DO NOT PLAY IF YOU DO NOT ENJOY THE CONCEPT OF MEN BIRTHING PULSATING MASSES OF BLOOD AND VISCERA FROM THEIR ASSES!!!

2 out of like 6 endings in & all I can say is that sweet pool has some balancing issues. would have preferred to see either more endings for the other "love" interests or have them treated more like side characters with secret bonus endings (a la trip and virus in dmmd). some good endings would be nice (especially for makoto. i think itd be cute seeing him normal and not. yknow. insane and cannibalistic. maybe a little insane but at least normalpilled enough to keep the protag alive)

didn't expect the spooky omegaverse (that apparently predates omegaverse?????). like at all I just saw tags I liked on vndb and clicked that shit!!!

i'm not usually good at writing reviews but I'll give it a shot since there's not a lot of others written!

i actually think it was pretty well written but for such an insane concept i definitely feel like it couldve gone Farther than it did. i would've really loved a first person POV from youji, the 3rd person pov felt just a bit more detached than i would've liked for a game exploring his mental state and making the reader question it themselves. but I do think it achieved this task pretty well.

some specific things I liked were how the meat monsters disappeared after he goes on mood stabilizers, leaning into the idea that he was hallucinating all along, before then revealing that they're absolutely covering the school and he may have been birthing them unconsciously. this was really good! i liked exploring that fear of an unreliable narrator. i also think youji's internal monologue was written well throughout. another thing i read in another review (lone's to be specific) was that most of the NSFW scenes occur around times when he births the monsters, which goes in hand with the game exploring youji's fears of his body changing. that was a super nice detail. and overall, i do think his fears around this "puberty" of sorts were actually very accurate to the female experience can be

what i probably dislike the most is tetsuo. sorry.... hes just not doing it for me. he's intensely bland and i'm honestly not sure why youji likes him beyond the pheromones, although we're led to believe that they actually Like Each Other as People. i thought zenya and makoto were infinitely more interesting and i actually think zenya did not get quite enough screen time. makoto gets a pretty good character progression in most routes, but zenya is more up to interpretation for the reasons behind his actions. a lot of his character progression feels "hidden", i.e. how he first wants tetsuo and youji to produce a purebreed but then he switches to trying to do it himself. even now i'm not entirely sure if he was trying to produce a purebreed, or just fix his condition bc in one lore-dump segment it says that people can become Males in that way, and maybe he was trying to fix himself. i guess i can't nitpick too hard because he's meant to be weird, but like, it would've been nice to have after revealing why he's like that, yknow?

my final comments: the soundtrack is INSANE, idc if its been 15 years please give everyone who worked on it a raise. i got this game because i was promised it would be weird and it definitely was, i do not think ill forget it for a While!

EDIT: I just learned this game came out BEFORE the world’s oldest omegaverse fic was posted? I’m actually so unbelievably stunned. iconic

Okay, about two years or so after playing this, I think I can finally put my thoughts into words.

When I first played this, I thought it was about an 8/10 but now, looking back, I'd give it about a 6 or a 7/10. The art and the atmosphere were both great (the latter of which being very important for this game considering the horror elements, which I and many others would say outweigh the yaoi), the character designs were very nice and despite having an absolutely WACK-ASS premise (shitting meat; no, really), I was very invested. It's an odd game to be sure, but treated seriously and the guro aspect of it is never played for laughs, instead being treated with the sincerity it deserves. Because really, even if this game's synopsis sounds hilarious to say out loud, you'd be shitting yourself too (pun intended) if this happened to you.

Now, you're probably wondering why I don't think so fondly of this game as I once did... and his name is Tetsuo. Look, spicy hot take, I know, but I don't like him. He's a block of wood. He basically does nothing but stand around with his resting bitch face and occasionally violate our protagonist Youji (whose personality isn't much more vibrant). With Youji, we at least get to see his backstory and why he's so withdrawn/wanting for friends so I guess there's that, but ultimately Youji and Tetsuo's relationship doesn't really amount to much more than "he was an alpha, he was an omega, can I make it any more obvious". It just plays into that stereotype so we can have a true route when for this story, I think it would've been much more interesting to see him take a different route (which I guess we kinda do but they're not the true route... oh well, every ending here is a bad end of some description anyways). I think Zenya was a wonderfully-written character and a really interesting portrayal of what someone with that upbringing could grow into and... honestly, can he just be the protagonist of this game? He got ample screentime which was great, but his struggles were... honestly far more compelling to me than Youji's. Such is the way of the side character, I guess.

I realise I may be in the minority with everything I just said so please take this with a pinch of salt (and don't come after me ducks and runs away from pitchforks flying through the air)

Anyways I'd still recommend it. It's good, I just think it's one of those games that gets worse the more you think about it. For every innovative thing about it, there's a cliche.