Ren'Py - Fashion Business [Ep.4 v8.00 Extra] [DecentMonkey]

The graphics used are truly excellent. They are doing a very good work. The plot is intense right from the start. The characters well characterized. But it's really repetitive, to unlock something new you have to do the same actions 40 times and size starts to be a problem.

Requires way too many clicks for a simple interaction, turns into a grindfest real quick because you end up just trying to click through as many menus and submenus as possible. The dialogue is also incredibly stupid, and nothing about it makes sense.

This is the game to play when you hate the world and want to see everyone punished, yourself included. There are no likable characters, if they aren't evil predators they are pawns in service of such. Story choices determine if you have a bad ending, or suffer humiliation on the way to that bad ending. The map is pointless since the story is linear. Much of the story hinges on MC's vanity, most other character renders are plastic surgery disasters with oddly angular heads. That said, it's fun to watch bad things happen to bad people and this game lets you do just that.

This game is something of a mix, with much that is unique. It has an assertive, interesting female protagonist, which most games here lack. It has top notch graphics in unanimated scenes. It has a far more interesting plot than most games here, and more interesting characters. The developer has probably the best schedule and productivity in this business.

This is somewhat counterbalanced by some factors. The unanimated scenes are much more sexy than most of the animated ones. Much of the sex may feel bad if you want both parties to enjoy it. Considerable repetition of routine scenes is required to complete much of the plot. This latter problem could be solved by adding more spontaneity and randomness in the events, but the RenPy medium makes that very difficult to do.

This game is worst vn on this site why you say simple the grind, you have 2 meters that you have to fill a corrupted and a bitchiness meter the bitchiness meter when it's fill means you will not see any sex scenes in the game which is why is that even a thing the other is corruption meter the grind for the first couple of hours is the worst of any bad korron mmo i have played to get the meter filled a bit in the began of the game you have to go to the food guy our do be a maid in clean our you can steel the problem is that you get like 1 point in there is about i think 1000 points you have to get earn and that's not even the worst part of the game the characters and story is know it's a porn game but man do the characters suck the main character is meh and the other characters are the worst julla started out ok but once you go out with her she does a 180 in turns in to all the other peves and rapist in the game the models and the sex sncess are ok it's clear the dev puts alot time into them they get better with each update still there not the best I every seen but there ok the models are ok to but alot of the characters have this wired laugh that they do which makes the models look bad. the writing for this game is very laughable she was a rich bitch that had a empire would have been great to have her do what she wanted to other chartartes but nope you get blackmailed and raped by all the characters the only way to play this game is with the gallay mod that makes you skip all the lame grind of this game I would stay fall away from this game if you tell the dev game is to grindly you get called a troll and he reports you he kind of sniffs her own farts the game has a lot of bugs which is casued by the sand box there is 0 resson for this game to be sand box out side of the dev makeing the play time even lonnger but hs would get a 0/10 from me

Everything I'm looking for in a nsfw game! It's just perfect. It's so fun to be a bitchy boss and so hot to watch her fall and become more and more corrupted. I especially love the Office and Falling stoylines. Really looking forward to future updates!

I will start with the positives. The game is an alright corruption game with a female protagonist, who doesn't become a complete slut after sucking 2 dicks, so to some degree its a bit of a change from the usual. It makes the stuff she does carry a bit more weight and adds a bit to the humiliation. The art is good and so are the scenes although none of em really blew my mind.

As for the negatives...well everything else basically. One of my biggest gripes is that Monica is supposed to be this annoying rich bitch and you're kinda there to see her fall from grace and she's suffering because she's entitled etc., BUT every goddamn character in the game is the same or worse. Every character in the game will use even the slightest advantage/upper hand to blackmail for sexual gain without any consequence or remorse. Random people on the street will offer like 2 dollars to see your tits and any slight favor will warrant a blow job or something similar. This makes Monica completely normal for the world she lives in, so her being a spoiled rich bitch is completely pointless since everyone is a spoiled entitled asshole as well.

Second, i said Monica isn't the typical female protagonist, which is true, but that doesn't mean much. She does completely retarded stuff, the only difference is that she doesn't like it. Her internal monologue is always the same, shock, disgust then she does it, "what have i become" and then at the end she gets angry and promises revenge. Whatever.

Third, the gameplay is tedious as fuck. Its like the dev made it annoying on purpose. There's also no scene gallery, so you have to use a mod, which doesn't have all the scenes in, which again is annoying as fuck.

Forth, the story is just nonsense. I don't even understand why the game is called Fashion Business, since it has so little to do with it. I guess the idea started with the casting trope and a photo shoot, but that's about it. It really doesn't help that the game just doesn't take place in this reality. The characters are so unbelievable and the stuff happening to her are so dumb sometimes its really hard to suspend disbelief. I know its a porn game and we're all here to fap, but when i can show a guy my tits for like 2 dollars and then let him grope "me" for 5.... when Monica is supposed to be this hotshot boss, that should be at least a bit capable, you kinda go "yeah sure". Don't even get me started on the whole Marcus thing and some of the subplots go into insane directions.

Fifth and last, i don't understand why all the male's in this game (sans one) are so goddamn ugly. Is this a kink thing or what, but it made the game so much worse.

I think the nonsense story will just spiral more and more out of control as new updates get released.

The graphics are pretty good, everything else is horrible.
The game is slow as hell, you have to grind and grind again, the plot is lazy, and the UI is so bad.
Every little thing you have to do takes so much time because you have to wait a day in the week, but you have to eat, but you have to change your clothes, but you have to go to a precise location, but you have to go talk with another character before, but you don't have enough money, but you have to change your clothes again,...
And after you go through all of this trouble, the sex scenes you get once every 5 hours are boring.

Let me start with saying that I very rarely write any reviews, so this is only the second time I write a review of a game at all, of any sort. But I feel I have to, the game is so good and it has given me so much satisfaction… Of the 100+ adult games I have played hitherto, this certainly belongs to the top five, perhaps even in the very top. It has so many unexpected and quite extreme scenes that I much to my own surprise find very arousing. That is how good the game is.

So what is to like? A very beautiful, sexy, and very selfish female protagonist that thankfully is not that supersize breasted and superhorny stereotype that is so common in adult games. Her indifference or even aversion to sex is a real turn-on. The sometimes quite ugly guys just add to her humiliation, even though she herself doesn’t really care about guy’s looks, the are all ugly in her book.

The outstanding rendering of places and characters, the great animations, with such great detail. The scenes are extraordinary and the humiliation and difficult choises are very arousing, along with the music and sound effects. The photoshoots, danceshows, bar grouping, the extorsions by her ”best friend and Bardie, jail training…, just wow.

The gameplay is great, with very little grinding in my mind, and what I especially like is that one really doesn’t need a guide, the dialogues are in most cases entirely sufficient to guide you. It is just to play along. But nevetheless, there is a very good guide on DM’s homepage that one can check if stucked or to ensure that all scenes are covered. Surely, there are some (yet unfinished) forks, but there are clear warnings in the dialogue and with the proper saves that shouldn’t be an issue.

The story that takes so many unexpected, and very sexy, turns. It is a quite dark but very arouising world the developer has created to immerse in.

The developer show an extraordinary fast, productive and regular output, so...even though I know DM has left this site: thank you so much, for this amazing game, and please keep developing it for many years to come!

Pros:

-Good scenes
-Good story
-Good character development and progression
-Good graphics overall
-Repeatable scenes

Cons:

-Can't forward text and there's no option in the game, had to use unren
-Few unnecessary clicks to get where you want, like if you want to go the office, you have to first click in the building and then in the elevator, nothing happens in those places, could as well be removed and save some time
-Some hints for the quests could be clear
-Could use more repeatable fetish scenes

A game heavily invested in the fetishes of female humiliation and degradation. No positive emotions to be found within. Every character in this game is a horrible person. This is not a criticism, just a warning. If you have a tendency to impacted by negative emotion, avoid it.

THE GOOD:

• Beautiful art and settings, better than the vast majority of adult games.
• Somewhat internally consistent characters.
• Very attractive characters.
• Interesting world.

THE BAD:

• Open world as a disguise for linearity.
• Frustrating mechanics are that masquerade for gameplay (house cleaning and kebab job).
• Gamebreaking bugs.
• Dialogue continuously arbitrarily interrupted for no reason in order to make you click.
• Sex scenes suck despite high quality animations, due to the baffling decision not to loop the animation. You watch the characters jerk once from each angle and then become completely still.

I reckon this could be good when it becomes a bit more fleshed out. For now, it is a grueling humiliation revenge porn simulator which banks primary on misogyny and confuses mundanity for gameplay.

Someone should really make a visual novel version of this, cutting out all the crap and the stupid dialogue interruptions.

This one is a mixed bag, full of suprises and annoynances.

You play as Monica, an arrogant bitch and head of an fashion magazine.

Ep 1 is basicly a prolog with a few choices to determine your stats for Chapter 2. You also can adjust them right at the start of chapter 2, so there is no actual need to sit trough Ep1 if you are not interested. It has a few good scenes tho. No Rating for Chapter 1.

Chapter 2 : This is the actual game, with free roam elements.

Good: The art, as you can probably see. Pretty good renders overall pretty neat.

Writing: You can play in 3 different languages. Some typos here and there but overall pretty good.

Story: Monica wants to get her Power back but ends up in a Blackmail /consensual Rape scenario. She actually never got raped as far as i remember but she(the player) says yes because of her desperate need for money. It is avarage, somewaht interesting but nothin mind blowing.

Gameplay: You click mostly in the UI, swtitch places, do your chrores, earn money, go serving tables and more. Good is that you can click nearly every object that you see, the bad is, it basicly never does anything. I call it clickable decoration. Makes the world feel more real at first but makes the game feel empty, becauseit is not needed to click this stuff.

The thing that bothers me ( and the reason for 4 stars) :

It got that juicy "Corruption" path and thats why I usually play these games.
The thing is, even if you get her Corruption stat at maximum, she stays this bitch. This annoying over the top bitch. Her thaughts are always something like" I will kill this dipshit, when i got my power back" blah blah. It basicly doesn't even feel like shes corrupted, not in the slightest. It is the same Monica from Ep 1. No character Changes wahtsoever. It basicly just opens new ways to get blackmailed or get money. Hell she doesn't even has orgasms or masturbate. In every other game, she would atleast enjoy it a bit by now. But not here. We basicly can watch monica getting pressured in doing stuff but we never see her opening up a bit more to the stuff she does. Even during a lesbian scene where monica gets eaten out and starts to slightly feel good she justinterrupts it and says stop. This is such a huge letdown, since she deserves to drown in her pleasure until she forgets about her goals, atleast in the corruption route.

My hopes for the future: Let her experience some pleasure, give her oppurtunitys to cum and make her drown in pleasure.

Oh and, grinding:
It is too much, espcially the stripping part on the streets. At the beginning it is fun, but after like 40 repetitions with the same dudes, it just feels like a chore, especially because you can only flash 3 per day. Same with the table serving scenes, you can talk to 3 costumers per shift. So you just repeat this over and over again.
It is not terrible but, it could be easily possible to talk to everyone in the bar and just increase your pay for that.
Stripping and fotoshoots are also a bit annoying.

TL: DR: Pretty Long (Many scenes), filled with unnecessary Clicking and grinding. No Glimpses of actual corruption so far. Still worth a playtrough if you got about 8 hours left.

One of the greatest game out there. It has a slow corruption(but much more realistic compare to other games) and great graphics. Animations are top notch too. You should start with chapter 1 ues there is not much sex scenes in it but story is great so dont miss out abything. Add it to your list this is a must play.

Technically, this is one of the worst game I've played. This is due to the terrible design decisions and poor use of the Renpy engine.
This ends up in lackluster experience, with repetitive and awful gameplay that ends up feeling like a chore.

It's a shame as the renders are pretty good. The models are nice and body proportions rather reasonable. The story isn't very original but well developed with multiple paths possible. However those are ruined when it is so painful and annoying to get through the game, I didn't want to go throught any of it again.
I had previously played the first chapter and gave up because of the same reasons so it was disappointing to see this chapter 2 had all of the same issues.

If you can put up with hours of your time being wasted because of bad design, you may find something good in here. For others, you may pass.

This game is best porn game i had played till now the characters and and story makes this game completely fulfilled with all the requirement need to be a perfect porn game. More the animations and graphics of the game is superb.

Now I will explain why in my opinion this Ren'py deserves 5 stars and in doing so I will be very direct and concise.
This game is in my opinion the best Ren'py among all those that are in circulation on this site. The plot is fantastic, you play a woman of power who suddenly loses everything and finds herself in the position of having to start everything from the beginning ... without even having an identity.
Monica, the main character, will often be blackmailed and humiliated in order to achieve her goals. The game gives you the freedom to decide what actions Monica will perform and each action will have consequences later on. Every story deserves to be heard, I think you should give Fashion Business a chance.
The graphics and animations of this game are superb, in every scene you can feel the commitment of the developer and his passion in carrying out this project. DecentMonkey is a serious developer, it releases an update every six weeks or so and there is always a lot of content in every update.
Warning, this game has been criticized for being repetitive in some places, especially at the beginning of Episode 2 but as far as I'm concerned, I got so into the game that I didn't really care.
Also, the second episode is very heavy, make sure your pc has performance and space.
I was very fascinated by everything in this game and I hope I was convincing enough in exposing my experience with this Ren'py

Fashion Business is a cautionary tale of the perils of being a bitch. Monica really does earn that title and she never even blew the POTUS.

The game revolves around your character`s fall from power as a filthy rich fashion designer to on the streets, crack whore, literally.
Much of the game is about her humiliation and degradation, it can be pretty hard hitting at times if your a female. Everyone just wants to use or fuck her and the challenge is making enough cash without going on your knees. She never lets up being a bitch even after being used as a whore, girl are you dense or what?

The game has a shit ton of grinding involved and not just of the pelvic type, but repeating cleaning and missions everyday, like being the maid.
Still, overall I enjoyed trying to survive without being a crack whore and hope that future content may give her redemption.

The art style is really nice and overall the game looks good. The Marcus/Farm path is intriguing and feels ominous, cannot wait to find out what happens next.

Good game overall. Four stars from me.

As a person who enjoys female MC corruption games I think this game is... an interesting experience, to say the least. That's why this review is so long. If it was good, I would say it's good and if it wasn't I would say it's bad. Nonetheless, it's neither.

The Writing

You know the general idea about corruption games, you have a cute, innocent girl, generally inexperienced, and the conditions slowly turn her into a more sexually open, slutty girl who enjoys debauchery.

Well Fashion Business does quite a bit of these things differently. For one, the main character is a married mature woman, not a young adult exploring her sexuality for the first time. Two, the main character is not a pure angel. It's the opposite, she is evil, though a celibate one. And lastly, even though she gets "corrupted", she doesn't turn into a nymphomaniac right away. Or, at all. Yes, she slowly becomes more slutty, starts doing more sexual favors outside of her accord yet her character doesn't seem to really change that much. She is still a bitter, evil woman that uses sex only as a tool.

Now, the lack of character development is generally considered one of the bigger milestones of bad writing in any type of fiction. While I agree with that sentiment, I'd be lying if I said that FB doesn't have an interesting dynamic going on. Monica, as evil and annoying as she is, is a pretty likeable character to play as with her attitude and grudge towards people around her(who're as terrible as her if not more, if anything Monica is genuine). Every time she gets taken advantage of, she gets more bitchy and starts trying harder. The bets get bigger every time, she gets closer to having her victory while she has to let go of more of her dignity. It's not a one way travel downwards that's Monica's, it's a zigzagging route. I think this concept is interesting and surprisingly it works. Writing itself is a little sloppy, I mean the ESL is pretty noticeable in this one(not that my English is perfect) yet the tone of the game is more or less consistent with a slow but steady pace. There are some games in which the story turns into tragic crime stories from lighthearted romances in like 5 mintues. FB is not really like that, it succeeds in keeping a kind of dark, serious atmosphere with a sense of urgency for Monica's fate. Marcus is a pretty annoying antagonist, too. So, this is more interesting writing than 90% of these games even considering some cringeworthy plot details(the whole thing about the slave farm and animals, the prison part, LOL) and some absurd levels of suspension of belief required.

Now, I'm telling all these assuming that the game is going to end with a cathartic ending with Monica having her revenge against her enemies. Considering that the bad ending will be a separate thing, I like to think that there will be, I dunno. Anyway the writer has to decide about making this game either a story of falling from grace, or a story of revenge after falling from grace. If they choose to go for the first one and butcher the revenge ending, I fear this game will be just another mediocre corruption game for me. Well if they focus on the second option, I think it will be a pretty memorable work among the erotic games.

Graphics and Content

Character designs are cool. Monica is damn hot. There are a bunch relatively unique looking models for the side characters too, while most developers recycle the same 4 or 5 models. Not really any imperfections though, most characters look like supermodels. That's more of a design decision than incompetence, so it's okay for me. Renders, let them be story renders, sex acts or backgrounds, are good enough that I don't really notice them. I think the game suffers from the amount of renders and animations though. Not that there should be less, but they should be presented in a better way. I think there should be buttons to see the sex acts from different angles and a skip button instead of having 35 different images in a row for the same sex act without any dialogue. Like the photography minigame, I guess.

Half the scenes are vanilla and involves other characters than Monica and these are pretty meh. Monica's scenes generally involve some sort of blackmail/abuse/humiliation content so they're more interesting. As I said earlier, you won't find scenes with a girl getting corrupted in the traditional sense, so don't expect that. The MC is too proud to enjoy sex.

System

It's pretty bad. Not the worst, but close. Games with little roleplaying possibilities shouldn't be grindy adventure games. They either should be simple adventure games or visual novels. This game has too many mechanics without any uses. Monica should strip when she is going to sleep automatically, she should wear her maid dress when cleaning automatically, there should be a progress time button etc. Not to mention that the coding is shoddy, so there are stutters, right click is weird, the save thumbnails are wrong etc... and 9,7 GBs? Really..? Oh I almost forgot, that scream track is pretty annoying too. The developer should streamline the game, it's rough.

tldr Not great but different. Monica is an interesting MC. Character designs and renders are okay. The stuff like gameplay and grind is bad. I'll be following this game expecting the revenge ending and the slave farm ending.

The clicking needed single-handedly takes this from 4 star to 2 for me. Honestly it's that annoying, that much of a pace and mood killer.
Walk here, walk here, walk here, look here, touch here. Click, click, click, click.
Half of which is for pointless fluff tasks.
It's a shame because I like alot about the game.

A good VN lost in an absolute chore of a sandbox.