VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Depth's Revival [Final Stories] [Seacth]

English:............6/10
User Interface:.....4/10
User Experience:....7/10
Art:................8/10
Dialogue:...........4/10
Story:..............4/10
Opinion:............4/10................
Avg:.............5.29/10 [2.65/5]

If anyone's read my reviews before, it's no surprise I'm very critical. And for some reason, I think this game is what started it all. I don't know why, just suddenly I had to dissect every issue I have with the stories I read on this site. The overall message of this one is good. "Work to improve yourself." If this actually portrayed it well, I'd have given it a higher rating. But the issues in the story were numerous. MC works at his job TWICE before getting a cushy job from some girl he starts screwing. MC has no real character flaws to begin with. Outside of cheating on everyone he knows. The relationships happen in the blink of an eye. The only character with a character is the manifestation of MC's subconscious. Imogen's dogshit storyline of "You beat up my son, now I'm going to use you for sexual satisfaction and fall in love with you over nothing" actually made me angry. And MC's sister supposedly turning tricks for drugs is never thought of again after she leans into her hero complex for him. There wasn't even a reason for it, she was just missing, in a warehouse, and doing drugs becasuse... Drugs? And those are just the big ones off the top of my head. This being a near-total rework means I have something to maybe look forward to. Full disclosure(no that anyone will read this because this isn't on the front page anymore) I've had talks with the dev and bits of the rework are from my criticisms. Which gives me hope. But we all know hope is a cruel mistress and I'm still ready to be slapped back down.

It's been well over a year since I touched this, so I won't know every, or any, lines that have been changed. So I'm just gonna go through this as I normally do. The game starts up with MC just saying "I've got to put an end to this, every day is the same" Slightly paraphrased. But what? He doesn't have a terrible life. He's going to college. Sure, his house is not the biggest, but its fine. Yeah, he needs a job, but being a full-time student(as he supposedly is) is a lot of work itself. Even though after a certain point in this story he never goes back to school for unknown reasons. I'm glad MC acknowledges that he's uselss. But WHY is he uselss? There's no build up to why he feels that way. This is one thing I do know is changed. I remember MC talked to his mom about Sarah, his childhood friend. LAST TIME, his mom somehow never met her. THIS TIME, she just wants to know how things are. A minor, but good change. And now MC actually has feelings for Sarah? That was never even hinted at before. MC was just good friends with her and actively supported his friends crush. I actually thought that was a good part of the writing. A female character that was just a friend that was pushed to more after, admittedly, poorly contrived circumstances. And meeting Serena is still not good. Nothing has happened to him to make his psyche break. Just, suddenly, a girl appears for no reason. I guess NOW he asks why she looks like Lera. Because having MC not remember his first crush and long time babysitter was kinda stupid. Either way, Serena says MC has been considering suicide. But WE HAVEN'T SEEN THAT. The story is still just telling us that things are, and have happened. The English still has.. Issues. But it is still touched up better than most, I will admit.

Mrs. Bell's weird obsession with MC and her missing daughter are still a part of this, though. "Wow you look like your dad, that's hot." Is not really a great place to start a relationship. And again, MC beats Toni because? He believes? The English really starts to crumble at the cafe. MC also feels weird about saying "I love you" to his mom? Why? I get it for the censor avoidance, but seeing as that's not an issue now, why? And Sarah no longer even seems to have a crush on Mrs. Bell. Which I wish was what was expanded upon. Instead, we get more about MC, the weakest part of this. Kaylie's intro is still the same. MC sits down, says "Don't be sad, you're pretty." Then she's fine and suddenly in love with him. It's weak. I get she's had difficulties, but It's still not good. Lo and behold. Imogen's dogshit story is still the same. "You beat up my son. Please have sex with me." This entire section of the story is the worst. MC beats up a gangster's son. The gangster is convinced to delegate MC getting beaten by his wife. She wants a fuck toy, and you get choice of male/fem dom scenes. Then, after two or three sex scenes with her, you get to choose if she's in love with MC or not. All after the gangster finds out about MC screwing his wife and MC beats him and his gang singlehandedly. This kid has been in one fight and is apparently morbidly depressed. How? Her entire story is the worst and no amount of retooling can change that. Then MC comes home, sees the his mom went on a date with her boss' husband. THAT THEY OPENLY FOUGHT IN THE PLACE SHE WAS WORKING. And MC puffs out his chest and pushes Igor out the door. I don't see the point at which he's actually needed Serena. The ONE time he needed her, she wasn't useful. And the one time she said she did something MC fought a tubby loser. "Dodge and punch." She's already served her purpose. I don't get it. And, because all similar things have to happen around the same time, MC finds Melinda and fights off her dealers? Captors? Boyfriends? The CGs don't match up here as Toni miraculously changes clothes for one frame. And suddenly Sarah's crush on Bell is secret? I remember it being very apparent?

Chapter 2 is where I, unfortunately, start to mentally check out from the story. What do we have left? Melinda's hero complex, Bell's obsession with MC's father, Meeting Cindy and also Freya, Lera having sex with MC after one day, and Sarah's voyeurism. After all that, it's just MC locked in a house with up to, what? Nine women that are suddenly okay with a man that's with other women? MC's mom, cheated on by his father and the one guy she's tried to date was married. Bell was the other woman and her husband is awful. Lera's boyfriend was beating and cheating on her. Melinda was about to be used and abused over drugs she used for no reason. And Imogen's husband was a gangster that was more than likely never home and out with other women. All the main women in this SHOULD have extreme complexes about an unfaithful man. But they just roll over and go "Hmm. Okay." The only hints at a problem are when MC's mom meets with Bell and when Melinda is found out. Even then It's a two second conversation for them to accept it. I'm fully aware this is just a site of porn games with girls that have no brains. But shit like that just doesn't do it for me. Or at least rarely does. I know this isn't a complete rewrite/rework. And doing that would be a monumental effort. So the little touch ups I've noticed help. But this one just insn't for me.

Tangential paragraph aside, Chapter two shows MC having sex with Bell. And Sarah, finding them, mentally admits that she loves them both, in her head. Now, I know HS is hard to work with. But her crab walking into the room they're having sex instead of hidden in any way makes me laugh. It's just a funny sight. Then, the next day, Bell (Mary, but her name is rarely used right now) shows up to take MC to see Melinda. And MC's mom, that just said they shouldn't act on feelings for each other the night before, gets jealous of Bell's existence. Pushing that relationship because now she is five years old. And Bell drops the Melinda bombshell on MC so... He gets out of her car and walks to school. Then, after a time skip, Bell ambushes him in the hall to ask about starting a relationship. Right after that? Imogen appears to set up their next sex. This is also meant to be a training scene with Kaylie and Sarah, but after ten jumping jacks, it ends. Then it's a section pushing MC and his mom together. And Sarah getting mad at MC over her feelings for him and bell. All to end on MC's mom assaulting him in his sleep. The typical incest trope of a bottled up mother finally wanting sex for some reason blows their son in his sleep. Because blowjobs are sexually gratifying to the giver? Chapter 3 is just a victory lap for MC to get more intimate with the women he already knows. It even rounds out with his mom say "Yeah, I was cheated on by your father with six other women, but it's okay that you do it because reasons."

Chapter 4 is titled Lera. Not that it's focused on her, just that she's here now. It's especially apparent as a big chunk of the beginning is MC dealing with Melinda. And the English is ESPECIALLY bad too. You're also given a non choice here as instead of MC saying "you're my sister" he either lets her kiss him and stops or stops her outright and she gets mad asking if there's another girl. Why, yes. There's several, actually. But MC lies about two different things here and says "No". And, instead of facing any repercussions or dwelling on it at all, Sarah shows up to reward him with sex. She also tells MC a bunch of girls fell for him after rescuing Melinda, so he asks why he's never seen them. He has been to school maybe twice since then, and time was skipped so no wonder. And again, this chapter was called "Lera" and she was only there to walk out of the house after saying hi. And Chapter 5 opens to Mary and Melinda moving into MC's tiny 2 bedroom apartment with him and his mother. It's also the chapter when MC is attacked by Imogen's husband. A fight that MC just does his "Dodge, punch" combo. Then MC goes home with Kylie and her mom basically says "REMEMBER HOW YOU SAID YOU'D HELP HER LOSE WEIGHT?!" Because that is Kylie's entire character, shy girl that wants to lose weight. This section is the only time it ALMOST reels me back in. When MC confronts Mary and his mom about their relationships. There's half an argument and for a brief moment, I hope there's drama. But after one kiss and one Legend of Korra "Deal with it!" later, all is hunky dory. Chapter 6 is where Lera gets beaten, tries to hurt her ex's pride by winning a competition, loses, then fucks MC after saying she wouldn't sleep with her long time boyfriend. Lera even says she doesn't want MC to fight her ex, then rewards him for doing it anyway. After this point, it becomes a sex fest. Feigning sex as romance and relationship building. There is no plot after this chapter, therefore me droning on would be pointless.

To be frank, I don't see any reworked or retooled lines anywhere. Obviously, it's been over a year since I touched this, but it all feels the same. The idea of the story is, as I've said before, a good message. And who doesn't want a few girls fawning over them, in theory. This still takes place at lightning fast speeds, which will remain the worst issue until MORE dialogue is added. Not just slightly better. Chapters 1 - 6, AT LEAST, need more build up and reasoning. It doesn't matter how much sex or "wholesome vibes" you add to the later chapters if I don't care about the characters. It may not seem like it but, full disclosure, I've helped the dev with bits and bobs here and there and even consider him a friend. He's a good guy with great work ethic. However, this story needs so much more to be anything more than an odd power fantasy about MC's imaginary girlfriend. From what I've read of his NEXT story, I will like it a LOT more than this. Which shows improvement. But this is just not it for me. The bits of humor I get from this are mainly just from poorly translated english. Like when MC says "I had sex with everyone sitting on this table" but there's no one sitting on the table.

I don't know for certain, but I think the English in the version I recieved is going to be updated. So I'm giving the benefit of the doubt with the 6, otherwise it's a 5. The UI/UX is basically stock with minor additions. The art is above average HS and they improve greatly as the game goes on. I doubt he'll go back to update early renders again, but there's only one incorrect image I remember seeing. The one of Toni. The dialogue and story are rushed, milquetoast and safe. They're not as bad as some things on this site, but just need work. As usual, I'll include my last review. It's still pretty valid even with the rework, sadly. If you just want a harem romp, here ya go. After chapter 6 it's all sex all the time. While it's not terrible, it's not my thing.

Alright first things first: This game is 100% following the teenage male fantasy. You get to be the hero, the man of the hour and how everyone lusts after you to the point where it's weird.

Now this doesn't have to be a bad thing, the teenage fantasy is there for a reason. But when it comes to character depth and plausible motives, it's definitely lacking. The story is present enough to semi-justify the actions of how everything transpires, but if you look twice it's quite superficial.

The art is GREAT imo and the animations are ranging from ok to good while keeping the sex present enough that you won't grow hungry of it but still not too full from it.

TLR
All in all a good game that plays on teenage fantasies. The characters are just deep enough that it doesn't become a problem and the whole subconscious style is a fresh take on it all. Would recommend but it's not gonna win an oscar for best writing.

Not great, not bad but the dialogue/writing kills it for me. Renders look pretty good on the models and most of environments so solid work there. The story has this certain air of being edgy to it that just comes off as juvenile. I know hentai visual novel and all that but it reminds me of something I'd come up with back in high school and just comes off as lame. Dialogue itself reads off as stilted and sometimes a bit ham-fisted. I've comes across far worse games on here and I might come back around to visit this one but I quickly lost interest in this one.

Pretty good! Nice character designs. Entertaining story, if a bit goofy at times. The writing was a bit repetitive early on, but I feel that's gotten better as the story progressed.
Animations are overall good, but at times the movements don't seem too realistic.
The game has an honest charm and the interactions with Serena are great! Looking forward to seeing where this all goes!

Summary:
You are a young man that somehow was able to manifest his unconscious into the world and with its help you slowly trying to create your own harem.

Extraordinary aspects of the game:
Many choices and many sex scenes.

What is good:
Sex scenes are great and sexy where many fail this one success as the dev knows that there are different speeds of lovemaking, different positions, and different cameras angles, as well as the animation, are good.

Character diversity, there are a lot of characters in this game and you nail everyone at least for version 6.5, with is actually quite surprising.

Many choices, this is quite interesting as I saw that every choice changes something, so every choice you make has a different scene behind it, I don’t know how the dev will continue to develop this but I give him a lot of good luck.

A lot of content.

What is bad:
An average unrealistic story and medium-quality content. Some scenes are head-scratching, in some scenes props or body parts clip through the terrain, sometimes unrealistic body positions and empty environments with old textures(note that less seen after around chapter 4 or 5).

What can be made better:
Polish of scenes and an improved story would be nice.

My opinion:
If you come to this game for an interesting story you be disappointed, the story isn’t bad but it’s totally not something to write a book about. The dev focus on quantity in this game than quality and I think that this is an alright choice as he created a long great game in a little time, instead of a short one.

Though the game shines in the sex scenes department, many games have vanilla sex scenes of grinding on one speed and then just a lot of text and then the finish with quite disappointing but not in this game. From many sexy characters for all tastest to quite fun facial expressions to great positions the game nails it quite well.

At first, as I started to play it I tough that it will be just a good game(8/10) at best, but because of the quantity of content and the great sex scenes, I found that this game deserves to be a high-quality-low-tier game(10/10).

Usually, I don’t write something like that but I think you should support this game at Patreon don’t know why but it has too little support, most likely because it’s not exactly realistic looking.

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A really very nice life adventure around MC and his ever-growing harem.

Many interesting, pretty girls and women (really nice arts!) slowly gather around MC and he experiences smaller and bigger adventures.
Without really wanting to, the world is saved ;-)

I love the subconscious and especially that MC is not a whiny wimp and a total jerk! Another big plus for me is "the chubby girl", because she is not the typical cliché model girl, but soooo cute and adorable!

Sometimes I just need a happy story to relax me and I'm always happy about all the successes and happy endings. No gruelling extreme profundity, enjoy and rejoice!

Only the extremely shaky camera during the sex scenes unfortunately diminished my enjoyment....
(It seem to be solved during the last Updates)

In any case, I've really enjoyed the story so far and hope for many more chapters!

The latest update has the harem in full swing and I love it so much! Just enjoy to the fullest and solve the little dramas and problems and then continue to enjoy... What more can I ask for?

A clear recommendation from me!

Decent game. It shines mostly with a good amount of H scenes and a few kinks. Pretty good animations too.

The story is mostly not there though. It's basically a slice of life how I built my harem, without the how and more showing the mile markers of the process.

None of this a is a bad thing. It's just the style of it.

4/5 - because it could use a story but is still good.

Also,

A good game, a nice story, the hero is not a moral freak, nice characters, nice graphics, at the moment a huge amount of content
But strange things are happening with the genitals of the main character, they change

the game is very cool and the details are top notch. At first I thought, well, another cool game, then I saw that the developer had put a lot of effort into creating his own creation (not like others). I am delighted with both the creator and the game itself, I give 5 stars (it's a pity that not 6). I advise everyone?
What we are talking about, and there can be no doubt, Of course I advise!

Definitely I enjoyed the game very much. I was just checking latest game update list and find this game. Game is very underrated and all it's need bit of focus light by community members.
+ points according to my point of view.
1. Easy going game.
2. Lack of daily soap so I liked it right away.
3. Awesome graphics
4. Awesome characters
5. Awesome Scene
I think game is really good and everyone should give it a try.
peace out !

I don't mind the dated style—some of the models are really quite good actually—but the writing is abysmal. The MC is pathetically annoying, yet everyone falls in love with him in no time for no reason. The dialogue generally reminds me of low quality porn movies and it's just embarrassing to be a part of. And the stupid tongue-out-the-mouth expression most women have during sex is incredibly off-putting.

I like most of the kinks being explored here, but they're impossible to appreciate with the honestly childish way they're being presented through this writing.

While I can appreciate that a lot of work has no doubt gone into making this, that sadly doesn't really change the end result.

Even for a free game, I can't say this is really worth the time in its current iteration. Though the creator is showing a healthy attitude when it comes to improving themself and their work, so it may just turn into something worthwhile in the future.

++ pregnancy + incest + harem + milf = just my kind of kink combination. I'm only missing interracial like in Sisterly Lust, but if this is out of scope in this project it is OK.
+ Some of the girls look really nice. Chubby girl can remain chubby if you like it.
+ Dev apparently at least tries to get the language right. Other devs don't give a fuck.
- It seems that it has become more likely to encounter a fistfight in a hc game than actual sex. Not very exciting to click through "punch xy" buttons. If I want fistfights, I play a real Beat 'em up game. Acting Lessons at least offered me a different way to cope with the situation. I wonder if someone will come up with something actually original and amusing for a change in a game if a fight seems to be unavoidable at first.

Pretty alright game so far good looking visuals and some cute girls.
The game improves with each update and the last one was a pretty big one and the harem route seems awesome! But there's a lot of fight scenes I think dev should stop with those action scenes
Looking forward to the next chapters and more Sarah content!!!

Really liked the game . The renders are of topnotch quality and so are the animations. During the early animations there was some color diffrenece with the renders but that is getting fixed with newer updates slowly . Only problem i found was there is not a definitive story so far only plot i found was to help kaylie become model.

The story of this game is nice. I would give the advice: lesser number of women, but deeper relationships and more quality time with them. Often the story jump very fast from one date to the next. Sometimes i feel to get lost how many girls the MCs is able to have sexual intercourse. The quality of the graphic could become better, and the girls should look more different not only different hair colors. Anyway this is a really good game which makes fun. Keep on impoving it and it will become a great game.

It's got some quality renders and some really stand out as unique, that's a plus. Hellooooooo Kaylie.
It could use a walkthrough or something because only some of the dialogue is obvious for certain paths, some is a guessing game of what the hell does this lead to.
Overall it's... average. It's got definite pluses in it's renders, credit for not cut and pasting the same generic women. It's got some minuses in you can end up playing the 'What dialogue/action guess I can make shows me what I want and what guess just made me waste 5 minutes for nothing' minigame some games like to play.
I would say, in general if you haven't, give it a go. I think it's got more plus than minus and down the road it might gain some direction in game play but right now it does have some solid renders you won't see elsewhere.
3 with hopes it rises to 4 or more as it develops.

I love everything about this game. Been checkin it out for a while and now I think I should review it. I don't normally review games but this game has such less reviews.

Story: It's not a such unique story but It's fun to read and I enjoyed all the things happening.

Characters: I think this is where the game shines most. Every character looks different and has their own characteristic attributes and they are all beautiful in their own ways.

UI/Graphics: UI design needs work it uses the default renpy style but I don't really care about the way UI looks. The graphics are all good they look way better on the latest updates. There are some clipping issues here and there.

Overall: It's a fun game that has already enough content to please most of the people looking forward to the next chapters ^^
(I'm not a native English speaker forgive my bad writing. )

Damn Loved the cliff hanger!/ending.

First you had me smitten with a hot and totally cute chubby doll, followed by the dominating Imogen which was done so damn well, then you snared me tighter with a hot preggo plaything partner/friend of Imogen that wants you to breed her next time then bam finally you got a solid story and great dialogue so isn't another cookie cutter harem fare. Well fucking done @Seacth this is officially in my top 5 favorites now. Seriously can't wait for more. Thanks again

That post explains most of what I love about this vn
.also love all of the LIs, the mystery and action in the story and I really enjoy the art. It's still early or I would have put 5 stars. I honestly feel this is a great vn in the making

While my rating may not reflect it as much as I would like I actually enjoyed the current content and look forward to more.

5.4/10 - overall rating (breakdown below)

7/10 - story (The story has a lot of promise and I found myself wanting to keep playing when I had to log off.

4/10 - character design (I have mixed feelings about this rating. While I really like the design of some of the girls it seems like there was more effort put into designing some of the side girls making them cuter than the main ones. The teacher and mother both have a cute face but the specific design for the irises the dev chose kinda makes them look like zombie eyes from The Walking Dead just with more colour when getting a close up of their face. I really like the design for the subconscious and I'm a huge fan of heterochromia I just thing using different irises would have made a huge difference with her. While all boobs are good I personally prefer the smaller ones and I have to say the Seacth did a good job on those making them look like proper small breasts. A lot of devs thst use illusion products to make their games tend to make small boobs look like small out of place tumors with nipples. Found a lot of clipping in the renders as well.)

6/10 - character personalities (I like the personalities of the main girls. They are sweet and warm. I really like the sarcastic side of Sarah and how its like she's that way to cover up her own insecurities. Only reason I didn't rate this higher was for some of the girl it just seemed like progression was too fast especially with the teacher.)

5/10 - animations (The animations themselves weren't bad and used in a nice way but I found almost all animations especially the ones where the woman cums is super jumpy. I'm not talking about them shaking but more like there were a bunch of frames deleted)

5/10 - environmental (Buildings and design were nice with decent detail but on multiple occasions it looked like the edge of the world was behind a specific building or when indoors a lot of times there would be no environment outside the window leaving only the sky box. Looked like place was floating in the sky.)

Good Points
+ Render and animation quality are good, and we animation physics are well-made as well, and the art style is not bad either, we have kind of unique and interesting character designs.

Bad Points
- Story and story-telling are badly written, and not interesting.
- Dialogues, story, and relationship developments with girls/women feel rushed and make no sense.
- While having sex women/girls facial expressions look kind of weird.

For The End
This was one of the games that had great potential years ago, but with its current state, it's nothing more than a 2-2.5 stars rate quick-fap game.