Review based on Rebellion: Rise of The Damned (I haven't played the previous one)
Positives:
+ premise (the idea) of the game
+ decent renders
Negatives:
My main problem in the game - unlikeable characters.
MC - douche and a cheater, most of the time it's optional, except the very beginning of the game, he fucks some slut in the toilet and it's not avoidable.
Wife - one moment she is all lovey dovey, saying how much she loves the MC. At the same time she is obsessed with this "Time Travel" to the extent that she is willing to cheat on MC with some old hobo.
We can stop her from cheating, but does it make her a better person? - nope. I mean she does this willingly, nobody is forcing her, she is just a cheater per se, just like MC.
So, MC is pictured as an asshole, and the wifey is no better. Good premise for NTR path.
About NTR btw, even though it is optional, I would say, it feels like NTR path should be a canon here. I mean, they both are unlikable, despite being in a marriage and telling each other "I love you", in reality they don't really care about each others feelings.
Personally I don't feel any sympathy for neither of them.
So, yeah, it's the game with interesting idea, but main characters are just unbearable, I dunno how it goes in a game later, but when you play for a shitty MC and is stuck with a shitty main LI (aka wife or GF), it sucks, unless you play it purely for NTR content.
Also a few of my thoughts.
As MC you can be faithful until the end... except the 1st scene in a game, which is forced. I mean, why bother to make all next encounters with side girls optional for MC, if he is already a cheater because of the forced scene at the start. Why is that? To justify wife's cheating later? I am not sure it works like that. This way you're just ruining both chars.
Also, on NTR path MC behaves like cuck, absolutely pathetic, why? Isn't it a story about gladiators, strong willed MC suits this story, yes, but not pathetic MC.
Anyway, all of this is based just on a Demo, I am willing to change my mind if the game becomes better.