Ren'Py - BangCity [v0.14a] [BangCityDev]

Sandbox that turns into doing the same thing over and over again. I understand the purpose of a sandbox title, but at what point to do you streamline the process and start to cut out the extra nonsense? This needs to be desperately trimmed down. Once specific events take place don't make them cycle over and over again. Close them off. If you want your players to be able to revisit scenes have them unlockable in a gallery. The story here isn't bad. i loved the revenge path the MC can take. But the gameplay loop is just awful. And unfortunately it's bad enough I just don't want to continue any further. I would love to see a trimmed down version of this without the sandbox mechanic and really see the dev cook this story up to hold my and many others attention.

Best of luck. Hope you find your base.

It's a sandbox VN that falls into the trap of having to do the same thing over and over and over agiain until the story progresses. The animation isn't really good and the story is kind of interesting but the repetition kind of ruins everything because its so slow. The have a lot of locations on the map so I'm guessing they had some large plans to expand the story, but really I ended up using only a fraction of the the sites.

The game is pretty good, no really, the game would be pretty good if it weren't so extremely easy to fall into a dead end loop.

I had a savegame for many versions and several patches ago I entered this loop. In this latest version, despite how long it is, I decided to start over to try to have a correct experience, big mistake, the game went into a loop even earlier than in my old savegame.

The developer should restructure the game and forget about the sandbox part, because it is currently so broken that it cannot be fixed.

BangCity [v0.13d] [BangCityDev]


Pros

• Self-guiding/narrative is a plus point.
• Fairly good quality of image renders.
• Very good quality of animations.
• Sound is fairly OK.
• Playability, performance and grammar are all just OK no issue

Cons

• Typical repetition of routine to progress the story. I tried until halfway to chapter 5 and lost patience.
• Lack of seductiveness in sexual approach.
• Spell mistakes and grammar needs improvement.

[v1.13c]
Your avarage grind type dating sim.

-Story, Originality
You want to bang girls from your band, but there are a lot of bad stuff happening.

-Renders
Mid-good 3D models. Nothing too uncanny or too anime.

-Sound
Some music and some sounds. Nothing bad or awesome.

-Playability
There is a lot of grind to get all the content, some scenes require you to wait in-game days.

-Performance
Works as any other Ren'Py.

-Bugs
Didn't see any.

-Animations
Basic animations/changing photoes.

-Voice Acting
Don't remember any speech, but I think there were h-sounds.

-Grammar
Didn't see any mistakes.

-Amount of content
Plenty of h-scenes, but to get them you have to grind for a very long time.

The plot is also somewhat strange and I didn't feel any exitment playing this.

Bang City is not a good game in any regards. Lets start with the MC, I take it he's been abused all his life and he wants revenge, I get it and I like it, but he is very unlikeable, stupid and thinks in a very primitive way. The rest of the characters are not better, making it easy for me to lose all interest in their lives, problems or corruption. Add to that the fact that the writing is very bad and there are very few relevant choices up to where I played before leaving the game, and the whole experience falls on itself.

Render quality is not great either, same as character models. Music has some presence but it's not particularly well chosen or interesting or varied and outside that there are no other sound effects of mention. At least it seems not to have bugs.

So, all in all, clearly a game you can skip and lose nothing and save time. Not worth it.

A decently put together game with a nice variety of kinks and a serviceable narrative that is only really held back by average to below average sex scenes and stilted writing.
If you are looking for a game with a good handle on sharing as a kink you can probably do worse than this, there's no real NTR here as almost all of the MMF content is at the direction of and controlled by the MC. If you don't want to share your girls you don't have to. That being said there are no virgins here and a good portion of the girls are massive sluts so you will hear about their past exploits. If you are overly sensitive to other dudes being in a game you should probably take a pass
the visuals are decent and the main LI is quite attractive. One of the issues however is the sex scenes leave a bit to be desired. Narratively they are fine and arousing but the dev doesn't have the greatest eye for what looks hot. There are hot scenes and there is a ton of sex so you won't be disappointed but the overall mixed quality of the sex scenes knocks this down a bit.
There aren't real animations here and i almost feel like the dev would be better served making the still renders a bit more arousing then trying to get the "animated" tag with some flip book type animations, though i understand the power that tag has
game play is fine and it's never really unclear what needs to be done next
the narrative is serviceable and the characters are decently engaging, the writing is a bit stilted here and there and that another bit of a knock on the game
Incest is a possibility with a fan made patch and while i won't knock the game's rating for that i will say that it is a bit uneven, but if you are looking for that kink this game works well as a mom/son game
overall a good sharing game with a nice central M/S type relationship that can get very kinky if you want it too.
Recommended for anyone interested in sharing content and anyone who isn't put off by a game full of sluts

To be honest I didn't make it far, the writing is fucking atrocious and I couldn't stand it. I'm so tired of devs not proof reading their shit. You have tons of free options and you can go on fucking fiver for a cheap editor. Jesus christ just put some effort into your writing. Other than that, models are fine but they aren't worth suffering through the writing.

One of the best games with sharing/swinging content. The models are really well done, the gameplay is not tedious and the sex scenes are really hot.

This is one of this games you can't miss, it deserve a lot more of support in the patreon.

REVIEW UPDATE!

The randomness of the game causes saved games to accumulate errors, so on many occasions you will not be able to play certain new scenes because you are trapped in a loop.

After playing it for 2 days straight with almost no rest only to sleep and have lunch, because i wanted to know what is this game about, i came to the conclusion that this game is boring, grinding and just..boring

It starts good with the premises of a guy who can take revenge on the whores and his father gang, but the game starts to wonder between a life with nice house and the whores hideout

The life with the mother for me just makes the game worse there begins the grinding with same scenes and hours day after day with minimun changes that makes this game unbearable and boring

then little by little we have more and more content with the whores and it's fine , i liked it, but then again the life with the damn mother makes this game BAD

I just wanted a fucking choice to turn off all the content with that women but never appeared , for real, such a pain in the ass all the sex scenes they have, all the infinite teasing until they fuck made me uninstall this game because i had no interest in that women but the game forces me to have that scenes because Yes

After that i lost all interest in this, the whores are fine but not enough to make me play this grinding mess, Gina was the best for me.

Short version

The Good:

Models are ok
Repeatable sex scenes are ok, varied enough.
Plot just interesting enough to keep you clicking

The Bad:

As of right now, there is absolutely no reason this should be a sandbox game. Game is so linear about what to do next, there's no reason to have an city map or location selection. Why not just take me there automatically? This may change in future updates, but its a slog right now.

Progress with Love interests can be slow or unclear to a frustrating degree.
Can feel like I'm playing a cookie clicker.

(as of v.12e)

Q: What did Tony the Tiger say on the witness stand?
A: Theeeeey'rrrrrre... okay...

This game is... okay. It's a pimp-fantasy, with a lot of raunch and humour, so like Risky Business meets Porkies. It pretends to be open-world, but is totally on rails. Two dozen locations but usually only something happening at one of them. I'm okay with that - saves a lot of time-wasting. There's lots of grinding, but each turn of the grinder has a little variation, which is clever. There is a shit-ton of content.

The renders are... okay. They're grainy, and there are long stretches with no variation, just straight two-shots, so there is need for more variety, more closeups. But sometimes the composition is really creative. The later scenes in the studio, for example, seem like they came from a totally different VN.

The women are... okay. It's like you're squinting, and in one render they look attractive, and in the next, eww... The LI is particularly bad for this. She's a weird design choice, imho, with her big nose and frizzy hair. She looks like Barbara Streisand... and, as a great man once said, that's a challenging wank.

And there's the thing where in the bottom of the screen there's a portrait. I don't mean to pick on this dev, lots do this, but do people think this actually adds value? I suppose it's meant to a) indicate the speaker, and b) indicate emotion. But if you can't tell who's talking, isn't that a writing problem? And for showing emotion, isn't that what the render is supposed to do?

The writing is... okay. It could really use a once-over by a native speaker, but again, that's true of 75% of the games on this site. There's lots of chatter, lots of inner monologing, and I just click through it. The humour is clever at times, and it's too bad it gets buried in all the nattering. And the constant refrain of "fuck bitches" gets boring real fast. You try saying it over and over again.

Again, not picking on this dev, but with things like The Wire and The Sopranos so readily accessible, why do devs have such a hard time making criminal activity believable? This one isn't as bad as some others, but still...

Anyway, yeah, it's... okay.

story suppose to be son of local pimp taking over pimp business, but feel story limited make it feel less enjoyable because mc limited choice or option allow to do with it subject(hoe / pros) well cause no exp pimp IRL is expected of game... no sleep sex. (edit: and why mc so crazy for landlady is mystery! mc have enough $$ get his own place somehow into not attrative landlady? i thought focus story suppose to be on build his pimp empire)

sandbox game with limiter on how you play it so not free roam.

graphic is okay is free game. no complaint about it.

music/sound : seem to be silent game for me...

The renders are pretty good but I have no idea how you expect anyone to read and follow along when the thoughts in general are so garbled. The premise for the game is super interesting, but stream lining MCs thoughts and making the dialogue clear would be very helpful, best of luck!

This game should not be a sandbox game. The whole point of making a game in sandbox is so that you can free roam and advance the game in the order you want to. All the tasks in this game are very linear. You have a bunch of locations you can click on, but for the most part you can only go to the location that is the next task. Sure you can go to the trailer park or the bedroom when your mom is showering, but those are minor instances and do not justify making the entire game a sandbox.

The story isn't great. There are tons of grammatical errors.
Also the MC isn't very likable - IMO. But I am not giving a lower score just because I don't particularly like the MC; that is personal preference and doesn't necessarily reflect whether the game/VN is well done. But I don't feel the game is well done.

Game play: terrible
Story: poor
Renders/animations: good
Overall: poor

0.12c
It's not going to win any awards, but this is a fun adult VN. Plenty of plowing to do, good selection of women, and just enough choice to keep you paying attention. Story avoids melodrama, isn't afraid to have you be kind of a jerk and is right up my alley.
Art is serviceable. Enough content that I haven't been able to finish it yet even with some use of the "auto" feature in 2 hours.
I'll be looking forward to future updates.

I think this is a good and underrated game with a fair amount of content
It lacks animations heavily as well as variation in sex scenes as they are mostly vanilla despite the game theme (gangs, girls who are drug addicted etc)
I hope it will improve with future versions

In theory all the components are there...but in practice it's a futile effort.
The MC is set out to leave the disgusting past behind him...by taking revenge on the disgusting past.
YEP COCK
We "manage our own brothel"...except there is nothing to manage. The scenes we begin in chapter one stay the same literally throughout the whole game. We get the punish mechanism later on which is completely useless. By that time we have enough money. Besides i got bored fairly fast with the bitches. The level of interactivity is low. We can pay only Gina. Giving her thus more mood and motivation. No option for other four girls.
Our mom hooks us up with THREE GIRLS...i can't remember their names whatsoever...the first two get tossed out by the dev fast. I actually fancied the first one...WISH she had some NTR content...while staying "pure with love waiting for the promised prince" and fucking behind our back. You know as a lesson of patience or whatever.
Oh right the mom. We get asked a stupid question if we are ok with Mom dating this pornstar dude...except it all happens off camera. We never witness it. EVER. Still this apparently triggers the snowflakes of this forum into oblivion thus the NTR tag.
95% of the game is spent on...reading the dialog between the MC and mom...day by day the dev teaches us how to be kind towards woman(maybe the MC should start puting effort and being more nice towards his girls?).
This is the worst part of the game. The dev spent humongous time on renders were they "break the ice". The mC desperately tries to get into his mom's pants. This is the whole game. I KID YOU NOT. Text after text after text...We read read read...All five chapters. Same thing over and over.
There is the "influencer" with her low IQ as an appetiser between the reading...but those are one time flings non repeatable.

I noticed what is wrong here. I got extremely tired and annoyed with the whole talking with mom but at the same time there are no proper side missions. No storyline. We do not get the opportunity to get to know the other girls. Their story and characters do not get fleshed out. They are simply thrown at us.
Then came the swing club. Great fantastic. Again repeatable scenes with no context.
There should be more interaction between all the girls. The MC kept lying to his mom. He took advantage of the bitches. He can't apprehend thee also were abused heavily like him. And he continues the circle of hate just like his father. did They stay stupid dolls. I though he will help them to move on...instead we keep lying and depend on other people...
The mom needs to find out her son kept lying and he earns money through pimping those girls. How he fucks them mechanically. There needs to be a campbellian punishment and wake up for him.

The scene were MC walks in on a drunk Linda is mind breaking. The MC can not recognize himself in her. He keeps repeating the same mistakes just as her. Instead of putting into action the lessons from Valerie he keeps ignoring the problem for another day or maybe never. I
ALso the MC and Valerie live towards their vices. He treats women as objects and she being fixated on her son. There needs to be some reconciliation with their past. Otherwise it's going o be a boring slice of life...
wish there was an ending in which the MC saves Linda. THey escape and make a family. They live the rest of their lives simple and humble but together...

P.S. In all due honesty the trailer park blond is my favorite. I actually feel for her. It annoys me even more how the dev did not make more content for her. Five chapters and nothing. That tells you something...
P.S. #2 There should be sex scenes of mom with all those lingerie we bought her...WTF DEV?!

Really liked this game. alery ,MC's mom is really hot and funny! nice charatterization of the NPC too..the gang ladies are funny and have good renders too. Hope to see how the story goes and can't wait to execise with Mom again soon. Dev is amazing and help every one with minor fix . hope i can see more of the story soon and maybe the girls that' rent room at mom house

Game has huge potential to be a great novel as well as game. The developer gives you the proper background and story line history to get you into it and want to progress the story even further. Kind of like not wanting to put a good book down that keeps you up half the night!

Graphics and renders are good to great. Might want to consider introducing some additional side characters (female) not related to the gang. Might throw a wrench into the MC's thought process. lol.

This developer takes the time to communicate changes with users outside of the posts with direct mail contact which makes him one of the best.

Thank you.