Sovereign Bug Empire

Basically complete nonsense and a waste of talent both in front and behind the camera. The story, if you can call it that, is highly unusual. You are teleported to an alternate reality where you are placed in a young man’s body that is identified as a one-year-old. Your father is actually a woman, who is told she is a man. Your nanny, who was told she is a robot, is actually a woman. These false identifications were handled by a Sovereign Brain AI (think ChatGPT on steroids, that controls most of society), and the story revolves around trying to correct the AI’s mistakes.

If you want to dive deeper, you could maybe say the writers intended to criticize our reliance on the accuracy of LLMs. Also maybe there is commentary on gender, although it argues more for people being the gender they’re born than choice. And the developers might be saying that people that play these FMV games are babies and a traditional story doesn’t matter.

The first act is basically your parents treating you like a baby, which is stupid (possibly a fetish for some). Even after it gets over this hurdle, it remains quite ridiculous with its interactions and circumstances, with only flashes of normalcy near the end. Perhaps the game was meant to be funny, but most chuckles come from the embarrassment over how dumb it is.

This is not a dating sim, but after every chat with the AI (predefined dialogue), you are rewarded with a short ‘date’ with one woman. They don’t act like themselves and instead are more like girlfriends. Other aspects of the story include answering quizzes to prove intelligence. You need to help two women pass their tests by pinching their buttocks (yes really) in the right places. There is minimal decision making and scenes can be 15 minutes long so it is quite a passive experience.

It is impossible to recommend this unless you’re a gargantuan simp for the main actresses. The core three have been in several other better games: Lingling – Superscout, Xiaoxiao – Hello Love: 18 Again & Exclusive Memory, and Weiwei – Hello Love: 18 Again & Secrets of the Heartbeat. It’s a shame that they’re wasted on such gibberish.