West Sweety | Review - a premise that goes south quick

Oh right I'm doing these little blurb things again so they look better in the sidebar than the jumbled mess of prices and other details. Well West Sweety is a game I can only say really ends up going south with the promise.

Price: £1.69 /$1.99 on Steam

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So I picked this one up because it looked slightly more promising than the normal (read presently very low) level most adult games reach. It also seemed to be a setting not explored much in said genre by looking at the wild west. Not to spoil too much of the fun of seeing how the review goes but I was wrong. The game really isn't much better than it's contemporaries and I could argue in a few ways it's actually worse.

So on to the characters who mostly while they do say stuff some of the audio hasn't been Translated to English so I hope you enjoy the fact some of the voices and lines are still in Chinese as are the names of some of the characters.

So I picked this one up because it looked slightly more promising than the normal (read presently very low) level most adult games reach. It also seemed to be a setting not explored much in said genre by looking at the wild west. Not to spoil too much of the fun of seeing how the review goes but I was wrong. The game really isn't much better than it's contemporaries and I could argue in a few ways it's actually worse.

So on to the characters who mostly while they do say stuff some of the audio hasn't been Translated to English so I hope you enjoy the fact some of the voices and lines are still in Chinese as are the names of some of the characters.

So already there has been a half arsed job done. The thing is the lines and the information you can gather from the "scenes" with the girls are is about all you get to know about them personality wise. Now it might sound a bit stupid but without any attempt at giving them a personality at all it just feels hollow and pretty cynical. There's no story and the girls really aren't given that much of a personality and at best represent fairly broad Wild West stereotypes who barely say anything or express any interest or personality of their own. I mean even a title I reviewed previously managed to give their characters better personality development and that was more about the story events than the characters personal stories. No wonder West World has to have writers and narrative designers for the world, without them this is how bad it would be to end up hooking up with one of the host.


So the characters are bad but what about the gameplay? I hear you ask. Well there's two minigames you play to progress with the girls. Different girls play different games but it will always be one of two different ones. The first being just a standard dice game where the higher number wins and the second one being a rock paper scissor style game with: a sheriff, a robber and a lady.

An example of an early round of the rock paper Scissor esc game

This means both are somewhat random with the dice game being entirely random to let you progress. As you start off you only need to win normally best 2 out of 3 and you roll 1 dice or play 1 card. However in a stupid move as you progress you need to win more rounds to win overall and you play more cards and roll more dice per round such that it starts to become rather silly.

An example of a later round in the Dice game

"But it's an adult game so how about the adult scenes?"

I hear you ask.
They're kinda not great. The animation seems to have been done using some kind of deforming animation system rather than anything else that automatically creates the animations so it looks often like just they're made of goo rather than flesh and bones and seem to flow rather than move and flex. Each girl really kind of only has one scene with variations on it in terms of what items are used or what parts of the body are used.

and example of one of the scenes

Verdict:

Soul-less, lifeless and fairly creatively bankrupt the game feels like seriously wasted potential whose ideas burned out after the idea of the two mini games. I don't feel it even manages to justify it's fairly low price in terms of either gameplay or anything else. Go play basically anything other than a sliding puzzle and you'll probably find greater depth and or a better quality story with better writing.

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