Unity - Completed - Lustful Traditional Massage Parlor - Mothers and Daughters Addicted to Secret Services - [Steam] [WAKUWAKU]

Unique interactions for all the 5 characters, good management gaming system (a little repetitive), voicing is in japanese so I can't understand it but still sounds great, pixel art & 2d art & animated 2dcg all mixed in well. Great adult management game overall. Would encourage beating the bosses first before trying to activate H scenes, as the boss rewards make the game easier to play.

Massage parlor management simulator with sexy content, I think inspired by Yakuza games series. That's how you can describe this game and it pretty much says everything.

PROS:
+ Interesting plot. Nothing too serious or awesome but enough to catch attention.
+ Cute and sexy girls and why they are all basically easy and slutty, game also put some weight on their story and personalities. We have different scenes with them both animated and static, sexual and not-sexual alike.
+ Simple but nice graphics and decent audio. Again nothing breathtaking, however good enough for pleasant play.
+ Managing, training, fighting, upgrading, dating, fucking... Bunch of different activities and nice minigames.
+ Game gives some challenge but at the same time it's still quite easy to complete.

CONS:
- Censored. No more to say here and no patch so far.
- DLC content not working.
- Errors in translation and small parts untranslated.
- Unlocking full gallery requires repeating the game at least 6 times and this is very very grindy even with NG+ option.
- Sexual content is nice but really limited.
- Lots of repeatable actions and animations that cannot be skipped or fast forwarded and simply take too long when watched over and over again (there are some speeding options but they're not enough), also opening and ending sequences are TERRIBLY slow and cannot be rushed any way.
- Chatting with girls requires having some outside-game knowledge, especially about Japan to get the correct answers. Or googling them. Or abusing save/load and remembering. And sometimes all options are wrong. I like idea of giving right/bad answers to make relation better/worse but answers should be available to find in game by some searching, spying etc.
- Very disappointing overall ending and each of possible endings alike.
- Errors in massage animations on one girl (wrong positions, randomly switching clothing).

Verdict, hmm? This is not bad title. It's actually quite nice, especially if you like management games. It had the potential be really great but, well... Simply has too many flaws to be considered good and doesn't encourage to play again.

Too much repetitive gameplay.
Bar dialogues - stumbling into walls(guess which option got unlocked after sip of a drink?!) with random answers to the questions,
Grind is horrendous. You pretty much need to use cheat engine to progress and even then - you'll be jumping through hoops again and again, even with maxed out stats.
H-scenes are nice... But they are short animations that you are forced to watch for 60s. Yay. Another hour of management and minigames ahead.
At some point game even unlocks "auto-management". Which switches main gameplay mode into minutes of waiting. Yay.
Story progression requires you to play pinball game. It's absolute RNG fest. You can more or less adjust initial direction and force, but after that ricochets are uncontrollable - your pin might decide to bounce in the corner for entire time or it can wipe out the board in one move.

It makes me quite sad that being a game that really feels like a game, something that many do not achieve, and that is fun and with good scenes and characters, although I would have liked them to add more variety in scenes, that its ending is so disappointing xD I really liked this developer, but I feel it should add more content and a better experience to want to get as much content as possible.

This game takes the "management" aspect quite seriously.
It does convey the setting better bcs of it.
If you are around for a quick fap and the animations you probably should look for an "unlock".

If you stick around for the game and bring some patience the reward is quite worth it.
Presentation is top tier and so are almost all of the available girls.

Alright but not great. There's a couple of things causing this to miss the mark to being a good game.

Story 5/10

The plot's pretty thin. You're a yakuza who wants to be promoted, but you banged a higher up's wife so they're blocking your promotion. How are they blocking it? By saying you don't have the skills like earning money. So your boss sets you up to run a massage parlor to earn money.

You earn money. Bulk of the game (yes the plot's all in the beginning and the end, zilch in the middle). Then someone murders your boss and pins the blame on you so you run away. Game finish. Quite the whip lash for an ending.

There's 5 girls in the game (there's DLC but it doesn't work so I'm only counting 5). For each girl you can take them to the bar and just get to know them. Like their hobbies and shit. Lol. But I do like the idea as it's character development.

But it doesn't all come together. You build these nice relationships with the girls and... the ending is you run away. Just a very unsatisfying ending.

Gameplay 5/10

Don't get me wrong, the gameplay is decent. But it's too much game and not enough h. Like there's this pinball minigame that's quite entertaining. But... it's just fucking pinball with no h.

There's 3 main parts to the game. The management part which includes running the massage parlor, the pinball part, and the get-to-know-a-girl-at-the-bar part. Each part is decent as a game element and there's some ties between the 3 parts, like actions at the bar can lead to an extra pinball game, but again, the focus needs to be on h. Not mini-games.

Even the game part's got a lot of things wrong with it. Namely, there's a lot of quality of life improvements that I'd think are necessary. I think this can really be summarized as, the game is too slow and there's no way to fast forward. An example: There's a rock-paper-scissors mini-game. Well it takes 10 seconds per move. I timed it. And you have to win 2/3, so 20 seconds minimum and if you keep tying, no maximum. This is a grueling minigame. And it's rock-paper-scissors so you're not even having fun.

Lastly, the bugs. There's a lot of bugs. I don't think I ever soft locked, but there's some jank behavior that goes on. Sometimes you get double music. Sometimes text plays over text. The DLC just doesn't work (unsure if an upload problem or inherent to the game). And apparently, there's voice acting in this game. I never heard a single voiced line.

Art 7/10

There's a mixture of pixel? art and scene art. And it's really well done. However there's just not enough scenes. For 4 of the girls there's like 7-ish? pixel-art scenes, some with an accompanying close-up blow-up. There's also a couple of combos with mother-daughter which is really nice. But that's it. That's the sum total of all h-scenes in the game.

And it needs to be mentioned, but QoL is lacking during h-scenes as well. It's grindy and not in a good way. Sometimes you need to make the girl wet. So you just sit there, click-holding your mouse. And you wait.

Oh and the worst QoL? If you click and hold... the girl will iku in like 10 seconds, both fading out and pausing the animation. Now, do I need to explain why fading out and pausing the animation every 10 seconds is impractical for an h-scene?

Overall 5/10

Another game that's too much of a game and not enough of an h-game. There's some nice scenes and the game tries to tie the non-h parts of the game to the h.... but it doesn't do a good enough job of it.

What? I did some review on it, where did it go?
Anyway, not in the mood for long talk, just waned to Add some 5 Stars to thins one. It is one of the best Lewd games ever made.
It has all that needs to be in a game like this. Adults, some strategy, awsome story and gamplay... And Very Nice Lewd Things.
To bad it is short. Alaso it is a LOT better then Dodjo.

10\10. Even the missing voices are not making me change my mind. I'd say - go buy it via steam, just to support the Devs. Awsome+Awsome.

I love every bit of it. WAKUWAKU, you're the best <3
In fact, I've played the Dojo NTR first.

This game is a bit grindy, but that's why I love it. It's no fun if we can only jerk off but not enjoy the game itself

Good game!

Good story and overall, feeling like they all got an ending.

Which is not good tho is to grind so much, like, may I just skip to the 30th day if I already maxed out what I needed?

That aside good graphics and animations, certainly the DLC upgraded the rating to be 5!!!

The game is too much in grind mearurements, but since you can cheat so easily, i think thats not so much probem, Wakuwaku is amazing and i really like the game, and the previous too (That one in a Dojo).
The artstyle is pretty cool, the playstyle is good (better than just another RPGM or VN) and the plot is really good

Straight up from a good game, good development but poor gameplay. This is what happen when you think your game is gonna be a rare catch.
- All grindy are tolerable except they are limited. You can only extend your endurance to a certain points and then LUCK will be one thing to f*ck you up.
- Let just say I'm pretty easy and the art drawings are fine, all scene have good drawings. But many scene missing details, close scene are good but then you get switched to watch at the full angle - which is seem to be missing details.
I'm giving this 2 stars since it's a good management and dating game, but the reward for H-scene is not good and mini game need your LUCK is NOT IN BAD SHAPE - is absolute garbage.

Pretty fun but a bit grindy

Though, I feel like it has some missed chances to make it even lewder and thus better.

The classic timer of doom (complete with goal by the end of the game) does always make the porn games stressful instead of...relaxing

Great ideas, held back by the grind.

The game is a fun little management Sim with decent art.

The issue is that the game has a few decision choices that made the game much more long winded than it needs to be.

1) hiding fast forward button behind a mid game challenge. This made the hang much slower than it needs to be. Even with the fast forward button, work periods are still too long

2) work days are too short. If you have over 40 clients, you can't fit all of them in your venue. This artificially limits max revenue made in a day, causing the main mission a little bit harder than it needs to be, encouraging min maxing in a game designed to be auto'.ed. the last few tiers of rooms and workers purchases are a trap as well, and quite punishing if you fell for it.

3) there are 3 really hard quest that probably needs new game+ to compete. However, it's odd that the rewards for completing these missions that is a huge stat boost that you'll never use again. It should've been provided before the missions so that they're much more doable in your first run.

4) they gave us scene skip for the intro, but don't provide it for the hscenes and dating scene, and you can't skip text either. And there's alot of waiting at the beginning of the h scenes, making the game feel very slow.

Pros
- Cute art style.
- Decent animations.
- Good selection of erotic poses and setups.
- Decent music and classy casino/mafia feel to the game.

Cons
- Awful audio balance and layers of songs playing simultaneously oddly.

- Sex scenes are very spaced out between long grindy/RNG mini-games. Good luck getting off on this game, or rather, congratulations if you do.

- This dev's games require way too much clicking or holding the mouse buttons. The two I've played so far, are not complex enough to require so much clicking, especially when it's required for skipping or speeding up anims. The dev also provides no hotkey customization, let alone keyboard usage, so again, I'm relegated to using AutoHotkey. This is a Japanese game design thing that I'm no longer interested in. Overcomplicated and overexertion. It's a porn game. Not StarCraft, Baldur's Gate 3, or some other looting/inventory management game.

- Some scenes, animations, transitions, or actions are way too slow. I do not want to watch or intearct with the same stuff repeatedly if they're very slow to finish. It just makes the games feel clunky, and the dev just wastes my time even more. I understand that they're super proud of what they've made, and they're more than entitled to force players to watch or interact with things they love, but it's just way too time-consuming for me. It just shouldn't take so long to play rock, paper, scissors, or roll dice, or watch automatic management play out without having to progress a character's story and gain some speed up ability later. And the MC walking into the room to massage an FC. Fuck that animation in particular.

Conclusion
- This game could've been absolutely amazing, but there's too much slow, clunky, RNG, and grindy BS that degrades it. If you're a player that has time for this, I hope you have fun. There's an incredible game in here, if the dev just had someone forcing them to change shit so it wasn't so fucking clunky or grindy, and that's a shame, at least IMO. I'm done with this kind of Japanese game design.

This is a difficult one to rate. On one hand, Waku Waku managed to actually make a playable game that compliments it's wonderful art and animations, learning from the many mistakes of Dojo NTR. On the other, it's still a terrible grind and I can't without good faith tell anyone to play this game without at least talking about the many caveats.

For one thing, a lot of sex scenes are locked behind progression such that trying to massage any of the girls to h them is basically pointless unless they are in love with you and you have completed enough upgrades/stats to trivialize reaching the threshold to enter h. If you don't, it's basically a waste of a few minutes unless you want to enjoy the massage molestation - which is mediocre at best.

The main bulk of the game is shop management but it's largely thoughtless busy work, given that as long as you just continue spending the resources to upgrade you never have to worry about failing the 1 billion yen goal. Partway through the game, you get rewards that basically automate day-of management like sending people to clean, who massages who, etc. and another one that gives 2x speed. This is a section of the game that you alt-tab out of and it happens 30 times in a playthrough - incredibly cumbersome. Upgrades to your shop, learning new skills, training and recruiting employees etc. is all generally nothing you ever have to think about, just make number go big. If you are versed in this genre i'd imagine this game would be an insult, as for me, who never plays these types of games, I find it pretty unengaging.

Buuut, there's a pinball minigame! This is probably the most interesting minigame one of these simulator type games has offered. Brings back memories of TWEWY and it's very well made, only found one glitch which didn't matter too much. Launch your character (pinball) around the map and advertise the store, beat people up etc. Not very skill intensive unfortunately, success is largely based on how strong your main character is over thoughtful launches - grinding!! But it's still fun and I never got bored of it.

Beyond massaging them, you can take the heroines out to a bar and this is where you can get them to like you and get them shitfaced for some h-scenes (this has the same problem as the message scenes, locked until max love). Very visual novel-like, talk to them and choose the right options when you do. Eventually, they'll open up to you about problems and you pinball them away. This portion of the game is very solid albeit the slow and annoying rng minigames of rock paper scissors and dice roll to get them drunk before you do. There's items in the game that you get to make sure these games always win and it's a slap in the face - make me play a minigame where i can play to influence the outcome instead of hoping to win the lottery. Without the 100% win rate items, you have to be lucky four times and if you lose you'll end up shitfaced and then the entire date is over. The mc has low tolerance at the start, and so this leads to a lot of wasted encounters if you don't own the items.

H-content is fantastic with animation, voice acting, and a small handful of cgs. There is an exceptional quality and the only complaint I have here is that I wish there was more of the decent amount that we got. A good bulk of the h is massaging, so be prepared to enjoy the slow burn before the hardcore stuff happens. Like I said earlier, trying to push for h-scenes early is often not rewarding so you'll have to be patient before getting to see anything. It took me about 5 in game days before I started working towards the possibility - i'm sure it can be done faster but that's the ballpark estimate of what to expect. On top of massaging and drunk scenes you can put the daughter and mom into the same massaging room to unlock an extra scenario, hence the theme of this game. It was super neat to see this unfold for the first time. The DLC introduces two new girls that you can h in a more traditional fashion to this genre.

The detail and quality in the h scenes is what makes this game worth the grind, should you decide to play it. Although slogging through the in-game days to an ending may take a decent chunk of hours, with half of it probably being boring, I do think ultimately it is worth it over skipping it all with a full save. Waku Waku has thankfully managed to create a game that is worth the trouble to experience. I would however, recommend a guide to avoid pitfalls and make the experience as smooth as possible.

1/10

a summer memories clone but with a ton of pointless RNG stat grind and no sex thrown in. Lots of basic QoL features are missing like pausing the game when you have the pause menu up, and the day still progresses in real time when you are in H scenes with the heroines.

This game desperately needs a 100% save to make it worth your time.

I would like to give this mae more but for the time to get those few scenes it's just not worth it. Managment of the game is meh and you don't rly care about the skills of your employers because you just buy new ones with better stats or you have so much time to get the funds it's not that hard. I didnt see i could go up to 02:00 AM with actions and still managed to have 6 days of just skipping to the end.
Managment aspect 3/5
Gameplay 2/5
Mini games are okey but after doing them for a while are getting boring
Characters 4/5
I don't like that the only way to get affection to characters is by go to bar and drinking/talking with them and you can only go to bar once a day.
Sex scenes 3/5
NTR aspect is mostly for 2 workers.
Tldr: 3/5 if you want to play other game while playing this game it's optional XD

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAM ths game is bormng assfuck bt at the same time entretaning just for the BALL GAME te story is very good but the animations and the cg animated ts just too goofy and bad if onl this game had good no great but good animation it will be better buts deam some cg animation on the massage game are just stupidly bad made it. 3/10 just for the story

Pretty torn on this one. The art is incredible. The characters are super sexy. The premise is interesting and all the aspects of gameplay at first seem great, the management stuff is cool, the dates are fun, the pinball minigame seems great.
That's all at first. And then you realize the dates are just grinding to get your booze tolerance up, the management gets repetitive and as hot as the sex scenes are you see them a lot. The goddamn pinball game. I think it might be my least favorite part. You're just crossing your fingers hoping you get a good ricochet which you have almost no control over. It's profoundly irritating seeing your character bouncing around like crazy on the opposite side of the map from where your target is.
Everything looks super nice and super slick but there's a lot of not that fun grind under it. I stuck with it just because I love the art so much. I just wish it was more fun to play.

Great art, animations and game concept. Business aspect of the game is a little jarring and can feel like a waste of time, but can be overlooked for such incredible art and characters. Bar interactions and pinball scenes were also rather fun.