Ren'Py - Completed - Forbidden Basketball [Final] [Effx Games]

Quality wise this game should be a 2, if not a 1. Everything is bad. Models are bad, plain and unispired. Location are more of the same assets, dialogs are lame, sex scenes are plain, and boring... Like "noi i fuck you" "oh my god he is fucking me. Ah. Ah." and there is a 4 frames cycling gif of the most mechanical fuck ever seen with the girl with a totally neutral face looking in a random direction with a colossal lack on interest. Music is good but totally in the way and out of place.

For the rest, it's a clear rip off of the most famoust campus setting game on this site and of the most infamous basker setting game on this site.

So, why 3 stars? I don't know. I feel a lot of good will in this project. Like 'i wasen't that good but i tryed my best', so an extra star for the effort.

Look I can respect trying to create a true choose your own adventure, but having it attached to bullshit stats, give me a fucking break. I quit this nonsense about halfway through cause it's just not well written or fun. It felt like juggling when it starts out giving the task of responses increase your levels for each stat ... bruh, what kind of VN were you trying to make here? If save scumming was your goal, you succeeded. I literally got to a point where I couldn't make any genuine progress because I didn't put enough points into asshole, sorry insolence. There's an old saying of "we have something for everyone." This is a VN where you going to have to be someone with multiple personalities if you want to accomplish anything. Jesus, if this were a real person they'd belong in a nuthouse. Hey, that's an idea. Take this exact gameplay idea and place everyone in an insane asylum. Top shelf banger then.

Only real positive I had in this was the models were nice. Some felt out of place. Like they followed a different art style prior to being implemented but nothing glaringly bad.

The game had so much potential, interesting setting, great girls...

Pros:
- beautiful girls;
- decent story (until the ending)
- decent animations
- funny dialogues from tim e to time (though it catches the eye that English s not Dev's native)

Cons:
- music (annoying, better with turned it off)
- ending (absolutely abrupt ending that was dropped just out of nowhere, it's the bad ending and it's the only ending)

From what Dev said - he wanted to focus on his new game hence decided to finish this one as soon as possible.
If I was to decide I would tag this game with tag abandoned rather than finished, but this what this is.
Could have been 4 stars at the very least, like I said the game was promising.

This could have been around a 4 star game, story was alright and it had potential and plenty of girls, but it feels rushed and the ending comes out of nowere when the game just started.

Animations was ok as well nothing great but still good enough to make game worth playing if it had been a complete game, i know it says completed but it really dosent feel like it at all.

Music was fine nothing mood setting but still good enough enjoy while playing.

Most choices dident matter much.

But due to the weird fast ending which wasent really an ending i cant give it more then 2 stars.

Wow, the "hidden rewards" minigames make this game just suck. There was a tutorial on how they work, but I only found one of them in the actual game. Based on the tutorial, I thought they would be something meaningful to the story or scene, but nope, just a random small group of pixels that highlight when you hover your mouse cursor over the spot. I'm throwing in the towel. I've played for 90 minutes and the dialogue and sex so far just aren't worth the effort, plus I'm reading that what awaits me if I continue playing is a garbage rushed ending. I should've heeded the warnings on this game from other reviews and never started.

The game wasn't the best, but as it was the first game the developer had made It's fine to ignore some error that pops up, some words not fitting, janky animation, songs that don't match, but over all, it's a fine game for being the first one.

The sudden ending to this game was actually unbelievable, the games barely gotten off the ground, only really transitioning into the middle of the story, then all of the sudden BOOM game over, real unfortunate bud, try again? nope, because replaying every single scene that the ending mentioned that my character did wrong, did nothing, I was forced onto the path of ruin no matter what, an illusion of choice.

It was a growing story, potential to be a banger of a first game, but it was killed too quickly before it even began to flourish.

Not recommended. Ending was rushed. a game that could've been.

Negatives first: Had this game just been abandoned, I would've rated this higher. The game ends prematurely. Hooks were planted that were surely meant to be developed later. It has an ending, but it's a shit ending. Previous choices were ignored in some situations. There can be a flashback to scenes that never happened. Didn't take advantage of every opportunity to nut or behave like a voyeur? Sometimes, the game will pretend you did anyway. The slapped-on ending is the worst example of this. The game over ending would have been unjustified had I made the choice to sleep with the creepy TV/movie character homage daughter, but I didn't, and yet you still get the rug pulled out from under you with no chance of redeeming yourself.

Neutral: I would have liked the option to play a main character who could always be honest. In some cases, the lead character lies, and you just have to accept that's part of his personality.

Positive: Most of the music is good. I didn't mind the minigames, and they were skippable. They were easy, so I didn't skip them. I thought the writing was above average and sometimes funny. Shilo's situation was realistic, and I thought it was cool that there was a character like that in here. He probably had more room for character development than the main character.

Not recommended as is. 2.5/5* and I rounded up. It had potential.

Fuck this SHITTY GAME, what the fuck???? if you dont want to make a game don t do it.

The ending is terrible, it seems to me like this dev got some mental problems half the way, i can t believe the shit i've seen

The game started off with some nice promise, but quickly went downhill.

The game have some nice renders, and I felt like the plot was just starting to pick up.

Now the dev decided to, out of nowhere, add a rushed, and bad ending to the game when the game was basically just getting started.

In honestly the game is not complete, it was abandoned, and now the dev already making another game.

Overall, the game is just incomplete and rushed to get the game the completed tag.

The game is not worth playing.

Good renders, decent characters and plots but damn the ending is so rushed that it ruins the entire experience. Dev lost interest and is now making another game and that probably the reason why he slapped the complete tag on a game that feels abandoned. If you want to jerk off without a care about anything, feel free to play it tho. Porn scenes ain't that good either, Pretty average.

Graphics: Good. Seeing familiar faces is funny.
Story: Plausible for a porn game.
Music: Good, although I turned it off.
Animations: Not groundbreaking, but certainly passable.
Ending: Shit. Really cheap ending only constructed so the game doesn't get slapped with an abandoned tag.

Give this one a miss... between the minigames and hidden object shit, this game isn't worth playing. The story is heavily based on Blue Mountain State, which actually has better sex scenes most of the time than this game.

I struggled to give this a 3 but it's not a terrible game and I will likely pay episode 5 when it's out, and because of that I give it the 3 rather than 2, as I am highly unlikely to play a game I rated with 2 again.
My issues with the game are mainly on personal preference of how MC's and their peers act/behave and I am finding the way the antagonists are written in this VN to be overdone especially in a school setting.
The borderline gay dialogues are going to rub many a manly man the wrong way even though the vast majority of it is done in humor so if you have any issues with even slight bromance type of dialogues you won't like this game.

It's probably a 6/10 at best but you included a ton of great songs, one's that are definitely gonna make my playlist so I'll give you the 4/5.

The renders in the early chapter's arent the best as stated already by the dev, so glad to see the third one renders improved a lot.

Outfits for all the characters, guys and girls are unique and I think also represent every character quite well.

Game has it's great moments and not so great moments. Quite humourous at times which is good and kept me playing. Also wish the interactions with the girls were more interesting, reading some of the interactions, especially one-on-one dialogues was quite bland at times.

I only have two big issues with the game. The music, although great, I dont see how this game doesn't somehow get taken down or the dev have legal issues down the line. Also the point system is annoying. If you focus your MC on lets say Intellect and Strength to follow Lizzi path, guess what happened? Lizzi disappears for 2 updates and I have to roll back and change how I allocated my stats so I can interact with other girls. The problem with this is I may have to do this again when an LI I'm pursuing shows up after she hasnt been around for a few updates. 6/10.

I like:

• Lots of really beautiful girls.
• Good posing. Decent sex animations. Good renders quality.
• An interesting story with peculiar characters.
• Dialogs with a lot of humor.
• Interesting and non-intrusive mini-games. Pretty visual interface.

I don't like:

• The music. I prefer it to be non-distracting, mostly like ambient.
• The point-&-click spots (for gallery rewards) are often too hard to find. (So I cheated: turned on the developer mode (to check current pictures' names) and looked at those pictures in an unpacked rpa).
• Some expressions aren't that well translated from Russian, e.g. there's "I went" instead of "I'm going to go".

However those minor faults don't spoil the experience which is great, sexy, interesting and entertaining.

[Ep.3]

After having played several updates, I have come to the conclusion that this is a very good game. The renders are top notch and the girls are fun. The comedy is pretty good too. I like that the mc isn't just some idiot but that he has some depth to him. Also the introduction of Wendy is fantastic. There are some good girls here but now I'm left curious who the mc will pick to be his girlfriend or if he can have a harem. I will admit that I skip the minigames but even without them, the story is on point and the scenes are great. Only thing that I'd want is an option to finish inside or outside after a scene.

Ep 2.5 - Review:

Pros:
Great renders.
Very sexy girls. The models are original.
The story sometimes copies the series, which is good because it was great.
Humor and relaxed atmosphere, studying at the university.
The first game where you can (most likely) fuck Wensday Adams.

Cons:
Animations are average so far, but you can see that the author is evolving and making things better and better.
The system of leveling, some may find it annoying.

Definitely will keep an eye on this project.

Edit 2:
Sorry the one I wrote before was pretty mean. My bad. Bad day. I still have to give it a low rating because there's too much wrong with it.
- A lot of scenes don't make sense. Instead of any sense of comedic timing it just feels random and confusing. I don't remember much from BMS but I remember the general flow of events in an episode. I can see what you were going for but it just doesn't pan out.
- Renders don't look that great but that's probably an issue with equipment
- Awkward dialogue. Feels like people trying to imitate how people talk not actually talking to each other
- Broken English really drives the final nail in the coffin. A lot of "WTF" and "OMG" when a normal person would never actually say that in real life. Not to mention instances of British-English when this is supposedly an American university which is just weird to see. A lot of conversations didn't really make complete sense either. As if someone was trying to word-for-word translate a phrase or saying in their language into English but can't completely convey the meaning.
- Only things I liked about the game were the models for Lizi and some others. Also liked the jab at Ocean's 8 (though it was more "soap box-y" than clever which loses points in my book)
A lot of other gripes I had with it that made me just give up after ep 2 but those were the major ones for me that just made me think this would game would need a complete overhaul if it was going to work out.

So, based on the current version (Episode 2)

Story and Originality:
The story is based on the BMS TV Show, but with sex scenes!
And let me tell you right away, if you watched this series and you like it, feel free to play this game.

The plot doesn't completely replicate the series, it complements it.
Here you have a choice of a slut who's ready for you to fuck her right away, or regular girls that you have to fight for at least to establish a relationship with them.

The school setting is already trivial. But as a fan of it, I don't mind.
The game can hardly be called a sandbox in general meaning.
I would call it some kind of hybrid. There is practically no grind.

The basketball theme isn't really revealed yet, but I suspect that's only because the game is just developing. Hopefully in the future we'll get a bigger basketball experience, since the prerequisites for the game itself have already appeared in the second episode.

Renders:
The picture quality is pleasing to the eye. Everything looks juicy. The author knows how to find the right angle. However, there is still space for growth.

Music and Sounds:
The game has sounds that are well chosen for certain moments.
The music nicely captures the atmosphere and highlights the current situation in the story.

Playability:
As many have already noticed the game has a sufficient number of mini-games. I am personally not a fan of such, but in the game you can skip them without losing anything worthwhile.
I dont understand why everyone hates them so much.

Bad Things:
- At some points, the quality of the pictures gets worse. It feels like they were not 100% rendered. There aren't many of them, but they are.
- The sex scenes are a little short for me. I hope they will be longer in the future.
- Not enough hints during the free roam and some kind of statistics.
I'd like to see what you've achieved and what you've missed, so I know exactly if I've seen all the content. Since, for example, in episode two, one answer can completely shut down the path to a certain scene

I give the game 5 in advance. In the hope that the author will improve the game.

Ep 2 review -
Okay for now with playing till the end of episode 2 it is a terrible game with overused cliche school setting and a messy sandbox , didn't find a story probably there won't be one . Game overview says it is about playing as one of the fresherman and in the game you take decisions for two others don't know if there will be more down the road and if you don't like it you can skip it ( why not an option to avoid others or follow one character preferably MC ) . And it doesn't help that Sandbox here is one of the worst among the games that I played , wherein the mini games you have to choose skip , which is like nearly half of the game ( why not a toggle or option in the preference to skip mini games ) . And it is annoying that to access free roam / Map you have to access phone which doesn't tell who is in that location and we just have to randomly click around those and even worse thing is in order to romance / seduce a girl there is sort of a hint for that you have to access phone and click ladies icon and solve a puzzle or you can skip puzzle by giving up to proceed to next part of the game which is a total waste of time on a whole . Only decent thing about this game is some of the girls look beautiful but they are not worth in the end .