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

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.

Great design and animation, such a slow boring gameplay that you want to shoot yourself.

I dont get why you waste your talent in creating a torture game.

Have to play and grind for an hour to see a single scene.

And it has to slowest intro ever. You could go finish witcher 3 by that time and have an actual quality time.

Updated: I deleted the game entirely. The author is a one trick pony who only knows how to portray the character as a victim to get her to do stuff. Monica panics: dialog, "I have to do this"

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The most redeeming part of this game is artwork id give that a 4.5 to 5.
The interface is good and its rather intuitive to move around.

The story on the other hand. Conceptually where it started off was good. Where it is at I'd give a big fat ZERO.

Here is why. Monica is supposedly smart enough to build and run a 100,000,000 company and in EP2 she doesn't show the intelligence of a grade-schooler. There is no way she was able to keep that type of company running no matter how many people she had working for her and not have some guts, intellect and common sense.

At this point the story and dialogue isn't worth reading at all. Save yourself the time and extract the images and just use a picture viewer. It will save you a headache of trying to ignore the gaping issues with the plot and dialogue.

As for the so called multiple paths they don't exist they are so entwined and reliant on each other that there really is just the one path going down shit street. You can't complete the fashion shoot without the corruption needed and you have choice of do the falling path with it or extend playing the game out to two or 3 years of doing housework.

The brainless twit Monica has turned into over the EP2 so far has ZERO chance of pulling off anything smart to get back her company or any form of revenge and getting away with it.

There is no explanation at all as to how she goes from being intelligent to a blithering pussy ass idiot at all.

I see little to no chance the author can turn this issue around. It would take making an equal amount of content and dialogue to what has already been create to create an actual path where she isn't portrayed as this complete moron.

If you need specifics say so. I'll be more than glad to extend this and add them in. We can start with the arrest, move on to issues, with Steve, Bardie, Biff, and more...

Honestly, the author missed out on probably the best possible opportunity with this. That would be her using her brains and looks to get close to the perverted individuals she is up against and thus having to accept compromises to get close in order to seek revenge.

Edited:
A bug made the game much more grindier than it actually was.

The story is good, the characters interesting and some animations are really good. The game could use more sex scenes with monica but overall a good game.

This game is a Very Very Good!!

Beacouse this game is good ?

Nice animations!
Nice story!
Nice characters!
good amount of scenes +18
HAVE A PLOT TWIST!


* I was the only one who felt very bad for monica at the end of 1? *

I love the genre of this game I love how they blackmail Monica and giving us an option what path should we take to this game. This one of the greatest game in this site, I'm looking forward for the next update or next chapter maybe.

wonderful game!
congratulation to the developper, he's got real talent.
i Can't wait to see more.

and now : i'm sorry, i'am french, i'm not good in english, so i wrote this useless sentence just to reach the 200 character, because it's much much easy for me to wrote this.

Probably the most beautifully rendered game in this genre so far with pretty good story and characters! A lot of scenes and images to see and pretty much no bugs from what I’ve experienced. Some people don’t like the grind but it isn’t as tedious and i never even paid attention to it. Could be from people playing update for update as well where you have already seen the old scenes and have nothing to do in between them or have to grind something to get there instead of having a smooth experience from start to finish.

(Reviewed at version Episode 2 - 0.7 )

I tried this game once before when it was on RPGM, and it was an utter grind fest. Why games in RPGM seem to want to grind you into nothing is something I've never understood, but they do. I remember the whole jail cell sequence with abject disgust that a game would do that to the player. So I hoped with the change to Ren'Py, stuff like that went away.

It didn't. The creator still has the same exact horrible day 3-12 or however long the jail cell sequence is exactly the same. It is still the most wasted sequence I've encountered in a H-game. And as I moved into chapter 2, it didn't get appreciably better. There are still lots of senseless running around to do, but now it's senseless cleaning acts to do, as well as running around trying to get food, into your office, etc. I bailed on the third day playing maid, as I couldn't take it anymore.

The models are decent, but the MC and the original maid seemed to be stuck going from stupid expression to stupid expression on their faces.

Your only choices in game are primarily "I'm a bitch" or "I guess I can be sort of polite/kind", which leaves us with a MC that's not likable.

All in all, I'm sorry I wasted my time on this game again, and I made sure this time to Ignore the thread so I won't forget in the future.

This game started so good with Chapter 1. Due to chapter 1 being an introduction, main protagonist did not get any major scenes but game compensated it by showing very nice and long scenes with other npcs with each other (h-scenes). Chapter 1 also ended in one of the biggest cliff-hangers with ton of potential. Future looked so bright.

Nevertheless, at the time of writing this review it is now the 7th release and game is just a grind fest, with no substantial content. It is true there are ton of picture in images folder but majority of them are the same pictures from different angles and with few changes here and there. Game feels like it did not move forward and that the player just grinds endlessly to get a single scene.

For insult to injury there are even less hardcore h-scenes in second chapter of the game compared to first. I have pretty much lost interest in this game, will most likely check it out if it continues to chapter 3 or 4 but this one feels like a bore. It is getting 2 stars just due to chapter 1. Second chapter own its own would have gotten none due to silly grind and wasted potential.

So I really liked this at the start (when it was RPGM) and specifically held off playing it agin for over a year whilst it was converted to Renpy so I could play it and see a nice amount of new content.

The story is a bit 'dumb' but hey I don't mind that. It just takes far to long to move along due to grindy mechanics, who wants a repetitive cleaning simulator?

The Dev is a good 3d modeller some of the best renders around, but he isn't a game designer. IMO he should partner with someone who knows a bit about UX.

Animations are okay, but the use of a moving camera for short looping animations is a terrible idea and some of the model movement is really wooden. Not something I'd normally complain about but some of the scenes have far to many shots and camera angles. I'd imagine that 95% of the devs time is spent on rendering. Maybe he should more time on actual game design!

damn i am so conflicted about this game. i like how you monica is so strong and doesnt do anything at first or even second time but... damn its a bit exhausting to do every scene multiple times to raise teh corruption level...

and in my honest opnion even monica is kinda sexy, i much more prefer melanie and would have liked to play her. i like her face more, her stronger legs more and her bigger tits with bigger nipples more.

is there an update where i can see the progress of the dick scene with melanie? it stoped when she approched him the last time i played this game... so i hope to see more of this scene since i didnt saw anything of her or dick...

and i hoped i get a bit curvier by eating cakes and other stuff with much sugar in it.. but it seems even she doesnt do sport she still keeps the same shape. that would be a hell of an update to either play melanie and fuck dick and her boss, OR get a thiccer monica who fucks her boss.

btw what model is melanies? just for research purposes ofc

otherwise insteresting - and not too easy - story. hopefully things above will be added and more sex scenes.

otherwise idk how long i will play this game cause the mc is visual just a but over average (even her face is cute) and the hole playstyle is really exhausting.

tl;dr: more melanie (own melanie game?), curvier monica (look at melanies body nd nipples!!), more sex scenes, more interactions with other ppl and less repetitive quest/day-work!

A good game with a lot of fucking problems.

Cons:

The impetus for the plot of the game is, I hate to use this word, but it's fucking retarded. Nothing about Monica's detainment makes a lick of sense and it takes a hammer to the head to follow it without having serious questions.

Dev is milking the shit out of this. There's no reason why the "falling path" is progressing so slowly when she can suck dick for 5k a week. That money is going directly to another person, she can't touch it. Her personal money is solely dependent on her whoring herself out (or falafel advertising if you're a lame-o) and yet she can only show her tits for like two dollars? What kind of fucking sense does that make?

It's grindy. Some games are far worse, but it's still unnecessarily grindy. There are quite a few things that could be cleaned up so it's not as bad, for instance it's possible to forget to ask for payment for a thing and then you've fucked your entire following week.

The dev spends far too much time on pointless camera angles (one sex scene, 8 angles! Most of them suck!).

A lot of the animations are terrible. Like, really bad.

One of the characters has a much too large cock which makes any blowjobs with that character, of which there are a few, look stupid since the woman is basically unhinging her jaw to accommodate it. Who likes this? I don't get it.

Episode one has atrocious English. Spelling is fine, but grammatically it's fucking awful. I assume the dev got proof readers because it's greatly improved in Episode two, but still has issues, such as referring to a woman with a masculine pronoun.

The Bitch / Nice thing is so, so inherently flawed. At her worst, Monica is a total cunt, at her best she's a manipulative bitch. She, as written, is incapable of being "nice" since her inner monologue is cunty and backhanded no matter how you've chosen to approach her dialogue options. Part of my issue may be that we just aren't deep enough into the game for there to be real ramifications for her demeanor (apart for some idiotic happy ending where you miss out on the entire game). Time will tell just how worthless this system is. My advice would be to have both good and bad saves in case. Personally, I would've preferred a dominant / submissive type of system, since she appears to be an irredeemable jackass.

Since this is on Patreon, it suggests the future possibility of things that are completely outside of Patreons rules, such as bestiality.

A lot of background items in the world can be clicked on. For certain places, this makes sense, it creates a bit of world building and insight into Monica as a person (she's a narcissistic gold-digger, there's not a lot more you need to establish with that beyond her awful inner monologues), but some times it's laughably unnecessary: "It's a computer monitor, I can't see what it says". WHAT WAS THE FUCKING POINT OF THAT? WHY DID YOU WASTE YOUR TIME WRITING THAT?

I've already slammed the game's plot for being, um, mentally-challenged, but it does get (a bit) better with episode 2, until the Bardie (fuck kind of name is that?) and Betty storyline... which, yeah.... more dumbness.

The fact that the "failing path" (street prostitution) can be done concurrently with the main story line of Monica getting her empire back is... incredibly poor writing. Good writing would be that a total bitch Monica, having burned her bridges, is forced to resort to prostitution just to get by (and perhaps opportunities open up due to this). Again, there might be more of a payoff for this shit later on, but Episode 2, ver. 6, it just hasn't happened yet.


Pros:

Monica is one of the most beautiful characters on this entire site. There are some truly awesome still renders of characters, but sadly they're just poses. A lot of the sex scenes... just don't work for me.

Any female protag corruption games are worth a play in my book. The prostitution angle is even better, but it hasn't been handled very well so far.

There's nothing really gross in the game... apart from rimjobs, which are not my thing, at all, but if that's the "worst" thing, it's still not bad. Sure, there's a bunch of ugly ass men, but given the type of game that this is, one should be used to that. It adds to the "corruption" aspect of it all.

Situations are super hot. Potential situations are hotter.

The idea of her being an illegal immigrant (again, lol) and forced to debase herself just to get by, is interesting. It's too bad it was handled so clumsily.

The allure of future enticing things. You'll encounter greyed out options for things that seem hot, but who knows how long you'll have to wait for them. I both applaud and am sad for patrons of this dev.

Despite all of the time wasted on pointless renders and animations, the monthly updates are pretty solid. His biggest failing is with the falling path.

Honestly, and obviously, I dislike a lot more of the game than I like, but what I do like is what the game may one day become... rather than what it currently is. I do like it, despite its many, many... many.... many flaws. I know three stars means "average-ish", but this an above average game, but, as it currently stands, it is not worth four stars.

In my opinion, this is the best 3d female protagonist game out there at the moment. Renders are great. Story is entertaining. Loads of smut and balanced with the grind. One of the most consistent release schedules and a really diligent developer. This game is a must play.

EDIT: Over a year later and still getting consistent, quality releases. This dev earns his keep more than anyone else in the business. There are a few solid competitors out now, but this game is still top tier.