VN - Ren'Py - Bad Hero [Ep.2 v3.3.4p] [Xlab]

Im gonna say this is bad. First of all at the beggining there are choices that are no choices at all, and other choices that get you a game over. This causes a bit of confusion.
From there this shit jumps from one character to the other, offering disconnnected sex scenes that you can not skip, so you have to watch some old dudes dick, who is not the mc, and some other character that you dont know and dont care ant its sort of unrelated to anything.

For disconnected sex scenes and irrelevant writing , real porn will always be better.

This jumping around continues and at some point i just skipped, that made it more dificult to understand the game.

It is a disaster and its quite short.

EDIT:
After "playing 1.9.4 the game is still a crap. And Why?
First of all there are so many moments wher you actually have to makea choice that is not a choice, like continue, or inititatie, or watch, and those are pointless and in the same scene you may have to clic 2 of those.

The sex is super free and crazy and sex scenes are kind of mediocre. This kind of justifies why there are so many sex scenes, and why its so easy. What doesnt justify is protecting the younger daughter in this free sex world, cause in the end, there is not a special work put on her scenes, they are as mediocre as the rest.

And to finish, the way scenes are changing from one place adn character to another without any logic in space or time is ridiculous. The game definetly looks good in preview images, but thats the best of it. it is utter trash. Sorry.

It is very clear by playing this game that it has been in development for a long time. Models, animations and the overall gameplay are quite bad at the beginning and improve quite a lot as the game goes on. Looking at the thread, it seems it has been in development for about 3 years now. It has its good stuff and it certainly can improve to become awesome in the future, but it would certainly need a revamp of earlier parts.

Very nice story
The renders ape 10/10
Characters 10/10
Plot 10/10
characters so far have the depth that needed to get on the plot and far beyond,,,
the bodies are incredible so far.
i really like the novele as it is , dont change anything.
Well doen dev !

This game contains all ingredients of perfect porn entertainment.
Great looking girls of all sizes and ages!
Many explicit lewd scenes!
Some mild difficulty quests
Engaging story with its ups and downs without falling in the trap of overcomplication.

The animations are OK - good enough. The scene with Kory and Oscar made me laugh hard - which doesn't happen often.
Some ppl may not like the fact that the hero is criminal - well it is just a game and it is funny and wildly entertaining!
It is solid 4 stars game - I am giving it an extra star to counter the one star disingenuous haters out there.

Game started out promising, if a bit ridiculous, but quickly descends into utter anarchy. Translation is so bad, half the time you're guessing as to what's actually going on. Just becomes a string of random sex scenes with no real coherent story between them. Premise was solid, but it's just a mess. Some halfway decent renders give it 2 stars instead of a complete fail. There is just much better incest stuff out there.

The game isnt well written but the models are nice. If you like whores and filth this games for you. I might have given it a better review except the dev decided to toss in some NTR which is a huge deal breaker for me after not even having a NTR tag. Christmas NTR fair warning. This dev needs to add a NTR tag to this crap. After having played this Christmas update I deleted it.

The models are good, and there are good bits of story. Unfortunately the positive bits are surrounded by wasteful crap and the story jumps around so much i ended up skipping most of the text. The item search sections, with the hearts and key, or the ornaments, was a giant waste of time and pain in the ass on a small laptop screen. Couldve been great, fell apart.

The Story is all over the place.predatorial Lesbians everywhere .useless characters that dont add anything or what so ever to the story. everyone is plotting against the MC
too bad the animations. charas design and the start of the story where good enough but the the dev wanted to annoy me soo much and destroy all of it .

Pros:

1- Some Renders are in general acceptable to borderline good in some angles, but overall it's the usual stock DAZ models you came to expect to.

Cons:

1- Story at it's best moments is pretty bad, at it's worst, it's cringe-inducing.
2- Choices are meaningless, this plays more like a Kinect Novel since you have an optimal good choice, a bad choice and an instant game over choice, every time.
3- Dev later adds mini-games into the mix to get extra-content, they're in general pretty much a waste of time.

Not a game, just a story. It's a big job with many nice pictures, but if you like game make another choice. If you want to read an illustrated story download it. thank you very much for the job, but I want to play.

Version: v1.3.4f

Review:
The best this game is you do not download it. Seriously, because this game is really bad. I wasted my time playing this, the game's story is totally meaningless and the content is pretty weak. I don't have much to say, I just didn't think it was good and gave up playing it. The renders of the female character models are even acceptable (some), but the sexual content is quite tedious, it's not even worth it.

So, why I did gave 1 star?
The game could have a different idea, not that silly and boring script. The gameplay is made by choice and if you choose wrong, game over. There are mini-games in the game that you have to do to receive the bonus scene, it is not so bad but it is a waste of time. So, some female characters even have a reasonable render, the animations and gameplay, I didn't think they were very good. The story is completely boring, which you will leave of the game and move to recycle bin. Anyway, I do not recommend this game.

I tried to like this game, i really did. The renders are really great, but thats about all the positives i have to say about it.

The writing is so incredibly bad, full of grammar and spelling mistakes, some passages just straight up dont make sense and seem machine translated. The story is incredibly uncreative, and the parts that had potential were handled terribly.

If the dev can fix spelling, and actually get a bit creative with the story it has potential. but as of now, v.1.3.4 its sadly just bad and a waste of time.

[Rev @ v1.2.4f]

Art's about all this has going for it. Characters are alright; the setting/backgrounds/layouts are meh.

Writing is bad. Scenario is novel, but handled abysmally. Narrative is a disjointed derpfest. Characterization is weak and voice is immature.

Porn was dull and unconvincing. The very first bit of porn was to surreptitiously jerk off on a chick; it sets the tone nicely for the rest of the experience being wanky.

TLDR: Would be better as an image gallery.

It was an 'okay' game but it wasn't anything to write home about, if you read the kinks and like them you'll like it a bit but it won't stand out. It's also kind of a pain to play when the walkthrough isn't up to date because while it's not bad it just isn't good enough to play guessing games with. Try it on a slow day if you like it's fets and when an up to date walkthrough has been posted, there's enough in here it's 'okay', otherwise look for better games.
Update: I'm going to cut it a little extra slack, the bondage apparatus scene with the chick with HUGE boobs deserves an extra star. That and the walkthrough mod is up to date.

Incredible; rare idea, terrible, terrible execution.

The idea of being a bad guy is quite rare out there. And our MC here has all the necessary qualities to be one. There's a great cast of girls, diverse in all ways. Also, the music is kinda nice in the beginning.

However...

a) This is secretly a cuckold game. Everyone's getting some decent action with hotties, we are just there to watch. To each their own, I guess, buuuuuuuut that should've been mentioned explicitly.
b) The most major pitfall of the game is the structure. The symptoms of the problem include asking "what the fuck is going on?" more times than the author obviously intended, absolute lack of understanding of characters and their motivations (especially for MC), lack of a mental map of the story, forgotten ideas, having a christmas special in the least appropriate of places, and just general amateurish feeling of the story.
c) General writing is absolute garbage. It's unpolished and feels amateurish - when I was 12, the characters in stories I tried writing talked similar to this.
d) While all of this would've been forgiven to a game with good sexual content, the sexual content here is... Not really good. I'll admit, I got frustrated and left when the author , so I don't know ALL of the sexual content, but of what I've seen, it's very vanilla (so really undeserving of the tags) and mechanical, soulless. There is no emotion to the sex, no context to it.
e) MC doesn't respect the rules of gun safety. He leaves his gun unattended and unsecured. While I get that he's a gangster, even gangsters don't let their guns get stolen. This is just a personal pet peeve of mine, but a major one.

Overall, the good really, really doesn't outweigh the bad here. I was torn between 1 and 2 stars, and I decided to leave 2, just because some of the girls and their personalities were hot, and some of the moments felt emotionally engaging (all of those within the very beginning).

This game is about MC being a real hardcore bad guy. There are not much games in this genre especially with such good graphics and story and without any grind, free roam. I dunno why this game has so low rating since it has everything to attract attention in a good way.

A story about an excon mc. Returning to regain his turf in his old milieu. I'd rate it largely a comedy. The mc is sometimes genious sometimes buffoon. Mostly asshole occasionally decent. The game doesn't take itself seriously. Any critique of inconsistencies of character in the mc are mute. Guys like the mc exist if in slightly less exaggerated form. The game is a parody. There's are surprises, cute girls some violence and generally a lot of degeneracy. Kinks include incest and drugs. Give it a go if you like those things in a game.

The story isn't great but the absurdity of it makes it fun.
The animations and renders get better a bit later on in the game and are rather good. There are a lot of mixed reviews for this game. I'd say that if you're looking for something polished with a serious plot, you might be disappointed. But if you like something a bit stupid and fun, then you'll probably enjoy this game.

The MC has just a bizzare personality especially after being in prison for 18 years...

Really jarring location transitions between dialogue.

The more irritating thing for me was the sudden screen telling me to go play the spin-off at this point. Which then frequently gets referenced in the game.

If the content is supposed to be known information in the main game it SHOULD NOT be separated out into a different game.

Frank swings wildly from being a formidable criminal to seemingly being the most naive person alive at the drop of a hat and it feels really jarring at times and makes a lot of the game painful to sit through.