Ren'Py - Completed - Femboy Streamer [v1.0] [Pepperjak]

You will seldom find a review on a pornsite disappointed to find out that the game was, in fact, porn. I would absolutely not blame you if you assumed a puritan lost his way onto this corner of the internet and decided to shame people for wacking it to a video game.
But that's exactly what my review is. But also it isn't. It's complicated.
Despite my better judgement, I clicked on this game because its art style was very familiar. That's when I found out this was the same dev behind unravelling angel, and instantly I was sold. That game, although unfinished, *was* one of my favorites on the site. I say "was" because finishing Femboy Streamer has completely changed my perception of all their previous and future works.
I'll get out the way. I goon. I'm a gooner, you might say. I've played many games to mindlessly wank it, and I don't see an issue with anyone else doing the same. Even so, this dev has shown in the past that their games were aiming to be more than that. And call me naive, but reading the name and synopsis of this game knowing that had me excited for a trippy parody of the AI slop "femboy roommate" games flooding this site. I was not put off by the rape-incest-pedo shit because Unravelling Angel did the rape-incest-pedo shit thoughtfully and with purpose.
This game didn't. It seemed like it would, it was poised for a slam dunk- but the fake out never came, and the camera never pulled back.
Okay, then dev just wanted to make some very taboo femboy porn, right? I can't say I'm not personally *disappointed*, but who am I to yuck someone's yum? But that's the thing, the game *also* fails in that angle. The very same glimpses of the kind of introspective, lolita-esque story this could be would be exactly the kind of thing to turn off the people who'd earnestly be into it. The ending *especially*- or, at least the one I got, feels like the payoff to a different type of story, the one which actually wants to examine the harm of rape and incest in real life. But the fact that the other 4 hours of story are ran on hentai logic (people 'cumming' at being raped, the victim secretly wanting it, the fucking heart eyes) renders it null and void. I can't imagine someone gooning to this, nor can I imagine someone critically engaging with this, and so the game fails both the target audiences it could have had, and so the game fails entirely.
Art's nice, music's okay, writing is perfectly competent. But the parts of this whole don't really matter when the whole doesn't know what to do with itself.

This game is a unique experience; it puts the player behind the eyes of an average stream mod who abuses his offspring.

The interesting part is that it's an adult game, so on one side, you see the abuse and most likely despise the main character and wish for his demise. On the other side, you might partake in the sexual gratification aspect of the game.

So it is definitely a weird experience that will stay in your mind after playing, most likely in a negative way, but it is interesting enough to make one come back to see what happens.

On the technical side, the writing is good, and the images have a nice style to them. However, due to the limited quantity of art, a few images get reused quite a lot, taking away from the experience.

Definitely not for the faint of heart or for those prone to depression.

At first I thought this was just another femboy cute game, but it turned out to be a game of manipulation and control over the boy, so I caution other players to be prepared to read a story that is not good for your mental health at all.

This game is exceptionally fascinating, and a truly horrifying experience. I believe that if it was handled slightly differently, it could be a genuinely good piece of not pornography, but art.
What it reminds me most of is Lolita. The protagonist is a monster deserving only of the deepest pit of hell, and an exceptionally unreliable narrator, and does a horrible job of hiding it from the audience.
In much the same way as Lolita, I think there could be a lot of value in this game as an honest exploration of the most wretched corners of humanity, but it has one crucial failing, which I will explain thus:

The first scene where the protagonist assaults his son was, in the build which I played, subject to a glitch, wherein the visual assets failed to load, instead showing a blank screen with the text over it. I, however, unaware of the bug, was initially under the impression that this was an artistic choice.
through a number of tactics, such as the sexualized term "Femboy" in the title, or the tags on the itch page, the author had, I believed, deceived us into believing that this was a porn game, something which exists for our pleasure. In so doing, they had lowered our guard to the true nature, which was that of a psychological horror. In accordance with this genre switch, we are denied a pornographic depiction of the rape scene, in that we are not given a visual depiction of it.
I thought this was an ingenious choice. However, much to my dismay, as I continued the game I realized that it was, instead, a mere accident of code. No, we are allowed voyeuristic view of the rest of the horrid deeds, encouraged by the nature of the images to pleasure ourselves to them.


To my disappointment, this game is, in fact, porn.