VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - A Failure to Launch [v0.2.1] [Min Thy Lord]

This thing is entirely futa-on-male so far and if you're not into that, I doubt there's ever gonna be any meaningful female-on-male content. Just a heads up for anybody browsing the tags.

A Failure to Launch is OK at best. From what I've seen, the futa-on-male fans tend to not really have standards when it comes to this type of content. Most of them just seem happy to see a futa dominate a guy, no matter how bad the content is.

This is going to sound astronomically pretentious, but I'm not one of those people. In fact, I almost hate how futas are depicted in this niche but unfortunately I'm into this shit all the same. I say all this because I'm trying to let anybody who reads this know that most reviews for this VN are extremely biased, with the hopeful exception being me.
Anyway, let's talk about the game:

The writing is... not good. Like at all. It's not the worst thing you're ever gonna read, but it's definitely on the low end of average. The MC acts like a bipolar jackass, the writing as a whole feels really awkward, and everything is incredibly rushed. You have 2 girls confessing their feelings for you a few days after meeting them and it feels even shorter than that because there's no sense of time. Things just feel like they happen just for the sake of it happening, rather than being a nice logical progression of things.

Take for instance Olivia. You're a receptionist at a massage parlor and she walks up to you, immediately trying to flirt with you. She says she's going to the sauna, MC peeps on her, gets caught, and runs away from the building while on the clock like a child. Next day she shows up at your place, tries to push herself onto you very strongly, you reject her, and then she leaves. And then the day after that she's saying she had her eyes on you and that she has feelings for you. Like... what? Lady I don't even know the first fucking thing about you and you certainly don't know me.

Another major flaw of the writing is shit gets forced onto you no matter what. It doesn't matter what any of your choices are, you're going to look at futa porn at work, you're going to act like a submissive bitch to your living partner, and you're going to get fucked by a futa even if you reject her at every possible chance you get. There's absolutely 0 point in making any choices. MC will always act like a complete dipshit and go along with whatever the girls say.

Besides that, all the characters don't act like real people. Hannah, your living partner, instantly gropes you the moment you come inside the house and starts calling you good boy, a random futa you meet is totally nonchalant when her sister and you walk in on her fucking some chick(chick doesn't care either for some reason), your sister WANTS you to work at a happy ending massage place that's notorious for turning guys into buttsluts, etc. Also almost every futa is the stereotypical "fuck everything that moves, always dominant, shameless, and has a giant cock" one you've surely seen if you spent any time with the fetish. The seemingly main girl Olivia seems to actually act somewhat like a real person, but still comes onto you WAY too hard and isn't subtle at all.

Personally I really like the renders but I'm sure not everybody likes the exaggerated body parts. Also I'm pretty sure one of the girls is just a slightly altered Yennefer from The Witcher but don't quote me on that.

So yeah, the game really isn't all that great. It's just that futa-on-male fans are extremely content starved in general so they just eat up almost anything new that gets made.

For a second update on a game that came out 2 months ago there's quite a lot of content, the sandbox style letting you choose where you go seems pointless so far, hopefully they add a lot of side quest/events so you actually have choices, the models are great, the teasing is good, the story seems interesting enough on the mc being sissified(or not, maybe you can fight it in future updates)
looking forward future updates

What a lovely game!
I blame myself for missing the initial release, but now I am quite happy about the amount of content.

I am usually not into oversizes, but ... thats drool material!

And I really appreciate the care-, sympathy- and "romance"-factor. Those futas arent raping bunga-bunga-machines. Well, at least not all ... And there are not only futas, but also dominant girls, which is a huge (ha!) plus for me too.

I understand that this is more of a VN, but I would love to see more choice options. This just spices things up for me.

And I would love to see more (sensual) feminization content! Panties, skirts, nylons? Consider me sold! Could be connected to a choice system, so players could choose between beta/sissy/romance/etc. paths.

Didn't enjoy this game at all. I thought it was going well until my choices ceased to matter. I rejected Evelyn the entire game until the MC just said fuck it and completely removed all agency from the player based on previous decisions made in the game. My other major gripe with this game is it doesn't have any actual futanari. None of them are hermaphrodites. So yet again another bait and switch. Utterly disappointed with this one.

I'm always hyped for the new update.
Best game theme/idea in a long time for me .

Just fantastic. Cannot wait for future updates. Looks amazing and the story so far is surprisingly adorable. Clearly the work of someone with some serious writing and technical skill. A+ so far. Keep up the good work.

Very Nice Game. like any good Hero this game can be anyone. Even a man knowing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy shoulders to let him know the world hadn’t ended.
You fight like a younger man, there’s nothing held back. It’s admirable, but mistaken. When their enemies were at the gates the Romans would suspend democracy and appoint one man to protect the city.
It wasn’t considered an honor, it was a public service.
I am very hopeful for its future development, not many scratch an itch like this one does.

Still early but seems promising models aren't bad and it has a decent set up. Depending on how fast updates are and if they're is any actual substance in them it could shape up to be something pretty good.

BEST GAMES IN THE WORLD/ there is no better game, it will literally turn your whole world upside down, so play and play it. waiting for the update as soon as possible, I hope there is not much time left, because I'm burning with impatience

Awesome game can't wait for the next update, maybe some hairy dick could be a good one for some futa
Render is really great, writing is ok but there is some black screen a bit disturbing when the scene change

Thus far has incredible potential. Solid writing, really good models/scene-work and the concept is very intriguing.
It really hits that specific niche of having large/fit futas that very few games do nowadays as any content in either direction tend to be amazon women and very feminine trans or futa characters.

Very nice change of pace and breath of fresh air and eagerly looking forward to where this goes.

Gave it a try. I have to say, it was worth the wait. Love the character appearances (mostly). Nice detail on the sexy bits.

Some things that I didn't like, or think require addressing:
1. Grammar is not Engrish (which is good), but needs a bit of proofreading. Commas are missing in places, things like that.
2. Hannah's thighs are just too fat. I'm sorry, but they just are. Not thicc but fat. She's gorgeous otherwise though.
3. Hannah suggests that she "helps" Alex "prepare" for his eventual sex with the futas, but we're never given such an option. Now, I imagine it will come in the next updates, since no actual sex happened yet, but still.
4. When Olivia sneaks into Evelyn's office, Alex is left outside to stand watch. Suddenly Evelyn comes around, and Alex decides to distract her by seducing her. After the whole thing, the conversation with Olivia plays out like Alex was genuinely trying to have sex with Evelyn (which contradicts his internal monologue), and not once mentions that he was only doing it to cover her. Realistically, he would have said so, especially since he's still not sure if he wants to have sex with a futa or not.
5. Alex mentions that he does exercises, stuff like pushups and pullups, but this seems to feel more like flavour text, because none of the characters he tells this seem to take note of it, whereas realistically, such "skills" would come in handy during sex and they should get at least a bit excited by the idea.
6. When Alex runs away from the parlor after spying on Olivia, he runs into his sister Sarah. During the conversation, some of Sarah's lines are listed as coming form Hannah, even though Hannah is nowhere around, and we later find out that she was actually home the whole time.
7. I'm not sure if Min Thy Lord already planned some development for Sarah, but to me she didn't feel at all naive or innocent. She felt like she was pervy, because she knew about the parlor, and that she's apparently sexually attracted to Alex (because of the facial expressions she has in certain conversations)
8. The blackscreen dialogues, as others have already mentioned, kinda break immersion/ make me feel like the game is missing renders.
9. The writing could use some work, but in the immortal words of Todd Howard "It just works".

Overall, I'm looking forward to updates. I just hope it won't turn into a prequel to Futadom World, where men become brainwashed cocksleeves and futas control the world. Much as I love dickgirls and femdom, I feel like making futas into these quasi-fantasy creatures with hypnotic cum and superhuman strength has been done to death.

Just a great futanari on male game overall.

Graphics are great, cock imagery is highly detailed.

Love that the MC is being objectified in the sluttiest ways. Can't wait to suck and get railed by all futa as well as pegged by his "landlord".

The way the story is developing, there will be a lot more opportunities for femdom and futadom

Great game by the way really like the story
My only request is Don't ABANDON this game after some time.

Oh and few suggestions i want to give you @Min Thy Lord
1 . Animation during blowjob and pegging and also during sex scenes would be nice .
2. Ability to change MC's name.
3. Adding more models/ Girls (Futa/straight).
4. Having a Discord channel for this game would be nice like most of the other game developer has.
5. For PC version i haven't seen menu option during game play
Every time i have to enter ESC to go to menu and save the game (Don't know if Anybody faced this or not)
6. And last but not least add sex scenes with MC which we all are waiting for.

This game is already amazing at 0.1.

Renders are great, character design is great, mc is bland but that is a good thing, story and plot are great so far if this is your kink.

Cannot wait for future updates. Huge thanks to the dev!

Awesome.. This hits my kink on the button ;D.. Finally what looks like a main theme futa on male game, with MC being the sub.

I will definitively look out for further updates here.

It's still early at 0.1 so I guess the game could take many directions, but so far:
- The story seems fine so far, and the English is fine by me.
- The renders look good. (Though I think I'd prefer them a bit less chubby, but no biggie)
- It looks to be a visual novel with fairly few choices to make. Wonder if the choices are for skipping scenes, or if they will have a story impact later and become important.

All in all very promising.

fantastic game, has a great story so far, has good characters and the giant cocks are perfect for futadom . The only thing that I think this game is missing is some form of animation during the sex scenes, if they would be added in the future when more budget and time are available this game could definitely be a top contender for the bests games in the futa category

It's really good game, very hot and thick women , fan of femdom and futas so i'm totally into this, few things need to be worked on
-work on renders when switching scenes instead of black screen
-add more options..any game wil be better with more options and important decisions to make
-some lines being said by the wrong person i think
so far so good

Warning, it's really a futanari game, so if it's not something you're comfortable with, skip to the next game. And I'm not talking of a game with one chick with a dick that you'll bang, there's a lot of them, and MC is on the receiving side.
For the game itself is a great release, renders are very good, not too much useless dialogues, the ladies are beatifull, Mc is quite bland, but like most of MCs in adult games.
Only thing I found a bit annoying is the presence of black screens only for dialogues, it kinda breaks the immersion for me.
But clearly not a failure to launch (laught track, sorry), keep up with this quality and it will be an awesome game.

I followed the development of A Failure To Launch before it... Launched. I was drawn in by the great renders which a lot of people have praised, and the super hot models, so I paid attention to development. The dev Min Thy Lord seems pretty cool and hard working and it's fun to see the game finally... Launch

The game is presented very nicely, though there are some minor issues like the page control (back/forward) being missing or invisible, or the map markers being ugly, but that can be fixed easily I think. Music is good, interface and text is good, and ofcourse the characters and environments are top tier. I think this game really sells the idea that graphical quality plays a huge role when it comes to a game's popularity, because...

The writing is pretty messy. If you take away the great renders, A Failure to Launch is a below average game. The English is fine, but the characters, the plot, the pacing, the tone, those aspects as it currently stands is not very good.

The love/sex interests lack personality, and the pacing of the interactions with them is very jarring. Their moods wildly fluctuate from page to page, where on one page they can be all caring and sympathetic and literally on the next page they will be FULL CAPS yelling and screaming at you. Or, they will start flirting with you, right after condemning you. And the way characters act does not come across as "damn these chicks are crazy!" but instead "damn, this all feels seriously unnatural".

The MC is also a big problem. He's not likable, at all. In fact, he's kind of detestable in every way, and that makes it even more difficult to care about his story or where he's going, coupled with the cast of other characters who barely act human at all thanks to the writing.

Still, these are issues that can be corrected. Adding more dialogue options to have the MC act in different ways (and not just a bratty, entitled douche) shouldn't be too hard to do. The dialogue itself and the way the cast acts can also be improved without radically changing the story.

Overall, A Failure to Launch is off to a good start, where the graphical quality is doing a LOT of the work for it, and with some better writing it can for sure become one of the best games in the futadom genre.

With new updates I'll be adjusting the star-score. If the writing keeps feeling stunted and weird and unnatural, I will most likely drop it to a 3/5, but if it improves, it's a solid 5/5. Here's to hoping

PS, note to dev: You wanted this to be a futa-on-male dom game. You now see how well-received it is and how big of an audience there is for that. Do not listen to the people who are not in your target audience, who want you to change your vision. They don't care in the first place. Changing the direction now will 100% ruin this nice start. Stick to your original idea to the end instead of caving to some forum randos.