VN - Ren'Py - Alternate Existence [S2 v2.2.1] [MrKnobb]

First let's start with the PROS of the game
1 . The game has Beautiful girls and Amazing Animations and Renders clearly one of the best among the games that I played .
Second the CONS of the game
The Story doesn't make much sense , it's confusing and dialogues with Main character are worst .
The Main Character who acts like a walking doormat and a robot with no dignity and self respect and no confidence with no backbone .
1. When one of the girls who he had sex insults him in public , he doesn't care and it seems as long as she has sex with him it 's okay - No self respect .
2. And during sex scenes with women he asks why are you having sex with me and why not experienced man and you can get any men you wish , why me ? Really man no confidence in yourself .
3.And when MC is bullied , he doesn't do anything and just waits till someone comes and rescues him from the situation . And someone eventually helps him from the bullies .
In addition there is more voyeurism in the first episode and sloppy second girlfriend from another game and a cousin / roommate who hates you as a pervert even if you don't spy on her or others .
Overall other than the beautiful renders and girls , the story and Irritating Main Character ruins this game for me . I hope MC personality changes and he develops a backbone later in the game and will change my review if it happens but right now he is terrible .

The graphics and animations might be the best I've seen so far in any of these VN's at F95Zone. The reason the game falls short of 5 stars is because the dialogue is quite terrible. The interactions between characters are very forced and does not flow naturally. Not simply an issue with translation, the actual story dialogue, it's just lacking. But the graphics and animations pull it up a little bit because they are, very good.

I don't know why this was rated lower, the scenes are impressive, and even though it is more of a visual novel without your choices making more of a difference, I appreciate the linear flow and feel like it fits with the narrative being given. Hope the updates continue because the quality of the work is impressive.

The renders are so fucking beautiful in this game. ill be honest thats what drew me in to playing it, that and Anne is so fucking hot. shes one of my fave milfs in a porngame already & mr knobbs other game "RTP" has another one of the hottest redhead milfs in Vicky. Even though this game is still fairly new, I llike where its headed, each update is getting hotter and closer to getting somewhere with Anne. The MC is also starting to get laid daily now between the milf neighbor or Gabby from the clothes store, plus hes dating 2 babes from school & has a horny maid that wants some D too. cant wait for next update

Now i played the game and i want to post a review, i don't want to sound like an asshole so i hope my review will come to you in handy.
Take it as criticism that helps you improve more.
-The dialogue of the game is ok-ish, it's not bad or good and it can be improved in the future, especially when it comes to the characters.
It doesn't have any typos or maybe i didn't saw any myself regardless , i didn't had any strokes reading it so i appreciate it.
-The renders are pretty much the biggest plus of the game, the characters models look nice and i appreciate that not every female character is just big boobs and big ass, because i expected that for a moment so there's diversifications but again, it can be better.
One thing that needs to be worked on is the lighting, in some scenes the light makes the characters skin to glow which makes them look like mannequins.
-The game's menu and overall interface of it is something different and unique so clearly you put effort in the game which is good, not many games have different menus and pretty much all of them are generic.
Now this is much or less the good things that the game has, now i'll talk about the bad parts.
-The characters personalities are lacking and here i'm talking about the whole characters including the MC.
The female characters in particular does look like they do have some personality but isn't very noticeable because overall they all act the same pretty much, the MC's cousin ironically has the biggest personality along with Samara, the rest of the characters are like copies of each other in terms of that.
Another thing that i noticed is the level of PERVERSION, everyone and i mean everyone from the game are big ass perverts especially the protagonist, i don't say that's a bad thing but it's too obvious and every girl looks like it's ready to fuck every moment.
-The MC has the biggest non-personality vibes from all the characters, he is like a pervert robot who's programmed to spy on girls ass or boobs making cringe remarks, i understand that he must be that isolated and introverted type of person that isn't good with girls and he's shy around them but come on, even the biggest introverts have more personality than this MC.
He doesn't talk too much, he barely spokes any words.
And somehow despite all of this things, the girls are still attracted to him because he looks "cute" or because he has a big dick, again the perversion is the biggest base of the game.
I could rant all they about how MC is unlikeable and it's about his personality, not because he is a weakling like many users said.
-There's no story behind MC's relationships with the women, we don't know for example what is the relationship between MC and Samara, we don't know why they are friends, when they first met, how much of friends they are because it looks like Samara has romantic feelings for MC but at the same time she treats him like a little brother, like a little kid who wants to take care of him.
All the characters could use some personality development in the future because at this level, it isn't very satisfying.
For now overall this is my opinion about the game and the things i don't like and the things i like.
Again, i'm not hating it, i'm just trying to make you understand what needs to be improved in the future because game can be great.
The game is pretty average in my opinion, the renders aren't enough to make up for it or the dialogue that needs more improvement, the characters personality is the biggest oof you need to fix.
If i see any improvements in the future, i will come with edits and maybe a more high rating, but for now, that's prety much it.
Good luck with the game!

Another Dev trying to cash in off the Incest and Harem fan base, while making the game as uncomfortable as possible. PV is another one doing this crap.

The MC in this a joke to me, a doormat, a foot stool, a beta male.. I could go on, but you get the picture. Watching others fuck seem to be the reoccurring theme in this game and I want no parts of it, nor this “story” that doesn’t know which way is up.

I guess after some LI’s is used up by other men, the MC will get what’s left of them. That’s technically still a harem right?…

Shit I finally found Mr. Knobb's other game! Definitely an interesting premise, I mean you start as a whelp compared to being a walking god like jensen.(From previous game). Interesting looking girls as well as an interesting enough story to have me wanting to see more.

A big negative for me is the girls themselves. They are all kinda boring. Like besides the 2 girls who you meet at school the kinda just feel super flat.

Also Mr. Knobb is a fantastic dev and should receive more support. He is active and actually listens to feedback. Something rare for this website and genre of games.

The game is really nice and has some cool models.The current premise of the story is nice and it would be really lovely to see what's next .There are 2 choices leading to very different scenes .The animations are wonderful and it's a big improvement from the previous game where the models were not that good like this.So I think it's worth a try ...

This is a great game. Among the best on the site. Still images uploaded here don't do it justice, as there are numerous animations that are top level. Girls are all different, original and good looking.

I saw folks complaining about the two voyeur scenes in first chapter - and while I can certainly see that the first scene could be interpreted as somewhat unnecessary (aside from getting us a glimpse of lewdness), second scene is driving the plot and is there for a reason.
Personally I don't mind this but author made sure that both are skippable.

Aside from mentioned there is really no downsides here. Language is good and consistent, interactions are interesting, and plot is slowly unfolding. Also, there are some choices that will net you different scenes.

All in all, I can wholehartedly recommend this game. 10/10

Let me give a short and long version:
Pros
-Dev does a few things right
-Quality borderline cinematic renders
-Beautiful girls
Cons
-Dev does alot wrong
-Story is confusing, all over the place, makes no sense
-The main character

Allow me to expand on what I've said so far.


The renders and girls, you can check out yourself in the preview pics. It's honestly exceptional. The expressions on characters faces look extraordinary. Serious talent.



TLDR; I was willing to overlook the parts of the game that didn't interest me in trying to be objective. The renders are fantastic and the dev is definitely making an effort to communicate even if he ends up saying things he doesn't follow through on from time to time. If the story still doesn't make sense by next episode or the main character doesn't show any growth past being a doormat loser I'll basically be out of patience and change my review to reflect that.

It is not often possible to say that the game is aesthetic pleasure, even the fluidity of the plot does not cause displeasure, but provides a chance to enjoy beautiful views. It is surprising that the rating of the game is not high, but when I looked at the ratings, it became clear. It seems that some not good people specifically want to lower the author's motivation, considering him as a competitor to their worthless crafts. In fact, this is the highest rating when the competitors perceive your product is serious. I look forward to updates and new plot twists and thanks to the site for the pleasure provided

Well it was probably worst harem (by future tags) game what i played, poor sub MC is going around and watching his future Li fucked.

Did not expect this from someone who made realy good game before.

I wanted to give only one star but art is realy good.

Boring doormat MC. Boring Dialogue and boring story. Renders are nice I suppose, but everything else in this game is surprisingly unerotic. There is no passion, no charisma, no flirtation, just a doormat MC bumbling around and watching other people fuck. Voyeur scenes can be great, but the ones present in this game are strangely not-erotic at all.

After RtP i was expecting something better but oh boy how wrong I was, just awful.

Best female character in game instantly killed with the (cof, cof) voyeurism (cof, cof) scene.

Mc is just garbage, how painful is to read is dialogue and the way he acts.

Weirdest "harem" ever, if we could call harem what dev plans, only 2 main LI, one is nice the other is the sloopy seconds from dev last game she was not worth of last game mc other than to be a fuck toy but for this garbage mc she already is ok.

The other's side li or side fucks or whatever the fuck dev thinks of them are interesting as the product i left in the toilet after taking a big dump.

Transitions are weird.

Mc is a complete loser and the best thing I would have to deacribe him is to a sidewalk, everyone can step on him and he is fine and dandy with it.

Too much voyeurism and it's the bad kind of "voyeurism ".

Only the renders are nice.

Just a bad game.

Dev has managed to ameliorate considerably their previous game's shortcomings, ie a story that is both very stupid and very long, at the expense of lewd content. The graphics have also improved. I can't say the same about the story but I can skip through it and it's distributed among a reasonable amount of h-scenes (1-2 per update so far). I would like that formula to skew towards h-scenes a tad going forward, but as it is it's enough for me to like the game.

The models, textures, lighting and animations aren't perfect but neither are my expectations. Further, I have a thing for the oiled-up/wet and tanned look and evidently the dev does too, which is cool.

In my view cg porn should try to do things that aren't possible/feasible in live-action porn. By that measure the porn scenes in this game, while nicely done and all, are pretty mundane so far. They don't really have that edge that I imagine most people who are into this medium both enjoy and expect.

One final, if minor, gripe: the current game's story shares the same 'universe' as that of the previous game, which I don't want to be reminded of.

My overall rating (without factoring in story or characters because they're easy enough to ignore): 3.5/5. Which I'll round up to a 4 as a nod to the dev's willingness/ability to learn from criticism.

Renders are of decent quality, but some human figures are just dolls with no skin, looking ugly and sometimes able to break the immersion.

Females are mostly not attractive (either older ladies or bitches), except two cute students and maybe Sam from the cafe.

Sex stimulation comes from those older ladies. I have no idea why MC is so horny about them. Old ladies with big boobs remind me of my grammy, which is the opposite of sexy.

The story is linear, with a dull, boring MC and often dialogs are rather irritating than interesting. Almost all the choices for now were "Peek -or- Respect", with no consequences.

So I got really unimpressive impression.

[S1 Ep 2 v1.2.2]

I'm giving 2 star's just because of renders.

At this review date the game is basically a voyeur game.
In 3 scenes 2 are voyeur .

This game have a really weird view of what a harem is, you will have 2 main LI and the other's are side fucks with a lil bit of romance or no romance at all, well for me that isn't a real harem.

Then you have the 2 main LI:
One is Jensen(dev previous game mc) niece, you don't know much about her besides a small talk in school corridor and her decides to throw herself in a date with mc.
The other one is Tania the ex-secretary of jensen where in jensen game(RtP) she is in love with him but he just had sex with her and rejected her, so now she is recycled in this game as a new LI and sloopy seconds of jensen that he didn't think was worth to pursue but is fine for this new mc it seems, she is still in love with jensen as stated in this game as her secret unattainable love said by her and stated in her bio too. So anyone that played RtP and don't like having their LI fucked by other's previous mc or not is already being penalized for having played this dev previous game , so all in all just one main LI is left that you still don't know anything .

Then you have the voyeur scenes, first one you get is with mc friend samara(the most developed female char in game at this point) she is by far the one with best personality and more caring towards MC right now, I played before the skip option was in game so you where forced to see a bit then had the option to either watch it or sit in the street floor for them waiting for them to finish and earing them, so yeah the most pleasant girl in the entire game was already been seen getting fucked by one npc, her bf or not doesn't matter, after that scene she see that mc have a cut in the lip and offer to kiss him to take care of the boo boo. Again the only gir(and possible fan favorite) in the game that seems worthy is already being burned to the ground. Samara even say she likes her bf but doesn't really see a bright future with him so why burn a good character ?

The other voyeur is aunt getting liked by an escort while a bbc is fucking the escort, only option is to watch or not, then you have a scene where mc goes to the fridge and the bbc shows completely naked flaunting is dick in the middle of the kitchen.

Aunt is just not worth, someone that abandoned mc and just gets to him now because needs something.
Cousin is for now a complete bitch towards MC.
The main LI already explained.
So yeah that what you get as LI in this game.

Mc in the beggining seemed to have some sort of backbone by rejecting aunt offers 2 times but then out of nowhere mc building owner decides to sell the building meaning mc would be without home so he decides to accept aunt offer and from there the backbone he seemed to have completely disappears and becomes a total wimp apologizing for everything and without backbone.
The most cringe scene is after mc finally have some action(with cousin sluty friend) after they have sex he turn to the girl and asks why she wanted to have sex with him if with her looks she could get any man she wanted. Common really? How beta do you want to be? Just take the win and shut up.

So yeah right now the game isn't really worth to play at all, so many mistakes and weird things done unless you like beta mc and voyeur games . Recycling characters of previous games and burning the best ones to date isn't really a smart move in my books.

All in all is a cluster fuck of mistakes and weird directions the game goes

Some people on here are seemingly forgetting what a VN means or entails.....it's very definition is an " interactive fiction video game genre, featuring text-based story with narrative style of literature..." The people who are complaining that there aren't enough choices are yelling at a wall. There's meant to be limited choices in general

Also fail to understand the gripe of not having enough background or context for the characters. The main premise of the game is already listed in the description to give us a general idea. The intro of the game is a continuation of the description where we see the MC being dropped off at the Anne's house. Summer embodies your complaints and asks why the MC is there and explains literally the backstory, to which Summer begins to understand somewhat.

As has been stated, the overall renders are well above average and are what will continue to draw and keep interest. Animations, although sometimes a little clunky, are still considered to be better than plenty of games.

I'm not calling it a perfect game by any stretch and glad to see majority of the reviews are positive but I feel a need to address the critical reviews I see sometimes, esp when some points are just confusingly petty

Since this is an early stage of development my rating will be based on what its currently in the game as the story progress I will update this review.

Visually its a quite good the renders are of high quality with an attention to detail. It's to be expected from this developer considering the quality of (his/her) work

Each of the female characters its fairly unique and attractive in its own way so that you can find someone to like regardless of taste.

So far the presented characters offer different types of relationship to player, from flirty to conflicting, but all entertaining in it's own way.

The story so far has opened many questions regarding the MC and several of the characters without being too vague, which is enough to keep the player waiting for more.

there is some voyeurism content that the can be skipped if the player do not wish to see it and it's been stated that any future content of the sort will remain optional

As it stand there is a lot of potential in the story and my advice to any future player its to be patient since the story has just begun there it's still much to see.

A Nice enjoyable Fantasy VN till now.
It has the potential to be a great VN so time will tell what unravels
The writings are good but could use some humour to make it a bit more engaging Renders are great with great looking models
All in all, a pretty decent VN I hope for some twists in the story in future
Keep up the good work dev.