Ren'Py - Divine Adventure Rebirth [v2.1] [Masquerade]

As of v1.0:

It's very rare I downvote games, I tend to want to be fair. Let me get one thing out now, the art is okay and is static images, yes it's in the Dragonball Z universe etc etc. but let me explain why I give 2 stars:

The first part of the game is essentially like a hand holding tutorial of showing you what to do and repetitive training, said training is solving slide puzzles, each one gaining you +1 each time. When you want to continue on with the story as long as you have enough training you should be fine, just click on continue and...read. It features some choices although the impact of these is rather small in my opinion.

If I'm honest the problem I have with this game, although I like DBZ is that it tries to be everything and everything, a few games suffer with this, when you have an active imagination you see potential characters and story arcs you can add, problem is that you then end up as this does with a LOT of characters but they are bare bones. Looking through the updates the dev is continuing with the main story, fine I'm not gonna force anything but it would be better in my opinion to for at least the next 2-3 updates stop introducing new concepts and flesh out the old. The first girl you encounter is a tuffle girl (I like her, she is only one who you can make your girlfriend, and she's cute) and the only replayable scene is a blowjob. What is sorely needed is the fleshing out of characters arcs and random events that immerse the character. At the minute I have girls in the rooms and thats it, I have to go to the room, click a button and a sex image shows up, done.

The is one scene where kale bumps into you and you can threaten, tell her it's okay or slap her ass, if in each location you could get random events with the girls, dependant on you progress affecting choices, then you would have a bit more fleshed out a game. At the minute it feels like there are great expansive ideas but because of this things aren't being fleshed out.

I LIKE that, there are so many ideas that are imaginative, like the one where you indulge creation instead and create your own mortal, or where Vados becomes human and pregnant, or you and your guards decide to invade another gods realm and bang his women. I like that but every so often you have to go back and flesh out what you already have.

Will keep an eye on it though, I do like it and the concept but at the minute with places with nothing happening it feels quite empty.

P.s. points for being able to bang 18 and Bulma. And the funny moment when you look Vegeta in the eye and tell him she seems like a loyal and nice girl.

v1.0
TLR
- Little to no gameplay
- One of the worst storyline, even for a h-game (and i'm holding back on this one)
- Unappealing sex scenes

How this game gets such a score is beyond me, 1* is way too much.

Ok, first of all the game is not just about adult elements. It has a story which is complex but easy to track. It has the lore of the Dragon Ball, but has a lot of original elements added. As you can realise by the reviews, protaganist becomes immensely powerful, so it is kind of a power porn at some point. If you are into becoming a god-like person, game is one of the best options. Overall, if you want a good story, it is your game. But if you just want to fap rn, don't bother.

To be honest i played this game like a year and a half ago was pretty interesting i mean being the new god and having a harem of dbz/dbs female characters what could you ask of more ? .

But now i'm playing it after a lot of updates the game lost all of it's interest.
First the "RPG" part is just for show at the beginning needed only .
There is legit no solid Harem ,like what's all those rooms in there for !?
the game itself is 95% talking and 5% fucking , i mean i get it that it can't be harem fucking all the time with endless grinding for the rpg, but right now the story is SO not based on porn side just remove all the H in it and you got a story of a random new god .
Why the fuck does the mc look like Broly ???

PS : i really love the game art and where it was going at the beginning with the harem and rpg stuff , all what im guessing is that the dev had maybe a patreon vote or something .

Reviewing 0.9c

TLDR:
Worth your time?
Yes
No
Maybe✓

Story,
Honestly I haven't followed Dragonball [which this game is based on FYI] since DBZ so all this about Gods of Destruction etc. weren't all that for me, HOWEVER the game's strongest suit is its somewhat simplistic story. You play as the next God of Destruction, who is basically the Goddest of all the Gods, and so on. If you are looking for a Divine powertrip, this is a good game for it, with decision making choices that reminded me of the petition scenes in Bruce Almighty.

Originality,
It's a parody game, you would probably still enjoy it with minimal exposure to the DB universe. Its OK.

Renders,
This was kind of a letdown because the lewd renders seem really sparse and a bit lazy, but hey it is 2D, and when it works it works. The non-lewd pics like the Dragon, Namekians etc. were rather nice.

Sound,
Some kind of classical music plays on repeat, rather comfy but nothing to write home about here.

Playability,
Plays well [Ren'Py engine] and even the right choices to pick are easily understandable if you are paying attention. The Dev even signposts when to save etc. So kudos.

However, the worst part of this game is the grind to pass days, you run out of energy doing things and its a 3-click process [or more] to get to the bed, quite tedious. That seems to be the general trend in UI design.

Its particularly bad since the events themselves are rather interesting but the monotonous go to sleep pattern kills me. Reduce the number of clicks to action, dude.

It feels much more grindy than it actually is, and that I feel is primarily due to the UI. Give it some thought from a player's perspective.

But simultaneously one of the standout parts of the game is its Game screen with "Select God" etc.

Performance,
Typical Ren'Py game.

Bugs,
I didn't encounter any bugs.

Animations,
I don't remember any animations, static 2D renders are used in scenes.

Voice Acting
Nada.

Grammar,
Well written. Concise and to the point dialogues. Interesting plot.

Amount of content
I would imagine around 4ish hours. Its linear, and mind you the story content actually goes on a bit further after the Dev signpost that story content has ended.

Overall: Fix the UI and general playability and we are golden. Decent effort.

Great game with gorgeous art. Needs polish but it has a lot of potential, and there's already quite a bit of content here. The story is entertaining enough and fits within Dragon Ball lore.

Minor downsides? The artstyle isn't very consistent. There are some scenes that seem as if they were drawn by another artist which is a shame, as the main artist's style is FANTASTIC. The actual h-scenes are a bit short, and they're not animated. But in my opinion that's made up for by the quality of the CGs.

review for version 0.9b
first of all i have no idea what is "dragonball" and other thigs. mby "dragonball" fans ll give 4-5 stars but im not.
1. not bad art. beside, some characters looks very ugly.
2. 90%+ choices r useless by code.
3. many messages like "save here", "end of story" etc- r useless, cuz after "save here" almost zero important by code, "end of story" looks like junk from previons versions.
4. whole code is a mess- errors, many unused variables, vrong image links etc.

summary- 1 basic star, +0.5 for some art, +0.5 cuz im not a fan of "dragonball" (as i suspect, game made for fans of "dragonball")

Immersive story, a plot with serveral details, an enjoyable art and really questiong decisions (like be moral, objective or fuck everything up) to take.
A great game indeed.
Spend your time in this awesome game, discovering thefantastic story of you, the new god of destruction and how you became the most powerful and pussyfucker of all the gods.

The game is really good. Really loved the art. The one thing which can make this game a top tier is animation. IF the scenes were animated, it'd have been many times better. But it's still good. Would really love to see more scenes with vados.

Exquisite style + beautiful story = excellent game. Interaction with Vados in the game is truly addictive. The story of Android 18's gradual decline is also great. But the game is still full of errors, the buttons for interacting in some scenes are not obvious, and some dialog options are not clear. Hope that future updates will be more exciting!

One of the only games I actually download every update on this website. Not only because its dragon ball, but the character designs are pretty decent. Although the story is kinda basic, it does a good job of making you feel like a god and makes you quite overpowered which makes it unique, I enjoy being able to be so powerful and not take shit from anyone, that's why its one of the only games I religiously download every update.

Okay an 31-07-2021 update on my review. I'm changing the rating from 2/5 to 1/5.

Despite my love for Dragon Ball, I reached the point of full on apathy towards this game, and will probably not touch for another year or two, if ever.

In short:

Sleep mechanics that are ment to artificially make game look bigger than it is by wasting your time are still there.

Plootholes the size of "I can suddenly make clones of myself and make them act evil while also telling them to go easy on past me, just to get killed by them multiple times," are still there and growing larger with every "I can litterally create and destroy worlds but still need some sort of tech to communicate with fuckups that can't reach into space but still managed to kill off their worlds"

Bugs that default any fight into fighting said clone and potentially waising an hour of your time on replaying "baby god sleep simulator" again.

Inflation fetish suddenly entered the chat, and you cant do anything about it.

Also, any teases about having a harem of sex slaves that you get to collect at the start of the game is just bait. Even when it comes to Videl, she is now "willing" for some reason.

I have very little hope that Dev will change this game for the better at this point.

(Old review, still holds true for the most part)
Semi-decent art, altrough the style takes away most of the charm of female dragon ball characters.
Interface is just bad. For many times you have to go to sleep to progress the story, there should be a shortuct instead of constamt point and click adventure.
Story is subpar at best and choices that you make can't really influence the outcome.
Also, mechanics are full of wasted potential. For example: you know for a fact that there is a village full of slaves on the other side of your personal planet, and... you never use it.
Not to test the girls there, not to put some female villain there for futher use. Aside from storing one particular girl that can only be accesed by a "summon" power, that doesn't even work half the time despite all the patches, its useless.
We could have stored some bandit girls like Launch or Zangia there, to have fun with them later.
It would have also served as an excuse for us to grind, to not just defeat, but capture Towa and some other female enemies in the future.
But no, lets just have a stupid OC creation that can only decides breast size, and make an outfit economy that will later be made useles thanks to certain powerup.

Boring. This game is boring. It's grindy and the sex scenes are completely unrewarding.
The art is good, but if a sex scene is one picture and a few lines of not at all erotic text, what can good art save? Not really much.

The game has basically the same problems Masquerades' previous game "Fairy Tale Adventure" had.

You play and play and there's a story and you have characters that you would really love to fuck the shit out of, but when it happens, you are just like:"That was it? That was all?"

The artwork, music (its pretty much DB Super OST) and overall story are actually good, however the actual play of the game is really boring, the first act feels like a massive linear game introduction, even skipping every talking, it will take a decent amount of time just to get to act 2. You eventually get some freedom once you get to act 2, but by that time was so bored with the game that i didnt even bothered advancing too much. The training as far as i can tell is pretty much useless after training the first couple of times, not only that but the method in wich you train is trash, those type of mini puzzles should be banned. I didnt hate the game, it has really good potential to become a good game, if some changes are made to the overall gameplay and lenghty linear first act. FOr now its just feels like a really boring linear game.

Didn't watch DragonBallZ growing up, don't get the show and not a fan. But this game introduced me to the female cast in that anime and wow did it flatter the anime. The art is great, however scarce, and the story is funny at times. I feel given more time, this game can get to a 5 star with adding slight variations to scenes like animating the eyes and mouth perhaps.

For the beginning, I'm a big Dragon Ball fan and I grew up with the series. It's a big part in my life and it made me happy that I saw a porn parody of this.

The pros:

Now my cons:
- the original female characters in the series are incredibly hot, but in this game ... just no.
- The puzzle game at the beginning took me way too long and was just boring.
- if this is supposed to be a parody of dragonball, I can only say: bad work.

So far the game has a good story and it makes your keep going and playing and read the stories as well as the characters are developed nicely but what lack in this game is images, well in short more words very less images and it doesnt give you then the kind of enjoyment you need. i hope in coming updates the developer put more shots and some good landscapes.

This review is for version 0.8a.
I just played through all there is in the game (or I could find) over the last two days. It is pretty linear so there isn’t much to miss. There is A LOT of story of mixed quality. There is no animations and training just randomly becomes useless. The Art is imho pretty amazing, but sadly very limited and spread out. You'll be playing quite a while before getting anything more then boobs. Especially in the act 1 of the game. Act 2 seems to improve things by quite a bit and finally let you fuck some people ( so far 18 [two scenes], Caulifla [several stuff], Blumas Mom[one scene]) and actually has some love sim elements.. A lot of things seems unfinished like Videl, who shows up and after three events you fap to her butt and that is it. Also there is no animations for now. Which sucks.

As far as the game goes it is a little wonky, some issues, but nothing you can't work around. A little issue with story consistency if you do things in an unexpected order which you absolutely can in act 1 as the game doesn’t force you to sleep between doing things. So you can just speed through the story. Otherwise the game pretty good. It needs work and hopefully more of that art, but it is nice. If you just look to fap, it isn't good right now. If you don’t mind a slow burning wonky DBZ story with porn go ahead.

As far as the game goes it is a little wonky, some issues, but nothing you can't work around. A little issues with story consistancy if you do things in an unexpected order which you absolutly can in act 1, otherwise pretty good. It needs work and hopefully more of that art, but it is nice. If you just look to fap, it isn't good right now.

At the beginning you have no content just a puzzle which you can do over and over again, I can spend my time better than solving a puzzle over and over again. Nothing really much tell´, because i got no further than the beginning.

What can I say? I have high hopes for this game. If I'm being completely honest I wasn't expecting much at first, but after playing what's available I can't say I didn't have fun. Maybe that's because I'm a huge dragon ball fan. So far I love the art style; it's very refreshing to look at. The gameplay elements really give off the vibe that the players are free to do whatever they please, as a true god of destruction should be able to. Very excited to see what becomes of the story in the future as well. Good looks.

As far as improvements go, the wording of a few sentences make it confusing as to what the player is expected to do. For example, while answering Gin's prayers it's easy to get confused as to whether you should increase or decrease his mortal level. Only after experimenting you'd find out that you were supposed to lower it.