Ren'Py - Abandoned - A New Beginning [v0.14] [XYVisualNovels]

All what I should say :

The Mother is very sexy ( both character and design ) , she's the main reason to play the game , with the sister .

And yeah , I clicked SKIP with most other characters , especially the Indian Womans ... outside the MC house , 90% is trash content.

I missed the tag that this was a kinetic novel. That part was my mistake. The rest of the mistakes are the trash game.

This should be a big avoid, the sample images are frankly a misrepresentation. The story is ridiculously written, you have to suspend disbelief even more than usual to deal with the writing as you're forced through cringy dialogue and disgustign scenes.

One of the first scenes you reach forces you into fucking a hideously ugly elderly indian woman with your deformed penis. This novel is one to avoid.

A New Beginning [v0.13] [XYVisualNovels]


Pros

• A nice story emphasizing incest & polyamorous. Incest approach with mom was very good, especially mom’s reluctance to give-up the morality was very well dragged especially the initial attempt on the night after MC had sex with the doctor and mom worried about what’s the outcome of the doctor checkup so visited son when he is sleeping but end up waking him and cuddling leading to rubbing naked and end up with son Cumming all over mom’s body. Followed by that incident next day morning sister happened to ride brother’s cock was not so well done like mom’s dragging but little seductive. Following that mom’s advice to control but encouraging to do it discreetly was very nice.
• Lot of teasing by mom to approach the forbidden sex with son
• Excellent sound effect especially females mourn during intercourse
• Very good quality of image renders.
• Very good quality of animations unfortunately, very few
• Playability, performance and grammar are all just OK no issue

Cons

• Lack of genuine or more of fictitious for sexuality
• Lack of seductiveness in sexual approach
• Errors:
• Dialogs mismatching were pretty often.

Eagerly awaiting for next update

This kinetic novel has quite good renders and models, a massive variety of scenes and CGs that shines some quality... BUT being a kinetic novel you would expect a good story, character development and plot, which this game is lacking a lot.
The spell book magically appears and he already used a spell, world is ending and all of this in the first seconds when starting the game, which makes zero sense and the further development with politics and other things have no bearing as well....

Whichever path you pick (Harem or I don't mind) the only difference is if you will see Dad having sex with the Sister. So the paths selection should be named - Do you want NTR Yes/No? (Assuming this is why the NTR tag is on the game)

[v0.13]

This game has several distinguishing features :
1 : The author update interval is not fixed .
2 : The story is often changed or even overturned by the author .
3 : Although the core theme has always been incest, there is a lot of NTR because the all girls are very open .
4 : The graphics were getting worse, and the sex animations were getting more perfunctory . The graphics were great when the game started , the quality of the December 2022 remake is not even what it was when the author started making the game .

This game has many shortcomings, the author doesn't even show you the update log, but it is still worth playing. The girls in the story all have distinct characteristics, and the overall play is easy and happy .

I feel compelled to leave a review because the average-ish rating discouraged me from trying this for a while but I'm glad I finally did.

The plot is pretty underdeveloped, the pacing is very rushed, the renders are a bit grainy, and some of the H content feels underwhelming and not properly set up, and yet the general quality of the writing is surprisingly high.

I say surprisingly because it seems like many VNs in this category tend to start out with an intriguing hook, but then the dialogue is shitty, unnatural, and immersion breaking, like it was written by some horny middle schooler.

This game is almost the exact opposite. The story is nonsense, but I actually enjoy the banter between the characters. It has a very British tone, with lots of cheeky, dry wit and a loving tenderness that plays well into the kinky corruption stuff. I can hear the voices in my head like I'm watching a perverted Hugh Grant movie or some dirty sitcom set in a London suburb.

I can see this being a 5* VN with a little rewrite and some more effort put into the H content. For now, it's a low investment and an easy wank, with some brilliant, S+ LI's fit 'nuff for a proper snog.

Played the "I dont mind" path, v008:

Lets start saying that right now the plot has 0.1% importance in the development of the events in the game. I think there is like one conversation where one of the girls says that doesnt see a future in finishing studies since the world is gonna end.
The rest of the thigns happening in the game would happen during the endo of the world or during the superbowl final, so the starting pack of exposition seems like a waste of readers time. So far.

Gotta say that visually the game doesn´t look bad, lighitng is attractive enough, but some designs suck, like the mother tits, they look like the typical saggy milf tits, but frozen in time after making a jump.

And then we have the worst part of the game, and surprisingly enough its not 1 Foot/3 feet (depending on the perspective) MCs horsedick.
Its actually the sex, whis is 90% push-pull fest,with no transitions or anything, straight to the point. As an example I will use the 3 first scenes with the sister, with spoilers, but you are no missing anything, so, dont worry:
First scene she is having sex with her father, straight to the point.
Second scene she has sex with the sleeping MC, but she is wearing a dress and she is not moving actually, so it could be penetration or anything really, you will not see it,a nd if she doesnt speak like she is cumming you will never know whats going on.
Third scene I think she is having straoight to the point sex with the father.
4th scene she goes under the blankets of the MC and once again, there is no movement and you dont see whats is going on until she comes back with cum on her face.
there is another scene with the father, straight to the point no buildup or transition or anything, once again.
Next scene, she is having straight to the point sex with the mc, this tijme you see it, but no transition, no buildup.

Those are the clrearest examples, i might missed the sequence order, but those are facts. If you are in it for a quick fap, maye its good enough for you, but let me tell you, even if the poor writing makes sex scenes come earlier, If im thinking of a game to fap, I wouldnt pick this one in amillion years, cause there are like 10 or more "quick fap" games like this one with better done sex scenes.

This game, besides the eye candy visuals (not good, just pleasant to the eye), it really doesnt have anything worthy of my time.

Not the best game, but I liked it so far. The renders are both, good and sometimes mediocre. You can see that the resolution of the graphics is not up to date anymore (720p). But the Models are mostly hot (my favorite: the sister) and there are good animations. The story is ok with some mysterious elements, which explains the hots from most of the girls for you. No choices - for me no problem., maybe for others. All in all a 3.5 - I'll round it up to 4 (also because there are some stupid 1 point reviews)

Review of 0.08

I am truly surprised by the low rating of this "game".

This is one of those games which are true to their nature of being a porn game. Tons of sex scenes, with everyone ready to get naked and get busy at the slightest excuse.

The game does not try to tell a long story or build emotional drama. Whatever little story there is, is a placeholder to give some semblance of logic to the sexy stuff.

Boy gets big dick by accident (actually a part of the devious plan by a non-human entity), is surrounded by hot women who conveniently are turned into horny nymphos as a side-effect of the said accident... it does not get more campy than this!

Now, any good porno is as good as the sex appeal of its cast. That is where this game shines... The models are all SUPER HOT! The animations are getting more and more frequent and are fairly smooth and realistic.

One area that the game could use work is the length and angles of the sex scenes and animations. But other than that, it gets the job it set out to do, done!

The lack of agency (choices) would have made me rate it lower (4*), but I am trying to undo the damage caused by other reviewers so the potential players dot get turned away by the low overall rating.

This game has a fantastic render 9/10 lighting and well structured interaction hard to find quality like that. there are some sex scenes and that's what you want very good and the relationship of family members with each other just makes the game more interesting.

Although the game doesn't have a strong story, it have a really sexy models. All the girls are very sexy.
At this point the game is 20% history and 80% sex.
in this momment the game has 6 or 7 animations (not so god) but all the renders are awesome.
I liked a lot.
Thanks to the DEV and hope to have soon mor conntent and the others "aliens" in action

[Review based on ver. 0.7]

The noval suffers from bad pacing. Some sex scenes feel rushed so that the MC feels like a two pump chump. Yet some sex scenes are better crafted but almost all suffer from being too quick. Some feel like just a few clicks and all like variety. The two best scenes are with the doctor which lacked animations for most of the scene and it was disjointed. Anna scene was great but it was one position and it was over too quick. There was even one fade to black transition sex scene with the porn star. WTF? This is a fap game and you fade to black for a sex scene? with a one render flashback to the scene at the end of the day. I don't play fap games to get a fade to black sex scene.

A good sex scene should have multiple positions with multiple animations from multiple angles and not be over is a few clicks. when you do animations in a game having sex scenes with one animation or no animations that are over in a few renders isn't cutting it.

The sex scenes feel like they were storyboarded not actually fleshed out. that these were the renders given to animator to show them what the scene is suppose to be and it is their job to flesh it out and create the scene.

The potential of this game is there but the dev needs to work on the sex. Animations are there and are better than most but they are short, few in number. Lengthen the sex scenes give the scene different angles and positions.

I do like that the game has different characters move at different rates towards sex with the MC. And because there are different characters you get different points of the sexual journey with the mc. And the "progression" isn't this gamey first a hand job, then a blowjob... and so on, bs style of sex development. When people decide to have sex with the mc they have sex with the exception of one character unwilling to cross the line. Which works because not all characters behave the same. so that reluctance doesn't feel gamey.

I don't know why some people can't stand kinetic novels. This is not a bad game, the renders are decent and the story interesting. I don't think it deserves such a low score. A 3 stars is more accurate.

To get the important part out of the way, this is a kinetic novel, and not everyone's sex life revolves exclusively around the MC. No actual NTR vibes though: No one is jelous, no one is stolen from another, etc.

There is a bit of world-building and plot to act as catalyst for the sex (and to justify the absolutely massive cock attached to the MC). The plot works well in this role, and is (wisely) not over emphasized.

We get some nice character designs, and I utterly adore Anne's looks. Some animations are amazing (eg Anne's boobs swaying as she is getting fucked), but other sex scenes are conveyed but rather average-quality renders only. Due to the latter (and the absurd choice to declare at the start that stuff is step only - luckily this isnt mentioned again in the actual dialogue etc) I'd originally give 4*. However, I add a bonus * to make up for the absurdly low overall average (presumably driven by what I mention in my first sentence).

Good game, will be looking out for updates.

Positive:

- interesting story, with enough variations on standard themes to set it apart from many similar titles
- contemporary (ie pandemic) context
- literate narrative
- engaging characters - players need to care about what happens to them

negative:

- not much to criticise, but not the greatest quality renders

I actually quite like this game. It could do with some smoothing of the rough edges and the updates are pretty short and there aren't many choices. But I don't mind the family sharing stuff. That's pretty rare.

The story of the sort of sci-fi/sort of fantasy magic book thing gentically modifying him (if i didnt totally get the wrong end of the stick) is ok and the kinky scenes are ok too. But there is room for improvement. For example, some of the renders are grainy as hell and the transitions sometiems feel abrupt, but the naughtiness is good and the potential for some really filthy stuff is there.

Weirdly, I find the use of "mum" a bit strange, even though I'm English and that's how we say it. Maybe that's why. Or maybe I just got used to Mom from every other game. The NTR isn't hard NTR, where the MC is a pussy, which I can handle and is even hot. More action is required. We need to be breaking that Mommy and Sis pussy by now and maybe setting up that family gangbang. We need more. Much, much, more.

Anyway, keep it up dev. You're doing good.

It is a quite decent game! Don't let the low ratings discourage you to at least trying to play the game!

The gameplay is so simple in which I like the fact that the creator starts the game with a flow that makes it easier for the player to be interested in the game more.

I would love to change my review after a couple of episodes but for now, it is 4/5. I believe truly that the creator will deliver the expectations of the average player, try to play the game I say

A New Beginning [v0.5] [XYVisualNovels] review -
I played the harem version / mode of this game. The only positive thing in this game is its renders and female models look are great , hats off 1 star for it , other than that rest of the game execution is bad . Story is weak and the female characters arc are poorly written and a dumb Main character . It should be tagged as KN as there is no choice in the game . Generally I don't hate kinetic novel , I love them when they are done right , I hate it when we are forced to romance a LI who we hate in a game . In this game we are forced to romance / sex a Porn star and later MC becomes a pornstar and we have no choice in rejecting her .
Overall 1 star for the renders and kinetic novel with badly written characters makes this unfit for romance and play .

It's a boring slideshow of renders, no animations, false advertising (no foockin romance). Actually this could be one of the best example for case study of developer's in dilemma, couldn't make up their mind on what actually is the appeal of content they are creating, how to control the pace of a scene, ramifications and all.
I'll give that star for the renders which actually is the only positive thing about this. And if you are looking for ntr content then you are going to get disappointed, like i said before, he created a lasagna pie.

The game is actually not bad: the renders are ok, the girls look good, I even think the story is not that bad, either. The animations are even above average. The game itself has no audio (but a good mod for that).

But I can also understand the negative reviews. The game had and still has wrong tags. In the meantime NTR has been added / the harem removed, but the Kinetic Novel is still missing.

I basically liked it though, I give it 3 points for now with potential to 4.