VN - Ren'Py - Gothcuck [v0.7] [GC Studios]

Well, what to say... There's close to no content, and yet... there's already a paywall.

I won't dive further into that, as I believe there's no need for further explanation why a paywall in a project this early into development is bad.

The game's writing is mediocre. It's not bad, but it ain't good either. The story, or the skelleton of it, fails to pull your interest at its starting point, making everything else just... bland.

The art, even though it's AI, is decent still... probably edited in PS/Krita, which is the path anyone using AI art should take. I won't give out any extra points to that though, since I also dabble in AI art, and know that once you have a decent understanding of the UI you're using (such as Auto1111, ComfyUI, etc) it doesn't take much effort to get results at this level. Heck, I can even guess the model that was used here.

The characters introduced thus far are ok, if a bit bland. Nothing really good, nothing really bad. I'd give 2.5 stars, maybe even 3 stars for the characters alone.

But then, I look again at the current amount of content, and the presence of a paywall...

Nah.

Cannot recommend playing this.

GCNDev built a very promising setting with GOTHCUCK. I enjoyed the story greatly so far, and I couldn't be happier about the kind of style he chose for the drawings. If you're into thicc goth chicks, and airhead bimbo sluts, you'll love the game.
I specially liked the way Blair—the main girl—is written, she emanates some kind of aura of mystery and cruelty, and I'm eager to get to know her character. And all the buildup GCNDev is creating will only make the NTR hit harder, when it finally happens.
This version works as an introduction of the setting and characters, and does a great job establishing a solid foundation for the next updates.

Everything is locked behind a paywall. Look, I get making money as a dev. That's fine. But not only is all choices locked behind a paywall each choice is locked behind a different paywall! So, if you want to go back and make a different choice guess what bucko you gotta fork over some more cash. And this isn't even original artwork or background + it's the very first update with barely any content yet you're expected to pay $7.50 to be able to make premium choices and then another $13.50 if you want to access to ultimate choices. And do these choices you're paying a premium to be able to make have any major impact on the game? Don't know didn't spend $21 to find out. For the story itself it's run of the mill. Premise is good (I like NTR and interracial) and I didn't notice any glaring grammar issues but I'm probably not going to continue playing or give money in the future. At least for now. With this sort of model if you really want to play this game I'd wait to see if the dev completes it and then buying it otherwise you're going to be spending a lot of money per month for this.

First than nothing, the unnecessary paywall in almost every choice of the game from the very beginning, if you want the people pay for the game, the worst form of achieve it is force them to pay.

In second place, not a single one porn scene... I don't understand why the people do this when decide to develope a game, if you are making a porn game, even if is only a demo, you must mandatory add one porn scene and if is a Netorare/cheating/Cuckold game, a porn scene with the girl (Or one of the girls in this case) and the other man (Nothing with the MC, in a NTR game the less times the MC fuck with the girl or girls better and in the first scene he can't have action, never)
In other words, you must change the game and add one porn scene at least and without the MC.

In third place, "Less are more" or "Less are better" that pair of phrases are very popular and must be applied to this game, in the scarce amount of minutes than the game endured to me, I can count at least 4 girls, the landlady, the blonde neighbor, a really slim redhair girl and the goth girl of the main screan, I think the goth girl (If I understand right her name was Blair) will be the MC girlfriend or something in some future patch... The best thing that can happen to the game is do action ONLY with Blair and let the other 3 girls to another game or a path where the action can concentrate only in the girl the MC/Player choice, if the MC start to have things with all the girls, the story will be very bad, in change, if the MC concentrate his attention in one girl and only one girl at same time, will be better and let the player the choice of what girl he want and at same time let place to replay the game to try with another girl in the next play.

My recomendation in resume to end the review is:
Remake the game, eliminate the disgusting paywall (Sorry but the things as there are) change the story to add at least one porn scene (Without the MC, never with the MC) preferably with Blair, make a option that let the player choice if they want make the story with the Landlady, Blair, etc. And let the players the choice to support you and not force them.

This is yet another game that is bound to get hate due to its content of being NTR, using AI, and the most serious of them all, having a black guy So far the game is in the beginning stages and delivers in what it needs to for an initial project such as establishing the world and characters. The AI art is good and character design is very hot! There is not too much sexual content but this is just a start so i am looking forward to see how it develops. I for one, hope for more BBC/Cuck content such as in the banner. As always, support the dev if you are able to but complaining about paywall in a piracy site makes no sense.

Paywalled choices, weak story, cool art tho.

What's the point of posting this game on this site if you're just gonna paywall everything? Each choice has a paywall behind it, and if you don't pay, you're not going to see anything.

Also, the writing isn't good. It's just copy/paste "white boi vs bbc" crap. No relationships, no cucking, you're just some loser that's not even worth cucking.

Most important note: You don't have a romantic other, so this VN features no actual NTR or cucking. Also it's a shallow cash-grab with no content.

The previews tell you what you're going to get with the art, nothing will surprise you there. You are a cute boy, that's a plus. It has the AI sheen to it, but you know what you're getting into.
It's raceplay/blacked stuff so it has all the usual problems of being lazy, bad, juvenile, etc. etc., if you ever tried out one you know it's the bottom of the barrel for NTR where quality goes to die.

The only thing to really look into is pacing and general writing quality. It's an over-the-top aggressive style, it instantly and proudly hits you with locking your choices behind how much money you paid on patreon which is not especially cheap and the choices do not give you much of anything at all different, it's just a way to bait you into giving money.
The customizable strings (landlady to "whatever") either doesn't use a system to change case or the dev just didn't do it right. (if you don't capitalize "Mom" then it will be lowercase even at the start of a sentence, where that is very easy to make it auto-capitalize the first letter when the input was lowercase)
Past-tense narration instead of present-tense. Just up to your personal preference there, I dislike it. Might be AI-generated writing, does have a Novel-AI feel to it.
Stink/gross-out with things like "She had a large sweaty ass" but more as a factor of being aggressively crass rather than fetishizing
"Sweaty fat meat melons" and "feminine sweat"
Also at the start there was that note about the protagonist stinking too. Maybe it is a stink fetish.

And then it's over after like 10-15 minutes. Pay the price of a much better game to get an extra minute of nothing special, just the option to act more submissive in a few responses. It's still linear either way and unlocks no content.