Ren'Py - Abandoned - Bastard Girls R [v2.3] [Leocid2]

Extremely poor English translation, as it looks like someone just googled the original Spanish text and cut/pasted without interpreting the actual intended meaning and changing it to make more sense for English Speakers... It majorly detracts from the story and IMO makes the game very difficult to understand and play properly... Even the title of this game sounds like a poor translation...

Add to this the very unrealistic boob sizes for some of the female characters... They in no way shape or form belong on the body types of the characters that have them, it looks incredibly disproportional, which also detracts from the story, making the unbelievable situations even more so...

It's also incredibly inconsistent, because in some stances it becomes borderline believable, while for others it was just insane with the sizes... it's like the dev can't make up his mind.

Funnily enough, this is basically the same art, the same story, the same mechanics and the same concept as the old version, so I just wonder what exactly the Dev Remade here based on the "community".

Teal Deering it for busy people:
Pros

• Tiddies
• An interesting premise
• Game systems in a porn game!

Cons

• Every girl has G-cups except the main girl and most have crappy costumes.
• Engrish incoming! This translation most excellent and well reading for your masculine eyes.
• Bugs bugs bugs buggy bug bugs.

Conclusion
Leave this one in the oven for now, it's not done baking. Check back later. (ver 1.2 = MEH)


Long-winded rambly bit:
Good Grief this is almost passable. First off the girls are all modeled in extremely unrealistic ways. Like unrealistic by porn game standards, yes, it's that bad. Strangely enough the 'main' girl of the game, your personal assistant is actually proportioned normally.

The outfits are... inventive to say the least. We have fantasy porn armor mixed with the cheapest slutty schoolgirl outfit you've ever seen and then a bunch of normal random clothes.

The protagonist isn't a default young Caucasian male, so bonus points for that. He's probably related to someone in the game that wants to hump him, so meh points for that. (I think this has become a requirement for most porn games to be successful.)

The game is built around a system of grinding that is just... just awful. Things are purposefully gated to very high levels for no apparent purpose other than to prolong your time playing the game. I suppose it evokes a sense of pride and accomplishment.

Beyond the strangely proportioned but attractive girls that three biggest drawbacks are the engrish level translations of everything, the bugs, and the paranoid dev trying to lock down everything. The translation is bugged that is. I came across a couple of things that just crashed the game, in the translation. Once you fixed the translation it was fine. Then I came across a bug that just booted me to the main menu every time I tried to progress. The fact that the developer has disabled access to Ren'Py's auto saves made this a deal breaker. The lack of roll back was also annoying.

Give it a hard pass for at least six months and let them update the bitch (this is in October 2019) maybe by then it'll be worth it.

Posting my comments on the main discussion as a review:

Well, I played some of old version a ways back, and enjoyed it. The navigation was annoying (and still is on some screens, but there has been improvement in this version. I want it to be clear that I actually like this game. There are games that I might try, get frustrated or irritated with, and just discard or move on from without comment (or with snide vitriol). For this game, for some inexplicable reason I really want to continue and get into it. All in all, I think you can have fun here...but...

PROS:

The art is charming. I don't mind the exaggerated breasts and whatnot at all (though some of the waists remind me of Liefeld art). To me it's mostly features and not bugs.

While it needs some work, I'm somewhat impressed with the combat. Just the fact that it exists is impressive for a lone indy dev.

The animation, what there is of it, is done pretty well for this kind of game and probable lack of budget. I've seen better but I've also seen wayyyyy worse. This is pretty good.

CONS:

The navigation is better than before, but could use some work. Maybe thumbnails for navigation? I assume that may disrupt the fuel and hunger mechanics but honestly...we could do without those and the game would be much more fun.

Opinions vary on minigames. My opinion is largely negative. Down with minigames, in all genres and possible dimensions!

The incomplete translations are a real problem. I'm sure Spanish speaking people are having less problems. I'm pretty lost as to some of the goings on in this game. I imagine that problem will be resolved as development continues.

Bugginess. My exploration of the caves was interrupted several times during combat, by suddenly being thrown into the bathroom spying minigame. I would then have to proceed through the mansion, back outside and back to the cave (with the cavern mist still visible on the screen). Eventually, it would crash to desktop. After the caves, I am periodically interrupted by the bathroom spying minigame, regardless of where I am or what I am doing.

That brings me to the bad part of the combat. Frankly, I cheated. I will never grind if there is a better solution. Assuming the combat is intended to work like a standard turn based RPG, there is no way my 31st level maid with stats over 9999 should be failing to hit and kill the stupid low level cave spiders. It's possible my cheating caused some issues. If not, the stat calcs+RNG formula seriously sucks and needs work.

On the subject of cheating, let's talk grind. I cheat hugely and in massive amounts. This allowed me to ignore stuff like hunger and fuel, grinding for stat increases to impress girls, etc. And yet, I still didn't get as far as I think I should have in a few hours of play. Some stuff can't be cheated, like waiting for x number of game days for something. I still can't figure out why I can't progress with Elena despite spending time with her in the apartment (maybe the chats in her room aren't the right events and I need to wait for her to appear in a different location? Who knows!). If I got irritated and bored by the lack of progress, I can only assume it is nigh unbearable for those who will not or cannot cheat.

I get that no wants to play a short game and grinding and minigames help pad things out and can even keep things interesting. But this type of grind is not active or exciting like leveling can be in RPGs and fighting games. This is just tedious. This dev might be better off with a game that is half or even a third as long. Frustrating and boring players is the only truly deadly sin in niche gaming.

My final: come back after an update or two past this date. The dev has mentioned making some upgrades and changes based on feedback. If that is true, the charms of this game may soon outweigh the negatives.

Really interesting game with potential, but the game is horribly buggy, it's confusing, and for me personally, the male MC is literally one of the ugliest male characters (he looks like someone you just want to abuse and bully just for laughs and he gives me an anti-sexual feeling and dries up my pussy faster than even a 300 pound fat body man) I have ever seen. I hope the game gets better though.

im gonna take a different style with this game. and i will try to make it short.

1. who was the sexist misoginist, that raise the MC i mean , seriously.
since minute 1 he is a prepotent "black chihuawa" that has less muscle than sofie (the maid) and he have the nerve to badmouth everywomen he met (and dont come to me with that garbage of "they like to be treated like that" because there is a limit)

2. the previous game got like A TON of content and draws. and this game makes a good use of the previous works, and blend them well with the new content. and with all that said there is a question WHY THE HELL YOU MUST STILL GRIND FOR IT!!!??? i have to wait a whole week to date a girl, and the repeat it for like 4 weeks (or more!) and is not like, click, clik, done. no is a click festival 5 days that feels like years. (and thats is not fun)
IS NOT FUN.

3. i love the new story, it makes a bit of more sense (it could be improven,trust me) but it kinda works better.

4. i play both version english and spanish (just to see if the MC is an idiot on both version...it was) and i love to discover that the game translate the names to their spanish version. wich sucks because i end up several days (that feel longer) looking for a girl that i have infront of me all the time but i didint relaise yet (like real life itself).

5.lets go back to the new gameplay...i like it but it need like a better guide i mean shorter objetives ex: one mision say come back with elisa (or elise) and talk with her "idontkowwhat"... in this point i was like WHO IS ELISE? WHERE DO I FIND HER and then you find a girl (like 3 days after the mision apear) wich name is elisa (not elise) maybe i'm a brute, but in a game where there are, several names from diferents countries, is was obvious to me that elise and elisa arent the same person (spoiler alert, they were).
and all that was on the first hour of the game.

6. the navigation somehow was worse that the previous version, but i think is because is a early version though...i hope that gets some improves in the future.

conclussion: please dev if you are reading this, hear my plea.
get rid of anything related to grinding or repeat an action to unlock things is not fun, make clear and fast goals, and fix the navigations, is kinda anoying to move around the game.

if i have in mind that the previous version was somethin great even in consideration with his problems and plot holes.
i cannot expect something less than amazing with this version...as long his multiple basic problems get fixed.

(Note that this review is written as someone who uses cheats in almost every game because he doesn't have even a single moment to grind; so issues with grinding will not be addressed in this review)

As a fan of "the last/only man in the world / in a city / on an island" type of games, this game and its abandoned predecessor are among my favourite games.

So what is with this game that I like so much?

WRITING:

You can easily tell the game is in Spanglish. There are many grammatical mistakes and sometime you can see whole sentences that are still in Spanish. A very-easy-to-solve problem but a problem nontheless.

Anyway, I love good stories but this is an H game with an absurd plot, it is the game's style and not all games have to be realistic or shakespearean. You can easily understand what is going on and the way they treat you tells many things about their characters.

Almost every character is unique in their own way; different personalities and different reactions.

The important characters such as Sophie and other leaders of the factions are brimming with life.

Like I said, the premise is silly, but it doesn't mean that is a bad thing. On the contrary, as I am tired of all that unnecessarily long text-wall H games, this game is a joy to read. There are super powered maids and filthy rich women with intentions to destroy us. And enemy factions who try to get a piece of us. What's not to like? I love me some absurd and HOT story like this.

The best part for me is how the girls treat us. I just love the dialogues in this game and sometimes it even makes me chuckle.

MODELS:

Usually I don't like characters with overly exaggerated body features.

However, there is Sophie!

Sophie is one of the most beatiful models I've ever seen among the H games.

And after a short while, you get used to other characters exaggerated parts and you even find most of them pretty attractive.

Con: As much as I like those giant breasts, we need some girls that have more realistic proportions like Sophie.

GAMEPLAY:

Classic Ren'py style movement and now the dev added some combat mechanics.

I find Ren'py style clicking games very relaxing and easy to play. That's why I think it is the best engine to make H games.

But when it comes to combat, it is clanky and not responsive. Although I must confess that when I see the attacking animation of Sophie, I was surprised by how good it looks. I think combat mechanics need a lot of work to improve but like I said at the beginning; I only play games by cheating so grinding part doesn't interest me. I will just skip the battles ahead and play the game as if there isn't any combat at all.

The first version of this game had a terrible navigation system in the manor. This version doesn't have the manor content and I hope the dev would find a solution for it when that content arrives.

CONTENT:

The content is more than many 0.1 games out there, but of course it is less than where we left off in previous built.

Still, as long as updates come steadily and often, I am confident that we will have a good amount of content in our hands before too long.

There are H scenes with some girls, they are animated and they have some sounds (which I find bad since all the girls have the same exact sound).

I am eager to see more and more content in this game. Because the premise is just my cup of tea.

I just hope Leocid2 won't let this game be abandoned once again and we can see steady update schedules with lots of content.

I liked the concept, art style and varied body types, but there are so many errors that it's unplayable.

Combined with unlabeled and unexplained maps and rooms, leaving you to guess just what you're about to do, no description of what you need to do in mini games, and never telling you about quests you have unless you call up your phone make it difficult to play.

Just as you think you might have a handle on it - bugs, bugs everywhere.

Very good game although it is in alpha eager to see the evolution of the game.
For me it is just necessary to lower the demand for food and simplify the movement in the maps, for example the villa in the old version and the cave for this version. Otherwise nothing to say

should stay whith the old game this one is worst , the renders are not good at all , the beggining dont make sense ,horrible writing and bugs that make more then one lang show up at the same time , its even harder to play it now when there is no mod , the hunger system is retarded if you dont spend all your money on meals you faint no matter if there is a quest it force you to go home and lose the day , if you will create a remake make it better not worse.

i was a fan of the original and this one seems a bit better ya it has a few bugs but most games do. I hope that this one will continue long past the last game and keep getting better and better as time goes on and the graphix are still amazing to see aswell

A remake and and buggy too! No reason for me to be a patron again! It does crash down in the office of the principal! During my time i was a patron of leocid2, they were never able to make the first version free of bugs! Every version he brought out worked never properly. If they want more patrons, then i suggest that he'll release proper working version. Or this will end up in a disaster again!

This has to be one of the Worst games out there! from day one your at the mercy of the random chance hits You could get a 5000 fine which happens frequently That stops you from progressing As you need to buy item to carry the story forward! You faint if you try to venture to other parts of the map! So exploring is a no go. And if you manage to get to the Caves to treasure Hunt You'll need to spend at least 3000 to get the tools required Only to find 3 bar of silver worth 150 the Battle system is a joke fighting spiders Starts well then as the spider's life bar is nearly diminished It takes about 15/16 hits to kill And the mapping is STILL a pain! the only redeeming feature is the models & animations 0/10 is still to high a score DEV give us a game that doesn't punish us for doing what the game is meant to do!

This "remake" shares exactly the same flaws with the older one. Firstly let me say the good part of Leocid2's work. He does good art, animations and story writing but he don't quite know how to make a proper game.

And here is why:

1: Navigation is still messy as hell. It's extremely annoying and time consuming to navigate in this game. And in some areas you feel like you're playing a mouse click simulation. The old game had this Mansion you move in and it took some people an hour to get out of that maze. It was a nightmare and I had to throw this game away due that.

2: The features build in like hunger and those car stops doesn't make sense and are extremely annoying. It was a good idea to get some "benefits" while eating food but why the hell are you adding hunger and those annoying car stops in?. You just have to make some mouse clicks around the school and you faint due lack of food. Same goes for those car stops and on top of that you lose 600$ penalty. If it'd make sense I'd understand but there is no point in having those penalties. It's just bad.

3: The grind is too much. I agree that you've to grind in a game and it makes fun usually. But the grind in this game is just too much and doesn't make fun at all. It's just bothersome and you want to quit after some time.

Avoid this game like it was just like the old one. It's worse.


If you haven't played the older game Bastard Girls, you're a lucky "bastard".

This new version of the game is just a remake of the old one. Same story, same art, however, it is just all mixed up a bit to somehow seem like a new game, with new art.

Despite the fact that the game got so little support in the past, and needed to be remade, the developer is surprisingly self-assured. So much so that listening to any critiques isn't on the cards, just like with the old version of this game.

If users express any disliking towards the game, they're just told to not play the game and find something they do like, by the developer.

The developer keeps saying that it has "been reworked by the community", as if that somehow validates the same poor decision making. It's the same art, the same story, the same mechanics, the same concept as the old. It's the developers game, not the communities! The developer should really take responsibility and stop trying to offload the blame to others.

So, please try to avoid this one, just as the developer said over and over again. Save yourself the time and hassle of trying to understand this one. This game will most likely go the way of the old one if the developer doesn't change their attitude.

Please don't support these bad developers.

Game is very annoying to play. Food and Energy bars make you lose money or force make you pass out. Many bugs that are being fixed slowly but there are just tons. In game walkthrough is useless and the english is bad in it, it just stops telling you what to do and is not specific on how many times an interaction needs to be done. No skip day or part of day function and since many quests require certain days at a cetain time, and since you have click arrows to navigate its a headache to progress days.

The only reason the game doesnt get a one star from me is that the models are amazing and have a good variety and the story and setting are cool.
*edited to one star since the dev cannot take criticism and tells us to not play the game if we are not satisfied.

This game looks interesting at first, but it's just a grindy affair and left an extremely poor first impression with me. I recycled the very first quest and just wandered the school day...after...day...over...and...over...and nothing is happening to forward the quest despite having been at every single location multiple times...over...and...over...you get the idea. Ouch.

So my friend grinded it even more and finally got past the first point to meet the principal...and then the game crashed and kicked us out of the game. Just LOL. Pathetic, and I'm generally rating games pretty nicely if you read my reviews.

Last edit: I'm moving on, but I now notice as of this writing that it seems like the dev put out the only five star review I see on here while everyone else so far is rating 1 and 2 stars. That should say it all.