VN - Ren'Py - Falling Undercover: Nox Syndicate [v0.06.0] [Azienda]

The story is very good, I didn't want to skip any dialogue, and I'm enjoying the world-building. I think it has a pleasant reading pace and great visuals outside of the sex scenes. Now, the sex scenes are top-tier... You can play without worry!

Brilliant NTR games with excellent art and a fantastic story. Hope the game will continue updating and the dev can contribute to each section with careful design. Currently Luna is a charming character with strong personalities.

The art is full of obnoxious cliches (beach ball tits, bad anatomy because anime), but the premise of oblivious NTR is appealing, so I followed this for a few updates. Those updates have been consistent, which is a good sign. The story is fundamentally kinetic, the choices seemed to matter very little (if they did anything at all). The cuck POV is boring as shit, do not recommend. The FemMC POV is much better (but still has issues, see below).

Good- Menu/Interfaces were fine, no bugs encountered. Gallery function worked. the overarching story is serviceable. The characters are cardboard cut-outs, but this is a porn game, so let's keep our expectations realistic. The art is heavily stylized anime, but the H-scenes were good enough to get the job done.

Bad- Here I quote from Nick Cave, "We Call Upon The Author To Explain"

PROLIX!!!!
PROLIX!!!!
NOTHING A PAIR OF SCISSORS CAN’T FIX!!!!

holy shit is the writing terrible. this game is just a mess from a writing perspective. It's comically overwrought and extremely boring. At one point I was holding down skip for a solid 45 seconds, just waiting for something to happen that would advance the actual NTR scenario so I could fucking jerk off. There are like 5 pointless side characters that I hate on sight, because all they mean is, "you're not getting anything good for as long as this character is on screen."

there's just way too much text. needs an editor who can cut it down by at least half, maybe more. there is so much boring shit that does not advance the porn scenario, and since everything is a generic cliche, you're not getting anything out of this besides the porn scenario.

By the end I was skipping all text that wasn't directly part of an actual H-scene. The H-scenes were still pretty engaging, and since that's the actual point of the game I give it 3 stars.

I've been debating in my head whether to write out this review, as I planned to do it once the ending part of the game came into play, and the story fell off the cliff, as is so often the case in NTR. But considering I am no longer excited to play this game anymore, and may return to it once it's finished, I think that time has come now. I decided from the start, that I'd review it once I've lost interest, and I've lost interest.

They subverted expectations. The game claims that you won't miss anything if you play both routes, but you miss something major in the FMC's route. If all you care about is the cuck's route, this is fine, but considering how big of a stepping stone the particular scenes you miss from FMC's pov, it feels like a slap in the face. I'm not accepting mental gymnastics as an explanation for why the FMC is barely, if at all, corrupted during these scenes (her first deepthroat and so many more depraved firsts).

Azienda has always been strong on their female characters, but weak on their cardboard cutout cucks who follow the typical NTR tropes. You've probably heard it before, a wimp with a tiny dick (who happens to also be one of the best crime fighting agents in the country... but he's a wimp). I've never cared before about their poorly written cucks, because their FMC's deliver in the quality I want in a NTR game. But if you're going to make the cuck the sole focus of the story or critical scenes, then I'm going to criticise bad writing. Which goes back to subverted expectations, the dev claimed that mystery NTR was only optional, and you won't miss anything in the FMC's route.

They're either going to have to skip past the FMC's corruption in this release, very gutting but fair enough (they could get creative here too and save it), or they're going to pay more fan service to the mystery NTR lovers and write out that she's barely corrupted after a ton of devious actions. That lands right into silly territory, it's not believable, thus not immersive.

Azienda has a strong work ethic, brilliant animations, awesome BGM, and they reliably release updates in a certain timeframe. But they have never been good writers, and for me, it's writing that'll help them get out of this...I don't have high hopes they will fix it, so I'm not going to put those hope up for the next update, and risk feeling let down again. Better to expect the worst, and be pleasantly surprised; rather than be really excited, and let down.

I wish the developers luck.

One of the most immersive games I've ever played. The features make this an absolutely next-level experience. The art is fantastic, and the writing is deliberate and gradual, but the corruption doesn't come too slow at all. The music choices slap, the plot is unique and futuristic, and most importantly, Luna is an absolute smokeshow. Can't recommend this one highly enough.

This "game" should absolutely have the Kinetic Novel tag. You will click through thousands of lines of text between choices, and I don't think a single choice actually matters--so far, they've all been about whether the male protagonist sees the little guy with the pedostache getting honeypotted by the bimbo.

But my big complaint is that this story has a lot of cliches.

• The male protagonist is introduced as a competent spy but has a tiny dick, instantly becomes weak, and loses all powers of observation to the cuckolding and other betrayal around him.
• The female protagonist is introduced as a legendary killer who hates this criminal organization, but has no sexual experience and folds to pleasure from a crime boss (oh and of course she has basketball tits).
• There's a nerdy supporting character who's supposed to be brilliant but instantly folds to the attentions of a woman, contributes nothing, and I'm guessing will betray the cast later, if only because of his ridiculous facial hair.

I know these are established tropes in NTR, but I also know that they could've been done in a way that didn't clash with each character so much, a way that felt authentic to the story and asked for less suspension of disbelief.

Aside from that, it has a cool premise that's part spy thriller, part sci-fi dystopia. The sex scenes themselves are well-written. The art's emotive and detailed. If you like slow burn cuckolding/cheating stories and can power through the cliches, you'll probably enjoy this story

Art and story are great, the slow burn is well written and very hot. The way the characters interact don't get tiring even though it is repetitive. Also the different POVs is soo well done, the mystery itself is hot and the reveal it just the icing on the cake. The status notifications makes each Luna POV filled with anticipation until it gives you the whole event of what happened. Lastly the X-ray, oh man, the X-ray it is really hot. It is not janky or disruptive it aligns to the characters movements which make it more immersive and for the lack of a better word realistic.
So far I'm reviewing this in episode six, I must say it is already in a streak and I couldn't wait for what will happen in the next episode.

My thoughts on 0.06.0

It's a pretty good game in some ways, but shit in other ways.

The Good:

It's professional quality. The art is nice, it has a decent story, and the characters are interesting. The way it is coded together is fantastic with the codex and status stuff. Plus the option to choose which perspective. The sex scene are nicely done. I like how they show the feelings / emotions. The game has good qualities. I can't stress this enough.

The Bad:

At the same time as having all of those good qualities it also has bad qualities...

1: The NTR is unavoidable. No matter what you do, she is going to get fucked by some other dude numerous times. This alone loses a star.

2: The choices seem to be mostly meaningless as far as I can tell. Either you will see her getting her ass grabbed or not for example. I don't think it really effects the plot or possible endings. They are mostly short term effects. There are no paths as far as I can tell. It's just long tree with the occasional branch that merges back onto that tree in a minute.

3: There are seemingly endless walls of text in between choices. If you actually stop to read it all at a normal pace you are looking at like 15+ minutes between choices at times.

4: A number of times they do an extremely frustrating choice setup, but no choice. By choice setup I mean the character will have an internal monologue. They will go something like "Well maybe I should do A for X reason. Or I could do B for Y reason." Then they don't give the choice and automatically go with either A or B. It's very annoying to see a choice setup without a choice.

5: Many of the very few choices are a "Blind Choice". Such as "Go Upstairs" vs "Go Downstairs". Where neither seems particularly better or worse than the other, and you haven't enough information to make the right choice, and you are not even sure if it was the right choice after you make it anyways!

How the Dev Could Improve:

1: More Choices: Please for fucks sake just sprinkle in a few more choices... Players should not be reading for 20 minutes straight without stopping to make a choice! Even if it is good content it sucks not getting any choices for huge walls of text! Even if they are small choices. Like what to say to Luna. Like give her a compliment here and there or like offer her a candy or something, give her a hug... Anything come on! Even the choice "Where to cum?" Come on... That's a given!

2: Custom Names: Although the rest of the game is coded solid one of the simplest additions to any game especially a renpy one. This is of huge benefit to players who like to self insert. It's just a couple of simple lines of code then a matter of replacing "Luna" with "[name1]" and "Aiden" with [name2]. This could be added in less than 10 minutes easily by a skilled coder.

3: Make the NTR avoidable: Even if the vanilla route is small. It is important to have. That's one more play through players would have. Do you want players to have 1 more play through or not?

4: Choices that actually matter that lead down different branches: This can not be stressed enough. This is basically a kinetic novel that branches off for 1 minute then back onto the only tree a few times.

Although I prefer the story of Turning the Page, this game is also incredible.
The H scenes are truly impressive and the details are incredible.
They've been the kings of NTR for a long time.
The story lets me down a little because it's futuristic, but everything else is great.

It doesn't make sense to force you to choose at the beginning of the game whether you want to see the perspective of one or two characters and then just skip one of the two because you want to. We go from almost no choice to none if the developer itself skips that step even when you chose otherwise. Why make you choose both options if it doesn't matter in the end? Not only is this update disappointing, but their response regarding the next update, assuming we won't have that perspective, will negatively impact the final product, whether you like it or not.

It's not a matter of influencing the game's development; it's that the game itself isn't faithful to its own structure, and the decisions it makes degrade the final product. In the end, the game will do what it wants; we don't expect anything else, but we are free to give our opinions about what we consume. If our opinion didn't matter, we wouldn't expect its consumption or rating. I don't have to give it 5 stars if it doesn't deserve it.

basically a kinetic novel. the only choice you have is whether you wanna see the scenes as male pov or not.
nothing else.
the corruption is vanilla. There is no corruption at all, it's cheating under duress.
the "MMC is poisoned" is completely useless as a trope there.
the only 1 star I give is for the art quality. The writing is middle school level/reddit fanfic. and very clumsy. the pacing of the story is very boring. theres the equivalent of 2 chapters that are useless. There is effectively half an hour of content. the cheating is absolutely not a mystery. the MMC is the most idiotic guy out there. we're talking parody level of idiot.

This game is full of features , that a NTR fan would enjoy , devs improving the game every update , not going to comment about the story (cause it's not fully done yet) but right now , it's alright. Female pov scenes are hot. Art and Bgms are perfect.

Ep6 , people just feel it's bad but the truth is it's just lacking female pov but the scenes are hot.


Tho we can only do is wait but hopefully they will add it


Last but not the least , this Devs deserves the support for all the improvements they're trying to make every update , aside from that , they always finish their games and reports accurately if they have delays , so your money is well spent on them.

Edit: 0.06

Great atmosphere, huge star-wars level of details, world-building, world development, character development, all that wrapped with all the bells and whistles (some) people might care about UI, codex, x-ray, counters, etc.

Animations are great. Being honest, it's not as fluid as AI but they do have 1) way more control over all the steps within a scene, making it more engaging, and 2) dont look generic/repetitive.

Ok. So what you get? Dialogues, lots of (some) actual meaningful dialogues (which can be bad given it's 2D and there's not a lot of "scenes" to fill them -i.e., you have to imagine ao the shots and action scenes) so I found myself skipping some usual filler stuff. *The audio is a little bit over the top, but it does the job.

The game is all about the FMC, she's way more polished and well written then any other character, perhaps besides the antagonist. So much so, it exacerbates the games problems.

It's also the first time I see the use of meta-narrative level of writing to sell one's feelings, really great use of dialogue/thoughts and hints -at par with the best in the biz!

Ok so what it lacks.
1) Mystery: every single situation where the MC is thinking "where's FMC?", she's engaging in some form of intercourse, it's pretty obvious besides the first few scenes; meaning the thrill is basically gone by the second time.

2) MC: he's a poorly written/designed/drawn spectator with a fixed narrative construction, his objeticve is to say: oh ok, I hope you are fine *smile, and that's it; meaning don't expect a modicrum of spine from what supposed to be a "spacial hero".

3) Logic, yes I know, it's a porn game with porn logic but even then, I wouldn't mind some "consistency". e.g., FMC engages in cheating for x, MC refuses to engage in supposedly cheating for y achieving x, FMC praises his purity... hahaha, I mean...

So, I see a lot of people writing essays like I did, meaning it's NOT BORING, it's good, but it has its flaws. I know the game has no paths, and I don't know if the game has different endings, if the later is not true, then I would find very hard to remain interested purely by the sex scenes that increases in a rather exponential pace given it's just a 0.06 version...

Best of luck and thank you!

I think that whole pussy/womb x ray system is amazing. I really like that it changes / she gets more loose after a while. I really hope they build heavily on that. The humiliation aspect would be amazing. Once she's so lose the MC's small cock can't even touch her vaginal walls anymore during sex.

Absolute masterpiece. As a mystery NTR enjoyer, this is it. The worldbuilding and sci-fi stuff is honestly very well written and thought out. It's very fleshed out with the world and every character in it. The renpy is also very solid with a good UI and status screen, even with a choice of hiding it or showing everything, there's also the character's recent thoughts and feelings which is realtime so if that's what you like, you can do that. Characters are also likeable and amazing, the art is absolutely gorgeous (props to the artist), they made a very hot girl and of course that's a plus too. The mystery NTR is also amazing and didn't actually give that much if we play from the guy's POV. I've had a lot of 'mystery' NTR games which just straight up blurring the sex scene and of course some will like it but this game give you a choice until we can start to ask to ourself "what the hell is she doing rn?" and that is what I really meant by mystery NTR. So far my biggest regret is picking this game WAY too early (currently at 0.05). I've actually tried to play this game since its first initial launch and honestly I'm glad I didn't play this for a long time but not long enough damn. 10/10 would recommend

Version 0.05.0

The good:
-The art
-The characters
-The world

The bad:
-Aspects of the story
-The pacing
-The "Mystery NTR perspective"

I went into this game seeing some of the previews and trailers, expecting something that would really blow me away as a mystery NTR fan. The world is amazing and the strongest aspect. The futuristic style, the small bits of lore that you can read in the codex and even in the background the world around is dripping with flavor.

The characters are great! I really like the MC and Luna, the love interest, does have a good personality that lends itself to corruption. The villain, whiles it took a while for me to enjoy him and his design still doesn't impress me, did end up winning me over

So why three stars?
Well, the negative aspects that i mentioned really. I hate the "MC is poisoned" plot device, it feels like an excuse to have urgency. So rarely does it ever feel like it would be truly necessary to the plot. Just being undercover agents with one getting corrupted during the mission would have been enough.

The game has got a massive pacing issue, it feels like going by the motions. First handjob, then titjob, then blowjob, then sex. It doesn't linger on any aspects or attempts to up any of these individual points, there is no scene of a handjob getting more intense, the heroines eyes lingering longer than they should. It's like someone read a cliffsnotes version of NTR and is trying to rush through it. The heroin at the end of chapter five has had the first 5% compatibility drop. Why is she already having sex with the villain?

The "Mystery NTR", i'm sorry but it is really bad. For mystery NTR to truly be effective you got to have moments of true doubt with being proven wrong. If every single time Luna is gone, she just fucks with the dude then there is no mystery. Damn she is in the office and there are what the MC even identifies as masturbation sound? I wonder what that could be. The blowjob moment was THE perfect moment to pull something different! MC rushes in, full of suspicion but then, surprise! Luna actually was just rummaging through stuff, he was just being paranoid for no reason. Hell you can even still have the actually blowjob scene by just having it so that that took place earlier or have the MC mistake his best friend fucking that slut as Luna and Vargas doing something in the bar scene. That doesn't happen tho, we never get a true mystery, a moment that makes the player wonder in a way that isn't instantly obvious. Give the viewer some more credit and have things be more unexpected, that's what a mystery is about. The communication screen was the best part of it by far since it actually felt like it wasn't clear what was going on whiles still giving a good taste to the viewer that something is happening, i just hope they don't purely rely on it.

I came into the game thinking it would be some really good mystery NTR but it is a really good full perspective NTR game. If you like seeing both perspectives then this game is great and i would highly recommend it! If you are looking for a true mystery NTR experience then i'm sorry, it's not here. Maybe in the future but with the way the pacing is going, i won't hold my breath.

Great mechanics. Xray and status screen are well done. FMC is resistant. Overall context to the game is fun and crafted. A lot of lore notes are added to the codex (even if I do not read them all). Currently making this review at v0.05.0. Not any Branching in current state. This could be implemented in the future however the developer has not commented on it (that I have seen). Release cycle is roughly ever 40 days and dev is transparent with updates.

A little bit of reading and ramp up to the lore, but very worth it. Nice variation in sound and animation during scenes make this game really stand out. Not to mention the hot waifu. Look forward to future updates!

Abosulety love the oblivious ntr mechanism and real-time status and xray are the cherry on top. If dev decides to add xray effects for anal and oral too it would result in a one of its kind vn. This vn shows great promise and I believe the peak is yet to come.

Truly a huge step up from an already good last game. The interactive x-ray view is a huge addition and not many other authors can tease a viewer and leave them wanting more than Azienda. Watching her slowly accept more and more of his size especially with the xray view is going to put this game on a new level, hopefully this also translates to going deeper on blowjobs as well, slowly getting better over time. I can't wait.