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

I love it, the renders are great and the writing seems promising. It might not have the deepest story (yet atleast), it atleast has a more unique concept than "dude goes to college and fucks everyone".

Hi, this is my second? rating about a game in 5 years.
But it has be done, bcs we need more of it.

∎ Gameplay : ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
∎ Story : ★ ★ ★ ★
(not sure what "mystery" will mean in the end)
∎ Spelling : ★ ★ ★ ★
(its college spring break and not seducing an advocate or stuff like that)
∎ Renders : ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
∎ Animations: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
∎ Potential : ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
∎ Temptation : ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
∎ Graphic : ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
∎ Creativity : ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

After the first release
∎ Overall : ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

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Honestly I'm disappointed. Visually this is easily the best Adult Visual Novel I've played. The renders are phenomenal, the video call at the start of the game, the MC's room, the lighting in Mei and Summer's room are just done so well. The game feels cinematic at times, the northern lights and how they weren't over done as I've seen in some other games., the coffee shop and how the sun fades in so nicely but not too much, the trees outside the car during the road trip. The nature at the park in Dreamland itself, how clear the water is like its ridiculous visually what the dev has managed to achieve with this game.

The girls render wise are also done really well, all unique, no LI's that look as if they were taken from the same model or anything and they all look incredible like the rest of the game.

The music choices are also done well, although there is one track that plays a lot throughout the game that can be a little repetitive after a while, but I could use my own music if I need to anyways.

That being said its a porn logic game. The writing is so bad, it actually sometimes hurts to read and it worries me cause this is the first release and the next one's could be much worse than this. Mei for example after meeting the two hitch hikers has "I hope these two girls dont steal my boy" and goes "Yay! He must like me" when the MC agrees with her ideas on something. Mei is written as an intelligent 20 year old woman but when thinking about the MC she reasons like a 12 year old speaking to her first crush. Also Summer who initially hates the hitch-hikers and is openly picking them up is then 30 minutes later willing to offer one of them clothes, a place to stay and willing to have a threesome with her, with someone she met thirty minutes ago! That she openly doesn't trust! I've played harem games with WAY more story building than this. Its honestly jarring.

The game needs a better writer as simple as that. I'm not being harsh to sit on the game, I'm being harsh because for all the effort put into the visual aspect of the game its honestly unforgivable to have writing this bad. If this game had a half decent writer It could easily makes its way as one of the most anticipated and loved games of the community,, cause the potential is high especially because this is the first release. If it doesnt then its gonna fall off eventually and become something similar to Sunshine Love or Free Will.

Hope the writing improves cause it could improve this game A LOT!

My Reaction for this game : Amazing i love it !

★ Gameplay : ✭✭✭✭✭
★ Story : ✭✭✭✭✭
★ Spelling : ✭✭✭✭✭
★ renders : ✭✭✭✭✭
★ Animations: ✭✭✭✭✭
★ Potential : ✭✭✭✭✭
★ Overall : ✭✭✭✭✰
★ Girls physique : ✭✭✭✭✭
★ Graphic : ✭✭✭✭✭
★ Creativity :✭✭✭✭✭

Note :

Definitely you should try it immediately !

◉ All the best to the developer, Amazing game .

This is a stereotypical example of trying to compensate for lackluster writing with extremely well done renders. Which are very well done, top 10 in games I've played. However, the game would be more impressive if the player wasn't such a passive participant in the story, unfortunately in the current release there aren't any meaningful choices to be made, the characters don't seem to behave in a logically consistent manner, and the best friend is so focused on the first set of big tits he sees that he lies to his friends in order to have the tits travel with them. The ending of the first episode leaves off with the MC blamed for the actions of someone else and staring at some new woman with gigantic tits. As if he and his idiot friend are incapable of thinking when confronted with breasts larger than a b cup. It is likely that in the second installment the MC will once again be ridiculed by his friends and strangers in an attempt at humor. It would be nice if the developer surprised me and didn't go for the lowest common denominator.
This game in terms of plot and dialogue is very cliche, if you don't care about that and just want to see some very well done renders this is the game for you.

The visuals and animations are such an eyecandy. Stunning. Gorgeous.
Girls look incredible.
Good variety of assets.

Story is simple and nice, but current release is very short so nothing to add.
Very pleasant writing.

There's nice background music.

One small thing: there's some weird glowing, moving effect on the clothes (mostly on tops) during some conversations. Catches the eye.

I didn't say this ever about other AVN, although there're a lot of good, quality games, but I'm really impressed with this one. Insane work. I'm so fckn thirsty for more..

I rarely put a mark on a game as it requires writing a long enough text to comment, but... damn! I had to give this game some visibility.

First the renders look absolutely fantastic and the art is pretty unique in this industry, I love it with the slideshow effects smoothing the entire experience. The colors are warm and appealing with a good fluency in lights. The animations are well realised and top tier, even more when compared to other games around.

The other strength of this game is the models which are simply stunning. A particular mention for Lea who is simply a godess and looks sexy as fuck. Not exagerated tiddies for all of them but a good balance instead. For those who are more into sweet girls, Mey will do perfectly and is beautiful as well.

As we are still at the beginning of the story I won't put a judgement for now but the story seems ok and funny with a little plot in it that has to be developped before I give my opinion on it.

This VN has great potential and has to emphasises its story in order to make it interesting on the long run.

I m looking forward to see more of it

Big potential. At the moment its still too early to tell how the story will go like if it will suddenly add dramatic elements like the reason for the missing girls alluded to by the girls in the cafe but so far it seems like the story of the mc going on a fun road trip to a town for some kind of event /party with hot girls and with his two hot female friends, a guy friend and picking up two hot hitch hikers otw. Things are kinda linear right now with the inability to make choices in places where I felt there should be (like stopping lea from grinding on you or getting a choice to sound happy or disinterested that mia made you a bracelet) but the inability to make choices didnt bother me in these scenarios overall for now. It is undeniable that the models look amazing and have hot and smooth animations.

Worth keeping an eye on! Giving it 5 stars to encourage the devs not to abandon it and have more people give it a chance. Hope to see more updates!

Review as of 0.1.1

This game definitely has huge potential. Great start to the game, not too many choices as of now, but it is understandable, it is only the first version. Love the linear storytelling, hopefully it doesn't go into the sandbox version with crazy grinding in the future. Can't wait to follow this all the way to the end.

Unbelievable render quality, amazing depth in character, the storyline is looking good, not sure where the missing person plot is gonna lead to, but hopefully nothing too magical or crazy. The LI setup is great, one girl who seems to have a crush on MC and there's one cheerleader, with 2 more bombshells hitchhikers.

There are a lot of sexy scenes, and with the way it goes, it seems like we don't have to work too hard to get to them. Depending on the users, some like it, and some don't. I personally love it a lot, there is a good amount of sexy scenes, no sex scene yet as of this version.

Summary:

Plot: Good start with some mysterious elements.

Character depth: Great, we get to experience what each character is thinking and feeling.

Gameplay: A couple of choices here and there that affect the dialogues, but no major change in the storyline. Pretty linear.

Renders: Super amazing! One of the best on this site.

The 5/5 is considering that this is just the 1st chapter. There is little to no choices and is to early to judge the writing(we could say it is only "ok"), everything else is a freaking 10.
- Great girls.
- Great animations
- Great scene-lighting (this is something I feel is often overlooked)
- Great angles(again, this is something that a lot of devs don't get right)
- MC doesn't have a punchable face , and he doesn't look like a puber. And that is honestly all I care.