VN - Ren'Py - Blurring the Walls [v0.5.33v2] [Torimiata]

Loved it. I really enjoyed the story and the strong relationship between Ayumi and the MC, and our good friend Terrace is a real bro and not a jerk. It's so refreshing and lighthearted; for me, this is how it should be. It's fun and not depressing

Plot wise i would put this game in the mount Rushmore of NTS games. The story really takes it's time to build up the relationship and trust between the mc and fl, which is surprisingly refreshing considering how often ntr/s games jump straight to the sharing.

All the text and build up serves to make the pay off infinitely better when we get to the action. The way the mc and his girl open up and start dipping their toes into their new kinks feels realistic and it's fun to watch them become more and more daring. The side characters are fun and got personality as well. Not to mention, the actual nts scenes and roleplay is all super hot and creative.

Even though it uses AI art, it manages to stand out from the extremely generic AI art that these sorts of games tend to have. The anime inspired style is super pretty and works well with the story.

The only reason I can't give it 5 stars right now is because some of the animations feel stilted and uncanny. The sex animations are great but the use of animations in regular scenes really breaks the immersion and feels distracting. But otherwise is a sick game. Can't wait for more updates.

I'm not one to dislike AI CG, just when it's lazy, which is not the case in this game, you can tell it took effort to make and it's not just another AI sloppy mess. I especially loved the build up, the writing is excellent and Ayumi's teasing the mc is hot as hell, the scenes are pretty well made and the dialogue is also good. I'm excited for future updates.

The renders good.
The animations are good for the most part, it would be better if some of them were on a seamless loop, but maybe its a tech limitation. A couple were too shaky and a bit headache inducing.

The writing is a bit longwinded but alright as a whole. I hate that it has a "narrator" which is just the protagonist's descriptions and inner thoughts, but the protagonist also does descriptions and has inner thoughts during dialogue sequences, which makes the narrator pointless and distracting.

+ Ayumi
+ renders & animations, they are very good

- walls of endless boring text. You literally at some point want to hit alt + F4.
- lewd content almost doesn't exist here.. if you somehow survive and get a scene it's just disappointing..
- too much teasing, give MC and his girl some real scenes.. he really can't fuck her properly EVEN once? like a real fucking man?
- pathetic imbecile submissive MC. I really can't stand him
- no MMF/DP/gangbang scenes
- sub/dom choices. I thought by collecting dom points our protagonist grow some balls and starts behaving like a man, but he is still a sub.

This game doesn't offer anything interesting, no idea what is this? Teasing simulator? meh.. 2 stars

Hands down, this is the best NTR VN I've xperienced. The plot, the characters, the depth - and the *good*, non-generic horny smut text, just blows everything else out of the water.

Even did great with the AI generated art, particularly the expressions and posturing.

The only actual criticism I have for this one at this point is the 10 questions scene, after the point her bra starts slipping, it cycles between a few different pictures where it keeps going back on and slipping off. That was a little immersion breaking, it could use a few more different frames to keep the visual continuity from cracking.

The game has a solid foundation—great visuals, good pacing, and an engaging premise. The tension builds well, and the characters are attractive.

However, the writing drags things down. Too much repetitive dialogue makes scenes feel drawn out, and I often find myself skipping. It could benefit from fewer words and more action.

If future updates trim the excessive text and focus more on scenes, it could be amazing. Still, a promising game with lots of potential!

This game has nice visuals, but it's almost impossible to read because every scene is dragged out too long. It feels like the main idea of the game is to stretch every scene as much as possible. Some scenes have good writing, but it becomes repetitive too quickly.

Technically, the game isn't really good either—you experience lags and some odd 2.5D animations that make everything feel off. And you can't even enable full screen or change the window size, which is ridiculous.

For what the game is right now, it's not worth checking out. I really wish some developers understood that writing a lot doesn't mean writing well.

excellent writing.
Even if AI ...the art is servicable.
Gameplay is simple as hell but the experience has potential to be really great.
Even in this early version there is so much teasing content.
Good job developer.

Overall I enjoyed the game. But to many times wall of text and I am not the biggest fan of the direction the girl is going.But I still would recommend it. The AI is okay and I would count it to the better ones but in general just okay.

One of the best NTR games I've ever played. And it's only getting better too!

I know that it's AI but I feel at this rate it's helping those wanting to share their vision produce faster. Plus, everything in this game looks amazing.

This still remains to be one of my favourite netorase games. Even though the remake rolled back a lot of the story progress (which I am really annoyed by), I would say that it was worth it.

The increase in the quality of images and even the quality of writing is really noticeable. The scenes which felt flat in the original now have both the beautiful images to back them up and a better writing. The only thing that I don't like about the new artstyle are the "models" of characters during regular dialogue - somehow they look too shiny and artificial. Otherwise, even though I miss the old charming artstyle, this update to it is such a clear improvement that I can't believe anyone really dislikes it - the level of detail is so much higher and female characters are that much more attractive and tantalising. And, this is a bit subjective, but I really enjoy how much focus is given to FMC's butt in the remake - for me, a butt connoisseur, this is an amazing improvement. Please, Torimiata give it eve more focus, I beg of you.

As for the writing, the improvement to it is noticeable too. Some would dislike it because of it being a bit too long-winded, but I really like it. It goes into the nitty gritty of the mc's feeling and emotions. Because of the writing the bond between MC and FMC feels stronger than ever - and that is extremely important in netorase games. I would say that the writing became much spicier during the teasing scenes and the sex scenes than on the original - somehow I feel it so much more now, you can really see how much MC is aroused by the thoughts of Ayumi being intimate with other people and by Ayumi's teasing and actions. And how much Ayumi enjoys teasing him about - how absolutely entranced she is by his fantasies.

One thing, that I had the problem even in the original, is how long some of the slice of life scenes go. And the writing in such scenes feels very anime - with character constantly blushing for no reason. But that is just the style of writing, I am okay with it in general. And it makes the more spicer scenes feel that much more significant.

Another thing I am a bit worried about (though not too much ) is the addition of new characters. It can really take the focus away from the main characters if the dev is not careful. But, I will believe in Torimiata's ability to make these new additions worth it.

So, overall, I think that the remake was worth it. It is a significant improvement to the game and I can't wait for more updates.

it's a real shame that this game showed a lot of promise, but since the remaster it is a shadow of its former self.

what's good:
- the first chapter of this game was and is the hottest chapter. it starts with some beach exhibitionism and ends with a bukkake dream sequence. when you play this first chapter, you think, "oh wow, this game has potential!", but...

what's bad:
- ...the game never lives up to this promise at all! everything grinds to a halt after the opening chapter, starts introducing new characters, and all of the sexual tension is defused by seemingly endless paragraphs of text
- i really can't emphasize enough how longwinded the dialogue in this game is. very simple questions like "are you sure about this?" is broken up into 4-5 separate dialogues, like, "hmmm...", "are you...", "are you sure that i should...", "are you sure about this?" this would be fine if it were part of the dirty talk, but most of the time its about reassuring the bf/gf that this is what they really want - essentially NTS legalese to demonstrate the characters are consenting. just... say it once and move on!
- performance is terrible. it's actually not easy to make renpy perform this poorly. i have no idea what causes the poor performance, and the dev has made slight improvements, but every new update the performance degrades again
- there are weird hitches and pauses everywhere. every scene ends with a fade to black, and then the scene flashes again, before ending the scene. it's just very sloppy renpy timing coding
- after the remaster, the charming 2D art of the pre-remaster game has been replaced with an ultra-generic 2.5D look. if you didn't play the original version this might not bother you, but it's crazy how much this game went from a unique anime-inspired art style to looking like every other AI CG game on the market
- the parallax is poorly implemented. instead of being multiple layers in the image shifting around slightly, it's often one 2D image being stretched unnaturally and leaving artifacts in the image. if this was done for sexy animation purposes, it would be forgivable but instead its just used... everywhere? constantly? why is everyone and everything bobbing and wiggling all the time?

overall i can't recommend the game at all. it's frustrating to watch what was once a good game get worse with every update.

One of my favorite games. I really like how the story flows between the characters and situations. At times there could be less build up as it tends to drag on at times. Over all I am very happy with spending time in the game. Keep up the good work and good work on the re-work.

Blurring The Walls is a perfect name for a game that has blurry images and walls of text.

The in focus images are great so why add another 5 blurry ones...maybe it's to distract from the walls of inane dialogue where one sentence is repeated in 20 different ways.

This is a potentially a great game being brought down by "arty" intentional graphic blurring. I just don't get why anyone intentionally ruins a clear image.

If you can ignore that, the game is looking good so far and I really hope the dev can tone down the blurred images and walls of text.

I really want the dev to succeed in this.

nice game, even if still in its early stages, great drawings, some dialogues are well constructed, still early to confirm more stars, because we are not at a precise point in the story, I could increase my rating with the progress of the story, now I stop at 3 stars

The game is currently unplayable. Whatever changes the developer implemented simply don’t work. The screen constantly flickers, displaying remnants of previous backgrounds and images. The writing remains amateurish, reading like a narrative exposé generated by ChatGPT. The 2.5D effect is poorly executed, resulting in glitchy lines around the characters and the perpetual motion is nauseating. The game is riddled with visual glitches throughout.

While the remake improved graphical fidelity, the art style took a significant hit, becoming yet another generic example of AI-generated visuals with an overlaid Photoshop noise filter. The developer's claim that the artwork is hand-drawn, taking 8-40 hours per image, is hard to believe. The art lacks consistency and is marred by common AI-generated issues, such as mismatched clothing patterns, awkwardly drawn hands and feet, and characters looking inconsistent from one image to the next.

To make matters worse, animations have been removed entirely—an unfortunate downgrade.

Was the remaster worth it? No. It has less content, a worse art direction, missing animations, and, most critically, a broken game plagued by stuttering and graphical glitches, including some intentional ones meant for visual effects that only exacerbate the issues.

What was the point of this remake? It's hard to say. The pre-remake version was better in almost every way.

Giving 1 star for huge technical issues for now. May change it into 2 stars if fixed.

P.S Also MC's penis got smaller while Terrace got bigger... Not sure why the decision was made to make MC with tiny penis... Additionally, new scenes were added where Ayumi recounts her EX having a bigger "D." I expect this direction will become more pronounced in the future to make MC feel more "beta".

P.S. For anyone curious about the amount of content, it’s significantly smaller compared to the pre-remake—roughly 20% of the original. There are about 10 unique backgrounds and 20-30 unique CGs. Considering how long the "remaster" took, it’s disappointingly short. At this pace, it’ll likely take another year to match the content size of the original v5.
It even has less content than v1.

TL;DR = one of those VN, that start great, but then slowly turns into boring. Dev is slowly ruining the game by adding filler.

Story: 2/5
Pros:
+ Story started really great. A guy and his girlfriend are slowly discovering their sexuality. They push their kinks. The girl teases her boyfriend. She teases people around them. She teases their best male friend.
+ If it continued like this, this game would deserve 5/5
Cons:
- Unfortunately dev doesnt know how to progress with story. So dev is slowly adding new side characters.
- Dev also adds sex scenes that totally dont fit into the game. For example: some random maze with crazy lesbian girls. They even wear capes like some goddamned cultists. It just feels weird.
- Basically story doesnt progress anywhere. Only more random stuff gets added.
- New updates really suck. Later parts of the game deserve 0/5

Art and Sex stuff: 2/5
Pros:
+ Renders are usually good.
+ Girls are hot.
+ Some sex scenes have small animations.
Cons:
- One of the biggest flaws of the game: Game resolution and resolution of CG is very small. It feels like going 15 years back into the past.
- Biggest images ingame have only 1000*600 pixels. At the start of the game the dev even warns you that renders are small and if you use fullscreen the images will look terrible.
- Another bad thing is so called image "blur". When dev tried to simulate the girl bouncing on cock and he was lazy to do an animation, he simply blurred the image. Really low efforth. Just one big smudge. It looks really bad.

Gameplay: 3/5
Pros:
+ English is decent.
+ Game has soundtrack.
+ Game has sounds. Like girl moaning during sex.
Cons:
- This game is trying to look like VN with choices, but it is not. It is pretty much Kinetic Novel.
- Choices are meaningless. Choices only change some flavour text. At worst some choices can give you "You dont like NTR, game over".

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To sum it up:
Start of the game is great. But slowly it gets worse and worse.
Dont have any high hopes for this game.

A perfect visual novel with a lovable girlfriend, a good male friend during an exciting vacation.
I love the slow build up and the romance between Ayumi and Kento (the MC), slowly becoming more daring and peppering their relationship. After meeting up with your childhood friend, yet another teasing girl, and the ever so womanizing best friend Terrace, this is promising to be good!

I have not finished v0.5.2 yet, but so far, well done, love the writing and love the direction the story is going, looking forward for the rest.

Thanks for developing this game!