VN - Ren'Py - Celebrity Hunter [Ep.30] [Geiko Games]

The game in general is pretty alright if you use the guide, but up until a certain point the literal text in the game does not match the text on guide. Maybe the dialogue was changed at some point. Seeing as how the game is sandbox it starts to become incredibly hard to figure out what gives points since, in my opinion, the dialogue is not always clear how the characters think about what you say. Not to mention the fact that you need both friendship and seduction points to progress for some characters o you just lose. Thanks. At least the dev realized how dumb that was and allows you to just auto gain the points instead of having to redo the entire thing.

Things i would change/fix
1. remove the fade transition from the bubble icons on downtown map. it is extremely tedious and annoying combined with the fact that you only get 1 action point before having to spam sleep. this is with the fact that skip transitions are already on
2. remove all unnecessary locations ie, the bus locations and the beach
3. allow skip time from anywhere. and sleep to specific time of day since you decided to include a day system. again, very tedious to have to go back and fourth
4. remove the spam help from the newspaper girl (i think its sofia). it took almost 30 days just to progress 1 event. and another 30 for the next one. you are way better off just looking at the image folder

This game started very well, I liked it and than went off track so I quit playing .. than tried out again .. its even worse now. .... No more celebrity hunter ... I s Julia a celebrity? Its gone off track no story at all. totally out of the topic. Its Julias game… you don’t get a chance to drop her off … no option terrible

So much promise when the game initially came out about more than a year ago. Since, then, very poor amount of content, plenty of bugs and he keeps on milking his patreon. Sad, as the initial story and game could have been one of the best. I guess true developer are so much rarer nowadays.

I got so many issues with this story or should say stories, first your forced to report shit to your boss at the newspaper or its game-over, so if you want to be with someone well then you need to stab them in the back or you get fired and its game-over, i find that concept extremly idiotic.

Not sure what this game is trying to be, if its supposed to be NTR based its a pretty big fail, sure there are a few scenes like Julia sucking a dick or does lesbian shit with someone at school, but personaly i dident really care about her much since shes pretty much a whore type LI so going for her you cant really expect anything else.

Then theres Priscila first i played it as a friends route so dident really see how bad her story is, but if you want to romance her it gets very cringy and has multiple game-overs, also if you romace her you cant get the info needed for the your boss, its a weird and idiotic setup.

Then theres Sayuri which i proberly liked the most both story and as a character, but she pretty much gets ruined from being a nice shy girl, to some evil bitch that treats young 13 year old kids like shit, the total oppesit of how she was, you then get the choice to accept how shes treating the kid and that she might be forced into doing that stuff and forced into a life she hates, then you can romance her or you can do like any normal person would and go against that and try to help both the kid and Sayuri but that will stop romance with her.....yep no joke....

So the two main girls which i would call them are pretty much a no go, so whos left in the game?

A massage girl that is proberly a side-LI
3 strippers who has no content still and they are proberly side-LIs as well.
So yeah not really much here to go for.

As for the girls i like the faces but hate the builds, they have all the same big tits which im just no into so 0 diversity in builds, well there was one in game that had nice normal/smallish tits but shes a 13 year old girl in the game, which was annoying since i liked her and in any other AVN she would easily pass as 18, but yeah dev dont like smaller tits so 0 LIs with that.

Animations, lets be real they just dont look good, i think dev would have been better off making them all small perky tits builds instend of the big shit they are now because man they jump around in such a weird way it looks idiotic.

Lets get into the sandbox part a bit as well, its just really annoying and need a major upgrade, its none stop clicking to on maps, like going to strip club you have to click go outside appartment, go back inside, sleep untill night, click go outside, click bus stop, click strip clup area, click strip club and then your finaly there....and since theres multiple girls there you have to that day after day untill the one girl you need to talk with is there.....i mean why not just have a fucking mini map in top or bottom where you can just click on the damn strip club or where ever else you want to go....

It also has a grind which is boring as fuck, you need 1250$ to buy 2 suits for MC and you can only work the bar and gain max 90$ per workshift but some is as low as 50 and its one boring mini game where you need to find and click 3-5 items in the bar....

The one thing sandbox got right is that you do have choices to fuck or not and to romance or not, which is rare in sandbox games since they are normaly 100 linear when it comes to relationships and sex scenes to ill give dev credit for doing that right, now dev just needs to fix everything else, and put in some damn smols as well.

Better stop now before i talk my self into giving this 1 star instend of 2....but i did like some story parts but thats pretty much all i liked.

Just a badly made game with bad interface, disjointed and confused story and bad translation and writing. Little to minimum erotic scenes even if you are here just for the XXX. Main girl of the game is ignored and being given to another game. Overall disjointed story with lacklustre scenes and graphics.

This game is waste of time. I played this for hours without any good contents, the only intersting character is Priscila but they are showing her POV on separate another game, game is confusing without walkthrough BUT that walkthrough is behind paywall and also just as confusing as the game. After playing this game I just regret wasting any time on this

Another game ruined by a bunch of little things and a gross mc.

The dev obnoxiously opens his patreon in your browser automatically, so you immediately know they dont deserve your support.

The game starts with a ridiculously long annoying launch sequence which introduces you to a pathetic pixie which we find later is required to make up for mc's patheticness. Then you get a bunch of sideways animations - was it supposed to be cool?

Speaking of animations, the women have their boobs jumping around in a way that shows the designer has never seen real boobs.it makes the animations very poor, in opposition to pretty good static renders.

After you change the MCs shockingly bad default name, you might regret associating them with yourself. He has abysmally loser dress sense and clear mental problems. In one scene he talks about not having the courage to talk to women and then has the most autisticly unfiltered conversation with a LI that I think is supposed to be seen as confidence (its not). It seems very much like the mc has borderline personality disorder.

The women again have absolutely no care given, they dont have thoughts or motivation . In one scene she pauses being angry to tell the mc how hansome he is, as if thats something women randomly do.

When he later talks to her in an unhinged way she decides its a date and irrationally sleeps on him in the bar and lets him carry her out. It's like a rapist wrote this script from his fantasy.

The Li - a supposedly successful woman - then starts DESPERATELY texting the mc with emoji's like a furry or other such community. It's so so sooooo cringy to read this impression of a woman

Finally if you werent convinced to quit yet, your li gets naked for another guy and lets him climb all over her to 'take a photo for mc'

Interesting story, great quality animations. Nice models. Gameplay not bad either.
Only thing I think could improve in case of "predicted" gameover routes where there are extra scenes could use a checkpoint system which it loads in this case. I save a lot and I had save points at those places (also if somebody reads the text saves also ) but this could be a nice addon feature

Without the walkthrough this is just shit

Doing something in date 1 kills you without a option to get out of it in date 4 without being clear so you have to back track and hope this time its right . Later you just skip trough the story trying different option to see can you keep going till you lose interest.

and CHARGING for a walkthrough way post the game here but not the walkthrough?

I really meant to give this game a chance and I am all for choice and consequence. Unfortunately, choices here are mostly ambigious and unless the Dev breaks the 4th wall to tell you (which shouldn't need to happen) you aren't really in control of your fate. Additionally, you never feel you have a say in what to see because you are constantly threatened with a game over from your boss if you don't make the right decisions. So while you are rushed along, you rarely feel like you have any agency in what happens and that's a cardinal sin in choice based games.


While I see the potential, it just isn't a lot of fun right now.

Excellent game with suprisingly low rating. I image it could be the ntr or gay traits of this game, but it shouldn't put you off because overall it is a really good game.

The models and renders are good and fine. Tought the background (mainly the main island background one) and lighting could be better, but everything is in harmoy so one thing doesnt stick out.

The best thing about the game is two things, the choices and its permuration. The second is how how hot the build up and scenes are. It has quite a deep number of choices, a bit stagerring at first but really enjoyable once you get the hand of it. And the sex scene are quite good, especially the Sayuri's sister in her college lecture.

The problem with this game is that it is 20% enjoyable and 80% annoying.

The enjoyable:
The girls look good. My fav is Sayuri just love a beautiful Asian girl but I also like Priscila a lot.

The story with the girls isn't to bad and I'm pretty sure the game is going to be heavy on NTR which doesn't bother me but what is annoying for me is what makes it difficult to play.

The annoying:
This an AVN but if you try to enjoy some adult time with Priscila you are murdered .

Then the other problem I have is that the game is basically a betrayal game. The MC being a reporter means that he always has to find a story so if you don't betray one of the people you want to be with you get fired and it is game over.

I would rate it differently if the stories came from just random side events and weren't from celebrities I would like to date but every LI you meet you will have to decide if you want to betray them or not by giving up personal information to the paper about them.

I've already run in to a game over because I didn't want to give up any info to the paper about Sayuri or Priscila. And that is the other part if you want to get the info to give to the paper from one of them you can't follow the romance route because you will fail at getting that info then.

Then there isn't really that much adult stuff in the game. The only time I have seen a blowjob was actually an NTR scene with Julia with some guy in the college she goes to.

And then with Priscila I thought they were going to do it but her driver shows up and stops that from happening. There is a scene where you can eat out Priscila but that will also get you killed because you didn't get the info you needed.

I actually now just quit playing the game like I am suppose to and just cheat. I look at the labels and just use the console to jump to the scenes I want to see.

So basically it is the game mechanics that kills the game for me.

Because of the low rating I wanted to skip this game, but good thing I still downloaded it. This is the case when the rating is too low for the game.

The game is really good, good picture, but the quality of animation is... Or rather video, the game is a big disadvantage that there are no animations, but recorded in advance rendering, and it is of poor quality.

Sex scenes are still very few, but it is not terrible, because the story is also not bad, yes, moments you know in advance what will be, not very intriguing, but sometimes can surprise.

There are different ways, so far you can't see them clearly, but hopefully in the future everything will be confirmed as the developer of the game promised us.

In general, definitely recommend to try this game, I have already added it to my vishlist in Steam, I'll wait for it to come out there. I hope for a large number of supported languages.

Ok now I get why this games reviews are all over the place.

The GOOD
The renders are very well done, characters all look unique and have there own distinct personality. The MC's love interest is sexy as fuck. Animations are pretty well done as well. 4/5

The story PREMISE is good. The setting the story is in is understandable and makes sense. It feels like there is a deeper story that the dev wants to tell and it does draw you in initially.

The BAD
The Story after it initially draws you in the story starts to get weird. MAYBE not because the story is weird but I feel the English translation is doing a poor job conveying the story content to and English speaking audience.

My gut tells me there is some fairly bad translations going on here as the original game is written in Portuguese. Technically speaking it is an accurate translation from one to the other but it seems to be missing some of the nuance to convey the correct emotion to us. I could be 100% wrong as I don't speak Portuguese.

The OPTIONS none of the option I have seem so far seem to be leading you down a path you can assume. Most of the time you can assume this will probably be the corruption route of this will probably lead to the romance route etc. Again what I assume maybe a bit of a language barrier none of the choices seem to be drawing you one way or another.
making a lot of your choices random guesses and then reload and try again.

This game would benefit greatly from a walkthrough mod especially on the English side.

I see a lot of potential here, it could just be bad writing but I think it's the language variables that make this VN seem a bit hollow on the English side and why the overall score for this game is low. Conversational English and a clear cut path to a given route would help as well as a gallery option.

Celebrity Hunter is a vissually better then most games here. Creative story and a fun point click adventure. I instally subs. Also a + for not having that basic renpy sound what all big bro or repny games have. But some sound would be nice the lack of sound is personally a negative. (i forget that kind games when i alt tab.)

Ep 6.

Like the reviewer before me, I'm also surprised at the low rating. I've been playing this since it was released here. It's far from perfect, but I've been enjoying the story so far. The models are attractive, there seems to be a variety of choices that matter, and overall, there's Priscilla. Sandbox isn't my favorite thing to see in a VN, but it's workable. Looking forward to more.

Review as of [Ep.6].

I am surprised by the score, maybe I am missing something. maybe this has been in development for a long time? I feel like this should have 3 or 3.5 stars rather than 2.5 (thus I give a 4).

The main heroine is super cute, although the story is somewhat unbelievable, the situations are unrealistic, it is hard to suspend my belief (though there is a fairy so that makes it easier haha). But anyway, just due to Priscila this deserves a better score, since appealing heroines is one of the biggest requirements for good games.

I would probably play again once it's done, but might not revisit it again while on development.

Priscila is a very good model and the other models are very HD and very beautifully designed. There are no bugs in the game, that is, there is no element that spoils the enjoyment of the game. It is a game that progresses with choices, so making different choices leads to different progress and I think this is a very good thing. I hope this goes well. And I would like to see the old man in every update. Because he is one of the main roles in the story
THX chef, let's cook this game now <3

Shame, I wanted to really like this game, but boy, does it ever make it difficult to do so.
As others have pointed out, the renders of the characters are fine, but the backgrounds wanna make you gouge your eyes out. Definitely falling into the placeholders category and I wouldn't be surprised, if some of those images were taken directly from the store page where these scenes are being sold. However that wouldn't so bad if there was something else to distract me. Which brings me to another painful subject, the story.
At the time of writing v0.5, the story is straight forward and is more to the boring side, where you are once again, just an average boring Joe with an attraction to being yelled on by their boss. And while I do appreciate the variety of talking approaches, it quickly dies when the game starts telling you what to do and basically punishes you for what you came here for. You know, the A part in AVN... Wanna seduce them all? Tough luck, you'll either end up fired or dead. Either way game over.
Overall I'm very disappointed, but I do hope the story and game overall will improve with time, but I won't hold my breath. Anyway, good luck dev.