VN - Ren'Py - Breaking Point [v0.3 Part 1] [Vayne]

Early development 0,3, so I nearly never rate them, but here, the start is strange and passes too fast. I only beat the meat because why not?

The story so far is so-so. I mean, I have seen it many times already.

Some renders are so low quality that there are more white dots than actual pictures. I often accept those kinds of choices to reduce build time, but when the quality suffers this much, it becomes a big NOPE for me.

The characters are quite blank, and the plot is promising at best (but considering the other point, I don't hope any better).

To fix this, I recommend redoing the already done render in better quality and rewriting some early game as it seems not good enough right now.

Review for v0.2

Finding this one a bit hard to rate. I'm someone who values the writing a lot in lewd games, and the story has easily been the best aspect of this so far. At the same time I think the lewd part of lewd games are important too, and that aspect has easily been the worst. I'm not going to tell you this is the best AVN I've played as I think there's a lot of areas it could be better, but I'm enjoying this enough at its core to give it the benefit of the doubt right now and seeing where it goes.

Though I haven't watched many action movies, I seen someone mention this game feels like one and I'd agree with that. The overview puts it pretty simple but describes the plot well enough. You play as a seasoned criminal who had managed to escape his old country and start new in the U.S. with an adopted daughter in tow. Wanting to provide a good life for her, you're roped back into one last big job.

The games moves at a pretty steady pace. The plot for this job is pretty much always advancing in one way or another and there's few moments where it breaks away from that. I'm really liking the dynamic with the old crew and even some of the other smaller characters like the goons. Action scenes have been plentiful and decent enough, and the MC is enjoyable to play as. Mostly kinetic with a few choices on ways to handle things but I can't really say if choices will have any big impact down the line.

But while this game does a good job keeping the plot interesting, a part of this also involves love interests and sex. That part has unfortunately been very subpar imo. I guess the best way to put it is that in no way do any of the girls outside of the daughter really feel relevant at all to any of the story so far. Rather it all feels sort of tacked on just for the sake of having sex. All the sex scenes so far are random encounters with side girls that start quick and play out rather blandly. There's just no real buildup or anything going into them, which makes them uninteresting to me. Now it seems like there are some actual love interests that will have a bit more story to them, but they also feel like an afterthought thus far. You meet a southern girl in a mechanic shop who's admittedly cute but the only content with her after that was a short date event. She has no presence in the game outside of that. Couple other cases of this in different ways with other girls, but it really feels like the game is missing the details when it comes to them.

I had this problem with the daughter too. I think the story of how the two came to be together is great, but when you think about how she is the integral reason the MC is doing what he does, I realize there's just not enough there getting me attached to her as a character. I think both for her and the love interests the game really needs to take moments to slow down and explore their characters more instead of having like 80% of the focus being on the heist plan. There's just not enough there on that front.

The renders do start out rough but improve in the second chapter. Animations similarly go from having none to being present at the least. I think the sex scenes even outside of my other issues with them fall in the average range if I'm being blunt. Bonus points for some music and sound effects though. Also has a few translation issues but nothing horrible. In a weird way it kind of works for the game considering the MC hasn't perfected his English.

TLDR - Fun story that has managed to somewhat hook me, subpar when it comes to love interests and sex. Hoping the game makes more time for the main love interests in the future, but I liked the story enough for now.

Okay, Impressive! The story paces amazingly well. Decent renders, and cinematography. Although the "little guy" is quite modest. XD
Also, English writing does need some improvements. The beats are there but didn't flow quite well And I definitely don't know how to speak Russian.

Tired of playing as some twink/dude who is about to graduate high school with recently deceased parents? and has either inherited power, money, or a distant relatives business? well then this might be the VN for you. The mc in this story, to put it simply, is a handy by day who tends the problems and needs of lonely house wives. By night he uses (and sometimes day) he uses his connections from the crime world from his younger days to make sure his future is not in jeopardy.

Still pretty early but I generally like these somewhat grounded crime thrillers and of course there are an appropriate amount of sex scenes. there's even a scene where the mc is cucking this dude right in front of him. I have nothing against cuck stuff, that doesn't stop me from trying out a vn but thankfully you get the option to tell the guy you're cucking to buzz off and I apreciated that. Really enjoying the mc's crime buddies, especially the white guy who is really into gang/rap culture. He gives me real Jessie from breaking bad vibes.

Unfortunately not everything is perfect. Lets take a look at the scenes where the mc is driving around in his car and I cant help but notice that the other cars look like they havent finished loading in. Personally it didn't really bother me but I have a feeling this might bother other people. Overall I found this vn very enjoyable and I will be supporting them.

It's super early to be reviewing this, but I think it has potential so I thought I would chime in from the beginning.

The story is best part of this. While it's not super original, it was written well enough to keep me clicking through the screens to see what was happening. The characters are all pretty unique and I like the father/daughter relationship and am interested in learning more about that dynamic. Not in an adult way, just interested in seeing the development.

While the story is solid, the writing could be better. I am being hard on the dev because I think the story has a lot of potential, but there a bunch of little mistakes that add up.

The bigger issue, for me, is the artwork. Some of the renders are really good, while others are not. For example, the perspectives of some of the city backgrounds are way off and some of the locations, compared to the characters, are out of wack. In the cuck scene, for example the apartment is too large compared to the characters.

The other thing is the interior lighting. There are some really good ones, like when they are watching tv, but for the most part, it looks like mostly ghost lighting and as a result, most of the characters, when indoors, appear a bit lifeless. and flat.

This probably should get a 3 star rating, but I did not want to drive people away without them giving it a try first. It is worth a download. Also, the dev has talent, seems to have a sense of humor and I am hoping will continue to push out updates.

The game is obviously in early development, so it's currently quite linear and some renders require more polishing. But the characters are nice and the plot seems promising, giving off GTA vibes. Looking forward to further updates!