VN - Ren'Py - A Wife and Mother [P2 v0.225 + P1 v0.152] [Lust & Passion]

Updated Review:
As of 0.13 I am changing my review score from 5 stars to 1 star. The amount content released in this update is disgusting. If I told my boss, "this is how much I accomplished after 6 months," I'd be fired. I subbed to L&P for February and March and ended it after getting pissed at his progress. For me and probably many others, this game has become a rebuilding trust campaign. He will have to show us he is serious with his game and release actual updates before we consider supporting him again.

Previous Review:
The updates may be on the slower side, but its expected when he is working by himself with the scale and quality of this game. The scenes and story are unmatched. A perfect 5/5 game, he just needs some help to speed up his output

So I checked out this game after looking at the ridiculous high ratings in has. There are way too many games right now in F95, so I usually try games that have been in development for some time because I don't want to jump the gun early on and do a review based on a first draft of a game.

I had forgotten that I already played this game before (it didn't leave a memorable impression in me), but I had also forgotten to review it the first time around.

This game is okay, pretty average renders (seen them in other games, non-unique) and story-wise. It does have a considerable amount of non-H CG and 'story', but its pretty bland to be honest for a game that seems well on its way, the amount of H content is rather marginal for my taste.

Plenty of slow burn sluggish teasing and voyeurism (if you are into that), but nothing too explicit. Its a bit of a blue balls festival, you are waiting for something to give but nothing much really happens with the huge cast of characters this game has.

So long story short, it didn't get the job done for me and I don't think I'll revisit it again until its finished and hopefully in better shape. Also I wish the paths weren't mutually exclusive because you do seem to miss out on a lot of content because of that.

Don't be fooled by the outstanding ratings, this game is a 3 out of 5 at best (for now).

Review:
This game is unique and has a remarkably slow burn that's benefit is never really appreciated or attempted in other games. Because of this, then the game has an advantage in its management of payoffs, which extends the game length and makes moments much richer based on character development. The visuals are spectacular, and I love how decisions made by the player are still initially contested by the MC, showing that the player is less Sophia, and more of a consciousness that must keep pushing her in these particular directions.

In a sense, we are the ones slowly corrupting this woman, which makes even her smallest temptation slipup satisfying. For characters with points attached, this system is off to a great start, providing the greatest fuel of conflict within Sophia. Besides the odd fellow who would escape reality just to choose the good wife route, this game is about lust dominating reason, and with over 8000 images it's been handled pretty well so far, where other developers might have just caved to a generic porno situation instead of a realistic encounter.

All in all, the game is honestly one of the best I’ve played, with a lot of promise and a great foundation.

Where the Game Can Improve:
Firstly, it’s important to point out the strictness of the points. Maybe dial back the requirements on a few of the encounters, as every single perfect decision shouldn’t have to be hit in order to activate a story event. Sure maybe 2 or 3 misses, but missing one point somewhere meant I couldn’t do an event that meant I would miss points for the next event, etc. And suddenly the entire potential storyline of a character was completely shot for me. Another option is to add a way to get all missed points back, perhaps by completing a more tedious task or encounter for a character.

Next is the encounters with the side characters. I am not sure if there are plans to implement the same points system to characters like Neil, Janitor Clark, or mover Ivan, but even so, there should be some follow up opportunities based on the decision of the player. Sure if the MC blew them off completely, then its fine that they are never seen again, but if there was even a small initial conflict in Sophia with Neil for example, then there should be a couple more side events where the player can continue to rattle Sophia’s morals or cut him off completely. I’m talking like 3 or 4 events. This will also create some short term fun while the regular stories progress. You can save the 50 whatever incredibly slow buildup events for the main characters. That’s fine.

This brings me to the main characters that have levels attached: Sam’s fine, but I think especially after the haircut that there is not enough variety between Sam and Dylan’s character models. It’s a nit pick for sure, but seeing as how they are the only male characters with points, it’s a little underwhelming. The best solution is just to add more point characters to offset this similarity. This can be done to characters like Carl, where a brother in law relationship would create some stronger conflict/intensity between Sophia and her sister.

Lastly, the game is about how far you would go, which means I believe that a greater emphasis should be placed on pushing the player to overtime choose the filthy route. It doesn’t have to be forceful, like Liam’s constantly a jerk or anything, but stuff like him gambling away their savings is a good start. Maybe slowly shed hints that he’s having an affair, or maybe he starts getting overweight because of the stress of his job. Things that would naturally push a wife to look for intimacy elsewhere. This would also make the good wife route more meaningful in the sense that these are real world endurances that people will undergo for those that they love… Or not in the context of this video game where nobody gives a fuck about ramifications. And that’s why most people already gravitate toward the filthy route, because fuck it - focus development here.

Ooph. I can't do it. So many games lack pacing.

The imagery is great, but it took like 10 hours to reach any content that was even remotely fappable. What's the point of a porn game that requires that much time sink before its "usable".

And *still* nobody fucks eachother... except maybe the neighbors which you see from the distance.

All my complaints about the game are about its scenarios/scenes. All the mechanical stuff like models and working properly is top notch. My main issue with this game is that you have to suspend reality way too many times for most of these scenarios to happen. Also there are just way too many sleaze balls with a lack of just normal people. If the game had some more (for the lack of a better term) wholesome scenarios and options it would've helped. Or if they just toned down the amount of just undenialble sleazos then I could enjoy this. The scene that broke me was the whole situation involving the bullying and the blackmailing of the mother. That whole scene was poorly written and just wouldn't happen in reality which would be fine if the author didn't base his game in reality. Anyways, for me this game will just be another wasted oppurtunity for a well made game with a female protagonist. There just are not that many good ones within Adult VG's.

One of the few first-class games here on F95.

Compared to many other (VN) games here, it is incredibly complex.
In terms of complexity, I personally only see "GGGB" and (hopefully soon) "Our Red string" on a similar level, as far as I can tell.
The branching of possibilities is so extensive that I discover new scenes every time I restart. Nuances in the decisions seem to lead to completely new paths.

This game has tremendous replay value.

The characters are believable, the story and decisions (in the context of a porn game, of course ) understandable.
The slow corruption of the main character and the various ways to accomplish this are top notch.

The rederings are also on the high end of the bar.
The characters are anatomically believable throughout. There are (so far) no anatomical aberrations that have sprung from some pubescent boy's wet dreams.

The time between updates is unfortunately quite long.
Considering the complexity of the game and it's 8755 Images (until now) this is understandable. Means roughly 8 Images per day redered.
Given he took some days off
Not that bad, isn't it?

It is one of the best here on F95!
Download and try it out... then wait half a year and enjoy it again with new content!!

Cheers,
MisterG

Pros:

This is so far the best game i've ever played on this forum and believe me i played tons of em. Protagonist is also my most favourite woman so far. I dont even wanna start talking about her proportions and her beauty otherwise this review would be too damn long, get my point already Her clothing gets really good near the end. Renders are top quality, i think they got better over time because i remember not liking them at first, i've noticed in the forum that if a game gets more attention over time this situation usually happens. Story is so good, im sure those 12 steps are gonna be very fun really looking forward to them. Corruption takes time which adds to realism which i like.

Cons:

Well, getting to some specific scenes is very tricky. Like dylan for instance, i played the game with walkthrough on and even then it took like 3-4 tries to get one scene with Dylan because i picked a single unnecessary choice wrong 8 DAYS AGO. I hope decisions wont get more complex over time, they're already hard enough dammit. Game also sometimes forces you to go over lesbian routes in order to get to some straight scenes which is... i mean i wouldnt mind to see but there are always people who do (not kinkshaming by all means, just saying choices like that should be more lenient)

Anyway im really looking forward to see how our lovely Sophia cope with her 'problems' in her daily life. Please dont forget to support the project if you enjoyed like i did, this game is really worth it.

Great story, beautiful graphics. PC moves slowly towards corruption (this is actually up to you). Makes this much more realistic and you feel that the PC is more like a real person rather than some whore from porn. Looking forward to future developments.

Love the game. The art and storytelling is great. Although theres a lot of blueball scenes I can only wait for whats next to come. Im a big fan of corruption so the multiple choices this games offers to suit that is nice. Always exciting to download a new update. This game is slow paced so dont go into it wanting a quick fap.

0.110
This game is a Belle Delphine, from the world of porn games. A long, very long build-up of tension, which leads nowhere. And I'm sure, when sex scenes not only with Sophia's husband, finally appear in the game, they will be as ridiculously bad as Belle's New Year video. Even if the developer manages to do them normally, they will be perceived badly, because of, naturally, several years of waiting, during which people come up with incredible scenarios in their heads that do not fit into the harsh reality.
Tons of absolutely pointless dialogue (in the style of that conversation in the sauna), a ton of wasted on walking / shopping / Hey, watch, the bird fly! renders (the developer, by the way, was whining about how long it takes to render, but did not understand that it is better to put something on rendering that will advance the plot of the game, or, at worst, a sex scene, than to put the light and bother with shadows in yet another meaningless scene with meaningless dialogue with a meaningless secondary character). By the way, about them. The game has a ton of secondary characters whose lines were thrown into the trash immediately after they were introduced to the player (Hello to the movers, the two boys near museum, and so on). Why are they needed at all, if they do not represent themselves in any way further in the game?
The game is updated very rarely, and updates include less and less content.
And to see the content that is already in the game, you have to follow the guide step by step, otherwise one choice made in the wrong direction will destroy your entire playthrough. Some of the events, needed to promote the line of this or that character are absolutely illogical, but for some reason they exist (help Ellie find a guy on a lesbian playthrough, tf is that?). And a bunch of other inconsistencies, plot holes, and so on.
But you know what's the funniest thing? If Icstor gets out of his den in 2021 and actually finishes Milfy City, AWAM will be still in development, that ends, probably in 2030.
Beautiful renders gets a 2 stars. But the game itself- is a disaster, while developer is highly likely knows both Belle and Kris Roberts.

I hate this game like every other games were you can make decision but if you will make your own decision the game say you have not enough points. Or even worse you have missed a scene look at the walkthrough.

If you want make a game with decisions make it.

Otherwise make a visual novel with point and klick and the only decision is the path wich you want to see. I have played it previous with the same feeling. I gave it only a try because there was a cheat mod. The Mod work fine but the programmer had that in mind and because of that he do not give you the decision even you have enough points.
I give it one star because the story and the concept is good.
But the game is in this version nearly unplayable.

I love the rhythm, the drawings, and the slow decline of Sophia who goes from model wife to sexual object. She who controlled everything, and more and more finds herself guided by her desires, and manipulated by those around her. I hope same passion for the next updates.

A great tease

There's plenty of choices, plenty of paths, and A LOT of pictures, but most of them is just teasing. Dylan's pathis RIDICULLOUSLY hard to figure out, even with walkthrough (i had to replay it 3 times, because due to seemingly irrelevant choices i skipped important scenes) and even after this, all i got was teasing.

It's slow paced game and you probably can get here much more character development than in most games, and more "realistic" relationships (atleast for hgame). That being said, after all, im disappointed. Well, i wish there will be as much "real content" at the end of each path as there's teasing on the way.

Gameplay: 1/5
Graphics 5/5

game have nice render and backstory but the pacing is horrible. if the pacing of the story and the content could be increased it would be a great game if not perfect one. unfortunately from what that have been observed for now, this wont change.

This game is not optimized the space required for this game is 4.21 GB yet there isn't much content that justifies such amount, there are better games in there both in story telling and animations that have half this game size.

The concept of this game is unclear and open to interpretation which is bad, is this a text novel based PDF with background images? A roleplaying game? There is an unbalanced amount of text in relation to the amount of renders/animations.

This game opens a lot of plotlines that are promised to be revived in the future, not only it is impossible to finish said plotlines in a reasonable time, it is probably going to be rushed and will serve just as filler for the game, at this point in time every update content that is not related to pushing Sophia towards sex, is just considered fillers.

This game has been dragging 3 years and there isn't much replayable content other than more texts with different choices of texts.
In general this game is clearly not committed to be finished and has no compromise to progress in a reasonable time.

The lack of content in this game is more asserted by a handful of patreons in this forum than the developer itself. The characters personality do not have consistency throughout the years, Dylan is originally shown as being originally driven and self motivated to irresponsible sex hungry. Sophia, the mother, is originally displayed having a thin figure and suffers random breast changes alongside randonly spawning curves.

Each update is much more a continuation of the long text of the previous version, than a continuation of the game itself.

Another thing makes absolutely no sense is the main character Sophia, not having other sexual options in the good wife route, Sofia having sex with other people is not OK but lesbian acts that is also cheating is continued in the good wife route.

To summarize, the game is mediocre and the qualities in it are gourmetized by a few patreons and when you look in to the game, you wouldn't see said things in-game, which is a huge let down, the story is purely text based and yet the game has not such tag.

If you wanna get cucked by the dev, download this VN right now and experience it yourself. BUT if you don't want to, download this VN when there is a 'completed' tag, by 2033 it should be completed!

~If you are a horndog, steer clear from this VN~

Pros :

• The renders looks good, the girls, the MC and all that

Cons :

• The story is slow as hell, i get the point of slowly building it up but damn the dev took that to a whole new level

If you are wise wait until its completed, use your PC/android space for something else more useful

For a 4 GB VN, it is not worth your time and money if you wanna support the dev.

DO NOT DO THIS TO YOURSELF, WAIT UNTIL ITS COMPLETED!
~THIS VN WILL INCREASE THE SUICIDE RATE~
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

A project that exceeds human life expectancy.. not for me. 3 or 4 years of development and hea still introducing new characters and paths? Only partial nudity towards others? In 10 years we can expect the first handjob? This is the longest prologue I've ever played...

Someone please explain how this cloistered prude managed to have two teenage kids and be too shy to wear a swimsuit at her own pool? There's no actual sex scenes to speak of, but then you'll eventually be denied narrative options because the MC isn't filthy enough. Add to that every tired trope found in the genre, from the neglectful gambler husband, to lecherous blackmailing co-workers, to powerful gangsters with cops on the payroll. No payoff, just setup. I was going to give two stars because it's nice looking and the lesbian aspects aren't predictably abusive, but then dev had the improbably naive MC do something unspeakably stupid and I just stopped caring.

I think the game has too much useless daily details, excessive use of meaningless dialogs and quite amount of illogical choices. Yes, a lot of work seems to be put on this, but it feels most of this effort used in wrong way.

This game is simply amazing. The story is really detailed and graphics are awesome. Experience is too immersive as you may feel more like a real life story than an adult game (I know, sometimes it feels too slow and unrealistic). You will only find it fun if you actually have time to read the story.

What makes this best among all is the anticipation of next event.
If our main character started to bang people left and right (Many people expected just that), that will make it just any other adult game. It will happen at some point but it will be really interesting to see how.

This game is taking a slow but interesting approach. A very faithful wife getting corrupted ever so slightly and still trying to resist (As if we, Players let that happen lol. We will take all decision to take her on the wrong path. )

As I said before graphics are amazing and best part is the facial expressions. Facial expressions in this game are on point and hyper realistic. Thats make the story even more immersive.