Ren'Py - Bobby's Memoirs of Depravity [v0.15.53] [ZipTieFun]

Updated review for Bad Bobby Saga: Dark Path v0.15.4881/v0.15.4885

I didn't play either of the most recent updates because players have to restart the game in order to see the new content in them. This game was painful to play the first time around and I'm not about to experience the pain all over again. I'm out until I see a [Completed] tag, which, at the current rate of progress, is unlikely to ever happen.

Review for Bad Bobby Saga: Dark Path v0.15.486 (part4):

Summary: Don't bother. It'll be a long time before this game is worth playing.

Story: 2/5: There really isn't any kind of a coherent story here. It's just a bunch of tangents about the lives of the various love-interests in the game.

Writing: 2/5: It's bad. Mostly "Engrish"

Renders: 3/5: The models are good, but the renders seem fuzzy and not very detailed or very high resolution.

Animations: 2/5: Jerky and way too long without being able to just skip to the end of the animation.

Gameplay: 1/5: Another insanely grindy, mind-numbingly boring, empty, and buggy sandbox. The avatars that show which characters are in each location are frequently wrong especially when there is an event at the specific time and location, which is exactly when they need to be correct. The color-coding of the choices and the avatars is frequently wrong, too. The hint system is vague, sometimes repeating quests, sometimes completely misses quests, and it gives hints to things that aren't yet implemented, so players can grind forever thinking there's more content to see when there isn't. On top of that, making money is randomized. Gameplay just sucks.

Content: 2/5: There's really not enough content in this game to bother downloading, and if you played the first two attempts at this game, you've already seen it all, anyway.

Other: I keep playing every update and I always coming to the same conclusions above. There are so many half-implemented things but there is also so much re-used content it makes me expect a bunch of things to just come together at once, but it never does. This game really hasn't been fun to play at all and if the save games ever break, there's no way in hell I'd bother starting over.

Dev is a lier. Updates are insignificant, extremely short and a serious lack of content. Let's not even mention that sex animations are very weird. Seems like dev has no idea about where the dick is supposed to be placed... Well, not gonna waste more time on this, not worth it

It's no surprise this game has such a low rating, because it follows the same rhythm as the original that was abandoned. At least the game was better worked, reducing the grind but still continues with that boring sandbox, that in addition the game still has very few scenes. We can also notice a bit of the dev's lack of creativity, the game has "game over" scenes even though he is warning you that this choice will lead to game over and even then you will be able to watch it and after loading your last checkpoint save, I could tell there was no need for it, the game is Bad Bobby Saga, you will behave like a bad boy, who will try to find ways to manipulate, dominate and harass the girls, but this looks like it still hasn't been worked out very well, since with this instantaneous behavior it will take you to a game over.

The game for me is ok, but I ended up giving up after 30 minutes of gameplay. Maybe it's a matter of patience, but you see that there are few scenes for a game of almost 2.5gb which ends up frustrating a little. Nonetheless, the copy of this game is better than the original, at least the interface is clearer and you don't have to do those boring mini-games either.
I could see some bugs where the image does not appear in certain scenes (Lucy) and hopefully it will be fixed soon.

v0.15.48 review

Grindy and boring with a mediocre English translation (lots of capitalization and spelling errors). The models are incredibly dated (pubes in particular look terrible). There's no real plot: you have a wet dream about your mom and then jump to step 4 of wanting to have sex with your entire family. You don't even really get introduced to any of them.

Progression doesn't make sense. For example, you want to see what's on your sister's phone so you sneak into her room but, darn, it's locked. So you figure out the password and decide to wait until she leaves it alone and you can look at it. Then you never do and instead the plot changes to her being blackmailed by some guy at school and you never mention her phone again. As a result, there's no real logic to this game, you just do whatever the in-game guide says until you see porn.

The linear progression is made worse by the sheer grind of it. Pretty much every quest involve actions that are only available at one specific time on two or three specific days and you need to do them 5-10 times. And since you can't do anything else until you do them there's LOTS of just skipping days or grinding money just in case while you're killing time.

Some of the early-game pictures are broken in this release. I couldn't find anything in the thread so it must be a new bug.

Overall there's just not much to recommend this. Some of the scenes are kind of sexy but it's not worth the grind. If there's a way to view the gallery maybe do that instead.

Whatever you do, don't give dev money until their release track record improves. The game is quite possibly abandoned.

I appreciate the game over scenes that add the ability to have dark, forced scenes during the early, slow build up phase that many of these corruption games have. Basically you push things too far, and instead of an immediate game over there is a forced scene. A game over flash appears, and the game automatically brings you back to the point of no return where you can pick the more subdued choice this time. These forced, "non-canon" scenes help remedy some of the fatigue often found in the early stages of corruption games where all the women are still reserved. The images are a little pixelated, but the animations are pretty smooth and so the overall graphics are pretty good. The scenarios themselves are all wonderful. A decent bit of grind, but not an egregious amount.


It would be an easy 5 stars, if not for the lies from the dev teasing along the Patrons. To give a timeline since last update:

- 08 Dec 2022: Version 0.15.47 releases
- 20 Dec: Dev promises Christmas special to release in the next couple days (spoilers, doesn't happen)
- 01 Jan 2023: Dev says the Christmas update will come out in a couple days, and that they plan to do two smaller releases before the next main update in February. So three releases by the end of February (spoilers, there won't be one update in this period)
- 17 Jan: Dev reports they were down with the flu, and the Christmas update will be out in two days (spoilers, doesn't happen)
- 20 Jan: Dev says that the next release will be 24Jan (spoilers, doesn't happen)
- 24 Jan: Does not release Christmas update due to "bugs"
- 29 Jan: Dev pauses Patreon billing due to delays. However billing will resume on 24 Mar, before any update is released
- February: Two posts about swatting "bugs" and all the new content to be included in the next release
- 16 Mar: Dev acknowledges they've been quiet lately, and that they will post weekly updates going forward. We get a full one of these weekly updates on 24 Mar before they come to a stop.
- 24 Mar: Dev claims that they only have one scene to complete before releasing next update. Resumes Patron billing
- 27 Mar: Dev claims that next version will release on 31 Mar (spoilers, doesn't happen)
- 31 Mar and 01 Apr: Dev claims that due to slow internet speed he is unable to upload, and therefore he brought his rapey incest porn game to work to upload it there. Only to have brought the wrong version, and then be out of town, so he needs to wait until 03 Apr to upload. The dev has been absolutely silent since then, even though it is visible that he logs into F95.
- 16 Apr: This review, with the game still at version 0.15.47 and still waiting on the Christmas Update, and three weeks after billing was resumed.

I get that most people on this site are getting the game for free, and don't have a reason to get ferociously upset about long time between updates. But when the dev keeps teasing along the people who are giving money then that is why this otherwise 5 star game only gets 2. I'll reevaluate this rating if a couple of updates are released on or near schedule, but at this point the game may be abandoned

Truly amazing mod. these content what I (we) expected on the original one. I see ppl complained about the grind but i think the rate is just how it supposed be for the content.
To say something as criticism, i would say, it would much nicer if the dev increase the amount of pics used on scenes. Showing different angles on same scenes was the one of my favourite thing in the original game.
Thanks dev ! I expect to see your update most in f95.

Damn this game is good, but the slow burn is killing me.

Pros:

- non-consensual women getting drugged and (hopefully) fucked
- good graphics
- rape-kink oriented game with a no-bullshit MC

Cons:

- a little femdom here and there
- slow burn story
- somewhat grindy but it's pretty easy as long as you plan your days (work for money and stealth points on days you dont have anything on, following the guide)

Overall Verdict: What can I say, it's a 10/10 for a sleep sex/drug/rape game. Just hoping that the dev will add more variations to sex scenes etc, with consequences like knocking the girls up.

This game just really has nothing to it. You don't get to actually feel like you play some devilish prankster, you feel more like some braindead child, and you're exclusively treated like one too, and most of the scenes that actually do happen are incredibly tame. It's also a game that just feels like its wasting my time and is not very intuitive to play at all. To say that it's "male domination" is a huge disservice to the tag. You have a "dominance" stat but you're not actually dominating anyone in any meaningful way.

And the models don't actually look that great in-game, and the animations are even worse. It looks like something that would have been considered amateurish even 10 years ago.

And it simply doesn't have any story to speak of, things just happen randomly and nothing is well written or presented in any interesting way.

My tip is don't waste your time; stay away from this one and play basically anything else.

I'll give 5 stars because of the scenes and context of them. In one, the MC ties his mother to the bed, start to rape her while sleeping, she wake up, and he keeps raping her in a desperate situation, with i find reeeeally hot.

There is also a sistem of money and items, but it's kind of linear, so you don't fell free in the game, although there is an open world system.

Great potential so far. Finally someone who's taking this game's potential and running with it.

So far its just the start, the moderator said so himself, but it still has a LOT of content.

Lastly the new model for the young sister is just 10 times better.. the one from the original game looked REALLY young, to the point where it felt very uncomfortable to play sometimes..

Anyways, really good job so far. As a fan of the original I can guarantee this one holds up and may become the GOAT.

Have always loved this game and am surprised that it never had very good ratings. This remake has improved on a lot of the annoyances of the original version. Especially skipping the sneak skill training. Appreciate you brining this classic back to life and looking forward to the next update!

Version Reviewed: v0.15.44

Overview: Be a little shit and get a little ass

Story: You are a the most common pornogame protagonist. A useless 18-20 year old boy with no thought in his head other than how to stick his dick in every single vagina, especially the family.

Overall there's not much going on story wise. Your thoughts are almost entirely devoted to seducing your family and acquaintances. This version is a bit unusual in that there are some rape scenes you can play out that will give you a game over. These are actually a bit of a standout as it injects some much needed humor into the writing if you can believe it.

Gameplay: It's a sandbox, and it has 6 time slots in each day and about a dozen or so locations. However, visiting locations outside of your home advances the time so you can't check them all every slot. There is a quest tracker that is sometimes helpful but sometimes it lies to you and it definitely leaves out events, some of which are necessary to advance other storylines.

The real problem is the grind and the RNG. It's awful. There's really no other way to put it. You earn money so slowly unless the RNG is friendly to you and you have to buy a lot of really expensive stuff to advance the timelines. The girls also have stat grinds that are sometimes hidden behind RNG rolls with relatively low success rates. For example, at one point you have to grind up the "domination" stat with your mom to 14+ from 4. To do this you need to first stumble across her doing the laundry (not in the quest tracker), find that you need to buy the screwdriver, then "fix" the washing machine to turn it into a man-trap. Then visit the laundry room in the late morning on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday to see if it has caught your Mom. The catch event triggers about once every two weeks or so, and you need to do it 4 times in order to progress her up to the next step in her story line. Two in-game months of clicking "next" and making sure to show up in the right spot while also grinding cash in order to advance her path 1 step. The whole game is filled with stuff like this, it will bore you to tears.

The story paths all end rather abruptly in this version and there are some things that don't appear to be implemented yet. Weirdly one of the first things the game introduces is a "sneaking" minigame where you can roll vs. your stealth stat to maybe see a scene. That's all normal, what is weird is that one of the things implemented right away is a button to sneak into your mother and sister's bedrooms in the "night" timeslot. But as far as I can tell they reliably lock their doors every night so those buttons are always useless. I have no idea why they are even there.

Graphics: They're decent. Daz done competently with a few animations here and there. They're not breaking new ground but they don't look cheap or low effort.

Conclusion: I'm being somewhat charitable with my rating on this one. There is enough sex content to be somewhat fappable, although a scene gallery would be greatly appreciated. The story isn't terribly engaging, but at least the dev knows how to keep it brief. The grind is a real bummer. The main reason I gave this 3 stars instead of 2 is that there was a glimmer of life in the "bad end" scenes, like a better game wanted to break out of this one.

even though using old assets, this game is classified as an update in a long time. Insufficient content available.

V0.15.44 Developers update game data but only limited to future assets and cannot be accessed now. This is not an update, this is just the reason for the developer's delay in developing the game so that it provides an update file that can't be accessed

Really fantastic work. There's action right away, another great update with real progression. This game from the beginning has consistently been the most frustrating, but ZipTieFun actually seems to want to see it through after many others have tried and failed. I want to thank the dev for his hard work, it's really paying off. Graphics are a 10/10, Story is a 10/10, H scenes are a 12/10. Excellent work sir.

great version of the game, Dev makes everything better. He needs a metal of pure gold for his efforts.. if you like the original story and do not mind sandbox, then you wil love it. I am hocked :_) hope he progresses soon!

Bad Bobby Saga Dark Path is such a great game with a lot of potential looking forward to seeing how to involves into. I especially love the route with Lucy because of the innovative story (it brings back the nostalgia from the original Bad Bobby Saga). Great work and I am excited to see the game in its final stages!

Well its a old story In a new package. It looks better then the old one. specialy work in the store, and the sneak option its better more option. The animation looks great, better then before. The old version i could not finish, because the dev, never update it, so it was garbage, sad, very sad. I hope this will be a game i can play untill the end. If it looks more better i maby put some mony in it. Untill then i watch what will happen in the future. Good luck

Bad Bobby was doomed to die. ZipTieFun was like the terminator-Come with me if you want to live. Dev delivered the badass.
But Dev should improve the scenes , with better angles and views .
Honestly ,a solid 4 for giving substance to the smoke and shadows that was the original and delivering what gamers wanted from this game.
1 extra star for good luck !

Great update on the original, with even more taboo scenarios and quality of life improvements. Bad Bobby Saga is still my favorite game on here after all these years. Thanks to the modder for taking the time to update it. Can't wait for the next release!

Tried again to play it on v0.15.486 (part 4
Only thing good are renders
This game is just mc saying i'm gonna fuck them all But never succeeds
All doors are locked at night
Story is so boring and horrible Thie slow grind is horrible
There was a scene where mc ties up his mom and fucks her
But it was a game over scene But it actually was not It was a dream
Just feel like mc is getting used by his family rather then mc dominating them all
Most of the time the house is empty in the day
All the good stuff is still a WIP Like blackmaling shoplyfters
I had a bug where i helped my sister with studying wich was supposed to be still a WIP and had a grey screen with the dialogue