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

Become a Rock Star (0.99 version) is definitely a good game. Characters are interesting and the general story is so as well, as long as you accept that as usually happens in this genre, they attend to just classic tropes. My main gripe with the game, the reason it actually lost the fifth star, has to do with choices and pacing. The story advances very very quickly, I've had a band, things don't go so fast; I know, it's a game and a fantasy, but this also means that very early in the game you are entering into key choices you won't be able to undo and very solid relationships that come a bit out of the blue. This ties with the choices part, at the beginning there are some choices that condition the whole game even though they may not seem important at all (the first choice with Anna, about the look of the locale she's in, actually conditions her whole story). And also the ending is very hurried, from the moment you reach a key point, then all that follows goes more or less into a long script that seems like they just wanted to close the game; the way it is handled story-wise is not bad, but it leaves out key choices that are actually made for you even though they are neither shown nor you can do anything about them (like with which girl you want to end up with, a common trope in the genre).

Character models are great, clothes, locations, etc. There are a few strange things like bass guitars being smaller than normal guitars (it's the other way round) or playing without stripes and how some people hold their cigarettes and so on. But it's still great. Animations are plenty and well done, though they're not the best sex scenes around. And music is pretty good.

So this hurried ending has left me with a sour aftertaste for what is undoubtedly a great game.

As a last detail, I liked a lot that not all the girls in the game are for you to fuck, but that some have other stories and so on. Particularly, no forced incest just to cheer up some potential players.

I sense everyone shouting already "what, 2 stars only?" yep exactly...

And thats why.

To get at least 3 stars i think a game must be good at SOMETHING. But this isnt good in any regard, here and there only average most of the time way below average.

For me first things first... story and characters.

Story? Lets be REAL honest here, there is none. The MC wants to get away from his father and become a Rock star... Not very original or deep, but okay... if it works out, very well. But i doesnt. Why? Cause they become rock stars in an instant without ANY obstacles at all. A handful reheasels, self written songs out of nowhere, Jasob seems to know simply everybody important to get ahead and get gigs in an instant without even showing some footage first. A handful reheasels 2 gigs later, they get a bigger contract at the biggest label than the big popular band in the game... sure.... *head meets desk* thats just awful.

The characters, we simply learn nearly NOTHING about them. The main girl Lisa, she goes to college and likes to sing... aaaaaaand thats it. You will learn nothing more about her not one thing. And that goes for every one else too... Jacob is you best friend (seems to be like this forever) and other than that he is a drummer and has weird hair, you know nothing about him, and will not learn anything. And i could go on like that with every single character EVEN the MC. No Background stories, no really different personalities besides Jade, but here it was only an ATTEMPT to create a somewhat interesting and deep character, but she is not. We can learn a little of her background (in this regard she is the only character in the whole game) but nothing major...

Everything is just on the surface cause the DEv obviously isnt able to create characters with unique background story or anything else that matters.

And now we get a "lovestory" out of that... come on, how should that even work in the slightest if there is simply nothing to care about? I like Lisa, cause she is nice to look at and a cheerful person... but caring for her is not possible cause for that i need to know more about her. Heck we doesnt even get to know if she had a boyfriend before.

I dont start with all the other LIs cause here the realtionship is so minor it doesnt need to mentioned. Besides a little fucking here and there, there is nothign to talk about... i mean the MC and his LIs doesnt talk to each other that much...

Mostly it goes like this in the game... "hey come in, have a drink lets talk" and than the DEV shows a line like this "And they talked for hours" wow.... that is how relationship build up goes people.... not.

Than it seems the story gets going, something happened to Julia.... BUT its just solved in a handwave so to speak... same goes for the father feud. doesnt really matter if you are nice or hostile... the scenes with him will be short and doesnt matter at all for the suscess for the band, as i mentioned, they dont need to face any real obstacle at all.

Yeah well... we meet a lot of characters, doesnt learn anything about them besides their names, getting some sexscenes with way below average animations (at best some short loops that are looking very weird most of the times)

To me the whole game feels like only a "start" for things to come. But its completed. (only things left are some endings for minor characters and bug fixes)

Besides Jade and Lisa you meet an LI, and fuck them a little later or in an instant... aaaand thats it. No build up at all.

So in Key Points

-Renders are ok or nice... the best thing about the game by far, BUT not outstanding or anything like that, there are way better looking games out there. But with good will, 4 stars for renders.

- Animations... meh... would have been better without i think. Overall they are more annoying than adding something to the scenes. 1 star

- Sound/Backgroundmusic 2 stars, cause it has sound and some fitting background music... well for the music, i think the whole game has maybe 4 different music parts in it, thats not very much and certainly not enough to set the mood for a scene. Especially if you heard the same all the time. Advise here, turn on the sound and turn off the music and set some music on your own.

- Characters and Story 1 Star, as told, very very bland, only going on the very surface, we dont learn anything about the characters that matters. They become rockstars in an instant, the father feud is none existent. Overall i get the feeling there was the idea to do so much more... but the DEv lost the drive halfway through and thought "a fuck it, i make it short and thats it" Storywise there is just no motivation to play it... cause its very clear that they will become rockstars without any obstacle.

- Cause most think this is a porn site (which is not the case) a word for the sex scenes... they are average at best. The animations dont add a thing, and everything else is just a little flower sex overall, even the threesome are not that good. 2 stars for them

so... 1 star, 2 star, 1 star, 4 star, 2 star... devided is indeed only a 2 star game.

Me Bashing the story
Story is about a dude leaving his rich family to struggle on his own in a life of music, but...
- He's given his own place and presumably doesn't have to pay rent on it.
- Is somehow squeaking by with $100 a night bartending job that doesn't even schedule him that often.
- Oh and that $100 a night bartending job? Passed the interview with flying colors and everyone loves him first day, first try. Lol.
- Needs a vocalist for his band and finds the perfect one within a day of searching for her.
- Lewds on his neighbor the first day, and at that very same moment, gets invited over for sex by her. All within his first day of moving in. Vocalist girl is falling for him by day 2. Day 3 was probably someone else, but I stopped keeping track at that point.

And so yeah, this story isn't about a rich dude with a love for music leaving the family to struggle on his own. Instead, this story's more about some posh rich dude taking a joy ride on his daddy's dime while the universe bends to his will so that everything will work out perfectly for him. Great.

Really though, this dude has everything happen so easily for him without the smallest modicum of effort. His best friend handles almost everything business and/or conflict related for the band perfectly with no hiccups; his sisters babysits and watches over him as the perfect older sibling; his dad -- WHO'S SUPPOSED TO BE VERY AGAINST EVERYTHING HE'S DOING -- is covering his rent and place to stay, probably the biggest expense anyone is going to have starting out on their own; and...

And it's all tiresome how perfect this guy's life goes. What happened to plot? Conflict? Guess I'll have to go look for that somewhere else!

Me trying to say something good about it and failing
But speaking of plot, there is some plot. The girls have plenty of it(in more ways than one).

His neighbor is a nymphomaniac trying to find her confidence; his sister's best friend is trying to figure out if she's willing to risk it all fucking her friend's little brother; one lady's going through a divorce. Cool, there are some interestin dilemmas in these plots.

Wrong. Spoiler alert, the characters arcs end just as lacklusterly as the opening to the main plot. Things will work out no problem, no drama, and the MC and 'x' girl will live happily ever after. It's just incredibly disappointing how disappointing how each route goes that I won't even bothering telling you to get excited.

Me trying to say something good about it and succeeding
But yeah, I've been bagging on this for while, but there are some good things like...
- Renders are all great. Girls are reasonably hot.
- Grammar/writing is a non-issue. Due wish it had been a little funny though. I can't remember a single line of banter in this, and that's usually my favorite part.
- Sex and girls are sufficiently freaky. Not the hottest sex I've seen, but certainly more than passable.
- Like I said before, the initial character arcs are quite appealing and interesting. It's only their latter halfs that tend to fall off for me.
- The climax of the story was actually great! I was on the edge of my seat and really liked it. The best part was looking forward to every character's reaction to it because everyone liked this character.
- I definitely liked the idea of everything, and would've probably rated this a 10/10 if the execution had been better.

Me trying to justify my score
So yeah, even if there are some giant, glaring flaws in the story, I really think this was so close to a stellar VN that I'm giving it a 4. It's definitely not AVERAGE because it does a lot of things right, and the fact that the there are no glaring grammar/dialogue issues alone puts it significantly above it's peers in the AVN industry.

Furthermore, the ideas are already 90% of the way there for me. The idea of a rich dude leaving his family to start a life of music is great. The idea of falling in love with your sister's best friend after trying to leave everything about the corporate life behind is great. But the execution on all of this? Seems to forget what about the ideas made it so great to begin with, and halfway through the execution, it just becomes... mediocre. Hence, why it's a 4/5 instead of a 5/5.

Such a tough story to rate. I can't help but feel it could've been so great, almost like a perfect-pristine fighter jet flubbing both its take-offs and landings because the pilot was a little bit drunk or something(or maybe not drunk enough, haha).

Idk. Idk. All I know is that it was good enough that I would instantly hop on any reboot/remake this creator because I'd be eager to see if they learned from their mistakes or not. Beccause if they did? Then holy shit, their next VN would probably be one of the best!

Sadly, I kind of doubt that'll happen though, so 4/5, it was a fun ride regardless.

A pretty bad TLDR
I absolutely abhor the overarching plot, but the individual character arcs for each of the girls start off pretty good, and uh... yeah, I like tits!

Well. Here we are at the end of the story, and i've been wanting to leave a rating for a while. A while because it took me forever to go through the last release albeit very short. I found it so boring that i had a hard time to click on.

Ok, my overall rating after a couple of years of this VN which was one of the first i played and one of those who got me entralled with the genre.

First of all the positive. The models are top notch. Even after this few years they stay in the upper tier of Ren'Py games. The scenes are well cared, not super long but done well and with a good sense of estetics, which deserves good praises. Also, good taste for women. The characters of this game are among the most universally beautiful ladies i've seen around this site. You can like some more and some less, but it's hard not to find them all gorgeous. Such a feature is not as common as one may imagine when you can just draw women as hot as you please.

Unfortunately, to me, the positive aspects of this game end here.

For the rest, thinking back to the story, it's all so bland and boring. I think a good meter to evaluate the quality of a VN is to imagine it without the porn scenes. Would you still like it? Is there even anything left? In this case i would say: no, there is not much left.

The story is way too flat and simple. Literally nothing happens. There is no drama, no challenge, no downfall, no obstacle. Literally, nothing.

It would be easy to critic the last release, which was utterly short and eventless and it took forever to be completed, but i prefer not to. I can simpatize with an inspiration that runs dry or a motivation that falls short. There is nothing more human.

But unfortunately, the last release is just the topping. Thinking back to the whole story every single plot get dropped almost immediately.
MC father is determined to screw MC's music career? Nope, he changes his mind literally the day after.
An ex GF is back in MC life to add drama and rivalries? Nope, she is like "fuck it, MC's doing well, i'll peacefully go away".
There is a shady rival band? No problem, they suck at playing and they screw themselves the second time MC meet them.
A producer want to screw the band out of spite? No problem, talk 5 minutes with his father.
There is a weird naked feline? He's just a weird naked feline. (cit.)

What's left? MC gets a hot girlfriend, he starts a band, number 2 gigs and he gets a supercontract with the best producer in town and world success the day after. THE END.

In short, this game doesn't deliver. As simple as that.

I would have liked to give it 2 stars but it wouldn't have been fair because of the technical quality of this game.

I kind of enjoyed this game with the whole being in a rock band theme and getting famous story line.

Unfortunately it feels kind of deflated as you progress. There is no real feeling of excitement when they play a couple of gigs which kind of let's the overall theme down a bit. More scenes and new songs for the gigs would have made them much better.

The dialogue was really wooden and stilted for a large part of the game before seeming to become more fitting for the scenes. I would redo some of it if I was the dev as it detracts from the overall mood - which is a shame.

I didn't like playing the main guy - he is so fugly brrr...and would have loved to play as Lisa or Jade instead. the music also got a bit boring as the same songs were used all the way through, but the renders were fairly good.

Overall it was still good fun and appealed to me as i like games where you are in a rock band. i would have loved more band content and the gigs just seemed a bit short, still a fairly good game.

Loved the game so far, the characters are hard to choose from so I played all and settled on Jane ans Selina as the best endings. the only parts that I was not happy with was the Emma story, as I fell for her right away and there never was a real ending for the get back together. but the story on a whole was great

It's mostly fine. The animations are...fine. The renders are pretty good. There's a diverse enough cast of women, and their personalities are...fine. The plot is all right, although I wish there was more emphasis on the development of the actual band. I do give it points for punishing cheating to a degree, although the way it does so feels kind of contrived. Still, it's a net positive.

The problem is the MC. He looks like a skinny douchebag, which is bad enough, and he really doesn't have anything to offer personality-wise. But worst of all, he is absolutely a fucking creep. He has no sense of boundaries and is only vaguely concerned with what the women in his life actually want. He is exactly the kind of guy that led women and sympathetic bartenders to coin the term "angel shot". But the thing is, he's not supposed to be: he's supposed to be this suave dude with the typical elephant cock who gets all the girls. Instead, he's exactly the kind of person that any woman who has ever been accosted in a bar - which is to say, literally all of them - would know well enough to avoid, but he's rewarded anyway because these games are obviously wish fulfillment. Also, anyone who repeatedly says "Take that!" during sex should be forced to go home with blue balls.

Really, it's fine overall, but it's plagued by what is easily one of the worst MCs you'll come across.

BARS has left the Top G in a bittersweet state. When the Top G first played this game it was one of the Top G's favourites. Alas playing the game from start to finish going on the Lisa/Jade route, the game has some underlying problems that holds this game back from being truly great.

The biggest thing in the Top G's opinion that holds this game back is the writing and dialogue. It is clear that the dev is not a native speaker of english which is fine but the Top G implores that non-native speakers work with a native speaker to ensure that dialogue comes off as natural. The writing suffers from the lack of proper translation of the idea into english text, the essence is captured but the execution is flawed. However the Top G can look past most of this.

The general story and LI (that the Top G chose) are done well enough to have a compelling story about the MC upstart band, with a decent resolution. The length was nice enough not too long, not too short and Top G can appreciate the dev taking liberties to skip some mundane parts of the story that would have dragged on otherwise. The Top G really did enjoy the charm and endearment in the ending of the game, was really nice to see the characters older and achieve their goals with a nice happy ending. Top G would have liked it to be a little more fleshed out though,on the Lisa/Jade path you see nothing going on with the MC's family and some of the other characters.

Top G will sum up with the renders and models, and the Top G can safely say the game still looks really good (the start of the game is showing its age though) and the models are all within the Top G's taste. The Top G's noticed a lot of complaints about the MC's looks and the Top G must disagree, he looked fine in the Top G's opinion.

All in all the Top G does very much recommend this to his hustlers, and looks forward to the dev's next project (hopefully they take the dialogue and writing to the next level)

One of the best porn games there are with extremely good renders, exquisite sex scenes (and plethora of them) and good story. Everything here is either good or great but never average or below. There are plenty of choices here and many women to choose from and there is harem path (which is a plus in my book) so we're not locked out of content just to make us replay the game. Even so there is so much stuff to do here and so many women to fuck that it's impossible to see everything in one playthrough and the game is vert replayable.

Basically this game has it all and every person should be satisfied. There are hot milfs here as well as teens, red-heads, brunettes and blondes and in general it's an extremely well polished gem of a game.

Pros:
+ Extremely well done renders
+ Superb sex scenes
+ Plethora of women to fuck
+ Meaningful choices
+ Very good story with believable characters and well written dialgoues
+ Game has tons of content and it's one of the few ones I want to replay again and again

Cons:
- Can't think of any

It's been a long time I've been waiting for the ending of this visual and it's so amazing

The time you bot produces very good results, I hope you will continue to create other titles so that I can enjoy, think about the future or apocalyptic setting, maybe ancient =) )

who know

I played this game at the beginning when Jane was the MC's sister and for other reasons Julia ended up becoming the MC's sister replacing Jane. It seems the incest was avoided for reasons I suspect was patreon who at the time was suspending incest games. So I waited to do this review until the final version since the dev had said he was about to finish the game and for personal reasons he ended up putting it on hold for about 1 year and a few months and finally an almost finished version.

I'll be very honest, the story of this game is not good, it's boring, you just enjoy certain moments and others end up being inevitable, such as choosing a girlfriend because it will arrive in the middle of the game if you have two or more (Jane, Selina or Anna) you will lose the other half of the content, another thing is also that if you want to see the complete content of the three you will have to play again in each path what it can get tiring. Julia is one of the best female character models and I don't know why the dev avoided her being exploited, this for me ended up becoming uncomfortable because it doesn't make much sense, it's like saying, hey, this girl was not made for you, you would never have her, of course this was not your intention but to build your story but it ended up becoming a little disappointing because the game doesn't offer much what you thought it would, for example, it's a vanilla novel, something created for a certain audience you will not see such fetishes, one of them is incest, who ended up missing in that game.

The only thing that is good about this game are the renderings and animations, but probably after this update I don't doubt very much if there will be others coming soon someone will play this again, I mean, if it's for the sexual content, but if it's for the story and if you or someone else likes it, it'll probably come back, but I don't. It lacked a story that could hook the player, maybe a forbidden relationship between the MC and Julia could have saved the game but that's my opinion. My last criticism, I didn't like that ending and it felt too vague.

I checked this game only recently so i wasnt bothered long update pause discussed in thread above. Overall very decent game. Sure, there are some flaws, but it seems complete now and polished enough. I like it.

Also, even dev said he dropped idea of use cheat points, but i think they still can be salvaged in v1.0. Just add 1 slide where MC, shows his attitude by this hidden score, get cheated on Lisa and fall off on "nostalgic ending" in fathers office.

But it s just thing to note. If game in 1.0 just gets more polishes and fixes it is fine by me.

5/5 Thank you.
Waiting for more in future

I have been a fan of this game since the start.

Pros:
Punishes harem building?
Renders and animations are of high quality and very good.
Female characters have realistic bodies and very pretty faces.

Cons:
MC look like a short and skinny dude with duck face and awful haircut, yet he gets all the girls. and also his personality is non existant and hes the typical guy that everyone hates and yeah he got zero game.
Sex scenes with main li are very vanilla
Story overall, text and dialogues is very bad
Lack of humor
Lack of choices/replayability (aside from choosing different LI)
Story is really non existent and theres no fun aside of lewd scenes

Overall, good looking romance game with hot lewd scenes and terrible writing. all 3 stars come from render quality.

Was such a good start back then... Yes the MC is ugly af. Always have to look somewhere else so i don't have to see that ugly face. The girls are pretty good.

People say there was 2 years of no update? I don't know i honestly forgot about this game. Well if that is true then good job i guess. Also this latest update 0.99 is meh anyway.

The plot of Become a Rock Star feels eerily like if the HBO show Entourage had been about making it as a rock band instead of becoming a movie star. It has a lot of the same charm of Entourage, being about friends overcoming challenges together and taking time to celebrate their successes, but I also feel it has the same weakness of being predictable and boring at times.

The plot mapping didn't help this feeling. I found no real choices other than which girl I wanted to be in a relationship with and what I wanted to name the band. I also found, when I replayed the game with different love interests, that nearly every setting and piece of dialogue is identical for every romance. At one point, the story tries to heighten the stakes and put a character's life in mortal danger, but I found I couldn't be moved to care because the outcome was predictable and I didn't feel attached to the characters.

For the characters themselves, Become a Rock Star has a lot of beautiful models and a few spicy sex scenarios with them near the beginning of the game. However, I can't help but wonder if it took on too many romantic interests, and perhaps that's the reason why each character's dialogue is nearly identical and inconsequential to the story? Still, it's still a lovely cast.

Overall, I wouldn't steer anyone away from this story because many of my points may come down to my personal tastes, but I do wish Become a Rock Star had had either taken more risks in its plot or offered more branching/consequences in the story to give me more engagement.

3 stars for renders and animations which are really good.

Writing is bad, dialogue is bad, girls are boring. It feels like it was written by someone with no real social skills who thinks they're a lot smarter than they actually are. MC is an ugly dildo.

Not worth reading but worth holding ctrl to see the girls.

Edited this review for final release of 1.0 from 0.9 but won't change much. Take this as a constructive criticism.

Premium: Renders and animations are nearly perfect. It can alone get this game nearly 5 stars. If you are in for the scenes, one of the best.

Good: Girl variety. Girls are gorgeous. You get punished for manwhoring.

Average: Script and plot. Seriously, the appealing conflict of the story is easily resolved. There is a over the top surprise mid story to stir up some tension but it was meh. Also most of the girls seem one-dimensional as the days pass you meet new people but you barely know them. Love interests feel indifferent from side girls to be honest: Always casual sex, eroticism and romance lack.

Bad: MC is slick-haired, too skinny fit for a young adult but portrayed as a hunk by females because of his big dick. Bad writing and dialogue. Casual convo and dirty talk are all filler and boring after a point. (Lack of kinks may be a negative for certain people). I am sorta play it for story, lewd content are bonus kinda VN enjoyer so this doesn't cut it for me.

The game's title is nearly nonexistent in the story. What people expect from a title such as "Become a Rock Star"? Struggles of a young musician: as an amateur musician myself i expected much more from that. I took interest in this VN and got excited. You know nightlife changes people. It changes relationships between families, friends and band members. There are drugs, booze, prostitution, violence tied to all of it. I expected this mansion boy to toss unto the wall of small time rock band struggle into the nightlife, but i was wrong. All of this drama potential is just wasted i guess, for a couple more romance options. There are lack of character development also (both physically and mentally). MC is the same slick haired mansion boy, standing out from other band members, acting and behaving, looking same as before. Also there were a lot of drama and additional conflict potential but wasted. All and all the game feels like a dating sim, with a rock band as a side gig. You don't feel like playing a rockstar wanna be. Main LIs chosen for long term romance are unrelated to MC's current predicament on the path to becoming a rock star except Lisa. I guess longevity of this project and lackluster character writing at the beginning combined with Dev's fault at designating LIs at the start led to better written characters becoming flings or nonromanceable, while we get to end up with average gals unrelated to the main conflict and story.

Still this game deserves objectively a 4 star rating for the visuals and effort.

But here is the problem, I have an issue with a certain thing that I want to rant about and lower the review score to 3. So here we go.

Good premise at the start but due to bad development decisions and bad plot development, a lot of the potential seems wasted.

Become A rockstar (V0.90)

Wow this is another gem.

The story that revolves around MC Ambition to the rockstar and his relationship with other character really flesh out.

I love how the story really feels dramatic and have build and not feel forced.

This game is very recommended to play for the story of a man journey to become a rockstar. The happy,sad,inspiring, (and horny lmao) moment truly feels good in this VN

I ended up really loving this VN. The characters are great and memorable. The story is engaging and well-written. It has a lot of heart. My only real issue with this VN is that whenever you reject a girl and you are being monogamous, you almost never get to say that you are in a relationship and instead it comes across rather harshly. I would still enjoy getting to know these characters without having to fuck them, and I also don't want my character to sound like an asshole suddenly for no reason.

Pros:
The story and backstory of the characters is very interesting and well written
It has multiple branches for multiple playthroughs
The "art" (character models, background, animations, etc.) is very good


The music is good, but only instrumental (no singing)

Overall 5/5 stars