Ren'Py - Completed - Forbidden Fruit [v1.0 Final] [Lustration Team]

content is declining.
cost is increasing.
multiple delays from devs. after significant time delayed they released a net negative content release. tried to spin it as new content. seems deceptive.

Pros:

1- Artstyle while relatively simple, all things considered, has it's own charm and is rather pleasing to the eye.

Cons:

1- Paywalled content. Dev claims it's an 80/20 split (unlocked/locked), but it looks like more of a 60/40 split at best.
2- Claims it's multiple protagonists, but nearly all the action is strictly focused on the female MC, dev asserts it's due to patreons influence.
3- Buggy
4- Grindy
5- Engrish

It's essentially a Kinect Novel disguised as a free-roaming game. All roads lead to the same conclusion, you're just choosing the order.

Too repetitive. The female lead gets most of the action and the man is an idiot who seems great at first. In the same way, as the poor story of the game progresses, we realize the reality, it is used to transform the apparently innocent woman into a nympho who leaves no bird with a head. Nor is it true that porn games stand out for their history, but in some isolated cases they come to surprise you for good. Too bad because at the beginning I had high expectations for this game.
It's just my humble opinion.

Alright I will try my best to shit on the game just because of their patron and give a short rating

Art is pretty good and to be honest its the only thing good about this game, from animations to art style is great for a 2dcg game, that said you maybe able to see some cgs that are over used and only have small changes like clothes hair and eye colour and a slight skin colour variation to show "oh this shit is different and made from scratch" nono... its just a reskinned animation

Story: At starting it was a bit cliche yet interesting then there was a downward spiral of fk fest and total garbo nonsense called a storyline
it is suppose to be multi protag but honesty Maya the female protag is the MC, while playing the story you are gonna forget leo even existed as he doesnt even have enough scenes to count with 2 hands, you would expect that wasnt the case for a game at 8.1, like hell while i do understand ferals exist but why is it only men ferals why no females that my sir is for scenes where girls get domed .... while i learn that fetish its rather boring when multi protag has one mc

Game itself: Buggy as hell while i did think rpg mech was a rather interesting its not even that nicely implemented so you praise the devs for the skip button, it also lags....when you rollback like my laptop cant handle the game and wants me to stab it to death, 1st game to ever lag on my laptop....

All and all i dont get why you would play this game when you can get good stuff by CG rips or just break the code to get patron stuff....10/10 its a fk fest with no good story well a boring as overused story,

Remember i told you i wont shit on patron? well thats one hell of a paywall for scenes and shit story

Yet another example of needless repetition.
go to the same places 10 times for 10 days to progress. having to do silly games over and over again.

this is lazy to the ultimate extent.
the art is decent but thats its only saving grace...

play it on super eazy and skip through it otherwise its another groundhog day renpy game.

The plot, the H-scenes and the characters are terrible, the stupidity emitting for the characters is on another level : "we just crashed on a new island, let me explore in the jungle without checking if my brother is ok" "this tiger is trying to rape me, let me get on drugs and fuck him" "those beast people are hot, let's fuck hem without knowing if they carry a weird std that fucks you up"

review based on 0.7.1.1 version
PRO:
- not bad pics
- combat/battle/inventory/map system ok, but bugged
- some boring thing like useles puzzles awoidable (its strange a bit- game have a tag "kinetic novell", but puzzles in that king game looks strange)
NEUTRAL:
- patreon things may be easy unlocked by editing code
- story present, but... hard to describe... mby story is a few childish, idk...
CONS:
- game overbugged- many engine errors and much more like wrong shop price descriptions etc
- game files "encoded" (dev mby spend many hours to make that "defense", but it avoidable in 5 mins)
- bad gramar- after disapoitment by playing "inglishe" in that game i switched on "russian" lang and... like much worse and thats strange- dev must be russian...
- almost all animations bad (actualy i cnt call it "animations").
- game line looks like kinetic novell, but grunding present. and thats unpleasant.

what have i felt during playing? barf? no. pleasure? no. misunderstanding ? a few... ll i return to that game later? no.

I actually like this game, the setting. I think people are too harsh about it. We don't have much of that setting with that quality and storywise almost usually no story at all. Blonde is hot. Keep up the good work ! The grindy aspect was fixed that was really a chore.

Well, the game's okay at least for me. The setting is nice, it gives me "The Island of Dr. Moreau" vibe and wonder if the novel was an inspiration for it. Surprised by the amount of fun the female protagonist gets. Expected more scenes with monstergirls, but that's understandable since the human male protagonist is quite wary of the island, its inhabitants and its influence. He still got some nice action though. Enjoyed that scene with a tigerwoman where he, despite his shortcomings in dick size, managed to please her by being romantic, that was sweet af.
In terms of gameplay is clunky as hell, especially the dungeon crawler. Fortunately devs thought that this section is not for everyone and included "skip" button. There was also a bug(?) where I caught some wild bunnyman in the dungeon and couldn't sell them until I progressed the story. Later, I've found out it was a typo and they actually wanted wild wolfmen first instead.
Speaking of typos, as you've probably noticed I'm not a native English speaker. However, even for me the text was awkward with weird sentence structures and typos. It was "understandable", but sometimes hard to read.
Still, it's not a bad game with nice art and active dev team working on it so you should at least try it out.

Kinetic novel = straightforward-no options story, so that's already a lower effort, less interesting than a multi-branching story or a sandbox.
Not a good art, is not horrible like other games we have seen, but is not good either.
Not an amazing story/writing. Not a single interesting character, quite cliche all of them.
Female protagonist mainly, almost not scenes playing the guy, compared to the girl.

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Rate this 2 stars because the only good about this game is the art, the content for the female protagonist is pretty much 10 to 1 compared to the content the male protagonist have, also there is no way to avoid getting fucked by other males when you play as the female protagonist, i did expect to atleast be able to avoid it but you cant, the game pretty much follow a linear or kinetic way as some people will call it.
Also hidding the fact that this game have incest, having to see forced sex for the sis with no choice to avoid it is pretty much something that i hate in games, nothing wrong with fetishes for those that like it but they always should be avoidable and in this game they are pretty much forced.
If you dont like bestiality, (kind of rape) and netorare i dont recommend playing it.
I did try it out of boredom and curiosity but is really something that i will ignore and avoid from now on.

complete shitshow of a game, no backwards compatibility what so ever, paywall much, entitled developers, paint art, could be a solid 3 star game if they didnt feel like saviors which is kinda common these days, not worth supporting they will do the game anyway too much money grab in this one

Confusing, wordy, repetitive and just generally boring, but with pretty nice CGs.

Once again, Russian translated pretty inconsistently into word salad English. The riddles are just a slap in the face. It's impossible to guess the (exactly spelled, no multiple-choice) answer to a badly translated riddle. Thank GOD there's a skip button, because that shit is no bueno.

And again, a linear VN masquerading as a free roaming game. Just quit it already what's the point of being able to go to multiple locations if the story is completely linear anyway?

The art style is nice, but that's pretty much all this game has going for it. Writing is boring as shit and there's tons of it. I started button-mashing to skip dialogue quite early on and never looked back.

The pacing is super slow. This game should get some kind of award for the milking of a few CG stills to their absolute maximum potential. Do mini game/puzzle, get 1/3 of a scene. Sleep. Go have your brother work for a while, solve puzzle again, get 2/3 of the scene. Sleep. Repeat. This is boring as fucking hell! It 100 % feels like filler to make me spend more time in the game. I feel like I've seen this kind of project multiple times now. It feels like 1 artist and 10 coders/writers trying to come up with clever ways to milk the few CGs they've got to their maximum time wasting potential.

If the filler content was removed then this could probably be a 4/5. But in the state it's in right now, it's a 2 at best. I feel like I'm being generous here. There's hours of button mashing before there's any interesting scenes. Can't recommend it in the state it's in right now.

This game is good enough. Some bugs are quite sad (most often this is solved through a couple of bug fixes, but it's still not cool), but not unplayable. The story is really interesting, but I have questions to its usefulness. But what is really cool here is the graphics. Graphic style, animations, cool era scenes -
for the sake of this, it’s worthwhile to play this game. As well as the frequency of updates. Every two weeks! It is very fast, some games do not have such

It has an interesting story, and I can see where the game author is trying to go, but I'm kinda put off by the word puzzles. Don't get me wrong, the rest is coming along nicely, but the parts were you have to type in the answers is the proverbial pot hole in the game flow for me. Since I am guessing the author is converting it from Russian to other languages, they're is miss the translation of what is being said. I might recommend re-working that part to be multiple choice to avoid the hang ups. With that said, I like where the game is going and am waiting for the story to progress.

You don't play as the male or female protagonist. Instead, you control the both of them. The male is the brother, the female is his sister. IMO, most of the hot content is when you play as the sister. Although this game is technically not netorare, it has a netorare feel to it, so if you like netorare content, then try this out and play as the girl. She gets into very erotic situations and gets dominated.

Erotic Art 5/5 - It's animated and has unique scenarios, including groping and ass slapping.

Bugs 3/5 - The game is buggy, but still playable.

Story 2/5 - The story is incoherent, but you have to save your father.

Characters 3/5 - The crab character eventually turns into some dude who just hangs out. He isn't needed, they should just cut him out.

The game is worth playing if you like Voyeur or you're into Netorare, however, the game is not technically netorare. If you hate Netorare in general, then you'll probably like playing as the male character more.

The game is worth playing and supporting on patreon despite the bugs.

A really good game with an interesting story and very cool graphics - it looks really cool after all those scary 3D games that you can find on this site The game is not without problems (Fucking mini games, creators, are you serious? It's just trash), but it's much better than so many games

Absolutely terrible, 1 minute into the game and already got a renpy error, ok, no big, ill just ignore it, 2 minutes in, another renpy error, ok, shit happens, lets ignore it, 3 minutes in and what i supposed its used to progress through the day ( the clock ) gives you a gigantic renpy error and it kicks you to the main screen
0/10 save yourself problems and DO NOT even attempt to play through this
Pd: The extremely broken english doesnt help one bit

There is no choice of actions in the game, you just go with the flow, for example, it was disgusting to me that the tiger seduced Maya.

What about the open world, it is said loudly, in fact there are empty locations here that are needed only for the main quests (and must repeat the same action many times for the sake of minimal change)