Okay, buckle up, there is gonna be a whole lotta yapping.
Overall I'd say the game is an artistic accomplishment tainted by poor technical execution.
⠀⠀I'll begin with immersion breaking intro and far-fetched prologue. Not sure why dev included this porn-shoot intro, just remove it and the game would be better for it. The accident in the prologue is made out to be over-the-top dramatic kind-of-a-big-deal occurrence, that were even shown in the news (wtf?). I feel like they might be a bit overreacting? It doesn't have any impact on further narrative anyways, except for occasional reference. And whats with the immediate gameover if you don't have enough money to pay up? Could the punishment be a bit more sophisticated? You can also get a gameover by skipping too many classes. It's briefly mentioned but never explained. Like how much is too much? I still don't know.
⠀⠀Some plot devices aren't believable. Like you visiting sister in a gentleman's club, and even tho you're wearing a mask, she seriously couldn't at least figure out your voice? You're siblings and you live together ffs! Besides she had many opportunities to look at MC's face and just..... didn't?! Also everything else is still the same, it's not like he is changing his appearance before visits. Or the Miroslav plot-line. It would be ok if you finish his questline before Rachel's but here is the problem: you can only progress his on Sundays, whereas Rachel's could be on weekdays. So what is probably going to happen is you already all lovey-dovey with her, but for some reason she still dates Miroslav unironically, which is nonsense.
⠀⠀Alice "Love" route. So first MC purposefully corrupts her and then becomes afraid that she wants him too much? Really? Why does he suddenly care about her marriage? He never really gave two fucks and and now all of the sudden becomes a bastion of morality? I also don't buy his "I'm too tired" or "I'm busy" excuses, because they come from a literal breeding machine. Why can't you just cuck her husband for good and keep her to yourself, since the other "Corruption" route is you literally whoring her out in a brothel? There is two threesome scenes with husband in the "love" route that you can't consent or refuse to, it just happens and you have no agency in the matter. That's not exclusive to Alice btw, some routes have unavoidable sharing and swinging.
⠀⠀All girls interconnected and their path progression is dependent on each other. So you can't focus on any one of the girls in a vacuum. And even if you do decide to focus, you'd be disappointed, because none of the routes are even remotely finished. Funny thing is, even though characters have to interact with each other to move the story forward, none of them know about other's romance with MC (with few exceptions) and in that regard everything does feel like it's happening in a vacuum. Also connected nature of girls routes mean that you have to progress them ALL regardless of your preferences. Don't like a particular girl? Well, too bad, you're stuck doing her events anyways.
⠀⠀Be ready to work (wait) really hard (long) for those sex scenes. It takes a while to get to know and seduce all the girls into relationship/submission. In that sense it could be considered a slow-burn. But when sex actually happens, It just does and you move on. At least for me there is no catharsis, and no appropriate aftermath. I will touch on it later, but the teasing is often more fun than main action.
⠀⠀Despite tutorial claiming that next steps become obvious if you read carefully, it is not always the case, so walkthrough becomes a necessity unless you want to aimlessly wander around.
⠀⠀Too many events on "Afternoon (Weekend)" later on in the game. You may not have the same exact issue, but it's not an isolated case. There WILL be numerous occasions where you simply forward time for the lack of activities.
⠀⠀Overall lots of narrative inconsistencies if you do things out of order planned by developer. Which, to be fair, is a sin of most of the games of the same genre.
⠀⠀There is a big discrepancy in facial "fidelity". Depending on the image, faces could appear either stunning or repulsive.
⠀⠀UI isn't thought out that well. You can only access Laptop and Phone from your room screen. But laptop contains walkthrough (which we already established is a must) and phone shows your stats, both of which you'd want to check out on a regular. So you'd have to constantly return to room screen, which just adds more unnecessary clicks.
⠀⠀Lack of sound effects - there is none. And the music is terrible. So I turned it off aaaand the game might as well be mute at this point.
⠀⠀There is very little animation, also earlier animations have all sorts of weird body movements in them and are overall considerably worse than late-game ones.
⠀⠀Now to the good stuff. The renders are gorgeous. And I'm not talking just about graphics. Poses, expressions, composition, angles, post-processing - all make up for an exceptional eroticism. Which in turn is further enhanced by the writing. I know I've harshly scrutinized it in the previous statements but despite it's imperfections, it's really hot, when it's needed. I mean there are non-animated teasing scenes that are more arousing than actual sex scenes with animations - that is highly unusual. Characters are varied in both appearances and personalities and it's interesting to follow their development. On which you have real impact with your decisions by the way. There is a lot of text but it rarely feels tiring or like a filler. I also liked the humor. It's mostly tasteful and spread thin enough to not get on your nerves.
⠀⠀Right now Photo Hunt has several dozen hours of content. Enough for a week worth of leisure time. I really want to, but cannot in good faith, with all it's shortcomings, give it more that a 3. If it was a well-structured VN - that would be an easy 4, but alas.
Overall I'd say the game is an artistic accomplishment tainted by poor technical execution.
⠀⠀I'll begin with immersion breaking intro and far-fetched prologue. Not sure why dev included this porn-shoot intro, just remove it and the game would be better for it. The accident in the prologue is made out to be over-the-top dramatic kind-of-a-big-deal occurrence, that were even shown in the news (wtf?). I feel like they might be a bit overreacting? It doesn't have any impact on further narrative anyways, except for occasional reference. And whats with the immediate gameover if you don't have enough money to pay up? Could the punishment be a bit more sophisticated? You can also get a gameover by skipping too many classes. It's briefly mentioned but never explained. Like how much is too much? I still don't know.
⠀⠀Some plot devices aren't believable. Like you visiting sister in a gentleman's club, and even tho you're wearing a mask, she seriously couldn't at least figure out your voice? You're siblings and you live together ffs! Besides she had many opportunities to look at MC's face and just..... didn't?! Also everything else is still the same, it's not like he is changing his appearance before visits. Or the Miroslav plot-line. It would be ok if you finish his questline before Rachel's but here is the problem: you can only progress his on Sundays, whereas Rachel's could be on weekdays. So what is probably going to happen is you already all lovey-dovey with her, but for some reason she still dates Miroslav unironically, which is nonsense.
⠀⠀Alice "Love" route. So first MC purposefully corrupts her and then becomes afraid that she wants him too much? Really? Why does he suddenly care about her marriage? He never really gave two fucks and and now all of the sudden becomes a bastion of morality? I also don't buy his "I'm too tired" or "I'm busy" excuses, because they come from a literal breeding machine. Why can't you just cuck her husband for good and keep her to yourself, since the other "Corruption" route is you literally whoring her out in a brothel? There is two threesome scenes with husband in the "love" route that you can't consent or refuse to, it just happens and you have no agency in the matter. That's not exclusive to Alice btw, some routes have unavoidable sharing and swinging.
⠀⠀All girls interconnected and their path progression is dependent on each other. So you can't focus on any one of the girls in a vacuum. And even if you do decide to focus, you'd be disappointed, because none of the routes are even remotely finished. Funny thing is, even though characters have to interact with each other to move the story forward, none of them know about other's romance with MC (with few exceptions) and in that regard everything does feel like it's happening in a vacuum. Also connected nature of girls routes mean that you have to progress them ALL regardless of your preferences. Don't like a particular girl? Well, too bad, you're stuck doing her events anyways.
⠀⠀Be ready to work (wait) really hard (long) for those sex scenes. It takes a while to get to know and seduce all the girls into relationship/submission. In that sense it could be considered a slow-burn. But when sex actually happens, It just does and you move on. At least for me there is no catharsis, and no appropriate aftermath. I will touch on it later, but the teasing is often more fun than main action.
⠀⠀Despite tutorial claiming that next steps become obvious if you read carefully, it is not always the case, so walkthrough becomes a necessity unless you want to aimlessly wander around.
⠀⠀Too many events on "Afternoon (Weekend)" later on in the game. You may not have the same exact issue, but it's not an isolated case. There WILL be numerous occasions where you simply forward time for the lack of activities.
⠀⠀Overall lots of narrative inconsistencies if you do things out of order planned by developer. Which, to be fair, is a sin of most of the games of the same genre.
⠀⠀There is a big discrepancy in facial "fidelity". Depending on the image, faces could appear either stunning or repulsive.
⠀⠀UI isn't thought out that well. You can only access Laptop and Phone from your room screen. But laptop contains walkthrough (which we already established is a must) and phone shows your stats, both of which you'd want to check out on a regular. So you'd have to constantly return to room screen, which just adds more unnecessary clicks.
⠀⠀Lack of sound effects - there is none. And the music is terrible. So I turned it off aaaand the game might as well be mute at this point.
⠀⠀There is very little animation, also earlier animations have all sorts of weird body movements in them and are overall considerably worse than late-game ones.
⠀⠀Now to the good stuff. The renders are gorgeous. And I'm not talking just about graphics. Poses, expressions, composition, angles, post-processing - all make up for an exceptional eroticism. Which in turn is further enhanced by the writing. I know I've harshly scrutinized it in the previous statements but despite it's imperfections, it's really hot, when it's needed. I mean there are non-animated teasing scenes that are more arousing than actual sex scenes with animations - that is highly unusual. Characters are varied in both appearances and personalities and it's interesting to follow their development. On which you have real impact with your decisions by the way. There is a lot of text but it rarely feels tiring or like a filler. I also liked the humor. It's mostly tasteful and spread thin enough to not get on your nerves.
⠀⠀Right now Photo Hunt has several dozen hours of content. Enough for a week worth of leisure time. I really want to, but cannot in good faith, with all it's shortcomings, give it more that a 3. If it was a well-structured VN - that would be an easy 4, but alas.