VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - DreamLink [v0.2 Public] [Noctus Games]

I honestly im a bit hesitant when i comes to these types of games. When i see this types of models something always rubs me the wrong way.

Thankfully, Dreamlink really surprised me. The renders are great and every character has interesting fasion and bodytypes which is not normal for these types of renders. I really liked the mother and the older sister.

I also enjoyed the small bios for the characters, more games need to showcase facts for the characters in the bios.

While the story barley started in the first update i could tell that it could go into something that i really thought was interesting or something that could ruin the game so this review might change.

I am only rating it four out of five because there is room for improvement. I enjoy the story a lot. A Little slow to get started but got interesting once I got to see some of where we are going. I do agree with others that there has been similar before at least so far.

MC look is kinda weird to me but nothing wrong just personal preference. The woman are very attractive in my opinion. I think by 0.3 I am going to be clawing at the walls for the next release if the pace buildup continue.s.

I think the MCs dick is kinda overdone. I have no issues with big dicks but it looks like it almost reaches his chest from an angle. Eh i am not going to remove a star for just that but it was seeming unbelievable in my opinion.

I am very much enjoy the story heavyness so please keep that up.

Sadly, this game is such a waste of potential. The renders are great, the posing, framing, lighting, animations as well. Clearly the dev knows what they're doing when it comes to HS2.
The problem is the story, which is just insanely lazy and absolutely nothing we've not seen before. Really hope this impoves in the future, because I would love to see this skill being used in something great and original.

Good Points
+ Art style looks kind of good, and girls/women look kind of hot.
+ We have animations with different angles for sex scenes and they are decent.
+ We had some real-life references like Lucy saying ''I'd much rather spend my time playing 'Certain Gate 3'' which is interesting.

Bad Points
- The story is interesting, but... It's quite similar to certain games we all know... And can't say I'm too happy with that, having a little bit more unique story would been better.
- The text being uncentered is quite annoying, makes reading the text hard, and forces you to look left side of the screen and back to the characters faces or scenes again every time, it should be or we should have this uncentered version as a extra option in the options menu.
- Existence of some cliches are very bad decision, why always these games have to have that one asshole who insults MC, fights with MC and treats girls like shit, and even assaults them sexually? That's a big -point, Hector shouldn't be in this game, his existence is annoying and not necessary at all.
- Faces of characters can use some work. Girls look fine from the front, but from the side look/profile, they look kind of weird with how their mouths, chin, and noses look, they can use some improvements for sure.
- Facial expressions can use some work currently they look kind of weird.
- There are some clipping issues here and there, nothing too serious, but would be better if we don't have them.
- Most of the action and sex scenes happening in ''dreams'' are a bummer.
- The game can use more detailed renders, considering where DEV took inspiration I don't think I need to point to an example to take, since the example is already taken, but the game is far beyond the level of an example game, so improvements would be good.
- Zenith Voss's design couldn't have done better, curently he doesn't give the vibe the game telling you about it, and even looks a bit too common-like.
- MC's dick looks ugly AF, it could use some changes...
- Lara could have used a little bit bigger tits, since she is one of our main cast, and she is the MILF, it would make a lot of sense and would fill that role perfectly.

For The End
Well, it's not a bad game, but there are a lot of things that need to be fixed and things that need improvement, since its first release, I'm going to give it a 3-stars rate and gotta hope DEV will fix the problems, and make the improvements needed, and make the game good enough to give even 5 stars rate.

It is very similar to other honey select VNs but I don't really mind it personally. I had a good time with this one and see the potential. I like the characters and the story so far, seems quite interesting

Excellent renderings and animations. Favorite characters. It's a good start. Trying to repeat success looks like humor. Let's see what happens next. I wish the developer success. I'm waiting for the next update.

This is a very early review - version 0.1 of the project. This AVN has an interesting story concept developing and attractive models. The writing flows well, despite a few very minor grammatical errors, and the story has my attention. At this point, the sex scenes are not very prevalent, but this is an early stage of development. I highly recommend following this AVN and watching its progress.

Ill start off by saying that if there were copyright laws for these games, this game would probably face a lawsuit. With some scenes/characters feeling like they were ripped straight from other titles. Now despite that im still giving 4 stars. Why you may ask? Simply for the fact i dont really care about that kind of stuff.

Im someone that follows one simple rule when reviewing. Was it interesting and/or Engaging? and they answer was YES. Despite being what most would call a ripoff. Its writing is competent, its story is still interesting, and the characters are still likeable and good looking.

Story: 7/10 The story follows a boy moving to a new city with his friends family, and starting at a new school called Belcrest. Pretty simple, are MC is revealed to have very lucid and vivid dreams. I wont spoil what the dreams are but thats the basis of the story. It did a good job setting up the story for a first chapter and ended on a good area. The Characters are not as interesting as i had hoped, well again similar to certain characters they lack charm.

Renders: 8/10 The renders are good, definitely better than most honey select games.

SC: 6/10 Not very much content yet, there are 2 scenes, one female masturbation and one sex scene. More than most 1st chapters though.

Total 7.5/10

Overall not a bad game/experience some people will whine and complain about it being too similar to the a certain game, but like i said its not something that bother me. i hope the dev does eventually try to find his own identity, and separate himself in the future but we shall see.

A well made HS game with graphics on the better/more polished side. There were a few errors with dialogue - seemed some words got deleted along the way - but barring just a few of those instances, otherwise it is well written and easy to follow.

Going by the in-game stat-tracker that doesn't actually track the stats, there will be 6 LI's. Hopefully with this more modest number we'll get to see more interactions with each per update. The are kind of varied in personality, but could use a bit more buffer to show them as their own person. Besides each having a specific characteristic, they act for the most part relatively similar.

There are choices which seem to, for now, only matter regarding following/closing paths with the girls, barring one seemingly story-altering decision the MC makes in the latter half.

The music was chosen very well and the overall production shows care in this project.

The story itself is about the MC who moves to a city with his friend, her sister, and their mother for school. Some large corporation has created a device which can allow people to share lucid dreams. Of course, there is a twist involving the MC, but it's still a promising premise.