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

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

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 .

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.

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)

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

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

Review based on Version 2.5
Currently, the game has about 3–4 hours of story content. I encountered two sex scenes with one of the characters in the current version, both of which can be avoided if you really want to.
The story of the game itself is captivating, and I had no problem finishing it in one sitting. The characters personalities are explored during the time they get to tell you their opinion.
The renders are all clean; there is no grain on any as far as I could tell.
I am looking forward to seeing where the story takes us. The game doesn't really have any branching options, but it would be interesting to see some choices that could make a difference later on. I might be happy just having a linear story told without being responsible for any of the mayor choices.

Overall a promising project. Graphic and renderings are above average. The writing is good but I think it's from this poing going forward that we will be able to understand if the will be a real top tier one or an high tier.

Anyway, keep an eye on this one and support the development if you can!

P.s.: I like the parallelism with real life refugees and human civilization, it's a plus for me.