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

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.

The Good

Renders are good, animations are quite good, writing is kinda ok.

The Bad

Interface is terrible, annoying chores you have to do every day, put on clothes, take a shower, eat food.
Also you have 3 types of clothes you have to change between for absolutely no reason. You can't do anything at home until you change into your "homeclothes" but you can't go to bed until you change into your underwear, BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE! when you wake up you have to change back into your "homeclothes" BEFORE you shower, then you can change into your daily attire! Chores in porn games are not fun or interesting. Another game brought down by poorly designed unnecessary systems. Extreme fucking grind fest.

This is one of my go to games here. As for favorite characters she's my no. 2 besides the UK beauty I have as my profile pic

Episode 1 was pretty quick and a nice set up for Episode 2.

Ok episode two was a grind I'll admit but the more I played the more I got attached to this game. I love Monica and her expressions and her comments. As a
MC she's one of the best in game characters on this site.

Side characters make this game too. Claire the stripper that right now seems to be Monica's only friend while everyone else uses or abuses her.

Biff, Vicki, Bardie the owners of the Shiny Hole. I hope you all are sent to the Farm.

Speaking of the Farm. The Marcus scenes are some creepy dark shit. Not showing the Farm but knowing what goes on there makes these scenes.

The Revenge path I love. Finally Monica gets some payback against those that caused her fall from rich bitch to surviving her current situation.

Only pet peev is yeah it's grinding but it's still worth the time to play this gem.

By far one of the best looking female protagonist, artwork, animation, variety of characters and interesting plot . It can be a little grindy at first but it pays off later in the game the animation are top notch with POV shots every update is delivered with plenty storyline to explore overall i would definitely recommend trying this game !!!!

EXTREMELY GRINDY SEXUAL HARASSMENT SIMULATOR

There is only one real fetish in this game: humiliation. The whole game is about seeing a woman to lose her social status and doing humiliating things, only some of them sexual ones, ALWAYS AGAINST HER WILL, because she´s blackmailed or forced to.

SO, THIS IS NOT A "CORRUPTION" GAME. There is corruption when a character is pure, and then, for any reason, starts doing lewd things and slowly discovers, even in spite of him /herself, that can't live without that lewd and kinky. That doesn't happen at all in this game. At the beginning of the game the MC says that she's frigid and doesn't enjoy and even understand sex and/or love, and that's the way she is during all the game. So, the game calls "corruption" to something that is "willpower". They say the character "gains corruption" after the humiliating events, but actually she only loses willpower to defend herself from blackmailing and abuse.

Also, she was a egocentric delusional woman at the beginning of the game, and she's the same egocentric delusional woman after a lot of updates. There is no "arc" at all, no development or change in the character. In my opinion, that´s a pretty poor way to write a story.

Situations and characters are pretty cliche and cartoonish in their behavior. All men are lame assholes, and women are manipulative bitches or naive victims (except maybe Claire the stripper, that seems to be an interesting character). As already said, If you are into the fetish of humiliation of women, this is your game. If your prefer a real corruption game or just something well written, you will be disappointed.

Game mechanics are awful. First and principal, the level of grind is terrible. Hours of clicking and clicking seeing the same scenes in order of getting a new event, usually pretty disappointing since the game plays to blueballing the player most of the time. The interface, even if aesthetically pleasing, favors the grind too. Mechanics as the ones of changing the dress for every scene are a pain in the ass.

There are no real decisions. If you say "no" to another character that is trying to blackmail the MC, you just don't see that scene, storyline or path and there are no alternative. So you just say "yes" to all in order of seeing the scenes. If not, the game is really short.

The models and 3D art is pretty good, including houses, streets, etc. The MC is well designed and it´s sexy. Also other feminine characters, BUT all of them seem to have similar "Barbie silicone" type of bodies. There is even a character, the secretary of the lawyer, that looks like a 12 y.o. girl with breast implants! She gives me the creeps.
A trophy wife as the MC or a top model as Melanie can have that kind of insipidly perfect "playboy girl" body made of mineral water, salad and silicone, but "normal" women in the game should have more realistic and varied bodies made of flesh and subject to the laws of biology and physics (as gravity acting in their breasts).

At least there are some original realistic faces, like the one of the strip club owner or the one of Julia. Most of the masculine characters are fat and old assholes. Since the theme of the game is humiliation, the MC is forced to have sex with them. I suppose that, for people into that fetish, this is OK, but most of the players won't find sexy to see a lot of close-ups of old penises and hairy masculine bellies.

In summary: a game that could be really good with better script, characters and game mechanics but it´s not. And it's a pity since it's obvious the dev has put a lot of work in this game. At the end of the day, it's game that you need a hundred of hours of gameplay to finish until Ep.2 V0.14 (the actual one), but not funny hours like the one you have by playing "The Witcher III" for example, but hours of frustration and boredom. You continue playing it in spite of yourself just for the sake of seeing what happens next after spending a lot of hours before, like a bad movie that you see until the end even if you are bored just because you want to know who is the killer.

A piece of advice: don´t start playing this game unless you are heavily into the fetish of feminine humiliation.

27.12.2022. Since my review in 2020 the developer improved the game quite a bit:
1. EP.3 has almost no grind. You only have to visit certain places to see the events. That's all. No endless clicking.
2. The game has been improved visually significantly, both the pictures and animations. EP.3 is now one of the best looking 3d DAZ games.
3. The developer has implemented a quite nice walkthrough into the game. Now you just go into the menu and it says what you need to do. No more confusion.
4. EP. 3 is now much hotter than previous ones. More sex scenes and those events are much better made and interesting.
So, now I think it is the best female protagonist game on this site, at least among those which main kinks are corruption and humiliation. I highly recommend it.
But you have to play it until Ep.3 or close to the end of Ep.2 to see how good this game has become. Don't judge this game based on Ep.1 or early Ep.2.


Old review from 25.07.2020.
The game is controversial, that is for sure.
Pros:
1. The model of the mc. It is a rare case for a DAZ 3d game to have a completely unique model. Most of them are run-of-the-mill girls a little changed in the editor. Monica is beautiful - not too thin, not too fat. No unrealistic gigantic boobs or super wide hips.
2. The game revolves around two main kinks - humiliation and corruption. And the developer has done a pretty good job implementing them.

Cons:
1. The game is extremely grindy. From this point of view it is probably the worst Renpy game I have ever played. To see a new scene you need to make hundreds of clicks, especially early in the game.
2. Sometimes it is quite confusing how to make progress. There is a guide that tells you how to do it, but in my opinion, if you need to read a guide to play a porno game, there is something wrong with its gameplay.
3. Other girls, except for Monica, are quite ordinary. Some people may like Melanie, but her model can be seen in other games. More than that, she doens't look like a fashion model at all, just watch the Victoria's Secret show and see. She is caricaturish - too wide hips, too thin waist, even her face features are exaggerated.
4. The pictures and especially the animation are not so great for 2020. There are quite a few games that are significantly better from this perspective.

Also, it should be noted that the developers are quite assholes. It has nothing to do with the game itself, but still. You can see it easily from what and how they write in the thread, the business model they have chosen to use for their patreion and so on .

Overall, if you are into the kinks that the game concentrates on, I'm quite sure you will enjoy the game. But if you don't, I think you won't be able to wade through all the grind.

This game is great thanks to the beautiful artwork, animation, variety of characters and uniqueness of the plot. In addition, updates have been released regularly over the past year and a half. Decent game from a decent developer

terrible plot, terrible story ,terrible pacing and most terrible grindd
only thing not terrible are the renders and few animations (even though you have pay at least $20 every month to get the good stuff)

Great game overall.

• Randers are great
• Annimations are good enough
• I understand some of the criticism about the inconsistent story, but come-on... it's not finished yet
• Writing is a bit childish, don't care. Read a book, don't play a porn game
  

I'm giving this game five stars for two reasons.

First of all, the renders are absolutely amazing. Not just the quality, which requires admittedly a good computer, as well as advanced technical skills. Clean, well-lighted, well-textured. Beautiful high heels, dresses, manicured nails, my favourite fetishes. But in this case, the actual art as well. The posing is pretty much always original, as far as I can see, and if not, at least its not the most used and abused Daz3D poses. The facial posing is beautiful, brilliant, amazing. 3D models often come to life in this game thanks to the detailed care given to lip, eye and eyebrows posing, especially for the MC Monica. 10, 12, 15 stars would be needed to accurately rate this aspect of the game.

Secondly, the game is indeed underrated. It should be a 4/4,5 star game, along with other games such as GGGB, even if it has many annoying aspects, most of all in the gameplay.

CONS

-Ren'py, and no rollback...can somebody please give me a rational explanation for this??

-The scene replay function doesn't seem to unlock some of the scenes played. So you're stuck with your own saves.

-Usual annoying aspects of open-world games...you need to click your way in and out of rooms, elevators, buildings, etc. and it just kills the gameflow. But the renders are all so beautiful, they do make it less annoying.

-The writing is not bad, some mistakes, but its incredibly repetitive, since it always appear, even after the 456th time you repeat the same action, day after day. Why not just do without it after a while, when you need to change the MC's clothes, or make her do housechores, etc. - i.e. when it adds strictly nothing to sexual arousing? Its just extra clicks and loading time for nothing, and I end up simply tabbing my way through the entire week by skipping the dialogues.

-The grinding gets sometimes truly ridiculous, for example to complete the black swan photoshoot.

-The pace of the game is just too slow, like so many other games, in order to keep it supposedly "realistic". By the time Melanie gets fucked doggystyle by Victoria or sucks off Alex, you've already gone beyond the point where you want to see her drowning in cum in a gang-bang session.

-A lot of 3D models do not live up to the dev's talent, and role distribution is annoying. Why-oh-goddamn-why aren't the 3D models of the twin office workers for example used in an office storyline instead of that poor, plain, hairy dog Julia?? She already plagued the first part of the game with a star role, while so many better looking models are left in the shadows as mere props. Its truly enraging. At least you can cut short the lesbian side story where she's involved. Ok, so she's a funny character, and her plain looks admittedly match her "nice" personality, but this is a porn game...

PROS

Apart from what I already said above, the two star characters of the game, Monica and Melanie, are truly beautiful, and physically complement each other really well. Both can easily give you an honest boner, but in a different way. I also like Victoria a lot. I'm glad the three are involved, that is a real plus to the game.

edit: forgot to mention the music, which sometimes is a real plus to the game, for example during those breathtaking Melanie catwalks on her way to Dick's office.

Also, the prostitution route, really fucking cool as well. I truly hope Monica will be able to work at some point as a cheap slum whore as well as an escort, that would be really amazing. Its kind of strange no MF sex scene is yet available with her whore clothes on, which I really love.

Beautiful game, you can see the dev is truly passionate and involved in his work. But as for practically all Western porn games, an honest rating can't go without a "CON" section, unfortunately. As a game gets really good and special like this one, you're bound to be more critical of its negative aspects than for a game that sucks, or is just average. I guess that's the very unfair price to pay when you're as talented as Decent Monkey.

Love this game, gameplay, story, quality render and lot of gorgeous women but on gallery why not have hints for extra and non extra. I hope develeoper give more melanie scene I love melanie scene more

Update 4/21/2021
After seeing this update I am convinced it is the developers personal goal to see how crappy of a story he can write.
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The art work of the game is top notch. The content of the art work isn't always to my liking. People have different likes and dislikes. Seeing a seen wasted on foot jobs does nothing for me. There are others as well.

The review covers EP1 and EP2 both.

I just recently played this through. Looking at the history on here of the game I would say it at one point had a lot of potential. At this point I don't think it has much left. It would take massive rewrites and changes to make this game into something I feel is worth my time. I know looking at posts on here that isn't going to buy me any popularity. O'well.

EP 1 Monica you have the ability to choose what type of person she is. If she is good well there is a crapy happy ending. Sorry. I don't need the moral lessons. Bad shit happens to good people all the time. Nothing Monica has done in any of the episodes brings me to the point of thinking she deserves any of the stuff happening. If this is what people consider a bitch is or someone bad I would love to take you on a tour of the shit I seen and lived through in my life.

If a water was the measure of how much of a bitch someone can be and a 10,000 gallon swimming pool is the max I seen. Monica doesn't even rate a few drops in the bottom. Take a woman who ran over pedestrians on a side walk because traffic was stopped at a light and she was late for her hair appointment. Insistent to the end it was the pedestrians fault because they didn't get out of her way that she was more important that they are. I can give you hundreds of examples. Monica is a sweat heart compared to many women in the real world.

Monica isn't perfect but who is. But to think she is any kind of real bitch and not just a business woman tends to say more about one's own weakness.

Moving into EP2 Monica is has nothing but bad choice given her and everyone is out to fuck her one way or another. The repetition wouldn't be so bad if there was some decent pay outs in it.

Which of the current sex scenes am I supposed to find attractive or a turn on Phil, Steve, The fake girl friend, The foot job scene, the guy watching masturbate in the hotel.... Sorry I have interest is seeing some greasy fat ugly as fuck screw a girl no matter how hot she is.

Lets look at Phil a bit more closely. He treats her like shit an object and she is to go along with him why? He doesn't pay shit. At least Steve she can get 5K from. Most of the story plot line can be ripped to shreds.

This story probably could have been great if the author put even 10% of the time he does into the art into actually thinking about the story and why the characters wold do X, Y & Z and then actually coming up with a means for them to do various stuff. Plan out the personality beyond this shallow effort made.

Take the lesbian stuff. Sure it was a given since the get go Monica is strait so you don't expect to much. But to say Julia was anti climatic and disappoint is a serious understatement. Turned out to be a total waste of time. I mean pretty much that's the way I felt following any of the paths.

The only hope I'd give this game of turning into something good is if it has a revenge path where Monica driven by these people goes off the deep end and becomes a serial killer and unleashes holy hell on everyone that fucked with her and took from her in the most sadistic way she can come up with. Think S&M meats Ted Bundy. She does whatever she needs to to get close to them and while their guard is down.

That or she takes on a Vigilante role as an Anti Villain and cleans up the corruption while during which she finds she has this build up of lust from killing these assholes and has to find a way to release it in various ways.

So you take on the role of a dumb(so dumb she dosent know how to get into a car or find an item in a wardrobe) rich delusional woman and she can be either be good or bad but the bad end is not finished(even through it says complete) and it dosent seem like it was even intended to be so the bad route is pointless.

Navigating this game(100% not needed as its a linear story) is pretty bad but that dosent even come close to the horrible item interaction, clicking on an item then click walk to item then click again on item then click again to pick up item then click on second item then click once again to use item together, WTF you might as well add a button for breathing at this point.

78 images of a fully clothed woman doing yoga just from diffrent angles in a single scene is ridiculous overkill and with no skip function you have to click every single one.

Hiding vital things you have to find in tiny places you would never guess so you have to use the guide in most places.

Loads of "choices" that have no other choice(utterly pointless).

Honestly i almost didnt bother with the game given the no saves problem and now i wish i had not wasted my time, the roll back barely works and straight away in the second part there are loads of game breaking errors.

The only nice thing i can say about the game is the art work which is very high quality but its easy not to notice while playing given the major problems the game has.

The game is awesome. Render is excellent, the story makes sense. If you are into some kind of humiliation thing, I think you'll like it. The game certainly deserves a better rating than it has right now.

The best game I have ever played, the story and graphics are the best so far. Just compliments..
A unique game that brings excitement and raises it to a higher level.
I can’t wait for the new parts to play.

This is not really a 5-star game, but I'll give it an extra star to counteract those who gave it a single star because there was one aspect of the game that they didn't like. That's simply not fair to the developer. People talk about the great graphics (so, maybe 4/5 or 5/5) but don't like the story (so maybe 1/5 for that). Those numbers don't average to 1/5.

The game is beautiful, the dev is active/timely and the most accommodating one here to positive criticism (consider all the gameplay features added to the game in response to constructive criticism). It's easy to play, the choices are pretty clear, and hotfixes are created as soon as issues are identified. You can't ask for more than that.

It is repetitive in a lot of places. Worse, it is repetitive with identical dialogues. Probably the most painfully bad example of that is the tech guy in Monica's office. Monica has to ask him for the reports, and he reminds her he doesn't have to make a report, and she wonders why she forgot that. Then , the next day, she will have to repeat the process, with the reminder and the wondering, and the player just groans out loud. Same with the woman who asks about the air conditioner every damn time, the woman who doesn't have her report ready every damn time, etc. Those should all be one-time occurrences, and afterwards player should just be able to click a button that says "collect all reports" without clicking 20 times to select each office worker and hear the same old dialogue.

But, there's a saving grace that makes the repetitive stuff much more tolerable, which is the fact that Monica doesn't have to work every day, and the player can skip days at will. There will be some unavoidable grind at the beginning (cleaning the house, say, or serving clients on the street), but, pretty soon, corruption will be coming by the bucket, and that grindy stuff can largely be skipped.

Those who want Monica to be corrupted enough to enjoy being humiliated miss the point of the game. Corruption just changes what she is willing to do to get back to the top. It doesn't make her a slut, she just becomes increasingly willing to bend her own rules. Complaining about Monica being Monica is silly, IMO. Yes, she's always angry about what is happening to her and what she finds herself willing to do to overcome adversity. She's strong enough not to break, and that's what I like about her. So, 4/5 promoted to 5/5 due to external factors.