VN - Ren'Py - Falling Undercover: Nox Syndicate [v0.07.0] [Azienda]

10/10 game. X-ray vision in this type of game is peak.

Some of the dialogue is long, but not particularly necessary to read all into every conversation, and can be skipped.

The scenes are very well done, particularly the context switching between characters. I also appreciate that you can choose to see from just MC's POV or both.

The game is unmatched. It has all the typical requirements of AZIENDA products, now a leader in these games. Yes, we have little interaction, but we accept it precisely for this reason. The 5-star rating is impossible for me. It has everything to have the absolute value, but in the technical writing, that statistics option already creates the solution to the ending. Perhaps, without that data, the game would be a full 5-star, without spoilers, because it is only my deduction, knowing AZIENDA, that the ending is already written in an unequivocal way. The statistics option makes it clear what ending we will have. This is the only point of the product that is bad. But anyway, another great technical product.

An amazing game. Personally, I’d like to see more freedom of choice and a slower pacing, but overall everything I see so far looks very appealing and promising. I’ll definitely be following future updates closely. Highly recommended for fans of the genre.

This Game is Awesome already for its Art and Top Grade Art CG's. Corruption pace is smoothly perfect which is also good. Don't have problems with the plot as well. Everything is Top Notch Amazing. Looking forward to full game.

If you enjoy watching idiot characters being taken advantage of, this game is for you.
Luckily it's easy for anyone to unlock all the gallery content, so hopefully you won't miss out on anything.
The art isn't A.I., just similar style to it. Eitherway, it doesn't really matter much to begin with.

Op game, overall the best. Soundtrack was sublime, drawing super cool, ui/ux great, story ? great. Overall obvious improvement compared to ttp, this might be the golden standard for NTR for years to come

The best NTR VN in a long time. Good artworks, story's good enough (pretty good by NTR VN standards), but best of all are the various features that support the NTR experience, like the notifications for stats changes, thought boxes, etc. There's a lot of innovation in this VN in terms of presentation.

Genuinely speaking I love this game so fucking much, i didn't know just a trial that I took for trying a game would get me addicted
Azienda is the only artist that always delivers as promised, be it for Turning The Paige, or FUNS i love all of it, no complaints
He is the only artist that has never abandoned us, because I lose hope everyday how artists turn out to be after watching AWAM, CFQ, and many more slow developing or abandoned games, loved the game! And hope you create more!!!

Awesome game. Had a lot of fun with it so far. Luna (or should I say Nova )Is a total baddie and I can't wait to see her get totally corrupted by Vargas, who's quite a likeable character honestly. Meanwhile Aiden is just a dumbass honestly, he keeps messing up and his actions only make his girl grow more compatible with Vargas. It's glorious.

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.