Hunie Pop Review (PC)

Puzzles, girls, and sex all meet in this little gem.  Hunie Pop is an raunchy, yet addictive puzzle game that will have you laughing right up until the end.  Oh, and it's not bad.

You'll get your shot at all these women and more.

You play as some disembodied male or female (your choice), though the gender of your character doesn't matter much.  Anyway, you learn right away that you are a loser who can't laid.  That's when you meet a woman called Kyu, who promises to turn you from a loser to a sex machine.  Thus begins your quest to plow every woman you meet.

She'll be your guiding hand most of the way.

After a practice date with Kyu, you're given some locations to go to.  After selecting a place, you are greeted with two women interacting.  These interactions can be quite humorous (pick the shopping mall first and prepare to laugh your ass off).  Once this interaction finishes, one of the women notices you and starts a conversation.  From there, it's time to play ball.

Shit gets real when these two meet.

There are several things you can do with the woman.  You can converse her, in an effort to get to know her better.  These conversations are how you earn a substance called hunie, which is used to upgrade your character so you'll be more efficient at dating.  You can buy her food and drinks to keep talking to her, which is a good thing, because the longer you talk to her, the more you'll learn about her.  Eventually, you'll fill up her profile, which she may quiz you on from time to time.  There's no real penalty to screwing up conversations, except for not getting any hunie.  You can get her gifts to butter her up so you get more hunie for giving good answers.  You can leave and find the next girl to flirt with.  Finally, you can get into the meat of the game and go on a date with the her.

You can do assorted things with the women.

Dates are presented and a puzzle where you must score a set number of points to succeed.  You have a game grid with a bunch of colors on it and you have match three to five tiles of the same color tiles to get points.   Some tiles do different things, like give you more turns or other stuff.  Beware of those broken hearts (the purple ones), because they take away points and the penalty is harsh.  The point threshold gets higher with each successful date, making the dates harder as you continue.  Each successful date gets you munie to be spent giving the women gifts and food.

This is the playing field.  You can see two of those damned broken hearts.

Speaking of the women, you start off with one, but seven others can be accessed simply changing your location for a total of eight women readily available.  Others (including Kyu herself) can be unlocked and some require observation and proper situation to get.  I won't say how to do it here, but there is more to this game the what you see on the surface.

As you can see, the women have their own schedule and won't always be available.

In terms of what you see on the surfaces, the women are cute in an anime way.  As for the rundown, you have a college student, a depressing barista, a flight attendant, a yoga instructor, a gothic chick, a fitness chick, a teacher, a middle-aged porn star, and a slutty fairy.  There are some others, but telling would be spoiling.  Most are foul-mouthed, but for the most part they all have their own personalities and gifts they like to receive.

Converse with the women to earn hunie and learn more about them in them process.

 We need more teachers like this.

Also, those colors that you're matching during the dates correspond to their strengths and weaknesses.  Play to a woman's strengths gives you maximum point and,  as a result, makes dates easier.  Playing to a woman's weaknesses won't take away points (like those damned broken hearts), but chances are you're going to fail that date because you're not scoring enough points.  Upgrading your traits can help when those point thresholds start getting ridiculous.

Upgrade those traits or take an ass-whuppin'.

Successful dates get you more than money.  The women will also send you a pictures of themselves, with each usually raunchier than the last.  After four successful dates, the women decide to put out.  Yep.  This is where the sex happens.

Much like the dates, sex is a puzzle to be solved.  Once again, you have to match colors and reach a point threshold to "satisfy" the woman.  What makes sex different from dating is the there is no turn limit, no dating gifts, and the woman is now in her underwear, making sexy (or what passes as sexy) noises.  Also, you have to keep matching colors to "satisfy" her.  The point counter drains when you aren't matching colors and you can't leave until she's satisfied.  Well, you could give up (it can get be irritating sometimes), but you won't get the fourth picture if you do.

Just a sample of the pictures you can unlock.  Sorry, I can't show the dirty stuff.

As for the other stuff, the music is good.  As mentioned before, the graphics are cute, but not too cute.  As for extras, you can unlock other women, collect all the pictures and items, and try your hand at a "super hard" mode called alpha mode.  There's enough to keep you occupied for a few days.

At end of the day, Hunie Pop is a fun, sexy puzzle game that WILL entertain you.  It can be weird to hear these cute women with cute voices swearing like a bunch of drunken sailors, but the good soundtrack balances things out nicely.  Addictive gameplay and a few secrets make this a solid game.  Check it out.