Ren'Py - Double Perception [v4.7] [Zett]

Review of 1.8

This game has two layers that are well integrated. House layer is the good old "landlady+roommate" sandbox situation. VR game layer is a turn based RPG with loot, crafting and quests. The interesting part is that your landlady and roommate are also playing the VR game, and there are special VR scenes with your avatar.

There are a few different minigames but they are one time only and quite easy. There is a bit of grinding but you can use the ingame cheats(press J) to bypass it. There is an option to skip time and loading times aren't noticeable.

Models and animations are great and you can notice the dev is improving.

There is a respectable amount of content and there is great potential for even more, as the game takes place both in a fantasy setting and a contemporary setting.

There aren't many fetish scenes yet, except drug rapes and sleep assaults.

The game sadly lacks a gallery and walkthrough.

One of the best game on this site
Well since it's only early access but at least i can see the potential to be the best game it's only early stage of the dev still got lotta contents to do it

Pros
1. Top notch Model rendering
2. Game systems (Mini games irl + VR game system)
3. No annoying VN bullshit

Cons
1. MC's stats(Energy) are hard to manage. It's not refilled fully after sleep, nap
2. Lack of contents since it's only early access(?)

I just hope the dev doesn't abandon this one like other scamming devs
I would deff recommend this game to play

Good Points
+ Character models looks quite good.
+ We have animations for sex scenes.

Bad Points & Suggestions
- Better plot, story, and story-telling needed.
- We have a character named Jennie and her ability is shapeshifting! That's great potential and she can copy characters we know as well by just touching them! But there is one slight problem... Her scenes are not animated and they are nothing more than couple of pictures... That's how you kill great potential I guess... And while her shapeshifting ability is cool her real face and body look very unattractive, which is quite disappointing.
- Most of sex scenes only have one animation and position/angle which makes things pretty boring. And even some characters like Jenny don't even have that 1 boring animation... They just have pictures for sex scenes... We need more positions/angles with animations. And better-looking ones as well. For example, V1.9 has a sex scene with Innkeeper, which is literally one of the hottest characters in DOA but... Her sex scene animation is pretty bad, it's not even worth mentioning at all...
- Our game has RNG and it sucks! I can't even believe I have to spend a literaly hour just finding Jennie 12 times in DOA! Do you know why? Because there is a possibility she doesn't appear in the game! And if you are unlucky you are going to spend an hour and nearly a hundred times of try! I'm sick of opening DOA and seeing she is not online and doing the same thing over and over again and again! Wow... What a great concept!
- For getting scenes and relationship points you need to make some grind and especially with RNG mechanics it's annoying AF... And not just relationship points, nearly everything is based on the grind and after some point, it just feels like you are doing nothing more than grind and that's just annoying.
- Having walkthrough or in-game tips could be amazing. We have some event lists and it's kind of helpful but if you didn't look at their Patreon there is no link on this site so it's a big possibility you don't even know the existence of that list at all like my first 2 hours of gameplay... If DEV thinks he/she can't make a better job with game progress then he/she can make this game VN instead of blind walk sandbox and it would fix all problems.
- HUD/UI looks cheap and kind of bad, changing something better could be amazing.
- Guardian's content and their look kind of disappointed. Aside from their content being just pictures and just one animation, after all, that upgrade their faces are not attractive enough either. More animated lewd content and better face improvements are needed.
- With v2.0 we lost save compability for old saves and if you are not new player now you need start from begining again and make all that grind over and over again with annoying RNG mechanics... That's just... Great...

For The End
I don't know why but DEV tries his best for ruining this game's potential... He needs to start fixing bad points instead of creating new ones with every update or this game never going to shine... My rate was 3 stars before update 1.8 and I was hoping DEV fix games problems but no... Instead, he added more... Now I'm gonna change my review to 1 star and gonna hope he will improve and fix the game problems with time...

2 games for the price of 1. No, but seriously, it's pretty much a dating sim/sandbox game plus a fantasy RPG game stacked on top of each other. Both are pretty well made and have quite a bit of content for a game that's only been out for 3 months. Highly recommend you check it out if you like dating sims and fantasy RPGs.

One small suggestion: put the VR headset in a different location or at least make it more obvious. It's a pretty small image and since the computer is essentially the same colour, it's very hard to tell it's even there. It took me awhile to find it even while knowing it was supposed to be in the bedroom.

It's proper game, mechanical wise speaking. Everything in the game felt like properly made and also it feels like taking account of player progression in the game, so far. (Except the fact idk what battery and lightning differ in this game)

There are certainly quite many things that can be improved and also added in the game.

Story wise, so far it so direct to point where there isn't much to intrigue. I think it will progress after one to one another between real life and vr life. Since, it introduce you to vr as soon as possible, it almost feels like.. Fuck real world, man there isn't much to expect in real world at the moment.

Interaction to npc can be improved to add point into satisfaction. Since, this game will be taking a big chunk of interaction, perhaps.. also different path to progress story (?), idk. Either way it would be great if interaction option isn't generic.

NFSW content, not really much to talk about, since the game still limiting how you progress the affection, with specifics and in game time based event trigger. Not much that I found my self, before I ran into some point where I think it's better to write these first.

Artwork, it's great but I'm not going deep because I am nowhere near sufficient knowledge to do it. I think at least I need to say that sometimes models had correct expression (?) idk, I am not picky for these things anyway.

Mechanical wise, There are several mini-games, it looks okay-ish.. I guess, there is one mini-game make me hard to decide, which are the one who keep changing background (which aren't dark) with light letter. I mean it's fine mechanically, but visually.. -eh. The rest is aite tho.

Overall, this game is still fresh and had a lot of potential, a lot mini-game will be coming one another I am pretty sure of it and I would guess it will be some grinding mechanics too, light-weight one.

P.S. If you want to put loose pants onto your gear, in this version game; don't (optional)

Version - v1.3