Ren'Py - Completed - Foot of the Mountains 2 [v5.0 Finale] [SerialNumberComics]

2020 Edit:

Review after V. 11

After defending this game as well as his previous games that he botched like Tangled up, I'm done. No Mas. Version 11 of Foot of the mountain shows me the Devs lack of writing ability. For starters their isn't much of a story to begin with at all it is just a horny MC trying to sleep with members of his household, all while trying to find out the truth about the murder of his parents.... Unfortunately the story or lack thereof gets lost in the repetitive GRIND. And when I say grind I mean, long, tasking, draining, excruciating grind in which you have to go through.

Knowing all of this I STILL gave the Dev high praise and even overrated his game by giving it 4 stars, I'm an idiot I know but the chemistry building Daniel (MC) and Melinda was worth it I thought. But Once again the Dev displayed his lack of writing by striving for shock value. He thought it would be a great idea to dismantle and shatter the character of his top girl by randomly having her raped by a... wait for it.. Black guy. Because the NTR crowds can't be left out right? Gotta rack in the extra cash from the cucks.

Listen I'm not a NTR fan, that's well established. But instead of griping about it I usually avoid all things NTR related. So this pissed me off particularly because it's the second time the Dev did it without warning, and mainly because it Melinda... The "best girl". Her rape/NTR scene was so unnecessary, yet the Dev it anyway. Why? I've already answered that question but I'll do it again to compensate for his shoddy writing.

Now Melinda is a rape victim, which makes no sense considering she's most likely the mastermind behind a lot of murders including MC's parents, now I'm just supposed to believe that this strong, dangerous, manipulative woman is all of a sudden a weak, feeble, VICTIM?

Reviewing V0.4

Story: Big classic like "Tangled UP"(and TangledUP2), "Shaping Her Future" and other games: Weird/Nerdy guy who fall in love with another weird/nerdy girl, but he must deal with some personal problems before the happy ending...(probably dealing also with some evil relatives who want to hide something from him and that something may be important for his full happiness.)

Originality: [Read the games mentioned in Story and Playability]

Renders: Meh, I have seen to many bad games to actually say something bad or good about renders of this game... I don't hate it, but I pretty much dislike it...

Sound: I play with the game muted…so I didn't notice anything.

Playability: GRIND-FESTIVAL!

Performance: Like I usually say: If a game eats less CPU/RAM/GPU than Google Chrome, than it's good...so yeah this is one of the few things good with this game

Bugs: I didn't notice anything, but I'm not a bug-hunter...so I didn't care if there were some bugs

Animations: Didn't arrive to the point to see any animation, probably like in every other game based on a grind-festival, are just slide-shows made with images of MC before and after pushing with his hips inside something...

Voice Acting: [Not Present]

Grammar: Because my bad English, well I didn't notice any problems with grammar, and this game's grammar is understandable so, it's okay.

Amount of content: I didn't notice content....just grind-festival, maybe some risky scenes about some teasing near the lake...but the grind-festival made me quit before discovering something else...

This game has a intresting story and some good charcters .

The renders are excelent

I also like that one of the characters you can seduce are fat but a cute fat.

The animations are ok but what lets this game down is the god almighty grind.

Its just grind central having to repeat the same events over and over again to make any progres .

Its also missing features that would inprove the game like a option that would allow you to revisit encounters after doing them or some way to skip a day to get to the same event to grind it.

The grind and constant reapeating of events does at times make me feel like im playing groundhog day game now that could be a idea for a game lol

I think I'll never find a game with an art as good as Melinda's, but this amazing ass is huge and well modeled with perfect curves!
I can not wait for the scenes with MC fucking her
But I think it could improve more, but let's see with the passing of the updates.
And I would recommend SerialNumber to create more games, because his art is incredible.

Review based on v5.0 (0.5). This is apparently my subjective opinion, based on my personal preferences (hot milf - the rating Up ).

Characters/women in the game are good looking (my personal favorite - hot milf Melinda), decently rendered, and more important they do look as humans and do not appear as generic as many characters in similar games. The story develops rather slowly, with a fair amount of unnecessary grinding/repeating, but even that i personally find more appealing than some quick fap/sex game-fests and parodies. Although an early build (v0.5) there are some pretty decent animated and hot fuck scenes (with three womens/girls - MF scenes). The MC looks too nerdy/childlish, and for now there are only four women you could actively interact, but certainly a few more could be expected to appear in future builds. One of those expected in future - Gina, nice looking short-haired milf already has been introduced in the current build.

To conclude - this game is not a superb, there certainly are some way better here, but also there are those much, much worse in every department. I would give four stars to this game, but considering some of overly negative and in my opinion arbitrary ratings - it gets five stars from me, at this time.

This game is surprisingly entertaining , honestly this one is a great surprise by far, knowing the developer history of having average games
The positives:
1-great animations, never seen on other games, especially the bouncing tits of the female npc
2 great images quality
3 story is intruiging
4 one of the rare times i see a perfect milf in a game
5 real looking characters
the negatives:
1 a lot of grind, but most of the other games have it, so it's a minor negative
2 tasks are somewhat complicated compared to other games

in general, i gave 5 stars because seeing this developer page and the low patrons count, i feel obliged to be fair to him and give 5 stars, he definitely deserves more than that. Totally recommend it

Review of version 0.5

Another game with nonsense game mechanics, terrible writing, and a tedious, never-ending grind. After about two hours, in which I was endlessly repeating scenes and dialogue, I decided to unren the game and look through the scripts. Looking at the relationship point thresholds, I would have to spend the better part of my weekend to get anywhere.

No, thanks. This game is a grindfest and a waste of time. There are a million porn games available now. There is ZERO chance I'm gonna waste my time on this kind of nonsense.

I'll thrown it a couple of stars for nice renders and animations. The animations are better than most games.

Not recommended

It makes no sense. Why does everything keep repeating? The story is confusing and everything leaves me wondering why I'm doing it in the first place. I like the characters and the general idea of the story but, the execution of it is just terrible.

Nice game, though a bit too long and all that. But still an interesting game all together. The content for the aunt needs to more on the top list. Rhonda, ain't no fun. Now the uncle should be where the suspense comes from. Nothing like running and viewing a Lil gangster blues, with an icing of revenge.

I have polarized impression on this game and as many reviewers mentioned it already, once you try it, you will hate and love it,. With current amount of content, hate outweighs loved portion of game.

Monstrous grind mechanics, while I am not against complexity in such type of games. But look at this from rational side, all events tied to specific location, hours and even certain day of week plus randomizer controls some chances and textual choices . I am ok with all that as soon as it adds interest and immersion, but what developer gives me to navigate trough all that? Just ability to skip only one day or 1-3 hours, so if you are on Monday 8am and want to appear on Sat 9pm, you have to cycle trough dozen set of screens. Why not at least to let custom set hour and day of week, instead I repeatably keep clicking trough the same set of screens just to skip more than 3 hours or more than 1 day. Dev might persuade so much grind to get attention to content, but that could be done trough much better approach, which used in MILFTOON Drama or RPGMs from NLT (who is very successful and original even with commonly hated RPGM concept in adult games). That grind mechanics could be just wrapped in collecting items, mixing them to achieve various events or situations with basic dashboard that would track % of progress with each character, and remind on objectives left to advance further with each, I am sure there could be many other known ways. Circling back to same scene on very certain day and hour wtih luck controlled by randomizer to go over same texts dozen times, does not really serves that purpose, not to mention disappointingly kills immersion with character. Yes, this game gives you emotions (cursing) when playing the game, but they directed towards developer not a game character
Otherwise art, render quality are just phenomenal and worth 5 stars!
But imposed poorly implemented grind conception which may be adequate years ago just blocks its popularity, nowadays. If author ever reads those reviews I wish sees the point!
Thank you for great work and good luck!

Pretty good very slow moving corruption game at least for the milf.
The other characters corrupts faster if you work them.
it is a grind though and you do have to work hard for it, repeating and alternating choices until you discover a path forward.
to minimized the trial and error grind needles repeats , you do need a walk though and there is one posted in OP for v0.4 which is pretty good
So if that is what you want this game will do it.

Version 4.0b
This is my first review. I felt compelled to come back and rate it due to the low score here. First the bad.

Some of the writing is poorly translated/not written well. Not nearly as bad as some games but it needs work. There Are some inconsistencies with mechanics. For example sometimes an option will turn green indicating you meet requirements for an option. Sometimes it does not but you can still do it. Sometimes when you fail an option it will tell you how many relationship points you need . Sometimes it won't.

It seems there is not enough of the story for me to judge it. I can't say I'm much interested in the story. It's usually vital for me so this speaks to the strength of the rest of it. It is very funny. I laughed out loud a few times. Mainly at the mocking of the fat chick. Or putting worms under a door so you can see chicks naked.

At first glance the gameplay seems boring and too typical. However you start to realize new options are available after repeating a scene a few times. It sounds boring but most games when I have seen a conversation I will just hit skip and keep rushing through to a new option. This game surprised me a few times with how it played.

The graphics are phenomenal and so are the (few) animations. The outfits are varied and it was made with great attention to detail.

Lastly, and the main reason I love this game, is how everyone is unapologetically bullying Rhonda for being a fatass, even the NPC. She just seems thicc and not too heavy but it's nice to see a game be realistic and try to Shame a girl into losing weight. The MC will be like, "I feel like in starting to like her...even though she is so fat...what's wrong with me?" And her sister is constantly calling her a pig.

If you hate fat people this game will bring you great joy.

Edit: This isn't a spoiler. When given choice between red and white dress, do NOT pick the red one. This only removes the ability to progress further in a certain route. The game does not mention this.

I'm Re-Reviewing the finished product. Previously, I gave it 3 stars for an incomplete game with certain coding issues and what not. The review wasn't fair to the project in its current (completed) form.... This game turned out really excellent.... the characters have always been some of my favorites but, as the plot evolved, I just really began to enjoy the GAME play.... it truly kept me interested. I will say I had hoped for a bit of an epilogue, but the creator isn't under such obligation because *I* wanted that. The game.... AS IT EXISTS.... is great! I don't know if it works for re-plays.... I have a question for the game creator. Are there multiple possibilities for endings? like multiple pregnant girls for example? Or others that disappeared from the game coming back in the end? Just wondering. I look forward to further games from the creator.

Immersive, addictive repetitive game play, good graphic especially if you love milf and not to mentioned those who love bad girl next door, cant wait for what it will be in next several updates, totally recommend!

The scenes are excellent. All he right fetishes with the right speed at the minute. good build up without blueballing at only v4. models look really good and not over the top massive everything.

The maker has a history of actually finishing things so this goes a long way to knowing it wont be abandoned, updates are seemingly at this stage every 2 weeks or so so constant updates.

Rendering good, and whhile the grind is there a bit, dev is working on reducing it. Played alot of these games and I guess this just hits a sweet spot for me.

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is v4.0b...

I tried to give this VN/Game the benefit of the doubt, but after about 3 hours I just had to call it... And you can tell fairly quickly it has the overused Incest theme...

The visuals of the characters are decent, outside of the uncle... The backdrops are mix of unique ones to a couple I've seen before in other VN/Games... The navigation UI is decent and for the most part easy to understand... The search function, when outside, needs some work... The highlight is a barely noticeable black box, and really needs some fine tuning... I've see selection choices work a lot better in other VN/Games...

The script for the most part is ok, with some occasional broken English and spelling/grammar errors... The story is not this VN/Games strong suit... The plot, what little there really is, revolves around a male protagonist who's family dies and he ends up moving in with his fathers sister and her family... His fathers business is left under the control of his rather mean and abusive uncle, even though the protagonist is supposedly a partner... You do eventually begin to unravel that something is extremely fishy with that business, as well as his uncle and aunt, but not much is every really revealed...

This VN/Game is primarily a Relationship Grinder, leaning very heavy on repetition and grind... Expect to see many scenes over and over again, with only the occasional variation., depending on relationship stats... Most of the stats can be viewed, but some are hidden... There is also a money grind. but getting money, from what I experienced, was difficult and random at best... There is obviously a slight corruption/love theme, with the younger cousin... But the other relationships were either bizarre or over the top...

The older cousin is your over the top flirtatious and mean spirited female character, who is either a lust interest of just there to add some porn value to one of the characters... The aunt, is weird, in that half the time she is mean to her kids and husband, and half the time she just stairs at the protagonist, menacingly... Only on rare occassion, did it seem that she showed any form of attraction towards the protagonist, even though you can keep increasing her relationship stats... There is a scene where she teaches the protagonist, repetitively, how to milk a cow... Obviously he has some perv intentions, but is constantly cockblocked by the older cousin, and he gets in trouble as well... Which made no sense... Because in the beginning stages, nothing perverted was happening that would clue you in that the protagonist had perv intensions, and the lewd/rude things said were purely from the cousin, and never from the protagonist, and yet he gets yelled at, and punished with a Suspicion point, several times, when nothing in the text or visuals suggested anything perverted, at all, from the protagonist... It was case of some bad story telling and event design...

Some events felt extremely random, and it was hard to tell if some of the choices you made, had any real impact on progression at all... Progression was hard to figure out, except when you were told a stat went up... I just sort of kept clicking on rooms when folks were in them, and sometimes they would just repeat over and over the same stuff, and on some occasions suddenly there was a change, but the next time it was back to a random version of the repetition again... It just started to become a bit confusing for some of the events...

There is a hint system, but it's a bit vague, and looks a bit thrown together, with varying font sizes and such... Some of the hints reset themselves, as I'm guessing it's hinting at the event being repeatable... You could tell some randomness was added, possibly on purpose, with how some things played out... Probably to add a feeling of change, but it would make the grind worse by having to see repetitive stuff, just in a different order sometimes... And in some cases, would waste time having to wait till the next moment a opening would occur to continue a specific event route... An example was the egg hunt hint, saying you needed to help her with her foot 4 times, or so, before being able to open up the opportunity to give his aunt a massage... Well, over a 4 in game week period, I was only presented with 2 occasions to even do that lead up event... A real lack of consistency...

Overall, this VN/Game is a tedious and slow relationship grinder... There really is not much story at all, with most progressions moving at a snails pace... Most current erotic content primarily revolves around lots of peeping, and seeing the protagonist pull out his schlong now and then... You get a few hints, outside of the hint screen, during game play, but the opportunity to progress, or do those events hinted at, feel like they are only randomly available, half the time... Which just prolongs the repetition and grind... The only characters story arc I was even partially enjoying, was with the younger cousin... The rest leave something to be desired, and progress way too darn slow or perhaps even not at all... Do not play/read this VN/Game thinking it has some deep and meaningful story telling, because it doesn't... I feel like it's long term goals are primarily to just be a porn fest with just the tiniest of plot/story... They really could have done a better job, but this VN/Game is still in development, so who knows what the future holds... It definitely needs to improve a lot of things, if it wants to truly succeed... Will I revisit this one? Chances are highly unlikely... Have to wait and see...

The linear structure is poor;y managed. There are several events that must happen in a set order or you can't progress, except there is ZERO hint that they must be done in any order, and it is simple, even intuitive o do them in the 'wrong' order. (Ring vrs tennis, Prank Versus dress) Developer has a good story and decent renders, but very poor at organising the event structure. My advise? Don't play until its finished and the dev can get round to making it work.

The author continues to disappoint sloppy gameplay.
Good graphics, good plot, but the gameplay negates all the advantages.
TangledUp 3 times started from the beginning, trying to get through the script trap and break out of the loop, in the end I looked at the final pictures and that's it. In this game, unfortunately, everything is exactly the same.

Review for 4.0 the game desperately need a scene replay

The game pretty much requires a walkthrough without one you're just be going around all over the place trying to figure it out a lot of the sex scenes seem to be not repeatable I say seem because I tried for quite a while and was unable to repeat them and didn't make save of them so you best be making saves..... When searching for stuff You Gotta click in a certain part of the picture it gives you no hint to where to click so you'll just be spamming your mouse click to find it assuming you don't have prior knowledge of where it is also your relationships points also go down overtime and getting them up is slow so the gameplay is grindy

The CG are ok 3/5
Gameplay 1/5 although it could be worse
Story 2.5/5
Dialogue 2.5/5

I'll just state the obvious: the game looks great (especially the milf char - chubby girl would benefit from a bigger rack in my opinion), the story is fine, the grind and hints are really bad. Once the last part is fixed, it will be overall one of my favorite games here.