VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Chasing Sunsets [v1.01] [Stone Fox Studios]

TL;DR The writer/dev fails to maintain the emotional tension effectively established at the beginning of the game, ultimately undermining the story with a poorly executed, inept confrontation.

The game begins as a commendable production, featuring a fluid narrative, high-quality graphics, and a story that effectively employs emotional connections and conflicts between the main characters.

I recall starting this game with enthusiasm last year, but then I lost interest. Last week, after encountering it again in the latest updates list, I found myself trying to remember why I had stopped playing. I skimmed through the comments and screenshots, but I couldn't pinpoint what had gone wrong last time. The only thing I could recall was that it ultimately left a bad taste in my mouth. My curiosity got the better of me, and I decided to give it another try. Voilà! It wasn't long before I found myself at the exact same point once again, disappointed.

Exercising the same disappointment for the second time prompted me to write this review. I wanted to share this mostly negative critique, which is well-intentioned at its core, because I believe that there are other players who share my perspective and don't want to see such disenchanting and obvious flaws in the fiction.

Based on game version 1.0 with Joker's mod.
Plenty of other reviews to say how great this one is, no need to be overly redundant.

Great story, great characters, great scenes.
This is one that might make you reconsider some others you've rated 5*...
Yes, there are things that I'd like to be different with this one, personal preferences and all.
But not a lot of objective negatives about this one.
Most complaints seem to be because many did not get results they wanted, or some minor interaction didn't play out as expected...

If you're just looking for a porn story to jerk off to in the first 10-15 minutes, this isn't for you.

Positives:
+ Small introductory tutorial about the scoring system and other things
+ Some very emotional scenes
+ Pretty characters from face to physique
+ Lots of expression through eyes and facial movements
+ Beautiful images due to depth of field
+ Interesting story
+ Unique environments, no feeling of having seen places or objects before as assets in other games

Negatives:
- First 10-20 minutes with a lot of flashbacks while talking to the bartender (hang in there, it gets better after that!)
- Small font, could be bigger, would be more pleasant to read
- Rather not for pure sex fanatics (although that's more of a positive thing when I think about it )
- Sister's name cannot be changed
- MC could be more masculine (beard growth, wider and more prominent face) for someone who has been “traveling” for 5-6 years
- Jaye's skin color too dark, based on the fact within the story where Jaye is from
- Spoiler: No marriage and no children at the end (at the time of this review with version 1.0)

Personal thought:
I love emotional stories and games like this one. Where most of the action is the story and the characters. Sex is a bonus which is then introduced with a lot of dedication at the right time. In a way that doesn't seem cheap and the sex scenes convey the love, the mood, the feeling that the characters should be feeling.
In this game, everything is just right if you are prepared to let yourself go emotionally and let a few tears flow.

Last word:
Spoiler: Thank you for the emotional moment when the MC leaves the party and sees the mother standing behind him.
I will never forget that image. So sad, so many of your own memories going through you at that moment, which can be more important in your life than arguments and accusations.
This image has caught up with me so often in the game, the memory of it. If the developer reads this, you've done it perfectly!

It's Good, But ...

This game was a pleasant surprise, after playing the first chapter and the prologue i felt quite invested with this title, so much so infact that i tried playing it in small doses, and with each pause, i kept growing impatient, nearly at the edge of binging on it in one sitting, so let me start with the story

STORY

It starts with a lenghty introduction of the MC and his loved ones and their story, this at the time, felt kinda boring and forceful at the beginning, with very fluffy and soft undertones, i say boring because there's very little agency on the part of the player, but that changes rather quickly as the prologue starts unveling more and more characters, all in all, i'd say it lays out a very solid foundation that suggests the story might take center piece here, which is fine ... if the story remained consistently good until the end, which in my opinion doesn't once you reach the last 3 chapters, my issue comes to a few plot points that gets dropped and a few characters getting side-lined so out of the blue it feels jarring, and because the way "affection" with certain characters are structured, that kinda becomes a problem for the purpose of watching the scenes *OR* with simply following with the narrative of the game, i want to keep this review relatively spoiler free because i'm of the opinion this game is good and the story is worth exploring, so to keep this section short and on point :
1) It starts off solid but there's a drop in quality
2) said drop is caused by a few rather unfortunate plot points getting side-lined and a few narratives not pursued properly
3) because of how this game is designed (Love/trust points) you may be cut off from certain scenes, and that may give of a false alarm that the story isn't finished

the Affection values

Its hit or miss at times, i don't have it but at the same times it feels rather unrealistic and way too punishing, which is not a big deal
because you can always reload a save, but at this point, what was the point of emphasizing at the beginning of the game that Chasing Sunsets will be generous in regards to that, but then, once reached a certain thresholds in terms of relationship, the game will definitely lock you off certain scenes, even though you already WAAAAY past the point of intimacy ? in my experience, i was locked out of the last scene with someone because of my previous deliberate choices, both didn't result in notifying me of affection damage with the involved party, so in the end, the end chapter finished like that, with a no love lost, even though i previously bonded with the same character.

The MODELS

I'm a fan, honestly, i like the girls and most characters, i only have ONE problems and that concerns the lightning and the colors, Mallory appears wayy too grey, almost looking like a Zombie at times during the sex scenes, it's a minor complaint, but other than that i don't have complaints, i like the girls a lot and i think the models are waaaaay up there.

Conclusion

This is my first review, i liked the game a lot and i'm not sure what the future will bring, the last chapter left me with a bit of a bitter taste because it felt rather rushed or incomplete, with a few compounded issues that truly tarnished my final experience with this game, that which, i was really invested in, time will tell where we're going from here.

(Played from prologue to CH.9)

Wow... Just wow. Top notch renders, actual choices with consequences and fairly good point system to track progress. To top it all off, a decently engaging story and character development along the way.

My only suggestion would be to plan out the endings and chapters in advance as it seems to me the ending may have been a rush job. Still 5 stars all the way and I look forward to the next one

Let's start with the good things.
The story really semmed promising and well paced and felt coherent till chapter 6 probably. There were right amount of drama, urgency and importance mattered. Then from there it all went downhill. It feels like what the story concept was at first on mind has changed dramatically during the production and I am sure the initially thought story would have been much better. I don't know why the dev had to change the story at the end.
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The story focused game is definitely among top 10 but there are a lot of disturbing and irritating factors there.
1. The little thriller or mystery part was really badly layed out.
2. Urgency and importance were neglected again and again.
3. Most disturbing was the color science. All the models are really gorgeous but the color science sucked. Everyone while having sex and specially in animation had this problem. It's really a turn off. I mean darker skin color is one thing but most looked black made no sense and those who didn't, looked like dead body with all blood sucked out. why all the models had to be like that?? This might impact my rating heavily.
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I really love slow paced story with less but good and hot sex scene. This novel lacked the later one. But given the story is going great even though it has its flaws too.
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For most part the story seemed kinda dull at the end. For now, the story seems incomplete and unsatisfied and the sex scenes are turn off for the color. The MC was great I don't know why the artist fucked up with the women. At least provide us with one great part to be appreciated, the sex scenes are turn off, story neither satisfactory nor complete. If there is epilogue and Jeye and Mallory and MC has a triangle relationship as it was hinted then I will raise the rating because of the satisfaction.

A fantastic game with amazing visuals, characters and story.
Sometimes there is a little bit too much reading, but you can tell the Devs put effort into the dialogs.
-Animated sex scenes.
-Believable characters.
I wished it had more shenanigans for the sex scenes, there are way too many bedroom sex scenes, but overall, it's fantastic.

A truly amazing VN with well written and thought out dialogue.
One of the very best I've played.

Fair warning, this is not one just for the spank bank, it actually has a story to it with characters that all feel unique in their own way.

If I have a criticism to make it's that the end feels unfinished and there are loose ends which really is such a shame for all the building that takes place in the lead up to it.

I do hope they remedy this but if not I will be keeping an eye out for their next work.

I can't believe I failed to write a review for this until now, been playing this masterpiece since like 0.3
Chasing Sunsets is a beautiful story centered around you and your step-sister settling the affairs of both your parents after their untimely (and mysterious) death.
And before you recoil I'm happy to inform you that the step-sister narrative IS NOT super contrived and forced, it's complex and immersive with realistic reactions from peers regarding faux incest and the dynamics of your relationship.
Furthermore, the game features intrigue and mystery, your parents were involved in some revolutionary genetics and pharmaceutical research. Were they killed for this? What secrets are there to uncover?
Delve into an intricate and immersive story, beautifully constructed with the perfect balance of humor and drama, featuring suspense, intrigue, and (of course) sex and romance.

This VN started off being one of the best written that I have had the pleasure to read, and I have read hundreds of them. Chapters 1-7 (5 stars in my eyes), are incredibly detailed story, with on the point humor. Every moment is accounted for and made for a very compelling read. The Graphics are second to none. As for the SEX scenes, they were few but again due to the incredible story, it made them perfect. My only gripe about them is the humor during most the the sex scenes dulled the intamacy of them.

Chapter 8 (4 Stars)
I don't know if they bowed down to preasure for more sex scenes, but the story seemed to be over shadowed by them. Story became rushed jumping from one day to the next. Continuity took a hit too. (one morning he's on the beach with jaye wearing a huge bandage on his chest, then that afternoon he's having a massage and no bandage)

Chapter 9 (2 stars)
It feels like it has been written by completely different writers. Story is incredibly rushed, the humor (for what there was of it) has lost it's luster, and seems more forced than fluent. The sex scenes were irractic. The MC's personality in the bedroom seems to have completely changed, from caring and laid back to almost domineering and shallow. The same for Jaye and Mallory. Chapter 7 they discuss which days of the week to have him. Not only is Mallory ok with sharing but she throws Amanda at him to add to the mix. Chapter 8 they don't have him at all. Chapter 9 Mallory sits with Jaye discussing how to give him the perfect date, and then that very date she dumps his ass without even a discussion beforehand.
It has completely lost the indepth detailed story, to become just another VN.

Such a long wait between for the last coulple of chapters, for such a disapointing story.

Whichever writers you fired from chapters 1-7, hire them back and pay them double.
If you didn't fire anyone, then stop take a deep breath, re-think and then re-write

Excellent game! The quality of the picture and animations, as well as the character of the main characters - my respect! There are only two main LI for the main character so far, but it seems like the author is gradually adding the ability to romance other young ladies. What this will lead to in the end - we'll see. The plot is not exactly wow, but not bad. I was also pleased with the reference to the 3rd Witcher, where with a certain choice you can lose both young ladies at once, namely as love interests for the main character.

For the first time, I want to write a detailed comment. This game is in my top 1.
This is not about "jerking off" quickly. This is a love story. Starting in childhood and continuing into adulthood. Love between a boy and his adopted sister. No vulgarity. A beautiful story, a smooth and beautiful plot. This is about the mistakes of youth, the bitterness of unrequited love, and finding it in the end. The game has explicit scenes, both between the main characters and in third-party affairs. But this is not about porn. This is very beautiful erotica. With very explicit scenes, but still erotica. Result. I have never seen anything like this before. Plot: 11 out of 10. Graphics: 11 out of 10. Attractiveness and beauty of the heroes and characters 10 out of 10 Music: 10. HUGE thanks to the creators of the game. In general, I think everyone should play this masterpiece

A good story-driven novella. High-quality images and design. Be prepared for a lot of well-written English text. Only half of the game is out so far, so in the end, it's too early to say. But it's already clear that the project has considerable potential. Despite the fact that one of the minuses of places is the lack of a soundtrack for a long time, which looks kind of scary.

what can I say about the game the game was just super the plot was just pleasant to read well written many branches of development characters are made very high quality and excellent the world is made very beautifully and well in general the game was very atmospheric and emotional choice and everything else and the game really appealed to me thank you for giving us such a masterpiece and we played it)

One of the most overrated VNs I've ever played.

Right off the bat the author breaks the promise about the player being in control of relationships. Within the first 5 minutes of the game 2 sexual relationships are forced on you without your choice, in both cases the MC screws a MARRIED woman. Worst of all, one of them is a wife of a man who took you under his wing and treated you like a son he always wanted!!! What shitty, disgusting, backstabbing thing to do.

That already sunk the story in my eyes. the next time you meet the woman she immediately shoves her tongue down your throat and humps you in a snow storm while her daughter (who apparently watched you two cheat on her father in the past) is just on the other side of the house's wall. Oh, you can fuck that daughter 3 minutes later if you want, but despite claiming she's a virgin there is literally nothing that supports that claim and apparently, despite living pretty much isolated with only her parents and no boy anywhere within 200 miles she is on the pill (I guess she knew you were coming and that you will have sex lol)... what a convenient way to eliminate any possibility of having any further contact with her in the rest of the story. The author should be commended on such an expedient and with great dispatch way of eliminating a fuck buddy as an LI! Also, despite her being very athletic from her lifestyle and sports she has a second chin for some reason. Doesn't make any sense, plus lowers her attractiveness.

Then you find out that some guys' wife that you fucked in prologue (apparently cause she looks like the step-sister, ungh!) is now divorced and is a SQUATTER in your Naples villa! She literally broke into it and is just helping herself to your possessions. What does the MC do? He is surely calling the cops to have her arrested and thrown out, right? Or telling her to get the fuck out of his home? Or calling the locksmith to have the locks changed while she's out so she can't get back in?

NOPE! He does NOTHING. Worse than that, at one point you can actually send her a DICK PIC so she can make a 3d print dildo of it! WTF?! That just boggles the mind. Why the fuck would the author even include that? Since I didn't try that I don't know how it is later used (not sure I even want to know, tbh.).

The 3rd forced sex is your sister's lesbian lover who, get this, is NOT a lesbian (neither is your sister apparently) she way just being a therapist for your sister by being a stand-in for you (despite missing an important part: a cock) and letting her live out her incestuous fantasies by imagining her gf was her brother. Thus the author re-educates us that there is nothing lesbian about girls licking each other's vaginas over like 10 years nor is it wrong when a person diminishes itself by turning itself into a masturbation tool. And she does that for MC too whether you want it or not. Later on you can pick up things with her, but what is the point when the author allows only 2 LIs and she's not one of them?

I've never felt violated from a game before, but this time I did, lol, because of the sheer number of times I was forced to watch MC being forced into sexual relationships without my consent.

The point about the story not allowing you any agency despite all author's promises becomes even more apparent later when it's blatant that the author wants you to choose Jaye (step-sister) and romance her over any other option. I've disliked her and tried to choose every decision that would give me negative points when I could, but somewhere about half-way into the game there were NO such options anymore!!! Thus I went against my will from minimum points (1) to half of maximum possible (+30) despite disliking her and pushing her away. There was an option to let her die at one point (which sadly bad ends the game), but despite the fact I've spent the entire game hating on her I didn't qualify because I didn't choose some weird deception scenario earlier that made no sense. The author simply doesn't allow you to push her away for good, which I find dishonest and heavy-handed.

Jaye has 0 personality aside from being an unhinged, unstable, jealous, manipulative and violent lunatic. she literally physically attacked and battered the MC in the prologue for the gall for trying to protect her from a would-be rapist! And yet she's apparently so deeply in love with him that she can't forget him for 6 years and is broken hearted when you push her away. Also she looks like one of those keychain trolls from the 80s.

Mallory, the other LI, is apparently your mother, but despite sharing all her DNA with your mom she looks nothing like her (er, how is that possible?), whether skin colouring, hair colour, facial features or even body shape! Which just cheapens Mallory because she, contrary to Jaye, actually has a developed personality and backstory and is actually quite likeable!

So, whether you like it or not, you are deceived into an incestuous relationship with a member of your imminent family, either your sister (we don't know until the very end that Jaye is actually MC's half-sister) or your mother. What looks like the lesser of two evils choice can actually be the biggest evil.

Also, was the author dabbling too much with AI? Cause the expressions on the cast's faces range from hilariously weird to dafuq-is-going-on-here. Never seen faces contorted like this before and especially their eyes take up comic proportions. Mallory/Mommy could've looked decent, but most scenes have her face twisted in weird expressions. Amanda was another major victim of this.


The part about your sister being a lesbian becomes more prominent when you realize that half the female cast subscribes to that. The author obviously has a kink. Now, people on forums claim "but they're not lesbians cause they are just experimenting!" (Oh, no officer, I didn't kill him! I was just experimenting with putting a bullet in his brain to see how it feels. Me just experimenting means there are NO consequences for my actions, it's as if they never happened, doesn't change me nothing. Just ignore the dead body there. Wait, why are you pulling out the handcuffs?!I WAS JUST EXPERIMENTING, OFFICER!!!). Sorry, if a woman has a sexual relationship with another woman she's a lesbian, especially over such a long period of time as Jaye. Period. If a man takes another cock up his ass he's gay. There is no "experimenting", your actions from the past don't simply get erased, that's just an American construct and self-delusion that an action or a chain of behaviours you engaged in has no consequences just because you claim it doesn't. Just because US has this permissive culture that supports people (women especially) who refuse to accept responsibility for their actions and make them think their fuck-ups won't follow them through their lives, doesn't mean actions don't have consequences.

Aside from Jaye your only other LI is ALSO a lesbian (big surprise, right?) and she can get it on with her childhood best-friend (surprise again, right?), which can involve you into this weird threesome. Which is not actually a threesome, but a couple with a "you can have sex with the other girl only if your gf is present" thing. The times Mallory is absent you can't have sex with Amanda. Doesn't make sense (like most things in this game), but there you go.

Your "innocent" lover from the hills later sends you a pic of herself naked, cuddling with 2 equally completely naked big-breasted chicks, confirming her switching sides as well.

The captain's gf also has very flexible views on sex and morality. And I'm sure there's more, but the women are so one-dimensional that they're completely forgettable. Suffice to say, LGBT in this game is about 10x more represented than their RL figures.


All is not rosy even in the area that will interest you most: physical attractiveness of the girls. The game's engine is pretty bad, so it's honestly no wonder most are ugly to mediocre. This is NOT Summer's Gone or some other game with it's better engine.

Of the entire female cast (which is pretty big, mind you) only 1 actually looks beautiful and has the least amount of scenes with distorted face or over-blown eyes and she is your mother's second-in-command. She's supposed to be 40, but looks around 30. Sadly, you guessed it, she's not an LI...

Mallory who is an LI just looks weird in many scenes and average at best. Her lesbian lover aka best friend Amanda looks cute in a way, but she's mostly comic relief due to the outlandish and no-filter things she blurts out if you save her life since she's a cured autist/savant. The least said about Jaye the better. The Japanese chef/martial-arts-master (what?) looks okay, but in terms of age she's already hit the Wall (and even though she teases MC about letting him knock her up later it will never happen since she's not an LI). There is a divorced wannabe-MILF that's around 40 but has the body of a REALLY fit and hot 18 year old, she looks beautiful. The other models are not really worth of note.

As with story and rationale and other things, this is also not a story for you if you want to gaze at hot girls. Play Summer's Gone for that purpose.


The MC is a manwhore btw. He literally fucks everything with a vagina, no matter how inadvisable or callous or shitty. Never uses a condom either, even with women he's just picked up in a bar. But as is standard these days he is also the butt of jokes, even if that means he has to be castrated and emasculated in some really mean-spirited ways, especially if it makes a woman look good and superior. He literally has no backspine, especially towards women, he just lets them walk all over him.

There is nothing endearing about him. Not only is he constantly in the scenes thus ruining immersion, especially as he looks some over-sexualized beefcake with a 10 inch dick so you can't really identify with him.


Then there's also the best friend who dies behind the scenes. Former Israeli special forces (gives this especially untasty flavour what with current events happening in Gaza with what Israel is doing to civilians) that somehow finds himself in Honduras and out of pure goodness of his heart saves the MC. And then eventually dies. Oh yeah, apparently an armed and active Israeli special forces unit is just COINCIDENTALLY in Libya and in the SAME TOWN in fact with an IDF cargo plane during the 2011 NATO's destruction of the country that included an assassination of it's President and his son (who was sodomized with sharp instruments before being murdered by NATO's terrorists). Libya went from the most prosperous African country with the living standards better than Germany to the nest of terrorism, slave trade and misery that it is today. And in this place the MC and his Israeli friend just somehow found themselves in with no heads-up what's gonna happen (lmao), the friend got whacked by bandits with revolvers and then an IDF spec ops team rode in to the rescue and included this "emotional" moment of giving the MC some medal or coin or some other IDF brotherhood symbol.

At this point as I was puking I was about to press Alt+F4, but forced myself to continue out of morbid curiosity as to how it can get worse.

With the mess that was yet to come I should've just followed that instinct and stopped playing. Hopefully you, dear reader, will now choose better.

There's plenty of nonsense in this game, but as a longtime biker what stood out to me was the hilarious "race" MC and his sister engaged in on their date (another case of the author making our choices in a heavy-handed way instead of letting us choose cause I didn't want to go on a date with her, nor did it make sense for my MC to go or be that friendly as he was there). There was literally nothing in the hours of the story beforehand to even hint that either had ever ridden a motorcycle before and here they were going flat out on a country road (it's much harder than it sounds like), the sister beating the brother easy --- HOORAY FOR GRRL POWER!!! (I guess) -- even though she had the completely wrong bike for the job (no fairing, no wind protection, poor aerodynamics, weaker engine, etc.) simply because she's a girl and girls are always better in everything than boys until it died (probably Italian bike lol or a BMW - a biker will know what I mean). As it's been beaten into our heads in the west since 1970's "a woman can do anything a man can and does it better". IRL they would've killed themselves within first minute of riding like that and being complete beginners. The corporate espionage/murder/extortion plot is there, but nothing special or exciting.


It's not all bad though! Amanda is hilarious with the stuff she just blurts out, especially her breeding fantasies. Mallory is a really interesting character with sob story that gives her personality and makes you invested in her. Then there is the van that is the victim of some very unflattering jokes and quips. Plus the game has AIRWOLF! Despite the fact that the actual heli was sold after the show and later crashed, killing all onboard. The MILF-whose-name-I-forgot has a really hot body and Lisa has the most beautiful face (and great body too). These actually save the game from getting a single star.

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This is review for Chapter 10.

Well, the dev started the new update on a note that he seems to like, getting the (only) two LIs naked and wet together after wrestling on the bed while wearing as little as possible. Makes no sense whatsoever, but at least they weren't wrestling in jello or mud. Thankfully that was the only thing approaching lesbian fantasies for this chapter.

No change or improvement in models or visuals. Lisa is still the hottest girl of the huge lineup and still out of reach. Considering only the epilogue is left, I'd say nothing will change.



Second thing that jumps at me is that the dev continues breaking his promise about player controlling relationships. 1 minute into the update and I've already received 6 love and 4 trust points with Jaye even though I try to alienate her. In the entire chapter there was only 1 or maybe 2 opportunities to lose points with her, everything else improved them.



The espionage story kicks back in pretty soon. Apparently the enemy corporation could go to HAGUE (International Criminal Court aka war crime court) for creating Mallory. Er, my dear dev, if NETANYAHU is never gonna go to the Hague for what he's done (according to the British Lancet medical journal, Palestinian death toll in Gaza is over 186.000 NOT 40k that media are trying to sell to us), then one corpo is surely not gonna appear for CREATING a person, even if they were playing Lebensborn the Second Coming. On the other hand...

Also, if Mal is such a threat to them, they wouldn't be sending just one guy to kill her, they would've sent an entire team and killed everyone who knew the truth of her. The whole spy plot seems to be wrapping up very quickly and mostly behind scenes, which is disapointing.

Er, considering all of George's grave warnings about the danger Mal is in I would've expected some kind of PROTECTION, you know? Security team and the likes? Instead they just go on like before and are just gonna "keep their heads on a swivel"? What's next? How are they gonna make it even easier for the assassins? Later events just confirmed my point. Plus the fact that the person who is in danger and should be kept alive went SKYDIVING! facepalm

The dev continues to make Airwolf references, which I appreciated.

Otherwise aside of a few funny moments, the update was pretty passive, the events were either determined in your previous choices or by the dev, so you mostly just sit and watch the world go by.

Aside from some hotness provided by Mal, the most significant part was her revelation that she dreams of being knocked up by the player. No clue whether that will go anywhere, I imagine it won't.

Aside of that the update can be skipped and it is my recommendation that people either ignore this game or just wait for it to be completed to know how it ends. There are better games out there (like Acting Lessons, but prepare to have your heart ripped out).

Story 2/5
The prologe started out ok, but ends with MC fucking some random married woman that i personaly wouldent have touched with a 10ft pole so that pissed me off, even more so since game/dev talks about how you deside everything in the game and how you can controle relationships by your choices to improve or damage them and too make it absolutly idiotic it
finished off by saying "choices or dialogues will never force a romance" and what does game do right from the very fucking start, it forces a romance on to you without giving you a single choice about it.

Worst part is that its not even importen to the story in any way it simply just forces a random girl and sex scene on you, making everything it claims to be a pure joke.

And it dosent stop there already in chapter 1 after prologue you learn MC has also fucked Linda one of your friends mother? and yet another married woman and apprently the friend/daughter dosent even mind? its absolutly insane and makes for a very weird and shitty story and yet again not something you as the player has any choice in.

So now you have to deal with romances you have never been part of as the player and maybe like me never wanted, so when you meet Linda later she starts kissing you? and you cant even stop her or push her away? and you have Fiona texting you with nudes and shit so all that talk about nothing is forced is just pure bullshit, you now have 2 forced romances going from the very start....and more to come....

No clue how games that breaks every promiss it makes gets so highly rated, maybe people just dont care about story and just skips to sex parts because it makes no sense in any other way.

Every girl MC meets just trows them selfs at him, no questions asked its like hes the only dude in the world or something its stupid, so you can forget romances or relationship build-up just say hi and they are ready to fuck your brains out, like Mallory she just start french kissing MC out of absolutly nowhere and again you cant push the bitch away.....and that happens after i CHOOSE not to kiss a minute ealiere in game so instend game now yet again forces the shit on you....since it wants to force a kinetic storyline and make some weird drama that should never be there.

And MC just stands there while this bitch talks about how great she was treated by MC the night before infront of MCs sister? MC does nothing, says nothing its the most weird and stupid story where MC is just a pawn or dummy to stand there and look like an idiot which he does perfectly.....

MC keeps getting mad about things going on but he has absolutly 0 backbone so he never ever speaks up or do anything about the shit going on around him when it comes to girls, hes just a pain in the ass and just not fun to play in any way.

Story also skips in very very weird places, like MC learns hes flying with Mallory instend of hes sister which hes also pissed about but you dont see the flight or MC talking too Mallory its simply just skipped...

For virgin fans theres nothing to come for either, theres 0 blood and not even any kind of pain from the girls so it has no virgin vibe and feels and looks like any standard sex scene like all the other, you cant see the diffrense if MC is fucking a virgin for the first time or a mother whos had sex a million times, so yet another huge failure.

MCs sister is clearly also a lesbian and has a lesbian relationship with her best friend, dev/story tries to explain it away by them only being friends and Tara is "only" having sex to help the sister since she has some idiotic sexual
problem which i guess is that the sister is having a crush on MC, so how or why the sister thinks having sex with someone else will help her get with MC is just brainless and she should never have done that.

And ofcause MC will also fuck Tara which again is not something you controle since its always in the past but MC is just a man whore who fucks anything and everything, so even if game had choices it dosent really matter
since they just call it "in the past" and then you see MC fuck who someone you might hate.

So let me say this, if you arent into lesbians dont play this one, if you arent into the sister (redhead) dont play this one, hole story is about MC being in love with hes sister while hes running around fucking everyone else.

Let me also make one HUGE freaking point, game is NOT a harem so forcing MC into multiple relationships is insanely stupid, you just dont do that in a none harem game....since it removes the hole point of finding the right one to be with if MC is already fucking other girls which you have 0 controle over.

The forced relationships even follows you all the way up to the point where you have sex with the sister for the first time, where one of the choices says MC dosent want to let down the other girls he loves...so MC is apprently in love with Fiona, Linda and maybe even Tara? how does that fit in a none harem game? its a joke.

Story even fails and ignores your choices, like turning down Mallory and picking open relationship with the sister after they have sex, she ask MC if Mallory is one of the girls he loves and MC says yes.....so yeah it fails on keep tracking on choices as well....

Girls 3/5
Pretty average looking girls and very little diversity in builds.

Animations and Sex scenes 2/5
Alot of them are and just boring and alot arent even animated just a couple of stil images which arent even that good, so i fail to see what so many reviews are talking about when talking so highly about the animations...

Music 2/5
Basic background stuff nothing special and alot of times its just silent.

Choices 2/5
To much is forced from the start, multiple relationships/romances which follows MC doing the game by idiotic text messages, so even though you have some choices as to who you want to be with or not, some arent so its really not a choice driven game and using an excuse that its all past stuff wont work since it follows you chapter after chapter so its not just in the past, which makes game fail big on the promiss to give you choices.

A webnovel masquerading as an AVN. It felt weird seeing descriptors of the renders that were already on screen.
If I could give one piece of advice to the devs, describe what the characters are thinking/feeling not what they're doing. That should be done by a mix of on-screen renders and the reader's imagination.

Btw, I've never seen a better "surprised/shocked" expression in any game. All the animations feel real, (just slight exaggeration but not enough to make it seem unnatural).

The rest ain't bad either, a well-deserved 4.5.

I dunno, I must be the minority here, but this game is basically a cheesy Soap Opera. There is a plethora of text to read. I eventually found myself skipping it, and when I started to, I really began to realized just how much there was(it's a lot.) About an hour in, and it feels like the story has barely moved. The prologue goes on for what feels like an eternity, and the inner-monologue just never stops with the protagonist.

Until the first 2 chapters are done anyway. Then the game/story gets fairly decent. It is quite the struggle (IMO) to get through the beginning of the game. I'd recommend starting the game when you're looking to start a story. As the game doesn't really get kinky or good until an hour in. However, the rest of game severely lacks- if you don't read the beginning. So if you're thinking of trying this one out, wait until you got the better part of a day to get into it.

A word to the developer. I'd recommend going back through the animations in the first 5 Chapters, and re-rendering them with the same quality of the stills. As often getting an animation that looks like playdoh in-comparison to the stills frames, makes me just wish they were still frames.

[v0.9a]

Wow, this game blew me away! I'm greatly impressed by the great quality of the game and it's compelling story! This game checks all the right boxes for me.

Pros

• Excellent renders (overall)
• Excellent character models
• Excellent characters/Love Interests
• Excellent and compelling story
• Excellent and deep character development
• Likable MC who is well rounded but not perfect
• Unique characters with varying personalities
• Perfect game pace
• Semi-harem (at least until you are forced to choose later)
• Excellent sex scenes
• Excellent animations (overall)
• Good humor and use of movie references

Cons

• Some of the early renders and animations aren't the best (blurry, grainy, could use improvement, etc.)
• Could use more music and sound effects (for examples gasping sounds when characters are surprised, orgasm sounds, etc. would make the game even better)
• The MC is too passive at times, especially with the girls. I wish he was aggressive sometimes instead of dancing around everyone's feelings all the time...
• Some of the early achievements aren't achievable such as maxing love and trust stats in the early chapters (at least I couldn't find a way to do it no matter what choices I made)

Overall, the game is a near masterpiece! I highly recommend it!

Chasing Sunsets is fun, but not without its issues:

• There's clearly a “canon” love interest, which takes away from the interactivity if you're more interested in others, especially since the game's already fairly linear to begin with.
• Most of the romanceable characters tend to be variations of the “playful but vulnerable behind the tough facade” trope.
• The actual plot feels indecisive and kind of irrelevant compared to the personal drama.
• At times, half the dialogue is memes and pop culture quotes, along with the occasional fourth wall break for some reason.

But hey, there's a lot worse out there, I just hope the devs learn from this if they ever end up making another game.