VN - Ren'Py - Cheat or Not [v2.0] [Belzeebub]

I am giving this 4 stars, because I want to be encouraging and hopeful for what this *could* be (I played v2.0). Here are my initial thoughts:
- the stretched renders are really, REALLY distracting and should be fixed ASAP; like, should be fixed before new content is added (if you want people to follow this game). I spent a lot of the first 'chapter' giggling at how everyone looked.
- Yes, almost every character is ugly, and that is a plus in my book. These people - well, not the demonic mother - look like people I see walking around (what can I say? Americans are fat!). I am sooooo tired of AVNs where every woman has a supermodel face and a pornstar body. So I like the aesthetics.
- Yes, the dev's native tongue is obv not English, so this oftentimes reads rather awkwardly. I'm sure someone here is willing to offer editing services, and this game would benefit from a move like that.
- I'm disappointed that the evil mother is not a love interest. As I said in my above comment, it's awesome to see some variety in body types. And if we are allowed to stick our 'virtual' dicks in crazy, we're less likely to do so in real life. So bring on the evil-sort-of-maybe-adopted-mom romance path!!!
- The dev has a good sense of humor, and that carries through. After I was done laughing at the stretched renders, I did enjoy a lot of the jokes and mannerisms of the characters.
- I love how everyone is scheming against everyone else. Adopted Mom hates everyone; Real(?)Mom hates her daughter. Her daughter hates MC's girlfriend. MC's girlfriend's childhood friend hates MC. MC's best friend is spying on him. It's amazing. Can't wait for the NTR of the 'friend-zoned' childhood friend!

Really not much there yet. What is there is sometimes hard to understand due to the way it is formatted and structured into poorly laid out thought plus spoken sentences in the same blocks. It is occasionally not just confusing but downright painful to try to read. Especially when every sentence you read is the exact same way. Over and Over again. Why do I have to name all your characters? Can't I just name the MC and go from there? It is something nice but shouldn't it be my choice whether to rename everyone in the game? This way it is forced and it becomes an annoyance after 4 or 5 characters. Well if your kermit does not choose to go home with Miss Piggy, who looks like a Man facial feature wise, then none of the rest of the so called action will kick off. This has potential. There could be good material here. If the Dev would make the sentence layout a bit more flowing and easy to read and comprehend it could easily jump from a 3 to a higher number. 5 could still be on the table for it but it will need some serious work from the Dev. Not saying it is not possible because it could happen. I would like to see it happen actually. I am curious as to where the Dev is going with all these other interests. Why does the male coworker friend of the MC you meet in the bar feel so gay in his thoughts and conversations with the MC? But hey, its a tangled as hell web this Dev is weaving. Lets see if the Dev sticks around to finish the job at least.

Played the v.2.0i.
I wouldn't like to discourage in any means the creator, but there is a lot to be done in this game. I think there is a lot of space for improvement.
The first thing to be done is to remove the awful music that keeps playing on loop and add environmental sounds instead. (I am sure the creator likes the music otherwise it would not be in the game, but I personally find it, alike other looped upbeat songs like this one in other games, very annoying).
After I think there is more work to be done with the lighting. All the backgrounds in the scenes/images look very dark and the characters the opposite - all a bit uncanny and not in a good way.
Chapter 1 is too short. It seems more some prologue than a chapter. If the rest is chapter 2, it's also too short...
The premise is okay, but improve the story, the design, etc, characters, backgrounds...
I think there are too many characters to name/rename. The renaming option could be in a tab in the Preferences instead. Some games give that possibility to the players.
Keep going, keep building the game. Good luck!

It has potential. Knowing that English isn't the native language and this is their first attempt at an AVN, I can give some leeway on the models and writing. It could use some polishing on the image editing. Everything looks squished in the presentation.