Ren'Py - Onhold - Depraved Town: Remake [v0.4 Remake] [JustAnotherDegenerate]

Game is to buggy Rolback resets events renders are good
Story is not bad
to much useless places with no events
right click and escape to pop up the menu also reset events
Could be one of these great corruptions games if it didn't had so many bugs

(Review is for v0.4 Remake)

So this game is very close to being a 5/5 for me, but there's just a few important points that hold it back ever so slightly that I will mention briefly below but go into more details for the purpose of constructive feedback in a thread post instead, so as to not clutter up this review.

First off, the (very) good stuff.

The models and graphics are actually genuinely amazing. Most other games with these kinds of models either fails to sticking to a unified style and so feel all kinds of weird, or they are of much lesser quality. I've played quite a few AVNs like this and I'm genuinely impressed.

The animations (when they run) are great for the most part, a select few have clipping issues but not many at all and not to any degrees that really detract from the game.

Unlike what a lot of players seem to be saying, I actually quite like the story in this. Sure, it's fast paced and admittedly a little too fast at times, but overall this is close to the pace the game absolutely needs to hold to not get completely stuck. If every girl would have hours and hours of teasing and nonsense before you even got to kissing, like some games do, this game would literally never get done in a million years. In fact I much prefer games like these that get to the point in a orderly fashion, but still manages to tell a story. Also, the story actually makes sense. Again, the story doesn't beat around the bush with an MC who refuses to get with the program and acts like an idiot over and over, everyone involved knows where the story is headed so the story respects everyone's time by skipping a lot of the unnecessary tropes of a completely bewildered MC and gets to the good stuff sooner, while still retaining all the necessary logical and narrative steps as to get there.

I'm thankful there is music, but it could maybe do with a little more variation. It's still vastly better than a AVN without music, so I'm not going to press this point very much at all.

As for the few negatives that is holding this game back from being a 5/5 IMO, they are, briefly:

Animations don't loop but instead end after just a few seconds. This gets very annoying when you just want to stop and admire a certain lewd scene, but should also be fairly simple to fix.

The constant mixing between mother and landlady is kind of jarring and does noticeably, if not hugely, impact the experience negatively. It's another fix that should be relatively simple, the game just needs to decide which one it wants to be and stick with it consistently.

A few spelling mistakes or cases of bad English here and there. Certainly not as bad as some games, but enough that it sticks out a little bit.

TL;DR: Great game in need of a few fixes to reach its fullest potential. I still fully recommend it as it is now.

I'm giving this game 2 stars, i was really considering giving it 1 star, but im feeling generous, lol.

The writing is pretty bad, but if you manage to shut off your brain then the writing might be more tolerable for you.

The dev is really childish and unoriginal.
Whenever the protagonist attempts to "woo" a girl, he uses every cringy line you can think of that you've probably seen in romance movies or anime or whatever. Just that knocked off 2 stars on my rating.

He also stutters quite a lot.

He (protagonist) is also impulsive and short-sighted, rather than think a problem through, he'd rather just ignore it and hope it solves itself, even when others are warning him of the consequences of the problem.

Even worse is that the player is forced down the path of a braindead and dense hero-wannabe rather than someone more down to earth

Renders was kinda hot, but also not... it could've been better.

As of V0.3.5
I played VN version of this game so my review will only focus on that -
Great game with interesting story , haven't played the original before but the remake is good and glad Netorare no longer present in the game . Charecters are good looking with diverse body types and personalities and the VN is pretty linear with some choices nothing too branching . Sex scenes are animated and well done and there is sound in the game . Overall great game and dev thank you for giving an option to play it as VN for those like me who hate Sandbox and doesn't wanna waste time doing random things for Grind , looking forward to future updates .

I can only review the novel version, since I have not played the sandbox version. I've enjoyed the varied characters and how their complexities have been revealed in the development of the story. Some aspects of the story have been genuinely touching with people facing daunting challenges in poignant circumstances. I look forward to the next updates in the story.

Pros
- Good Girls Design
- Players can choose between Sandbox or Visual Novel Style

Cons
- Rushed and Forced Story
- Characters without Personality and Developmrnt
- No Animations (At least what i've played)
- Lack of Good dialogues in sex scenes (or in general)
- Bad writing
- Non charismatic MC
- Some errors in VN Style

Conclusion
This game Need a Complete Re-Remake(Reboot, Redo, Rework) You know what i mean

Till the 0.9.5 you had plenty of important options to make, it seemed like there would be a few branches for almost each character in the game, the art was very nice honestly and loved it. The remake feels very different in everything (basically).

There was a good story before, loved it really and couldn't wait for future updates, now the choices almost doesn't matter since i feel that in the end it's all about "score" with everybody instead of, make certain moves to Score + not loose to another character. It was part of the essence the game had and grow with it (the removed part i mean) i don't see any choices that really matter much, the impact of them.. it's"regular" for me in the end.

v0.2.1
Sandbox Mode: 2/5 stars
VN Mode: 4/5 stars (3.5 rounded up to 4 due to site not allowing half scores)

Overall enjoyable (in VN mode). We have all seen the story before, you contract with a succubus and go on a fucking spree.
I love the aesthetics on the succubus. I found the dialog with mom to be really cringy though.

The game gives you a choice at the start between sandbox and VN mode.

Sandbox Mode:
I initially tried the sandbox and it was bad, excessive amounts of WIP signs everywhere. Also the guide is not interactive, instead giving you a list of steps instead of telling you what to do next. And it shows 40 girls of which 35 give a WIP when you click them, and you have to click on each one to find out which are WIP and which are not.

Then the first scene I unlocked contained a sequence break. Which is impressive at how bad it is considering just how few scenes there are in the game at the moment.

VN Mode:
I then tried switching to VN mode and that one worked a lot smoother. No bullshit, no WIPs, no excessive clicks to move from place to place, no grinding, you get all the same scenes and the same dialog without any bother.
At the moment it is more of a KN than a VN but this is supposedly going to change.

I personally prefer sandbox to VN. And if your story is heavily branched it can even be easier to properly code. (of course nothing beats the ease of a KN)
But in this case the author doesn't know what he is doing in the sandbox mode. So I recommend just playing the VN mode.

I used the VN score for the overall score since it is the better of the two and you get to choose.

Never played the old version but heard about it being remade to remove certain content and simplify the gameplay.

So far pretty promising, content isn't the best (while plentyful the sex scenes could use some composition) and some of the models faces are kind of questionable but for the most part it's a decent enough game with promise to get way better once its fleshed out more.

I can't in good faith give this more than a two. This use to be a gem of a game, till he stopped updating it. Then he came back with the first sandbox rework that broke everything, basically starting us over from the beginning. Now there's this. I greatly appreciate the VN style gameplay option that was given, saving us from the potential catastrophe of having events out of sequence again, but I think, if he'd just left it at that with the older models, the game would have been great. But then he comes with a remake, with some of the same exact spelling errors, from the previous script. It seems like all the effort went into redoing the renders, and rebuilding the engine, and completely neglecting the script itself. It feels like he's trying his absolute hardest to gain patreon backing, and completely disregarding the soul of what the game use to be. I just want things to go back to how they were, before the first remake when everything worked fine, the quality of the renders were good and the models of the characters were good. Now, I can barely find anything remotely resembling the game I use to love. It's a shame but more and more devs are falling prey to the potential possible pursuit of living off developing these things, and alienating the original audience entirely. So I guess this is my goodbye letter so to speak as well.
The music was probably the only thing worth mentioning as the tracks chosen were nice. Beyond that, there's nothing.

Well, the game was promising, but at some point something went wrong.

I will compare the old version and the remake
1) Narrative. It used to be served in weird chunks, now it's smoother, especially if you choose the VN mod. This is a good thing.
2) Picture quality. Now we have all the images in full hd, you can see that the author has gained experience in the construction of scenes. Everything looks decent. The GUI has become more pleasant and understandable.
3) Character models. The bodies started to look better (except for Nanami, bring her back to her previous design!), but the faces... I'll be honest, they're horrible.
4) The complete lack of animations. Only static images. This is a huge disadvantage for 3DCG. And yet the author has experience in animation. I do not understand why in the remake he decided to refuse it.
5) NTR content. The author decided to give it up completely. I have a neutral attitude to this kind of content, often just ignoring it. I think it was possible to leave this content, just giving the player the opportunity to turn it off as in the old version of the game. On the other hand - the lack of additional branching will allow the author to allocate more time to the vanilla story.

So far, I can give a total of 3 points (for both the old game and the remake)
Hopefully the author will go back to the old Nanami design, redo the characters' faces, and add animated scenes. If that's the case, the remake will deserve a solid 4+, and if the story will develop smoothly and correctly, all 5 points =)

Needs a rework. Right now there is no order or sense to the events and gameplay and the interface is clunky, too big and really confusing.. The scenes and co seem to be good but I gave up after a few hours because of the oreviously stated problems.

As you can probably tell, the only reason this game has a high review grade is because of it's early stages in life. Game at the moment is a broken mess with a lot of content "to be added" for something calling itself as a final release. The only thing going for it is the good models of the girls, but that's not a saving grace from a game with no cohesive progression of story, no development on the characters(every1 acts as if MC is the boyfriend already) (seriously I asked Ayako on a dinner date because it's the only thing that the game was letting me do with her and she is saying stuff like getting a divorce to only be with MC and MC talks about having children with her, when I only gifted her like 5 bottles of wine and that's it), and the completely unplayable mess that this game is.

The idea, writing and even the models are good but the new UI is a fucking mess and the new version of game is buggy as hell compared with the original ver. but just like everything it just needs time and hard work to become something better, it has potential.
As an ex-supporter i'm a little bit disapointed with the current state of the game but, unlike others developers, you are trying to improve your game to offer a better piece of work.
3/5 but fixing the bugs and improving the UI can easily gain a 4/5 or even a 5/5

I gotta say that this was one of the most confusing games I have played.

1. For some reason everyone is fucking beside the main character without any explanation.
2. Story gives you no direction so you end up clicking around hoping to find a lead
3. You had too many choices where to go initially, but none of them did anything.

I do want to say the art style is great and I do like the animations but honestly, it was just hard to get there that I ended up getting frustrated.

It just breaks. I don't know what i have done wrong, but after half an hour, everywhere i go - it's either same options or dead ends.
Character variety is decent, i'll give it that. It seems that characters are also supposed to change with corruption, but it tends to just lock you out of available scenes.

This one is a scene player game. one fo those where you raise stats to directly play scenes in various situations. Not much of a story,, not muhc of anything really, a lot of girls, but its like fast food, cold fast foood.

Also the music must be turned off in order to keep sanity in check.

The first option to engage in lewd stuff is not even an option, like the 99% of th rest of the game. The mother looks like she came from south park, and the succubus is an aberration. Nah

Hello again Friends!

Back again with another "Post 0.07 review for games that pique my interest" or if you can come up with a better name for these things be my guest. Anywho, this game is okay. I'm sorry to say that so plainly but there's a tiny bit of grinding to make the game seem longer, but it doesn't feel like there is a forward direction in all of this. It's more of a shotgun blast of content than a precise idea. Obviously it's not really about the story on a site like this *pervy sweat ensues* but it's a little boring and too open I guess.

All that being said, I do VERY MUCH appreciate that all the models aren't just bog standard presets and the characters are as original as possible which is refreshing in this shovelware porn age. And I do hope the UI gets updated sooner rather than later, it would make the experience a little better.

FINAL VERDICT: I think with a bit of polish and a little direction, this will be a good game to play. A little rough but shows promise and my one idea to pass along to the dev would be remove and/or move unnecessary elements from the game until they're implemented. That meaning places you can't go, character profiles and pictures on the phone that aren't there yet. You can move it to a section of "Coming soon" or something, but if its not part of the game yet don't put it there.

Otherwise, Dev, keep up the good work.

has potential but:

• Tons of characters, but only some of them have content, and none of them are finished. Fewer, more-polished characters probably would have been preferred.
• Has audio, but many times its just the same song loop over and over. Better than silence I guess.
• The early scenes suck ass, fading between two pictures. Then there are some decent animations (koikatsu captures) that are very grainy in resolution. Then there are some actual good animations. Seems like dev is learning how to do video, which is cool, but man the older scenes do suck. Would be cool to see them updated....
• Progression is literally 0 to 100 instantly. One day your mom is your mom. The next she is your bitch, basically, if you want her to be. It's okay, could be better.

Edit: Oh yeah.. bugs... down rated to 2 stars as I've crashed multiple times. Example, if you click on the walkthrough page for any girl that doesn't have a guide, the game says "oh... there is no content for her... LETS CRASH THE GAME!"... Such a stupid failure mode, dev just being lazy at this point... You cant even figure out how much content the game has because it crashes and takes 30seconds to restart all because you clicked on a girl with no content. Which are most of them...

I like the premise of this Game definitely top tier waifus here and i dont mind the NTR since its optional There seems to be a lot of opportunities for the MC to influence the girls around him and the succubus's and angels are hot i hope this game has a really good narrative directions and Sun seems to be a Sharing partner or friend character that we can have on our side or have him as our enemy near the end anyways i like that inclusion of the charcter and hope to see more of the MC and the childhood background he had with Sun and the rest of his friends