VN - Ren'Py - Depth's Revival 2 [Ep.1] [Seacth]

Okay, so this story is a mess. The main character is a total disaster, with a design that doesn't fit his age at all and a personality that goes nowhere. The plot is a nonsensical jumble, it moves forward without any logic and feels super forced. The guy just stands there watching everything happen, he doesn't do anything on his own, and that makes the story feel weak. Even though the initial idea looks good, the execution is terrible and leaves you with a bitter taste. In the end, it gets 2.5 out of 5 stars.

you didn't like the ending of the last game?

well, bad news for you, that was the moment Dev could no longer rein in his edgy side and decided to let his freak fly.

The new game starts with the same tone as the last game ended.

MC is a guy in his early twenties stuck in the body of an 11 year old prepubescent boy.
He loses all in life, his gf leaves him, he gets fired from his job,
tries to kill himself and botches even this. Truly the picture of pure incompetence.

Then he sees his uncle getting shot, and his dad gets shot while saving the MC.

It is worth noting that while MC is a dwarf, all women in his family are giants. So we will probably learn down the line that MC is adopted.

Very good demo so far. One of the few ren'py games where I don't just skip to get to the h-scenes, was genuinely enticed by the story. Looking forward to how the sory develops, and the renders and animations are high quality.

Great introduction/ demo that clearly demonstrates the type of game this is and will be.
With the focus being on incest, pregnancy and harem as the MC abandons his family for life in the big city, four years of that result in a near successful suicide attempt, clearly showing that it is not a lie for him. Resulting in returning to his family and trying to prevent the love of his life (his cousin)from getting married.
The fact that made me read everything to the end without skipping anything and being disappointed that this ended and wanting more, I give this a five star as I find the characters lovable, attractive and interesting. If this changes in future updates and if I lose interest, I will update this review, but so far I'm hooked.

PROS
+ Visually the game looks kind of good, we have animations for sex scenes, and women looks kind of good as well.

CONS
- Story is straight up terribly, and poorly-written. To summarize; story starts with MC talking about wanting her girlfriend meeting up with his parents, talks about going back the town he grow up, she hestitates, and next morning leaves him with a note, and next day MC loses his job since she is the daugher of COO of the company MC working for, and just like that his 4 years of effort in his relationship, and the company goes into the trash, and MC decides to hang himself. What's worse is... He even fails to hang himself, and just lands on his face, lose consequenses, and have a talk with his subconscious in his mind, big titty girl with hetoronemia eyes, she says he always desired his own family in a sexual/romantical way, and she should go back his town, he hestitas because back in day he walked away from his wedding with his cousin, and his uncle was angry enough to kill him, but still decides to go back, in fact when he comes back he learns in the literal same day she is getting married, he wents there, tries to stop the marriage, the guy she is gonna get married gets angry learning she never loved him, and loves to MC, take his gun and kills his own father, then proceeds to kill the MC, but his father saves him, and dies.. Seriously what kind of writing is this? It fails almost at every aspect, makes no sense, and soo all over the place, it's almost impressive someone managing to write a poorly-written story like this, it takes serious effort to manage fail this bad.
- MC's design is seriousy concerning, he is 22 years old man, yet his design is not suitable for that at all. His face looks too old, weird, and kind of ugly for no reason, especially considering his age (he is just 22 years old) it makes no sense at all he is looking like that. And again for no reason, and not suitable to his age, or face, at all his body design is like a 13 years old kid, he looks weak, and he is quite short, he gets handled, carried, etc, by people like her mother just to show how short, small, he is, etc, as well, which is seriously stupid. And considering almost everyone in his family is tall AF, especially his mother, sisters, etc, it makes literally no sense he is being that short, and small either.
- Darkish/Brown nipples/aoreles are looking ugly, more pinkish, even straight up pink ones would be way better.
- Previous/Next buttons are invisible at the save/load screen, they work, but you can't see them.

VERDICT
it's not worth playing, if it had good amount of content I would say maybe worth letting out some steam, but it's not even good for that, yet at least...

well, we´re off to a strong start.
long story short: if you are the special kind of connoisseur that rly wants to expand his family... by means of using his OWN family to do so, this game was made for you.
models look good and what limited animations we have so far is decend.
also noticeable is that def is rly trying to improve on his previous game both in visual and story department. putting far more emphasis onto the aspect of family relations and overall creating an interresting story, not just a mindless fuckfest.
i believe exspecially in a time like this, a def who is not scared and goes all in on the taboo should be applaud and encouraged.

(Review of Ep. 1)

Strange that nobody has reviewed this yet... Oh well, here we go.

If you played the original DR1 and liked it, here we have the same basic principle with the MC again talking to, and being "helped" to put his life in order by his subconscious turned into a girl. However, the characters are all different and except for a minor reference along this first chapter, there's little or no relation with the original story or characters. So far so good, however both the MC and the characters in general feel less interesting and sexy than those in the original game.

This could be due to the limited animations so far (there's exactly one sex scene right now, to be exact), the very low variety in poses and the general feeling that this is a demo to gauge whether this story should be developed any further. The MC himself could be replaced with a stick and he would be just as interesting if not more.

The end of this first episode is probably the best part because it does an acceptable job staging a dramatic scene, even if the writing until that point isn't stellar, grammar mistakes aside. Technically the very few animations so far are better than those in DR1 in terms of smoothness, but it's too soon to draw any conclusions in that regard. The renders are simply acceptable, we have the mandatory huge rack from every adult female (including grandma) and face blushing is overdone, I mean, like with every Japanese looking VN out there but turning up a couple of extra notches just because.

For now I'd say this is moderately interesting, but it needs improvement in almost every way. I liked the tune in the main menu though.