Curt Maddox

I got stuck for twenty minutes just staring at the opening CG. Curt Maddox, this absolute wreck of a man, slumped against a saloon wall with his sheriff badge hanging crooked. The art style is that specific Lesson of Passion jank where everything looks slightly traced from a 90s hentai OVA, proportions that make no sense, and yet. And yet the way his belt buckle catches the light, the lazy smirk, the bulge that's clearly been drawn with more care than his face. I couldn't stop looking. The whole setup is ridiculous. He won his job in a poker game. He's a drunk. He fucks everything that moves. The town of Snake Valley is somehow relying on this disaster of a human being to save them from whatever vague threat the plot keeps hinting at between sex scenes. There's this one encounter with a rancher's daughter where you get a dialogue choice that seems innocent, compliment her horse or ask about her father, and the "wrong" option leads to her bending over a hay bale while Curt delivers this monologue about how tight she is. The writing swings wildly between trying to be clever and just giving up and typing "he thrusted deeply" fifteen times. I respect that. The cowgirl tag is doing heavy lifting here. Not just the position, though there's plenty of that, but actual women in chaps and hats who talk about cattle prices before getting railed. The CG gallery unlocks in a weird order and I still don't understand the trigger for the saloon threesome scene. Something about visiting the general store three times then losing at cards? The walkthrough on some forum from 2016 is wrong about half the requirements. Sound design is two tracks that loop so aggressively I muted after ten minutes and just filled the silence with my own internal screaming. The game doesn't care about being good. It cares about getting to the next sex scene as efficiently as possible, logic and pacing be damned. There's a sequence where Curt literally pauses mid-threat from a bandit to seduce a barmaid and nobody acknowledges the tonal whiplash. Beautiful.

• lesson of passion
• western
• cowboy
• choice
• rpg