Ren'Py - Agent17 [v0.25.9] [HEXATAIL]

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.

I like this game so far. The girls are looking great and there are a lot of them.

Right now there is one girl in the game with different sex scenes but more scenes will come.

The story is interesting and catching and i think in the long term this project has huge potential.

I can not wait for more.

Forcing grinding with super laggy transitions is such a retarded thing to do. Zero reason to not allow people to cheat if they want to skip the grind, there's a reason anti-cheat in single player games is so frowned upon.

Ok so I have read some but not all the reviews of this game and the first ones I read were negative but I liked the look of the girls and the Tags, I wondered how the grind was as that was one of the complaints about this game, and I at first thought what is it like is it that hard some games are not many, however. So I have finished what is available up to this version 0.15.4 and the grid is not much unless you want $100000 for the lady at the gift shop but the max is $1000 at the moment anyway and I guess we will get ways to earn more money later. The only really grindy thing I thought might be the diamonds moving them into the same colour that has the most of the same colour. Like 10 blue and the rest had less and I had to move all of them into the blue diamond at the bottom of the screen. But after testing 1 then 3 of the same colour I got the same money so hey that isn't that hard. And washing dishes easy and cleaning the bathroom not hard just click on the cloured spots a few times and its done to get a BJ wow that was better for earning money and Blackmail your teacher Diamonds and not hard so why all the fuss about grind I think anyway. Second not knowing what quest you can and can't complete I didn't know for a while as well until I found this and I have provided a screenshot of it. You are welcome. Next, I like the story and the renders and the animations I wish there were sound effects such as moaning and slapping sounds where appropriate. I know this game still has a lot more that can be added and I look forward to seeing the game flesh out. Great work dev I have supported a lot of games until last month but recently I had to drop a lot of them due to financial changes in my life. But if I could I would support this game.

The game is very boring, no actual sex scenes beyond a repeatable blowjob for quite a bit, extremely grindy, and the very worst part, if you try to mess around using console or anything else, the "anti-cheat" system the dev put in blocks you from doing anything, including loading old, un-cheated saves.

Total waste of time.

Spend too much effort on anti-cheat and not enough effort on developing the game. All the girl's routes right now are half-assed and most of them go absolutely no where after wasting your time grinding for them.