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

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

Version: Ep. 2 v0.11 Hotfix1

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Good:

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

The bad:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

Previous
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.