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

characters: they are cool.

story: meh +1

gameplay: meh +1

scenes (erotic ones): really good.

draws (cg): well done.

conclussion: weak points first. the main character is an ashole two-faces, and is hard to feel empaty with him. the gameplay needs like 3 or 4 upgrades. but the strongest point
are the female characters, the seem really autentic and complex. not just a sex scene waiting to happen.

this game deserve your time and money.

It's kind of wasting the time, dialogue repetition killed me so much boring in contrary start is much better than other games , scene are repetitive and excitation and dopamine level in your mind reduce to zero...so bad game

Few games are worth the drag-on. The scene with Jessie was one of those. While the story is slow to evolve V0.21b update has decent amount of content and reasonable story progress. Nice characters, yet some of the logic is missing here due to difficulty in maintaining continuity without making the game development extremely cumbersome. For example, the relationship with Jessie has progressed way beyond her being embarrassed for having her tits exposed to the MC in her room.

Quite frankly, this is one of the weakest points in most "Grind on" games and very few developers find a way around it, most of the times either by having the scene "one-time" scene, or by changing it a bit every few repetition.

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is v0.2.1b...

I have to say that there was a lot of unique items I really liked in this VN/Game, but there are also some items that need work, which I will mention in this review... Please forgive me if a couple times I might mention some Spoilers...

The visuals of this VN/Game are the MAJOR PLUS for this VN/Game... The character models are high quality, high resolution, with very well designed skin meshes and properly proportioned bodies... It is a bit strange that they all look like they could be super models, but it is what it is I guess... The backdrops all look unique and are also in high resolution... The biggest PLUS was the inclusion of well designed animations... The same goes for attention to details, like subtle body movements, facial expressions, and so on... It added a depth to every scene in which they were used...

There was only one animation that seemed a bit odd, which occured during the first session with the professor at her house... One of the hand job animations had a bit of pixelization and phantom hands during the animation sequence, where her hands where switching from one to the other... It was a unique animation, but probably needs to be re-rendered to fix the flaws... Beyond that, I was completely impressed with how many animations and other subtle things there actually where, regardless if was an erotic scene or not... Hands down, the best production value I've seen in a erotic VN/Game so far... It really adds to the immersion of the story telling, and makes the erotic stuff that more sensual, emotionally engaging, and erotic...

The script was pretty spot on, as I really don't remember any issues, outside of a few things I'll mention... The English translation/interpretation is very well done, but during any part of the game where the Cell Phone is involved, a majority of the time, when the small window pop ups, they were all in Spanish... Even some of the dialogue involving the male protagonist in his bedroom answering a message on the phone, had several times where the text was all in Spanish, when it should have been in English... It's obviously a coding error/mistake that will need to be addressed by the developers...

The plot revolves around a male protagonist who is from a small country town, but decides to attend college in the big city... He moves in with a childhood friend he has not seen for a long while, but he deeply cares for... As well as her roommate, who is pretty much a cliché promiscuous character personality... It's very obvious that the child hood friend, is the primary Love interest in this VN/Game... A majority of the remaining female characters are primarily lust interests... The story revolves around the protagonist becoming less of an naïve introvert, and opening his mind to more sexual thoughts and desires as well as being a bit more extrovert... I would not really call this a Corruption style game in the normal sense, but in essence the protagonist is becoming a bit corrupted by all the other women characters around him, while still looking out for his main love interest...

There a few kickers in the plot... The first is that the main love interest already has a boyfriend, and a complete dirt bag boyfriend at that, unbeknownst to her... I would not call this NTR, because the protagonist is more interested in protecting her from being hurt, then just getting the boyfriend out of the picture as soon as possible... He knows he's a jerk, but he is afraid by telling her, he might ruin her ability to finish out her college education... That is about as far as the story really goes with that... So, that is in essence a goal in his plight to win her over, to ensure that he can properly take care of her, before getting arid of the boyfriend... Which is not NTR, so for now, I'm happy it isn't going an NTR route... The other kicker, is that there is some sort of small conspiracy at the college, concerning the protagonist, but it is only teased at for the moment, and doesn't really reveal itself any further in the current content... So that adds a little bit of intrigue in the over all story...

Now for the meat and potatoes of this VN/Game... This VN/Game is primarily a Relationship Grinder... You have the main story, that plays out over a given amount of time, but there are also Relationship Stats and Money Walls that hide various content, outside of the main story content... A majority involves building up stats and so forth, to open up erotic content with various female characters as you build relationship stats with each... Choices effect how the stats go up and down... Some choices might raise some stats with one character and lower stats with another... Plus you have to make money to buy certain items to continue some of those side arcs, and probably the main arc in the future... Expect to spend a lot of time repeating some events, over and over, to open up new events or to increase relationship stats, etc... This in essence creates a moderate to high amount of repetitive grinding...

The biggest problem I had with the grind, was the inability to skip many of the repeating sequences, that you've already fully experienced multiple times, to increase stats and so forth... Some of the sequences are rather lengthy, and the inability to Skip them, just adds to the overall grind, having to space bar or rapid left click for 30 seconds to a minute, or more, just to get through a repeating scene/event... There is an option to skip the breakfast scenes, but then you get NO stats or anything else out of it... So of course, you feel kind of forced to go through the motions, if you want those stats higher... That is probably the only big qualm I had...

The introduction and main story, albeit fun to read and view, is not all that lengthy in the current content... A majority of your play time is spent grinding away to open up side events and stories... With a majority of those being erotic sequences, and not really story rich...There is some story to several of the arcs, but not much... So, even though I did enjoy playing this VN/Game, outside of the tedious grind elements, I can definitely say this one leans mostly towards the porn fest side... Maybe, once the developers add more to the main story line, as this thing develops, then maybe there might be more of a balance... For now, the erotic content is much more prevalent then the meaningful and deep story content... There is still story, but you get through the main story line content rather quickly, once the Relationship Grind begins...

Overall, even though this is not a story heavy VN/Game, I still enjoyed my play through... There is some story elements in several of the relationship building side events, but you can tell they are primarily lust based relationships, with only one current love interest... I'm a sucker for romance, and I can tell, even in the grind stuff, that there is an attempt to add romance as one of the driving mainstays of the build up between the protagonist and his childhood friend... Lust is also present, but you can see love is the driving push between the two, in their active interactions... And I hope it stays that way... This VN/Game shows a large amount of promise, with well designed visuals that bring more emotion and sense of immersion to the story telling and events, both... There are some issues to work out, but I look forward to seeing where the developers take this one... It's still very early into it's development, and I hope they stick to their guns and keep up the good word... I would hate to see this one putter out or make compromises to it's current production value... I'll check back on it several updated down the line, as I hate piece mail playthroughs... I like to revisit the good ones, once a decent chunk of new content is released...

Review based on v0.2.1b.

Pros:

- Very good renders and animations.
- Characters are diverse and realistic for the most part. Good personalities as well.
- A few side stories with different girls that are interesting and quite different from each other.
- MC is nice guy, which is a plus for me.

Cons:

- A bit grindy, pretty simple stuff and its not difficult but still grind. Time skipping makes this go by pretty quick.
- Main story hasn't really taken off yet, i think. More side content than main story content so far. Expect this to change when there are more updates.

Game started off good,great models and renders and cool animations but that's as far as it goes,the new update brought some nice animations but that's it : almost no story continuation,what's the point in moving into a big city meeting a lot of girls without no story to it,yes the game is in early stages but after a long time the update came without filling some important holes in the plot which is really disappointing.Gave it 2 stars for the renders,maybe i'll review it in the future again if the dev decides to continue to story and not just add images to the game

RE-reviewed game based on 0.6.1:
From 5 stars to zero!

What started to be a 5 star game, ended to be one of the most annoying crap i ever experienced. GRIND - HORRIBLE grind for no benefit. All the precious setup which had been done during the first releases has been destroyed. For now, this "game" is not rewarding anymore in ANY way. Not sure whatever the dev got ridden, but it's a shame where this jewel went into.
Gameplay, writing, annoying minigames, grind, mostly masturbating sex scenes...... and much more.
It's just a pitty to see such a previous promising game go to trash


previous review:
review made based on version 0.2.1
FIRST: major changes in this version compared to previous ones - just for example you are NOT forced to see NTR as before and can avoid it (even it never was really NTR, because the girl fucked her boyfriend - even if you like her, thats not really NTR)
Also the complaint "minigame" changed .....
.... several other changes too - no need to show them all up over here.

So:
REALLY good game so far and definitively worth to have a focus on it!

PRO:
- awesome renders
- nice sound effects sometimes
- pretty self explaining (not really a WT needed so far)
- characters are different and well done
- characters look natural and NOT overdone as in some other games)

CON (just right now):
- content missing - but because of its early state this "con" has to be seen that way. Pretty sure this will dramaticially change with more updates

The only good thing about the game is how amazing the girls look. Everything else is awful.

It has grindy free-roaming gameplay, an annoying minigame, terrible dialogue, and an atrocious linear story with no real choices. The main character is not only forced to watch the girl he likes get fucked by some douchebag that treats her like shit, but also helps the douchebag out by covering up the fact that he is cheating on the girl with one of her friends.

This version (0.2b) was very frustrating and unpleasant to play.

I'm enjoying this game. There's a bit of grind to get to where you want, but the models are good and the plot isn't terrible.

My one dislike (and it's a pretty major dislike) is that there is a key-mash minigame you have to go through several times before you can progress scenes with an entirely unrelated character, and it's unskippable. I think that's a bad gameplay decision, and thankfully the rest of the game doesn't play that way.

In few places the UI isn't translated, and in the game there is still some Spanish punctuation and a few instances of iffy translation ("take it for granted" doesn't entirely mean the same thing as "count on it", for instance) - but for the most part it adds character and charm to the game.

I'd give this game 3.5 stars as it's above average, but that minigame prevents a 4.

My first review and I think this up and coming dev more then deserves it. First of all and most important, beyond technical and other issues, most apparent is the obvious passion the developer has for his own work, that alone is worth the support and the belief the game will only get better.

Pros:
- Great Art, Great girls who have distinct look and personality
- Sex scenes are enticing and come at a good pace, good amount of content
-Amazing animations, clearly they are getting better as the game grows.
-Story is decent and serviceable, nothing groundbreaking nor immersion breaking
-Some grind but only minor

Cons:
-Some grammar errors
-No real choices with consequences so far (not necessarily a con)
-No time Skip button

My Rating of this Game (v0.2.1b ) is:

Pros:
+ Good Renders
+Different Game play

Cons:
-Grinding Game Play
-Some English errors in the Game
-Some sentences in Spanish (I believe)

Conclusion:
If you never played the Game then it is O.K,but if you already played it ,then it starts getting boring, because you always have to do certain things over and over again until you can trigger a new scene,this is (for me) a waste of time,and just plain boring.
Three Stars for the Renders and the scenes that do come.
---for newbies worth the download---

Another clone of a couple of well known games from the section of "Popular Games" that I can't tell because the rules of this forum. Another dev that thinks that the only skills needed to make a game are to know how to use 3D design and programming, and that knowing how to write a good script is not necessary.

The initial premise is a cliche, the characters are cliches (especially the feminine ones), the situations and scenes are cliches... That's not something necessarily bad. some games take clichés, premises and ideas from other games, and improve them... Not the case... Again, It's just another clone of other popular games, trying to make some easy money, because la cosa está "mu malita".

I have to say that I'm spanish, and I can't stand this game in my own language. For some reason, to read those dialogues in a foreign language makes them more bearable.

As happens with some other well known games, the 3D designs are technically well done, but the characters are generic and doesn't have a single drop of soul. Two starts for knowing how to use DAZ3D, Poser, or whichever program the dev is using. That's all.

Version 0.099b. I must say that I am very interested in the game. The graphics and the girls are really pretty and sexy. The content for a first version is really a big highlight. I can not wait to see more, it has a lot of potential, a future most have I think

The game looks like it has very much potential! Even though it only has a few playable game days, it is possible to see that it can grow a lot. I will follow this game and i believe it can become one of the TOP games on F95!