VN - Ren'Py - 60 Days Of Us [EA Build 1] [Eizenhower]

Review of 60 Days of US - EA Build 1
There is no shortage of adult Honey Select 2 games being made on the site but ones with this level of quality this early is an achievement.

So you're Noctis Will, a military veteran of some Middle-Eastern war discharged to the life of living in city of Los Sueños. The opening sequence sets this up pretty nicely, taking you back to a desert military outpost somewhere out in the field.

You are introduced to a few service members that you are probably going to meet again later in the story, hear the complaints about the searing heat and get blown up by suicide bombing. Typical day in the U.S. army.

Back to America with you, soldier.

This is where the story gets into motion. Really quickly. You get through leaving your house and reaching the city before things escalate so fast that even I got confused and I already knew the apocalypse was coming but the beginning of the end is here. All the action and especially the camera angles, visual effects, motion blur and sound effects really synergize well here in a fresh way. No sudden "it's now five months later" or "its terrible out there but you are only going to see parts of it or hear it through some survivor", the police and army are here with weapons in tow and you are going to see this happen as it happens.

It is really going for the movie-light atmosphere with the vignette, cinematic angles and lighting choices and it does that part well. What is done not so well is the extreme level of compression on the few animations you see since the quality drop is pretty noticeable but it seems more like the original was perfectly fine and it was a bad render trade-off decision for disk space that went too far. Easy to learn from.

While we're on the explicit parts and for the sake of doing the review properly. The protagonist's reactions to anything NSFW currently are more on the side of a teenager/anime-ish so be warned if that is not for you.

Here are the numbers and ratings.


Story: 4/5
Too early to properly rate but it is promising. There are a few minor plot holes. Why didn't Evelyn use her mobile data instead to reach the internet when WiFi wasn't working or why would a roaming gang of either soldiers or preppers have the time or decide to gang up on a random woman in the middle of the city being overrun but neither of these are too important.

Grammar: 5/5
No issues to mention.

Graphics: 5/5
Already said the important parts but thought and effort went into it and it shows.

Animations: 2/5
Another review already mentioned it is stock HS2. Compressed and lightly fried.

Sound: 5/5
Music fits where it's suppose to and I liked the use of a remix of one of the Project Zomboid themes in there. Sound effects with references to Left for Dead was a nice touch. It's great.


A few final thoughts. There's really no mismatch of assets in Build 1. Many of these types of games are forced to re-use the same set of limited assets in places where it looks like some compromises had to be made but there's nothing like that yet.

Another is that I agree with what others have said about moving to a sandbox. Having choices is fine but I agree this will probably do better kept in the VN format then splitting up content into a chain of small pieces locked behind progressing in different places. It is an opinion in the end but for a game like this, I think they end up losing proper pacing and makes you less invested.

The Telltale game notifications to choices fit the style it is going for. You can't rename the protagonist right now and for some that's important although I personally don't think it's a problem if the storytelling is good enough.

TLDR: Excellent for early access. Very promising. A few small things here and there but current rating as of this review matches with what is available.

If F95 allowed half-star or a decimal point rating, this would be a 4.5 if only because 5/5 should be reserved for a game with more content but this is a work with vision and a lot of time and effort put into it.

P.S. Developer if you read this, make a SubscribeStar and start advertising that too. This likely isn't going to last on Patreon.

60 Days of US [ EA Build 1]

Now this what I call a zombie apocalypse game. Can clearly see dev put lot of effort to create this one. Now this is my fav zombie apocalypse game. If dev keeps up this this one's gonna be a top rated game here. Most of the zombie apocalypse game shows fees zombies some times. They only showed events after the outbreak. This one really showed the zombie outbreak and horror of it. I'm glad there is sound effects in this one. You can easily get immersed in the game

About the 13th pic in the preview pic don't worry that's no NTR she is a random character. She gets raped by 4 guys. By seeing this Mc saves her. ( There's a nice gunfight there ) Then she gets bitten by a zombie. You can also take advantage of her before she gets bitten. But don't do this guys cause Mc got class and ethics

Pros

+ Top notch visuals
+ Mc ( Daring and hot )
+ Girls
+ Zombie apocalypse
+ Sound effects ( really glad dev put efforts for this one. Cause zombie apocalypse game really need sound effects for more immersion)
+ Blood
+ Action scenes

Cons

- Can't change Mc name ( personally I don't mind it but fore some this is a -ve point)

- This build is VN only. But seems like Dev's original plan is to make it sandbox game. Nowadays I'm not into sandbox games. Hope dev won't make it too grindy. ( Seems like Dev's intention is to give us real gaming experience by adding some management elements cause it's apocalypse themed on but sadly many including me Prefer VN over sandbox mechanism)

- MC's sister's skirt is too short and it's her school uniform kinda lost originality

Hope this one gets the attention it deserves

Overall i enjoyed this one. Keep up the good work dev looking forward to next updates.

Review of 60 Days Of Us EA Build 1 aka Prologue 1

Graphics 5/5
The developer was a modder and comic creator using HS 2 before creating his game. Or at least he has in his Patreon a lot of military mods, from F-35 to simple guns, plus all kind of vehicles, tactical stuff, etc. If he created these mods to be a modder or to prepare his game, no idea. The thing is that the graphic quality of the game is very high. Some images look quite photorealistic. There is no excess of light or shadows and you see without problems what you have to see. The post processing is abundant but adequate, and although the images have many small details that indicate the great work that goes into them, I don't have the feeling that the images are overcooked, as in other games from other developers that stand out more as HS 2 users than as game developers.

Music and sound 3/5
I usually mute the sound when I play, and this is no exception. However, I could see that there is music and sound effects, and what I have heard seems adequate.

Animations 2/5
Scarce and standard HS 2. Nothing special at the moment, but it is a prologue. Let's see what appears in the future.

Gameplay 4/5
For now visual novel with choices. It's contradictory to have to write that, but it seems that many developers don't know that one of the main elements of a visual novel is... choices. However later it will be a management sandbox: resources, relationships... so everything will change. The prologue is well programmed, or at least I didn't find any bugs. The UI has some customization, I miss some options such as “skip”, but this is minor. The game is well translated in English. The scenes are well done, the dialogues are short. Better than the endless monologues superfluous and inconsequential. It is a prologue, and only serves to introduce characters and the plot of the game. And it does that well. The first prologue ends with a choice between two branches, which later converge at some point. One of the future mechanics of the game also appears briefly: the choice between good or evil.

Plot 4/5
Zombie apocalypse based on the many movies and especially games on the subject. So there is nothing to explain. Maybe that's the reason why, for the moment, the developer does not explain why it has reached that situation. Besides, there are obvious references to the Final Fantasy franchise, among others. Even the name of the game has some of the references on which it is based. Lovers of this type of theme will be delighted. At the moment the plot is interesting and immersive. We will have to see what happens with the sandbox and the separation of branches. Zombies and franchises aside, the MC is a U.S. Army veteran discharged after being wounded. He returns home to take care of his little sister. Just in the nick of time it seems, because months later the zombie apocalypse begins. At the moment there is no NTR, but a random character is raped by randoms, can be raped by the MC and in one way or another dies.

Characters 3/5
The MC, already mentioned, is a veteran of the U.S. Army. But his Final Fantasy hairstyle, even when he was in the army, does not help in the immersion. His appearance and his past give the impression that he could be a crybaby. At the moment he is not, and he has the guts to face the situation and protect the people he loves. The little sister, typical little sister. The typical childhood friend, who has chosen the worst possible day to get cute to go out in the street. You never know when a zombie apocalypse is going to start... at the moment it's too early to say much about them. But so far what has been seen, like the plot, is immersive and interesting. The characters have life, feelings and personalities of their own. In the second prologue 4 more female characters will appear: a policewoman, an outlaw, a Japanese woman (because in this type of games usually appears some Japanese half ninja half samurai...) and another character based on Final Fantasy. Plus other male characters based on other franchises.

Final thoughts
I usually don't like to write reviews of demos or prologues, it's too early for that, unless they are too good, too bad, generate some misunderstanding, deserve to be defended for some reason, or I have to warn about something. In this case it comes down to the first of all. “Too good” is too much. But for the moment the first prologue is good, and deserves to be commented. When the sandbox version appears, others will be the ones to say if it is still good or not.