VN - Ren'Py - By Justice or Mercy [v0.3] [TowerBoyGames]

Very good game so far, great renders, characters for everyone's taste, somewhat interesting story, but not perfect…

I've test-played the version [v0.2] and here are my thoughts so far:

[+]

Great render quality: (no grainy textures, high resolution textures, decent lighting, no extreme clipping of clothes or body parts).

Diverse set of characters: (no matter if u like petite woman, girls with some muscles, or some woman with big badonkers, this game got it).

Nice scenery/backgrounds: (got some depth, high resolution, feel dynamic, doesn't feel “soulless”)

Good sexual scenes: (no sounds, and not a lot of animations, but still looks hot)

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MC: (although he doesn't look completely terrible, his eyes are creepy, they don't really fit, can't say too much about his “core” personality for now)

Story: (Story feels a bit chewed trough, but to be fair, It's hard to come up with something completely undone in the “revenge” genre. Now it's important how the story will be executed, from my playtest it feels like the MC is too obsessed with the revenge part, let's see how that plays out for him…)

I will get back into the game either when a substantial amount of content/updates dropped or it was finished.

I wish only the best to the game dev/team

TDU.

This is Harem game with some potential. It has decent renders and plenty of optional fetishes. Unfortunately, the MC is very unlikable. As of now he seems a like a brat trying to be “alpha” expecting everything to bend to his will. Worse still he talks about justice, but realistically what he wants is revenge, and as of now, it’s very unclear what the mercy path will look like. I also think that for the amount of content this looks more like a 0.1 game.

Based on v0.2
It's a power fantasy harem cliche.
Poor lil' wrongdo-ed you "grew up" into a big scary you and now it's time for them to pay their dues. Might not be that bad if MC wasn't highly unlikable. Ghoul consumed by bitterness steaming all around. He almost made me cheer for the "opponents". With this attitude, he's going to die by heart attack before the game ends. Serve revenge with a smile, don't lose dignity in the process. I like good revenge stories, but this is not that - a good story.
From the "artistic" side, the game is much better. Renders and most of the models are nice looking. Except, again, MC.
When it comes to choices and mechanics - back to square one. It's dreadful. Forced sexual content involving MC, forced "love interests" and what not.
Would not recommend it to others, unless you like a mandatory fuckfest.

Seems quite potential

Since this is a Revenge Story, I will be looking forward to the next updates

Hopefully there will be a lot of Domination scenes and the MC will have a full Harem

The updates are also very fast, hope you can keep this up regularly

This gets 5 stars for the amount of choices you get, it's got the setup for long branching paths, I prefer the dominant path, but this game is very good! Can't wait to dominate my way to the top!

Some characters are better than others so far, and I hope we get to do more revenge-related plots soon, but obviously, we got to introduce all the characters first.

I was actually surprised at how good and well executed this was despite the early release. It's been a while since I've seen a game with this much potential.

- The revenge plot is a bit cliché but decent; it still has some room for improvement and can be very rewarding if it's well made.

- It's been a really long time since I've seen a competent MC with common sense. The Love/Corruption routes are also pretty good; love that the domination path is not a complete super evil route.

- Visuals and models are really good; there are a lot of different characters and body builds, which is also rare to see.

- The dialogue is also quite good with very minimal grammatical errors.

----The only downside and only big complaint I have is how short the sex scenes are. These could really use some work.

I'm personally giving it a 5/5 atm because it's still an early release, and most of the problems I have with it can be easily solved. I'm mostly worried about the amount of characters that are being introduced; this makes the amount of workload increase drastically, which makes updating the game super slow or end up making the content of a lot of characters non-existent. Anyways, best of luck to the Dev, despite how short this was, I found it quite enjoyable, so keep at it.

[v0.2]

It would be 4/5 in general, but I am giving this 5/5, as it ticks many boxes and shows promise. For the first release it's quite good!

1. Visuals are very very good -- maybe not top quality renders and details, but there are different characters, builds, faces -- dev is not afraid to show people with imperfections/aged. So far none of the glazed rubber doll syndrome. Extremely good: 6/5.

2. Sex scenes are extremely short. They are basically just sketches with the more important frames and a very short ~2s animation. I agree with other reviewers that there should be a bit more dialogue/text relevant to the path. Nevertheless, you can approximately see what dev is supposedly aiming at, and hopefully he will be able to do a bit more about that in future: 3/5 .

3. Dialogues are good in some places (eg. Lin, MC family), and a bit stupid (think stupid teen drama) in others.

But partly it seems to be because everything is rushed in order to get to fap content. Now, I am one who doesn't like being blueballed, but together with #2 it feels ... well, a bit rushed again. 3,5/5

4. Plot is OK, and as others said it is very refreshing to see a more adult kind of MC who knows what he wants. 4/5 atm.

PS. It's "quiet" in a number of places, not "quite".

Just Amazing. This game is one of the most favourite games on my list now.
I have wished for a game like this for a long time.

• MC is confident and has a common thinking process.
• The cherry on top is this game has a large Harem + Incest.
• Also, there are a lot of Options and Kinks.

Everything about this game is just great.
Definitely Recommended.

[v0.1]

It's the first release, but I've seen enough to get a feel for it. This is a solid harem game. Cliche and clearly a power fantasy wish fulfillment, but executed well.

I'll just list some characteristics of this game.

• Extensive user input relationships which is utilized well to make everything sound natural. This is rarer than you may think.
• Revenge story. Pretty farfetched, but within the realm of possibility, at least in a TV drama kind of way. Gives MC some justification so that you can...
• Do Love/Corruption routes without making the MC evil? It's still asshole stuff, I imagine, but dev tried to avoid complete unredeemable MC on the corruption route, I guess.
• Pretty good portrayals of the characters and their individual vibes. Childhood friend's mother seemed convincing as a small Japanese lady.
• Cliche family dynamics. Bitchy/conceited older sis, innocent younger sis, and twin sis that is angry that you left or something. And a mom that is sorry for doing you wrong.
• A bit underwhelming sex scenes. Not enough sex dialogues for my taste.
• A lot of side characters and two antagonist families, but the vibes I get is that MC will solve everything, one bang at a time. I don't see him getting challenged substantially, but that remains to be seen.
• All in all, a very typical harem wish fulfillment, but the writing is competent. A familiar set up that is executed well.

Good potential here though mildly concerned about the number of interests there are available and how that can make workload spiral out or end up diminishing the quality of each path. But nice optionality in terms of paths, good modelling, and while the story is a bit cliché, we'll see how it progresses.

Lot's of potential! Ways to go on the story, seems decent enough. Animation and renders weren't bad. Decent variety of characters and kinks. Only downside was the amount of time it will take with animating characters. Either way I'll be waiting.

Solid start, not a whole lot of content yet. The one thing I will say is that it gets confusing as shit at times due to there being no names above the dialogue. The only way you can really tell who is talking is because the mouth of that character is open.
Renders are great, animations are solid, story is building. Looking forward to more

It's very early in the development. Looks really promising. Good looking girls, interesting story, nice UI and clear and significant choices (very important for me). I am looking forward for future versions.

VERSION: 0.1
SUMMARY: Seems like an OK start, models and renders are decent, writing needs work, plot is flimsy and could have used more thought.

PROS:

1. Decent looking models and renders (nothing over the top or "too pretty", but, see CONS)
2. Ability to customize relationships
3. Plenty of tags and kinks, which are always nice, many optional which is also a good thing.
4. Choices have consequence and initial outcomes differ. Its hard to tell if they long term at the moment but so far immediate are good so well done there.

CONS:

1. Flimsy critical plot point
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2. Renders are decent but they are pretty grainy and lack the quality we come to expect these days, this is something the developer should look into.
3. Some models are unrealistically out of proportion e.g. ginormous breasts that don't appeal to me.
4. Everyone knowing the MC,
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5. Some choices are not available at critical junctures where the MC acts completely out of character (at least my version of him) which is jarring and off putting personally.
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   The MC comes across as nice and helpful, until he goes all schizo and does something completely out of character...is that what the developer is try to do?
6. Random sexual encounters that could only happen in a game or in someones dreams does cause me to be taken aback sometimes and think "wtf, did that just happen?" Depending on what you going for, this may appeal to some, but not really for me. I prefer a bit more build up, not long winded, but at least "buy me dinner first"

FINAL THOUGHTS:

• Implementing all these TAGS, the subsequent plot points and agendas will be tricky, at least to do it in cohesive and meaningful way, which I really hope is the case. From what is here though, I think the developer will simply carry on with the current trend in the game to introduce these TAGS as if they will be everyday occurrences, great for mindless fap content, not if you want a little more intrigue or story.
• There are plenty of games out there doing these so there is no excuse to put out a poor game IMO. Hopefully the dev is taking notes...
• I think the dev should focus on providing 2 options to MC interaction with others, either nice or not, simple, but having the MC be steered when the developer wants and then taking over and doing something counter to what the player would do is just annoying as fuck. Either give choice or not, END.

Would give it 3.5 stars for a good start. Will change my opinion maybe after a few more updates.