VN - Ren'Py - Dreamland [v0.3.0p] [Dokiden]

As of v.0.2.3:
With probably some of the best visuals in the AVN world, it's a shame that Dreamland is extremely shallow and fast-paced in its storytelling. I cannot explain how stunning the character models and renders of this game are. They are genuinely some of the best I have ever seen. Although these are great, the storytelling and fast-paced plot are so quick that it makes me lose interest quickly. I'm not completely opposed to the writing or the characters themselves, but again, it is way too fast-paced. Now, maybe I'm being a bit too harsh since it's only two updates into the game, but the rate at which the updates are being put out versus the content within each update is disappointing. I'm hoping that this game can really turn into something fantastic!

Rated 4 stars for now. Some pointers: Can add more animations. Attention to the dialogue and speech edits. Music choice can also match the mood better. Keep it up. This has the potential for 5 stars. Take your time and hope to see an amazin final piece.

EDIT: Down 2/5 from 4/5
The game's engine is messed up. It always keeps crashing down and the constant render movement not only takes up a lot of power from my PC but it is also super annoying. I sometimes have to wait 10 seconds to see the complete render.

4/5
Thank god it's not another one of those college AVNs, since there's too many of them. The theme of spring break with this whole murder mystery makes for a great plot. The visuals look so amazing. The women are so hot, especially Danielle and Mei. I'm also quite happy with the amount of feet-content this ealry on.

However, there also things that diasppointed me and one of them was the blueballing. From start we got interrupted in the prologue four months ago by our grandma, later on by Alex with Danielle on our lap, then Lea and Summer both blue balled us, and then we have three possible outcomes that include sex: One where we actually hit it off with Danielle but in my opinion wasn't enough, since Lea seems the more dominant type and thus Danielle should in contrast be the more submissive one, then we have almost sex with Lea but get interrupted and later knocked out by Alex, and we also have Mei and that in itself was a huge disappointment.

Since she's this innocent woman we're bound to be in a relationship with her if we wanna smash. But we didn't even make it which's so disappointing. Why couldn't she give us at least a handjob?
The story and visuals make it a nice game with the women looking hot and the group consisting of many characters that to some degree have a good chemistry together (although Alex has proven he's ready to put Lea above everyone else which kinda is a dick move already). However the constant blue balling and the unnecessary moving renders drop the fun quite a bit. The animations also use too much of my laptop's performance.

Visuals so good, you just gotta try it out...

The Dev here really knows their way around Daz3D models and getting the renders to look great.

• The characters, the settings, the backgrounds, the water, the sky, the menu, the penis symbol replacing the Apple logo...incredible effort into the details that make this game visually pop.
• I think the Dev also has a good sense of humor and really knows how to place the assets to make a funny scene or create suspense. Not only that, but the non-sexual animations and effects they utilise and incorporate into the UI is superb. The animations for the sex scenes so far are also really nice,

Story wise, it seems to be a teen slasher genre.

• Its got a group of really horny college students going away for spring break, with suspense (maybe horror/slasher) elements added in there.
• As it often goes with the teen/slasher type genre, most characters are hot and horny but generally unlikeable. So the story may be a turn-off for players wanting more character development before the handjobs get cranked out.
• So it's more focused on the lust rather than lovey doveyness...which in this case is mainly aimed towards the MC and his biggus dickus. The love interests are all horny and most are ready to put out from the get go.
• The player decisions clearly impact the story lines (and sex scenes) real quick, which is good to see.
• The part where it falls short is the dialogue - clearly the dev isn't a native english speaker and it's unfortunate that the stiff, unnatural english is getting in the way of the great presentation/tone of the story.

Overall, it's a little too early to say how the story will pan out. But as long the dev maintains this level of quality and improves on the animation? Well worth it to see it through to the end.

The sexiest girls of any game I have played.
Sexual content happens early but the game still leaves a lot to look forward to.

Needs a better cover image. I feel this game isn't getting the attention it deserves because the sexy girls are not advertised.

I didn't know about it until the second chapter is & I almost didn't check it out.

Pros -
Sound and UI
Top tier renders and animations
Hot girls
Decent looking MC

Negative -
Story is not written well
Characters are dislikeable (Alex, Mei, Summer, Lea)
MC is a wuss and lacks personality - you let girls use you and let Alex boss you around when hes not even dating Lea
Lack of real choices

The best friend Alex is a complete simp and a lousy friend. loses his mind like a teenage boy going through puberty when he meets a hot chick. Mei is a clingy virgin, Summer, Lea and Danielle are nothing but bang and dump.

If you ignore the text and just enjoy the visuals, sure it's a nice time.

The story is still developing looking forward for future releases. The thing is man the renders and animation are top notch god tier. The animations are so fluid that it rivals the top tier adult vn out there. Lets hope is keeps getting better from here

[v0.2.2]

Minor spoiler warning

This game definitely has its pros and cons. Let's discuss..

I was quite impressed by some of the aspects. The subtle animations outside of H-scenes definitely declares it a game worthy of attention. But who gives a fuck about the 20%? Let's talk about the real important things...

I do not like majority of the cast. Mei is queen, plain & simple, but the other girls - Summer, Dannielle, Lea, are absolute hoes, especially the latter two. They have been nothing but an unwelcomed annoyance and a bad influence on the only decent girl this game has so far. I was off-put by many of their actions. Even the male best-friend isn't a bro. He seems the type to choose to sell you out for pussy than storm Normandy with you if you were in trouble.

With all that being said, I believe the story so far has been entertaining enough to keep playing and promises to be much more so in the future.
Some of the girls, like Summer who isn't a complete slut, can easily be fixed, whereas the other ones deserve only to be side-chick material.
I hope the dev knows what he is doing in-terms of the story, because otherwise all the effort put into creating such a visually stunning game - is massively wasted if the players do not bond with its cast, the crème de la crème, of these games, imo.

The best thing about this game is its lead interest - Mei. She is a total queen. I believe every man needs a Mei by his side to help him take on the world and make it a better place.

I read some of the other reviews about the characters sounding robotic, well I didn't feel that. Seems they fixed it for my version. So, well done.

TL; DR: Fun game to try out, has potential, but could easily turn out garbage if the story keeps putting MC with unlikeable women.

I may change my rating in the future, but as of 6th of April, 2023 - it's a 4/5. Good luck on your journey, Dev!

Great game. Reminds me of S****r H**t: as plot, as visual part and characters (a jealous hot chick in friend zone and etc). Everything is at the highest level, except for floating static renders, I would like this "feature" to be optional.

I gave it 5 stars for the quality of graphics, but I don't like how the game made you feel guilty for picking anything other than Mei, it made me not want to pick her BECAUSE the game was basically telling me to, but it is a five-star game. I did respect the bro-code though. Kind of. Hands don't count.

Excellent rendering with good personality diversity and hot scenarios. Lots of C&C that leads to different branching paths with different characters. The writing is also good and servicable for this kind of story.

Another extremely slow development game probably close to abandonment. The following is my initial 5 stars review. Absolute perfection in rendering and a very interesting beginning. Nice personalities and highly erotic atmosphere. I really do not understand some average reviews just at the first release of what seems to be a very promising project. They should wait a little. Best of lack to the devs. I hope they will not abandone the development in the future which is very common in our days

I really don t know what to say. This Game gets an big ole 5 Star Rating. Incredible beautiful girls, astonishing renders, a nice and sweet story, likeable characters.... I simply love it. Thank you Dev and PLEASE..keep up the good work. This is my new fav.

Wow, talk about a missed opportunity. The renders are just really really well done. Like they stack up with the best out there. The story is fine. There is a reasonable amount of content for a 0.1 initial release. Animations are fine, and i like that many of them are subtly present in normal scenes (ie not H-scenes). The dev really knows what he's doing here when it comes to all that stuff. So whats the issue?

Its hard to overstate how bland and annoying the writing it. The grammar is all great. There are no typos. Either the dev took his English classes very very seriously or he had a good proofreader/grammarly working on his stuff. The problem is that the prose reads like a very grammatically correct well written technical manual with all the excitement that implies. It is utterly lacking in any sort of flair. Every line is robotic and oh so correct. There is no difference in the way each character speaks. The words add absolutely nothing to the game.

Its a real shame. I'm almost more likely to give a pass to the horribly Engrishy English that so many AVNs are written it. Like i said the grammar and spelling is all on point. Its just so damnably bland and lacking any sort of distinct voice. I'm assuming that the writer in not a native English speaker, so I can see giving him a pass. Non-English native readers will probably not have any issues with this, but to us natives, its actually more annoying than truly horrible English. Its like the uncanny valley effect in visual effects. When its really far off its... acceptable if there is effort put in, but as it gets closer to actual native English the shortcomings actually become MORE noticeable.

Like i said, renders are beautiful. The story elements are fine. It all looks so darn good. I just cant be bothered to read it, which is a real issue in a story driven AVN like this one tries to be.

edit Okay, after v0.2.2 I continued. I will say, the the dev has improved the writing a bit. He (or a translater) rewrote much of the old dialogue, so that was somewhat improved. The new content is written even better than chpt 1. Its not great, not the worst either. Went from awful to mediocre. I'd say that merits an extra half star. We'll call it a weak 3.5* for now with room to grow

All in all it is a High Quality Game: Awesome Visuals and the story is not as bad as described before - I would love to see this game getting continued. I really enjoyed it and would recommend to give it a try.

After seeing the renders I was honestly so excited for this, but unfortunately after playing I gotta say I'm disappointed. I'm leaving this review hoping that the game improves because damn, these renders seriously look good.

Starting with the good stuff:
It's very clear that the visuals are amazing - variety of angles, amazing lighting, great UI anims, beautiful characters. Seems like this is the dev's main skill. Another huge plus is that they were able to create the hottest Asian character I've seen in a daz3d VN. Many other games try but end up with a meh looking, overly stereotypical character. Super happy to see this.

Onto the bad stuff:
The writing is so bland. The characters sound like robots with the same style and tone, without any distinct personalities. The characters blend into each other and the dialogue has no charm. All this seems like a huge missed opportunity because the characters look distinct, and there are some signs that the writer tried to give the characters some personality but it just didn't come through.

If the dev can somehow team up with an actual writer this game could be godly. I really want to love this game but can't yet.

Ok I normally I don't have to fill up my reviews to fill the word requirement because my opinion of this one is pretty straightfoward:

TOP renders mixed with ridiculous scenes and bad writing.

If you don't care much about the story this one is for you, jump right in! If you DO care a lot about the story in VNs like I do, it will be a traumatic experience so I can''t recommend it.

Thank you and the best of luck

Version 0.1.2

I'm writing this as of v0.1.2, I don't usually rate games unless I truly believe in the future of the game and want it to succeed. That being said, this game so far is incredible, renders are top notch and the story is unique and could go many different ways.

The update was relatively shorter so I don't have too much to talk about but if the dev is reading I would advise them to take their time on working on a game like this, the last thing we want to happen is a new update being shelled out every other month with little to no character development.

I see some personality in characters like Summer, Mei, and Alex. But I would love to see more one-on-one time with Lea and Danielle so we can really learn more of their story and connect with them on a personal level.

Also, more choices would be ideal so that we as players can resonate with our character more, instead of him acting more so as a bystander that goes with whatever is happening around him.

These aren't complaints just some directions that I would like to see the game go into!

Amazing renders,good looking girls and the story is starting. Hope in the future updates we get more choices, hope choices matter and have impact on the story and the relations with the girls, hope there is more choices to choose (instead of 2 to have 3). congrats on the dev making a interesting game and hope the future updates continue to be amazing.

Dreamland [v0.1.2]

Visual wise this game is great. Polished models. Story seems interesting we have to wait and see how it goes. There is sound effects to give more ambience to the game. Biggest positive of the game renders. They are greatly done. The renders when the group was video calling was great. Lightings are done perfectly there. Loved Mei's and summer's models Mei is cute and elegant. Summer is hot and elegant. Summer got two moles on her both side of the face. That being said summer's attitude pissed me off. She called Mc the creep and doubted him even though she knows him for years. In my playthrough I even supported summer when the choices are given. If this accusation was labelled on Alex it's understandable because his behaviour is kinda like that. I love romance in these games but it also depends on other LI's attitude. Lea's attitude is understandable because she don't know Mc well. Now I'm simping hard for Mei. Hoping dev won't mess up her attitude. Dev don't give us lewd scenes for the sake of a porn game. Give us deserved sex scenes. I'm more glad if it is slowburn (personal opinion). I also got issues while playing the animations seems like my system cannot keep up with it. I don't get this issue while playing other renpy games.

Apart from these few issues. I enjoyed the game. Hoping dev will consider it and looking forward to next updates