VN - Ren'Py - Affexon [v0.31] [NaughtyDeveloper]

Review of v0.2b

I honestly feel I need to be harsh given that there are WAY too many nonsensical 5-star reviews which are inflating the rating and expectations of new viewers.

The good:

• art + render quality - as someone who dabbles in DAZ, I can definitely see and appreciate the effort and time that goes into making high quality renders. The characters look good (with the exception of the MC) and the posing, expressions, and small details are worth noting.
• the plot's SETTING - realities intersect and magical creatures and new races enter the world, chaos ensues. Not original, but not exhausted, either.

The bad:

• the plot's NARRATIVE - the writing, pacing, scenes, transitions, and even basic stuff like grammar are all quite bad. Nothing that has happened so far relates in any way to the interesting plot setting described just above. Instead it's just a repetitive loop of meaningless events and even less meaningful choices. Clean, help, make food, do dishes, clean, help, make food, do dishes.... What's the point? Nothing is happening. And to choose NOT to help doesn't change anything either except you miss out on the "+1 to relationship with the MILF" background tracking shit. The scenes are pointless and there is no transition between scenes other than a fade to black with the text, "later on..." or something. It's very abrupt and jarring.
• MC - from the POV of design, MC is an outlier in that he looks terrible. His hair looks like someone tried to give him a hair cut with a butter knife. Expressions are extremely plain, even when they shouldn't be (for example, when stabbing a fucking goblin with a pen?), and he basically just has what I'd call a very "punch-able" face. Seriously he looks like a sniveling little twerp and a creep. If that was the goal, then congratulations I guess.

If the render quality was ANY lesser, this review would be 1-star, and even that saving grace is barely enough.

I get the impression that the writing being a huge mess is a result of the developer not having a clear understanding of what it is he wants to do. If that's true, he needs to seriously stop to reconsider and consolidate his ideas for the story into a fleshed-out narrative.

If that ISN'T the case, and the only story is to have this childish, perverted twerp of an MC use magical "healing" powers to brainwash girls into wanting him, then please let me know so I can update my review to 1-star.

EDIT: updated to 1-star in light of more recent delusional reviews. Someone actually has said, "Best game found on this site till now." Give me a fucking break.

This game has great potential, currently it is not good OR bad. so average. Models and graphics looks nice but grammar is bad. The major problem i have is that this game has been regularly on the latest updates page but only for a patch!!! Ithought this was not allowed but maybe i am wrong.
The lighting is another thing that is god.

Review as of 0.2b

There isn't that much content yet, cirka 30 minutes or so but what is there is pretty good. Renders, animations, vfx and modeling is 10/10 and rivals that of the top dogs on F95. Unfortunately, the writing is just not up to par at all, with quite a lot of typos, incorrect grammar, unnatural sentences and strange word choices.
I was thinking of setting the score to 3 stars at first but I know that it's a first time developer so I shall look onward with hope and leave it at 4 stars.

It's been almost one year since I saw this game. Thank god, it's not another sandbox game. Visual part of the game looked great and dev at least tried to make facial expressions of the models. Animations were nothing but visual effects without moving figures but they still looked good. Story was interesting at first but I felt too much futuristic vibe that is not really helping erotic part of the story.

Real problem seems his production rate. After 11 months, the game has 900 renders and 50 animations. Considering the animations are not moving models but visual effects, the production rate is not sufficient for this kind of VN. And the story felt generic without the futuristic vibe. And its slow-burn mechanism in the story was rather lazy & annoying than making one curious about the future story. To make slow-burn effective, you gotta give more attractive stories and visuals. Doing nothing is not slow-burn.

We will see realistic sex in this VN after 5-10 years if it's not abandoned and I am not looking forward to it.

I do play a lot of RenPy VN`s and this looks promising.Renders are solid. Plot is interesting and at least at this stage (0.1a) this looks really cool. I truly believe that this can be at the level of LaS or even better.

The game is super cool , story-line looks interesting and the models are super good . The intro is short but the game looks promising. And the renders are awesome they are too good and language well it needs some work except that the game looks too good. And the planned genres are also looking good . And cousin is super beautiful and got a bit sad knowing that she is deflowered well we cant do anything looking forward to the future updates.

5 stars on the basis of effort, originality, execution, and faith in the dev to carry this game far.

I have to admit I'm not the biggest fan of fantasy elements in VNs but this game does it well enough to make me semi-interested. Add on top of that gorgeous LIs, and some good incest storylines and there's something special here.

Now it's not perfect. Without a dedicated GPU, it'll be hard to appreciate all the little touches of animation. Even with the compressed version, it was hard on my laptop. I also don't like Game-Over screens, which add nothing of value to any game and is an irritant. There are also pointless single choice menu options.

The intro is also quite short, but given the raw potential here, I'll be watching this game closely to see if the dev can deliver on the promise of a really cool and original game.

I'm actually a bit speechless.....was not expecting this at all.

Top notch renders, graphics, and transitions, check.
Clean interfaces, check
Intriguing story, check
Grammar fluidity, check

Very short intro but it's off to a very strong start

Looks and sounds amazing, can't wait for brranching paths and a lot more depth to the characters. I REALLY hope that this won't suffer the Photo Hunt syndrome where the dev just keeps adding in new girls and completely forgets that the original ones existed at all. Both characters that were seen so far look great, are rather realistic and sexy. I like the status windows but could do without the manhua shit like "yooo im an SSSSSSS rank hunter of the huajian guild and I have fireball Rank 4" and such.

Overall, I'd really love to see this develop into a full story, but even for a preview, this is TOP NOTCH!
I can't support it at that moment but will be sureto once things get sorted at home.

Wow wow wow wow wow wow.
This is a perfect game, the renders are fucking awesome.
The character design too.
10/10 for this game
I really like the concept of analyzing
We really should support the game devlopper to speed up the updates

Haven't written a review in a long time, but this one trully deserves it. Great story, great renders,great music and very important unique on more than one levels.Insert *we will watch your career with great interest meme here <3

Nice renders, great looking girls so far, especially one sexy and relatively realistic looking milf.
A lot (And I mean a shitload of) of exposition, lots of grammar, punctuation and spelling errors, sadly so many that they did detract a bit from my enjoyment of the game.
The writing is okay so far, apart from the errors, sometimes a bit stilted, but no problem.
And something that always frustrates me, way too many single option choices. Basically all but one choice in this short demo had only one option and so were no choice at all.
Don't do that devs, it breaks the flow of the game/story, and it is completely unnecessary.
Overall this is a promising start, but it does need some work, to become a really good and enjoyable game.

Affexon !!!! Thanks NaughtyDeveloper !

First, this is a demo. Very short one. BUT HELLL YEAH !! This look very promising!!

- The girls are very hot
- The visual is very very beautifull and unique
- The story look interesting
- Nice tag (for me)

I just hope the quality will stay the same after more updates and not just release more stuff fast but with poor/mediocre quality.

5* from me!
The game looks amazing from the very beginning, I'm sure later animations will be made and the renders look so good and sharp like next gen, so far the story looks awesome, at the moment I literally have no complain thumbs up for the dev .
Its a must try!

V0.1
I usually don't play first versions but was intrigued with this one.

It's a very good start with an interesting story setup. Nice renders and effects.

The transition during the diner introducing the missions and recruitment stuff for Gates/Heroes is kinda strange.

Writing need serious rework or proof reading though. It's a bit robotic sometimes and dialogs are written like they were texted (eg. Thanx, numbers or putting "/"). Grammar/syntax/misspelling, missing capital letters at beginning of sentences, dots and comas missing too.

Wish good luck to the dev. will definitely come back to see the progress and decide if I pledge.

I would say this is a promising start but this is more than that. This is quality wokr fromt the first frame. Renders and girl are absolutely beautiful. Story looks interesting and characters are fine. Only thing is on the bad side is if you sometimes don't have a choice then no reason to create a choice menu with only one choice.

Excellent!!!
Good Story line and built up, I like the picture of number of super hot characters that will show up in future builds..
This game has huge potential and inheritor ???? that's the best plot armor ever.. hehehehe

Really wonderful start! Great sci-fi mix with fantasy setting. Great renders, nice writing. Some nice music themes. Although it's a bit short but it catched my eye and seems like this VN is worth checking out.

This is a nice start for a new game, a little bit short. A new idea for a plot. The story starts slowly. The mix of fantasy and real life makes the background of the game something new and I am curious how it develop further. Really nice graphic. The women doesn´t look like seen in countless other games before. So far I hope to see many more updates. I will give this game a try...

This was an absolutely amazing start. Everything so far from the story to the graphics and everything in between is very well done. The models are all gorgeous and the story is a great blend of sci-fi/fantasy. Very excited to see more in the future.