VN - Ren'Py - Decay of Men [v0.1] [MadmanMedia18]

Just a big letdown overall. Had so much potential, but had some major issues.

- Killing best girl Lisa this early, is a bad move, especially with what other characters there are, just bad should be reversed.
- Character models, kind of goes with last point, but a lot of them look not great. When you see Fmc, just a letdown compared to previous girl. Other models not the best either.
- Grammar and writing have serious issues, just not well, a lot of typos, grammar problems, writing and so forward.
- Over reliance on animations, just feels too unnecessary, I think sticking to static more often would help and use animations when it matters like sex or romantic stuff, or some other non sex scenes could be good.
- Some weird pacing like switching to Fmc after Mmc, and other things, needs to be better.

Yes, some mor points off because of the first thing, but the other issues are just as much of a problem. If any of these things get corrected, I would be happy to remove or change my rating. Till then, just a game with a lot of potential, that has a lot of problems and doesn't feel worth it. Sadge, had hope, but guess not.

Early review of the initial v0.1 release:

The writing is...rough. Just the basic plot is a mess. Initial intro, then a jump to 6 weeks into an end of the world scenario, but the characters are acting like they're on a honeymoon. Then a 6 year jump, this time to a female protagonist. It's just bad. Character design is meh. Hampered by the bad writing and lack of any real content, they're just paper thin.

The animations...yikes. So many needless animations (drinking coffee close up, etc.). I get that the dev doesn't want the game to be static images, but there are smarter ways to do this. Look at other AVNs. Simple things like making characters blink during dialog sequences, or more subtle environmental animations, make a much more immersive story without several GBs of pointless animations. To the people celebrating the sheer number of animations for an early release...in this case it's not a good thing.

I don't see this title really going anywhere unfortunately in its current form. The writing desperately needs help. The sheer number of pointless animations will make it unsustainable to make content for or to even download because of file size. I'll be curious of a v.2 drops and what shape it takes.

Loved everything, dont know where it will go but its a damn great start, this is a train that i will gladly hop in.

Its good to have animations but if i may say, dont over do it, this is not meant to be a movie, keep it simple, i found most little details very good but in some bigger animations it were not so good, so sometimes less is better(and i dont mean less animations just less complex)

on a little side note, dont feel afraid of ntr haters, ntr as most ppl around here see it, is unavoidable, or will we pretend in a end of the world setting all women will be virgins and untouchable?

good luck and thanks

A very strong and promising start! Characters are very well written and renders/animations are top notch. I hope the dev can keep up the good work for upcoming updates. 5 Stars for v0.1. Time will tell how this AVN will evolve, but there is a lot of potential here.