Others - Abandoned - Glamour [v0.57] [Dark Silver]

The entire game can be described as one giant grind session with next to no payoff. It is an extremely disappointing game. I would try it again after some major updates and I will change my rating to adjust accordingly

This is another example of a game that could be great, but fails on every aspect except graphics. Render quality is high, models look great, at least on the male protagonist side, you can see lots of work put in the early stage of development. Unfortunately the progress stalled and what is now being done between updates looks more like a very lazy job to placate fanbase and that job could be done in few days. And art is the only good side of this game. If you are looking for anything good about this game you can stop reading now.

If you try to play this game windowed you will find yourself doing everything else but the one thing you tried to do. The buttons are misplaced and the dev doesn't really care about fixing it. So fullscreen is the only option otherwise the game is literally unplayable.

Saves are incompatible, work only on the same device you saved them on and there is simply no excuse for this. It is mindblowing why would anyone sane put such an anti-player feature in their game. DRM is another one of such features. The game wants internet connection pretending it needs it to check updates or download assets, but god knows what else it is doing. I strongly suggest playing offline version and blocking the shit out of it on your firewall. Also play in a sandbox if possible to be on a safe side. Never compromise your computer security for a porn game. Is it multiplayer? No? Then no internet connections, sorry.

Story is probably the worst I've seen for a long time. If you try to insert yourself into characters you play - bad news, especially for female side. While other characters say about Kate - she is pure, the truth is the decisions she makes without your choice are of a heavily retarded person. Thus you will insert into an idiot. There is also an experimental college with physical and sexual punishments people join without looking at their contract, which by the way would be illegal and unenforceable basically in every country. It is supposed to explain why would an adult have to endure bare ass spanking or strip because the teacher says so, but the delivery is outright forced and cringy.

And the Grind. Usually the Grind is there to hide lack of content. And in this case it is of course true. Most of the time you will spend on this game leads to nothing and the usual outcome of almost every quest is "more in the next version". The reward for the grind is that you can now wait for another update.

This game is great. It is indeed a bit grindy as most people are noting, but on the other hand there's a more or less reasonable story to get you excited about the characters. The graphics are superb and there's plenty of gorgeousness. It is also interesting to note that even though the story is more or less one and the same, playing it with the two different characters actually makes it into two connected games.

Sorry, this game is too long and boring for having something. Good graphism don't make a good game. This game don't have rythme and it's frustrating.
It's not a porn game, it's just a life game.
At the beginning i'd like this game but now it's finish.

[Max Path]
It's the Big Brother reboot we all have been waiting for...

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Everything you love about Dark Silver. Better story. Better balancE. Better graphics.

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The shittiest engine ever stealing your data. RenPy is the ONE;
Worst dialogue system ever - Get back to the one in BB!
The nature of the connection between characters is : Roomates. No patch ...
The money balance is catastrophic and no cheats to answer it.

So mush wasted potential. The story and renders are good to begin with. Though the rest is just a huge grind. I played it for about 4 hours and did not see much of any erotic scenes. Then the click detection is way off on a lot of the buttons, making the game feel broken half the time.

If the grind were taken out of it and more content added, it would be a great game.

Glamour is in the that minority of games which involve a female protagonist, and as someone who really enjoys these type of games I just had to give it a try since there aren't a lot of them around to play.

Unfortunately, it's not worth it. At least, not currently (v0.21).

The renders are incredible, all of the characters look fantastic and are well proportioned. All games that use 3DCG should aspire towards this standard. So kudos there. The premise and the story are also rather compelling too and I do find myself wanting to know more about the weird sex school and how the MC will be corrupted by the school and thus change as a person.
However, that's where the positives ultimately stop for Glamour.
There's not a lot of playability here to the gameplay and that's because there's just not a lot to the game itself. A walkthrough is a necessity while playing, because it's just so repetitive, monotonous and grindy which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but the payoff for all of the grinding is not worth it. And the prerequisites for spotting scenes is often very specific and if you miss it, you have to go through the entire week all over again.

You could play through six hours of this game and not get nearly as much out of it compared to multiple other female protagonist games out there on the market. I recommend anyone who reads this plays those instead and maybe come back to this one some time in the long-term future. Maybe it'll be better by then.

Like this game so far. Female Protagonist is always appreciated. Some people seem to have problems with their devices. But could not see these problems on 3 different system I had this game on. So maybe hardware iusses may be the problem.

i would absolutely love to give this game a try. the sad reality is, despite having a gaming computer and every other game i get here and elsewhere working, THIS one is totally stuck on the initial load... like, i left it ALL NIGHT and was still loading. so sadly, i can not give it more than one star.

0.2 version
Poor text system, needs a lot of grind to get somewhere and still lacking content for a consistent play (despite the hours you waste grinding). Its like a revival of Big Brother, but a poor revival. Maybe in the future worth, definitely not now.

Since Big Brother was the game that got me into this whole VN/adult game genre; (call it whatever you want ) it would be fitting that my first review would be about its successor

Pros
- Beautiful renders, didn't expect anything less coming from BB that already had really great renders considering how old the game is
- Decent story ( unlike BB you now play the game from a female perspective, which Darksilver made just as exciting as playing a male perspective // (Male perspective; which has relatively few content so far was recently added after some flack from the community though )

Cons
- Immense grindfiesta for what little content the game has to offer, much like Big Brother it's just clicking through the days waiting for a certain event to happen that only occurs once a week and at a very specific time ( for instance between 5.45 PM and 6 PM; if you missed it, too bad try again next time after you skip ahead 100 times )
- No animations
- The game does not run smooth at all, each time you swap locations or advance time there is a very annoying delay
- Many elements in the game that were there from the beginning that add no value to the game and make it overly complicated
- Tedious RPG elements ( having to keep up with hunger, sleep, mood etc or else be unable to do any actions )

Overall i must give this game 2/5 stars; there are just too many cons to this game that greatly outweigh the pros
Even though i loved Big Brother, at this point in time there are far more enjoyable and overall just way better games on this forum than this one and thus advise anyone that is looking for a good game to look elsewhere

v0.24

Okay, as I can't delete this review and write a new one, I will have to edit it.
I played this latest offline version of Glamour and many things have not been changed, only the developer has added more content to the game. The game remains the same, you will have to grind, grind a lot and for those who choose a new game it is quite tiring to have to play, it seems that the game does not advance in history, as it takes a little time to happen.
I played Kate's story, because I find her story more interesting, but I saw that the developer is making a little mess in the timeline, because some things don't seem to be right. The author writes his script as the protagonist being an innocent girl who is discovering little things, things like sex life. She's a virgin, she loses her virginity to her sister's boyfriend, but during the game you can have sex with Fedor, a Russian who pays rent for a room. But of course you don’t need to follow the timeline and choose to follow other paths, but I prefer and I think it's better follow a timeline and create options for which route to take, because making choices is far from happening.
I also played Max's story, and the story is very different from Big Brother, his previous game. Something seems that the developer is too lazy to write it, or does not want to do another grind as his previous game did. In Max's story I felt that there was a lack of relationship with the characters, something that could make you as a player develop a relationship. I also thought it would be a good idea for the developer to combine Max's story with Kate's, but I saw that he's doing a little bit of that in Kate's story, but Max's, I thought he was going really fast with the developer of the script.
Max's story is different from Kate's story, Kate's story has a lot to grind, and Max's story has little, but Kate's content is bigger than Max's. Anyway, both stories are good, but something bothers me a little, because they are two stories within a game, of course this is good, because there are people who have different opinions, some like to play with a female protagonist and others don't, I like to play, but you have to create a great story, if it is a silly story I prefer not to risk playing .

I like this game, the way it is. But what makes it bad is the fact that it has a lot to grind. Kate's story is not complete and I can tell you that it is not yet playable, because there are some actions and interactions that you cannot do, like, for example, the RPG system that the game has. I would like to play something fun, maybe with the same mechanics as Big Brother, the god, but Big Brother had a lot of grinding, I know that, but the author could simplify or reduce this, Kate and Max's story has many things to grind, it is true, but it could be worked on, and I see no progress on that, unfortunately. But does that make it a bad game? no, but it is also not an excellent game. Games have to have a relaxing gameplay, something that gives you a lot of pleasure to play, Kate's story is fun, but with a lot of grind and a lot of things not to do. I wanted both stories to have more interactions, more options than what to do and also more choices to follow. But it will take time or maybe not, I don't know.
But I can't wait to play this complete game, with playable content even if it takes a few years.

History: ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✰
Gameplay: ✭ ✭ ✰ ✰ ✰
Graphic: ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✰
Sex Content: ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ ✰
Creativity: ✭ ✭ ✭ ✰ ✰

Version: v0.9 Offline

PROS:
Glamour has two game versions, one that you play with a female (Kate) and another that you play with the male (Max).
Renderings of female character models are awesome, very beautiful and the scenes are good. There are no animations (maybe you like it or not).

CONS:
Useless RPG system. You must feed, sleep, increase the horny to masturbate. You can also pass the minutes, I think that's a downside since going by the hour is simpler and better. Another downside is the amount of grind it has, games that contain a lot of grind are games that try to hide something, that is the lack of content content, since the size 2GB is because of the high definition images. When the game doesn't have a lot of content, it's because it has almost nothing to do, you're in an infinite loop, since the game is a sandbox. The lack of resources is another negative point, you need to buy a computer that only has the function of buying study packages, this was in the previous game, but in this game you will increase the math and other grades. This is quite bad, since with the computer you will only do this, no buying anything, or even doing something else.
Players starting out now will find everything confusing and not knowing what to do, the walkthrought is out of date, it has stopped at version 0.5 and so there is no information for search. The hint system is the same as your previous game, but as there is not much information, you will get confused, getting stuck until you can unravel and complete the quest.
The game gives a lot of work because its gameplay is very slow, having to go back and forth gets tired.

Glamor Female Version
The idea is risky, because games with female protagonist do not interest the public much, but it's not so bad, it was good, let's say the way the game approaches is not so exaggerated. The renderings of the female characters are amazing, the story is good, but what was left to be desired is that there is a lot of grinding in the gameplay. The game has an rpg that made the gameplay very tiring, you wait a long time to see a scene, the game works slowly, because its gameplay was designed like that and this is quite bad. If it wasn't for the grind, and the game presented itself as a demo would be even a little acceptable.

Glamour Version BB with Max
A part of the audience did not like to play with a female character very much and so called for a part that could play with a male character. In version 0.17 comes the story of Max (again BB). Now with a new look (it looks better) and a new gameplay (I thought it was bad), the story was copied from the previous game but many parts were cut. Max is no longer that innocent boy, now he's a perv and all the women in the house are wearing sexy clothes (it does not make sense).Maybe if I took the old game and this new content... I don't know if it would be cool, I see now that this new game has a different environment, but in this version I think it's just a demo, because it's pretty bad. So you will like it and you will not like it, because you don't know what it will be like and you don't know if it's a demo. The arts of the game are great, but the gameplay needs to be organized and not grinded. However, I hope the story is better (I believe it will be).

Review:
I don't have much to say, the things I mentioned are on top. About everything, still has a lot of grinding, since previous games, containing a useless rpg, infinite looping and extremely tiring to play. The gameplay is great, the interface is good and so is the UI, but the game is bad because of that.
Kate's story is interesting, and Max's return is also with this new style of renderings and art.
It's needed to remove unnecessary things and put whatever necessary thing. I think this will be removed in the future, but until then, it's very bad to play because of the slow gameplay.
The walkthrough is outdated! Need to upgrade or put up a better hint system and also timeout information, this is important, the game doesn't have it.

So, why did i give 2 star?
Because 2 is more than enough. The game comes from version 0.5 and is already at version 0.19 offline. The content is not poor, but it is far from having enough content. I know it's hard to create a game alone or in a group, each working in some sector, but I didn't need to put so much grind. Rpg may be interesting, but the styles that end up not being. It's bad, and a lot. Even more that there is nothing to do to exploit this mechanism. A meaningless empty rpg that only wastes time and makes the gameplay tiring.
If Glamour is worth playing, I would not recommend it yet, there are many things to do, for a while not worth yet. Wait for future updates, this will take months or years.

i have been waiting to rate this game for quite some time now, and now after these past few updates i have to say that i like where it is heading. Also it might be a bit grindy but later on it will pay off.
The renders are fantastic and dont use same face models as of other games out there. I look forward to how this game will Bloom even further.

[based on v0.19, patron]

I do agree with the complaints about the excessive unnecessary button clicking/grinding (which is really tiring, i literally feel tired after playing the game for a while, just like it was in BB)

However, the direction the game is heading in the latest few versions - with school rues implementation etc. gives me strong hentai high school vibes which means an instant 5 stars from me.

And ofc. it's worth mentioning this is a very high quality game.

Best game ever! No, the second after the big brother! I cant be bored playing it. Good graphics interesting gameplay beautiful female charachers. I can only recommend this game. Thanks to the developer for this.

Claims to be a better remake of Bigbrother, however, with absolutely none of the contents that made Bigbrother a loved game. Also, regardless of your content preferences and which character you play, this build is incredibly clunky and difficult to play.

Great Renders, the story is not great but you can enjoy it for moments. "Gameplay" too grindy, you can do the same things for days, you need to wait for some variation or for some event days or even weeks. You can't know where or when you get a "Mission" because the game don't guide you really well and the quest log help you a lot but some moments confuse you even more because some missions need other to advance and the quest log says you what mission is but maybe you don't know where find it or how do it because you didn't get it. This reminds me other games, where the dev waste time making a long story for the characters and all the world and forgets or delay some quest. The interface is good but I hate that the game don't ask for confirmation when you click in some options, if you arent carefull and didn't save in a while you could lose all your progress.

Conclusion: Game too grindy and a lot of scenes are repetitive more than they need to be. Exemple, when Kate spy Julia and Nick, you have to do like 5 scenes 11 times. Yu have to do the same 5 scenes, 11 times.

Not intrested: without animation, female protogonist, uninteresting plot. Two years ago it would have been interesting, but now there are projects of much better quality. This game can be more interesting for girls.

uuhh .. where to start ??
i had high expectation wit this game given that i was fan of BB and was thrilled to find out that few of the characters from that appear in this game, that's fantastic. but boy was i wrong.

Pros:
-Great artwork ...

Cons:
- Super Grindy ... with too little payoffs
- repeating scenes with ZERO variation makes the game get boring fast
- the game takes too long to update

Verdict:
unless you are ready to do the same thing with no variation over and over .. and over again to get one little extra scene or a tiny progression before going back to grinding AGAIN, then don't bother playing this. Also have to note that there are few events that depend on "luck" so chance sre you may have to very well have to grind 2x times in those cases