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

Definitely a 5. CG quality is great, animation quality is like a 8/10, story is pretty good. There's a bit of everything.

The main story, the MC and the main love interest are pretty damn good and the focus of the game, with a wide variety of ways to get there. There is optional NTR and lesbianism if that's your thing.

My only annoyance, is that like most renpy games that branch out over time, the choice patterns are not nice to you. Things that you think are nice aren't actually nice and vice versa (when it comes to how they affect stats). So you kinda NEED to play this with a walkthrough (which is nicely provided by the creator). It covers the 2 main paths of the story. Both paths are covered in depth with 100% of scenes that aren't NTR, those are the only diverging paths. And that's where my "annoyance" comes from, because all other choices are simply about cutting off characters. For instance, there is a 3-way junction at one point, one progresses NTR, one cuts off a character, one proceeds as normal.

Phew, I ranted a bit more than I would have liked for a review, as this complain is one I have with A LOT of renpy games. That still doesn't change the fact that this game is a solid 5/5.

I was following this game since the first release. It was "ugly duckling" back then, but I saw great potential. I'm glad I was right.
This is one of few games with choices that matters. If you want to be promiscuous - you can; if you want a love story with Christine - you can; if you're into netorare - again, you can play that way.

Ugly duckling now is the swan. Congrats to devs.

Decent story and renders with 2 paths to play down. My biggest issue was that I felt the need to use a walk through, because not all of the decisions are as intuitive as you would think. The yacht scenario gets forced on you regardless of which path you take, and the cam girl path of getting there feels cobbled. The most recent update has really stepped up the quality on animations, so kudos to that.

In this game you play the part of an computer programmer who takes in a young girl who has ran away from home and finds himself attracted to his new flat mate. The game has essentially two main routes for the player to navigate through ( both of which test his relationship with his new flat mate..) The way the story unfolds has been handled brilliantly ; early into the game your decisions and interactions with the young lady have immediate and sometimes dire consequences.This is an excellent way of encouraging the player to invest in the character and burgeoning relationship with the young woman - later on as their relationship develops their interactions with other characters can affect the game quite dramatically. All the games characters are well written - so much so you immerse yourself in the game feeling passion,anger,revulsion and sympathy along the way . The writing is complemented by the terrific renders and animations which enhance the games plot lines and character development brilliantly.This game is another example of how the development of the newest AVN’s are raising the bar for the genre.If you’re looking for an AVN that just appeals for it’s explicit content - this isn’t that game - while it contains those elements,undoubtedly it’s far more sophisticated than that - one of the best AVN’s out there T4bboo and his team have done a amazing job - update T4boo and his team then proceeded to lose the plot completely with the last two updates - everything that had been great about the game was abandoned in favour of astonishingly unrealistic plot turns and massively increased adult content overwhelming the original story - my advice play up until the yacht then abandon ship...

Great rendering, good writing, and progresses at a satisfying pace. I'm not evven all the way through my first game yet and this is already better than most of the games I've played on this site. Definitely looking forward to some more quality time with this one.

The visuals are great but what makes this a 5* game is the story. If I don't care about the characters then it hard for me to want to continue the game, T4bbo has done a great job fleshing out the characters.

This is a very nice game with an interesting story that is developing nicely and you have different paths to follow. Also the graphics and the sexy scenes are done very nicely. I really like the friend of the sisters daughter. She is really hot!

Excellent story, relationship development and character development (relationship wise). This is the first one I downloaded and still my favorite.

You are given multiple choices on who you want to be with. Your character does cross the line to creepy (your still mostly the good guy here), BUT, this is your choice and can be avoided.

Also the image transition / "animation" is well done without having actual animation.

Character emotes are good.

Still waiting on the threesome with your niece and her friend

I played the v1.4 of this game and its very nice.
Plot wise it's solid and it gets very interesting near the end(of this version).
The renders/models at the start of the game are pretty bad but as the game evolved you can notice the change which is much great and welcome.(The models are good looking .Also some scenes are animated which is cool.
The NTR in this game is avoidable which is perfect for ppl that dont like it.(not a fan myself,I was hesitant at first but i quite enjoyed it)
There's replayability value as you can choose between 2 main routes that they branch out a bit.

In summary its worth to try out this game even if you're not a fan of NTR.My only complain is the early renders,which make it feel cheap but its not.
Try it out!

This game has both great writing, models, and story line. I'm quite impressed with the developer and look forward to more and also trying to pad this review since all I really wanted to do was add a rating to the thread.

An other great game, where the story is meaningful and not just a way to add more images. The characters are good / believable as well.
I really liked it, hopefully the quality stays like it is and the updates don't take too long.

Babysitter has a great story, images, dialogue and characters. It's a game that makes me feel invested in the main characters. Theres 2 main routes you can take during a playthough, but you can also explore other options.

OK the games running for about a year and 3 months now,frankly the game is OK.story is good but I think the progression is a bit slow,considering the updates is way too short and a bit vanilla scenes.like for Chris,it takes a year for mc to finally fucked her for the niece route.as for ntr route,well there isn't much going.the yatch arc takes forever to progress,likes every update for the yatch story is about 150-200 renders and pretty much short,I guess by the end of the year the yatch story will end.that's how slow the progression is.
I like the renders,good story but slow progression(feels bad for the patrons)

Good graphics and the plot while very much over used, is not to bad. There is no leeway at all in any of the choices. If you choose even one wrong choice, the game ends.
One final observation is the lack of logical choices that should have been there, but were not.
If you read the story, you will see what I mean repeatedly about the options that should logically be there.

I am a bit on the fence with this one, but I want to clearly state that there is a great deal of potential and further developments could make this into a good game.

Early-on there are a lot of game overs, so save spamming is necessary. There is also a bunch of in-game time wasting without much direction, so you have to go around just trying things out, hoping you find something interesting that will progress the story in the way you desire.

The models are decent, but some of the renders/animations can be poor and grainy. Hopefully as time goes on, the H-scenes get better/smoother, as there are a few decent angles, and few let downs. Often the models skins look quite strange, and all the male characters more or less look the same with slight variations.

The writing varies from average to good throughout, but it can feel very slow and takes way too long to get to the few H-scenes. Personally, I'm into a good story, but this one has a really slow burn that takes a while to get going anywhere interesting. At first, it is kind of boring, but pushing through it does eventually grow more intriguing over time. There were way too many NTR-like scenarios for my liking. I don't mind brief encounters, but it is basically the whole game, even if you avoid the worst of it. Nearly every character in the game wants Chris. However, that said, there are some great scenarios/scenes that make Chris very appealing, and I did (eventually) enjoy the development of Jessica's true character/story coming out, even if the foreshadowing was a neon sign.

I had to eventually give-in and use the walkthrough, but it was really hard to follow at times. It does a poor job explaining checks/routes, and many of the choices that were listed I never saw or couldn't figure out how to get, regardless of which route I was reading. I don't see why it had to be divided into two "routes", when everything could be explained through chronological flow based on previous choices (especially in pdf format with links if one requires to jump past scenes that only occur on certain routes).

On a personal note, hopefully all the NTR-like stuff is out of the way now that I avoided everything I could in this early part of the game. The game does feel like it is lacking content for its' age, but as I stated earlier, it is hard to know how much I even missed... so maybe there is a lot more to it than what I encountered in my playthrough. It could just be a slow development process.

In the end, it's an average game, but does have the potential to be at least good, possibly great.

Great story and images, simple mechanics yet also at times complex mini games which makes it feel like a game instead of just click and read, truly great
It's a game that makes me want to restart it to explore different paths/options.

This VN is highly recommended, and only gets better and better the further along you go. It has great characters, well written dialogue, and different options and ways to play through the game. I'm loving the growing relationship between Christine and Jessica as the backstory between the two of them unfolds. Overall, the sex is well paced and believable in how it progresses...not too rushed while also not full of stupid reasons that prevent things from moving forward. Whenever hesitancy from a love interest is encountered it makes sense, and adds a lot to the characters (Jessica was a complete surprise in this regard, but damn does it make her all the more attractive).

The cosplay bit was incredibly well done! I couldn't get enough of that, and I hope it returns for many more scenes. There are so many really well done visuals, good use of music, and smart use of camera angles, etc, that this game honestly deserves a perfect score.

this is probably my favorite game on F95zone. unlike a lot of Visual Novels, in this game your choices does matter and they have HUGE impact on how your game develop. great writing, great Graphics, NTR routes, NON NTR routes, whatever you can think of, this game has it.
5++ A++ give it a try, you won't regret it

This is a game i enjoy it has a lot of good things going for it from the story and characters to allowing you to avoid NTR for us who hate it. The one thing it needs is some sex i think it is coming soon maybe next update.

Sex 6.5/10 Not much of it
Art 9.5/10
Story 9/10
Characters 9.5/10

Below is edit om/5/14/20 after completing game.
The endings could have been a little better, seemed rushed.
Sex 9.5/10
Art 9.5/10
Story 9/10
Characters 9.5/10

Update after V0.1.5
TL;DR
All in all, the updates since the Karaoke night have been a disappointment and as such I have reduced my rating from 4* to 3*

Long arsed version.
We were teased after V0.1.1 that a huge update was coming, a massive story line on a yacht (I will refer to it as a boat cos I'm a PITA), so V0.1.2 comes out and it is the morning after the night before which ends up in a spa with the 3 primary girls. And still we were teased, next that the boat update is so big it MAY be split (with the implication it being 2 parts), so I joked it would carry on until 0.1.6. So far the boat event has taken 0.1.3-0.1.5 and is still not completed. Some people have commented about milking and while I don't like to throw round accusation like that, I can see where they are coming from. Personally it feels like they have bitten off far more than they can chew and promised the world without even having a good map in place (eg staffing issues, apparently).
Because of the dragging out of the event from the 1 big update to at least 4 plus an intermediary one it feels like this review, lots of talk, very little action.
The pictures are still solid and the characters are fine, just the story needs to move on.
1 issue I see is the so called NTR routes (I have changed my mind about them being NTR as you choose not to have the MC chase Christine and choose her to move toward the antagonists). During the boat update, their true colours will be shown and either the MC will do nothing and Christine will go off with them never to be seen again or he will step up and protect her pushing them out of the picture. Either route is game ending for the people following the so called NTR routes, thus possibly losing 1/2 their Patreons. Maybe the devs realised this and are stretching it until they work out a solution.
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Based on V0.1.1
I will not give 5 stars until I see the finished product (I never do or will) as, until then, it could get better...not sure I know how but it could.

TLDR (cos the full review is going to be a long arse one, I'm sure)
Go play it, rather than 'Porn with a plot', I'd call it an erotic novel.

Long arsed version.
I think I discovered this little gem around 0.0.6 and it grabbed me by the collar and dragged me in.
First thing to say is - NTR can be avoided. There are 2 primary routes, currently called Horny and Friendship (though there has been talk of renaming them). I'd suggest reading both through, plus the addendum at the bottom of the walkthrough so you understand which route will suit you best and how best to avoid or embrace different aspects.
Within this, a warning, if you do not like NTR, there are 2 antagonists (so far) and they are written so well you may well want to punch them through your monitor. I stated in once of my posts that I struggle just looking through the image folder at their scenes. So best avoided like the plague.

There have been complaints that the MC is weak, wet, beta or other adjectives, I personally found him to be gentle...not necessarily a gentleman. It is your choice how to play him though. I have not tried too many variables outside of the walkthrough so I don't know how well you can mix up the routes.

In my opinion, the writing is good and the devs are not averse to dropping side characters (one went at 0.1.0) if they cannot see the development of them. There was also a tweak to the script in the current version to address some of the comments about the MC. It wasn't the sort of pressure changes seen on other games that totally change them and to be honest, as one who never had an issue with the MC, didn't really notice the change.

It is not an unusual set up, innocent main love interest in a strange town, sexy, horny friend shows up to prod her in the 'right' direction. However, here again don't get too complacent as the writers do not play it straight once again and open up the back story of the friend, in a good way as it adds another dimension to her and will give her so much more depth.

There are also several future events that have been hinted at or out and out been stated that show there are plenty of development ideas in place. This suggests there is a while to go with this story.

If you like a good story with less than standard characters, this may be for you. If you want instant return with the MC building a harem out of nowhere, you will not like this. I like harem's and have seen hints at it, but knowing the writers it may be at the expense of a relationship, I really don't know.
Two things they have done right, listening to Barnum, they leave you wanting more, without leaving you dissatisfied. Also one of the team frequents F95 and is very active on the game thread taking and giving feedback.

I guess it indicates how good I find this as I have not mentioned the renders yet. They are generally good, you will notice some grainy ones, but these are dark scenes and the grain appears to be used to give the effect of seeing something in dim light. The female models used are all, so far, stunning, the male models are tainted by the story, but are all attractive in their own right. Possibly my biggest gripes about the models are sometimes the girls when wet look like they have been painted gold and the MC's dick at times looks like a snozzcumber, google it, in shape, not colour.