VN - Ren'Py - A Foreign World [Ep.6.5] [HighbornTiger]

  1. 3.00 star(s)

    MikesDK

    Story 4/5
    Great story that got me hooked pretty fast, its about a bunch of girls coming from another universe where men apprently treats girls like shit, all the girls are a form of supergirl with diffrent kind of powers and the men from their universe is apprently much stronger then any girls even combined.
    MC takes in those girls and help them out, while a man from their universe has given MC 40 days to become strong enough to fight him and MC got a power from him to copy the girls power to become stronge enough to atleast be a challenge for the dude.

    You might think "oh another game of gaining power by fucking girls" atleast i thought that would be the case since that seems like the standard with games of this type, but no you dont need to do that and no one is forced on you either, you can stay faitfull to your soon to be wife or you can fuck em all, which was a great supprise to me.

    What did annoy me is how they act like whores trowing them selfs at MC one after the other, they known him for 2 mins and ask him to fuck them and thats an on going thing trying to push him into fucking them, it dident really make sense to me that they keep trying to have sex with MC and i really wish they would explain that since it seems almost like a competition for the girls to see who gets him first or that its importen in some way for them to do it, they even repport back to one another when they fail and got turned down, but the reason for it is never really explained, i guess it could be so MC would let them stay with him or to give him a reason to train harder, but it just feels like there is more to it but who knows since its not really explained and only Sue makes sense doing it but not the others.

    One small unimporten thing that annoyed me is why the Foxgirl goes bowling? i mean she never shown her self once to MC and now she goes to a bowling center where there are plenty of men? it just makes no sense even if they go as a group, odds are one or more male would come by to a group of females and if they got close to the Foxgirl she would turn into a fox in a second for all to see, its an insane risk which story takes 0 regards to and it feels a bit stupid since the Foxgirl couldent even show her self to MC inside their home with all the girls present but she can visit a place with multiple men? it just dosent fit the story or her character.

    There are a few things like this that should be explained better like the blind girl did she just accept to become blind which it sounds like or did she resist, the reason given is a bit idiotic and you wish for it to be better explained like so many other things in the story.

    The thing i found most stupid is MCs wife telling MC that she is just fine with him being with other girls, it just makes no sense at all considering shes not from the other world but the "normal" world, playing the 100% faithfull route and hear that from the wife feels a little idiotic to say the least and MC telling her he wants to be with other womans as well on a faithfull route feels brainless and dosent match with all of the choices you made doing the story, and you dont even have the option to say no when she ask if you want to be with other woman???? why would MC say yes to wanting others when you play a 100% faithfull route?

    As for virgin/deflower fans theres nothing to come for, when MC fucks a virgin it goes to black screen? then comes back and you see MC fucking her, i guess they where to lazzy to add blood and apprently dident care about pain in dialogs either, so its just a 100% normal sex scene with absolutly no virgin vibe to it what so ever.

    Girls 3/5
    I wish i could rate them higher but there is close to no diversity in builds, all has very close to the same body size which does make it a bit boring, also some looks more ugly then hot to me but that comes down to personal taste, foxgirl might be nice but you barely ever see her and MC has 0 interaction with her.

    Animations 3/5
    They are decent but pretty short and really not much action.

    Music 3/5
    Standard background stuff nothing special but nice to have and it dosent get annoying to listen to.

    Choices 5/5
    When it comes to relationships you can freely pick who to have sex with or not to have sex with, i tried a faithfull run and it worked perfectly.

    Had to lower it to 3 stars even though i had it at 4 for a long time, but i just cant accept the forced harem type games and this is apprently going to be just that, there will be no faithfull route with the wife which is the most idiotic move from devs side when making a game with a wife....

    Next problem will be that if you dont play it as full harem story might not make sense at times which is really bad as well, devs own words in the fourm and it makes you wonder how few or who might mess up story bits if not picking them and such issues can ruin the hole story, personaly i would want to play faithfull route first and foremost and even if i play harem i would still only pick maybe 3 or 4 of the girls since i would hate to be forced to do the ones i just dont like.

    Story also feels quite a bit off when MCs wife tells him shes fine wth him being with other girls and i dident like that, even more so since MC should be against it since he has been against it from day 1 so why would he change it dosent really make any sense and its just poor porn logic which lowers story value by alot, MC goes from not wanting to be with other womans to "yes i want to be with other woman" out of absoutly nowhere, even if you play 100% faithfull saying no to everything doing the hole game, MC change in a second and its just to idiotic for me, even more so since game has been about choices all the way to this point and that was not a choice.

    From that point on story goes to shit and porn logic and lack of choices takes over, like when a girl ask if MC is going to build a harem, now that hes wife is ok with it, MC tells her proberly again NOT the players choice..MCs hole personalty changes from faithfull good guy to "i want a harem now" just dosent suit the story or MC.
  2. 2.00 star(s)

    AyseKayali69

    The renders are the best I've seen in any game,
    but that's the only reason I kept playing for so long.

    On day one, the women will throw themselves at MC, and at that point maybe it's understandable he'd be hesitant.

    But over and over again the MC rejects them, you have no choice in the matter. The dev apperantly thought having the MC dream the situation later in a sexy way makes up for it, but he's missing the point here.

    Not only would no man on Earth act like this, but this being a porn game makes it even more stupid.

    The story itself, other than the MC, who's supposed to be a competent person, acting like he's in no rush to save the world and instead focusing on habilitating the girls, which he should do after those 40 days are up, which I understand can't be done because the game would pace too fast, is actually interesting.

    My main problem was the constant blue-balling, and the MC acting like he's on a moral high ground. This direction of writing is just wrong for the Erotic Novel genre.
  3. 3.00 star(s)

    DirectXD1943

    It's good, but overrated. How this can get 5 stars is personally beyond me, but it's undoubtedly a quality product.

    In the beginning, I enjoyed the fact that the MC was written as almost clinically logical. It made him distinct from the usual losers or Mary Stus often shown on the site. However, as time goes on, you get a sense that the writer just enjoys waffle. There's a lot of times in the story where there is just an intense level of needless dialogue. While initially it was done well, showing the MC's thought processes, by Friday or Saturday in-game it gets to the point where he's essentially just repeating himself, stating the same thing 3 different ways as if it makes him more intelligent the more he says it. Not only that, but sometimes his explanations just make zero sense. Perhaps it was due to the strength of the first couple days, the fact literally every other character says he's right, or a combination of the two, but I just cannot see how people just glide past some of his ridiculous comments.

    If it was only that one issue in the writing then I'd probably give this 4 stars, but for some inexplicable reason, this issue then bleeds out into the OTHER characters. Amber, Tracy, even Cecilia and Esther on occassion, begin to adopt his robotic mannerisms, and even bring around the nonsensical explanations from newer updates. I'll provide an example (mild spoiler):
    Amber, a hyper-intelligent woman, sits Sue down in front of a computer, and begins explaining to her pornography. When explaining a new concept to someone, generally speaking, you provide a rough description of what it is.
    For some inexplicable reason, this genius defines it as "some people on this Earth apparently film themself doing naughty things and upload it onto the internet." This extremely simple (and grammatically incorrect) explanation should set the groundwork for the rest of the conversation, insinuating she is easing Sue in. She then says that the women in the videos aren't usually dating the men they're with. Sue asks if it's because they're undesirable. Amber then immediately takes a 180, and starts spouting some absolute nonsense about how it may be because men share their wives because there are so many women? Not only was it hard to read because of the nonsensical use of words like "phenomena" (which was also used improperly), but also for a woman who is meant to be hyper-intelligent, she doesn't seem to understand the concept of women being single. Despite having access to the internet.
    Suddenly, Sue inexplicably asks "is this television?", at which point Amber says that television is "a website where you can watch videos". Not only does she not know what a website or television is, but she's now poorly explaining what a video is to a person who clearly doesn't understand it (but apparently had no questions when they were first mentioned), and then we see that Sue doesn't understand how a screen can show things. So Amber decided instead of explaining how Sue can use a computer, she should know about video pornography first. Then they just watch some porn and the scene ends


    There are so SO many examples like this where scenes end up not only being effectively pointless, but also entirely nonsensical. They are further stretched out by theses needless attempts to sound intelligent, because apparently intellect is just rambling now. Any REAL intellect can tell you that intelligence is not just knowing something, it's being able to explain something SIMPLY, which happens less and less the longer the AVN goes on. Having characters not only be needlessly technical, but also INCORRECT, is so intensely annoying to read.

    However, the developer certainly deserves praise for the visuals. While I find the sexual scenes lacking, every woman looks great. Each model is distinct and identifiable, the visuals are well done, lighting is good, and most errors you only see if you're actively looking for them (e.g. minor clipping of clothes, objects being in different positions when shots change).

    Honestly, there are really only a few things that need to change to make the AVN worthy of 5-stars:
    - removing the need to try and force technical language and jargon, and improving dialogue as the AVN goes on to make it more fluid and logical.
    - by reducing the need to write so much dialogue, more time can be spent improving the sex scenes, so the space between them is not only shortened, but the pay off is greater.

    TL;DR 6/10, great models and engaging story, but lacklustre sex scenes and bloated and unneccessary dialogue hold it back
  4. 5.00 star(s)

    RobertRick

    This is VERY good. I am only an hour or so into it but am impressed with the story telling. Professional writing, interesting plot, and beautiful, realistic renders. There is magic here (not only from the creator :)) and I am definitely not into superstition, finding even religion silly. But the plot is so rich and clever here that I don't mind the least. And for the nerds with an interest in anthropology or evolutionary psychology: The story seems to explore the possible psychological conflict between not only aliens and humans (same old story, yes) but also which conflicts might arise from men and women from a pair-bonding and a tournament species/culture coming together. Love it. I have to get some sleep now. Will continue first thing in the morning :) .
  5. 3.00 star(s)

    davy_jones_knockers

    Questionable taste and pretty decent execution. No eroticism that works for me, so I can't give it more than 3/5.

    MC is a non-person who hides behind a plot-armor veneer of mysterious-secret-agent, always-correct deductive overthinking, and frustratingly tangential dialogue. This works in-game because everyone else is sufficiently predictable, but in real life nobody communicates this way because it's so much easier just to say what you mean and assume the other person will mostly do the same.

    The girls are mirrors for the MC to see how awesome he is; they don't serve any purpose other than showing the player that MC is indescribably intelligent, strong, virtuous, etc. This is anime dressed up with nicer renders. Actually some anime is better and I hate anime.

    Clearly a lot of love went into this game, and while it's technically well-written I just can't get past the fact that MC has no perceivable humanity (he's the idea of a human, but pushed so far towards what the author thought was perfect that he just doesn't make sense) and the girls are, more than average for the genre, just props with purely superficial traits.

    This game is kinda fun and actually very well-narrated, but the characters are honestly terrible, there's no emotional substance, not much sex, and no eroticism in those scenes. Download it if you like to jerk off to MC being awesome, because there's a lot of that. If you're into non-infantilized girls, though, I'd give it a miss; there's nothing here.
  6. 4.00 star(s)

    Meep2_TheMeepening

    It's good. Really really good. Might even be one of the best one's I've read, the writing is really good and you can see the effort put in the renders and animations. It has the potential to be one of my all-time favourites in fact.

    So why only 4 stars despite all that huge praise? Because Jesus Christ this game has almost no choices at all. I'm not talking meaningless choices. Trust me I actually tend to prefer those type of games that are ultimately linear so I don't always have to look up walkthroughs and stuff. But this one doesn't even give you the illusion of choice. It's just text upon text, story upon story with little to no choice. It might as well be a kinetic novel (a very good one, might I add. Like I said everything else is really good.)
    Another minor nitpick, but this is more of a personal ick than a huge critique, is how games with the premise of "there are no more/barely any men left" tend to be so heteronormative that they can't even consider that the women in those worlds might develop feelings for each other. They've all existed in a female majority society for ages but somehow they all have desperately been waiting their whole life for men lmao. But well, that's simply just a thought that crossed my mind and not a critique of the game.

    Really good overall (Cecilia best girl)
  7. 5.00 star(s)

    Gimpster

    well at 1st i thought this was the usual shitty uber epic super secret mega epic agent crap was about to turn it off when i realised the dev just did a double disract ... i was like .. WTF ... so i started again and read everything ..
    this is the second best writing i have ever seen on here . reminded me of a brendon sanderson book i read ... yes the fap fap is far and few between but tbh who cares when the writing is this good ..the char development is second to none .. i just cant recomend this one enough
  8. 5.00 star(s)

    Elasstommer

    I'm glad I continued following this one, even though I was getting frustrated by the MC's insistence on being faithful to the fiancee who left him. The storytelling in this VN is exceptionally good, unfolding in ways that feel totally natural within the structure of the narrative, with enough tension and unknowns to hold my attention. The graphics are impressive and the models look great, but the characterization and story progression are what really impress me.
  9. 5.00 star(s)

    Niels Holgersson

    The story so far has been entertaining, the characters are not all well displayed as they could be, but on the whole the depiction is good. The main person in the story has a dark background, although it seems he is a righteous person, the girls are a mixed bag, but the writer seems to know what he is doing. On the whole a great story and I hope it continues to keep me entertained. Great work.
  10. 5.00 star(s)

    jjw2022

    Wow! Great story with just enough visual context to make it REALLY work. It's a novel storyline, and socially relevant... these days. I was absorbed in gameplay from the moment I launched until "end of 3.5. Kudos!
  11. 2.00 star(s)

    glassware

    Excellent renders, but I'm really tired of the trope where at the start of the game the MC is the most superest awesome secret agent/mercenary/whatever in the world (and retired, natch). And this time, he not only starts that way but is apparently going to become even more incredibly powerful. Like, if that power fantasy fits your tastes, enjoy, but personally it doesn't work for me.

    On top of that, throw in the idea that apparently, in the other world, it is the nature of physics that women are inferior to men, and it seems just too edgelord-y and reactionary to me. Again, maybe you'll enjoy that, but I just couldn't get into it.
  12. 5.00 star(s)

    mbs123a

    loving the game so far. played late evening and afternoon the following day. part 3.5 just came out almost and gat around a great 6 houers of it

    liking the story so far and the small bread bits that leaves details of main MC past and fiance and the others.

    story is cool and i always gat goosebumbs when watched hero moves-stuff like naruto when was a kid and i kinda those vibes. MC be strong but slow build up :3 hehe.

    renders are looking good. animations are okay. girls are cute most of them :3 loving the fiance and fioina and firey lady roarrr.

    bought game on steam and cant wait for future updates <3 keeping a eye out for dev blogs and updates.
  13. 5.00 star(s)

    SoulSwipre

    Excellent story, no unnecessary multiple plot lines to slow down development. Quite a good chunk of game despite being 3 episodes in.

    The girls, who I'm assuming are all Lis, are diverse with distinct personalities. Renders looks great. Only 3 pretty short lewd scenes available at the moment, which isn't alot after roughly 1 year of development. But the story MORE than makes up for it.

    There's ongoing intrigue which means you're kept on your toes and never bored. Really looking forward to more updates on the game, which being my 1st time finding and playing this game, I have no idea the rate it's released.
  14. 5.00 star(s)

    amandressedlikeabat

    It's still early, but this looks like it's going to be an excellent game. The girls are beautiful, and have a range of personalities. The story is interesting. The sex scenes are good (although there aren't many yet).
    The writing in the opening isn't particularly well done, but after that it's very good. There are a few grammatical errors and typos, but not enough to significantly detract from the game, even for me.
  15. 5.00 star(s)

    etool

    I am a sucker for a good story, and this is one of them

    while it may have a slow burn, it makes sense in this story, unlike other stories that just drag it on

    I am truly looking forward to the entire story play out

    TY for the great story HighbornTiger
  16. 5.00 star(s)

    Rohse

    This really isn't a story with sex being the driver. In the first 3 episodes we have 2-3 scenes that are lewd in some way or another.
    But the story is super solid, a slow burn getting you invested in the characters. Graphics are amazing and it has enormous potential.
  17. 3.00 star(s)

    ImSenjou

    The plot has potential, but the MC and the dialogue annoys me, it seems like the MC is trolling the girls, he complicates everything without any need.

    For example, they barely arrived in the world, and he offers them water, but it's sparkling water, who does that, I don't know anyone who likes sparkling water, but even if there are those who like it, why offer it right away when he has another option that everyone likes, the girls don't know sparkling water, it could be poison, they tasted it and didn't like it, for me, it's like the MC was trolling them.

    The dialogue is the worst, the MC talks so much, complicates it so much, he knows they won't understand, but he still does it, so the girls have to keep asking until they have guesses of what he's trying to say.

    And that he doesn't want anything to do with them, he could just say why, so much time has passed, and he keeps confusing the girls when he could just say why, but no, he leaves them guessing what he really wants, remembering that these girls are refugees, they're scared, they're being forced to live in a new place with a man they don't know, but the MC does everything to make them uncomfortable.

    So much time has passed in the game, but they hardly interact at all, it's as if their day had only 15 minutes, come on, sit down and talk, clear up doubts, get to know each other, they should have resolved all that there at the beginning and followed forward, but every update is the same, the MC leaves them guessing what he wants, what he's going to do, what he means, so many days have passed but there are girls he probably hasn't even talked to.

    About the renders, they are ok, but something I don't like is that they barely open their mouths, even the render of his dead friend showed the dead man with his mouth closed, they look like mannequins.
  18. 5.00 star(s)

    MJsMind

    Ok to start let me say that this game was one of the biggest surprises I had on this Site. as I downloaded it I was under the impression that this game would be just a Quick fap with the flavor of " this is a new wolrd if you want to survive here make a line and let me fuck you all" but oh boy this is so much more to the point that now after knowing this game I would be mad at the any one who says they want les story and more sex in games like this to be absolute honest even having no sex in the game would be absolutely fine this is the first time that I want to have more lore, more story, more charakter interactions and more relationship bilding to the point that I am pretty disappointed that the steam link doesn´t seems to work for my country because I hate patreon but still want to support the game by officially buying it so yeah an absolutely earned 5 star game
  19. 5.00 star(s)

    Saphfire

    This vn is the prime example of a vn you came for porn and stayed for the story!
    There are very few vn´s that have a compareable deep story like this one.
    Everything is believable, this one could easy be in cinemas similar to "the Avengers"
    Well, but we are still on F95 to find pleasure. And i am sure you will get what you came for, but this is a slowburn harem type of game with an exceptional good story. It is still in the introduction phase but i am sure that this will be one of the best vn´s on this site.
    Just give it a try!
  20. 5.00 star(s)

    DABOMB00

    Absolutely awesome game with a very nice setting and a good plot. This VN has nearly everything i could ask from a agme. The is a backstory for the characters, deeper meaning in the things they do and say, problems to be dealt with, characters with a personality and a cool MC. I like that he doesnt become insta powerful, but actually has to work to get there.
    The Women also look very nice and the scenes are fine. The game also got a good soundtrack so there is almost nothing left to be desired. The only thing i would mention is the amount and impact of the choices you can make so far. There isnt too much possibility to influence how you behave and how the story will progress which i hope will change, but anyways this game is totally awesome so far.
    I would definetly recommend playing it.