It should be illegal to make something this bad and throw this out for gay people and femcels to consume. It has 3 routes that get progressively worse and the more the story revealed itself the more it soured my mood.

Paradise is about a group of men who have a chance to vacation at an island, only to realize they’ve been tricked, and they will not be arriving back to the mainland any time soon. The first route I did was Matsuda because he is the only character besides the MC who actually looks attractive, the route starts off just fine and he seems to be endearing and overly-cautious towards your well-being, then his character slowly devolves as he starts displaying his cartoonishly bad sadism. After ending the game this is by far the only interesting characterization I’ve found in this VN, Matsuda’s route is admittedly polarizing as he does a 180 switch out of nowhere, but as he establishes himself as the king of the pack it makes for an interesting scenario, at least on paper.

This is where I have to make something abundantly clear, the MC has no self-preservation, he is a self-hating loser who enables evil people to exist and thrive by discarding or forfeiting his own rights by being treated like a pig. Matsuda takes full advantage of this and punches and rapes him repeatedly, and I soon realized rape is the only form of sex this VN has to offer.

Matsuda’s ending makes no sense (especially after how the VN climaxes) but you basically stand by him despite the fact that he has exhibited the most damning, disgusting and outright criminal behavior. It is never explained why the MC keeps toxic leeches around him.

Shimada has a bad end in this route which is basically that he drugs and rapes the MC forever, very cool pill/slash.

Mitsugi is supposedly everyone’s favorite which is a headscratcher for me, I thought I had escaped the MC victimization but I was completely wrong. Mitsugi tortures and rapes the MC and unlike Matsuda contributes little for the actual construction of the boat, which is the only thing under his supervision. He is disinterested in even fetching the body drifting ashore, and his warped justification for torturing the MC is that the MC resembles his master in face, but not in any other way. They start to warm up to each other a bit where at the end Mitsugi sabotages the chances of everyone’s escape by burning the very boat the MC builds day in day out because he was blackmailed into doing so. They are imprisoned for this and later have sex in a basement cell.

With the entourage of boring, mediocre writing, the bad end where the MC kills everyone because he can’t reason his way out of an accidental killing is pretty fun. Too bad it ends with the MC killing himself rather than Mitsugi, which I would have much so preferred.

This route also has the Hongou bad ending, where him and Kido rape the MC. Clapping.

Finally Takara’s route, this was my final hope that I had escaped the rapey sado-masochistic writing but I was wrong, much like Matsuda’s route its perfectly fine up till the half way point, and then the VN reveals its absolutely terrible plot about this cannibalistic lineage that has been tracking and hunting everyone for revenge. It was so bad I couldn’t even laugh, I wish I could unwind and make it so that I never even read this VN. Unlike VNs like Room No. 9 that don’t even bother explaining the main culprit, which in my opinion is a far creepier and superior approach, Paradise bothers explaining the entire island situation where the main villain forces the MC to go on a treasure hunt. They also forgot to insert an actual rape scene so Takara has to come to the MC’s apartment separately at the end JUST TO RAPE HIM. DUDE.

I played the bad end for Takara's route before the happy ending and when he gouged his eyes out and left I felt like it was the only ending where I could respect the MC.

Anyways bad VN that doesn’t deserve this long of a write-up but I had to force myself to finish this over a period of a week almost so I had to vent.