Ren'Py - Completed - Babysitter [Final v0.2.2b] [T4bbo]

The good:

Storyline
Minimal Grind
Dialogues
Choices do matter
involved game, not just clickthrough

The bad:
Too many choices. even during the naughty times sometimes
the fact above makes it almost unplayable without the mod

The ugly
RENDERS! How can a "Visual" novel be lacking in visuals?? Resolution is great, but the colors of the characters are all over the place, to the point where the same character can look like it belongs to different races in different scenes! also, over texturing / detailing of skin in some scenes makes it look like people have scales! Also, teeth and hair and even clothes in some scenes make the characters unappealing to say the least (downright repulsive in some cases)!

The story and gameplay have great potential, if the graphics can be fixed.

Overall good game. Not too many grammar errors, decent overall story and an occasional chuckle. Mostly likable good guy characters, mostly well drawn villains. Some of the transitional text was repetitive, like when leaving the apartment. The humor most of the time fell flat. Still, would reccomend playing it. Better than 90% of the stuff out there.

At first I gave it 3 stars, having played it through about 7 days and almost decided to delete this game. It was a bit hard to navigate through sandbox style events, while not understanding well what kind of points to max out (friend or horny?), worrying about seeing all the contents, not getting any juicy sex scenes, meandering my way with walkthroughs to avoid bad results etc.

But still I decided to give it a try and play on. After all, all the girls faces were beautiful. Bodies too, only except saggy tits. So I played on, not worrying much about points and walkthroughs. And around day 10 I started to fall in love with it.

The story of Christine is very romantic (a bit more of friend points plus exclusive relationship, spoiler: not necessarily so exclusive in the end)...

So the story is great. The dialogs are genuine. The characters are lovable. A bit of criminal mystery is very good. All in all, it's a great novel and a great game. Sex scenes are very remarkable. A few scenes are a bit too complex, but really masterful deflowering scene is a very rare gem in such visual novels.

Despite a few bugs, I like this game and recommend it.

Indeed, I love harems, but there is a love story so nice that even just being with only Christine is wonderful enough.

PS. And towards the end of the game it moves from sandboxey to normal VN style, still with meaningful choices, but nothing too unexpected, so walkthroughs aren't really necessary.

Game probably deserves 2 and a half stars. Incoherent story, unbelievable situations, incomprehensible and pointlessly stretched dialogues at times. Average renders and animations. No sense of time and ultimately a boring game.

At first glance, Babysitter settles into a fairly realistic family story, we have the godfather (You), the goddaughter, the friend, the businessman, the sister of the MC that we unfortunately don't see much of. The story holds the road and the choices are always quite realistic. Choices that of course will have an impact on your relationship with the second characters.

It never happened to me in a VN or any other game, but here as you get more attached to Chris you don't want to lose her and you start to get this kind of jealousy as she leaves with her friend and meets other people. It just feels great. It means that the story is immersive without being animated.

The rendering of the characters are pretty, the different places are well done, the spy system is well thought out and realistic too. In short it's a VN that you have to try.

I give it a good note for its long story but not too much, just enough and the work that has been done to make this VN.

Solid game, worth the time!

A very good story, the images are pretty good and the sound is minimal!
The only downside on my book are the animations, look somewhat strange, but notting to bad or abble to pull you out of the experience.

This game is just good, no matter what you are into.

It is so well-written, that it should be made into a movie.
The options and mechanics are great. The choices are meaningful and rewarding, but not punishing. And there are plenty of "hidden" choices to make things fun.

This game had potential when I first started playing, but it went down hill fast. You NEED a walkthrough for this game. I wish I knew this when I played it because I ended up accidentally walking into the Robert NTR path, and was utterly heart broken throughout the rest of the game, hoping he'd break her heart and come back to me, but she just became a semi-slut (which is weird because there seemed to be no reasonable explanation as to why she went from a shy and innocent girl to a DTF in a matter of days for a guy that made it known he didn't give a shit). Mnd you, this whole shitty cuck route came to fruition of a very small decision I made.

The only reason this game gets a 2 is because the animation and renders isn't bad. Shout out to the devs for giving it a go and making a free to play game but it is way too walkthrough reliant.

Now for the people that actually prefer cuck content and NTR, do not be discouraged by my review. The NTR content was done fairly well, and they did a wonderful job of cucking the MC, but I simply can't stand it, hence the bad rating.

Semi-Spoiler below:



I also disliked how Jess always viewed the MC as some sort of second option to Chris. She was always like "yea you're cool and all but you'll never be her, lets fuck tho!"

Lastly, I am not rating it poorly simply because I dislike the NTR. I rated it poorly because any unsuspecting new player can get cucked like that for little to no reason just because they didn't know they needed a walkthrough/

This is fun story and I enjoyed it quite a bit.

Pros

• Good story
  Good writing
• Good characters
• Good character development
• Good renders and graphics
• Fun and lighthearted adventure
• Sexy females
• Good sex scenes

Bad

• Too many choices lead to the bad ending - A walkthrough is required to get the good ending unless you want to spend tons of hours trying different options - Choices that should be personal preferences really matter in the story development when they shouldn't which makes it really tough to play the game without a walkthrough - This is my biggest complaint of the game!
• Writing and dialog need a proofreader - too many spelling errors, misused words, and missing words
• There isn't a Jessica only path - Christine has to be your main love interest
• I wish the sex scenes would be longer and more involved in many instances - This isn't exclusive to this game however

Overall a solid game that I enjoyed playing!

I recommend it as long as you use a walkthrough to help guide you through it.

So I played this though a few times, while in development. I also supported the developer for at least a few updates. The game is good, very good at times, but loses its way as it goes.

The renders get better quite quickly from the beginning of the game. The characters all look quite nice, and natural, which is nice. The sex scenes also get quite good the further the game goes on.

Christine is a really good character. She grows decently as a character which is important in a story. Her interactions with you are really good, quite cute, and very well written. Jessica is also a pretty good character, who is clearly going through some things. It all sets up for some good storytelling.

The problem the game gets into is in the 3rd act. It takes a sharp turn when Christine's Mom, your sister enters the game, and then just ends. It ends so abruptly I thought I was missing part of the game! The storyboard stuff at the end really didn't satisfy me at all in terms of ending the story. Was very disappointed with the ending. I felt that the developer could have done so much more with the game but it seemed like he was done and ready to move on. Shame.

It is still worth playing, if just for the great banter and relationship building between Christine and you, and Jessica too.

This is one of those games that really improves the further you go into it. When you first play it, the whole navigation system really sucks. The renders aren't all that great. But after about an hour in, the renders get way better and all the lame navigation options get removed. There's a really nice story here that gives you several main paths (some are avoidable NTR) with some really attractive heroines. If you like incest stories, this is for you. If you like NTR, this is for you. It's a great corruption story all around.

Wow this game was amazing! The story was really good. I actually reccomend paying attention to the story and not just skipping around to sex scenes. It is a very VERY long game though with so many different routes to go crazy with.

The characters were sexy and full of personality. Christine was actually really cute the more you get to know her. The renders are really well done and so are the animations. I also kinda like how they actually added a lot of story to the ending and that it wasn't just a fuck and get results. They actually talk about the results with the characters of all your hard work.

10/10 I would say I would play it again but, I have already spent to many hours playing this one and ended up playing multiple different routes at the same time on different monitors XD

ENJOY

THE BAD:
First of all, the dev made every man bald from the start or made them bald when he came up with the mask dance so it wouldnt cringe?
Cause kind of cringes anyway, pretty much everyone is recognizing everyone, even though almost every man looks the fucking same.
Second the Yatch thing doesnt even make sense, Maybe in some route makes sense..
Jessica is the worst friend ever, after aknownledging Chris is a creep magnet, she continues feeding creeps to her, throwing innuendo around creeps, way to go bes friend. Not to mention exploiting her for profit. And she is supposed to love her...

Jessica was supposed to be doing well and getting income, she lures Chris with that money, but she loses suscribers.
Jessica publishes a photo with chris. can yo even publish a photo of someone who hasnt been verified with ID?
The Jessica Chris patreon route is kind of stupid.
MC hacker had to learn remote access to infect computers remotely?
Silver somehow learned Jess address and sent him the dildo?

This game as a novel is quite frustrating, i think is more rewrding with NTR eyes.,at least you will get a rush.
For me, undesired outcomes are better to handle when not achieved with plot convenient stuff or holes.

If you play this for the story, know that a lot of things are questionable, like cheap soap opera questionable.

THE GOOD:
If you play it for the MC relationship development stuff, that will probably carry you throught all the bullshit.
The means to make it work could be different, but its effective watching the big picture.
How much it pays off depends on how much you can take, but at least that part is quite interesting.
Sex scenes make sense, thats a big plus, and last more than 3 pictures and 6 lines of CAPS. Wont see intelectual discusions while deepthroating either
Massage scenes, that kind of build intimacy and most games neglect them, this one doesnt.

An excellent game with A LOT of content, meaningful choices and realistic dialogs. I didn't expect it to be so good tbh, but It took me 3 days to finish my playthrough and it never stoped being interesting, it has A TON of adult content.

Pros:

• excellent story
• realistic and memorable characters
• realistic dialogs
• a lot of choices that matter
• multiple endings
• a lot of content
• decent animations

Cons:

• renders aren't great, sometimes characters look like they have a realy dark skin color, while they actualy don't
• some spelling errors here and there
• many scenes lack renders, text says one thing, while the render shows another.

Could be a really great game but i really dont like that if i choose "wrong" the game ends its really disappointing that in a lewd game you cant do lewd things? Like i said otherwise the game is good but for me this mechanic is breaking down the whole experience so i think this game is just not for me.

This game is pretty decent but has some issues. The skin on a lot of the characters is ugly and plastic. There is not much choice in the game, no matter what options you pick the same thing happens most of the time. Horrible navigation with usually no clue what you should be doing.
Trying to play the game without a guide is very hard and it’s much better to play through using the walkthrough.

The things I like are the personalities of each character, they are all different and spunky in their own way.

some choices seemed unavoidable and i ended up with the loveboat ending after trying not to. Scumbags getting the spoils always bad ending .
The story did have me engaged and I enjoyed most it, some very well-written content in there but yeah, I guess I really dont like to see the bad guys win like that I even alt-f4 when i saw the ending-screen and deleted the folder lol.

Let me start by saying that I would have given this a 5 right until the ending.

The story kept me interested, the characters were mostly believable (and likeable) and the story was good enough that you became invested.

Also, I followed the "Patreon horny" walkthrough to see if my wrong choices were the cause of what I feel was a fucking shit ending. But nope. I would have put this near the top of my list, but the ending puts it at the bottom which is odd because I enjoyed it alllllll the fucking way there.

Graphics opinions:

I will also say that graphics have pretty much zero weight in my reviews. Im reviewing the story/gameplay, not the models.

I can deal with shitty graphics (lets face it, most of these have ugly faces, or just ugly or insanely unrealistic girls). I will say that the girls faces seemed much worse in the start than they did in the last half. I feel the author was able to fix whatever they were doing wrong.


Example of the face early on (bottom right) and how she looks later (I dont think the face really changed, I think the poses/angles/something changed but whatever it is it helped a lot)

Also last minute edit. The name is HORRIBLE. Im not sure about other countries, but here in the US, "babysitting" is something that is done for children 13 and under. From 14-18, if you have a babysitter, you are a very very bad or untrusted child. So I almost skipped this entirely because the name was very misleading. I dont feel like there is ANY babysitting or babysitters in this story at all.

More Edits: I just talked to some people on discord and found there is apparently a much better ending that I was unable to get. When I had issues making bad choices (that seemed good) I followed the walkthrough (both paths). I will say that my rating stands because even with the walkthrough I was not able to get a path I enjoyed and I should not need a walkthrough in the first place.

2023 edit (replaying):
I didnt mention it before, but the reason I had issues before was that I chose the horny route and not the friendship route. Because of the wording, I did not understand that the "friendship" route is the one where you guys stay together. To me, friendship means no fucking, no dating, etc.

I decided to give this game another go. One thing I am noticing that I didnt really notice before (or maybe I just didnt care) is that starting around day 7, the writing goes way downhill. Or maybe more accurately, the wording. My guess would be that from day 1-7 the dev had an actual native english speaker to translate or fix the text, but after that.... yeah. I can no longer help but read all dialog in a horrible russian accent in my head. I'm not sure I am going to be able to finish it because the crap russian accent my mind is trying to put on all of the dialog is really shitty and does not match any of the characters. Some examples:
"Probably we should change a topic here."
"Christine quickly changes into her gym clothes and takes the bus to meet the Jessica at Haven park."
"The Christine leaves the hot tub..."
"You went to the bedroom to pick up your phone and returned back to the Christine. On the way back you called your friend Tommy..."
"Christine turns around as she realize that they haven't scrubbed their legs yet. At the same time they try to lean forward to wash their own legs what ends in pushing Jessica's breast into the Christine's face."
"Over the music the Christine hears loud crash. She looks over and sees a bunch of people bowling nearby."
"Jessica waves at the Christine and Robert."
"You get the to the balcony while following the Christine and Jessica... but then you stop..."
"You and Christine make out some more. The Christine seems to like it, but you feel like you could be pushing things ahead more."
"Christine quickly changes into her gym clothes and takes the bus to meet the Jessica at Haven park."
"Robert leaves. Christine walks over the Jessica."
"The girls get out of the shower and head to the Jessica's room."
"Silver looks at the Jessica again..."
"Christine puts her arm towards the Jessica face and acts like she's using the force..."
"You grab a beer for you and drink for the Jessica at the bar."
"Later, the Jessisa is getting her hair cut."
"Because probably Robert's girlfriend came there and she started swearing..."
"you are freak into healthy style and you want to be a journalist."
"I go to the bathroom to get the water started. Waiting you there."
"You wave on the Alyssa... she quickly pass by with grin on her face..."


Then, before starting my new playthrough, I went through the walkthrough. And ran into the same issue as before. Very confusing. There is a "Corporate Route" and a "Patreon Route" (which is labelled as a "horny route"). Apparently the Corp route is the friendship route (which again, sounds like you would end as friends, not lovers). The entire walkthrough just gives me a headache. I feel this also could have been better done by someone who was a native english speaker.

I guess it wasn't my cup of tea.

I completed 2 playthroughs, and even after all I felt it could have been a lot , lot better.

If I had to pick a positive thing, I'd say the Jessica character is quite unique. She's the kind of girl that drives any man crazy, in a good way, despite her lacking backstory. Her character is really sexy too.

Now, Christine gets really annoying with her insecurities and how they go very far in the story, depending on which route you choose and the many decisions you may pick along the way.

By the way, I felt like no matter what your choices were, sometimes they didn't lead to a rewarding revelation, a character development, or progressing with any of the girls. And that's my biggest disappointment, the game felt like a clicker game sometimes. Somehow you think it will be worth it and you grind through all the clicking just to find out how quickly things unravel in the final part. Some of the scenes are unnecessarily long and tedious, the characters talk so much you just find yourself barely reading anything.

There are some other girls you can interact with, but you always feel like you'll ruin your progress with poor Christine. There's a couple interesting girls you get to score just once or twice, but I think they deserved a little more development.

Ugly and stiff model, way too much bad end, story is alright, sex scene are alright but nothing too great, the girl are mildly appealing personality wise.

Just an average game with nothing really interesting to offer !