Others - Goodbye Eternity [v0.9.1] [RNGeusEX]

Version : 0.3.91 [PC]
Time Played : 2-3 hours

Extra Life is a game where the MC is sent back into the past to relive his life. The plot isn't utterly groundbreaking or unique but it has potential to be a good story. You can influence the MC's actions to a variety and has a feeling akin to that of a VN.

Pros ( + ) :-

• Great Art. Pretty Unique Artstyle. The backgrounds are colourful and detailed, look stunning in different time settings and even have animations.
• Fantastic UI. This is the best UI in any game I have played on this site. The buttons slide into place, highlight when you move your cursor over them, and are not static.
• Realistic proportions of body shapes.
• Money is provided via alternative routes unlike doing the same activity over and over.
• There is a CG screen as well where you can view the characters in different emotions and different settings as well.
• There is no need for a walkthrough as the game is pretty simple in its storyline and instructions. The UI really helps here as hints/ directions are integrated very well.
• Grammar and use of language seems correct.
• Has some animated scenes.

Cons ( - ) :-

• Since its still in early development there's not a lot of content.
• There's not a lot of sex scenes.
• It is a sandbox and as a result, shares one of the most common problems of these type of games - Go there , talk to X, Go back , talk to Y and repeat .

May Affect your choice ( ~) :-

• The art style sometimes is inconsistent compared to the sprite.
• Not really a lot of kinks exposed so far.
• The corruption may be a bit cliché.
• MC can come off as a bit of a dick.

It may be noted that a lot of the negatives and other parts of my review focuses on aspects which has not yet been expanded upon by the Dev right now. As of the the update mentioned in the review, the game shows a lot of potential - Very unique Art and UI, Decent story and classic sandbox gameplay mechanics . The game is still in early development and it shows. If I was basing this review on solely the potential of it - it would be a perfect score right now. However, at this moment, there is just not enough content to warrant 5/5 so I'm giving a 4/5, with the intention to review it as the game gets updated.

In conclusion, great game in early development and I wish all the best to the Developer and I will be playing the game after every update.

This game is quite promising great art and a top tier story i normally don't care about visual novel storylines but this one is actually interesting and i really hope to see more.

really my biggest complaint right now is that this isn't a "dating sim" as it has been tagged but i can see a great groundwork for a dating sim and i hope they fully make it one with multiple routes dating just one girl or multiple girls etc.

Great game, I really like the game mechaniques and the story(even it's a sad city)
Plus: what an amazing thing: the game is in FRENCH. How can you reject it?
(I suppose an alternative title: "Chad rising" if you follow my mind ^^)

A good "anime style" games. The story is the same of lot of games here, but well done in this game. Pics are great ant the whole game is a good entertainment. Cant wait for the next updates ; it's promising !

I had originally given a rating of 4/5, but at this point it definitely deserves a 5/5.

Original review in 2021:
"The art is pretty. It is really clean and everything has a nice aesthetic.
Story is somewhat interesting. There are parts that don't make sense. Why does the sister go from hating the MC's guts to be in a sexual relationship in 1 day?"
Honestly I still think there is some minor pacing issues, but everything else works so well it's not worth mentioning.

Original comment: "Performance wasn't great for me, which is particularly concerning because there's not even that many features in the game and I never have performance issues with visual novels."
Performance is now fine, plus there's also an option for low end PCs. Can't believe this issue got addressed lol.

Original comment: "Very little content - I really don't care if the game doesn't have a massive assortment of CG, but the story has barely progressed anywhere."
Lot's more content at this point, the story can be cliche but it just works.

Original comment: "I recommend trying the game out for yourself, it will take less than 30 mins for one run."
The length of play through vastly improved, so has the breadth of meaningful options. Also, have I mentioned the art looks astonishingly good?

Art is fantastic, 11/10. Though, the MC looks like he's in his 30's and the sister's, half-sister's, cousin's, whatever she is, disgusted face looks like a blob.

Story: So far, I liked it, 8.5/10. I have nothing to say about it. Maybe MC can become a businessman in the future and make bank.

Setting: 8/10. I also like it, but it feels confined. I'm not sure why as I've played games with a similar setting to this and liked them. I know this game is new, so it's expected, however, maybe in the future it'll get better.

Characters: 8.5/10. Sister is annoying, though hopefully, maybe, as the story progresses, she gets friendlier and kinder as she realizes the MC is actually trying to help. I loved the mom; kind, beautiful, not too massive breasts, and did I mention kind? Though, she feels too naïve for a woman who has a daughter. She feels mature, but when it comes to sexual content, she feels naïve. Like she easily slept with MC even with very little progression. It would be better if you had to try harder, but not too hard, to make her be sexual, though IDK if this story has incest or not. The best friend: Didn't like him. He's kind, but sometimes outrages for no reason, and is suspicious as hell. Everyone else I have no problem against. I liked macho man, or mancuman I think. I think he should have a nickname like 'Macho Man' when the relationship between the MC and macho man develops.

Cheat: I tries to collect all the random cash drops, but game said I didn't find all of them. Not sure why, I even tried to forcefully change the script externally, though I couldn't find the cheat script.

Audio: 9/10 Liked the audio. Especially the moaning, though I'm not sure if it's a different game as I played a game right after this one. Most games have horrible moaning sounds but I liked this moan. The environmental sound feel ambient. I really liked the environmental sound.

Overall: A high rating, but not over the room. I calculated it and the average was a 9/10. But since I didn't like the dom portion and the bad money grinding system, it'll be lower. Maybe 8.5/10. The money also currently, 3.91, has no use so it feels pointless. And the sister dom thing was uhhh, I was ok with but I don't want it to continue for long as I would like some wholesome moments.

At the end of the day, I come to this site to masturbate. Since this didn't do anything for me, it's a failure.

Still, it's a very, very pretty failure.

I mean, props where they are due, this game looks good. The UI, backgrounds, character designs, and unique CGs are all very tasteful. The style and attention to detail here are on point -- the three people working on it are really putting in their best effort to give it all the right stylistic touches.

In fact, this game might eventually become one of the best on this site based solely on the art and writing. I don't recall specific grammar or spelling mistakes, although I vaguely recall a couple, but they didn't distract from the dialogue or intention of the characters. Despite the lack of content, I think the pacing here is also good, and I look forward to seeing the ongoing character development as it has been going on so far.

This game is working really hard to not become another generically bad Ren'Py dating sim, and it deserves recognition for that. This site has way, way too many of those games.

However, since it has been posted here, I have to rate it commiserate with what people can expect from it at this very moment, not what people think they can expect from it in the future. On that note, I doubt there's very many people who can climax from anything released so far. One female masturbation scene, and one under-clothes groping scene, are not enough for me, anyways. I'm here to jerk off, not to critique the artistic talents of the devs.

I'll keep an eye on this one, as should anyone reading this, but don't bother downloading it yet. Let it cook in the developer's kitchen for a while longer.

This game is very high quality. The story is pretty decent, the art is really well done and has massive attention to detail. The game is full of tiny little features that make it feel really polished. Looking forward to what else is in store for this game.

Saw 30+ high reviews and expected it to have some actual content. It doesn't, people are just fucking insane. Leaving this here so others don't make that same mistake. This is .1 first release amount of content. It's a prologue, an intro, it introduces a few characters and that's it. There's 1 single masturbation scene and nothing else sexual. Not even remotely worth downloading. Even if you're completely in love with the art and you've never seen anything so amazing in your entire life, bookmark it and check back in 2 years with this pace.

Excellent Game good balance between grind and content, great job dev.

I have to add extra characters to reach the 200 minimum so I'll additionally say that I like the art style as well as the pacing, not going straight into lewd stuff but making you build up some relationships first.

It's still very much early days but so far this is looking like a potential gem. Very well drawn and has a good mix of drama/humour without going overboard.

Only complaint so far is the first domination scene with Noriko. It's a fairly important scene but ends up being too fast and not detailed enough. I'm worried future scenes that should get preferential treatment will instead get the same quick, boring treatment but that said the first Noriko animated scene (on the same path) almost makes up for it so maybe that problem won't come up again.

What wonderful art. Simply in love with the characters, great development.

I really liked the categories and the planned ones, expecting mainly the lesbian one.

I hope this game has a great future, and has amazing scenes with this beautiful art.

This is really an awesome game this is like Summer Time Saga but with more potential since this has an actual story and interesting character development I just hope the fruit of your training shows I legit want to beat the crap out of the bullies in this game with my jacked up MC that's how effective the story telling is.

I like premise and story overall.. Art is great. Story is good and can get better with more development. Only things I personally didn't like was one of the potential LI wanting to go in Porn Industry. It kinda killed mood. lets wait and see where will developer take us..

Totally excellent. Anyone criticizing the technical aspects are fine and all because there's some major ones out there, but 1/5 star out of the gate? Give me a break, it is "v0.x" for a reason.

In love with the character design. It's hard for me to find ANY western-based H-art fitting to my taste, but this one totally nails it. Will be a behemoth if the developer can deliver consistently, and some luck with marketing (word of mouth, etc).

Basic but interesting-enough story is also a nice addition. I never really the kind of guy to seek the details in story, but I take attention to the main ideas. Like currently we got "taming" a violent step-sister (reminds me of a certain R18 webtoon). Even if the developer ends up reusing basic doujin or H story out there for some of the plotline, I'd be totally fine for me personally. That's just how much I want this to reach the finish line.

Dev, you pretty much can take the "safe" route if you want, populate the core H-content. After that, go wild!

I haven't played this game since last autumn.

UI / character design / artstyle - all of that is as great as it was, but the way narrative works and the dialogues... Dude wtf?
You can decide to act harsh towards your "sister", but in the next story-line you act as a pussy again.
The tomboy girl? "I love you" comes out from MC mouth after playing video games with her for 2 days, while we having sex, what a remarkable character development lmao.
You also have a weird naked stepmom bedtime almost right at the beginning for no reason at all, with the MC acting like "oh shit dude ok, seems normal lmao".
Pacing also doesn't make any sense, like you basically have a glipmse into each of the character's story, but end up having an option to participate in only specific one until you finish it.
There is also that "golden eye" thingy that straight up implemented in a "look dude btw u have golden eyes now, also they r brown from everyone's elses perspective, so... yeah, anyways..." event.
MC also smart enough to use a voice recorder to deal with bitching sister situation, but after 3-4 hours of play time, he doesn't do the same thing for the NTR guy.
I feel like im playing as 10 different characters, honestly.

Pixelhunting is still in the game for no clear reason but to annoy the player.

My props to the artist, but other stuff must step up, literally ruining the potential.

UPD after ~2 years:
This project went to the usual route of artist being MVP, while systems, character development, gameplay features and all of that stuff sucks.
With each new update it feels like you're playing a new character.
Choices are irrelevant.
Maledom Noriko path? Aith, have your BJ scene, but right after 0.3 story its not gonna matter.
You also cannot choose what girls you are interested in. Like in lets say Summertime Saga you could romance whoever you want and ignore the rest, but here I have to hang out with Asami, even tho I couldn't give less shit about her. I didn't even go with "slut" option, just wanted to befriend her at best, yet here I am having this bitch on my screne 80% of the time.
The story is too linear, money are useless (you literally cannot spend them on anything, they only required once to progress the story)...
Idk man, this project got infected by SadCrab.
Sad shit to follow a project from its earliest version and watching it turn into an abomination more and more with almost each following update.

very good game! You can see the dedication and attention to detail, I want to be able to buy it when it comes out! I love art, I liked the story faster than I expected. I love Noriko and yasuka, I love mother and daughter!

I reviewed this on version 0.3 and this looks promising to me.

Story is start great and dev said there's consequences for each action but no matter how much mistake u made, there's no NTR, so it's safe if you don't like NTR.
Good artwork and beautiful scenario, background.

Looking forward for more update, cheers!

Love the characters, options that are presented, and art style, if it continues as its started it'll be one of the best games on the platform. However with that said its very short (think like first chapter of a book) and has some major bugs (I had to start over once, for map markers not appearing).. but both these factors are improving gradually with time, so certainly one to keep checking in on over time.

Story is well done. Original in that it doesn't follow the typical Isekai POWER OVERWHELMINGGGG, but that's even mentioned in the game so, nice. It's genre subversive, and fourth wall breaking but still alright.
Characters are interesting, and while we're all just here for a wank a less cliche cast with real depth to their story is always welcomed. I think RNGenuEX is working towards that direction already based on the writing, which is good.
Art is really well done, +100pts. With this amount of details, it's obvious that a lot of care and thoughts went into the art, and it shows.
Music a bit repetitive. Could have three different music that match the three/four times of day in the art, but still in beta so no worries.