The first thing that hits you is the jank. Not the charming kind. The "I forgot to align this UI element and now it's floating over her left tit" kind. VAM City throws you into a college setting where you're supposed to date women with specific fetishes, earn coins, buy gifts. Standard stuff. But the sandbox feels less like freedom and more like someone dropped a box of mismatched Lego in your lap.
I spent twenty minutes in the hospital area trying to trigger something with a nurse character. She has these absolutely massive, physics-defying tits, the kind that clip through her own uniform if you look from the wrong angle. The 3DCG models have that shiny, plastic look, like someone coated them in baby oil. There's a domination thread running through most interactions, lots of femdom and humiliation scenarios if you pick the "wrong" dialogue option. Which I did. Repeatedly. On purpose. The male protagonist is basically a blank slate with a boner, no personality, just a vessel for whatever fetish the scene demands.
There's a park bench scene that's pure voyeurism bait. You sit there, a woman sits next to you, and the game just... waits. I clicked around like an idiot for maybe five minutes before realizing I needed a specific item from the cafe. The cafe itself is another mess. You earn coins at a glacial pace, and the prices make no sense. A coffee costs more than a BDSM collar. Priorities, I guess.
The oral sex animations are stiff. Like, mannequin challenge stiff. But the humiliation dialogue? Surprisingly sharp in places. One character at the college, a professor type with glasses and a perpetual scowl, called me a "pathetic little scholarship boy" and I felt that. The game forgets it's supposed to be a dating sim half the time and just turns into a series of fetish delivery vehicles. Big ass, big tits, female domination, all the tags are there, just not stitched together with any care. The setting jumps from hospital to college to park with no transition, like channel surfing through someone's spank bank.
I still don't know what the coins are really for. I bought a gift, gave it to a woman, she said "thanks" and walked into a wall. Never saw her again. Maybe that's the point.