Ren'Py - Fashion Business [Ep.4 v7.01 Extra] [DecentMonkey]

The game must be written by a 12 years old kid. You're a WOMAN thrown in a prison without a phone call, men in next cells, not allowed to wear anything. You only deserve food by showing your boobs to the police officer. By the way, the captain that's arrested you have a second job. He's a judge at the same time and he can determine your fate without a trial. Seriously? Is this some kind a joke? STAY AWAY from this game...

Definitely one of the best game I played.
What it makes great, in my opinion, is how the character has been developed.
You can relate to her. There is a good strong content (ntr) and I personally love it. I would have pushed even more the boundaries..
It is not an ignorant all-sex game, you need to read the story and understand each character.
The overall quality of the game is very good.

Edited due to the new Event List I have changed from 1 to 2 star...
I have started the game again after ep2 splitted in 2 parts.
I'm playng EP2.1 complete and I'm sure that I will add more stars in the near future (after checking if the game is now playable as it should be in the past)

old version review
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Too much repetitive.
No way to get good sex
The story was changed from ep1
The ep 2 is just a way to avoid the main great story the was started in the ep1

Monica is became a stupid girl
It is very difficult believe that the boss of a fashion magazine can be so stupid.

This game is the tragedy of a world where bigots and moralistic people wins.

this game is boring.
Renders are good but I do not like anymore the MC..

too much characters that have nothing to do with the story line.

Pros
game requires a lot of time to achieve the necessary corruption point to be intersting but in the quarantine times I got the time to play... so I have posted my review....

contras:
No way ROLLBACK if you miss a choice by mouse mistake
No way to load Automatic saves because they are disabled
the game playing is affected by this very strange decision
NO ROLLBACK
NO AUTOMATIC SAVE
NO QUICK SAVE
NO QUICK LOAD

My suggestion:
use unren to activate the console and use $ money = xxx to add sufficient money to buy the red dress in the clothing store or you will remain "STUCK in the another repetitive unuseful situation where ther are no sex scenes.

I will try again to play this game when it will be completed to change or confirm my review.

Edit 9 June 2020:

This game after 2 Years and more is at 0.13 version and remain a good start but the main story is on hold for so long that I have lost interest in the game.
there are still too much quests of secondary characters that are nothing to do with the MC story or in any case are only secondary events.
The main events at the office with Biff are still on hold and waiting for updates.
(the best thing is that noe (I really hope() all secondary stories a very near to the end... and maybe in he future version we will be able to back to the main story.

This game uses a "Map and Points" system that does not help to stay focused to the story (you have to stay focused to get corruption and bitchy points) and even if the story is not bad at all is very easy to loose the emotional feeling and the thrilling of the main events.

All previously contras like no rollback and no quick saves making this game not comfortable to play; if you loose a point you have to start again from the latest save...
I suggest to save every quest to avoid missing clue.. this makes also the progression of the story very slow.

I'm sorry but I still cannot give more than 1 star

Currently rating episode 1.

#### Spoilers ahead####

Started this game recently again, last played 2018 and even at this time it was oddly satisfying.

Renders:

Renders for the girls are really good, rest of the nps's are just standard assets. Animations are smooth and enjoyable.
Locations haven't been overused in other games. A huge thumbs up for the situation renders and the facial expressions of the MC. You can clearly see when Monica is ashamed, annoyed, hiding, beeing pissed and so on. That's really on of a kind.

Story:

It might be the first game which I am following for a long time now with a female MC. This game isn't just a bang simulator, it is a game with a unique story so far.
Yeah the story... Yeah, as already mentioned, unique. Starts as usual rich bitch thing and escalates pretty quick. Literally from rich to "Will suck dick for Schawarma". MC is a snobby bitch and will stay a bitch.
Quick summary so far. Hot chick married rich guy and she's running a "Fashion Business" and gets later screwed by her folks. And here's one flaw. You do not really much with your business. It's just there, not really implemented in the story, besides she likes to dress well.

Gameplay / Localization:

First releases were kinda hurtful to play but the dev team listened to the community and implemented much of the suggested features (Travel system for example).
Otherwise it runs buttery smooth with just some minur errors when playing in german.
One major flaw are the random object which are clickable and raising or lowering your points. That doesn't make any sense. Would be better if you can choose what to think in a certain situation. Take the projector inside the office for example. Click it and you'll gain bitch points. A decision in this case would be better. Or the random objects at the gas station. So for a "perfect run" you need a walkthrough (which is provided by the dev himself, kudos for that).
The absolute other flaw is the MC herself. This is a mix between story and gameplay. She is a bitch and even if you do good deeds, she stays a bitch. Good thing is, if you are doing good stuff, less painful stuff will happen to you. If you go full evil or good, many options aren't available later on. So a good mix between good and evil seems to be the best solution.

I really was surprised that the game comes with german text. The thing is, it is kinda engrish, feels mostly like machine translation and can be definetely tweaked. Translations aren't easy and fun, I know that, especially when the base game doesn't comes in english. A little polish and it will be more enjoyable. Translating my favorite games mostly for myself to my preferred language.

No idea why but the russian produced games have always the most fitting soundtracks as well.

Started EP2 and maybe it will raise the stars to 5.

Keep up the good work!

This game combines fantastic renders and videos with a very consistent and interesting story. Developer updates are often and they are also consistent and satisfying. Overall it's one of the best adult games i have ever played and is certainly influenced but has further improved aspects from previous games.

So much negative energy in the game. You can do what you can, but you have no choice and then becomes only shit. You need more action do, but progress is null. You don't see light on end of tunnel . This game is very good for masochist.

Definitly a good game with a very good, slow developing storytelling. The graphics are nice with unique perspectives and a pretty protagonist.
Over all it´s a top ten game which deserves more than 5 stars in certain point of views.

One real big con: It is unbelievably grindy. You need a hundred clicks to clean the house, another hundred clicks on guys on the street an the reactions are stupidly repeating itself. Don´t get me wrong, I´ve given 5 stars for the overall performance but without downloading saves I wouldn´t reach any progress. Somtimes you have to play for twenty minutes to see one new scene.
This game is in some parts outstandingly good but the grinding is destructive.
When the developer would reduce the grinding by 90% it could be the perfect game.

It is a special game. The pace is slow so if you want run through a game with lot of lewd scene without teasing this game is not for you. Monica is the protagonist and she is maybe the most beautiful 3dcg character i have ever seen. She is a really spoiled rich bitch but if you feel the flow through her viewpont of the world this game become a lot of fun. You can choose your way with other characters so up to you how bitchy the protagonist can be. Render is absolutely top and lewd scene animations are smooth when you see a lewd scene you can watch from lot of camera angle which is unique i really like it.

One of my favorites!! Definitely in my top 5. I know we are supposed to hate Monica, but for some reason I really love everything about her. She is strong willed, likes to be in control, speaks her mind and is very hot!
My only gripe is the size of the downloads. I am at the mercy of somebody creating a compressed version.

Version: Ep. 2 v0.11 Hotfix1

PROS:
- Very good renders of female characters models
- Good quality of Animations
- Good sex scenes

CONS:
- Progression system with grindy
- The game consuming a lot of time
- A little few sex content with the main character

Review:
I sincerely expected more for this game. Not many adult content games of female protagonist that are good, it's not because that we play as a woman and we think things are limited, because playing with a male protagonist is different, but it's because of the story being really bad. The story of that game didn’t arrest me, on the contrary, there were a lot of exaggerated and meaningless things. I know that the game's proposal is a woman character who lived a luxurious life, who was a celebrity, very beautiful, charming, hot and with a wonderful body and lose everything I had and live in a life of misery being a slave for money and having to resort to recover everything. His career and life has been sabotaged and now he will have to go through blackmail and humiliation. This is a good character and story script, but when it comes to applying, the game becomes quite tedious.
Gameplay:
It's a point-n-click with a progression system, I don't see any problems with this format of games, I like point-n-clicks and a progression system, but in this game it is quite boring to play. There is no RPG or something that can give you more excitement in your gameplay.
Episode 1:
The Ep.1 tells the story of Monica and her choices they can make. You can act like a bitch or a kind person. Acting like a bitch will have consequences, because the game wants you to act like a bitch. In this Ep.1 there is not much to do, just follow the story with a point-n-click gameplay and make your choices and follow the scenes. There is very little sexual content, but that does not mean that it does not.

Final Rating:
With a system of progression of corruption that makes you spend a lot of time, with an insignificant grind and with little content presented in the female protagonist it ended up leaving me disappointed. Do not misunderstand me, I’m not saying that the game has no content or that the protagonist doesn’t, just that the content presented isn’t much enough for the time it takes you. During the game you wait for great things that can happen, it will depend on your imagination of how you like to play an adult game. I'm being very sincere. The story proposal I liked, but the execution I detested. Therefore, I am giving a rating of two stars. The animations are good, the protagonist has one of the best renders I've seen, but I expected much more. Anyway, the biggest disadvantage of this game is the time you consume and the unnecessary things you do. Not every game has a good story or one that makes you stuck in it, but this gameplay is bad to play.

One of the best porn games ever played! Fine graphics and animations. Monica is an very sexy and interesting charakter! The dialogues are sometimes a little "flat" for my taste but always funny and to the point and thats much better than most other porn games. I like this game very much so far und hope there will be much more of this quality! Good work an go on!

One of the greatest games ever. It doesn't have lots of lewd scenes (compared to other games) but the story is quite unique, the characters are also well created especially the main character. the story is captivating and takes you on a journey. if you just want to see some renders and jerk off this is not for you, but if you enjoy playing an actual game, start downloading it NOW.

Some good stuff here, but story, writing, and the repetitiveness of the gameplay really brings it down. It's a day and night cycle type of game. You move around the map, talk to people to improve your stats, make money and unlock more scenes, locations and outfits. That sort of thing. Fairly vanilla sex, aside from the forced/rapey element: Blowjobs and straight sex only. I think the most extreme act currently in the game is the prison blowbang near the end of the current update.

Good:

• Monica is hot.
• Great renders all around (poses, outfits, locations)
• Attention to detail. For example there seems to be a render for every pantie color inspection, for all locations (at least all the ones I tried). Most games wouldn't bother.
• Lots of content.
• Overall pacing is actually good. Monica didn't just go from prude to super-slut in 11 seconds flat.

The bad:

• The story/premise is so dumb and poorly executed it adds little to the game. It almost had something acceptable going with the "the rule of law doesn't apply to the powerful", but the whole setup for it doesn't really work. You go from feeling kinda bad for Monica at the start, to hating every NPC in the game, to just not caring about anyone because it's all just so dumb and just clicking past dialog to watch the smut.
• The Engrish is strong with this one. Clearly not the dev's first language and it sometimes makes it hard to know what an option is going to do.
• Needs some quality of life enhancement:
  • Make outfit changes automatic when traveling to all places that need it (like you already can with the slums).
  • Reduce number of daily tasks as story progresses. I think Monica should be able to eat automatically in the kitchen by now. A bit of grind is good in corruption games (IMO), when the amount and context is right. The stripping grind for example, was good until I needed to unlock a specific combo with no way of determining what I was missing.
  • Not having to eat every three days. So tedious. Fine for the beginning of the game but after the 100th day it's just annoying. Click click click click your way to the bed, then click click click click to the gas station because monica is too hungry to sleep, then click click click fucking click back to the bed to sleep.
  • More shortcuts to stuff you've already done in general.
  • Quest log could be a lot better. Hard to know why you can't progress at times.
• Unclear messaging with the whole "you've already maxed out NPC so-and-so". You initially take it to mean there's no content for that NPC, but it just refers to their reputation level.
• With the amount of grind I can't even imagine replaying this to do multiple paths... Only the most die hard fans would bother.
• The combination stuff like unlocking every stripping move to progress to the partner strip needs a better progress tracker, or should be reworked. Brute forcing through combos I had already done just to get the final one I was missing in order to progress, was no fun at all.

That said, I will proclaim the dev a subversive genius and change my review to five stars if I get an ending where Monica gets to slowly feed Frank, Marcus, Biff & friends to piranhas.

More character writing ie Monica's thoughts on how far she has fallen etc would be amazing i think that is my only knock it doesn't feel like she is humiliated enough in her own head. overall though game has amazing renders and great use of assets to be well worth the time and or money if someone wanted to give it a try.

So first up the pros ... the main character looks excellent, they really pull off that high-class stuff well, and the renders are solid, and I like the theme.

But that's where it ends.
The main problem is the gameplay is terrible. You can't even advance dialogue lines with space so expect a ton of clicking. One example is you need to create a distraction in a gas station, there are tons of items to click on, but no you need to go to some shelves, click off to the side, click off to the side again then smash a bottle (despite having already clicked on tons of bottles) ... there's absolutely nothing rewarding about it at all.
The language isn't at all natural. Both in terms of the English not being spot on, but also in that the character's lines are cheesy and not in any way something you'd realistically expect someone to say.

But yeah, the game is an absolute chore to play, I couldn't recommend it at all.

This is my first review ever on this site. So that tells you something about this game.
Pro's
great artwork
good dialogue
great MC
great story
lots of very good side stories
well done and interesting NPC's

Con's
the dialogue is mostly good but sometimes can be wonky in spots
with out the walkthrough it can be hard to figure out what to do sometimes.
The biggest con of them all though is the almost complete lack of feeling like you have to actually do anything. The MC Monica is suppose to be down on her luck, forced to do things she would never dream of to get by and or avoid the fate waiting for her. The problem I have is you very quickly realize you never have to really do much of anything and if you ignore things nothing bad actually happens. That really kills the immersion for me personally.

I am giving this game a 3.5 stars and rounding up on the rating. I would give it a 5 star in a heart beat if not for my last con I listed. The lack of feeling desperate and like you really have to do horrible things. Kills the immersion and then Monica's horror or revulsion at doing stuff is just lost because she doesn't have to do it. You the player choose to do it so you can see the content, and that to me is a shame. I do hope that gets addressed at some point and you once again feel the cold fear of dread of having to do things Monica doesn't want to, but does anyways to avoid something worse happening.

All and all I recommend the game but be ready to lose the immersion of the amazing story the game has.

this is such a retarded game. how can you devs waste so much potential in the game by writing this shit dark kind of story. I mean, c'mon it's just making people to more hate this game rather than loving it. The ART IS TRULY BEAUTIFUL. But how can you do this to a pity Monica?!!! I expect a massive comeback for her. Even she's such a manipulative bitch, no human deserve to be treated like that.

literally the best and top quality 3d game with animated scene i have ever seen in my entire freaking life
graphics quality and characters behaviors was executed perfectly, 9.6/10, 10 if you make pussy/vagina looks better and make them more "animated" when you are in a h-scene

Artistically speaking, this is a one of a kind game, you can tell that the developpers value every detail just from clicking on items on the screen and the description that pops up every time you do it, the story is dark but well written in my personal opinion, you'll either like or hate the main protagonist but no one can deny how good looking she is and she is quite saucy too. There are many characters you can interract with and certain dialogues can lead into interesting scenes, basically I haven't noticed an illusion of choice in the gameplay so if you want a certain type of content you'll get it if you play your cards right if you dislike something it's easy to avoid it as well..The grind level is moderate you can advance the story easily if you follow what's happening and not skip the text. Monica Buckfett is an arrogant hateful woman but after some time I've grown to like her somehow, she's quite strong and resilient, quite the character...I give this game a well deserved full rating though I would've preferred a 8.5/10 or 8.75 but the star rating would make it unfair if I gave it just 4/5.

Its the best game on this platform. The developer works really fast and there is an update each six weeks ---> just perfect!
Moreover the quality of the renders is just amazing. I dont know any other game, which offers renders in this quality.