Ren'Py - Another Chance [v1.59] [TimeWizardStudios]

A good game with good art that's let down by it's lack of structure.

First off, the art in this game, super good. I wish the animations were... actual animations instead of automated repeating slideshows, but the art itself is great. The x-ray mode is a cool and novel idea and it's nice to have something to look at while you're doing sidequests.

The characters are also really good! Nothing super new or unique, they all have the usual character archetypes typical of high school games, but the quests are nice moments to learn about them and bond. They're all distinct and it's nice.

Now for my issue with the game, which I think is what is stopping this game from really being great -- The structure, or lack thereof.

The game is basically just a million quests, it's not even really possible to discern what's a side or main quest, it's just... quests. That isn't bad in itself but these quests are clearly meant to have some kind of structure to them, some quests mention events that happen in other quests, some quests require items from other quests but the game does not tell or even point you in the direction of what order you're meant to do them in. I'm not talking about a walkthrough of "Do quests in this order", just basic signposting like "We need this item to do this, who would have this item? Oh, that person? Well we probably should ask them" which would lead to another quest. The game instead just halts progress until you do that quest with no signposting, no hint, so instead of feeling like you're doing a chain of things with a goal in mind, it just feels like you're doing random stuff until you accidentally stumble upon the right conditions to do other random stuff.

This wouldn't be as bad an issue if it at least felt like the devs kept track of their quest conditionals as well, but it really doesn't. A few examples of this:

- In one quest you need a camera to take a picture of something for the school newspaper so the newspaper editor gives you her camera to take pictures of it. In a seperate quest you need to get something from the vents in the school and the same editor gives you her camera with an 'x-ray enhancement' to track where in the vents you need to go. It's the same camera, so if you hand in one quest while you still need to do the other you end up locking yourself because you give her back the camera and you no longer have the camera for the other.

Another example:

In one quest you help Isabelle kidnap Maxine's cat to get revenge for something. Isabelle is clearly super angry at Maxine during this whole thing but during or even after this while Isabelle is super mad at Maxine and still has her cat kidnapped, you and Isabelle can go to Maxine about a different quest and it's as if there's no beef between them at all.

There are a bunch of issues like this which make me wonder if a change of structure would not just help us, as players, actually enjoy the game and understand what's going on, but the developers in helping them keep track of all the story threads they're writing.

There is an in game guide which lets you mindlessly click towards your next objective, but that's a crutch. If you can't figure out how to do a quest without an in game hint system telling you exactly what to click, it's a poorly designed quest.

Anyway, rant over, I guess.

Game has potential, art is great, I don't mind the grind/payoff ratio, from what I can gather the overall story has some interesting hooks and the character moments and development is good. It's just got a huge problem with the lack of structure.

Great art and gameplay, a lot of loveable girls, pretty well done "easy mode" where you can just track a quest from someone and follow it without having to think about what to do. Overall, an excellent game, unique and hot.

in my opinion, this game can be a rare treasure

positiv:
-music is ok
-story can be emotionaly, but basicly fun and interesting
-the characters have cute design and they are a little bit more than typically cliche
-big plus, the choices are effectiv, have great influence on the story
-i am not so good in english, but perfectly understand the story and etc.. eazy english

negativ:
-there are a few bugs, but they are not so annoying, can be ignored
-naming the choices req by scene and missions with arrows not 100% user friendly

This is an incredibly well done game. Fantastic art style and great writing which leads to well crafted scenes. One of the only games here I want to play all the way through instead of just unlocking the gallery.

I played it for the femdom tag and it didn't disappoint. The femdom path if chosen is fantastic. Kate is a proper femdom character, and although the art in general is not my favourite (it's good but I'd rather have honey select or daz renders), the writing is so good that it makes the game worth it.

I'd like to see more fetishes like more foot and ass worshipp, facesitting, findom, etc. But I loved what is already in the game and I like that Kate is a bitch and is all about her, it makes the femdom way better.

I just only hope there will a lot more content from her and that she can break other characters (besides us and the ones she did) into a submissive role. Maybe the MC close family or the teacher? That would be hot.

As a con, this last update needs a ridiculous number of strenght points to unlock one spicy Kate scene. I had to use a save editor and it's a shame the number of people who'll miss it. I believe if someone chooses the submissive to Kate path he/she wouldn't prioritize strenght points and would probably be stuck there. But the pros outweight the cons, thus my 5 star rating.

Great game for femdom fans although this is not the main focus.

Unbearable, insufferable, cookie clicker, with myriad buttons, boring story, boring dialogues, endless click there click here quests which you can fail if you chose wrong option in boring dialogues.

Subpar generic art, none of the models are looking hot, some look like a clone copies reskinned with different hair color.

This game is a complete mess, it has no storyline, no depth, no real characters, it is content for the sake of content, pointless stupid quests.

Bad art + Bad Story + Chore like clicking gameplay = 1/5

pretty good click adventure game, really like how quests could have loads of different endings and your choices actually matter. also really appreciate the guides, the official guide google doc is way out of date though.

i can fix kate but i dont want to, she can break me instead.

Quite enjoyable if you anticipate light comedy with a lot of unrealistic chicanery and shenannigans.
Fun original arts, some better some worse, but good overall.
Oh, and don't make me start on this thing...

This game could be much better, if the story/quests were more structured, clear cut, and organized. I can't enjoy this one, due to how all over the place it is. There doesnt seem to be any set path to anything, you basically just feel like you're stumbling from one thing to the next. For example, you have 10 different quests, this one can't be completed until that one is done, but for that one you need an item that you exchange for another item. Then when you do that, you can only find the character you need in a 3-5 hour period of the day, but in doing the quest you're already past that point. It's like a never ending fetch quest with dialogue in-between... or herding cats on speed.

I gave this one as much of a shot as I could, but it's just not for me.

While I ran into some bugs and find the structure and main narrative somewhat questionable, the great art and excellent scenes kept me moving through the game with a fervor that almost no other game, wether more or less polished, manages to elicit.

[v1.37]
All the girls are fantastic. You will be yearning for an H-Scene with each and every one of them. Problem is that the story doesn't feel like it flows very well. Originally I had written a rather irritated review on this game. But I had returned after reading some of the other reviews about bugs. I don't think I specifically ran into any bugs, but what definitely did happen was I was able to do later content, before finishing earlier content, that was very clearly needed to actually understand what, and why, a heroine or the protagonist was reacting a certain way. So there is very clearly a problem with progression in the game. Other reviewers that say you need to follow a walkthough are very correct. Without one, you will basically run into later content, before finishing stuff you should have done before hand. Or simply lock yourself out of a relationship or H-Scene with someone due to a seemingly unrelated choice in a conversation.

Also, the writer has a very bizarre idea of what corruption is, and isn't.
For Instance:
Honestly, I found this pretty fked up. On top of that, the person that this seems to happen with the most, is the Heroine that I was most looking forward to. So either Psychopathic, or sociopath are your two options for "Romance" with some of the heroines. Which really ruins the mood, cuz the game is centered around a Dating Sim environment. Yet it forces you to be a colossal creep that is fked in the head one moment, and then gentle and caring the next.

The game often feels like it should be named "Bi-Polar Express," instead of Another Chance.

Despite these major flaws the game isn't that bad. However, there is still a lot that it appears the devs want to add, and a lot that is needed. Given that this has been in development for the past 4years+, and their only at the very beginning of "Season 2," of what looks to be a length story containing at least 4 season(according to the menu layout.) It's going to be quite some time before the game is anywhere near completed. It also appears that some scenes have more details then others, and some parts of scenes are just black screens, while they describe what is likely to be a picture/scene that has yet to be added/completed. Meaning, despite being on Season 2, they will likely go back and add to Season 1, and and rework some of the art. So I'd wager this game won't be complete for at the very least, another 4 years, unless they either get a huge increase in funding, or cut down on a lot of content (which I hope they don't do.)

All in all, the game definitely has some great kinks to it, and it fairly enjoyable. However, they really need to flesh out some of -in-between- conversations that can occur, and a degree of the story progression. Some times it feels like your doing a lot of nothing, for no reason with a bunch of the fetch quests, that do almost nothing for the main story. Other times it feels like the story is being B-Lined(or hail mary'd) to progress. In other words it feels like you get a bunch of Filler, and then the Canon occurs, and it's basically a legitimate Canon, loud bang, and it's done and over with in two seconds. It is, however, possible the story will really pick up through-out season 2 and 3 for a decent finale, and possibly season 1 was just supposed to be a slice of life sorta deal to get you comfortable with the world your thrown into. But if that's the case, and it's taken them 4 years just to make the Slice of Life part of the game, then I don't even want to know how long it will take them to make the more plot heavy seasons.... Yikes.

This game was very enjoyable to play. The art is high quality, on par with familiar titles SS and GE in this same art style. The animations are also nice and smooth. The story is pretty compelling even if not super far along in terms of the main quest. There is ample side content that can be fun to engage.

In terms of downside, the inventory system can be pretty cumbersome. The hint system for the quests is both really good and not quite fleshed out at the same time. The hint system is vital to completing quests without a tremendous amount of groping around in the dark. However, it doesn't do a good job of helping with what order to complete the quests in to avoid missing content which you are definitely in danger of.

This game is absolutely worth a play, and one I will follow closely for future updates!

Review for Another Chance v1.37:

Overall: 2.5/5 - The game is decent, but the releasing of coherent updates has been extremely poor. It really appears that the developer didn't have a good plan for incremental releases and it's just been a complete mess. The developer added the Chapter select feature because save games kept getting broken, but if you download an update, then read the changelog, you can't figure out how an update translates into a chapter just to figure out what to play. The changelog indicates that a lot of changes, including new scenes, are going into old chapters so a lot of replay is needed to see it. The current game content is fine for someone playing for the first time, but playing individual updates is never going to actually be fun. I expect this will be a solid 4/5 game when it's complete, but when playing individual updates, the bugs, broken saves, and random changes to old content have been pure frustration. I'm going to wait for a [completed] tag before I try it again.

Story: 2/5 - It's mostly OK, but it's trying to integrate a bunch of cliché WTFs concepts like tentacle porn, possession/mind control, paranoid psycho, super-hacker, reincarnation, etc. It's just too much unnecessary baggage. There are also a lot of contrived and cliche situations that make me want to puke.

Writing: 3.5/5 - It's OK, there's some bad translations. Definitely better than average, but not enough to call it good.

Renders/Art: 5/5 - I really like the artwork. It's outstanding in the realm of 2D adult games.

Animations: 3/5 - They're average for 2D animated games, but the game deserves better than the jerky animations in this game.

Sound: 4/5 - Music and sound effects are good and not annoying.

Gameplay: 3/5 - The game has a hint system that works well. It's most useful when starting a new game vs. playing individual updates because updates are very linear. On the downside, some player choices seem to have a profound (and usually negative) effect on relationships that are impossible to know in advance. I don't have the patience to create saves and try things over and over. The sandbox UI is a bit tedious: too many clicks for some things, some hotspots are too small and hard to select, the UI transitions and animations are just too slow.

Content: 1/5 - It's not so much the quantity or quality of the content, it's the content delivery. The developer is consistently making changes to content that was previously released and expecting players to go back and replay the old+changed+new content to see it. That's just bad practice. I'm not saying it should never happen, it just shouldn't happen on nearly every update. What a mess.

Bugs: 3/5 - I encountered a few, and it leaves a bad taste in your mouth when you can't complete a quest because of a bug and have to restart because you don't have a save from the right place, and then... you still hit the same bug. It's another reason that playing updates as they are released isn't fun.

Review For Another Chance [v1.37]
Let me start by saying that this game had so much potential to be amazing. I might be coming on strong, but honestly, this game deserved so much more. I first played it about 3 years ago during quarantine, and the beginning of the game was really promising. The art was fantastic, and the music was so soothing. However, as I continued playing, the story turned into a never-ending boring fetch quest and useless sandbox.
It was frustrating to realize that one wrong choice could completely mess up your playthrough with a character. I mean, seriously, just one choice! And then you think you're still on their path, only to find out that you're not. It was incredibly frustrating. Plus, the fact that you needed a walkthrough to stick to a certain girl's path was just ridiculous. Any game that requires a walkthrough to follow the story properly is not a good thing at all.
Anyway, after a few hours of playing, I was like, "Wait, isn't this supposed to be a porn game? Why the hell is there no sexy stuff happening yet?" It was just a ton of grinding and boring quests that ended up with the main character continuing to being a loser who only pretended to be cool in front of certain girls when the whole point was for him to change his ways and become better. It almost made me want to quit the game, but I soldiered on until I finally reached the first scene in my playthrough. And guess what? It was a pegging scene. Yes, you heard it right, boys. A pegging scene where you get your ass destroyed(I have nothing against pegging but seriously no warning whatsoever.) I was like, "Okay, what the heck?" So I checked the walkthrough and it turns out that wearing a certain outfit would trigger that scene. I said, "Screw it," and continued playing. A couple of hours later, there was finally another scene, and at that point, I decided that I wasn't going to play this game again until it had more content. So I deleted it.
Now, here I am, 3 years later. Did the game improve during those 3 years? Well, yes and no. The writing has definitely gotten better, and the art is still as amazing as I remember. And obviously, there are more scenes now... BUT! Despite being around for such a long time, the game hasn't really changed much in the past 3 years. It still takes forever to get to the sex scenes, there are still a ton of boring fetch quests, and the sandbox feels pointless and grindy. It's enough to make you want to bang your head against the computer screen. And on top of all that, the main character is still a total pushover. Seriously, I don't understand how any of the girls could actually like this guy. He's the type who would be better off getting cheated on than actually the one having sex. His personality is just so cringeworthy that I can't help but wonder if the person writing his dialogue is projecting their own awkwardness onto him.
It's not uncommon for porn games to have weak main characters, but this guy takes it to a whole new level. His ridiculous monologues only serve to emphasize how much of a loser he is, even after being given a second chance at life. And every time he sees a girl, his only thought is "Damn, she's hot." We get it, dude. We have eyes. We can see that the girls are attractive. It's just frustrating that throughout the entire game, the main character comes across as a creepy loser, and yet the girls still somehow like him. I honestly can't explain it. Anyway, aside from the main character being a creepy loser and the girls being oblivious, the story isn't terrible, but it's not really going anywhere. There are more sex scenes, and they're okay, but the amount of time it takes to get to them just isn't worth it. And like I mentioned earlier, there are a ton of boring fetch quests and equally uninteresting side quests for the girls. I got really bored after spending a few hours on it and decided to delete the game again. It's a shame because I actually like all the girls in the game, even the bully cheerleader. She's way better than the main character, who is a total loser. I find it more entertaining when she bullies him than whenever he opens his mouth to speak.
Overall, I would rate this game a zero out of five, but I'll give it a star because I love the artwork and the girls. However, my rating won't make much of a difference among the sea of hundred other ratings, since people will still play it. Some will be disappointed and feel like they wasted their time, while others will enjoy it. It's not a bad game, just not my cup of tea.
In my opinion, if the developer focuses more on building the story and giving the main character a proper character arc to stop being such a loser, and less on boring and useless side quests, this game could easily be a five out of five. But I highly doubt that will happen anytime soon.

I was completely blown away by this one. At first, I had my doubts. Even though I found the art style beautiful, I thought that it might be just another game that looks gorgeous at first glance, but turns repetitive and can't really deliver... wow was I wrong.

The story is pretty compelling and even though I have only played it once so far, it seems like some choices do matter on the branching and that there are different items that can change the outcome of many quests with other characters being persuaded by your coolness, your strength, intelligence, your relationship with them or maybe even blackmailing if you carry a certain thing related to that.

The build up for the love interest's is excellent, and there are some top tier lewd scenes ( ).

One of the biggest surprises was how interesting every LI can be, and how different between each other, however the most amazing thing was how enojyable the gameplay can be. It can be grinding and a lot of clicking, but you have a lot of fun. First two days playing I spent many hours and it felt like minutes.

I extremely recommend this one, and I hope to see more from the devs

The game is unplayable or simply too frustrating to play. Even if the game has the "Español" language, the translation is sooo bad, it is even harder to understand.
But there ia not the problem. The BIG issue is about the bugged quest. All the quests have a simple pattern, do A and B on so on. But when a new step appears, the game tells you with a ! icon, and that is the problem: you must save a lot and in different slots because a random bug can trigger and fuck your save, making an option impossible to reach. For example, with Ms L i had a quest that ends with her in swimswit. If you have a bad luck, the game will not activate the trigger to appear the ! icon for her, and that quest will be unfinishable (if the word exists). So i spent a lot of hours for nothing.

Story 2/5
Its very vanilla and at most time i found it more boring then fun, main storyline is pretty decent atleast but there is sooo many other side quests where maybe 2 of em is fun, there is a ton of quests/paths to figure them all out would take multiple playthroughs which would be ok if story held up.

On a side note i saw some talk about the kissing feets, its not a forced scene if you give her the keys you dont have to go to the party and experince that.

MC got to annoying hes so damn submissive and has 0 backbone and there is so much reading of MCs thoughts, he proberly talks more with him self then with other people and with girls hes like a 12 year old which gets very cringy and it really gets bad doing sex scenes.
Also its not a harem game so hearing how MC finds every girl hot gets a bit annoying when you already picked who to go for, same for questlines that leads to boobjobs or such, it simply shouldent happen in a none harem game without having the option to say no.


For the virgin fans just forget it, the scenes are shitty no real deflowering, no blood no nothing girl says ouch which is the only thing that sets it a part from a normal sex scene.

3/5
Girls are ok, personaly i am not that big a fan of this character type but still they are ok.

2/5
Animations cant really be called animations, its mostly picture to picture stuff so not really worth being called a animated game, but for picture to picture stuff its pretty decent, there are a few animated things but its not that good either.

Music 3/5
Just standard background stuff nothing special.

3/5
Sandbox is ok if you remember to click the fast mode so you dont have to click a million times, but most quests are boring since its just collecting shit.
As for quests they dont seem to be tied together so i do belive you can skip LIs you dont want anything to do with which is nice since quest can lead to some kind of sexual thing like boob job with the mother so if you dont want that just skip the questline with her.
One annoying part is your inventory gets filled up with shit you have no use for since it dosent remove quest items once your done with them.

Content 2/5
Considering game is 4 years old and has only just gotten to season 2 means it will be a very very long wait before this ever gets finished if ever.

Excellent writing, very good art, and compelling characters. The quests can become a bit tangled and tedious at times, but the dialogue more than makes up for it. The walkthrough is terrible but ultimately that doesn't matter much. The gallery needs to be redone so that scenes are easier to access, but again that is a problem for the future.

All in all this is worth checking out.

Oh, and it manages to incorporate femdom in a fluid way. You can be humiliated if you want, or if you just want some light switching that's also viable. Furthermore you can avoid it altogether if you prefer. That's how it should be.

The game is a very cool one, with some mysteries, great antagonist and wide variety of lewdness and kinks.
The drawing style is nice. And the writing is smart and funny.

But there are the fact that almost all hottest scenes include Kate somehow and the good guys lack hardcore stuff, so that seems unfair. Another unfair thing is that the punishment Kate receives, should you chose to act against her, is hugely disproportional to the abuse that she has given. And it definitely must be otherwise. So quite a few scenes of that nature are expected.

And last - one of the hottest girls not only in the VN but on the site - ms. L - is not getting nowhere near enough scenes. I wouldn't mind a game with only her in it, to be honest. Hopefully, the dev will fix that and unwind all her kinks to the fullest extent.

This VN had many good things going for it. Nice art, funny dialogue and hot characters ( esp the Homeroom teacher). But then as I went further, my interest started to drop.
First things first, one major drawback is the endless inner monologue the MC has. He goes on and on whenever he sees a girl, instead of actually talking to her. No wonder he is/was a loser.
Now the summary is that MC is a loser, lost everything in his life, but then gets taken back in time to relive his high school days. So obviously you as a player think that this time MC will act more confidant, be smart and turn around his life.
And it does show the same at the start at least. In one scene MC stands up to this cheerleader bully and it makes you think that as the game progresses, there will be more of this where MC will have a spine.
But nooooooo! That was just fake bravado to impress some girl. As soon as he is alone he goes back to his loser ways. And by loser ways i mean that the first chance he gets, he goes straight into simping for the cheerleader and doing her bidding.
Idiot even sneaks into a party hosted by the bully, locked up in a box and ends up licking and kissing feet . Comes back home and thinks to himself that what an awesome party.
After that scene, i closed the game and shift+delete. I have no patience or time to play simp/loser simulators. It was pretty clear by now that MC will continue to simp for the cheerleader and will keep on obeying her till his spine is so flexible that he can blow himself.

i really had high hopes when i started playing this, but then another game which fell victim to Devs who for whatever reason love to create loser simulator VN's