Ren'Py - Agent17 [v0.24.8] [HEXATAIL]

Is it grindy? yes it is but I do like the game purely for the Art and animation as it has very good quality h scenes imo.
Major cons as others mentions is the grind and no work arounds which is not ideal but it feels kinda worth when taking into account the quality of scenes.

Scenes have decent replayability as well.This game has one of the better questmaps i have seen in renpy as you would know what to do if you check the questmap(if you dont take into account the incredible grind and minigames)

the reason for my 5 stars is I hope that the game would develop more and continue as I really dig the style and animations and is without a doubt on of the better renpy games out there.

the greatest thing that i dont like in this game is the puzzle in the computer as i really suck at puzzles

Game version: v0.23.6

After playing for a long time i gave up it became a waste of time.

I really hate the way the game is grindier than the last.
- before this update you can LOCKPICK all the doors without any LOCKPICK skill lvl requirements.
- DONATING SPERM can gain you 70 money(HIGHEST POSSIBLE INCOME) but after this update the money u receive depends on your LUST METER the Higher the LUST the more the money u gain but up to 70 which is the same from last update.
- LUST METER WHEN ITS FULL CAN'T LET U SLEEP, U NEED TO EFFIN MASTURBATE IN THE BATHROOM[YES NOT IN YOUR ROOM] TO ADVANCE THE PASSAGE OF TIME. LAST UPDATE IT "DOESN'T HAVE THIS" SO YOU CAN ADVANCE NORMALLY LIKE A NORMAL EFFIN REN'PY GAME.
-DEV uses Ai Art for the puzzles that increase you skill lvl.
-LETS TALK ABOUT SKILLS, IT BECAME FRICKIN SKYRIM YOU NEED TO REPEAT THE SAME ACTION OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO GAIN SKILL EXP SO THAT U CAN LVL UP YOUR SKILLS. YOU NEED TO PICK LIKE 2 LOCKS TO GO PROGRESS TO LVL 2. WELL MORE, U NEED TO PICK MORE LOCKS TO PROGRESS TO 3 AND SO ON... SOME DOORS NEED A HIGHER LOCKPICK LVL TO PICK THEM. THE PROBLEM IS, THE GAME HAS LIKE 3-7 DOORS THAT IS LOCK PICKABLE, MOST DOORS HAS PASSWORDS OR KEY WHICH IS THE LOCKPICK LVL IS USELESS. Not to mention you're locked in that skill level before you progress any further it's not even retroactive.

I really love the girls, for me it's the maids.

I love "most" girls are submissive and negative iq.

MC is pathetic as hell he blackmails, steal, manipulative and a creep.

Conclusion:
Dev just add useless progressions/grindy shit show how Incompetent he is. Rather than smooth progression with more sex scenes... he adds shit slow/halt progression to say that he has a 2hrs worth of updates but has less sex scenes. THIS IS a Hentai game not a Gacha. YOU CAN'T EVEN CHEAT HE ADDS A ANTI-CHEAT SYSTEM.

Waaaay underated gem.
It had a rough start with some silly ideas and content but the author hit his stride and if you enjoy the tags this is a true gem and one of the top 10 for sure (tags being: Forced, rough, humiliation, um basically rape, basically being a total douche scumbag hehe)
The mc comes of as an idiot but thats his charm. I didnt understand to start but he grows on you and I find myself agreeing more and more with his dialogue choices! He is a prick and what does it really matter what you say to the girls, you are only interested in 1 thing and whatever.
The whole agent thing works and he made it fairly believable and at this point it works in the story.
I love alot of the girls, and the scenes are hot hot (only seen the non consensual mostly or douche mode activated mode).
There are not a lot of games that have mostly this content so if you enjoy it GO FOR IT.
If you enjoyed games like regional manager etc this is for you.
Last thing is the jigsaw puzzles to unlock skills. I think they are fine. I ended up enjoying most of them. I think the huge one is more of a joke then anything. I didnt do it. All the rest are easy.
Remember you can just drag the pieces around and release on each spot, eventually the piece just sticks and wont move when its in the correct position. Great if your stuck or need a first piece to get things going.

Enjoy!

This is just a huge nonsensical cumbersome grind. Quests are not intuitive, you always need some item or gadget you don't have and need to find and whenever you are not clicking all over the map, you'll be plagued by completely unfun mini-games.

There is an average game in there somewhere, but it is layered with so much sadistic boring grindy 'game play' that the reward is never worth it.

Avoid.

None ntr path

Game is a huge grind even with cheats you still need to grind for resources to do agent 17 mission
Only thing good are renders
Usless walktrough
Events not triggering
No bugs
There are moan sounds
Some woman have two paths ntr and not ntr

Minigames aren't that fun
Lots of incomplete storyline
Why are there even options that doesn't do anything?
Animation is like the only thing carrying it
There are a bunch of characters that doesn't even have a scene
Puzzles is....

This is single-handedly the biggest misuse of a sandbox/free roam environment I've ever seen.

EVERY action is gated behind some mini game. Earn money? Click a ton of things. Raise your stats? Do all these mini puzzles. TALK to someone? Better first talk to someone else, do a mini game, then talk to the original person and do another mini game.

Interact with a core mechanic of the game? Better grind resources.

It actually blows my mind at some of the choices made and added to this game.

Great game mc is basically a serial sociopath fucking , corrupting or raping all the girls, if you look past that great female characters, interesting story and great animation, too bad it to slow at releasing i some times think it was abandoned to be surprised by a small release.

Game is extremely well developed with quite good consistency and feedback from patron supporters being the main mode of feedback for dev

All characters look amazing and the storyline has amazing development with aid as well using the quest map to know what we have to do next to further the story.
Game is well worth the grind and time so do try to support the creator when possible!

The quest map is an amazing way to visualize and explain to the player the different available paths.

The animations of this game, while not the highest resolution, is satisfactory and smooth.

Looking forward to how the story progresses!

This game has everything to offer. What's kind of person are you? Good or Evil? There is one route, No, there are two route. If you're a good guys, go for good path. And if you're a bad guy, go for evil path. I'm not gonna judge you. Because everyone has his/her own taste. And if you're reading this and hasn't played. Just downloaded and play it. You'll love it if I'm not wrong.

Really not much to say. One of the best games out there with a solid base system which makes sense and superb to perfect animations. Proper guide playing through and help to choose the desired paths. The only thing that I noted playing the game was the text, which can be more refined in some small interactions. The game has a good updating cycle (3-4 months) and enough content for new players. The characters unfold greatly, although the big number of characters can lead to bad development and can be a double edge sword. Hopefully, the creator will stay behind the game and see through the end and not rash things like some also great games which were abandoned (A.O.A etc.)

P.S. Creampie scenes can be more intense and powerful

RANT INCOMING: V0.22.4
i really wanted to like this game, but along with its development process it makes the same issues many other sandbox games make . Firstly i want to state i play these games for two reason the sex and the story. But when it comes to sandbox games so many of them add this useless grind so that people dont notice that every updates actually only adds about 10 minutes worth of content (this is an exaggeration). Very few actually manage to make a sandbox game imo that doesnt feel like a useless grind. This is not one of them. Or if its not plagued with useless grind its filled with a bunch of extra content (Stickers/Anti Cheat) with time that the developer could have used to create content for characters you havent had a new scene in 10 updates. Looking at you Erica. Not only that but this developer keeps adding new characters which dont get me wrong i appreciate the new characters, in fact the new maid that was added is amazing, but when youve got characters who havent had an update since V12. Weve got an issue. Ive personally played since v15 or 16 i believe. And i feel like characters that were there since the beginning of the story have either less or the same amount of content on characters that were added much later.

Now with the rant out of the way.
My honest thoughts when it comes to the story honestly like most reviews ive come to the consensus that its better to not think about it. The story and the dialogues between characters are not its strong suit infact for those who really care about the story i would just avoid this all together. I want go into specifics because in all honestly i dont really read in this game anymore. However i do understand that this game is being translated from another language so it could simply be a bad translation.

The Art and the Scenes: now the scenes are amazing, that art is fantasic and there is imo not a single bad girl in this series. So for those who just want to fap, this is the game for you, if you dont mind a grind to get there.

The sandbox: the Ui for the sandbox is actually not bad. Now ill be honest i talked about the grind, but a few updates ago i was able to cheat me a shit ton of money. So i dont really have to deal with it anymore. But for those that do its pretty rough imo. Ive already ranted enough about this so ill move on.

All in all my total Rating is a 4/10, simply because when taking into account the story i cant give it a high rating. If i was just going off the sex factor id give it a 7/10.

Things id like to see:
Gallery, now while most scenes are repeatable not all of them, and id rather not waste my time trying to skip times, or use money to see a scene ive already seen.

STOP ADDING NEW CHARACTERS: I already explained earlier but please for the love of god focus on characters so as Ruby, Erica, Alice, Agent 17, Amelia, Luna, Dana, JIHYE for christ sakes Girls had no content for ages now.

This game need to be played with your brain turned off. Everything that happens during the game makes no sense at all.

The characters are empty and their only role in this game is to be beautiful dolls for fucking. The main character will treat everyone like garbage, abusing them at every opportunity. And most importantly, they will either not care and will interact with him as usual, or they will enjoy it. So there is no question of any affection towards these characters.

The main character is an absolute scumbag, I'd even say he could be in the top 5 despicable characters on this site. Not that he's evil, he's just a disgusting, petty bastard. And I mean, it's not that I'm averse to roleplaying as evil characters, on the contrary, I don't get enough of those games. But here the protagonist is just that, pathetic and disgusting.

I gave the game 3 stars for two things. The game has very well done graphics, the characters are very beautiful and unlike many other games that use honey select, this one has hand made animations that look very decent. The interface, navigation and mini games are also done pretty well. Honestly, if the author had worked on the script, the characters and made everything so that you could really immerse yourself in it all, the game would be great. But here I can't really recommend it to those who like humiliation fetish, because the whole thing lacks characters depth, and some glimpse of realism. Since at the moment it's just a fuck-fest, where the protagonist through blackmail and other shenigans, inclines everyone to sex with him. And all the victims cannot resist it in any way. As I said, if you turn off your brain and just jerk off at the animations, then maybe it's not so bad. But honestly, I wouldn't support such work. I would rather look for animations elsewhere, and support authors who create games with well-defined characters, interactions with them and better plots.

Pros: Real good sexy scenes, animation and model. Only cons are some frame rate delay but don't affects much gameplay. Scene with Red Rose are too good to pass playing this games. Many fantasy can be fulfiled in this game

Highly recommend. I really like this game, enjoyable gameplay, the character designs are beautiful, a lot of female characters and sex scenes. I think it deserves a higher score. I'm looking forward to exploring this game further in the future.

MC is a dick, he keeps making the worst decision in any situation. It's almost like he was lobotomized, and the few neurons left were implanted in his meat rod. Agent 17 was also hastily thrusted into the game without adequate explanation, even though she is an important part of the gameplay. But other than that, the story is slightly above average, UI is very clean and unique, the music is good and the characters are cute.

Update: I have to say this again but the interface is very innovative. The minigames are also rather unique comparing to other VNs, and for those alone this game deserves at least 4 stars. Still, they can't salvage the failure that is the terrible story telling. The characters' dialogues are weird and they react unpredictably to the plot. My previous statement of the MC being retarded now extends to almost all characters in the game.

- A girl can't afford $30 to save her sister, how did she pay for daily food and other utilities? I really cannot comprehend how or where she has lived until then. The MC can give her money later on a daily basis, does that mean she had to pay the fee every day, and just conveniently ran out of cash on the day that MC offered to help?
- The "sneak into room" event with your sister, it just confirmed my theory that MC's brain has been drowned in seamen and can no longer perform basic human functionalities. I understand that this is a porn game and porn is the main focus, but my goodness the plot is so atrocious it's not even fun or quirky. Such a shame, this game really has a lot of potential with everything else being great.

Enjoyable gamelay, lots and lots of content, char design is great, sex scene is awsome, but some mini-game better be just a 1 time thing,. MC kind of a dick most of the time, and a few char got left behind. Keep up the good work Hexatail

Good game add girl again, nice nice! Im really love is game because play simple and have fun with grafic good performance in story's absolutely, and wait your update the best performance girl and much featured with play with girl choice option to play. thanks for update and lm ever support agent17 best game and longb the end because girl beautiful in you game, lm excited for next update

This game has really great looking models. You can focus on individual paths (most of the times) without affecting other paths, and then go back to other path/s. Things become repetitive after a while, but twists and a special event make things interesting.