VN - Ren'Py - A.L.I History [Ch.5] [Bychipi]

renders 3/5 The look ok, but dated, they could be good if we were back in 2012
story 1/5 Its so bad, and it also Kinetic so you have no option but to watch in disbelief with no say in it.
characters -100/5 The worst aspect of the game by far, they are bipolar and schizofrenic, they are not even consistent, what they say/"think" and what they do is almost always opposite and they are so unlikeable, ALL OF THEM, its incredible.
writing 1/5 Boring and mediocre

Basically, it all sucks, the shit that happens, what the characters say, what they do. It’s all so nonsensical that it’s almost funny. Almost. In the end, it’s just silly and annoying. When you think it’s building up to something good, it’s like the writer gets his brain crushed with a hammer, and then it all goes to shit, whether it’s with Monica, Azumi, or the MC himself. I give up on this. I don’t know what the point of the game is or what audience it’s trying to appease all I know is that it fails at everything.

Interesting premise, version reviewed is ch. 3.

The renders unfortunately end up grainy in some scenes and the animations could be better. There are also some lingering plot holes that have yet to be answered (mostly surrounding the protag's children... their introduction to the story and their relation to each other and who are their parents). That said, I am liking the reconnection between the MC and his former childhood love. I do wish she had a bit more of a backbone in regards to her insisting on keeping her pathetic husband instead of being with the MC. It seems silly she can't make up her mind after professing her love and willingness to have the MC's babies, but won't leave her husband.

We do finally get a nice cliffhanger reveal at the end of ch. 3 why she really left the throuple with the MC and his wife, and it involves another potential new LI. I can't wait to see how that story progresses and where we go with the MC's current family.

WTF does A.L.I stand for? Who knows ? Who eventually cares? Damn, I was initially brought in for the renders, but they are definitely NOT worth the bother. PASS! Oh, wait, I needed a few more characters to re-iterate: PASS!

Story starts really good and different then usual, but more it goes on MC turns into creep and in to usual rich bad guy! Whole game feels like bad soap show. Positive are good visualization of characters and over all game but thats it!

I really like the character Monica. I don't care if the protagonist is good or bad, as long as he can bear the consequences of his actions. I'm looking forward to more interactions between the protagonist and Monica, and I'd love to see more scenes of infidelity, like Monica's husband being a cuckold, and him sitting in a cuckold's chair watching the protagonist and Monica have sex. Or tie up Azumy's jerk boyfriend and force him to watch how the protagonist sleeps with his girlfriend. Okay, I'm too bad, I'm not a good person. Please add more married women characters, like Azumy's jerk boyfriend's mother. So far, the protagonist's life is a bit boring—working out, playing games, running, and hooking up with Monica. Will he go on a date with Azumy's jerk boyfriend's mother in the next update?

The graphics are good. The animations are good. I'd give them a 4/5
But the writing is awful! Horrible, horrible writing. It's not a language problem. It sounds stale, as if everyone was a robot. It's as if a child wrote it.
I couldn't take more than a few minutes of it. People need to read what they write and ask themselves how it would sound if someone said that in real life. This needs a major rewrite overhaul. Otherwise, it's not worth playing.

If you make a kinetic novel there are certain expectations for the content i.e. it being good.

Story: Is bad, i honestely tried to force push my interest for 10-20 minutes.
Feels like written by teenager or inexperieced young adult at best.
MC is a man child i.e. his age doesn't corespond to him, feels like a teenager stuck in a mans body.

Renders are not bad but nothing to overpraise.

I was trying to weigh it between 3 and 2 but i consider it below average.

I understand sandbox having problems with narrative, dialogue and story but to my experience you can make even those good. Their main opponent is syncronization with events. For example you have a quest to give X amount of money but characters still view you as as poor.
Or your strength stat is maxed out but via story you are beaten.
Meaning that the problem isn't with the script but more like technical.

Overall:
Not the best experience for the first timers (You could start to dislike VN's).
Closely follow tags and if they are up your fetish alley and you don't have anything better to do, give it a go.

this game is a kinetic novel, which is in its tags. i'm very surprised at how many people are complaining about the lack of choices despite this.

the game sucks regardless. lots of talking, and i mean a LOT of talking and majority of it is uninteresting, lacking any wit. i don't recommend. the tits on one of the chars is nice tho.

Ver. Ch.4

TL;DR: If you are looking for a good or at least decent game, stay away from this. Download at you own risk; you've been warned.

This game—hardly a game, really—is one of the worst I've encountered on F95, and believe me, the competition in this field is fierce. The plot is gibberish. The characters are just a pretext for erotic scenes, which IMO are also unarousing. Choices—what choices? If, like me, you're looking for a reasonably sensible plot and believable characters, stay away from this game-like product. The graphics are also significantly below average, but at least they're not as bad as the dialogue or plot.

What surprises me most is the high ratings. I understand there's no accounting for taste, but how can reviewers fail to notice that this is an exceptionally poorly made product? Nothing here is right, except maybe some of the images or animations, but if that's what interests you, then—instead of this "game"—watch some normal, regular porn.

This is headache inducing no choice or impact having dialogue slop this isn't a game its a swamp literally don't play it as of Ch3

Pros : Slightly above average models

( If you look at this from a 2018 perspective back then these would be great )

Cons : Everything Dialogues suck the environment is depressing the lighting is never right women aren't women they are just pussies with different faces to this protagonist story is just not that good what do you mean after every day or two i need to fuck monica i have played so many games but this takes the crown home for the worst in everything the developer maybe got the idea from a text based game

The protagonist is a horrible human being that sees women as things or pocket pussies, the game tries to paint him as this great guy, but then what he does and says only make him come across as a very weird creep who's only positive trait is that he has money.

The other main character so far, which the game spends a whole lot of time on, is also a mess. Turns out, after spending hours seeing the relationship develop with Monica, she is just in the level of a prostitute or crackwhore in M C's eyes, so they will never be actually together. They plan to share Monica between him and her husband, a plan that's so out of nowhere and nonsensical that you can only facepalm while reading that part. Monica was just a walking vagina all along, despite them being in love, and her even losing her virginity with the MC and possibly being the mother of his child.

Monica was made into a horrible human being too, saying she "loves" her husband and puts him first but then seconds later talking about trying to force him to accept a cuckold kind of relationship after already having cheated on him several times and badmouthing him all game. Nothing she does makes sense, and her definition of 'love' seems very twisted, or maybe she's just a psychopath who likes to throw the word around.

Then there's the weird predatory plan of the MC to basically use his money to fuck some girl ..... That's creepy and pathetic, just like his obsession with virgins and "untouched" women, despite being willing to share Monica. It doesn't even make sense.

There's other things as well but it's already too much text. 2 stars because the dev made a decent job making the visuals appealing, too bad he failed to make any interesting, consistent or likeable character, that's a huge problem for a kinetic novel specially

The game is quite interesting. The narrative is good. The characters are well-developed, but I would recommend doing something with the start of the day when the characters wake up and make breakfast, as it can become repetitive. The graphics are decent, and there is animation.

There's just something about the game that doesn't sit right with me. Perhaps it's just a rough opening but at times it feels lifeless or static. The first major scene is one where you meet up with a girl for lunch and there's like 30 odd lines of dialogue where all you see on screen is a render of her sitting. No changes to posture, facial expression, nothing to imply she's having a conversation at all, that she's alive. It could simply be laziness on the part of the dev or a way of cutting corners to speed up development but it's very obvious. What's worse is the conversation is a long one and at best the woman on screen has maybe 2 other facial expressions, one of shock and one where she looks sad and that's it. Her posture doesn't change at all. Back straight, hands in lap, face foward. Like she's giving an interview. At no point does the camera pan to you, or the surroundings so .... it just feels lifeless.

I like this game and i hope it will continue as good as the start one.
But if its not i'm very confused about it. Why does it took so long to realesed ?
so for the techincal:
1) the story is pretty
2) the handling is good
3 ) I love the gamesetting

It feels strange when you first play it, the plot is simple, and the graphics are not finely rendered.
But gradually you will find that this game is the purpose of our gathering at F95.
No fiddly sandboxes. No annoying puzzle mini-games.
There is only one busty beauty bimbo who keeps fucking you crazily in different poses and scenes.
I will bookmark this as a great little game on my computer.
If you play this game with a relaxed attitude, it will feel great.
Don't compare it with well-known works or big productions of famous companies. no need.

VERSION: Ch2
SUMMARY: The game feels wrong, poorly put together and doesn't sell itself as worth investing time into.
RATINGS: (out of 5):

1. Models: 4
2. Animations: X
3. General Visuals: 3
4. Characters: 2
5. Story: 2
6. Writing: 3
7. UI & Gameplay: 3
8. Content (amount): 3
9. Sound & Music: 0
10. Fetish & kinks: 0

Average: X of 50 possible points giving a X% rating i.e. X stars.

PROS:

1. The writing itself is not bad, wrt the sentences and how its strung together, grammar and such.
2. Visually it looks good, renders are good and characters look good.

CONS:

1. Off the bat I am not overly fond of how the story is narrated, the dialogue is bland, void of any emotion, almost like some robot is droning on.
2. The setting, house and everything is clinical if you can call it that, stark of any person items, doesn't feel like a home, feels like a lab.
3. The MC is way too young to have 3 kids in college, while you can't see his face due to the game design, he looks otherwise very young. This is a big red flag and the story/game looses me immediately due to unrealistic settings and plot points.
4. Plot itself is flimsy and poorly thought through, the MCs dialogue with Monica during first meeting suggests a weird relationship in the past that makes no sense in the "normal" realistic sense of the word. e.g. suggestive of a 3 some kind of relationship, which the MC seems to think is perfectly normal, at least as how the dialogue describes it. Again pointing to poor story, plot and planning for this game. This is further compounded by the MCs mother being jealous of his relationships, further suggesting a twisted theme and dichotomy in his family. Which would be acceptable if you pushing the incest angle, but NOT as a matter of common conversation out in the open as if its normal, its NOT normal, at best a kink, which the dev fails to capitalize on and if anything ruins completely.
5. More kinetic than VN and really no choices at all. Added to the flimsy story it just drives another nail into this games coffin for me.

FINAL THOUGHTS & SUGGESTIONS:

• The game starts off immediately wrong, trying to set the stage for the MC and his life, but it does this very poorly, the way its done, it sounds like the MC was recently "turned on" like a computer and he just starts regurgitating a poor script with no emotion.
• The story is poorly structured and planned, it immediately puts me off to want to skip all the dialogue and just watch the pictures for possible fap content. When the story looses you so quickly and easily, your game will not work at all in my opinion.
• The dialogue is actually off putting and completely "wrong" for lack of a better term, e.g., with Kira, asking her if she is of legal age. This is not a way to ask unless you some predator trying to make sure you can get away with statutory rape. Why not ask normally, "so how old are you now" not "Are you of legal age", "Yes", "Oh, thats nice!" WTF man?

My impression of this game is that it is half baked at best. The immediate stage set for the game on looks and writing are simply bad/poor and unrealistic. The dev wants you to come into their world but its a stark, uninteresting and unrealistic one that has no history or anything that is interesting to create the cohesion needed to keep a player vested.

The renders are good, but thats it, sadly I just lost interest in what I would now call a bullshit story" Pity, as based on the renders alone the dev could make a good game, but the writing and story are just bad.

I don't hate it, but its mostly have sex with a married woman or hang out with some girls you aren't having sex with. This is as kinetic as it gets. Nothing of note is really happening. The either sits at home, has sex with the same married woman or hangs out with three girls he doesn't have sex with. That is literally this entire story if you take his backstory out of the equation.

I don't like this game, for the visual part of AVN that it claims to be, as the number of renders are little in numbers, moreover the lewd scenes are very vanila. The angles used to create deep immersion that blocks mc face are annoying and districts more than helping immersion. I don't care about story as the scenes bored my eyes .

I will not comment on story because frankly I didn't have it time. Because I would rather give my time yo more developed game.
I really suggest the dev to use real porn to first dev a beta version for basingtheir scenes. But again I can't draw for shit.

Finally I will say this there are some interesting angles, but they are only handful

Very nice story with good renders and with beautiful milf & girls. Love it. Totally my type of game. Eagerly waiting for future update. Mostly around monica, kira and eva. Hope boys have a great girlfriend so MC get there hand on them too.