VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - Confidant Trainer [v0.18] [Birtie]

Played v0.18

Confidant Trainer is a life sim where each day you can choose an an activity, either hanging out with a character, leveling stats, or fighting enemies in a bare bones combat system. As you progress you unlock more events.

Gameplay 1/5
The combat is fortunately simple, but like many games falls into the trap of being so grind the game would be better if there was none. The only way to get stronger for combat is to summon random personas and fuse ones with a matching type and rank to get higher rank ones. It doesn't take long for summoning personas to become a chore and your inventory to overflow. Similarly leveling stats is done by revisiting events for incremental improvements, with nowhere showing how much of a stat you need for an event, or showing what level of a stat you currently have. No quality of life whatsoever.

Dating 2/5
The events with the main girls were passable. The bare minimum interactions before a typical porn scene with several dialog boxes of moans to click through before the next image. What you do to progress through dating events feels extremely disconnected from actually building a relationship. There were some enjoyable bits, receiving selfies from girls after you started dating was a pleasant surprise, and none of the daily events started looping.

Parody 1/5
Parody games like this live and die by how well they adapt the writing style and tone of their source material, and this game did not do well. They may look the same, but the only character written to play off of their characterization in Persona 5 well was Kawakami. Otherwise, everyone seems to have lost their motivations and spark. The game presented the chance to voyeur on Shiho getting raped my Kamoshida as a reward. Fans of Persona 5 will not enjoy this game.

It's frustrating that you can never trust ratings on abbandonware because people give charitable ratings to games in early development. This game is another reminder to rate games based on what they are, not what they could be with more development.

This felt super grindy to me, and the apparently unavoidable NTR in the new update (v0.18) was an unwelcome surprise. The H-content currently there is pretty good, if a bit short, and the writing overall is decent. But unless this gets less grindy and the NTR is skippable, I probably won't be playing it again.

For a first project this shit is quality, and surprisingly well written, so far it haven't come off as too cheesy and all of Kawakami's dialogue is exactly what I'd expect from a 18+ persona 5.

I like the setup of this being some jank modded VR fever dream, and how it fucks with "You" and doesn't just make you an omniscient god.

And the H-scene's so far have been pretty quality, but it could be better like changing facial expressions during the more "animated" scene's. and the backgrounds being stills from the animation is a good idea (if you want to take it a step further, you could grab a shot from inside the palace or mementos for the battle backgrounds) also strait up using the expression sheets from the game is genius.

The only thing I don't like is the "grind" its not awful, but its too slow, maybe like giving us an extra 30-60 yen per battle would fix it.

But overall, so far this is a good start with lot's of potential, so it's up you Mr. Game Dev not to fuck it up and keep drilling.

Absolutely love Persona 5 - so there's already a complex relationship system there to build on. The grind/ battle system is fine so far, nothing complicated but enough there to not be horrible. The writing is also fine.

I knocked one star off due to images that aren't taken straight from the game are not up to par with the game images, so the shifts from one art style to another are a bit jarring. Rick and Morty had this issue as well.

As far as i know. There has never been a proper Persona parody hentai game but many naruto based one. Like the game said. I can only nut to Sakura so many times. Im hyped for the future of this game and wish it best. I would like to know that if there is a possibility of other persona game's girls appear other then only five's. (Yes i know this is Persona 5 based on but still) And if this project becomes succesful will there be 2 different routes for each character corruption and romance in future (Yes like in Naruto parody games) + turn based combat. I see a lot of promise in this game and im gonna go and support it. Once there is more content i will give it 5 starts.

The world need more P5 porn games! This game still new so theres not a whole lotta content but its set up so you know theres gonna be more hopefully we get more Ann scenes but even if we dont were obviously gonna get more from the other team members and the teacher at least