VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Emi - New Beginning [Christmas Special] [CellStudios]

Review of final version + Christmas Special

Very short but sweet little AVN. Just a little story about a brother and sister accepting their dormant feelings for each other and falling in love. Very good renders, good writing, and heartwarming (if short) romance. The sex is good but short. Thankfully the Christmas Special makes up for this with a lot more sex (inc. pregnancy <3), so definitely play this immediately after the you've finished the main game, as it follows along from it (albeit in a non-canon way, though "canon" isn't exactly important for a game as short as this). None of the choices have lasting impact so don't about them, though in the Christmas Special you can choose to skip sex scenes by choosing the obvious dialogue choice.

4/5 Great experience, would recommend!

Very short VN, played in about 30 mins to an hour?

Cute premise, and natural feeling dialogue. The story has a pleasant slice-of-life feeling to it, and doesn't take itself too seriously. Renders look very good too.

Honestly, for a short VN it was a pleasant experience. Only reason I give this game a 4 instead of 5 (perfect score) is due to its surprisingly short length. Otherwise it's a very nice VN to go through.

I think the short length also makes it worth checking out, since it doesn't take much time to enjoy and run through and complete.

Surprisingly enjoyable & short, like a quickie.

With not much room for story, we can appreciate the comedic inclusion of the most used scenes in AVN history i.e. Change room bikini scene with protagonist choosing the bikini with least fabric, and the truth or dare game that always seems to spiral into depravity. Recipe for success I'd say.

Hope to see more work from you/team, all the best for your next projects. I'll definitely welcome something longer for sure (that's what she said), but who can say no to a quickie.

I liked this game, it was okay. The models and animations are good. The story is also okay, even if too short.

The main issue with this is the length of the game. It does not feel like a "completed" game . It ends with a clifhanger that does not make much sense. I would have also liked there to be more incestuos talk between them and pregnancy.

Still, overall a solid game.

This was a very good short game. I really like Emi's model. The animations were not very good, however.

My main complaint is that in order to see everything you need to do some pretty obtuse decision combinations. Without the Steam achievements (and a guide) I never would have even found them all.

Also, while it seems as though MC and Emi being siblings is the intended relationship, I'm not getting those vibes at all. I'm trying not to overthink it though.

Anyway, definitely worth playing and looking forward to the dev's other works and how they fit together.

Very strong 4-star for me. Great renders and character design. Easy and realistic dialogue. Nice little choices with the bikinis and typical drinking games.

The game is very short however, and that cliffhanger in the end makes no sense since it doesn't lead anywhere? I feel like it's a missed opportunity to offer the player a chance to choose MCs profession and "life update" which doesn't really lead anywhere either. I get it's probably do give a little flavor, but it's still too simple.

I fully expected the game to at least play out during the entire week that MC is off work, as stated by Emi. I feel like that could have been good enough length, even though I personally prefer a little build-up.

However, for what it is: easy 4 stars. Had the above been addressed I think it fully deserve 5 stars.

I like the game. Amazing character designs. Sweet little story with no useless parts. No grinding for points.

But it's not great.
- The game is too short and I'm not talking about the playtime (around 30 minutes). The story starts at day one and is finished at day two. The relationship evolves too quickly and I like a good build up that leads to sex.
- The characters relationship is weird. The story is built around childhood friends but they are 4 years apart. Who would play with a 7 years old when they are 11? Sometimes, sure, but BFF? No.
The relationship are customizable so you can have the story you like but the story is too quick for brother/sister (you don't feel the taboo if you chose that) so the relationship that made the most sense are cousins. The age difference is fine for that relationship and the speed sex arrives can be understood.
- Also, why put a cliffhanger on a 30 minutes game? Just make a longer game if you want to continue.

All in all, a fun game to play if you have 30 minutes of free time but it won't become a classic.

So the game was really short. It's only 500 MB in size and has around half an hour of content. But that content is really well made. 10/10. It's a kinetic novel, with most of the scenes being at the end of the game. There are a few choices that lead to an anal scene. The model of Emi is absolutely amazing. The 4K renders are a godsend and the animations are pretty crisp as well. This game serves as a great demo for the dev's next game. I hope he continues this level of quality and effort for the game. The game also had a really nice plot for the 30 minutes it was set it. I enjoyed the story telling and the minor introduction of the characters for the next game. 10/10 game.

This is short novel. It lacks an original idea. The good point is that the graphics and the renders look fine. The story is not really good and it is predictable. The gameplay is quite fine. There are just few decent scenes.

review for the final release.

really short but was pretty cute, Emi was super hot, writing was cute for the most part, animations were decent , even tho the ren'py default background kept popping up.
hoping to see more of this.

Alright since the game is asking about wheter i would like to see more of Emi or not the answer is YES.

Story is simple with no complications. No third party characters, just two characters. Emi character model is super good. If you have spare time i do recommend this game for you to try it out. The game is short however so that explains why the story revolves aroud two characters ( MC and Emi).

Emi falls somewhere in the middle. First off, it's a rather believable story even if it goes a bit too quick. But, it's a story in which you don't get much to say, it advances more or less in the same way despite what you may choose when you can, so decisions are uninpactful. Also, it's very short, and it ends in a strange sort of a cliffhanger to which there hasn't been much build-up, thus giving a sense of being hurried to be finished.

Render quality is quite good, animations are a bit more basic. Music ends up being very repetitive, but it more or less works. And I didn't find any bugs while playing it.

So, all in all, pretty decent for a quick experience and then moving on to the next thing.

One of the HOT games I have played. No bullshit ingame economics. Stright kinetic novel. I played first 30 mins treating her as sis. Din't make much sense. Made her as mum. It fitted into the story. Good Graphics and Animations and good story. Overall 10/10

I didn't bother reading the dialogue. I just went through the game at a fast pace, and I appreciated the renders. Emi is really good looking. It was a lot of pleasure talking to her, hanging out with her, and doing other things with her. The game's main flaw is that it is very short. It feels like a game that had eight or more chapters but they only released one chapter and called it completed. There were choices, but I don't know if they impacted the game any. I wish that someone would have made a walkthrough mod for it. Overall, I'm just really impressed with the art and I wouldn't mind playing the game again in the future to get some good eye candy. I will probably uninstall it though and just redownload it if I want a quick peek. But again, the flaw is that there isn't much to the game. Girl shows up. You talk and drink. You go to the beach. You talk and drink some more. You get laid. The end. One other thing, you can define your relationship status with her but I don't think you can actually rename Emi to something else. Maybe I made a mistake and wasn't paying attention. If you can't, I suppose you can install the Universal Ren'Py Mod, but it would have been nice to rename her to something else. Also, I feel like this game hints at incest, where you can make her a relative. But she's the MC's age, so the most she would be is a sister and her and the MC don't look like they are related at all.

There isn't much to this. No meaningful choices, no story, no tension, nothing. It looks pretty and has nothing under the hood. There aren't enough choices (nor do they have much of an impact) for it to be considered a game, but there isn't really a story here so it can't be considered a kinetic novel.
At that point it's little more than a collection of admittedly good-looking renders. It's short but still didn't feel like it was worth the time.

This was a short game so what? It tells a short story and that's okay as well. I enjoyed the VN as the renders were very high quality and even though it's a short story where the options don't matter much, it's still a great effort so there's that.

Mental Gymnastics: The Game (or is it?)

Emi, a 21 year old college student goes through a transformation with a help from the friendly campus bicycle, blossoming from a shy, mousy girl to a bona fide man eater. She might have a turboslut for a mentor, a pornstar body or no issues wearing dental floss to the beach, but don't let that fool you - this cat is a kissless virgin. Just trust me bro.

Ridiculous premise, no character development, no story to speak of. The game fails at being anything other than a render slideshow, which to it's credit, is of nice quality.

ver played: 1.0 with completed tag

Game executed its plot and premise well, Dialogue was smooth and no engrish. MC was a typical normal guy without any character quirks or traits that made me annoyed with him.

Didn't really have any flaws that I could think of givens its scope. Emi comes back into MC's life after she graduates from college and you notice she looks hot/sexy now as she reconnects with you and catch up while subtly flirting with you. The romance and build up were good and not unrealistic and characters acted like normal adults. About30mins to an hours worth of playtime it felt like. Game is pretty much a kinetic novel with your choices not affecting the plot and are more for flavour yet not really changing the facts that make up the mc's character.

When it comes down to it its a pretty solid game without any glaring flaws which is more than what I can say about the majority of the games on here and when the game reaches the end and asks if I want more, I can whole heartedly say that I do.

Emi - New Beginning v1.0
Disclaimer: I am breaking my own rule to write a review for a game that is less than 6 months in the making considering the game is completed on arrival.

My final verdirct is hands down 10/10.

The story is compelling and coherent although not original (not an issue at all). It is a simple story of man and woman expressing their 'dormant' and renewed 'love' for each other.

Renders are great (if not excellent) especially with Emi. Some players encountered rendering glitch due to resolution issue which can be fixed by pressing Shift-G, (in the Renderer section) trying different renderers (instead of te default Auto) by selecting from the bottom option and restarting the game. There are musics and sounds too (albeit too soft or not as loud as I like).

Game has limited playability which I like because I generally only play a game once. There are 2 routes and 3 sex scenes variation.

Did not noticed any performance issue or bugs (none of small, big or game breaking). The animations are good (if not great) and I don't expect much from a game (there are better materials for that).

The writing, dialogues and monologues are fairly excellent as I did not noticed any typos, weird out of place words or sentences. I did NOT pay much attention to the grammar though.

Game has ample amount of contents for a short standalone VN which is meant as a side story for introducing a new character of a larger main game.

I post an in-depth review of this game here.

Way too short. Feels like a prologue or a demo, but was kinda expecting it given the pace of it as most incest AVN's are slowburn and take dozens of hours of read time/multiple updates for fucking to happen, like the dev's other incest AVN The Cabin, but not this one. LI comes "pre-corrupted" from 4 years of college and her slutty BF, and being a typical perverted AVN MC he doesn't need much convincing or have much internal conflict to resolve, so they trade V cards after 2 days. Just when I wanted to see the results of the MC optionally creampie-ing his sister and maybe putting a baby in her it gets to be even more of a cliffhanger when their mom sees them both naked in bed together the morning after the creampie via video call after Emi mistakenly answers it thinking it's her BF when it's their mom (oops). Just when it starts to get good (for those that pay attention to the plot and not just the really good sex animations) The End. Bah.
Hope there's more to this soon, as like I said it feels like a prologue or a demo. Also hope she grows her ginger bush out a bit as well, bald ones on adults look weird (at least to me).