inna de Poona, a tropical holiday resort famous for its lustful visitors.
The airport security is particularly horny today Look we can sit here and argue about the lore implications all day, but it’s not super-important. The only way to prevent this from happening is by awakening them prematurely and having a three-way with them… After yet another night of sleeping with a fashion model, Kyu the love fairy reappears into our life to inform us of an incoming apocalypse at the hands of two cosmic deities. Once a lonely incel, our unseen player character has now been turned into an unstoppable sex machine. Some time has passed since the events of the original game. The original was great, but what can you really do to improve upon a tile-matching hentai game? Still, its sharp writing and impeccable character design hooked me in and got me really excited for this sequel.
It’s a dating-sim with casual gameplay, featuring a cast of characters that neither panders to the typical fans of dating sims nor casual gamers. The success of HuniePop is kind of amazing when you look back on it.