Ren'Py - Fashion Business [Ep.4 v9.02 Extra] [DecentMonkey]

I found the first 3 episodes pretty grindy. But recently I started playing episode 4 and I found it much more enjoyable and less grindy compared to the first 3.

There is one particular ending in the fourth episode which was simply perfect for my liking, and after finishing episode 4, I am definitely going to revisit the first 3

Beautiful graphics (and animation).
- Lots of exciting and very detailed events (mostt based on humiliation and blackmail).
- Good text.
- Many character and nicee.
- The game is growing.

Fashion Business is a unique game with the story god damnn, enjoyable

Top quality renders, nice animations. Interesting story and still only 2 star rating.

After completing EP1 of the game I was amazed by the title. But EP2 is just simply terrible. They have made game that took me around 20 hours
(and still didn't complete it) while there's maybe 5 hours of contet.

Terrible ammount of grind and bad quest desing. The fact that you can do 1 part of specific questline per ingame week is just poor choice.

I'm not sure if this was improved in EP3 and then EP4 but to be honest after amount o grind i had to go through I don't even want to find out.

They really should re-work EP 2 and fix gltiches blocking progress of the game .

So yeah unless you really enjoy pointless grind i can recommend this. Otherwise just avoid this title..

the 4 stars are only because monica and other women are not the (huge tits, small or tiny waist, huge ass/thighs) alien looking like woman we see in 80% of the games .
i will not complain about the grind because there is not so much grind, i can see the dev made the effort to balance it in a good way, the grind/content ratio is quite good.
no complain about monica, she is quite hot,

for the rest, i won't mention all the flaws.
but the obvious bad things aboiut the game are :

sex scenes, man i'm not asking for raw and brutal sex but this game : sex scenes movements are so slow it's like 2 koalas are doing it.
which is comical because you get those dialogs " take that ... etc" while the guy is moving like a 90 year old granpa.
strangely enough the 2 sex scenes in chapter 1 with the waitress at the pool and the woman in the fuel station were rather good but sadly in chapter 2, 3 and 4 every sex scenes are slow and not exciting.

cartoonish villains, basically everybody is able to abuse monica, even a little brat kid like in this grotesque chapter 2, hell it's ok when smart and powerfull people can abuse but this game features too many "dumb and non powerfull" characters being able to do what they want with monica, it's like the dev wants the whole world to be able to do what they want : extreme cartoonish setup.
for sure you have the choice for monica to refuse which is good but when you do so, well you just miss game lewd content, so what's the point.
also the villains always smile, for exemple the car driver, it's so boring and cartoonish. this unthouchable boring victoria etc ....
btw how strange the dev decided to remove the little kids in chapter 3 and 4, probably realised how grotesque and boring it was storywise.

i don't know, what felt realistic or believable and pleasant ( for gamers searching "domination" stuff ) in games like "special request" or "the interview" is just not present in this game.
this game feels more like a tex avery version of those.

once again: the sex scenes , not sure why some people say they are good.
they're not, they are so slow they just put you to sleep so if you consider going throught this awfull tex avery story setup to see some good scenes, just forget about it.
you'll waste time for nothing.

for sure the game has some good moments and qualities, but they are ouclassed by bad design flaws,

i'm not blaming the devs, i think he gives the audience what they want, in the end, to make money, everybody will choose the option to please the maximum people.

sadly, i think this game is not grounded enough and is just an "abuse" fiesta just for the sake of it, without realism nor balance.
to the point that i cwouldn't be surprised if a dog in the street manage to convine monica to bang with it....

as i said at the beginning, 4 stars for monica and some women having realistic body, the rest.... just no.

The game starts off with a lot of promise, drawing you in with an intriguing opening that sets high expectations for what’s to come. Unfortunately, those expectations quickly begin to unravel as you realize that neither the story nor the characters evolve in any meaningful way. Each scene unfolds in a predictable pattern, with little to no character development or progression. The only element that changes is the renders, but even those feel hollow as they’re locked behind a frustratingly convoluted and grind-heavy progression system.

The game quickly devolves into a repetitive grindfest, where the player is left slogging through monotonous tasks just to unlock the next scene. This cycle not only diminishes any sense of excitement but also creates a sense of pointlessness. The primary draw of the game—its beautifully rendered images—becomes overshadowed by the sheer effort required to access them. Instead of enjoying the game’s content, you’re left wondering if the grind is truly worth it.

If your main interest is seeing high-quality renders, I’d recommend simply using the gallery unlocker rather than wasting time on the tedious progression. Unfortunately, the story, characters, and the grinding mechanics simply don't justify the effort, leaving you with a sense of disappointment rather than fulfillment.

Playing this game feels more like a tedious job than an enjoyable experience. The gameplay is a constant grind, where unlocking new images or scenes requires repetitive effort without much reward. The game’s interface is clunky and unintuitive, making it frustrating to navigate. Every action, from simple movements to interactions, feels like a chore rather than something engaging.

One of the most off-putting aspects is the stats system, which adds unnecessary complexity to the game. It seems designed to discourage progress rather than encourage it, and the only ways to make any real headway are through cheating or spending an excessive amount of time grinding. This system undermines any remaining enjoyment, as the focus shifts from exploration or narrative to simply “grinding” through a series of monotonous tasks.

Even something as basic as getting out of bed and walking outside requires multiple clicks, making every interaction feel laborious and drawn-out. The scenes themselves, which should be the highlight of the game, fail to justify the effort required to unlock them. Ultimately, the game feels more like an exercise in frustration than a fulfilling experience, leaving little incentive to continue playing.

This is a unique game with its story. Normally a game with this much sex becomes boring but that's not the case with this one. As every new scene brings new heights to the game.
The quests that Monica does are so diverse that you get every tag you desire for in FMC game.

What I like?

The models are good. The pacing is nice. The story is interesting. The sex scenes are good and abundant. Overall, it is a great game with all sorts of kinky fun content. It's huge, and there is a lot of game here.

At the same times it has glaring flaws. The amount of content is plentiful. If you never played this before give it a shot, but be warned it will drag out for a long time.

What do I dislike?

This would be the best game ever but for the fact that it is a sandbox. This game would be far superior as a Visual Novel. There is too much unnecessary run around. You go to place, get a scene, go sleep, go to place again get a scene again repeat until you run out of scenes for that place.

Furthermore it is cut up into 4 huge parts. I don't even want to know how many renders and animations this has. It's a lot more than most completed games, and THAT IS THE PROBLEM!

We finally get some endings now... Please Decent Monkey wrap it up! This game is so done. Please move on to another project, and make it a VISUAL NOVEL! Nobody likes that sandbox bullshit! We don't want to click through a whole week of in game time to get to a scene. We don't want to run around finding all these random people. There is plenty enough content to keep the player engaged for a long time without a sandbox! You don't need to torture us like that!

Last but not least... Activation codes suck! It's annoying as fuck when you get a pirated update and then wants some activation code to get certain scenes? People don't want to be blackmailed like that into paying for it, and a lot of people can't afford it.

Very pretty main character. I am impressed by the graphics in this game and all the quality of the erotic scenes. The plot may not be extraordinary, but I do not expect that from an erotic game. I like that we can turn the main character into a whore, because I like such games. Additionally, we have the opportunity to make various choices, which is important in the game world. The game also has humorous elements. I will add that if we become a stripper, we can expect hot views. I recommend the game.

I am not very good at writing reviews but I like this game so much.

The story, the musics, the porn is also good.

Normally i,m not a big van personally from Ren'py, there are only a few ren py games I like and this one certainly appeals to me.

And after I am done with this game I will definitely check the developer's other projects.

Visuals: 3.5, same body shape for all characters with no much variants

Character design: 2, All girls almost look the same body wise, not much variations.

Sounds: 2, generic porn sound

Story: 2, Makes no sense it is all about female characters getting humiliated over and over and over. This game is perfect for niche audiances who get off girls being mad lmao. And I am saying this for people playing this game for +6 years.

Gameplay: 1, There to waste time and drag content. Gameplay should make players anticipate the upcoming story progression but in this case you will be so happy to find out the cheating options

Performance: 3, bugs here and there but the community can help. There are few members here that will reply immediately to you.

Animations: 2, Almost the same over and over it gets tiring also the end/start of motions are not that fluid.

Amount of content: 3, this content is nothing if you know that its been developed for +6 years. And the content is in the same places, same characters with no much variations.

Conclusion: 2/5

It is clear to me that the developer has skills but their choices baffle me. This game is appealing for one type of audience who like:

• petite bodies only with no variation.
• humiliation and only this
• female ch not being happy with sex like the whole game is blue balling revenge arc.
• to get off on bad vibes
• variation to be minimum in everything

I made this review as detailed as I can. Play it and see for yourself.

This metaphor came to my mind while writing this. Slow cooked steak on low heat will get you a perfect piece of meat. But "this" steak is getting cooked on room temperature which will result in an inedible "thing"

Admittingly a bit of a slow burner in the first act but then it quickly ramps up and has continuous waves throughout. Love the multiple pathways and options to take the character through. Mains characters renders are some of the best I've come around, camera angles, lighting and animations are of high quality. After playing this a lot of other games seem dated in comparison .

+ Beautiful graphics (and animation).
+ Lots of exciting and very detailed events (most based on humiliation and blackmail).
+ There is a storyline and good text.
+ In the latest versions there is almost no grind.
+ The game is growing.

Fashion Business may not be the best game in the world, but it is objectively good. That's why I don't understand people who underrate the game.

Plot: Welcome to the Blackmail, humiliation, corruption paradise. Monica is a beautiful powerful businesswoman who hates everyone and everything including sex, she even hates orgasms. A secret organization governed by the most powerful men in the world "recruits" powerful women through abduction and financial destruction to transform them into 100% submissive to sexually serve animals in the mysterious Farm 218. For some reason, the recruiter helps Monica to not immediately go to the farm to be turned into an object and kicks her in the streets with no money, only with her powerful manipulative mind. Through sexual corruption and manipulation, she starts slowly climbing to her stolen throne, but the price is self-degradation and extreme humiliation.
Characters: Each character has a unique and strong personality, something rare to find in adult games.
Art: Brilliant. The female bodies are not exaggerated like almost all adult games, no extra huge tits and asses, but extremely realistic bodies and faces.

what can i say, this game had an insanely strong and promising start, but its inevitable downfall began with the bowing down to censorship, instead of migrating to a place that allows creators to deliver their original beautiful creations without too much over the top moderation, that ultimately damages the final product.

PROS
1. the story line starts off strong, with it being the strongest in the first two episodes, with so many different branching story lines, that are optional, but truly add to the entire games overall narrative of a spoilt bitch MC that ends up losing it all. you can choose to embrace the bitchiness or neglect it, that freedom is upto you. wanna be a prostitute? sure go ahead. stripper? go ahead, a exhibitionist? go ahead. it has most of the great things.

2. the animations. the first two eps have decent enough animations, but by episode 3, they improve drastically. from different angles, to more smooth transitions. it gives the player more control, which is always the best way to go.

3. the sex. now sex can be frequent or infrequent, it all depends on you and how you play. it ranges a few kinks, most of the more taboo natured like watersports ive noticed is locked behind further paywalls. but it offers a solid enough foundation. i however wished it allowed anal only playthroughs, as for my bitchy mc, she saw everyone beneath her, so it would make sense for her to give up her anal or oral vaginity before her vaginal.

4. the character models. theyre so refined here, with a diverse cast of different looking characters that dont look too alike eachother. sure their bodies could be abit more different to standout from eachother, being weight differences and all. and sure theres a couple. but for the most part, you can tell the developers have chosen to refine the existing renpy models over using the lack lustre default ones. BUTT HOLES LOOK LIKE BUTT HOLES, AND NOT RED RAW MONKEY ANUSES lmao. so thats great

5. the rpg freedoms. you can explore this game how you wish. wanna be a major bitch? sure go ahead an birate everything and everyone. wanna be sweet and niave? we've got that too. this game allows you to venture how you wish, and with your choices defining how you behave and act. and i loved that about this.


CONS

1. the deleted character and story line. so ep 1 and 2 remains to be the true versions of their vision. having a great story line of a fallen entitled mc, that gets manipulated by the residents son, and by doing so she has the choice to decline or fall victim to the son and his friends. and i loved that dynamic. it was my favourite of the story lines, and my favourite of the characters. as it felt refreshing to see that douche bag male character that we tend to play as the mc, but instead we're at the opposite ends of that perversions. now its been stripped, and for me my main interest and intruige of where that story and its choices will take me, has been taken away. what was otherwise gonna potentially be one of my rare 5 star reviews, is now average. and joins the long list of games that do exactly what this does, and at times better.

2. it updates systems for the sake of it, even if its for the worst. e.g. in ep 3, being able to just click "flash ass or flash tits" has been removed? why? why not do the logical thing and just expand further on the existing system? as what replaced it was essentially taking full sandbox freedom out of the players hands, and having it be decided for you. it was a step back in many aspect. id of loved ep 3 and onwards to of had that existing freedom ep 1 and 2 had, but of made it more lewder with the ongoing embrace of corruption.

3. the story started to become boring and tedious in ep 3, with the removal of the better branches of narrative. it became way too grindy, and now more generic.

4. the grind. lord have mercy. it has ALOT of grind before you get the more fun interactions. ALOT OF GRIND. so prepare

5. the navigation. i get immersion, but jesus. them first two episodes are rough. its a chore to just walk through one enviroment, let alone the entire map. however this has been rectified in newer episodes.


SUMMARY
This game is a good game, but it couldve been great, god tier even. however, it fell short to its censorship, and unnecessary "upgrades" to certain systems with intentions to add, but ultimately stripped the player of more choice. it has a solid foundation, and an interesting story, but i feel by episode 3 it started to fall flat with the censorship and just the story telling. if you want a good game, the first two episodes are the best in terms of story, but ep3 onwards are the best in terms of animations. this game couldve been god tierd, but ultimately censorship has stripped the game of its most unique and fun storyline. its alright, but its nothing to scream home about.

The game opens on a high note and leaves you with high expectations.

Those expectations come crashing down pretty quickly as you realise neither the story nor the characters are really going anywhere. Every scene plays out the same way, characters remain the same. The only thing that really changes is the renders. Renders that are extremely hard to get to because of the convoluted and grindy progression system.

It leaves you with a feeling of a grindfest and pointlessness. if you want to see some beautifully rendered porn. I'd recommend just getting the gallery unlocker. The story and the associated grinding are absolutely not worth it.

this is my first review so I hope I do it right.Surely this is a controversial game which either you love or hate.I love this game althought it gave me some hard time in the middle of episode 2 until the second Steve visit . After that point I believe the game porgress in a fast enough pace and the quality of progression and renders makes easy to forgive any faults you may encountered in the earlier stages. The models of some girls ( Monica , Melanie , Claire , Linda , Stephanie ) to name some of them are among the best I've seen in games. Easily one of my top-five games in the site. Sorry for my poor English as I am not a native spreaker

This game is rough. Not rough like needing more polish and work done to it, but just rooough. Not fun to play at all. Way too grindy. It's not sandboxy despite being set up like one. It's micromanaging a point and click game. "Game", sorry. The moment this game gets even remotely in the vicinity of interesting (waaaaay too far into the game, btw) it goes right back to boring random clicking with little sense of what to do or where to go.

I'm having more fun writing this review, which is fucking saaad.

Character models are okay. that's about the only plus. Story is dumb, the writing is bad, there is no gameplay but what "gameplay" there is is such a slog that you realize you just wasted hours of your weekend clicking incessantly through this shit sandwich trying to get to the first sex scene with the main character. Hours in, still nothing.

Avoid at all costs. Don't play this shit. Do literally anything else with your time and life.

This is a fabulous game. Granted, I felt the first episode was probably the best, though the 3rd is also up there (haven't played 4). The characters are varied, and beautiful. Sometimes you feel powerless just like the MC might. The one annoying thing (the first time I saw was is in Ch. 3) is the locked Patreon content. In some cases, it prevents choices, which breaks the immersion. The other thing that is weird (i feel that it should be spread in time) is the MC's desperation for money and offering services on the street when she already makes much more money as a stripper and/or has enough cash on hand to meet her needs. Initially when she is struggling for any cash, the street job makes more sense the way it is presented. Nonetheless, excellent game that I enjoy. As you progress in the game, the sex becomes more and more explicit. What I liked in Ch. 3 was that once again, I could choose to be a bitch or a nice person in some interactions.

DISCLAIMER: this is, obviously, a personal opinion. But I wil share the facts that makes me regret of playing this game.

Oh God. I need to rant. I'm pissed off. But pissed off with myself, for the hours I decided to spend in this game hoping it would get somehow better.

I played all Ep 1 and almost Ep 2 entirely. I give it 2 stars just because female models (and Monica on top) are amazing, and the idea of the story is interesting. But that's what makes me so angry. It had everything to be a masterpiece game, but decided to ruin it with a lot of grinding, meaningless dialogues, repetitive scenes, poor sense of humor and horrible male models.

Now I will give some details on the pros and cons I found:

PROS
-The main
story is very intriguing. Somehow unbelievable and can only happen in a world where many things "doesn't work" like they use to, but the story keeps you interested on what's going on behind Monica's fall.

-Graphical aspect of female renders is great, if not one of the best out there. Facial expresions are really impressive, and the aesthetic of the girls is very good. But this two pros get overshadowed by the many cons.

CONS

- The grinding in this game reaches stupid levels. It has no sense. You have to go and come here and there changing clothes, eating, sleeping, waiting days. It feels like playing a cheap version of The Sims. There is no porpose for the plot in this grinding. You just have to waste a lot of time doing repetitive things that doesn't add to anything. Just to compare, games like Treasure of Nadia have also a lot of grinding, but finding objects and doing different things related to the plot.

- The same goes with dialogues. I got tired of reading "I will drag them to dust" after a blackmail scene, or "I would never do (insert any humillating action)... On the other hand, I need the money". The dialogues with Victoria are fucking stupid. They underestimate the intelligence of the player. "Are you a good friend?" "Yes" "Tell me, I want to hear you. Yes what?" "I'm a good friend". Melanie and Monica have to repeat everything Victoria says.

-Even when the game intend to be funny, the humor is very basic and not fun at all. It lacks of creativity. "Ohh, well, another guy who just crossed the sexual boundaries they previously agreed on with Monica. How funny.". Other games like Being a Dik have a sense of humor that actually makes you laugh, even if they are just moments.

-Every single sexual encounter occurs in the context of blackmailing/ prostitution. I'm not a prude. I understand that the game is not vanilla and that blackmailing is a main theme in the plot. But making this the ONLY source of sexual encounters makes the game more and more repetitive. All the sexual encounters have the same structure: Monica is blackmailed. Then she agreed on making some sexual things to the guy. The guy push forward the boundaries, Monica protest, but at the end accept the situation.

-All the male characters are by far more ugly than the average person. The only "standard looking" characters may be Alex and the profesor. I understand that it's intended to humillate Monica the most, and I'm not here for the male characters (I'm 100 % hetero). But let's be honest. We are here for the lewd theme. The plot is a build up toward these scenes. I expect them to be something aesthetic. I would not complain if 2 or 3 guys in the game were bad looking, but being almost every male character the hunchback of Notre Dame is a big turn off for me.

That's all I can say. It's a shame that the story and the amazing graphics are wassted that way.