Ren'Py - Big City's Pleasures [v0.8.0] [Porcus]

Version reviewed: v0.3

Overview
Big City's Pleasures started out well. The renders are good quality, the animations are fairly average (some were good, some were a bit janky), and the story is compelling at first. Very quickly, though, the dreaded sandbox drag started to take effect. My general playstyle is to avoid the tips section and just play the game the way it feels natural to play, the way a person would actually act, and go about his day. But, I quickly realized I was getting nowhere fast. After a quick glance at the tips, I realized the problem.

The game sets ridiculously high goals for the amount of grinding required. In this case meaning that, as a player, I'm forced to repeat actions over, and over, and over ad nauseum until an arbitrary level of relationship points or some other random stat is met. Sometimes in games like this, it is acceptable, but this game does not even change up the scenes. Meaning that the player is forced to watch the same scene per repeated task over and over again. And the scenes are not short, in fact, they are very long and have no option to skip repeats.

The result of this grinding is that the story, what little we see of it, grinds to a halt, then suddenly leaps forward when another goal is reached, only to grind to a halt again. Meaning that the overall experience of playing the game is boring and grindy.

TLDR Ratings
Overall appearance: Slightly above average
Renders: Good
Animations: Average
UI: Below average
Sandbox elements: Baaaaaaaaaaaad
Story: Started above average, became choppy and non-existent

Just a fair bit of warning for the new players. The very FIRST sexual scene of the game is the female main character (your friend) getting fucked by her boyfriend and being a slut while the other roommate is clearly a slut. And no, it's not avoidable. You may choose to not view the scene but the MC still watches them fuck with all the dialogues playing in the background. So non-avoidable.So yeah, you are living with 2 girls one of whom has her bf over almost all nights (obviously fucking) and the other who is hungry for any a dick no matter whose. Pretty much killed the mood right at the beginning! Still giving it 3 stars because I played for a while more and the game looked decent but when the start of the game itself kills the mood, I didn't see any point in playing on. Not my cup of tea but if others don't mind this, play the game right ahead. Might enjoy it. But yeah, you have been warned.

Forced rape, forced femdom and an idiot MC whom behaves like a 12 year old whom is going through puberty not as a grown ass man. No choices in the game, this game should be tagged as a kinetic novel. Renders are gorgeous though and is the only saving grace for this game.

I hadn't played this game in probably 6 months. The only thing I want to ask is what the hell happened?! It went from a somewhat endearing story of a country bumpkin going to the big city for the first time to attend university, to the story of a hormone imbalanced 12 year old creep that acts as if he's never seen a naked girl in his life. It actually makes zero sense given how much sex he had in the game up to it going off the rails.

The good; The game is rendered gorgeously. Every one of the women in it are absolutely beautiful. Hm, that's it.

The bad; The MC has turned into one of the biggest idiots I've seen portrayed in an adult game. The developers need to rewrite the background and make him an actual 12 year old going through puberty, because then his mentality and actions would at least make some sense. I don't even understand at this point why it's a Sandbox game other than to annoy the player. The story is pretty linear and a lot of the time "choices" don't really make a difference in the slightest. My final gripe is the forced content. While I don't have anything against Femdom in particular, I don't want it forced on me to the extent it was in this game. Be warned, some of the scenes are definitely not "light" Femdom.

All in all, I'm still perplexed by what happened. Despite the Sandbox nature of it, this used to be a good game.

Pros:

*The Renders are great
*Sex Scenes are for the most part smooth and well executed
*Variety of really hot women
*Enjoyable Main characters
*Pretty good story and love romance
*Megan is a fox

Cons:

*It's a sandbox so expect a grind
*Some small inconsistencies but nothing major
*Not much to do, I mostly just skipped until scenes occurred

Overall I love the game Gina and Jessy are beautiful women and the fact that you get to share an apartment with them is a treat alone. I love the dynamics of the relationship of Tony and Gina, it was well thought out and sweet. Jessy is perfect to me, though I have a feeling she will fall for the MC soon, if she hasn't already. There's a lot of great gals in the game but just when you think it couldn't get any better.... Megan the bombshell is inserted into the game. She is.. Wow!
Can't wait for more scenes from her. Great job by Porcus.

The game starts with MC being a nervous shy guy and all the women as doms who toy with him like a pet, MC cant reject them and becomes a very heavy submissive(literally a sub slave) with right away unavoidable sub bondage.

Also just to point out its not the femdom scene i have a problem with as MC was drugged into that its his reaction to being drugged and molested i have the problem with , no normal person would react that way, they would report the teacher to the police or at the very least never see her again.

No person in there right mind would do the things MC does in the game
All the women are exacty the same sexually aggressive doms who will fuck MC at first glance, there really is no challenge at all in the game and i was bored all the way through.

There is nothing to do most of the time so half the game is just wasting game time.

Its the first game that had me skipping within 10 minutes of starting and one of only 3 that i could not force myself to play all the way through.

No idea why devs add a button(or even two) to click without any other choices but there are loads and loads of them here, then when there are actually two different choices they still dont do anything to direct the game, example
The points system is strange, losing points for following exactly what they told you to do and for doing things they can possibly know about and didnt say you couldnt do or even things the game wont give you a choice in not doing.

The interface is slow and a pain to use plus every now and then the game will pause.

The art is good but nothing special.

Firstly i wanna say its an amazing game overall Firstly the story is unique not your every day incest mom and daughter story.Its a the best of kinky each and every scene and render is perfection.If you like BDSM Domination and want it not in like a very dark kinda way this is your thing Ms cooper is definetly the best and people who are complaining about femdom and stuff as the dev said that wont be the only thing involved.Only thing the game needs is a walkthrough in detail as for bugs Guys the dev said he is not a python guru or anything so please give him a break In General

Story : Unique and Different
Renders : High Defination and highly worked on
Art : Unique
Sex Scenes : Very Kinky and normal are there too

ALSO
The game gives you a unique story with amazing models and Great Renders Its one of the best out there Its surely worth your time and appreciate the effort that has been put into it

Uno de los mejores proyectos que he podido disfrutar. Sus historias, los personajes, los elementos visuales. Todo en su conjunto es de un trabajo enorme y fantástico. Las cosas positivas hasta ahora vistas superan con creces los elementos que pueden no gustar. Desde luego es de los proyectos que he visto de los mejores y para mi en el top 3 de los mejores. Muchas gracias y seguir así.
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One of the best projects that I have been able to enjoy. Their stories, the characters, the visuals. Everything as a whole is a huge and fantastic job. The positive things seen so far far outweigh the elements that they may not like. Of course it is one of the projects that I have seen of the best and for me in the top 3 of the best. Thank you very much and keep it up.

So i like the overall game and much of the story, but it also has some glaring issues.

1. The biggest issue is the unavoidable BDSM/Femdom content. This is a huge turnoff for me and from i have seen in the comments one of the biggest complaints about the game. Perhaps make this optional or at least tone it down a bit
2. The game needs a much better guide/hint system especially with Jessy/Gina stories as right now it hard to tell if it even complete for that particular version. Also some events seem difficult to impossible to trigger
3. The Grind: this is really just a minor nitpick as it is really not as bad as some other games, but still it can be frustrating when really seems to be very little payoff

If you can fix those things this will be a great game. The HQ renders and animations are some the best and the overall story is engaging. Fixing the numbers 2 or 3 alone would put the game up to 4 stars imo. In order to get to 5 #1 would have to be drastically altered

Definitely needs a lot more new content to make it worth playing. Played this quite awhile ago and a lot of characters still don't have new content which is kind of disappointing. Needs new locations and updates on existing ones such as the college. This could definitely be a five star game in about 6 months or more.

This game is simply incredible, overall. It does have some grind to it but nothing as bad as other sandbox games available here, plus if you've ever played an MMO, the grind is practically nothing to you.

This game's story is actually pretty good and romantic, and I say that as a dude who generally plays this sort of games for the sex scenes and if the girls are pretty hot. Not only are the renders gorgeous, the animation is some of the best I've seen, pretty up there alongside DrPinkCake, PhillyGames and Lewdlab.

Basically, I'm really looking forward to more updates and hopefully the devs are able to fully flesh out each character and continue to receive well deserved support, cheers.

To start I wanted to talk about grind in this game since it is the main topic of hate towards this game.

The game is grind but not as much as they say and sometimes the problem is that you don't know what to do next, especially with Gina and Jessy, the walktrough is a good idea or you can also look for help in the game thread.

The main story is moving through our philosophy teacher and then we have other girls all with very different and human personalities although the most important are your two flatmates Gina and Jessy.

The stories with each girl are very well written and fit with their personalities. Some moments will make you sad and sentimental while others will make you laugh and happy.

The renders and animations of this game are great at the level of top tier games in the adult industry.

Despite the grind it is a good game and a breath of fresh air after so many games with boring and monotonous stories.

Overall it is a very good VN with an interesting storyline. The graphics and models are very good and well made. The only issue so far is the game size and maybe that some times because of the details and the good quality of the character models, they stand out too much in comparison with the background (around their edges). But nevertheless, it's a very well made VN.

Disclaimer : I played this game a long time ago, and my memory is a little hazy on the early parts, so take this review for what it is. Just wanted to state that for honesty. I might go back to play it to refresh my memory and adjust review accordingly.

So this review will be from where I picked up playing in the later stages recently, as detailed in the spoilers. The updates I just played are awful and how they flow into each other. This game falls off the rails, I looked away from the screen at some points because it was so hard to watch how creepy the MC turned, it was like shocking and how forced the scenes were between Megan and the MC. I can't express this without using spoilers. which will follow.


Just to add, the renders and style of the scenes. Really well made. I am not disputing that.

As you can tell if you had read the spoiler, I tried to be as detailed on how stupid and off the rails this plot goes to force things and just ignores any shred of sanity. I will find it hard to even check in on this game in the future. It is literally just porn scenes now without a plot to guide it. I don't know what the story teller was thinking. If I play more in the future and the plot redeems itself or it improves. I will of course upgrade the rating. I just let my thoughts flow on this one as I typed.

Just my opinion as always, you feel free to think differently.

I don't need to go any further than to state the game forces the MC into an unavoidable rape scene where they are drugged by and assaulted by their teacher. The creator has time and time again minimized this scene by calling it light femdom and saying she only wants the best for the MC.

This had some potential last time I played it (june last year). Now it is completely ruined (I was indeed shocked when I saw how this game turned out to be) by abnormal and ludacris amounts of grind and unavoidable sexual content. I mean, dev is writing an illustrated choiceless book, than why on earth combine it with "sandbox"?! It would have sense if players would be allowed to roam around and choose which chicks to pursue and which to ignore, also which events to triger, which not, etc...In this "form" it has no purpose other than to consume time and annoy players.
Anyway, good thing about this game are nice (some/most of) female models and in general visual arts.
Story is not amongst worst I've seen here, but not great either. It could use some improvement and less cliche elements. Passable.
What's dreadfully wrong with this game is: ubergrind system combined with choiceless VN. Lack of choices. Meaningless choices. Unavoidable chicks and sexual content. Creeper MC - since we're not playing as 13y.o. hormon overwhelmed kid, those "drooling thoughts" over females are just... displeasant.
At this moment this game is unfortunately not playable and would not recommend to anyone. At least not without "make them all optional" patch or mod.

Great game, diverse gals, graphics are amazing. Protagonist is likeable and situations are believable! Looking forward to more; currently patreonizing this amazing game. I give it 4/5 stars in it's current - far from finished - condition.

What a nice game.

The relationship between MC and Gina and MC and Jenny is sooo fucking good. This is what I always wanted in a game. A complex relationship with some sad irony.

Loved every minute f it. Grinding can be a bit accesive, but in a good story... it's all good.

Good Points
+ We have good looking girls/women.

Bad Points
- Plot and story is not bad but not original or well written.
- For seeing scenes with girls you need make grind and its boring. We all know sandbox with grind always sucks... And even after hours of grind with some girls you only gonna get HJ or BJ and nothing more... Well thanks for nothing i gues?
- Walkthrough/Tips is pretty bad, getting scenes is pretty much pain because of un-detailed tips. Well thanks for nothing again i gues?!
- Animation and render quality needs a lot of work... Quality looks terrible... And animations looks pretty bad...
- Ms. Cooper scenes are too extereme! They are for only FEMDOM lovers but; you cant skip thoose scenes. Beucase for earning other girls scenes you need her scenes aswell. And they are needed lots of study points aswell. Like a lot! So for earning other girls scenes you are making their grindy things and then you are making Ms. Cooper study grind with not enjoyable scenes (If you are not fendom or lab rat lover. Because she will make you her slave and lab rat...) pretty amazing choice...

For The End
With every update i waited some improvements, about story, MS.Cooper, about animations etc... But nothing happened. Sadly this game is terrible now, while it had great potencial at first...

This is what you can call an average game not good not that bad , a normal guy who go to school and hook up with some girls most of them are good looking , the biggest problem in this game is grind too much grind that let you do same thing for almost an hour to get 2 events , if you dont get bored easy play this game if you hate grind stay away of it.