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

I give this game a 3/5, and I shall tell you why.

Let's start with the obvious, and the good.
The renders are the first thing anyone sees, and they are well done, crisp, and it is clear that thought went into the crafting of them, so that deserves praise.
The ladies are also very attractive, all of them, I suppose the dev wished to sell the game, huh?

This is where I shall leave the positives and head to the neutrals.

The story is... fine. Nothing too exciting, but definitely not bad either. though I do feel that the timespan in which the story takes place is a bit too short. A month and a half and they already have a major contract deal lined up. I would have liked to see the dynamic of the band touring in a small van to make a name for themselves that way. could've brought up some nice interactions with the girls if you ask me, no to mention some more Jacob time, since I feel that he is kind of sidelined.

Now... the "bad".

I've come accross some UI errors, that don't exactly impact the game, but still worth noting, since this is meant to be constructive criticism. in Selina's epilogue, she had one line where Anna's name was in place of Selina's in the text box.

the other thing, which i feel is more major, is that some scenes have chronological errors in them, while others have complete wardrobe errors.
With Chornological i mean that for instance, a character has their shoes removed, but in the next frame, the shoes are back on.
and with complete wardrobe errors i mean that a character swaps outfits completely as a scene is going on. at one point they are wearing a red shirt, and then they are wearing a blue one before going back to red in just 3 frames.

As for the scenes, you're not going to convince me that a guy can cum, get it up in 2 minutes, cum again and again all within 40 minutes. This just feels like poor transitioning through sex scenes and multiple positions. It would have been much better to just swap positions without having the MC cum in between. it's just more realistic.

These negatives pull down the rating to 3/5 which would otherwise have been a solid 4/5. It's totally doable to improve on, and I am interested to see where the dev goes next.

Who knew being a rockstar could be so eventful?

Honestly I didn't know what to expect when I started this game. Aside from one small spot, there are no musical mini-games. You won't be picking song lyrics or singing to your fans. But you will definitely see a group of outsiders grow into a band if you let them.

Renders look good, definitely serviceable for the story. In my opinion the sex scenes seemed a bit bland, but then again MC isn't that much of a lewd figure - so it fit within the story. The characters look fine and it's great to see Jacob being there as your fellow bandmember. The band feels like they grow together with each step and while family matters happen in your life, the band helps you hold it together when you can't. This is about the relationships, not about the music.

Playing nice with everyone will get you nowhere as the women will learn of each others influence and it will affect how your game plays out. Ironically, your sister is one of the hottest characters in game (which the game hints towards), but the game cheekily steers away from industry tropes to keep your desires within the family. I could have missed one or two characters in the game for extra minutes with the characters we've come to love, but it helps in building a world for the MC - where Naked Park rules the arena. Would have loved to have had this get more out of hand with the band. But things get out of hand with the family.

I love how the game tries knotting up what ends there are by hinting at a future with the characters. There are clear signs the dev wanted this story to round and that's commendable for your first game.

4/5 for me.

I am giving 5 stars, but it is more 4.7 stars
this game has amazing animations, and a story that really grips you, there are even repercusions of your decisions, especially if you try and be a stud and get all the girls, this game is almost perfect, and I say almost for a few reasons.
1, it feels like it needed to be slightly longer, the game pacing is perfect to about 80-90% in then suddenly the end of the game feels rushed, like it was rushed to finish it, it needed a little more depth towards the end I feel, but on the whole it is still great.
2, a few of the girls feel like their path is "unfinsihed" now I get they may not be the main girls, or just side characters, but still, one or two charaters feel like they got the short straw.
3, no lewd content with the sister, yeah yeah some or against that, but there are hundreds of games that do have content with sisters, so it feels like it should be standard by now.

these are all only minor flaws, more like nit picks, hense why I only removed 0.1 star for each one, giving an overall score of 4.7 stars, highly recommend to get this game

Fantastic game with a great set of story lines to follow. Each one is well written and worth a play through. The renders are top notch and the animations are well placed and smooth. I would rank this in my top 10 AVN's personally.

This game is more for mindless, convenient fapping session than anything else.

Beautiful renders. The environment, characters and models are all neat and cleanly rendered. The love interests all have great models, especially if you like redheads. The animations are real nice and sex scenes are hot.

Other than that, the MC, the story and writing is disappointing and as shallow as a puddle. It's about a budding band but it never really writes about that at all. It's mostly about getting the MC from one encounter with hotties to the next.

The MC looks kind of weird, but this doesn't detract too much from the experience.

However, it's a rare Adult VN that's actually completed and wraps up the story decently. This gets bonus points for actually getting to the finish line with a solid product.

Despite some flaws, this game is easily deserving of a 5-star review!

Is the MC kinda fugly? Yes. Does he suffer from "big dick syndrome"? Yes. Is it a bit too easy for the main character to achieve his goals? Yes. Is the writing sometimes repetitive and sounds like it was written by a non-native English speaker? Yes. Would it have been nice to have some sound in the sex scenes? Indeed.

I don't deny any of these facts.

But all of those quibbles do not negate the fact that this game has gorgeous models, amazing renders, characters with clear and distinct personalities, several extremely well-written LIs with their own story arcs, affecting endings, and most important of all, ***meaningful choices*** that make this game highly replayable.

Although this game is far from perfect, it is still easily better than 97% of the games on this site, so it's unquestionably worthy of 5 stars.

I lost the motivation to play it quite fast. The models are simply boring and not memorable. The bodies are bland and simply not attractive. Few of the faces are fine, but most of them won't get many dates in the real world.

(Version Reviewed: Completed Game)

Become a Rock Star has an excellent premise. But, it fails to deliver on it's potential. I feel it should have explored the aspects of living the life of a rockstar more in depth. Hell, MC did not even have sex with groupie fans.

The story was good, with some characters that I don't care about and some that I love (Selina, Julia and Emma). The music is boring. It's a crime for a game that centers it's story around the life of a rockstar. The renders are pretty good and the animations are good enough. The dialogues (especially in the final chapter) feels lazy. Like the dialogue is the same with only a change in the LI present in the scene.

Overall, 7/10 is a fair rating. It's a good game but I had hoped for much more.

Amazing story, following the Lisa + jade path was a trip and the ending slides made me all emotional. I was a little surprised that nothing was really done with all the cheating the MC could get up to after getting in any serious relationship, but w/e just enjoy the extra scenes (or don't) and then pretend they didn't happen.
The ending may feel a tad unrealistic, considering all the rumors that go around such rock bands, I mean the phrase "sex, drugs and rock 'n roll* didn't exactly come from nowhere, but w/e, I like a good ending, sue me.

Story
Quite well developed with a bit of a twist and drama that keep you interested.
The choises you are making have an impact on the girl you end up with

Characters
The girls have different body type and personalities up to some degree. Nice to spend some time with some of them.

Renders
I enjoyed the visual part, the environment and the colors. The sex scenes were also well
presented

Story: 7/10 (due to traumatic event, without, a 6/10)
-The story is rather simple and plain, not that is a bad thing. Some content is just mean t to go down easy. Overall plot twist/trauma does elevate it and smartly resolves many plotlines with it.
Time skip at the end was a nice touch.

Characters: 7/10
-Some are memorable, some are generic.
Selina, Julia and the ex stood out as better written, the rest were more generic tropes.

Emotional/Rational Character believability: 7.5/10
-Like with all AVN's, the game requires suspension of disbelief.
Some characters are simply better written and feel more organic.
Overall, Julia is the MAIN CHARACTER, our MC is just the vessel for the story.

Style: 7/10
-Presentation is decent, clothing matches the vibes of the games.
Even tho bland at times, it serves it's purpose.

Renders: 7/10
-Some scenes are great and rich, some piss poor quality textures.
I'd honestly give it a 5/10, BUT, seeing how it it an older title, I can't judje it too much in comparison to today's AVN giants.

Music: 5/10
-Pretty much forgertable, besides the ominous track, that is sadly over used.
Certain sound effects were used nicely for comedic value.

Replay Value: 3.5/10
-Not all the girls got the same attention and some are simply better written.
Quite a few dangling carrots to and girls/routes that went nowhere. Game needed more polish and depth, alas, it is what it is.

Overall: 6.28/10
-Glad I played it, won't be coming back to it.
Will probably create some artwork for it, and that's that.

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.