The first time you use the mind control trick on your stepmom, she's mid-sentence complaining about you not folding laundry. Then her eyes go glassy and she just... stops. That's the whole game right there. Dreams of Desire is a visual novel where the plot is basically an excuse to see how far you can push the corruption angle before the story remembers it's supposed to be about a military academy. It forgets a lot.
The art is CG hentai, which means every scene has that slightly over-rendered look where tits defy gravity and every woman's back arches like she's posing for a swimsuit calendar. Big tits everywhere. Like, comically big. The footjob scene with the neighbor lady comes out of nowhere and honestly I laughed more than I got hard. The interracial tag shows up late with a side character who exists purely to be a walking fetish checklist. Voyeurism, striptease, femdom, harem, lesbians, BDSM, anal. It's all in there, just not in any order that makes sense. One minute you're spying on your sister's friend, next you're getting pegged by a woman who was trying to kill you two scenes ago.
The dialogue is rough. Localization feels like someone ran it through Google Translate twice and then a horny teenager edited it. "Your pussy is so wet for my cock" gets repeated with minor variations until it stops meaning anything. But the game knows what it is. You don't play this for the writing. You play it because the corruption mechanic is actually kind of fun, watching each woman's resistance meter drop as you pick the right seduction option. The lesbian scene between the two maids is probably the best animated part, which says something about where the budget went.
The story tries to be mysterious with the old book and the mind powers, but it's really just a delivery system for fetish content. The cheating tag is there because you're technically engaged to one girl while banging her mom, her sister, her best friend, and a random gym instructor. Nobody seems to care. That's the fantasy, I guess. Not the mind control. The fact that you can be an absolute degenerate and everyone just goes along with it.