Really. If I wanted to make my life effortless, I would just go through my old reviews, highlight the text on titles like Pick Me, Honey! and Slave Pageant, and simply cut and paste everything onto this page. The next thing to do is to replace the names of the characters on those previous games with the characters of Sagara Family. That’s how generic everyone is. Heck, even the protagonist is creatively named…Yusuke.

The huge difference in Sagara Family is that, unlike most G-Collections or Zyx presentations out there, it has challenging branches. In fact, even as I write this review, there’s one CG and a couple of Arisa’s special scenes that I haven’t uncovered. Unlocking the harem route is no guarantee of completion. Getting desperate enough to consult a walkthrough will not guarantee you of completion either. That’s how tricky Sagara Family can be.

Before you can realize the rather complicated patterns of choices, you must first realize that this game is sicker (in a comical way) than most. For one thing, Maria, Sagara’s matriarch, is a staple. Whatever choice you make, you still end up with your dick in any of her orifices at one point or another. This makes screwing any of her daughters just plain greedy of you. But wait, there’s more. There will be moments when you can actually do three holes in one, mix and match sisters, or do a mother-daughter tandem. The Sagara women are completely nuts. Arisa, for one, would be afraid of some blackmail footage of her masturbating, but has no qualms of doing it in public. Ruruka, who’s supposed to be your signature Lolita, has breasts that are bigger than the average Japanese woman’s. And Sanae…funny, but she reminds me of myself when I was commuting way back in college. I was luckier, though. I lived in a country where sexually harassed women can get away with stabbing sex offenders with a mechanical pencil (or bashing them on the head with a Nextel radio, which I also did). I heard a woman can get arrested for maiming train sex maniacs in Japan. So, okay, I’m forgiving Sanae for letting public transpo sickos off the hook so easily.

Plot-wise, you’ve basically seen it all before. Sagara Family just upped the ante a bit. The situations are all messed up and disturbing that the only logical way to go about this game is to do the harem route. If you’re going to be one sick bastard, why not do the Pokémon and catch ‘em all? There seem to be no totally good or totally bad endings to Sagara Family because everyone is just plain twisted. In fairness, to Yusuke, there are times when he makes perfect sense or utters the sweetest lines. (He once said something like, “…Then I will find a nice tree and commit seppuku,” in reference to his future being destroyed by his sexual urges.) It just so happens that the little head between his legs functions more often than the one that sits on top of his shoulders.

Sex is Sagara Family’s selling point. Not only is it abundant, the CGs and characters are also beautifully rendered. Animation is a plus, and the artwork is Virgin Roster sans the gore. Voice-acting is superb, if you don’t mind hearing some of the delicate words get bleeped out. Extra features include animation recollection, scene recollection, chat logs, and the usual CG and music gallery.

Individual Rating: Art/Animation: 10 Story/Plot: 4 Characters: 7 Sounds: 6 Gameplay: 7 Ecchi Level: 9

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