VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Become a Rock Star [v1.01] [Mr Jet]

It seems great, hot and pretty attractive at first but the more the girls are known and the paths are all possible to go 'serious' on even if you are doing exactly that to everyone else is just not doing it for me.

On the other hand, I saw a few comments and, I have to say that is sad some that were complaining of the 'why no incest'-thingy when there is the sister who is hella hot so to say; the very first few games I played from here weren't incest and they were great, such mentality has to be slowly eased up.

If there were consequences or at least more flexibility in the possible options to take...this one might've been as goon as a kinetic-non-kinetic-like novel like 'Cure My Addiction'; to me, it's instead like those female prota where she gets dicks once and then she a total hoe out of nowhere.

Loved this game!

Pros:
>Lots of gorgeous models. Great renders.
>The sex scenes are very good.
>Decent story.

Cons:
>Dialogues (They become kinda boring as the story advances. Still better than most porn games I've played)

For this title, I'll lower its score due to the lack of updates it got for a game that's been in development for 5 years and it can be noticed how the renders go from loop to actual scenes from newer versions. The story is interesting and it allows you to be either an introvert guy or an outloud womanizer guy. The characters are well written and the models are well picked for their purpose, which is to cause your rod to get hard. However, the last couple updates show a lack of optimization or a bad polished experience, it feels rushed out and I'm afraid there won't be any updates regarding this, if you have a good VRAM capacity, you won't notice but there would be some framedrops in that section. 7/10

Definitely a good game of the visual novel kind. It deserves 4.5 stars.
Renders are beautiful and the stories surprisingly interesting even if they are fully of clichés and few incoherence are still present in the version 1.0. Personally, I don’t mind this last point because the game content is huge but after 5 years of development, you can clearly see the evolution of the techniques between the beginning and the end of the game.
Having done all the girls and their story, I like the variety in the characters and situations but even more would have been great. The H scenes are somehow redundant and in few occasions I had the feeling to play the same H scene just with a different girl. Clearly I am nitpicking because otherwise I am impressed by the quality of the game. Considering that there is only 1 dev behind the game, WOW!

I really liked this game.

The story of trying to become a rock star while bucking your family business and tradition was interesting to me. Although I will agree with some of the other criticism that forming your band to signing with a major label in just two weeks was a bit rushed.

The character models were all gorgeous. I highly applaud the dev for giving the women realistic bodies and avoiding using giant fantasy tits. Some people have said the MC looks a little weird. Meh, I've seen guys that look like that. He looks a lot better at the end when there is a time jump and he has a beard.

The sex scenes are pretty good for the most part, although some of the animations can be a little stiff.

The writing is the biggest issue here. I don't know if it's a translation, but there is a some unnecessary repetition in the dialogue and grammar errors throughout. It gets a bit worse about 3/4 of the way through as if there was a different writer for that section, but then it smooths back out.

While there are multiple LIs in this game this is NOT a harem game. I found that out the hard way. I romanced them all, and after an event that happens 3/4 of the way into the game, they all show up at the same place at the same time, and shit hits the fan. I immediately lost three of them. I ended the game with the singer and guitarist in our band, which is fine because I liked them, but I just thought I'd put that little warning out there.

I highly recommend this game for all interested.

Definitely a game I would recommend playing.
Solid story, many girls to date with different looks and personalities, high quality renders and animations, long game, choices have decent impact on the story and add replayability.
It's definitely a high quality game with a lot of effort put into it, you won't be disappointed.

Very nice game with good graphics and story (it has some flaws but that's normal in adult visual novels) and 2nd important thing is that plenty of girls to date and most important thing is that sexscenes are well made.

Since no harem (3some at best) game has replay value to see all girls endings.

Usually I try to review games That I really liked or games that make me physically ill. This game is neither of those things. Its a decent game. Models are meh (grainy and plain), sex scenes are meh (just so much meh), story is ok (Surprisingly, its mainly a story about a boy and his dad with a music career standing in-between them. Its tragically cliched. But well written... I assume. I skim and skip. Always skim and skip. But nothing overly egregious stood out to me.) I don't feel a need to replay it. Just a solid bridge game while you wait for updates. Would have gained a star for naming the band and giving me wish fulfillment. But then you aren't even in the band. 'Become a Rock Star'?! More like 'Become a Manager.' I can see why they went with the other title... but It doesn't make it any less of a lie.

Hmm, I have no clue how this game is so highly rated. To be fair, I only played two "routes" but that's simply due to the girls not appealing visually to me, at all. It also seems like the author has some kind of nail fetish and I'm very much the opposite of that. I went with Lisa first because she seemed the best in that regard, at least until the author also got to her later in the story. When I encountered Emma for the first time, she was definitely the most normal of the girls and by far the best-looking of them all, so I went with her in my second playthrough. Too bad the author got her as well towards the end. Same with other characters like Julia where it got so comically bad that she had painted nails in one scene, then in the next scene she didn't and in the following scene she did again. Wtf?

However, one can certainly argue that it's all subjective and blabla and some people like this kind of stuff. Still, even that aside, the game has a lot of issues.
There are coding errors. For instance, when you decide not to spy longer on Selina, he still says after being discovered at a later point that he was seen _again_, even though he wasn't. As other people mentioned, there are things where they say you dated X or did Y but that never happened.
In the changelog for version 1.0 it says: "script last update was proofread". Was it, though? There are still errors, despite it being proofread and apparently having three proofreaders. It's not that difficult... Also, there is a difference between "I" and "me". Even as a non-native speaker I know that.
The writing is bad, like, really bad. So the main character comes off as a total imbecile while some other characters fare only a bit better. This ranges from thoughts like in the beginning where a girl is "clever" for just being normal and not exaggerating or pulling some bs (that's not what being "clever" is) to girls saying every sex scene how big the MC's dick is or the MC saying/thinking every sex scene how amazing the breasts are. Even more than that, apparently every single girl is a super hottie for the MC. I guess it makes sense. After all, as other have pointed out, the MC isn't exactly good-looking. He has that super punchable French face for some reason. No idea why anyone thought that would be a good idea. At least the girls tell him he looks weird when they look at that childhood photo of him.
There are absolutely retarded moments. It can't be stated any other way and the pinnacle of that is probably the sister-gets-shot scene. While others have issues with that one because of dramatic reasons etc, the scene itself is absolute nonsense. So, these people fight outside and then the one guy suddenly pulls out the pistol...for some reason and decides to ignore everyone. At best, he is drunk. Still, it makes little sense. One could argue he did take some drugs or whatever which wasn't shown but that would be inconsistent with the reaction shown after hitting the sister. From how it seems, he is slightly drunk. He pulls out the pistol and plays the big man. Makes sense, after all, he did that stupid posing thing when he first found it. So, he ignores the calls of the others which is fine but he also ignores the calls of his friend for some reason. OK, slightly drunk, could be realistic. Then the cat moves around and he shoots at it. At that point, unless he took drugs, he would have normally stopped with that shit altogether. However, he didn't. Even with ignoring all of that, what comes next is the worst part. So, the guy shoots a pistol for the very first time, but no issues with that and he is totally fine. One might even argue that it just all adds to the stress and it's why he accidentally fires at the person opening the door. But wait, why would anyone open the door? Someone just fired a gun, like three seconds ago. The gunshot which went off in an alleyway would have been very loud and the person who opened the door just three seconds later would have definitely heard it. So any normal person would have stopped and called the cops immediately. Or, alternatively, very cautiously tried to make sure what was going on. However, the person opening the door was completely ignorant of everything which is extremely unrealistic. I think the following part was good where Julia doesn't realize what happened, falls down, tears in her eyes etc. Could have been some good isolated scenes at least but no, her character model changes between scenes for some reasons and then, another very bad thing happens: The father opens the door, completely ignorant of everything, including the large ambulance with the lights behind the MC, blood on his shirt etc and he starts blabbing about things until he suddenly goes like: "Wait a minute, something is not right here." Gah. It's actually really frustrating to see how everything got completely botched.
Ah, and since we are at injured people and despite me already having complained about the women. Still, it needs to be said: Doctors don't wear high heels at work in a hospital! Even if making every girl/woman be as "abnormal" as possible was done with the utmost intent, at least keep a shred of realism...ffs.
And that just reminds me of something else: Why the heck is the "soundman" discussing business for, apparently, the best and most professional record label in the world? Why does he have the authority to edit contracts? ...

Something else that others have mentioned is the issue of the theme. For a music one, there is relatively little in it. They do two gigs and they are basically done superstars already. Everyone is perfect and they have no issues. And for some reason, "Naked Park" (or at least 3/4 of them) are hanging out at this shitty little place which is absolutely not unrealistic at all. I mean, it's not like they played a concert not too long ago and might be on a tour or they live someplace else and have things to do. No, they totally have the time to be there to look at two newbie bands for no reason at all. *sigh* There is also unncessary family stuff put in, in my opinion. Either you focus on the theme of this game which would mean maybe less focus on family or sex scenes (as someone proposed) or you focus more on the personal relationships between characters. Doing things half-assed is bad, so rather do something properly. There is another VN called "Melody" which also has a music theme and while it certainly has its issues, I think that the theme there was very well done. It has a much, much better sense of progression and is not: Find perfect band member -> find another perfect band member -> first gig -> invited to second gig -> really good contract aka success.

Overall, especially considering the general rating, hugely disappointing.

The story is well-written for the most part and allows a good selection of different routes. It's no BADIK or Eternum but it can still hold it's own. A good for a playthrough of the girl of your choice, but not a full completion

Good game overall with some gorgeous renders, but it's really let down by its endings. Not to say that they're bad, but at least 2 of the girls that should have gotten endings, didn't (although one of them, Emma, got a "Well maybe it's going to happen" type of thing). It just feels incomplete with some poor decisions on the dev's part. I'm talking about Nicole here Mr. Jet. You did us fucking dirty with her.

Rich boy who wants try different life that his father considered for him then starting a job and forming a band and facing all kind of obstacles ....
It's not unfamiliar topic , still story-wise it is refreshing , trying independent life ,meeting new people ,deciding about relationships, starting a musical band and so on.
Game has beautiful artwork and gorgeous characters , there are different paths for key characters and plenty of tasteful scenes , some of side characters like Rosa or Nicole could have more prominent roles in story or even their own paths , it's a pity that didn't happened and story already have completed.
Anyway I liked the game, splendid job Mr Jet.

Right off the bat I'm just going to address the most obvious thing about this VN. Why would you make the main character and hero of the story such a freaking ugly looking dude!!! why?!!!

Look, it's bad enough I have to play a male MC in games with a story that interests me, but gods, playing a guy that looks like he is descended from a ferret...it's just hard to care about him. Have you seen the rest of his freaking family? the girls are gorgeous!! and the other brother is big and kind of handsome...this makes me wonder if MC wasn't actually the offspring of someone else...perhaps from a feral family?

Anyway, with that grievance aside, the plot is fairly standard with MC and his friends starting a rock band and how they achieve success. It's fairly bland stuff with the odd little drama thrown in like other maniac band members and such.

As a female who has been in a previous band and is currently in an all female metal band (lead guitarist), I did laugh a bit at how they reached the big time after 2 gigs if only real life worked that way huh?

The girls are all reasonably pretty and have their personalities, although the most fleshed out and probably rewarding one for the "girlfriend experience" definitely seems to be Selina. She starts out seeming a bit slutty but soon shows a warm, caring nature - perfect for your virtual gf huh? haha.

The dev made an interesting choice with if you don't pick the vocalist Lisa, she starts seeing the guitarist Jade. I liked that. Nice to have a little bit of realism...we rock chicks are thirsty indeed bwahaha. Jacob the bass player also gets his own girl. Kudos to the dev not making the MC the only person who can date.

The graphics were fine. I had no complaints with the renders - well apart from ferret boy but yes, they were good enough. Music used fitted the parts reasonably - although I would have picked something a bit heavier for the band scenes but hey. They did get a bit repetitive after a while.

Overall a pretty average VN that was fun to play for the most part, the odd boring bits later in the story and some of the dialogue in the game was pretty wooden and stilted. If you are looking for a rock star type story to enjoy then I can say give it a try, there are not many of this type of theme on F95 sadly.

I wish the dev luck with his next game and am sure the experience from this one will help him a lot.

Ok my review is based on the complete game.

The first thing I want to say is damn well done!!!
This had an excellent story with interesting and believable characters.
Absolutely beautiful women and although the guy was a bit off looking. When I think about it though I realize just how many times I have seen a beautiful woman with some dude and thought to myself that its a good thing that women aren't as caught up in looks as men.
When I realized it was not a harem game I realized that I was in for some really tough choices. All of these ladies were worth taking the time to build a relationship with.
Replayability is high due to all the choices.
The sex scenes were extremely well done and enjoyable
Game mechanics were simple and easy to use.
Just an all around fantastic game and kudos to the Dev 10/10

Good game. Good renders, solid writing and unique characters.

The end is rushed and I have the feeling that there is a lot of potential left behind.

A epilog that skips time and tries to summaries what happend is fine, but I think it wasnt used well. All that could have happend a few weeks after the "end".

There are to many encounters that had no impact on the story or for the ending and were only there for some additional sexy time. That isnt bad, but I prefer games with more consequences - at least that it gets mentioned.

i.e. the 2 girls we meet on the boat with the brother - when we fuck them both it doesnt matter or is even mentioned in the epiloge. At least 1-2 renders and some text to mention a follow up encounter or some "drama" because of that ... anything.

In the end it is a fun game and worth a the time. I just think it could have been better ... maybe the next one

This review is based on Version 1.0

First of all, I have to admit that it is very difficult for me to decide whether to give a four or a three star rating. After much deliberation, I have decided to give only three stars. In the following I will try to justify my decision in detail and plausibly.

The development of the game has ended with a complete game and so it is definitely worth at least two stars for me. It doesn't matter what else comes around. For me, however, a few criteria have to be met for the other three possible stars: graphics and story. To be honest, I don't really care about the graphics if I get a very good story in return. Conversely, however, the best graphics never make up for a bad story.

The graphics and animations are very well done. The fact that MC is such an ugly bird, whose face and, above all, his facial expressions are hard to bear, spoils the comfort of the game a little. Please don't get me wrong. MC doesn't have to look like a supermodel. But considering his behavior, more on that below, it's hard to understand why so many women and girls throw themselves at him. I also don't understand why there is such a trend in the AVN to give male MC such large turnips as penises. In most scenes, due to the thickness of MC's piston, but also the length, everything comes across as unintentionally comical. The female figures, on the other hand, are all very nicely designed. Too bad, however, that all women were somehow interchangeable. In a way, everyone was the same naked. A little variety would have been nice. But that's all nagging at a very high level. Beyond these two points, you simply cannot complain about the graphics. For the graphics and animations, I give an additional three stars all in all. The AVN would now have five stars.

Now we come to the most important points of an AVN: the story and how it is told, and the characters. I like the idea of the story. It's not something you see in many other AVN. A young adult who dreams of becoming a rock star sounds cheesy but has potential. But what the hell is MC for a cognitive underperformer? The way he usually talks to women is anything but intelligent. The dialogues are often qualitatively on the level of cheap porn. It all gets better towards the end of the game. You can tell that the author of the AVN has continued to develop during the development. Nevertheless, the behavior of MC is largely one-dimensional, which spoils the fun of the game.

The author has put more effort into the women. At least when we talk about Lisa, Jade, Jane and Selina. With the latter, however, you have to make some compromises, which I think is a shame, because I really liked this character and would have liked to have had more of a story with her. The story about Anna didn't have enough depth for me to really be able to empathize with her. Emma appeared suddenly in the story and from the start she had a lot of potential for a beautiful story. But it was simply forgotten and didn't really take place. Likewise Nicole. So much could have been gleaned from the character Nicole, but she remained a marginal character. Rosa and Catherine remained completely colorless. What actually became of Eva and Marie? What happened next with Selina and Karen? Unfortunately, I have to deduct a star in the rating. I felt that character development had to be sacrificed in favor of speed of game development. Now it's a four star rating.

But why did I deduct another star now? Because mistakes were made on the most important point for me: the predictability of decisions and their implementation. It is impossible for MC to end relationships in some cases. Just an example: MC has a thing going on with each Selina, Lisa and Anna. All very early stages in dating. But if you as a player decide that you only want to have a relationship with Selina for example, because this relationship reaches a point where you decide it's no longer dating anymore but a relationship, you can no longer break up with Lisa and Anna. At no point does MC ask himself, "Oh, but now it's come to a point where I should make a decision." MC does question himself in some soliloquies, but no course of action follows from this. In this way you are forced to slide into the situation in the hospital or the decision to leave the band. All this despite the fact that MC realized for himself a few in-game days before the event that the situation was not ideal. Well, it may be that the author wanted that quite consciously. Perhaps he wanted his story to show what causes narcissism and selfish behavior. But then he should have made it clearer in the course of the story that MC deliberately postpones these decisions and doesn't want to make them. If I had been shown that there is a fundamental hurdle that cannot be overcome, I would have understood. However, a plausible depiction would have required a series of more scenes that explain the basic character of MC. Two lewd scenes less, but three more everyday scenes that show MC's character more clearly and it would have become clear. But the way it was here, there was sometimes a little frustration.

However, I sincerely hope that MrJet develops another AVN. Especially towards the end you could see that the author was developing strongly in all areas. Both in the graphics and the animations, as well as in storytelling. My main criticisms stem from things that were done wrong very early in the game and then later seemed impossible to correct.

It was his very first work and it was very solid. I have acknowledged the work and paid the author accordingly. Piracy is one thing, fairness towards good work is another. I hope that if MrJet ever reads my review, he understands what I mean. I wanted to offer constructive criticism so that the author could take something away from it. I hope I succeeded. I appreciate the game very much and will certainly play it more often.

Please be fair and support the dev with paying for the game if you can. Even if my review doesn't look like it if you only sees the rating, he deserves it.

Game looks great, amazing renders, sexy girls. Even the background stuff looks HD. I wish all Daz3d games look half as good. On top of that it's content complete. That's a rare breed these days, and just for that I'm giving it 4/5. With that being said, I didn't really enjoy this game. I found the plot to be very bland, the setting underutilized, and the characters not memorable.

The biggest flaw that Become a Rockstar suffers from is its lack of story development and writing. While the interactions with the love interests are somewhat enjoyable, the plot is shaky, unrealistic, and filled with plot holes. Playing two gigs and making it big is a downright fantasy for a band, negating the hard work and dedication that goes into it. The writing is lifeless and dull, probably some of the worst I've seen in an AVN. Besides Selina, Jane, and Emma, I thought the characters were shallow and bland, with barely enough backstory or development. The renders are good, though, and the animations improved over time. Altogether, it's a neat concept but doesn't strive to meet expectations.

As someone of certain reknown of speaking the unfiltered truth, whole truth, and nothing but the truth, I'll speak plainly in regards to this review.

In the very beginning of this game, there was a lot of promise. Story was good, the girls were well modelled, the potential for many possible things band wise was compelling.

That was until Jet decided, for whatever asinine reason, add the reknowned event that didn't add jack fuck all to the story, and ever since, the story went to shit. Which event you may ask? The shooting of our sister, which to this day, made no sense what so ever and was Jets failed attempt to try being Dr. Pink Cake in the 'shock' factor. Even went on record to say it was already planned to happen. Why? It didn't add anything to the story or was suspenseful at all. NOW if it were us who were shot, or even one of the bandmates, now THERE is more suspense and drama and far more intrigue there.

Another thing that made no sense were the constant 'family issues' that were completely and utterly laughably resolved so quickly in the first place the question really is why have them in the first place. Daddy having the whole 'feud' be resolved in the hospital quickly when it could have been drawn out more. The band contract issue also getting resolve in a days time was a joke as well.

Not to mention we never were a real band. We played two gigs and all of a sudden big time now, when most of game was just dealing with personal crap and hanging out with people. We should have had far more gigs, one out of state, one at the festival, maybe a charity one as well. Most bands don't make it big time, even if they are good, after two gigs. They gotta grind and do the extra hours, not to mention handling cover charges and selling tickets. So for 'Becoming a Rock Star', there wasn't any rocking or starring. Talk about a disappointment.

And speaking of disappointments, the hook ups with some of the ladies only to have them break your heart, even if your not on anothers paths -cough cough Rosa cough cough- was truly shameful. I really wanted to be Selina's new step dad. Not to mention Nicole didn't get her happy ending with us, who was falling for us. We never hooked up with the bartisa or her friend ever again. We got three proper scenes with Cathy then no more. In short, much lack in the content with some girls.

Then of course there the MC, and his dialouge, which was bland at times and read like a basic wannabe pornstar trying things out for the first time to see if the girl was into what he was talking about. Then there is the end game MCs look which is hideous. Atleast go full beard and not whatever crap that was, or keep it shaved. And I'm not even gonna mention how Lisa and Jade's looks for the band were true crimes against humanity.

The only true saving grace for this underpreformed game are the girls looks and sex scenes. Nothing else. Sure some of the endings are good and alright, but thats literally it. Just fancy eye candy and a underwheling under written/developer story. So 2/5 is appropriate for this game in my book.

I haven't played this game in a long time but what I remember is that this game is very cool. The storyline is what made it for me; the fact that the MC wants to have his own band and become famous is interesting. The characters around are very well made and play important roles on the plot that sadly as far as I'm conceirned, is linear and with not so many changes thru the choices you made. The art is cool, the scenes as I remember are cool too. The way the MC and the relationships evolve are also cool. Is not perfect but I think it does the job and can be one of those games you put on a list of the best games out there so far of his genre. Worth a try. I might play it again after a long time to see if has improved, but the last time, was easily a four of five stars game.