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

He had promised that once he hit 2,000 Patreon subscribers, he would leave his job and dedicate himself fully to game development. Strangely, after surpassing that number and indeed leaving his job, the pace of game development has slowed down, even more than when he was juggling it with his full-time job. What's even more disappointing is that the latest update didn't bring significant changes or additions to the story. The worst part? The game supports a staggering 9 languages. It seems evident that the translation process consumes as much time as producing new game updates. I believe it would be more sensible to complete the game's storyline first and then consider adding more languages.

What's even more infuriating is that he seems to be breaking his promises, enjoying the profits from subscribers without rolling out new stories for months. Perhaps the steady flow of money, without the hustle of his previous job, has made him complacent. Nevertheless, he logs into the site daily, which suggests he hasn't given up on the game (one can see his recent activities by clicking on his username). I remember him mentioning having around 2,500 Patreon subscribers, but given his self-destructive actions, I wouldn't be surprised if that number drops below 2,000 soon.

Despite crafting a game with an intriguing concept and high quality, he shattered my trust. I canceled my subscription in August.
While he made the odd mistake of introducing a Christmas event in midsummer, I truly hope he doesn't repeat such missteps in the future. I would love to see him step up his game and showcase the quality we all expect, especially if I decide to become a paid subscriber again. Despite the criticism, it's undeniable that he has potential and has shown moments of brilliance. I believe in his capability and look forward to seeing his improvements.

Qualities are slayed but i hope dev update more fast.

Visual qualities are 5/5

No idea why there aren't rape and loli tags on this.

The MC in this game is beyond creep. Like, committing violent felonies almost every time he moves or speaks. The only people in this game not being raped over their vocal objections -- usually violently -- are a couple highly impressionable characters who "look" so underaged that a cop passing by your window would start shooting without even bothering with an arrest.

The rape and violent blackmail would be one thing if he was a gang lord or something, but he is just a teenager in high school, and the tone tries to be light-hearted even though little of the adult content actually is. For one thing, the methods the MC uses are just a little too close to actual situations happening every day. Yes, scheming, too-horny teen boys are ubiquitous in h-games, but their plotting and manipulations are usually more over the top, implausible, and comical than this. Also, the "victims" of most fictional noncon stories are often reluctant accomplices who are enjoying the act (unlike RL rape), but here, the girls are almost always in pain, begging, and crying, with the "best" outcome for them being a dull acceptance of their fate.

All the female characters look young, but the MC's sister is explicitly described as barely pubescent and partially developed. And the MC is supposed to take her virginity by drugging and violently forcing her; the drug isn't even to stop her objections, it's to reduce the pain and screaming from injuries caused by him, um, "making room." I let completionist tendencies and naivete take me further down this route than I was comfortable with, and now I feel pretty ill. And she's not even the only such character to go through this situation.

I'm of the mind that if you disagree with a game's kinks, you should avoid voting rather than downvoting. But again, I feel like we need to stay on the right side of fantasy versus realism where realism would violate laws. So I'm taking off some stars just for that. I do have to give the game at least a couple stars for being very attractive graphically, with mostly polished mechanics and really cute and charming characters (with the hard exception being the MC, in every possible way).

Personally (not a suggestion, this far into development, but just thinking out loud), I think this story would have been more palatable from Agent 17's perspective, with her slowly coming to suspect that her contact's phone had been stolen: she has no protocol for this situation, so now -- for the first time ever -- she has to start letting her conscience be her guide. To avoid directly disobeying orders while investigating, she could start twisting her new contact's orders to help the girls, or find ways to rein in the MC from his worst excesses, or engineer obstacles. Or she could even choose blind obedience and let it happen, which -- even with the same problematic content -- would have some advantages over the current game, in that the rather realistic rape and blackmail situations are not being expressed as silly and fun.

I'd like to see what the talented dev could do on a different story. Dark is fine, even darkly funny, but let's not normalize kids violently losing their virginity as they beg for mercy.

Developers should need to improve the game. There are things I don't like about the game. First one is the appearance of the male characters in this game does not match the background theme, they all look like villain with dark brown skin with gray colors (ugly bastards) which don't match with the theme, i suggest you should change it and make it fit with the female characters, I mean like 11:12. (btw make him cleaner...)

Second, the background of each map should use ambient occlusion, filters, bloom or fogs to make it look a little real because some of the textures of objects are bright colored (if the game engine doesn't have it that's, okay)

Third one is the UI, it's better to use a transparent black box behind the texts so that the background can be seen clearly or don't use it, just make the font look bigger when the cursor point is in the text area, and I recommend move the time logo to top middle because it's a common thing in VN Games.

Forth Looping animation bit chunky and laggy, like luna at bar and erika handcuff game.

The music is ok, the Female Characters are greatly beautiful, the Performance is fine on my PC and the Story still unpredictable cause early build. I'll change my rating if gets better, Good luck for the future update!

Played version: v0.17

Renders are pretty good animations as well, girls are not super diverse just different hair styles and boob sizes mostly.

The scene count is pretty good so far and I would say that there is enough content even if development suddenly stops.

I like the scenario and setup, it's not very dialog heavy, instead it depends more on grinding money.
Which really is not that bad, especially after the last update. Beware that you may need to do a number of different things to grind efficiently and those do require story progress.

The story does go a bit into the rape and blackmail side of things, which is fine, overall I enjoyed it certainly enough to keep following.

[v0.17]

PRO Good animation, beautiful character and render, ok story, nice progression
CON Sometine fps drop, hard to grind for money ( new patch make everything much cheaper which is nice)
overall its very nice ill give it 4.5

Review of [v0.17]

This game is a marvel… a marvel at being terrible, unironically I enjoyed it too much, because it’s so bad that it is funny at some point.

The plot is nonexistent, it’s awfully constructed and so are the dialogues, you are not watching people speak but robots, telling you stupid phrases that expose only informations.
Characters talk beyond the uncanny valley, and personalities are stereotypes with no soul.

The game is very rapey and into extreme kinks, but everything seems so comically written that I can’t take it seriously but laugh with it and sometimes cringe in front of it.
For example: the delinquent girl (I forgot the name and I don’t care), she gets beaten up by your agent, and you anonymously order to be nice, but she is not only not scared that there is some hired hitman that can send her to her maker everyday, she keeps abusing you, without acknowledging the fact, there is absolutely no logic into that!
And the thing happens not even once!
So you really need to suspend your disbelief if you want to enjoy it, just fap, do not think.

Also the MC is a cartoon villain, and not even a good one.
Lacks common sense or empathy, I can’t define him as a human being but just as cringe comical relief actor.
The game doesn’t even do this on purpose, it’s pretentious as hell, and it’s quite fascinating seeing all of this, if I have to be pretty honest.

But here we arrive at a problem everyone already pointed out: the grinding.
It has the skeleton for a good enjoyable managing game, but like all bad sandboxes it throws out the fun and puts you in front of minigames that create carpal tunnel and unnecessary obstacles.
Money and stats suddenly become so highly unreasonable, that getting money becomes a chore.
And Lagging is not uncommon, so even more frustrating when you want to keep forward.

Yeah renders are pretty ok, and I may even say that sex scenes are hot when they want to be it and when I ignore the off putting dialogues.

Also there is an anti cheat device, which frankly I don’t care talking about, since the game’s major problems are many with or without his anti cheat device, but I can see people getting upset for this weird choice, especially when spending hours to click stuff doesn’t give any reward.

No,I don’t recommend it, if you wanna play it, just prepare yourself, you need time and patience and a big chunk of suspension of disbelief, and you will probably enjoy it more than myself

I don't write opinions many times, but in this case I have to, because this game has potential, just that there are some things in the game that prevent it from being a very good game. The story and creativity to have a mysterious agent who do things for you and make your lives easier is something I think is a brilliant and exciting factor in the game. But unfortunately the game is progressing very slowly and besides, you have to spend a lot of time playing to buy something and move on. And what makes it even slower is that you have to wait for skip the time.

pros:

- enjoyable game concept
- beutiful girls
- good animations

cons:

- the game progressing way too slow
- unbalanced game system

Pros:

• Many beautiful girls
• Good render and animation
• Good UI

Cons:

• The story forces you to be an asshole wimp and rapist
• Many girls but also many incomplete path

In summary: Fapable and playable game by just the girls themselves. If you don't mind being an asshole in porn game then just let the game guide you and enjoy it.

A game with beautiful renders but has no soul at all, the storyline is so bad and the MC being a jerk and a rapist also not helping which is a complete turn off for me, also i dunno why the developers adding a cheat prevention in his single player porn game? all i can adviced is maybe try to polish your writings and idea instead of went as far as putting a cheat prevention.

The protagonist is a giant piece of shit, the intro is so short and ridiculous, oh phone, that can task an agent to do whatever I want, ok kool story lets use it. No apprehension no suspense nothing, the animation is mid, and the text rolls down you can't see all of it. Everything about this is garbage-tier.

v0.16.4
Early version with a lot of missing content. Due to sandbox grind took me about 3hrs to finish the current content.

The story revolves around a young rapey guy who comes into the power of super spy phone and uses this power to blackmail everyone into having sex with him.

The story is pretty bad, the writing was mostly OK, if you are into the rapey stuff.

The models look fairly nice and animations are not bad, but not great either. Music is fitting. Gameplay is your very typical sandbox, revisit locations a bazillion times, grind money by doing chores and grind.. let's call them blackmail-points, during the nights. You progress via typical location visit at correct time with correct prerequisites (usually having grinded enough money or blackmail points prior). There is a task list to keep track of progress, even though most character progressions are not yet developed. There are ~15 or so, mostly young+gullible "please don't hurt me, I'll do whatever you want" girls.

Performance was good, didn't notice any bugs. UI is functional and clean. Overall it get's an "OK" for me.
Right now, too little content, and too much grind though. And very one-dimensional stereotypes with no variety. There also was only one "choice" in the game.

The game could have a much higher score if the dev's focus was not on implementing grind and anti-cheat.

The story makes virtually no sense at all, and has barely progressed at all since the game came out.

At this point, you've got just about more minigames than actual content in game.

The graphics are your typical honeyselect style, nothing to write home about.

The game is good up until a certain point into the late game where the money grind becomes unavoidable. This is where this game goes from being ok to genuinely insulting. This game flat out wastes your time as a player, let me explain. Normally when a game wastes too much of your time, you either stop playing or cheat. It's a single player game after all so there is no real moral argument to not cheat to save yourself some time, since the game is so grindy. But no, you can't. The dev thinks his game is so perfect and well executed that he wants you to experience every second of this awful experience for some sadistic reason by incorporating the most annoying anti-cheat I have ever seen in a single player game. This developer said "no, no, no. You are going to waste all of your precious time that you could be using for something else". Well the joke's on you dev, you are just shooting yourself in the foot, because I would've actually considered supporting this game if it wasn't for your flat out disrespect to your player base, and I guarantee other's would have as well. Just treat people better and guess what, people will treat you better back.

First of all, I am very grateful to the developers for allowing us to play such a great game, and secondly, I need Chinese very much, and the next update will be able to have Chinese. This is really the best game I've played in two years, the character models are very beautiful, my favorite character is Ruby, she is really perfect. It's a pity that there are many characters but the progress is very slow

Agent 17, is a game set you to be luckiest guy possible, getting personal agent capable do anything for free, always get away with blackmail or even be a hero, why not.

Gameplay, is actually had a game to play, with little bit rng to spiced up which so effective to prolonged in game time, not much of a rng really, I gave you my promise.

You had to put some work to get what you want, I said it because it doesn't really feel like a grinding since player are basically just repeating some scene that give you money. Even tho, I kinda feels like money didn't really play big part in this game except for some girls, since you just need to pay if it needed. You can just take your time while progressing other girls for it too.

Artwork, woo this is good stuff, even tho it's noticeable that some of minor animation isn't optimized yet, but just with what this game had to offer is more than enough for me.

Interaction, put aside exact same line repeated for repeateable scenes, it really good to see this game didn't just put random word into interaction and most npc react how a person would, not all of them and all parts, but it's still good.

Mechanism, I know sometimes UI feels a bit laggy, I suspect this was caused by running animation every time it changing from interaction scenes to main ui scenes. It's wasn't a big of a deal, you just need to wait out for several seconds for it.

Some times I even lost my cursor, lost as it doesn't show on the game but once it out the game windows it appear, haha. if you experienced it you just need to click any of interface to get it back. Oh, and somehow I get the phone call stuck on screen too, hahaha. It wasn't big of deal, I even doesn't know how is that happen, let alone to say how to recreated it.

Speaking of mechanism, this game had some mini games and I was surprised they had a "safe" mini games mechanism, it amused to see they put it on renpy games, so rare and it's proper one too.

Not to mention, I found that unlocking map could be better, I didn't progress several girls and never got some part of maps unlocked till I decide too. Even tho, I already had the quest to go to certain places which are still locked away. It get me stuck for a while.

Story wise, it was good, even tho I feels like the main character doesn't really do much, except just whining to get things done. I doesn't really know if they would flip out the story to make a big chaos like proper story would or they will just flat out conquer all you saw type of game, either way I really enjoying this game especially this version.

NSFW content, I am not a big fans of the forced to go slowly to progress but it's kinda easy anyway, one thing that might be bothers me in future are most probably if the progress become too long since you only get one time a day to interact to each girl, if the girl stayed in place and also I love rough scenes, but sometimes I don't really wanna, if there are options, somehow, it would be great.

Overall, this game is a game, is not a vn that you could just click through and get content, which is great part of this game and also entertaining. Playing this game kinda fun, doing stuff while progressing other girls, get into routine, scheduling time, it's fun game to play.

Version - 0.16.3

Grind is the main part of the game. Beware.
Tried it for the first time, spend literal hours and got dissappointed. The game is laggy, unbalanced, with little gain to no gain. The game is for a year now in development and I was able to get into the panties of 2 girls after 3 hours.

The unbalanced part is the stupid eco system. I got my daily income up to 80-120 depending on rng. But you have to spend way more just to advance with the said 2 girls. Every other girl is not implemented yet. Remember: 3 hours game play time by me, or 60 ingame days.

After playing I read in the forum, that the dev seems to spend tons of time to develop anti cheat methods. Now I know why there is so little game play after 1 year of development.

First time and never again.

The MC is a dickhead and rapist, the plot is barely there, monumental grind for little reward and somehow made renpy laggy and choppy. Add to that the mindbogglingly idiotic idea of putting anti-cheat on a basic HS game and you get the dumpster fire that is this "game".
Plenty better HS based games to choose from over this, avoid.

Forcing a player to grind by installing an anticheat measure is really petty.Some people simply do not have 2-3-4 hours a day to waste on a porn game.Sandbox developers need to understand this,sadly this is not the case.I woudnt bother with this unless you have a shit ton of free time and nothing better to do with your spare time.

They took a good game, made it super-grindy, and then went out of their way to remove cheats. The old version was great -- 5 stars -- but this war on cheating coupled with how insanely grindy it is just flat out ruins it.

Honestly the rating is a bit exagerated imo.
Let's start with high points and the low points

The good
The Character design is really unique for a HS game, looks very korean-ish and quite frankly I love it, everyone looks very good, except perhaps for the doctor and the nurse who look a bit too bland, nothing serious tho'
Most scenes are nicely animated and some textures don't even look like they come from HS, which is good.
I'm a vanilla guy and a "plot? who cares" guy, and that did the job very nicely
Weirdly enough, I didn't expected Agent 17 to be that type of character...that was obvious tho' I guess.
NTR and other...deviant fetishes can be avoided,which is always a good thing.

The things to improve
Content quantity obviously
The money grind can be a pain the butt
The timers to skip time, I suppose this comes to avoid crash, but a bit shorter at least would be nice
The "non story" missions for Agent 17 are a bit too randomized and some of them are straight up useless
A gallery mode for the non replayable scenes would be nice, even tho' 95% of them canbe replayed without any issued, I believe a few can't.
Can't say if it's my computer or not, but I noticed a few framedrops
Some Hscenes are just slowed down and look very jerky, I don't think they bring much and if rendering them smooth is too complicated,maybe just straight up deleting them and keeping the normal speed and sped up ones would be good enough?

The Ugly
Honestly...I didn't noticed anything that REALLY bothered me.

Anyway, I enjoyed it and I will keep an eye on for more updates and content, cheers to the dev.