VN - Ren'Py - Bad Hero [Xmas 2024 v1.4.3p] [Xlab]

Bit early to get real idea of this game

At moment is very linear but it does have the potential to be fleshed out and diverging paths.

The characters do seem interesting and showing potential but concerned with so many characters to develop will it stagnate game, with so many characters to develop forward progress will be slow. How long will it be before we can corrupt the cop?

Doesn't help that very little progress to be made with any of the pointed characters so feels like most of porn content so far dick pics. The two sex scenes are pretty disappointing and limited.

I like what he is trying to do but only time will tell.

EDIT

Renders not only not improving the faces are just plastic and showing no emotions at all the animations are still very basic.

The game is just all over place and MC showing no intent to actually do anything constructive to address storyline issues, instead following dick and chasing ridiculously plotted money issues.

The introduction of abysmal mini games.

The characters are just not developing.

The dialogue and story development is just terrible.

It is a shame as he seemed to have a great idea but it is just going downhill and very clear he did not take time to put a proper development plan or story tree in place. Is also clear he knows he losing way and is throwing things out randomly in hope they stick ie mini games.

I wish it were possible to give separate ratings between "Graphics" and "Writing" in this case, so I'm going to go with the moderate 3 stars. Graphics wise, I gotta give this thing a 5. It's models are all top notch and the creator knows how to make a pretty girl, and a nice scene. On the other hand, storywise this thing is only getting one star. The English is god awful, and people act in ways that are entirely unrealistic at all. Furthermore, the protagonist is a very unlikeable character, and so is his buddy Marty. I swear this has to be some Fight Club Tyler Durden shit between those two, but they are both assholes so I dunno. In fact the story would be a lot better if that were the case, but even then it wouldn't be a good story because I have no faith in the writing skills of this writer.

This game is quite bad at the moment. The renders are OK, not great but not bad either, but the writing is terrible. I mean that on three different levels:

1. The engrish is strong with this one. I know not everyone speaks English as a first language, but if you decide to create a game in English you should have minimal standards, at least to make sure your text is comprehensible.

2. On a microscopic level, the writing is awful. Things like whenever a character enters a room, a text line appears that says "someone enters room" or something like that. If you choose a bad option you get a game over, and I don't mean something happens in the plot which makes you lose. I mean you click, and immediately after you get a "game over" screen. No explanation, no resolution. You're just left to imagine what happened (usually it's quite trivial but still).

3. The writing is equally awful on a macro level. The characters and their actions make no sense. The main character wakes up with an old homeless dude hugging him, and literally seconds later they are already friends and give each other money (you'd imagine a homeless person would be very careful and protective of his money, but no). The main character has two daughters whose names he doesn't know. One of them was still in their mother's womb when he was incarcerated, so OK. What about the other one? She was born before he went to jail. How come he doesn't know her name? This is some crazy shit.

This is definitely a 1-star game. I gave it 2 out of hope the creator would improve over time and will fulfill any potential he might have. I tried not be the asshole who bitches about how bad the game is, but it's quite hard in this case.