Ren'Py - Back Again [v0.10] [BigBoy Projects]

way too many time gated events for a linear story
needs plenty of touchups for bugs
needs a better ui for locating people
needs dialogue change after becoming sex friends, so many of them just keep the same dialogue which is generally combative

I think the game has great potential, but it has significant flaws.

The game is extremely grindy due to RNG. I am not sure it's even designed without rollback in mind. For instance, to grow confidence, there's like 66% chance of failure (-1 confidence) and 33% of success (+1 confidence), you're average negative confidence with this.

The game has basically zero cues as to what you're supposed to do. There is a main quest, which is intentionally made to be padded (oh you did something on the weekend? Continue next weekend! Repeat 4 times!"

So mix these two together and you're basically making zero progress forward. Just to put it in perspective, I had to open up the quest and script files to figure out what to do with most NPCs.

Finally, file size is misleading, the game contains a lot of videos that just aren't implemented yet.

While I can easily understand the frustration of other reviewers, but I really think this game has some potential. Yes, the start was tough and yes, there is a noticeable lack of real content up until now, but I noticed that at the end there was an improvement especially at the in-game walkthrough. Also, the dev has a good taste picking the models. he just needs to pump in some content to move things forward with the current characters. After that, he can introduce new ones to keep a steady interest. All that under the condition that he finds a decisive solution in transferring the saves to the new updates, and quickly, because I for one will not start a new game once again.

Even with cheats on, this game is a thankless grind. Seriously, WITH the cheat you have to click about 100 times to make any meaningful advancement. this is frankly insulting to your players. That said, the graphics and UI are good, and i like the girls and the way everything looks, so 2 stars not 1

Felt like starting off the first review here.

Realistically for the average player, this may be more of a 3 star game. Sandbox is clunky, UI isn't the prettiest. Some small NTR esque scenes thrown in. But it just works for me.

Great choices of pornstars, the sex scenes are paced well, and I love the use of videos. I'd recommend finding a way to not accidently skip a video if you're clicking through the text.

Aside from that it had a good amount of content for a second release. Keep looking for ways to improve player QoL, and keep those girls at that right amount of dirty.

Looking forward to the next update.