GeeSeki, This is getting better and better! ... Almost addictive! ... Man, I have even become a fan of Miss Allaway although tempted to follow also on Principal Langsley... Quite a good work! Keep it up!
Ren'Py - A Town Uncovered [v0.53a Alpha] [GeeSeki]
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Johnny4x8
To preface, I have recently tried this game again after about a year and a half, maybe two years of time away from it's earlier state, I do not remember which version number it was. Furthermore, I'm going to be complaining about the story and writing of a porn game, because I'm petty and stupid. If you want the short version:
A Town Uncovered is an overwritten, underbaked mess. If you're in it for the art, which is (quality wise) all over the place, and don't mind the occassional W.I.P. sketch placeholder, this is still worth your time. If you're in it for the story and the concept as a whole, prepare for A LOT of reading, and a fair amount of disappointment.
ART - Art wise, the game is rather unique. A lot of western style games of this sort tend to go for a simpler, rounder look and this one does it quite well. With that in mind, some shots look pretty good, while others look almost childish in how they're drawn. I can appreciate a simpler art style but it really is a mixed bag of what you're going to get outside of character portraits, which do all look really good. But sex scenes are animated at an incredibly slow framerate, basically slideshow speeds, which is still more than most Renpy games offer, but the art style already being oversimplified means that the simple animation almost looks silly. It's still nice to have and it doesn't hurt anything, but when the first sex scene in the game looks like the MC sticking a clay pipe into a mound of clay with a ponytail on it, well... regardless I still think the art is overall a plus.
GAMEPLAY - It's a Renpy game, there really isn't much here. Click around town, click people to talk to, click the person that leads to making money or buying key items or whatever, you've seen it before. It's very simple, but it works. One thing I do have to complain about is that throughout the game, you increase your stats to randomly increase the benefits you get from certain dialogue choices, or to make them have a positive outcome at all. Thats not a problem by itself, the problem is that increasing these stats is just a random dice roll at a certain location at a certain time of day, which can randomly fail (and will once you approach the max level for a stat). Game like Inxexual Awakening have mini-games tied to this kind of stuff and that would A) give you something to actually do and B) avoid random dice roll bullshit that just adds empty padding to the runtime. Thats probably mostly bias talking but I still don't think it's good for this kind of game since all you're really doing is opening gates to new sex scenes anyway, "randomly wait to be smart enough" isn't really engaging or fun, it's tedious.
STORY - The main story revolves around you, the MC, who moves to a new town with his sist- I mean, roommate, and his pare- I mean, landlords. All you want to do is make new friends and new memories, and to make it through your senior year of high school. God has other plans for you though, as you find yourself going through aportal to a parallel dimension where fucking on the streets comes as naturally as breathing. Unfortunately, despite the game being around for several years at this point, your ability to directly interact with this world is (STILL) limited to about 15 minutes of mostly walk-straight sequences, and thats it. You return to the "real" world before having any real chance to openly interact with the new one, and you can't go back. Granted, there is a very real obstacle keeping you from returning, which feeds into other areas of the story later, but the whole draw of the game is "dude there's another world where you can fuck any random chick on the street and they're just smile and wave" and you can't really do anything with it. Not that it matters much in the long run because, as the game might be purposely pushing, the more you talk to the people, the more they all out themselves as whores and degenrates and the like; I mean christ the first female human being you encounter blows you that very same night. Rest assured though that, despite the fact that there is an entire alternate dimension that would fuck the MC silly simply for breathing, the MC is still Chad enough to fuck everything that moves in the real world. It almost makes you wonder "why bother", but that's entering the territory of questioning the writer's intention so I digress. Although I do find it strange that these rather 2-Dimensional characters are given swathes of dialog that literally stretch into the hundreds in terms of back-to-back dialog boxes in certain sequences, while the whole draw of the game is mostly reserved to this one sequence, and a bunch of very short almost horror-like sequences that barely last a minute. It's very imbalanced and completely pointless sequences can feel like reading modern-art novels. I really cannot stress how much dialog this game has and how much of it is skipworthy. There are some really good ideas in here but they're buried beneath so much talking that they're hard to find.
This is already too long any nobody will read it so I'll cut it off here. I could go on about how most of the characters are incredibly flat and boil down to quirky one-liners, and how there are exceptions in the form of Jane and Alliway, but I won't, and I'll direct you back to the TL;DR at the top here. I really hope the game gets better as time moves on but where it is it leaves you wanting more in the wrongest way possible. -
geenius3ab
One of my initial favorite games now on life support in terms of the content releases.
For new players, who haven't waited through horrible update consistency, where we get almost nothing every half a year, this is a great game to play through once (As the content is still decent, enough for multiple hours), but horrible to wait for updates.
Rating:
Art - 3.5/5, the simplistic arttyle is pretty good, but not having enough detail can look rather bad in certain scenes, and for the characters the art can be slightly off-putting during sex (Or I might've got tired of the art after playing this game through multiple times with each update). Though better than avg imho.
Story- 2/5, this isn't for the dialogue, which is generally rather well written, but rather the progression of the story and its current state. The whole "alt world" thing isn't progressing in any way for over 2 years of updates, that it's pretty much like cut out. While each character has specific special events that make them go through changes before accepting the MC, and that's the strongest part of the story here, but the big storyline is a mess, while the side/char specific stories are pretty good.
Potential 1/5, I don't think that this game will becoming anything more than it is currently. As a first timer, I can say that it's a pretty decent wank, but only in case you enjoy the art. But even in that sense there simply aren't enough sex scenes for the characters that haven't had recent updates (Mother and sis don't have anywhere close to what Allaway has).
Dialogue 2.5/5, I don't think it was bad, some of the scenes were rather well written, while some others didn't seem to make sense to me.
Rather than the current state of the game, what ruins things for me is the lost potential of this game, due to the messed up main story, inconsistent updates and simply pushing out things that are clearly nowhere ready for consumption just to have "something out there". That's why I will give it a 2/5 score instead of a 2.5/5(avg), As other than the art and some story decisions which were well done, this is pretty average. -
Ginyu69
The game can easily be a 5 star game the art style is very unique and the characters are all unique and cool would love to see h scenes for side characters the story is a little wocky but no one plays for the story. But the game is really the best because of the characters, animations are simple but get the job done. Biggest complaints are the unfinished assets which will be fixed and the lack of a gallery which hopefully will be implemented. Game has huge potential and amazing unique art give it a play but be in for a grind and getting lost donated fo the creator I’d apply to help improve the game -
Sir-Blues
Gets worse and worse with every new update. Gee really needs to get a programmer who knows what they're doing (in addition to rectifying all the unfinished scenes/assets). Really wanting to see this game improve. -
DrFog
Started really good, if a bit buggy until I got shoved into an hour-long k-hole of pointless storyline that NO ONE CARES ABOUT, complete with unfinished images and references from characters that assume you're further along in their stories before you get trapped in this bullshit. Went from a 5 star to a 2 faster than blinking.
EDIT: I'm past the pointless bullshit and the game is good again, thank fucking god. I felt bad for leaving a 2 star review, so it's back up to five. For now. -
Maelstrom69
I am not really pleased with this game. I starts off kind of cool but after the first week it plummets you into a 1 day hell where you almost get executed. Why is there no forshadowing to let you know an issue may be comming up and then only give you 1 day to talk to everyone in an alternate dimension that tells you nothing, then you get tranqed' and then executed?? Then just to go back to your dimension to score points then have conversations with only losing scenerios?? It is poor story telling. I digressed and continued on only to then be hit with sketch pad sceenes?? The sceenes and story line keep flip flopping from positive to negative with no reason. It is pure madness.. I may have enjoyed it if it was not such poor story telling, then hit me with scribble graphics?? Sorry Developer, I wanted to like it but just couldn't for the above reasons.. Deleted.....