I'm a material girl~~ In a material world~~

Material Girl's short review

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• Developer: Dieselmine

• Genre: Adventure

• Store: Steam

• Reviewed version: Final

• Censored: Yes (Mosaics and light beams)

• Patch Needed: Yes

• OS: Windows

• Language: English

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Material Girl is an adventure game made by Dieselmine that feels more like a CG Collector game than a proper game.

For starters, the plot is so barebones you can sum it up as “Sakura needs money to pay the bills, so she searches for part-time jobs and ends up getting abused in multiple ways by different people”. I can more or less forgive a game for having an excuse plot if there’s some progression, but it even lacks that. Once you get past the 2 deadlines (which are very easy to do, to be honest), you’re left to your own devices without anything to do aside from finding different ways to get Sakura corrupted and whore her out once her lewdness meter is high enough.

What makes it even worse is its terribad translation. Machine-translated games are notorious for having awkward dialogues that barely make sense to anyone who knows the language it was translated to (let alone native speakers), but this one takes the cake. It has numerous typos, odd line breaks, and some naming inconsistencies to boot. It was so bad I spent more time pressing ctrl to skip the dialogue than reading it.

The only thing that keeps this game away from being an absolute disaster is the art. It’s quite decent if you ask me, even though it’s censored and has a few CGs that may look odd (how long is that foot fetishist’s tongue, by the way?). They even animated a few scenes, which is an unexpected plus.

Verdict: Not worth it

Material Girl could have been an ok game if it had a decent translation and more effort put into the story, but sadly that's not the case.