VN - Ren'Py - A Man for All [Ep.17] [Venus Waltz]

A game I might have liked early in my AVN journey, but now I've seen too many games and am hard to please.

Pros:
1) I like the roleplay system, it's properly introduced and explained, and influences the choices pretty often, not just once or twice in the most important moments.
2) A nice selection of viewing variations during lewds.

Cons:
1) Below average visuals.
2) The MC has a very punchable face that doesn't even fit his character: that's a face of a stupid jerk jock, not a guy who studied non-stop for years.
3) The premise had potential but I didn't like how it was implemented. The MC being on his last year of study could provide a nice change of pace from all the freshmen we play as in other games, but he's completed all his previous years online, not making much of a change after all.
4) A schematic plot structure. The MC's thesis boils down to an RPG quest: "Visit location X, meet a girl, question her for the study, (optional) bang her". Quest complete! New location unlocked!

Overall, by this day and age, this game is dated, and missed its chance to offer something different.

I love the story, chapters are long, the progess is stringent. You can dive into MC position quite easily. LIs are all beautiful, allthough too similar in face form and body. (I will never unterstand why can a woman in her 40s not have a face that shows this age, hanging tits and a bit of overweight? Would that reallly be so bad in adult VNs?)

Downside for me are the sex scenes. The side characters want to fuck out of the blue. the bodies in the positions are sometimes kind of awkward.

But the story has more than sex. there is fight, crime, money problems etc. which makes it realistic and fun to follow

i love how there different routes that change how mc interact with everyone
I only picked flirting the purple route because this feels like the best route to get lot of sex scenes i
I really love this game
Story is so good
no stupid dialogue with love intrest that end up in nothing
Here most of the time it's dialogue and a moment later you are gonna have sex
lot of sex in this
I love the aggressive choice pick if you follow path of a love intrest route where mc joins a illegal boxing match and you have the option to shit talk to your opponent

Great renders
moaning sounds
Sex sounds
You can fuck lot of woman and they don't really mind if you fuck another one
Game is long i started from the start and i felt like the game never seems to end
Each Chapters is quite long
Would recommend it

no bugs
5/5

Exhausting game that is really boring and vanilla. Dialogues are extremely long winded for no reason and they talk about the most mundane sleep inducing matters. Choices of dialogue flavor has no impact and you will be forced, dragged to romance characters that you do not like . The sex scenes that exist are few, and extremely vanilla core. There is no flirtation in the dialogue between the characters, no sexy banter,. It is all very mundane and boring with long dialogue dumps.

Take one can of cheapest beer, mix it with barrel of water and call it "A Beer For All". Sure you will have lots of it, but why the fuck anyone should drink it? Same can be said about writing in this VN. 90% of it is just empty, dull, repetitive blabbering about meaningless things. It looks like writer has no idea what to write, but is desperate to make dialogs as long as possible.

MC was shy nerd in high school, but after moving to city he transformed to confident superman who succeeds everywhere? And there are no choices to accept or decline, MC will get involved.
Two love interests show no interest in MC for 14 chapters, because they focus on business, but then suddenly they jump to sex?

Renders look good, but show lack of DAZ assets. All locations barely have any objects in them. Music is terrible, sounds during sex scenes are weird.
My advice is to avoid this waste of time.

I would describe this game as exhausting.
The behavior, situations, and decisions of the characters are pretty silly. The dialogue spoken by adults feels like it was written by a teenager. And this is absolutely not a problem with the stupid script, it becomes problematic when the developer starts to complicate things, just keep it simple, man. From the moment the narrative shifts from the coffee shop to drug dealers and mysterious female detectives, everything starts to fall apart, it would seem a rather banal and cliched story, but in combination with the previous atmosphere, it all looks inconsistent and contradictory.
More likely even earlier, but you can make a discount, due to the fact that before this the game did not pretend to be anything serious.

A little bit different, enough to be fresh but not so much that it's weird. If you are into harem power fantasy stories I very highly recommend it. It gets a bit wordy and repetitive at times but there is a lot of content and the MC is respectful and caring and someone who doesn't make you feel ashamed or dirty.

this game is so boring and vanilla that i feel like if i give it more than 1 * i will be lying really hard,

its the same settings, plot, progression, dialogues, places, as other games exactly like this, romance , a lot of empty dialogues that are boring, man, i really liked those games back in the days but now they are so spent that i cannot read any more empty dialogues, give me the sex dude

I started following this story 2 years ago, completing each patch as they appeared. I'm writing this short review because I find the score it has gotten too high. In short, it doesn't deserve more than 3 stars, despite the fact that the models look good. It is simply a boring VN. Yes, after following the story to the point it reached today, I can say that this is the characterization that fits it perfectly: boring.

So, this will be my shortest review ever.
And it's probably gonna rub some "fans" the wrong way.
But this is a review, MY review, aka, MY opinion and experience with the game.

I can easily describe this game with ONE word, and that word is:
"BORING"
It really is boring af.

The game is alright, when it comes to renders and girls, well some of them.
But there's just *nothing* that pulls me in. First few updates, I was somewhat invested, curious to see where this is going. But that's true for most 'new' games.
But for the last 6 or so updates, I've mostly skipped thru most of the updates.
Only reason I'm still bothering with this one, is that I'm hoping it's close to the finish line and I wanna see how it ends.
Not because the story is so thrilling and exciting, heck there's barely a story. Mostly curious to see if the girls gets different endings etc. As I doubt this will be a full on harem ending. But I dunno, haven't bothered reading up too much about the potential endings and tags.
I just know I've wasted so much time with this VN, so I might as well just stick around til the end.

Normally I would point out the good and bad, to give the specific game a fair opinion.
Sadly this "game" is kinda too easy to review. I really just need to say it's Boring, and it includes the entire game.
Barely any of the LIs are that interesting. The story, if there's even a story, is..meh.
Animations are ok, I guess. Mostly your usual loop of a couple of seconds long animation.
In some cases, if not all, once you get to see certain LIs naked, you get a choice if they're completely shaven, or if they're 'trimmed'.
Even THAT is sometimes 'broken' in the game.
For example, say you choose 'trimmed', so the girl has a landing strip, fine. After the 'lewd scene' or maybe even during it, she'll be completely smooth on render to the next. Like...uh? A ghost suddenly shaved her pubic hair while we're banging? lol
Even the personality of the girls is meh. They're different from each other, so THAT is a plus. But overall it's like the rest of the game, just boring.
There's even several cases of inconsistency in their personality. A girl behaves a certain way, and suddenly a scene she's like someone else, just for the next scene she talks and acts like she did before. (can't give examples due to spoilers).

Choices. There's lots of 'choices' in the game. But 96% or so of them are ONLY flavor.
At most the only options that you get that truly matters, is if you wanna pursue this girl or not. That's about it.
Almost every other option you get during dialogues is how you respond, which is basically 3 different flavors. That doesnt impact anything major, just flavor and fluff.
You can easily just skip thru the "story", and randomly click a choice, and you wont miss out on anything.
For the MOST part.


I'm not gonna comment nor disagree with people that gladly gives this game a 5-star. Nor anyone that gives it a 1-star. It's THEIR opinion.
For me, this is one of the most dragged out, and boring VNs I've played .. EVER (out of several hundreds)

And to clarify, it has nothing to do with "slow burn" or whatever. I myself prefer if there's a build up. But again, everything about this VN is just boring and a slog, so once you get to the "hot" stuff, you're half-asleep.

There's SO many better VNs out there, which is why I personally am extremely careful what game I would give a 5-star. or 1-star. Those ratings are in MY opinion, saved for some extremely special games.
Dont wanna give examples here as this is a review about AMFA, not anything else.

You might enjoy this game. But I certainly diddnt And I cannot recommend this game to anyone. I believe you'll find more excitement watching the clouds go by on the sky..

I'm sorry if this sounded like a total diss of the game. But it really isn't good.

I could write about each of the LIs.. But I wont, not because I dont wanna spoil, but mostly because I find most of them just...meh.
Sure, preferences etc etc. What I like someone else might dislike etc.

I would say this game, judged by its average rating, is extremely overrated. But I also dont wanna say that, as people like what they like.
But this game is simply put.. extreeeeemely...boring.

I guess, to end this on a positive note, let's point out one of the few GOOD things about this game..
There's no sandbox in this game.

Woah, this VN is brilliant! All 5 LIs are so damn believable/relatable. The relationships between them and the MC are so organic and progress in a very believable way!
My absolute favorite is Vanessa. I've always been a sucker for the blonde ice queen types. Her reactions to flirty replies are hilarious. Then comes sweet
Harlow, followed by the feisty Erika, the workaholic Fox, and the Matronly Kate. All of them are unique and well defined characters.

The supporting LIs are not that well fleshed out, but Marisa can tempt anything that breathes!

The story deals with real problems and real solutions,. Most importantly it depicts failures very well! (The only VN here that I,ve seen do this)

Kudos for this gem! IMO, the best I've played! You have got yourself a new Patron.

Played through 100% of the game now, and had to leave some thoughts on it.

• + The perfect number of LIs, so you aren't railroaded into 1 or 2, and aren't swamped with 30 or more.
• ++ Good design on LIs and side chars that are easy to remember, and unique.
• + Good enough renders (composition and lighting), though scene decoration is sometimes very sparse.
• + Music throughout, but there's so much reading to do and so few tracks, they get repetitive fast.
• + Some sounds in scenes to spice things up a little.

• --- A crapton of reading to do, and a lot of it is just random daily or LI banter with the MC. Around the halfway mark (Episode 7-8) I think I had already played ~9 hours or so. The use of CTRL here can be your friend - you aren't likely to miss much important.
• -- Sadly, due to the previous negative, the story is weaker than it could have been. It starts off with a casual premise, then moves to something bigger, but much of that is lost in the meandering conversations you need to read through.
• --- Unbalanced sex scenes. One LI decides to finally have full-on sex with the MC. She cums when he's inside of her, then makes him pull out and gives him a handjob to finish him. Seriously? Talk about unfulfilling for both the MC and the player. If I was given the option right there, I would have dropped her as an interest.
• --- Some of the Love Interests in the game actually try to control and use the MC for their own ends - whether that's money, or pleasure. And they aren't hiding it, it is on full display for him to see. What does he do? Completely accepts it like some simp.
• --- An almost complete lack of "good sex scene camera angles". 70% or more of them are "soft sex" only, where penetration is implied (you only see the MC's dick, but not the girl's parts). It's a major failing in many AVNs these days, and hugely reduces the hotness factor for viewing a sex scene. Probably done because the author of the scene isn't skilled enough to handle both genitalia for the scene properly. Update: closer to the end of the current Ep 14 content, scenes get a little better. It's unfortunate 10+ hours of the initial game went without, as it destroys first impressions.

A small synopsis on the main LIs:

• Kate: Attractive older woman, trying to stay professional. Good body, great personality, but far too wrapped up in her career. Not an easy nut to crack. Unfortunately late in the content she starts trying to call the shots, control the MC's access to her, and uses him to satisfy herself.
• Harlow: Extremely attractive fellow student who has class with the MC. She's far too sheltered/inexperienced with life, doesn't take hints well AT ALL, and as a result is similarly hard to crack, and takes FOREVER to have sex with.
• Riley: An old high-school acquaintance of the MC's. She has zero content as of Ep 14 (no sex scenes - a hug is all you get from her the entire game). I usually skip all of her content as a result - she's not worth the effort, and I'm not sure she'll ever be.
• Vanessa: One of the more attractive LIs. Her problem is, you may want to "throw her out with the trash" after you meet her and have to deal with her. She's cold, bitchy, uncaring, impersonal, and borderline abusive with the MC. I would have turned her down if it were an option. Hard pass.
• Erika: Of all the main LIs in the game, Erika's the bomb. Fun, friendly, outgoing, adventurous, playful, and driven. And she has an appetite for sex and the MC. Her drawback (seems like they are all twisted in some way), is that she's using the MC to make money by having him win fights, and she only rewards him with sex when he wins. Just another controlling female who *says* she's hot for the MC, but uses sex as a form of control.
• Marissa: A notable mention for Marissa as the best side-LI in the game. If anyone deserves an upgrade to full LI, it is her. Very likable, very attractive, and interested in both sex and a casual relationship with the MC. Sadly - one of the only two girls I really like in the game is a side-character.

So fair warning - even the LIs you start off liking, you may end up hating.

At this point, I'd have to say the game's failings are:

• Sex scenes need to be hotter. Better writing (moans, pauses, dirty talk, etc), better animations, and they all NEED better explicit camera angles to show actual penetration. The soft-sex bit with implied penetration just doesn't cut it anymore.
• The game is a VERY slow burn, glacial in fact. It's due to the idle banter that goes on between most characters. Pacing needs to be sped up, or have more in-game events (more fights, more sex, side stories, etc). The player's attention just isn't being held well enough.
• Some of the love interests are FAR too slow a burn. Riley is at the top of this list, literally convincing us she's asexual (completely uninterested in any kind of physical or emotional relationship). Vanessa is also right up there, being the icy bitch-queen that she is. Their progression is just too slow for them to hold any interest at all.
• The idea of Femdom (from a controlling female perspective) is rampant in the game, and not something I would think the MC would submit to. Women telling the MC when he can have sex with them (when they've already done it), women using the MC to make money and rewarding them with forced sex scenes, women lying to the MC and him doing *nothing* about it, etc.

Having said all of that, the game is still an okay play, if you don't put any expectations on ANY of the LIs. And if you use CTRL to skip a lot of unnecessary text (especially for Riley, who I still wish wasn't part of the story).

Dropping the game to a 3.2 right now, considering all the above. It could end up in the mid-to-high 4's as a rating, with enough work to redo certain aspects.

I don't know why, but the truth is only now I decided to take a good look into this game. And I was not disappointed!
To be sure, this is not a fuckfest and definitely not for people looking for a quick fap. There is a compelling story that, at times can feel a little slow paced, but that I think it worth your time.
All girls are gorgeous and with "normal" proportions, which is something I respect... although I do like big boobed beauties!
Speaking of characters, this is a game with truly interesting character development, not only regarding LIs but also for the MC.
The "harem" tag makes sense, although this is also not your run of the mill harem game. And I'm saying this is a good way: the MC can (but, also, the player can decided he will not) pursue only the girls he interested in, but also several or even all of them.
At this point (episode 14) it is not clear if there will be bad consequences from courting several women at the same time, but they seem to be OK with that, at least for now! And, of course, one can play again or load a save if something goes terribly wrong.
The fact that all girls (and women) are different and with different personalities is great and makes for a more immersive experience.
It plays like a VN, but there are enough relevant choices along the way for this to be considered "a game".
In any case, I do think it is worth the download and the investment in time. I just hope the dev does not abandon this half way and can complete the story. Because I'm already hooked!

The sex scenes are also great and beautifully animated, with several scenes/positions each.
There is music and sounds, which contribute for the immersion and "ambiance" of the game.
The writing is really good, and there are many witty, funny and interesting dialogue exchanges .
Verdict: 5/5, highly recommended

Wow, I'm really enjoying A Man for All! The story has me hooked, especially because the characters are so interesting. Vanessa is definitely a standout – she's gorgeous and has a great personality.

The visuals are also impressive. The character models are beautiful, and the environments are well-designed. The animation is smooth and adds to the overall experience.

My only minor nitpick is the lack of content related to... well, let's just say I'm a fan of harems and pregnancy storylines in games (don't judge!).

Overall, this is a fantastic game! It easily gets a 9.5 out of 10 from me. The characters are engaging, the story is interesting, and the visuals are top-notch. Definitely worth checking out!

Goated harem game but not a fuckfest, a mid-burn type. Likable mc with multiple girls to go for and with different personalities too.
Beautiful models and renders, lots of choices to act the way you like with girls and they reply accordingly too so be-aware.

This is a perfectly serviceable vanilla porn game. There's a story line that's okay, multiple LIs, and a fair number of choices throughout. I think the thing that shined most brightly in this game are the MC's friends, rather than the women, though, adding a lot more depth than the LIs do.

Story: 6/10
It's a better-than-average story. The writing is pretty good, and there is a coherent plot.

Characters: 4/10
As I said above, the LIs don't add much, but the side characters are fun and bring a lot to the table.

Visuals:6/10
I liked how the women have different shapes. It gets tiresome when games have every woman be the Renpy equivalent of a Playboy centerfold.

Overall: 5/10
The only thing I disliked about this game was that there wasn't anything I necessarily *liked*, either. It's just a typical, standard AVN. I played it all the way through and had no desire to see what happens next, nor did I have any interest in seeing the MC end up with any of the LIs. There's no hook, no spice. But that's alright, nothing wrong with vanilla.

Excellent story, a variety of beautiful women to fit your preferances, and the developer gives you many choices throughout. Definitely one of my top 10 favorites. This one is definitely good enough to play through several times.

This is an ok game, I would give it 2.5 stars but rounding down in this instance. There is a plot instead of it being slice of life which is nice, unfortunately its a corny plot. There is a solid amount of content relative to how long its been in development.

The writing is about average as far as AVNs go, but at least the dev tries to give each character a unique voice. Its just very cheesy writing - what is supposed to be the charming/flirt dialogue option is basically the MC saying "hot babe" over and over. The other two dialogue options are not nearly as bad, but the jokes are all basically "yo mamma" maturity level humor.

This is one of those games where no matter what choices the player takes, every character wants to jump the MC bones. There is good variance in the model faces, but they all have the exact same body.

The reason I decided to round down from 2.5, is the character progression. With maybe one exception, the characters all treat the MC the same way as they did at the start of the story. For several chapters now (i.e. years of time) the developer has been hinting at big reveals for characters like Riley and Saul etc... but there are never any reveals.

For a game that is evidently more about sex than plot, the sex scenes with the main LI are few and far between. There are 5 main LI, two of whom there are zero sexual scenes with (4 years of dev time!) and for one of them their first scene happened in the latest update. Almost all of the sexual content in this game is with side characters, along with the ugliest of the 5 LI.

If you are just looking to kill time, you could do worse, but I would not recommend this game

Short summary:


Passable game. Renders just aren’t good enough - environments, lighting, posing, variation, and models are mostly all average or bad, with few exceptions. Writing isn’t terrible, but isn’t exciting. Lots of time spent on doing fighting side gigs for an ugly girl.



Good Things

• One girl is pretty sexy
• Character lines mostly make sense

Bad points

• Renders are low quality, uninspired and not varied enough
• Long stretches of pointless dialogue without any eye candy
• Most models are just not hot at all

Nice game.
The plot is good, the characters are interesting and some are endering.
The animations of the scenes are well done and I especially like the split screens.
The addition of BGM and S/E is also noticeable.
No bugs found.

The only drawback in my opinion is that some situations are a bit repetitive. E.g.: advice before a fight with MC, the different shows with a LI (Vanessa).

Anyway, I enjoy it. Can't wait for the next update.