Ren'Py - Completed - Brooks in Wild West [v1.00] [Piggy Nose Games]

My Review of Brooks in Wild West V1.00
This review will look first at strong points and later on the weak points in following order:

1. Plot
2. Characters
3. Visuals
4. Animation
5. Gameplay
6. Etc

Before starting to go through the points I want the reader to give a spoiler free description what the plot and your actions as a player revolve (as in Revolver, get it? It's a wild west reference hehe).
You are the grandson of a famous sheriff from the wild west, while you try to get through you sophomore year in university a bully knocks you down and punches you. You as the player are then thrown into the time of your grandpa and try to survive in the wild west.

The Plot:
Settings in the wild west are quite rare to find on F95 and especially in the sea of NSFW games. It is a fresh breather and quite nice to play and experience something aside the usual highschool/fantasy/sci-fi plots. Although you might encounter some form of mysticism or the actual time travelling as it unfolds during the gameplay is somewhat spiritual (?) or fantastic.
People are badasses, calloused by the rough way of living and don't take shit. This is awesome and is also generally reflected in the agency of the characters presented in the early game (e.g. in the first 5 minutes of the game you get shot by a beauty because she thinks you perved on her while taking a bath in the lake).
Now where the plot does weaken a lot is in it's details. How come your are send over 100 years back in time to your GRANDFATHERS time? I mean if he had his kid at an age of 90 and MC's father had the MC at an age of 40 it would make somehow sense. Thinking logically it was the wild west and life expetancy was not so great there, so I am forced to do some wild mental gymnastics to somehow resolve this issue. Now further pressing into the plot, the MC does live off some plot-armor that is thick enough to withstand the whole global nuclear arsenal it seems. I'm going to delve deeper into this issue later on characters.
The plot itself does resolve in acceptable manner though, but still leaves many questions that could have been addressed at some point in the end-game or epilogue.

Characters:
Now firstly the LI's:
The LIs do have a certain variety and are firstly appealing to look at, read their writing and show also a strong initial agency. You might find the one or other trope but this fits quite nicely with the archetype most of the time. There are one or two character developments I do not understand (natives arc). Now what is sad to see is except for Dakota and somewhat Jane, every LI loses their agency quite fast and deteriorate into dumb followers. I do think the authors could have either make a greater character development arc or give them stronger story hooks for teaming up with the MC.

The Plot receives a solid 3/5

Now for the MC: I do understand he is in sophomore year of the university. I get the initial disposition of being cocky and cowardly at the same time. I also follow suit about having him hitting somewhat of a low-point so he can enter a development arc accordingly. But I do not understand how he remains that conceited and childish till the end. Yea he might be simpy and and somewhat of a virgin at the beginning but this over-top perviness just to push some cheap humor does not track. It especially does not track or appease the player if being in a state-of-mind of a virgin even after fucking five different people for multiple times.
He got shot multiple times, he got played multiple times and always risks so much just because he can't for the love of god not act like an adult (albeit a young one) for once. This is something that occurs often in games and authors for some reason tend to miss this mark heavily. Having gramps telling two or three times to man up is ok but please do follow-up on him becoming cautious of his behaviour after getting what he desvers for being a brat.

The characters outside the MC receive a solid 4/5
The MC itself receives sadly a 2/5

Visuals:
The visuals of the game are appealing and are on the better end lighting and compositioning wise. I love to look at the screen and enjoyed it. It is not outstanding but it delivers a solid impression. Sadly you see later in the game often the clothing clipping which is does drag down the rating of the game itself. Otherwise you can not expect much of fluid depiction but it is again in line of the average quality with that rendering.
It is nice to see the new default on visual fidelity increases with most of the newer games and as such it a solid 3/5

Animation:
The animations as usual with Daz3D models do lack impact and fluidity in the motion itself. There is really nothing worthwhile to mention as again it falls into somewhat average quality and what is usually seen with Daz3D models.
Solid 3/5

Gameplay:
The gameplay of Brooks in Wild West is a sandbox way of of telling the story. I do like the Quick-Time-Events and they are implement. Although simple it does shake up the experience. In the beginning the game is a bit grindy but it does reflect the orientation and gathering of the MC's bearings as he has to find himself some steady foothold in this new environment. Choices are somewhat semi-important.
I give it a good-willed 4/5

For the devs reading this:
Some improvements which greatly increase the quality of potential future games in descending priority:
- Improve the plot
- Add a good development arc for the MC
- Don't let the good first impression of the LIs fade as they lose their agency
- Seperate voices like moaning from other SFX for the player to fine-tune it in the settings according to their preference

Otherwise it was a pleasant experience to play and I'd check out the next Piggy Nose Games.

In total the game does receive a solid 3/5.

As a player you can expect a refreshing setting and lets you have a solid experience.

The game is very good in the complex, had a lot of fun playing it.
The story is very well written.
The girls are hot, the scenes are nice but maybe just a bit static.
My congratulations to the creator.

I played Brooks in Wild West starting with v1.00. I was surprised to find this is a new/recent game. The writing is well below average and compounded by both translation and proofreading mistakes. The story is below average and very predictable. The story moves so fast that characters have no depth. The renders and user interface look like they were created 10 years ago. The models for the girls are mostly good, but the render resolution is low. The music and sound effects are average. The gameplay is really grindy at first. Sandbox navigation is inconsistent. The lewd scenes aren't very hot, most have multiple angles and speeds for the animations, but it all just feels robotic.

On the upside, the game has quite a lot of content for a game in development for less than 2 years. It also had one really convenient feature which was to put the next quest hint on the town map. This didn't work perfectly all the time as there were a few times where I had to check the complete hint/walkthrough page and found that there is some other quest that needed to be completed first. Still, I found this to be one of the all-time best sandbox features I've seen.

Overall, for a game started in 2023 and completed in 2024, it unfortunately looks old and feels cheap.

A simple sandbox harem game.
- A little grindy
- simple story stream with a guide, nothing complicated. Can also ignore all the dialogs and follow the walkthrough in game
- good story plot
- About 5 hours of gameplay consistency if you ignore most of all dialogs.
Although most of the scenes should be repeatable in sandbox mode once the story is completed. I'm little frustrate about this, would have this at 4/5 but I'm not a suppoter so.

P.S: Also, the sex scene is hot, no ugly models, plus animations in most of all scene. They're not the greatest, but they're very hot scenes.

Simple harem game that doesn't have pretentions.

The implementation of the sandbox is why I wouldn't give 5 stars: don't let the player waste time visiting locations with nothing to see. Mark them on the map as unavailable (or unattended *wink*). When you have full stats or enough stats for the next stage you should have better indicators.

Other than that the game delivers on its promises without overdragging the plot. No content is missable apparently (?) as you can just continue to farm/grind unlock after the main story. The gallery is simple, allow you to see what you may have missed.

Love the Game the Story and the Girls, the Downside is the Graphics but i Understand basically the Dev told if was because he use Lower CPU. Keep making games like this one, better models, the models in this game are gorgeous and beautiful but you can make better ones, and keep the good work.

tl;dr: Good game. It has it's hiccups, especially in the beginning, but it gets better and better as it goes along.

To be honest I started playing the game just because the previews looked
hardcore and the idea of a fish-out-of-water story in the west started interesting.
Chapter 1 is rough - english is obviously not the dev's main language and there are a few things in the game that require you to suspend disbelief heavily but nothing was outright bad enough to make me quite (it's not machine translated engrish by any stretch). There is also a small bit of grind since the mc has to make money but I found it trivial - especially after you unlock a gun and hunting, which is pretty fast.
Things get better as the chapters progress. You can buy new gear, get new jobs and the grind basically vanishes. The naration also gets better and I found myself wondering about what comes next and where the story takes the mc and his harem.
What about the girls? Visually the models are ok albeit not very detailed. The sex scenes were also quite samey in the beginning but get more varied and wild later on (as they should) - and I like that this game does gaping which most others do not even try. The girls also have their own stories and romance progress (starting with a handjob or straight to anal) which makes advancing on each path feel different enough.
My only major issues (if dev is reading):
- Unclear scene unlocks - I got past this by just reading the code but some guide to getting all scenes would be nice (ESPECIALLY the extra variations on some)
- The text would need someone with good english to go over. It's a small thing but it takes you out of the experience a bit
- The animations do not need 3 speeds and definitely do not need zoom. There are not enough details for the zoom and the speeds would be better replaced with depth of penetration or different poses
- Last but MOST IMPORTANT - the sex scenes need better pacing and narration. Having a girl take a monster up the ass first scene and not react in any way as if it's the most normal thing ever is weird - have her adjust, comment and get properly pounded only at the end. And having no talking at all during the action makes it feel very mechanical - dirty talk helps a lot if the amount of images/animations is limited. And some chatting not just at the beginning and end

[v0.70]

A lot of things in this game doesn't make sense historically. 10 bucks for a single shift at a gold mine is way too much money. The improved rifle has a strange modern looking scope when optics were far more primitive back then. Why do the Native Americans dress like strippers? Why does a deer, a beast of prey, go full aggro and straight up attack you? How does the MC manage to become a proficient horse rider, shooter, and can survive being shot multiple times in the span of like 2 weeks?

The reality is, everything I've stated so far is wildly pedantic and none of this fucking matters. It's a fucking wild west themed porn game, calm the fuck down, guys.

This ends up being a pretty charming cowboy porn game, with amazing 2D character models and decent porn animations. I found the grind to be minimal and not very intrusive, especially since the dev lets you basically infinite money savescum Blackjack if you wanted to. It works well for being a game about a guy going back in time, finding his way to becoming a true man, and banging a bunch of (mostly crazy but hot) girls along the way.

If you needed historical accuracy and realism in your porn game, I guess go elsewhere.

MC's Grandfather, born in the 1800s? $30 would have been a lot of money back then. You could do with some history lessons before writing this. Everything else looks OK but damn at least make seam like it could be somewhat real.

The game is grindy.
IMO the sex scenes are not worth the grind. While the models look ok, the sex scenes themselves are mediocre at best.
While the game does provide hints, the gameplay itself isn't intuitive. Even with the hints you are stuck.
If this was a VN, I would rate it higher but as a sandbox, it's meh

This is quite fun game to play.

It has some interesting models/chicks and despite sex scenes arent the best, they are far from being worse around. The whole setup (wild west) isnt that common in adult games, so thats another plus, if you are fun of that genre.

Not a big fan of sandbox, so was a tad hesitant firstly, yet im glad ive tried it. The sandbox part isnt that terrible, so Ive managed to survive

Would go with 4 stars, yet seeing the previous "realistic" one-star review, wtf - 5 stars from me.

Keep up the good work dev and try to improve whenever and wherever you can!

Tried the play game but the game is awful. The animations are awful. The renders are bland and not detailed. The models are totally unrealistic for the setting of huge boobs, perfectly toned bodies, and models with modern hairstyles everyone is also perfectly clean too from their clothes to their bodies. Their other grooming is suspect as well I mean you have regular shaved facial hair I mean these aren't small details like some of the renders for the buildings. These are literally the models.

When the dev is too lazy to even change the stock models to match the setting for the story he wants to tell then you can tell fairly early how much detail care and effort he is going to put into other areas of his game.

So unsurprisingly dialogue doesn't make sense and what is told is told in the blandest undetailed way nothing is really explained from the characters to the story itself. It's unfortunate there is a premise of an idea here that could work but it needs way more polish, from the models to the dialogue, to the sex scenes honestly personally I'd rather skip animations in 2023 that look like bouncy images rather than fluid movements. The animations would have been fine when I first visited the site 4 years ago but not anymore they are so short and boring nothing is fappable either.

The only saving grace is everything works so far and that is the only reason for the non-zero rating. I couldn't get past the first 30 mins.

Average at best.
The writing is ok, and the story so far is at least different from what we are used to.

The renders and animation however, are average and very grainy.

The hunting/bandit killing is pretty tedious. The health bar makes no sense whatsoever, and the amount of shots to kill things doesn't make sense either. If the dev insists on needing that many shots, make it a one bullet shot, but, use an evade/miss system. Having to shoot so many bullets in a guy or animal, especially has you get bigger guns, simply makes no sense at all.

I'd have given a two star on this, but the story being imaginative and different deserved an extra star.

Interesting gameplay for a first chapter, the girls are hot and the story progression isn't very fast. The routine can be a little tedious, but nothing that affects you too much. I will keep following!