I haven't played a good HOG in a while, and this game came in a total surprise. There's actually good voice acting here! All of the voice actors did amazing job, none too forced and amateur and they all sound in character. Really sells the story, which is the typical corny HOG but not too bad. I especially love the bad guy's voice since it's deep and smooth, also it's got a bit of a creepy vibe in a grooming uncle gonna do bad thing to you way. Doesn't help that he tells you to do a fetch quest for him and calls you a "good girl" lmao. The actual HOG part is pretty fun as well, and I liked that there's "searching for multiple of a kind of item" ones a lot. The minigames in the base game were fine, but the bonus content has the minigames that I hate the most like tile swapping puzzles and the likes, I opted to skip a few of them there.

Servicable artwork, tho not my thing cuz furry and also mostly male dominating female poses. Nothing against furries and some of the single person ones are rather beautiful, just doesn't get me going. The minigames are, fine, I suppose. The only one that I really had trouble and actively dislike is the "cutter" one, just a bit of a frustrating minigame. Everything else is fine.

Well, this is certainly something! I played this since it's the first game of a series of Emily games that I own and plan to play someday in the future, and I went into it not knowing anything except it looks very old windows/computer vibes. It nailed the vibes fantastically! The story however is like, not bad but also not good? I feel like it could've expanded way more through the profile context, I like that there's hints of what other people are going through through the years. And if it's trying to tell a story of how shitty Emily is, then it succeeded cuz the part about her blaming me for something that I *did not* intent to do at all is just, real shitty. There's also a bunch of early messages that made me go "this girl does not give me the good vibes". I would've cut her outta my life very quickly.

However, it does work as an intriguing little snippet into these two people's lives, and in a neat way I like that there's no way for us players to change the outcome. Things are gonna happen the way they happen, and that's cool. Give it a try if that all sounds interesting, it is free after all. :3