Ren'Py - Baskin All-In the Family [Ch.3 Steam] [TheSugarRay]

Woe. Talk about killing off your product.

I was somewhat still on board with this one even though the Dev kept sneaking in hints as to the political leanings by mixing politics into the product. There is such a thing a overcooking or overspicing a meal you know? You can take a good thing and ruin it very easily. Well I was letting it slide.

The characters are nice and the girls are pretty. That is great. There is even the pregnancy tag on this which I like to see for the realism of when the MC has the choice to finish inside. Those are good points

There is one, thats right one, person he has sex with in this entire 3 chapters. He sleeps with more than one. But has sex with only one. The sex animations were not really bad but honestly could have been better.

Here is where the Dev threw the whole thing in th ecrapper for me. We have a long drawn out talk about homosexual relationships. Ok. There is no gay tag? Why are we discussing homosexuals? I am not interested in those relationships in the slightest.

There is no rape tag but the MC was sexually abused as a child. Not really a big deal just throwing it out there as an example of tags that maybe should have been added as well. Seems like the Dev had a vision in place in chapter one and Chapter two is where they lost track of it. Chapter three the original game is completely forgotten.

Nah, I quit at the dinner table queer conversation. Nope you just went to far to the left for me.

If the tags tickle your fancy, then it's a decent AVN. There's an alright range of LIs without being too stereotypical, decent writing, and actual choices (I was worried for a second that they'd force a relationship with the ex). A bit rough around the edges with bugs and odd transitions between chapters, but there's a decent foundation here.

Good range of characters with their own personalities. Funny dialogues and situations. Models and render quality good but not outstanding.

Some choices about attitude/flavor and which side characters to romance.
Models look nice but MC is very hairy.

Some heavy content.

Really think this game has potential! Love the characters and the graphics. The story is also interesting. The writing needs someone to do grammar and such but I’m still giving it 5 stars due to loving the character and the art and the way the story is going so far.

Review is for {Ch.2}
The big issue with the AVN is not only is it generic and cliche, it's worse versions of the general fodder AVN you'd expect.

Everything in this AVN you've already seen before, but it simply includes a lot of elements that make it objectively worse. I think a big issue with these often comes from devs being too confident in their abilities. They see a project and go "I can do this, but better". "This person is doing it all wrong, I know how to fix it". And most people, very much do not.

Visually, it feels dated. It's surprising for a project that first got uploaded in July of this year, but it just reminds me of a lot of other projects that started years ago. However, the dev could simply be a new developer, and I think visuals are important, but they aren't the be-all and end-all. The good thing is that the characters actually look like they're different age groups, as the amount of times I've seen someone who's meant to be 50 and looks 20 is embarrassing. The thing is though, we see the first example of trying to be different. The dev chose to make the model have body hair, and it looks atrocious. Absolutely awful. He was clearly INSISTENT on it as he makes scenes where it's almost a focus, but it's ugly as sin. The fact it wasn't just an experiment that was swiftly abandoned is a poor sign of any sort of quality control.

This extends to the writing. The dialogue is needlessly tiring. It drags on and on, but provides nothing of interest. It's strange, because there's some banter there, but it's just banter that no REAL person would engage in? It's like if someone learned how to interact with people watching only shitty sitcoms. Some of the lines don't even make sense, or the grammar will be off. There's a lot of repetition, and it makes it just very boring.

Now, onto the story. Again, derivative as all hell. Moving back to a small town after your father's death to see your family of only women? Easy way to not have to write any positive male characters (besides the joke best friend, of course). Not to mention having literally everyone be into you from the get go. No need to write any interesting build-up when they all wanna bang you, right?

But they couldn't just leave it at that, oh noooo, they had to introduce a woman who RAPED YOU AT THE AGE OF 8. That's right folks, for some inexplicable reason, this dev not only has you be a rape victim, they also have the raper appear in the story, likely as a potential LI. Not ONLY that, but they also make you pick one of two choices, which basically end up as "it wasn't all bad", or "I liked it". You're reading that right, this dev thinks these are the only possible options.

The big issue for me is basically 9 times out of 10, whenever some AVN dev describes "darker themes", they're treated with none of the seriousness or tact that they deserve, and so they're purely using these actually serious topics either to try and pretend their story has more value, hoping some sicko gets off on it purely by mentioning it, or they genuinely believe they're a good enough writer to handle it. I'm tired of AVN devs needlessly including these topics when they have literally 100 other options to be able to achieve the exact same thing. Absolutely atrocious.

Pros:
- Models are good, with a diverse group of LIs
- Story itself is ok and kept my attention for the most part
- The game honestly has potential if the Cons can be fixed

Cons:
- Images jumping around with no transition and no reason at some points
- Calling - Some render lighting affects are way off from one to the next making hard on the eyes
- Definitionally needs a proof read.

The second terrible script I've seen recently. This game sucks.

The renders are so-so. One of the models is good, the rest aren't great although their quality seem to change from scene to scene. The animations are extreme low effort.

Much of the time the writing says something is happening and the images show the opposite.

The mc is so so pathetic a cuck theatre guy with weird blonde hair on his head and awfully added dark body hair EVERYWHERE which is so bad it looks like a creepy chia pet.

Becasue the mc is so pathetic, the women have to make every move. The mc has no choice in who he kisses or what he does. There's no corruption or build up.

The worst is the biased devs awful writing - the grammar is incomprehensible in places and full of examples where he uses completely the wrong word like dually in place of duly. You can tell no effort was made with the writing, (or any of the game) it all exists just for the dev to go on political rants about mythical 'white supremacists' and elections, gay people, the police, even using cringy phrases like acab.

The mc even makes a joke at some point about porn games being low bar to entry so a good place for him to lie. So the point of this game is not hidden.

I love the genre and this game has a unique take on it. Wish I could skip ahead a few updates, and see where it goes. But I love the direction it's heading.

Subbed, hope I never see the abandoned tag on this one so just doing my part.

Keep up the good work dev. 5* for me. Smart, funny, and, original..

I like how the game started and where it is going. Sometimes you feel like there's too much dialogue (I admit I have skipped some parts), but it's well written and doesn't go over the top. The girls look lovely and they are varied. There are some emotional moments too.

Sex is a bit scarce for now but that's OK, I prefer a few sexy situations over a ton of forced scenes that end up becoming routinary. Suggestive scenes, like those upskirt shots, surely help keeping the interest

Keep it up!

Man I really want to love this game, but with my poor English I can't understand shit when reading dialogues. That's why -1 star

Other than that, models are beautiful, relationship is wholesome, sisters are cute, side girls funny

Dev in my opinion has improved his writing compared to his previous games, but it is still far from being good

I really like the unique atmosphere and incest content of the new game Baskin All-In the Family. In today's flood of family incest games, I'm glad that the developers have improved this type of game and added a fun backward rural background, which really adds a lot of flavor to this game.

Played the game and liked it .It has potential.The models are good and there is already some action with the main LI .The story and dialogue could do better .There's incest+virgin +harem which is great combo .This is the exactly the game you expect from the premise. If you are looking for some deep storytelling and gameplay ,you will be disappointed .Overall its a more of a good fap game .

I think this VN has a load of potential.

The story line isn't bad but the dialog could use some help .Parts of it didn't make sense to me. Sure it uses some standard tropes but not bad ones. I like that the MC and Tulip pretty much embraced their incestuous feelings with little apologies or excuses.

Scene transitions could use some work.

The ladies aren't great but not bad either. They kind of have a real world feel to them. However the body hair on the MC had an off putting look to it. I'm a sucker for mom and sister stories, especially when they don't have beach ball boobs and grossly oversized butts.

Hopefully the Dev will make side girls optional. I could be content with mom and the sisters plus making any other girls optional increases multiple playthrough ability. It'd be nice if certain fetishes are also optional. I'd like to see an option for pregnancy as well.

A far from perfect VN but a good start none the less. Keep up the work Dev.

Still early, but I think this game has lots of potential. Beautiful girls, sexy story, and I like the premise. Also any game with multiple redheads is worth a shot, especially with realistic proportions! Good luck!

1.04

Only thing good are the models
I only got one sex scene near the end of the game
Story : there is none
no bugs
There was no sound
Would wait for more updates there isn't much in this game for now

Playing 1.04
The description doesn't match the current content.

This is a game about distance between family members. Boy leaves small town to chase his dreams, only to find the big city crush him over time. Young man comes home for the funeral of his father, who won't be missed (being a drunken family beater) and find the family and town that he tried so hard to escape.

There's genuine moments of good storytelling and dialogue, mixed in with this beaten down feeling of people who had dreams but who've seen them die over time. But the animations, transitions, and so on are where problems come up. Some areas look like proper 3d environments, some look like badly painted static backdrops. And unless the mother has been really getting around, there's no way your three 'sisters' are fully related to you. Half sisters more like.

I'd like this to be a game about rebuilding and finding prosperity in a small town. And that might be the description of the game, unfortunately, it's not in the game yet.

In short, if you want some incest undertones, some 'small town with beaten down people', some 'america country-folk' dialogue and acting that will take all of 30min to get through? This is the game for you.

VERSION: 1.04
SUMMARY: Poor at best, with OK models, bad writing, not worth the time.

PROS:

1. Semi decent looking models
2. Semi decent animations (err)

CONS:

1. Scenes and renders are popping in and out instead of having decent transitions. e.g., sister on bed talking to MC, flips around back and forth between 2 renders while having conversation instead of maybe just sticking to one scene and have a few more lines then flip to another and few more lines instead of the same render.
2. Renders and animations are fine for a beginner developer but I would take my time if I were trying to break into this market, there are plenty of good (at least much better) VNs out there. Putting this out just throws your work away IMO.
3. Adding to above point, having your characters bob from left to right on screen but have the same "look" is like watching some cheap muppet show.
4. Writing is mostly pure crap, this goes way beyond proof reading The dialogue itself leaves much to be desired, the characters are empty and the script feels way to rehearsed and unnatural. Toward the end of this version the characters are speaking like the dialogue was written by schizophrenic.
5. Story is typical hillbilly BS, brother comes home, bangs family who clearly already crossed the line before he left as every sister is sexually frustrated and make sexual remarks that is not the socially or morally acceptable norm (at least where I come from)
6. On point above, while its a VN and its meant to be fantasy and BS, the best ones are those who have a bit more subtle approach, characters have inhibitions, dark fantasies and desires that become more apparent as the story goes, those IMO are the better ways to go about it.

TLDR: If I'm brutally honest, its bad, its lazy and a poor attempt. You can do more with less and have better quality with more effort and care. If you want financial support for a VN, you are not going to find it with this kind of work...