VN - Ren'Py - A Foreign World [Ep.6] [HighbornTiger]

I love the Concept of the Game.
Played the Previous one just to get some of the Story about the girls live in the other world.
I love that the MC is very smart and plays his cards well.
Can´t wait for the (happy?!) ending

Extremely good Vn i loved it and i enjoyed it a lot
Visuals are great and the story is very good too.
MC is very good and he js very capable and with backbone too and at the same time he isnt rude thats somewhat refreshing for me and i believe he is better than most MC in this site.
Furthermore the Lis are also beautiful and interesting and every LI is different than the other.
Overall i believe its a quite good Harem
(personally i like the fact that there isnt any lesbian content though thats personal taste.. in future i hope if its added to be optional at least).
Nonetheless i highly recommended it.

The purely linear VN style is not my favorite, but this one is very well done. The only choices are whether or not to pursue a particular LI, and it doesn't seem to affect the main storyline either way.

The storytelling, though, is first rate. The pacing of the main plot as well as the backstory reveals kept me interested. The characters feel like actual characters, not just archetypes. And the models are unique and well matched to the characters.

4.5* but will round up.

Unique plot, and its decently written. All of the characters have unique voices which is always a plus. Renders are good, there is a great amount of content relative to development time, and the plot is moving along instead of getting bogged down. With most LI the relations are progressing, and with appropriate pacing.

The only downsides are that there are too many LI. There are a couple characters for whom there is practically no content with, just because of the focus on other characters - which is fine, but they probably shouldn't have been included in the first place. Its a tall task to build out paths and content for 10 LI.

Only other negatives in my book is the english word choice can be spotty in some places, and the MC is a bit of a mega chad

Would suggest playing, this is a good one

This will be hit-or-miss for most of you

The game has good renders and writing thats been done with some effort, unfortunately threes this whole fantasy plot that is more of a nuisance than interesting (goblins type fantasy, not kink type fantasy)

Some of the li's are very attractive with good proportions and are rendered well.

The writing means the mc tries to be a bit of an action hero which so far ive never seen work in a vn and it means there are long sequences of distraction and with the unattractive li's

It's not a bad game, theres just nothing that excites or makes you want to return, despite the good quality images

I hardly mind when a novel stops and I have to wait for a new chapter, but a foreign world had me aching. If you like sharp dialogues, a gripping story and sufficient character depth; this a brilliant one. Had similar writing style to Summers' gone, which is a jewel imo too. If you like unearthly breast shapes, or a story that got lost in lewd scenes search somewhere else.
Can't wait for more !

An adult game that doesn't punish you for not being a 12 year old staring at every butt that crosses your path. And bad jokes and inuendo in every scene for fear you aren't mature enough to pay attention to a good story.

Is it for everyone, nope.. But I wish there were more adult games that don't low brow everything.

When life puts you in a sticky situation and makes you a god amongst men.. remember. "With great power comes great responsibility" -- Uncle ben

Better than average, rounded up to good
REVIEW OF v5.5

If i could, this game would be rated 3.5/5. It definately is better than an average game but falls short of good at this stage in its development. My reasoning broken down below:

POSITIVES
* Unique models.
* Nice story premise.
* After a bit of shaky diialog at the beginning, i actually read a lot of the script, didnt skip much at all.

NEGATIVES
* Updates are short considering the time in between releases.
* Many of the characters get very little screen time which is dissapointing.
* Lewd Scenes restricted to 2 characters currently (i dont count dream/flashbacks) and are pretty tame so far.

SUMMARY
This game has the potential to be good, maybe even great, but the game needs to be fleshed out a bit more... give the other girls some proper screen time, make the updates bigger or if staying at the 200/300 render update, then they need to be quicker to come out imo.

Final note... Megan Fox for the character with the fox features... name makes me chuckle whenever i see it (which is sadly very limited as of v5.5).

Honestly, this is a very good game with a lot of pluses and only one major minus.

First and foremost, the story and characters deserve copious amounts of praise. The characters actually feel like real people with interesting personalities, and the story is intriguing and drives you forward, interested in knowing what will happen next.

Same goes for the art. The design of the characters is very good, and it is clear that a lot of effort went into the renders. They are far better than the average VN here.

Another aspect in which this game differs in a major way from the average VN here is that you play as an adult with a pre-defined personality, instead of the usual "Blank-slate Protagonist". This is a welcome change in my book, but my issue is that I felt it was taken too far, as you pretty much don't have any agency in the story, not even in minor decisions. There is a series of decisions on whether to pursue the romantic interests or not, but other than that you basically don't influence your character at all. That disappointed me, as I would have liked to, for example, be more stern in how I treat a certain character that literally tried to kill me multiple times, or be more loving and caring for a certain character that I feel deserved it. Such things wouldn't have majorly changed the story or created a ton of extra work and diversions, but they would have made me enjoy playing the game more.

All in all though, I definitely recommend this game to anyone who enjoys a pretty good story. I just wish that the developer adds more choices in the future, even if they were minor ones .

Played through AFW (Ep 5) in about 6 hours tonight, and while the story is definitely interesting, the game as a whole is let down by several shortcomings.

++ VERY unique characters and LIs - almost everyone is easily memorable
+ Good renders throughout
+ Music for different parts of the game, but no sounds
++ Good premise and situational world building to set the stage
+ Story keeps moving at a steady pace (though very slowly)
+ Interesting use of science & magic
+ Some scenes are animated (gets better as it progresses)

--- Almost no choices that are relevant are presented to the player. Those that are only seem to affect whether or not we see sex scenes.
--- The MC is a complete idiot. Women basically throwing themselves at him, and he says no more times than I can count. And what for? Keeping hope alive that his fiance (who left him without saying why) will come back. Huge facepalm moment here.
--- Quite a few sex scenes aren't real, they are daydreams for the MC. Which to me just cheapens the experience by taking away any LI progression that could have happened in their place, and using up that much more development time.
-- Not one creampie in the entire game as of Ep 5 - it's all just cum shots on their backs/bellies.
--- Very few real sex scenes overall, for the ~6 or so hours I played. Handjobs don't count, oral doesn't count, daydreams don't count, flashbacks don't count.
--- There's an apocalyptic event on the way in 40 days in-game, and the MC and girls run around on dates, or go bowling, or something else frivolous. What they should be focusing on is training up the MC, which seems to only take half of their time.
--- Some pretty stupid decisions on the part of the MC (and the girls) throughout.
----- We (playing as the MC) have zero choice on how to respond to the MC's fiance (who left him without saying why weeks earlier in the plot). He keeps telling the girls no to sex, while hoping she'll come back (yeah, he's an idiot). Personally I would have kicked the bitch to the curb at the earliest opportunity for what she did. It's a serious letdown in something we should have been given the choice over.
-- Many of the sex scenes in the game don't show actual penetration, it's skewed more in favor of Rated X (soft porn) than it is XXX. As an AVN, that's rather disappointing.

As a result, the game gets a 3.0 (okay) rating from me. Might be worth a playthrough if you're having trouble finding other good stuff to play at the moment. But it also needs a lot of work, and I'd recommend to the dev that they allow us more freedom of choice in how the game unfolds. Right now it's more kinetic novel than a game.

Because of the points I listed above, I'd recommend a re-write and re-render of several points of the game, along with adding in more choice. Further recommendations below.

Things to improve:
- Sex scenes need to be more explicit, hot, involved, lengthy, and give players more and better camera options
- Choice needs to be given to the player on all LIs, and on major plot points
- Allow the player occasional free-roam time, so that he can get busy with an LI of their choosing (i.e. current sex in the game isn't sufficient)
- Creampies. For the love of all things sexy, give us the choice of creampies. Girls don't always get pregnant the instant you cum inside of them. "Money shots" are lame to begin with.
- Oral, Anal, Deepthroat, Threesomes... there need to be more varied sex scenarios, and kinks. There's precious little of that in the game right now, which made it almost boring for me.

I played through episode 5 of this urban-fantasy in a few evenings.

I rarely give five-star reviews, reserving that distinction for games that really stand out; but I found this so engaging—despite some minor flaws—that I found I could give it no less.

The excellent:
• The world-building—of the foreign world—while still somewhat sparse, lays the foundation for the growing harem.
• The game looks great: the graphics in general and the character models.
• The girls have unique and believable personalities (excepting the earth girl).
• The game takes itself seriously.
• It has potential to become a battle-harem, though it is not clear if it will go in that direction.

The good:
• The musical tracks are well-selected.

The average:
• The story feels a little too much like something from a light-novel.
• The MC does too much soul-searching for someone who is supposed to be a super-duper secret agent. This is well written-enough that I never felt the urge to skip it, but it got a little annoying after a while.

I am glad to have discovered this game, and look forward to seeing where it goes.

The plot is a reverse fish out of the water, you harbor a bunch of girls from another world with super powers. The narrative relies heavily on the nonsensical antagonist as a world ending threat far into the game's future.

Pros:
- Good renders, prose, erotic content and music.
- The girls are well characterized, each being unique and having a somewhat interesting backstory.

Cons:
- The plot and story are mediocre and have terrible pacing, there's basically nothing that happens between chapter 1 and chapter 5 besides relationship talk and the occasional sex scene. This is a soap.
- The game's magic system sucks.

Thoroughly enjoyed this and look forward to seeing where this goes.
Personally I found the author very capable of giving distinct personalities to the various characters. I stayed engaged from start to finish. Superb!

Excellent AVN. Depending on your taste, it could even be in the top 3. Narrative-wise it is incredibly well written, the inner monologues of the MC are really well constructed and give him a depth not typical for these games. Not only that, but even though they are numerous, they don't feel overdone to the reader, at least not to me.

As for the LIs, I really like the personalities and looks of all of them (Fiona and Tracy are the top lookers for me).

Highly recommended.

this game is great, story driven, the protagonist is highly capable and that makes it interesting, the girls are beautiful and all the cg is immaculate.
The dynamics are interesting, the reverse isekai is a classic, but also nice is the blending of the two worlds. It doesn't feel like the magical world overrides the regular world too much.

All in all very good, if story heavy, game.

Short summary:


The author tries to do too much with a story and isn’t a good enough writer to pull it off. The premise is intriguing, but the story is a mess, and the characters behave inconsistently. There is some potential here.



Good Things

• Some girls are very sexy
• Renders, especially later on are good
• Animations are nice and sexy
• Unusual fantasy mixed into the real world

Bad points

• Story fails
• Out-of-character things, like a reserved “shy” girl asking to become your cum slut etc
• Too many girls with barely any attention to most of them

I almost passed on this. I am emotionally scarred by the flood of samey, poorly written harem games and I really don't have the patience for yet another version of Alpha-male-has-women-like-objects-swoon-for-him.

BUT along came this wonderful game. Goes to show how much great writing can elevate an idea. You have interesting, diverse, living women with their own feelings and emotions and you have a male MC that is actually interesting to get to know. I didn't think that combination existed in this type of game.

It is slow, but also incredibly interesting. The story and world building is deep and competent. I am looking forward to see where it goes.

Thank you. You have restored some faith in me.

Early on I thought this game was going to be amazing but it is turning out to be very disappointing. The story is stringing along a bit and not plausible, meh, but I can't understand the dev's decision to make this a softcore game.

Are people really that ashamed of vaginas and sex? The human body and sex are natural and it can be a beautiful thing. Puritanical views that sex is dirty and 'bad' have caused immense emotional suffering IMO. I find it disturbing that many people are more accepting of graphic violence, torture and killing than they are of nudity and sex.

I'm also not a fan of showing women with hair all over their bodies. All the renders I've seen just don't turn out right.

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.

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.