Ren'Py - Finding Cloud 9 [v0.7.2] [Onyx Decadence]

The character models look amazing and I mean just really fucking amazing. But that's about it.

Story
The story seems kind of interesting but this game definitely needs a proofreader and I clicked through shit at high-speed because I wasn't about to read that borked grammar. There's definitely shit where you'll have to suspend your disbelief but it's an AVN so whatever. No real high standards here.

Grammar and spelling:
- WTF! OMG. Stop. Think about it for a fucking second. Would anyone in real life say "WTF" aloud like that? No. Maybe back in the day, people would say "OMG" but don't pretend "WTF" is a normal thing people say in-person. It's a story. Not a text message or online message.
- "Why not" "Let's go" - These are just two off the top of my head but one is a question and one is a statement. I'll never understand when people put question marks at the end of statements and then the next sentence, put a period at the end of a question.
- Put the damn currency symbol before the amount. I remember looking that up before to see whether that's an actual thing and couldn't find much on it.

Sandbox elements/Free roam:
Feels kind of pointless and this is coming from someone who actually likes sandbox VNs.
If you got rid of it entirely, it could just be a choice menu that popped up like:
1. Go see so-and-so
2. Go see the guy.
3. blah blah blah

That would all more or less be forgivable if there were more scenes:
A lot of hot looking characters and there's almost nothing to do with 90% of them. If the story's meh, the grammar's no good, and the game mechanics are redundant then the one thing to fall back on would just be scenes with characters. Yet I think I got 6 whole scenes from 5 episodes and 5 out of 6 are just handjobs and BJs.

I'm really sorry but I don't think this is good enough to be a slow burn. Although, honestly I can't get past the terrible grammar to determine whether I enjoy the story all that much. It's like the literary equivalent of nails on a chalk board.

Edit:
I still have plans to come back to this one eventually when I have the time. But the occasional "likes" I get each time there's a new update or as time passes in general don't really instill a lot of confidence that anything's improving.

Honestly this game features the best character models i have ever seen in a game on this site. Every girl is non-identical and they all have their own unique characteristic and background. The story is interesting enough to keep me attached to the screen, regardless of the half-baked gameplay. And another fact that bugs me the most is the lack of sex scenes, or even teasing ones. Nevertheless, the game is still in progressing so i have faith in it, really looking forward to more NSFW content.

Great game so far who deserve more publicity, the renders and the scenes are very good, the story holds up well and the renders are top notch. Animations could use some improvement but that's just me quibbling.

I cannot really give it anything less than 5/5. The quality is too high for anything less... Some of the most beautiful women I've every seen. The fact that it has an options to skip most of the navigation and other boring (for me, I am sure other ppl find this fan) is a big plus for me. The only "complain" that I have is that the sex scenes are limited (but I have that will change), short and without any control (not sure if the last part is bad). I am really looking forward for the next version.

Story 1/5
Cant say i found the story any good, you might like it if you enjoy being everyones slave and extremly submissive if not then theres no point in trying this one.

MC first get asked by hes stepdad to deliver something illigal and MC is more then happy to help him out.....i mean fair enough but when the stepdad gets arrested and leaves MC a note saying he has to take over and deliver drugs and shit thats where the story gets idiotic, why would MC risk it or even consider it when he could just turn it all over to the cops and ask for protection, starting to deliver drugs to dangerous people can only lead to a shit show both for him self and the family so its just to stupid.

Then he takes some weird girl with him to the stepdads drug lab and she starts ordering him around, clean this and do that and MC is just a submissive idiot doing whatever hes told.....and what does MC think "shes absoultly stunning"....thats just awfull then she says sorry and MC forgives her being a bitch, he might as well drop on hes knees and beg for a cookie...

Then theres the hole stat system thing, if you dont have the right stats it pops up with dialog options that just say "nah just forget it" that just gets annoying, those stats pretty much ruins the fun of playing when you cant do anything or say anything.

And game tells you its to help the family, but if they knew belive me they wouldent want MC to do any of it and going behind their backs just like the stepdad is just putting a second knive in the families backs....it only shows its poor writting and a brainless MC, i mean you could make a drug dealer game in many ways but this one is just to shitty.

The game really should have been over when MC gets shot at and he falls down in the water, then it would all make perfect sense.....but no MC survives and is brainless so he goes stright back to the shit instend of seeking help and again risking hes own life and hes family.....story is really this bad...

And no it dosent get any better.....MC will go on being 100% submissive, accepting when people tell him that they own him and he has to do whatever they say whenever...i just dont enjoy this type of MCs, walking around saying sorry to people who treats him like a dog...i mean come on....

MC ends up fully trusting the drug dealers and tell them everything about everythinig, MC seems to like to trust people who he should never trust and not once does je think about how he can get out of the mess, but insted he acts like they are all family....helping with body removal, learning how to make drugs, robbing people, the word no is not a word MC knows like at all, so yeah again sooo damn submissive, and ofcause theres never a choice given to the player about anything, MC just keeps thinking "oh fuck i keep getting deeper and deeper into this shit" not sure how he can be so clueless when he never says no or stand up for him self or even try to find a way out....

Most of the girls are either on drugs or criminals which leaves out alot of LIs when not into either of those types, but MC seems to think every girl he sees is hot, idiotic thing to make MCs thought process like that since it ruins any chance of keeping the immersion going if the player thinks shes an ugly bitch.

The sandbox part is not bad, its mostly just annoying having to click maps and arrows and it has 0 reasons for being a sandbox, all it does is give you the "freedom" to do quests in the order you want, but nothing changes no matter what order you do things, my guess is the sandbox is there to hide the kinetic novel tag since its a very linear questline.

Girls 2/5
They all look bland, not really any hot ones and theres pretty much no diversity in builds its like the made a copy/paste of the bodies and put a diffrent head on each and it really dosent help when i dunno 75% is on drugs or a criminal that MC should stay away from....

Animations 4/5
Hard to rate this one since all there is at the moment is a BJ scene, but for what its worth it was looking very good so if the real sex scenes are as good it will be great.

Music 4/5
Proberly the best part of the game, even songs with lyrics but it cant carry a novel on music...

Choices 4/5
Theres barely any choices and none that matters, its all out kinetic when it comes to the main story and as for relationship who knows, it does seem like you have a choice which is extremly rare in a sandbox game so thats a plus.


If this game had any kind of choices so it would be the players choice to do stuff or not, it would have been a million times better, just being a submissive slave is just not my kind of fun and it really makes the story fail and not making any sense, i mean if they ask him to kill someone he has to kill someone its going so far out of the park for a young kid to just blindly follow along with everything.

I almost gave this 3 stars but the story is 80% to me and adult part 15% and everything else 5% and to me story was really bad and theres no sex scenes at all so cant really justify more then 2 stars.

The Pros:

- The Plot of the story
- Renders
- Characters
- Good but not perfect writing
- Great build up


The Cons:

- Dialogue can be used better, sometimes sentences and such can be reworded.
- Sandbox could be easier the navigate through. While it's far from being terrible, I feel that things could be added like a instant bedroom button and/or a skip time feature.


I tried this game and while it's not perfect it's entertaining to say the least. I'm kind of over the whole young MC and crime sthick that pops up every so often but that's usually because it's done horrible most of the time. I think the author tries to make it realistic while at the same time add his or her share of drama and suspense. It's not all over the place, no side stories from side characters. The story is constantly moving forward which I respect. I'm a breaking Bad fan as well and liken our MC to a Jesse Pinkman without the drug habit. The pace with Riley is nice and slow but I have my eye on Callista, Sabrina and Chloe.

I can see myself supporting this type of project. Best of luck to the dev.

Massively unfocused free roam game with horrible navigation. Navigation is such a chore in this game that it renders all other positive aspects like renders moot.

Bloated sandbox but extremely linear anyway as you have to follow every event in exact same order to progress. So the sandbox is just a myth to prolong gameplay by making it tedious.

This game is strong on all fronts. Refreshingly, the character writing is really strong. All the characters have depth because they all have motivations and back story. In particular, the girls are more than just props to act as sex toys for the MC.

Moments of passion feel real and organic. This gives the player much more emotional investment and enjoyment when hot scenes happen. There is usually an undercurrent of sexual tension too between MC and the girls, which also adds to the enjoyment.

If you are looking for a game where the girls will hop into bed right away, best look elsewhere. The girls are crafted so they need an emotional connection to the MC first.

On the artistic side, the girls are all cute/gorgeous and the hot scenes to date have been well animated.

Kudos to the creators - it's great to see something where the creators have a clear, artistic vision.

As a game it is good but as an adult game it is on a very low par. Two chapters with one breast flash and one shower scene, not really what one would expect from an adult game. Story is pretty good and there is a plot here that slowly is unfolding. Question is whether or not a player is willing to wait it out. the intellect in me found this to be a good read and can see the developer is developing something here, but the adult game player in me found it hard to stay tuned in.

Nice renders. Well written I mean there is actual story there. It has game aspects but I wonder if story branching is successfull. If it is this will be one of best ones arround and if not it's still has potential to be great.

You know, it's kind of hilarious... and sad at the same time.

As of v0.2.2, here we have another prime example of one visually very polished basis for a 4-star or 5-star game with...

[+] good quality renders,
[+] attractive LI's,
[+] features like a gallery/special renders, a quest tracker & an index/glossary/stats overview,
[+] a well-implemented UI
[+] music, atmos & fx sounds.

Apparently, the dev has gained some good experience of quality presentation and visualisation. Neat so far!

[o] Sandbox. Not the grindy one, but still.... Some may like, some may hate it. If the "free roam" sections are going to give the player exactly the intended freedom eventually, then the sandbox will be more a plus for me.
[o] snippet voice sounds, like "aha", "haha", "uhm" etc. I personally hate them, so I mute them. Unfortunately I had to mute all sounds because those voice snippets were falsely assigned to the fx track.

Now to the mentioned sad and/or hilarious thing: the reason why this game is also a prime example for scattering its own high potentials and efforts:

[-] The Writing. As polished as everything else is, the writing is certainly NOT. And I'm not talking about the plenty spelling errors.

Dialogues are sometimes kind of awkward, stilted or even forced "coolish" and make desperate efforts to sound casual. But they don't come natural. Beyond, there's a bunch of annoying nonsense chatter most of the times. Makes me feel pity for the intellect of the characters. Narratives aren't strong either. It does not really help any immersion to write them from the 3rd persons' perspective like "He (the MC) is doing..." instead of "I am doing..." as well.
In short: the dev seem to have much less experience and skill in writing , contrary to their visual ones.

But - sadly and most surprisingly - every story is only as strong as the writer and their skills to tell this story in an engaging and compelling way. What's hilarious for me with this game here is that all the apparent solid work efforts are very much undermined needlessly by the sloppy and unexperienced writing.
A huge issue this game shares with many other stories / games here unfortunately. Too many!

Due to the bad writing I couldn't enjoy all the positives of this one.
Conclusion: as of now this is only 2,5 stars instead of its potential 4 or 5 stars. And as of now only worth a recommendation for those who like to skip the story/dialogues and enjoy the renders solely.

What a fantastic game at least for me, the story is nice the renders are also good, first I had doubts about sandbox but when I played the game the sandbox was not much of a problem it was very simple and non confusing if we compare it with other sandbox games, the quest system is also very good you won't get stuck as long as you follow the hints in quest log there is no hidden quests or hidden requirements that will create any problems for you which nice because sometimes such hidden quests can take a very long to figure out and it's frustrating. Now regarding the story it may have been inspired from 'breaking bad' and it's execution so far is good and it definitely has potential to become one of the top games in this site, well I do appreciate that this game not the exact copy paste of 'breaking bad' but i wouldn't mind if the add Los Pollos Hermanos in it XD. Good luck.