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

I played this for around half an hour and completely lost interest.

The reason?

Okay, after playing a mass of games on here over the years I've learned that the ones I tend to like the most have not only good renders, but likeable characters and a half decent story. Unfortunately this only ticked the renders box for me.

The story and characters are just so shallow.

*** SPOILERS***


So a group of close friends get together for a spring vacation. Right from the start you just know that MC's best bud is going to be one of these typical selfish, moronic types that only has bobs and vag in the brain.

When the friends meet a pair of weird, edgy girls at a gas station asking for a lift, Alex the dumbass bro basically says "My car, so we take them, end of"...despite them all agreeing earlier to not pick up anyone and the girls who are his friends saying don't take this sketchy pair.

Yeah, great start! good friend...not.

Oh, and one also has her ex's drugs with them...*slow clap*

Alex sure is smart huh?

The 2 new girls I just found unlikable pretty much. The main one that everyone seems to be simping over, Lea, is a Megan Fox lookalike that looks perpetually pissed off.

As soon as they all stop at a lake, Lea starts groping Summer (yep), one of MC's friends...then tells Summer that MC must have been spying on them and so talks her into doing some sexual stuff with the MC as part of a faux threesome in revenge. Summer just goes happily along with this and doesn't think to ask her friend she's known a lot longer than the Fox clone, "Hey did you spy on us?"

She is obviously as retarded as Alex.

No amount of great renders could change that Lea is just a manipulative, selfish, druggy skank. Actually both the new girls were skanks. Yeah, pass.
But yeah these 2 dodgy girls come along and literally start taking over this supposed close knit group of friends who just dance to their tune.

Really? the plot is just dumb.

Yes the renders are pretty good but Lea/Danielle forced into the group of friends just killed it for me totally. It could have been great with a bunch of good friends, instead we got a brainless dickhead Alex along with Summer suddenly becoming a slut in the making.

The only thing that could have saved this for me is Mei being an expert in Martial Arts and knocking the shit out of these 2 skanks before they all end up in deep shit...then taking off with MC.

I am only giving 3 stars and that's purely down to the renders.
The fact that the *cough* story or characters did not keep me interested in the first half an hour made me reluctant to spend any more time on this.

Good renders but very poor story and characters in my view.

Render is godlike. But it's too hard for me to see the Extra Cards so i keep missing them if im not using a mod.

Also the progression i say is good because it doesn't show fucking in the first 30 minutes. Mei and Lea cute af

Dreamland has an amazing renders and animations, and the girls OMG, this VN has some of the hottest girls in entire F95 already.. Seriously, as for visuals, this is probable my favorite now.. The story is just the beginning, but what a potential this VN has.. Hope this VN continue grows better with support..

(Version Reviewed: v0.2.3)

Dreamland is very good artistically, both normal and lewd. The renders are easily in the top 5 among the AVNs on the site. It delivers on high quality lewds as well, both in posing and eroticism.

However, Dreamland does fail in providing a compelling story. MC and three of his college friends are traveling to attend a summer festival in a town where a girl has been missing. We do feel the tension that we are supposed to feel about the danger posed to the cast, while they are unaware of it so far. This would have been an excellent premise with the good renders that we can see in the game. However, the game falls short on the story aspect. The players are told that MC is close with his friends, but the player hasn't become invested in their characters yet. MC already breaks the heart of his friend who has a crush on him, but we can shrug it off as the player probably doesn't care about her. The game is too fast paced imo, it has become somewhat of a fuckfest while spending very little time with the characters.

The music sounds good.

Overall - 8.5/10. Excellent on the visual aspect, writers need to create a more compelling story and characters. Has potential to become one of the best games on the site. Good luck to the dev and hope to see the new update soon!

The renders and animations are simply top notch. Love how each render has some movement in them with the camera or some camera artifact or something in the foreground, keeps each render very interesting. The girls as well are super amazing looking. And with them in animations, amazing. Honestly some of if not the best animations I have seen in renpy game.

The looks alone would make this a 5 start game, what brings it down a little is the story. The writing is fine, but the story is still very early in its development and yet we're already jumping around a lot with some girls and breaking the hearts of others. It's hard to care about the characters thus far as the author tries to convey that you've all been friends for years, but as the reader we're just meeting them for the first time, and have no affinity for any of them. That's why when some new girls show up and are playful and a lot more forward, it's easy to fall for them as we don't have much attachment to the characters who we're supposedly lifelong friends with.

So the story would right now be a 3/5 so in total I'd give it 4 out of 5. Story still raw, but it's worth playing just to look at, truly great amazing looking stuff, just need some more relationship building to truly invest and care in the characters.

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.