Ren'Py - Completed - BangCity [v1.02] [BangCityDev]

The game is literally unplayable. It's another "sandbox" with several locations, but of course you can only ever do anything at one of those locations at any given time, if that.
You get "options" that all result in the exact same thing, often the opposite of the option you selected.

The grammar is pretty awful, "I did do that," "I did go there," "she did tell me this," and more. The protagonist is crazy hypocritical, "I would never look at a naked woman sleeping. I'm not a pervert!" and then literally takes naked photos of the same woman sleeping the next day.

I finally gave up when the "skip time" option just disappeared and, of course, there's nothing to do on the map until a later time and no way to move time forward except skipping... which I can't do anymore.

Waste of time.

Great game with funny story added with lots of sex (mostly repeats after 1st times but with options can go long way before has seen all sex positions), story works even it has it's dumb things, and game gives plenty of things to smile.

Quite often needs to wait before something happens but it's not bad thing.

To sandbox haters this is sandbox game but it's bad kind of sandbox.

The game itself would be realy interesting from storyside and also the sexscenes were good. But the gameplay ist horrible. If felt like just skipping on and on, because after a few days in every segment, you have seen all the scenes and the just repeat. And then you wait for the next exclamation mark, and there is no change in the texts. It gets so boring after a few days and it doesn*t get forward.
It's a pitty. I would have loved to play it through, because I wanted to know the outcome. But after a few hours, I was to bored out, to commence.

A poorly executed project.

I give it one star because a lot of people overrate this game and I don't think it should reach 3 stars as an average. It was really a bad experience to play it even though it has a lot of scenes and some are good everything else is poorly done I even got stressed out from continuing to play it.

---The story (wasted)..... with which the game begins is very attractive but they didn't know how to handle it properly and it becomes boring and monotonous everything is centered on a single woman and they wasted the opportunity to do something fun with the other characters, this really disappointed me and made the interesting part of the game get lost, it is noticeable that they improvised in the middle to avoid more work, since there are many things that don't make sense to exist and instead of taking advantage of what is already there they added random things to continue with the story and left them abandoned once they fulfilled their purpose.

----The gameplay (probably the worst thing about this game).... the game is not designed to be played when it's complete, I noticed that they only focused on keeping players distracted for the next patch since the game makes you repeat and repeat scenarios without knowing if there is any progress, only some main quests tell you how many times you have to repeat a scenario. Also it's quite unpleasant that they hide scenarios and make you choose which girl you want to be with which lets you see scenes from one but to see the others you have to leave a save file and repeat the whole thing. The way the game is made makes you have to explore every point day after day which slows down your progression quite a bit, if you don't you run the risk of missing scenes that don't tell you exist and if you progress without seeing them you miss them. basically the gameplay is about randomly clicking on a room or part of the city at a specific time on a specific day and repeating an amount of times that you don't know how many times. I've played a lot of games with this format but this one is the one that does it the worst. It's really boring and stressful.

---the scenes (disappointing)..... They really focused on one woman and the others created some scenes for them and left them aside, it was really what disappointed me the most about the game and I ended up tired of only seeing new scenes of the woman they focused on, the fact that there are many fetishes is just bait because in the end there will only be good scenes (very few) of the woman they focused on.

If you have already played games like (share some features of the game) second happiness, the visit, corruption, midnight paradise blah blah and more blah, you are really going to have a bad time.

This one started really well. The protagonist had meaning and reason for his actions and worked towards completing them. Peppered with humor with both photo stills and dialogues.

The other characters had their own personalities and development. Which i found them all quite interesting and fun.

The story and protagonist has his slide that felt like the second act of a film.

The apartment, that was the focus of the main story was able to be updated and upgraded. The sandbox having undeveloped spots that let the player see where the story was heading.

But then, the game switched from all the above gameplay and story telling to be about the landlady figure and her slow corruption and seduction. And all of this pulled what felt was a bigger game and story into a small niche and trope. The renders were nice, even the character events worked too, like the fun football sequence which was a reflection of the time the game was being made. World Cup.

I do recommend this one because it is fun. I did laugh whenever the end of the week came and money had to be given out, and the matriarch sat demanding 15% more with the photo still that was perfect.

It loses stars because the story direction and focus switch and also, it felt like a rushed ending. I'll try it again and if my opinion is changed, i will update this ramble.

• After playing through BangCity 1.02, i enjoyed it. I laughed at the dialogue and characters. Even though at times it felt like two different games & stories they meshed together quite nicely. They overlap enough to be coherent.

The completed product does feel hollow and unfinished with the empty and unused rabbit holes. Skipping time because there is nothing to do that hour of the days. But, the story and characters was compelling enough for me to continue.

I finally finished the game


The premise was interesting, but the ending (chapters 6 and 7) was a bit rushed. I was a bit disappointed with the way the story went, ok nothing against Valerie, but the way the author simply discarded certain characters or didn't give us much content in certain aspects.

Seriously, the first time we enter the BDSM room with Hanna, she shows us 'all the things' we can do, including the chair with the vibrators, where we never use the second button, even following the route with active anal.

What happened with Diana, out of the blue we stopped having scenes with her, without being able to go back on that choice, she was the best to have a threesome, but she just disappeared without trying to find out why with the MC.


The same goes for the bitches in the gang, there comes a point where you just stop caring about them showing up, they just become numbers in your bank account. For a person seeking revenge, the MC's actions with them are a bit too superficial, “ok, how am I going to get my revenge on the person who abused and exploited me during my childhood and adolescence, am I going to break her mentally and humiliate her so that she becomes submissive and dependent on me? No, I'm going to turn her into a camgirl and film porn movies while I fuck her and treat her in a humiliating but softcore way, yes.


Apart from all that, it's a decent game, a bit of a grind, but nothing a fast forward can't solve.

Review updated on 2024-08-04: old sentences crossed out and new ones underneath

The idea of this game is really good, but the execution is amateurish. Up to chapter 5 everything is fine, it happens roughly as planned, but chapter 6 is completely chaotic, you can see the listlessness in the writing. Just a few examples:
Events happen long before they are on the to-do;
New: done, it was my own stupidity

Visits to the boutique, this is supposed to happen ONCE a week to keep up with the rest of the development, but what happens? DAILY this bitch calls to meet up, so you also meet Hannah long before it's on the to-do, which actually traps the game in a continuous loop because nothing is going on;
New: Not quite as dramatic, but meeting Hanna and reading about a visit to the church, or the visit to the beach, that hasn't happened yet remains a criterion, it should be halfway chronological for the event to trigger.

Valerie at night, either you fuck her or you get fucked by her... complete nonsense, just come home, get in the shower, go to bed and sleep, but NO, the developer can't get it right...;
First it says "call for Valerie" or "go to the bathroom", later you either go to Valerie first and fuck her, or straight to bed, the MC jerks off and Valerie comes down to fuck... it's annoying!
Friday, Valerie is not at home, MC goes to bed, jerks off and she comes down... Absolute nonsense;
It's always the same, it's extremely boring in the long run and ruins the game. Especially as you have no chance to reject Valerie, neither at the beginning nor at any point in between.
New: I understand what they were thinking with the character, but there are 5 people who are more interesting than Valerie (my top 5: Vivian, Tina, Hanna, Andrea, Gina)

The time controls could also be improved, you always have to turn the clock to keep things moving, especially during the day, there's hardly any action during the day (except for Sally, but that's it).

this game is so badly written in chapter 6 that it hurts, events that are on the to-do list at some point occur weeks earlier and the story doesn't go any further, gets stuck in a continuous loop with the same pictures and dialog and that's it. great!
Characters that are interesting are limited to one action a day, and even this is always the same (see Top 5).

The gameplay is not terrible but gets overly grindy/tedious at times. Furthermore, its not unusual to seem to be stuck (just because something needs to be repeated numerous times to progress). The sex is minimalist, and the models are only so-so.

Finally done with this game.

Chapter 1 to 4 felt kinda boring to me. It took too much time to build up the story.
Chapter 5 to 7, the actual fun starts.
The game has so much potential to be the most darkest game ever.
The ending kinda felt rushed to me.
So much repetitive grind stuff, so you must keep patience for it.

While playing in the BDSM room, it felt kind of SOFTCORE porn to me. I mean this is a BDSM platform. XD


Anyway, it was quite a good journey.
Dev has potential.
All the best for your next project BANGCITYDEV.

This game could have been really good. I like the idea of someone that doesn't want to be in the gang, group, etc. being forced to be there only to find themselves as the last one left or in charge in some way. However, the game quickly goes down hill with the very first choice being meaningless. This would have been a great choice to set up the tone of the play through. The MC then goes on to act a lot like he belongs in the very gang he didn't want to be a part of. The open world idea sounds good except when there is nothing to do except at the places the story wants you to be. Side tasks or such would have helped fill in the world. If not that, then slowly open up the world as there becomes more to do rather than a big empty world. So, much potential with a rework.

this doesn't feel like an open world at all but it is linear and there are several things that it doesn't let you do and there are no different things to investigate or improve also I think that the advancement of the story of the bitch sayings every now and then seems like a 6 year old fight is very repetitive and boring.

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.