Ren'Py - Completed - Fantasy Town [v1.0.0b] [Order of Lorval]

Pros: Nice Sandbox
Neat Girls

Con: Bad sex scenes

Overall a good game. I even like the grind. It is grind but its fast grind. To bad that the "sex rewards" are very bad. There is potential in such a game.

Grindy sandbox with awful combat.
Plot is shallow.
Art is mediocre.

You are forced to lay every waifu in the game, which is bad design even if this time I was ok with it (none of the women disgusted me... at first).

Game was abandoned, not completed. Just a rushed ending and please ignore the "currently not implemented" signs still littered around the game.

The rushed ending sucks. You marry your sister + an unspecified amount of other women
most waifus just leave to do their own thing. Some of them become whores either literally or figuratively.
2 lesbians come out of nowhere and steal 1 waifu each.
You are even forced to watch a stillshot of a waifu having sex with some random demon dude.
(text says she is now a diplomat between humans and demons. apparently diplomat means prostitute)

Not a bad game but nothing that really stands out either. Yes, this is one of those sandbox games and sandbox games are notorious for having some grind, some excessively so. This game, however, I did not feel had too much of it where you just wanted to either push through out of sheer frustration or quit out of sheer frustration. It also avoids the time-related mechanics of other sandbox-styled games and everything felt straightforward.

For the actual game itself, renders are outdated but passable. Gameplay consists grinding out money to level up your stats or for the use of buying items to complete quests that advance your relationship with each girl. At the last part of each relationship, there's some guesswork involved where you'll have to pick a setting and topic to discuss with each girl that matches her interests or personality for you to be able to advance. There is some combat involved but it's very low stakes since you just lose a small amount of money if you fail.

While the game is short enough to complete fairly quickly if you utilize the skip function, since you'll be encountering the same dialogue over and over again, I did encounter a few bugs where some of the characters never even appeared in my playthrough and while not blocking me from progressing, since you only have to romance 10 out of the 20 girls to advance, it did lower some of my overall enjoyment.

Cons:
The renders are terrible.
The way you progress is a nightmare. You grind through useless boring enemys that have only one move. Hit.
Not to mention in order to move on with the story you are forced to lay avery bitch the writer throws at you.
The ending sucked ass. Rushed, boring and infuriating

Spoiler Warning (but trust me you wanna know):
Pros:
Some scenes where a little funny.

Game is not that bad, just not my thing
Characters are well done, difference in personality is good too
Renders are not epic but not too good either
The history is acceptable kinda
Battle gameplay is good enough
Grinding is not fair/balanced
Sex scenes don't have good angle/camera position
The animation is like 3/5 frames per second or something like that so if you're here for animation I'm warning you.
Overall the game is not too bad but not too good either, is not my thing but maybe other people may like it who knows... so that's why I'm giving this rating.

I love the game took me quite a bit of time to complete.

Pros:
Love the women
Love the dating system
Love the little magic system
Its just a great game overall

Cons:
The Animation could have been a little bit smoother


Overall Rating 5 out of 5

As of 0.25.0.

Average in most aspects.
Average renders.
Average mechanics.
Average characters.
average fantasy cliches.
Average non-rpg, pretending to be one.

Honestly, everything is just average. Even the story is... you guessed it - average. I can't say it's bad, it works as a porn set up, but... for now... there isn't enough interesting porn to use it well.
A bunch of girls to fuck, yet I felt like dating the same girl again and again, probably because their mechanics are literally the same. Shy girl, walking nymph? Doesn't matter - it's the same loop for all. The same point-grind for all. The same boredom.
Combine that with an RPG element that half the time makes little to no sense, an UI that really needs a little bit more work to not be obstructive and complete lack of explanations for base mechanics (to the point you have no idea how checks work and how they scale... or they don't? IDK, I'm to bored to go back and check... and you have a really sub-par rpg. I'd argue that since you have no choice whatsoever about almost anything - it's not really an rpg, but that's another topic entirely.

And the grind. My fucking god the GRIND...
No, the game isn't "grindy". It's one big unending grind.

I'm gonna check it out after 2 more years, maybe it won't be as bad.

I thought that this game was quite good! while it could be a bit grindy at times, that did not seem to take away much of the experience for me. I loved all of the different characters that were in the game and they each had different ways to get to know them. It was a bit short, but maybe in the future updates, more of the game will be revealed.

Ok - first of all i wondered about the low rating as the description sounded really promising. So i decided to give it a try.
Well - that was one of these decisions which i regret afterwards!
As many players already reviewed before this game is just HORRIBLE.
The renders are like made in 2000 with medieval equipment. There is really nothing nice about them.
The UI kind of sucks - if you open one tab, then open another tab, they just overly each other (instead of auto-close the previous one). So you have to grind even through UI menues (open AND close each tab exactly on close button).
The grind continues.
Once you meet a girl, you can't really do anything with her, because your stat XY is to low.
Fine, you think - not that there are other games with senseless grinding stats - but i already expected something like this could happen.
Nonetheless, i grinded for my stats, went back to the girls, talked to them (happy for some action) ... and ... ?
"Surprisingly" there is the next grind: You have to grind the girls stats, until you notice, that the girls need something which you have to buy.
Of course you need money, so go for grinding money.

If there would be a category "grind simulator with horrible renders and non-existing story", this game would win the category without any doubts.

I just can backup all the reviews before which told you NOT to play because it's just a waste of your time at all

Good Points
+Renders looking bad but at least not horrible.
+If DEV cut the grind amount of this game have story could be good but at this rate its bad aswell but its not horrible to i gues?

Bad Points
-Its grindy as hell... I tried playing for god damn 3 hour and i cant get any scene with girls. Even when i go out date's with girls ''Charm failed'' like that things came and blocked my way to got points with girls. So we need grind affection points with girls for getting scenes and for affection points you need certaion things: charm, str, int etc... And for getting thoose things you need money and grind! REALY?! Basicly you are making grind for grind! its just so nonsense and boring...
-Its tells animated but thanks for the grind amount i cant saw any animated sex scene! So whats the point of having animated scenes?
-Renders can be better than this they look pretty basic and denoised in lots of scene.
-Story can be more interesting but with that much grind it lost all potencial and became boring in no time.

For The End
Its just poor... Nothing more nothing less. Just waste of time...

Version when reviewed: 0.21.0b

Right now the game is in a very poor condition and I wouldn't recommend you to spend your time with it. The scenes are poor quality and the "fighting" is terrible. Storywise it's okay but I dropped it before I finished it.

So, I tried to play this game. I really did. But when I am playing a nsfw game and two hours of grind in and I don't even get any good scenes, I gave up. I even got to the part of dating everyone, but oh your [insert skill here] isn't high enough. I don't want this to sound all bad there are some alright renders, but there aren't that many from what I have seen. I'm trying to think of something good about this game. There aren't that many bugs? The leveling system needs a complete overhaul of a max of 5 to get everything, or start giving the player more rewards besides a kiss.

Updating review to two stars for update v0.24.0
Could still use work but some of the leveling is somewhat better.

THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE QUIRKY

In creating the virtual novel Fantasy Town, developer Order of Lorval begins with a young man (the MC) finding himself in an unknown town after being chased from his home. The longer he remains in town or explores the surrounding lands, the more he finds secrets — about the town, about individuals, and about himself. This information is current as of version 0.10.0b.

THE GOOD

THE BAD

THE QUIRKY

Developer Order of Lorval provides an unusual fantasy tale, stretching suspension of disbelief in a way similar to a James Belushi/Dan Aykroyd pairing or a Misty Mundae softcore flick. Self-effacing, self-aware, and self-assured, the game is fun in its simplicity, variety, and presentation. Fantasy Town offers players a brief escape from the serious into the ludicrous in charming ways, where more lies beneath the surface (and beneath the sheets) than might initially be expected.

Well, after playing v0.8 seems that this game became much more enjoyable , so i have to change my previous rating.

A fair number of girls is present (11, if I'm not wrong), as well as seven animated sex/fuck scenes, all of them with different girls (five of these scenes seems to be repeatable). Among girls you could find a half-orc, a dwarf, an elves, and various human representatives. The graphic/renders are not spectacular, but are quite good. The language/English seems good, but as an Engrish-speaking person, I'm not the best evaluator for that.
The story/plot is at the beginning, and as this game is not so about a story itself, I think it is adequate, and could be a good basis for even more interesting plot in future builds.

The main game-issue remains some of in-game mechanics, i.e. the calculation of in-game events (success/failure rate), such as fights, dates, searches, etc., depends too heavily on pure lack (almost as in fully random events), while the influence of player stats (such as luck, strength, charm, dexterity etc.) seems to be almost cosmetic.

Altogether, this is quite good game, with potential to become better, so at this instance, it is four stars.

If you are in medieval fantasy games, and are not bothered with a little slower stats building/game progressing, then this game could be a nice surprise for you.