VN - Ren'Py - Culture Shock [Ch. 3 v1.5] [King of lust]

Only Alpha route review
Renders are not bad. story's really bad
and nothing to review because there are no contents in alpha route.
For two years there has not been even a kiss with two main characters.
If you're not an NTR fan, this game is not worth playing at all.

I tried this because its N7`s thread but it was dissapointing.

The good - renders are decent,female characters look good,mother and daughter do look like they are related - visual aspect is ok.

The not so good

First - its another game about young teens having sex written by an adult...its becoming creepy...

The characters and story - sadly are flat,nothing makes me feel anything,not the story not the characters.Some characters do have a potential but it never takes off.

The paths - its nice there are choices to be made....but with 2 paths 1 being "alpha" and another being well...a cuck,there was only 1 path for me and I dont think the writter has a solid understanding of masculinity.Maybe the "alpha" path is not developed yet or something but the guy,actually the boy never came across as charismatic or strong or at the very least particularly likeable...
Perhaps the being humiliated/demasculated path has better writter understanding and is better developed?Idk,not my thing,therefore cant really rate it,if you are into those things you might actually like the game,whos to say?Not me.

I would advise to focus on the things that the writer or writers know,simple as that,its a bit of a waste of nice renders.

I cant recomend it to anyone with similiar tastes to mine.

The old classic of try to fuck your mother, sister, aunt and everyone in sight, with the added twist of having to make sure other people don't get in there too.

What really stood out for me with this one and why I'm giving it 5, is that choices didn't feel forced, it was more a balancing act. In a lot of games depending on the path you want to go down there's just the right choice or the wrong choice. But here choices can change multiple stats at once, so it doesn't feel like there's always a right answer ... maybe it'd increase corruption and confidence (which is great) but maybe it also increases sluttiness and you don't want to get that out of hand... there's probably a most efficient set of choices but it still felt more open ... I think I ultimately ended up playing a bit too safe and my sister had a minus amount of slutiness, haha.
One thing here though is the devs really need to explain the stats much better at the start of the game. I had to search through the comments to find that love=how into you they are, sluttiness=how into others they are, corruption=how freaky they'll get with whoever they're into ... and I'm not even sure that's right, it's certainly not intuitive.

But all the other stuff is fine. The renders are solid, characters decent (I especially like Maude), world somewhat interesting (I'm curious about the Aunt's job and the company your mom works for - so that's a good sign).

It's fairly short, and I wizzed through it a second time making what felt like all the bad choices and there does seem to be a bit more fucking going on if you go down the NTR path, but in a way that makes sense. I have no idea what the 3rd, diplomat, route is all about though so can't comment on that.

All in all it's decent and I'll obviously have to update my review whenever it's fully released but so far it was worth my time and I'm looking forward to more.

Ch. 2 v0.15 - Non NTR path

I didn't play the NTR path but for me it seems that the dev focuses his attention more in the NTR content, i say this because on the non-NTR path the content is very short at each update.. the other choice is that both paths don't have much content...do your pick.

Some principal aspects:
+ The renders aren't triple A but they're good.
+ The majority of girls are hot.
+/- Some ocasional bugs, but nothing to be concerned and they are fixed later.
- Lack of content/progression with mom and sis (this game is from early 2018 if i'm not wrong and until now we dont have much of them)
- "meh" writing/story.

It's an avarage game at best. I don't know if i recommend this game or not, but give it a try and see for yourself, but don't have high expectations

EDIT: Changed the rating from 2 to 1 star due the lack of progress with the 2 main girls. And at this point i cant recommed the game anymore.. its not worth the time.

Non ntr route:

This game is pretty good. The renders are great; all the girls are hot. I wish the game had a bit more content, at times it feels like mc wakes up, goes to school, comes home, studies, sleeps. I think it gets a little dull and I wish there were more opportunities to meet some characters outside of classes.

Anyways, in spite of that, it has been an enjoyable game. It is a bit slow going but don't let that stop you from trying it out.

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I don't like NTR but tried the route to see what else the game has to offer. It is really disappointing how much content and progression girls have in the NTR route and how little content there is in the alpha route. Feels like the alpha route is missing a real lot because of this.

you play Vanilla Ice in this racy college style visual game where you can either dominate the ladies in the Alpha- da fuq you looking at route or let Markus (the whitest looking black guy) slay all the puss in the Beta-dont look at me while im fappening in the corner route. Thats right two games in one complete with good looking models and a great story.

I'll begin with saying that if you aren't into NTR in the slightest, don't bother.

Ignoring preference for NTR, this VN really deserves and average rating in my books. The setup for the story is whatever and the dialogue is passable (though it really makes you want to skip) BUT the women look fantastic and the render quality is decent. I think 3/5 is fair for what it is, fairly mindless yet decently polished vehicle for sexy content.

However, I tried this based on the premise that there is an actual NON-NTR path, which while technically the case, doesn't really take away from the idea that the narrative from inception is based around NTR, and to me it felt more like I was having to just prevent it at the last second every time, while still having people heavily flirting with the MC's family in front of him for example, or just watching marcus fuck sophie all the time or whatever.

Even for someone who doesn't consume any cuckoldry shit the whole race based corny stereotype shit is fucking played out and just a plain weird obsession in my mind at this point. That is what lies at the core of this VN.

Incomplete. I've only played the non-ntr path. The story is the pretty prototypical son incest story, but not bad. I really like the models. It feels like there are some loose threads developing where they started writing part of a story path and then abandoned it. Writing is generally solid, but not particularly remarkable. Still one of the games I'm most looking forward to for more development. Recommended.

This is an NTR game with some non-NTRish paths. Due to the fact it is at it's at heart an NTR game, I will review it as such:

Development 2/5
This game has switched hands several times between different staff and development has suffered. To be honest, after all this time the story hasn't progressed as far as one would expect.(Sunnie's Corruption into Marcus's hands in beta and from what I know of Alpha is also really amazing though). The developers do their best and I applaud them, but I am making an honest review. Don't be disheartened and please continue on developers. I love your game.

Characters 4/5
You have the hot mother, the hot sister, the cuck brother, and the "bully". You also have the bully's dad. Hohoho. The sister turns slutty and I have a feeling the mother has been slutty. I would like to see more development with the main character feeling helpless as he watches his sister/mother bang other men. Perhaps development with the girls, where they give him a pity handjob/footjob or something - after becoming super slutty(maybe while banging another guy)

Story 4/5
Just because the story doesn't go anywhere yet(anywhere far) doesn't mean that it isn't there. There is a bunch of story to play through and many choices to make. The story is coherent, especially when you compare it to other hentai games out there xD.

Sex 4/5
Not much......but it's getting there I'm sure. There is a nice dream lol. [UPDATE: as of ver 1.0 they added some hot scenes(and a niiice ntr scene) so it's progressing. +1 to category since latest update]

Graphics 7/5
Amazing Art. Better than excellent. You will be hard pressed to find better.

Overall 4/5
This is a must play game for NTR lovers. Even if you don't enjoy NTR, you should stay for the art. The developers keep on trucking, but development is slow. Way worth playing in my book, and I can't wait to see more.
--Edited: As of May, Sex is 4/5. 5/5 will be reserved for when things really get crazy haha.--

NTR path review.

I duno if im playing it totally wrong, but the NTR in this game doesn't feel like NTR at all. At best, its netorase. Its actually just closer to voyeur beta lord that enjoys watching any girl getting it on with anyone. The way the game plays out is so weird, with all the stats and trying to figure out how to even get into a certain route or what the stats even mean. What happens if you have High corruption and positive love? High love and low MC confidence? Why is there corruption and slut stats? What's the difference? What's Marcus's Like stat? It doesn't seem to do shit. He will say a few things when u antagonize him, but the rest of the story goes along just the same. You still are "friends" with him. He gives you a ride. Etc.

So with the gameplay critique out of the way, let me get into the meat of the issue. The heart of NTR is in the MC having a platonic or sexual love relationship with the females and slowly getting it stripped away by the antagonists against his will. It doesn't work if he enjoys it and befriends the dudes. When it comes to mom/sis NTR, it doesn't work if there is no moral decay and slowly building resentment/disregard for the MC in the female family member's mind. If it was a wife/GF NTR, the simple fact of her cheating on you or getting stolen away can be considered NTR. For family members, you are not romantically involved so the NTR feelings can arise from the corruption and disregard for their motherly duties or the loving sister that looks up to you turning into a cockslut who thinks you are a loser. AND NO! It is not NTR just because the MC secretly have the hots for his sister and she dates another guy.

Also, the impact is only there if the relationship with the female family members are thoroughly explored in the first act. Otherwise, everything that is happening is pretty much just normal. This game totally fails to properly set up the characters so that NTR can have any impact at all. Why would you care if your sis gives a BJ to some cool dude? Sure, you might not like it if the guy is a massive asshole or something, but that is nothing close to NTR. Its just normal family dynamics.

The good news is that its possible to right this ship if the dev studies how NTR stories should develop (hint: japanese NTR), but I don't have high hopes for it. The pacing is all wrong and the nonexistence of the first act totally hampers attachment to the characters. I got to the part where you go to the gym with sis and Marcus and lost all interest at the way the story was developing.

Maybe the confidence/domination path might play slightly better. However, if you look a few reviews down another guy played that and found it lackluster, wondering if NTR path was done correctly. So it seems like this game is an amalgamation of 2 lackluster paths.

Now I'm not saying everything is bad. The models are good. Renders are decent. The writing, in terms of dialogue, is quite natural. However, I tend to rate games here based very heavily around what its trying to accomplish and whether they succeed in that avenue or not.

Average game.

+ some renders
+ Mom and sis

- Marcus is pissing me off (even on non-NTR path), I expect that choosing a "fuck off" option at the beginning of the game actually means something, why do I have to "fight" him throughout the game?
- school - why did dev focus on something so boring? if you HAVE to implement school in this game, just show us a screen that school passed without anything noteworthy so we can skip to evening's interesting things
- MC's model - I'd rather not see MC's model at all than see this one that dev chose, Dev, 1st person camera is sometimes useful
- a lot of meaningless text
- wrong names on some text
- not a lot content really, even though it's in 0.95 now

Review of version 0.9.5 ALPHA PATH ONLY

Let me reiterate, this review is for the ALPHA, NON-NTR path only!

This game is a mixed-bag. It has great models (with the exception of Liza/Aunt's haircut) and a strong narrative start. But by the time the MC starts college, it degenerates into a boring exercise and cringy dialogue.

Briefly, the MC's family moves from Virginia to Hawaii to live near the MC's aunt, who is some sort of hot shit elite in town. The MC begins college and has the choice to become a pussy-slaying ALPHA who plows all the ass he meets (including his family), a submissive BETA cuck who pimps out his family as cum dumpsters for the local studs, or a diplomatic monogamist who pursues a romantic path with the woman of his choice.

The models are hot. The mom is top-shelf and looks gorgeous. The sister is also quite good and there are a few side characters who are also appealing. Renders are well done and generally, everything is well lit.

As the story begins, the dialogue is engaging and things are set-up well. The MC meets new friends, flirts with and corrupts his family members, and becomes bolder in his decisions. However, once he enrolls in classes and attends school, the narrative takes a quick nose dive. Most of the classroom discussions are boring, repetitive, and seem to focus on the logistics of getting from one place to another. There is a lot of exposition on seemingly irrelevant things (pool/beach rules, calculus, biology), none of which seems to set up anything down the line. Worse yet, there are actual quizzes featuring calculus, physics, and biology.

I've never understood this urge to put these sorts of tests into VNs as mini-games. If the test results drive outcomes in the narrative, then basing it on the player's subject knowledge makes no sense. It's the player's knowledge that drives the story then, not the MC's character. But each player has a different level of knowledge which has nothing to do with the MC's level of knowledge. It makes more sense to have the player's choices of the MC's action drive the results of the test. If the MC studies the night before, then he passes the test. If the MC jerks off on his mom as she sleeps instead of studying, then he fails the test. Basing narrative outcomes on whether or not the player remembers the equations for horizontal or vertical parabolas from senior year calc makes very little sense because that knowledge will change from player to player.

Moving along, the story becomes more convoluted and nonsensical. The aunt has mysterious connections, the mom has a strange job and gets promoted days after starting, and teasing/sexual encounters between the MC and his family just seem to happen without much building up to them in the narrative.

I'm not a fan of NTR or being cucked at all, so I didn't bother with that route. Perhaps that route has a stronger story. If so, then it's more evidence that these games that try to cater to both audiences are doomed to mediocrity because of the split in narrative focus.

In any event, I would like to give this story two stars. However, I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt for NTR fans, so I threw it an extra star.

Not recommended to NON-NTR fans

Great game, tho too many characters fuked up story bad.
All other things...models, story, NPCs are great. Focus and plot around mom and son is great. But focusing on too many characters makes game somehow unplayable at some point u don't even know what u started with whom. It's ok to have aunt, 1 friend and yo family...but new chacarters just keep coming more and more and the old ones you don't even know the purpose of many of them. Mom is 1 of the top 5 ever. Plot as I said is beautiful especially option to let her go have her life but keep tracking her THIS IS 1 OF AN KIND AND PROBABLY THE BEST WAY THAT MANY GAMES ARE LACK OF THAT. For EPILOGUE:
- good 3d models
- mom is top 5 ever
- son plot with family is A+ 5 stars
- story is good and solid deep not great tho
- too many characters fuked story and game
- only 4 stars for long waiting
- Xtmas episode is spoiler thing no need at all
- lack of updates at shorter time

[Version 0.90 Windows]

Nice models, good renders, high production values.

When I play games with two paths, I always run two games side-by-side to see the differences. Unfortunately, this game falls into the (not uncommon) trap for NTR games where the behavior of the girls are radically and diametrically different between the two paths for little good reason.


If you intend to play this game on the Beta (NTR) path, it's a recommend. If you intend playing on the Alpha path - I'd say skip. This is not the path where most of the Dev's focus and rendering resources have gone.

I'll be brief, I'm a big fan of NTR and a bigger fan of well constructed NTR. The scenarios painted here illustrate a hot story with a good pay off. I highly recommend to anyone who is a fan of NTR.

+Art
+Character Build Up
+Scenarios
+Content Per Update (Huge)

-Pacing is slow in the beginning
-Art inconsistent sometimes (Beginning)

This is my personal experience with the game. Reviews can change later on.

Spoilers!

Pro:
+ Females are hot.

Con:
- Unrealistic dialogue.. I mean come on.. There is a girl on the beach doing yoga. She looks like a top model and says stuff like "Nobody has ever commented about what I look like." Seriously? It seems like every man there is a predator and no one ever saw her?

- Then about the MC, his past is playing video games and being an unsocial loser. But everytime he sees his family, he's like "Ohhh, I want to see her naked!" Or he's suddenly super charismatic and can speak like a guy who does this for a living.. A day before he didn't even have friends at all.

- And the logic behind some of it is ridiculous.. At the party, if your sister kisses Marcus, the MC is like: "She kisses him, but turns me down all the time?" I mean what the fuck? You're her brother and she prefered to drink instead of kissing you.

- Bad re-used images. Especially the one where he's on his bed. If you use a picture over and over again.. At least make sure it's not garbage.

- Black people cliche... "That white bitch"... I'm tired of seeing this.

- And the worst of all.. The expressions. There is one image for several lines of dialogue with all types of moods.

Example: Your mother is yelling at you... She's still smiling from the nice stuff she said 6 lines ago.

Example2: Someone is talking, but their mouth hasn't open the entire time.


Example3: Marcus is about to kiss your sister and the dialogue says "He grabs her waist".. Two lines later they are still just facing each other.

And this type of "expression" is dragged through the entire game.

I'm sure I could've found a lot more but I stopped playing after the volleyball game.

This became one of my favourite game. The choices are amazing. I know how difficult it is to develope multiple choice in a game. Nice work guys.

I chose submissive route for MC. I am enjoying the pace of the game.
I like my MC watching his crushes having pleasure. I hope there will be more voyeurism in submissive route in the future updates.
I Loved the characters, the situation, graphics etc.
Looking forward for the future update.

great game

It has great renders, characters that are actually different from each other, including different body types, it has humour and sometimes moves in ways I didn't expect.

Great so far. Definitely better written than many, and the story has me intrigued for certain.

I really like the girls in this game.. well proportioned and realistic. The men are also drawn really hot. Both the MC and Marcus are meat hunks.. The girls are sexy af. However, I recommend using more sexual imagery as this is already .8 version.

I honestly thought i enjoyed NTR but i guess i don't the main character you play as seems horrible written but if you are big into seeing two women always go for someone else and always feel really distant to the protagonist this is the game for you