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

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.

This shit genuinely disappointed me. The dialogue is the most AI-generated shit I've ever read. I think I'd rather read Fifty Shades of Grey three times over than replay this. At least the renders were nice to look at. Also, can we talk about how this band plays two gigs and immediately gets a label contract? I wish it was that easy...

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.

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.