VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Haley's Story [v1.1 Pre-Patched] [Viitgames]

Not an entirely bad attempt for a sandbox game. However on the perspective when titling a game usually gives the basis of the plot of it. For example of Melody or Babysitter both gave the plot of male protagonist. However this being Haley's story should be her story with players choosing her paths not the story of Haley's twin male protagonist point of view forming a harem by getting his main female to help him to add the other female characters to the roster.

Good game.

Graphics is very good (but sometimes Haley's lips are too swollen and teeth too white and numerous). Sex scenes are good. Music is nothing special

The writing is very good, some parts (in particular dialogues) are really funny. MC and sis are kind of endearing, it is actually nice to watch their bickering.

Was impressed at first that several male character other than MC that are neither assholes nor dickless or whatever non-MS males are in such games
(well, in the end it does turn out that one is gay and the other has tiny dick; another one was known to be a douche from the beginning.)

I found it unfortunate that the MC displays this weird aggressive feelings towards old crushes of main LI ("I remember she dated X in high school. Now I want to rip of his head" or something like that. Why is that always done in AVN? Apart from some complete sociopaths nobody would feel/think of a year old crush of a LI, no?)
The violence path of the abuse arch felt artificial and silly.

Update: Contrary to several reviewers here I found the endings very satisfying.

Updat2: Changed the rating to 5 stars. Despite the small shortcomings mentioned it is a truly excellent game.

This is probably one of the best slower-paced ero games that you can find out there, and it certainly has the most well-written incest romance by far. The writing for the dialogue and the characters are actually good, and their dynamics/interactions with each other are all very entertaining and relatively realistic. If you don't mind sister-incest and want to play an adult game with actual romance development and not just sex scenes every two minutes, then there's really no reason not to try this one out.

Story driven romance VN. It's above average but nowhere near perfect. With higher quality art and animations or even more attractive girls it might have been a 5, but now even a 4 is pushing it. I don't care too much about incest one way or another, but I could see this being great if you are into that.

Excellent story, with great dialogue. I really enjoyed playing this game as for me Haley had something else that I did not find in other games, which was her personality. Great work guys, please keep it up and wish you good luck with your future project.

This is one of the best quality erotic VNs I've played so far.
Its writing quality is absolutely excellent:

- the relationship between the characters is plausible, well motivated, perfectly interconnected.

- its not just sex start to end, you can have a lot of it with many characters or just a bit with just your favourite(s). what's valuable as hell is that these choices feel very meaningful. And not in a constricting way.

- The way you relate and connect to them has meaningful impact on the story. This has been worked on properly because there's at least two distinct general areas you can play towards and they're not more or less the same with just a few slides modified. They're proper standalone paths.

- the dialogue is written splendidly. I swear if there's a sequel I could recognize the people solely based on what they say. Fun, engaging, troubling, emotionally charged, irrelevant.. . You'll have the whole range of banter and verbal exchanges, there's a huge range and it's all immersive and realistic.

- granular details that makes the characters very realistic. Each character has their own personality and flaws and you're put in the situation to react to them and be careful. They all have individual quirks and personality and motivations and strengths. Each person feels different. All well balanced.

-the girls don't suffer from spherical big boob syndrome

-the girls don't have that weird thing like in other VNs where anything they wear gets perfectly wrapped around their breasts like the fabric was glued into the lady.

- the attention to detail and plausibility is impeccable. It feels almost real.

-small references to series and stand up bits. Cute amounts integrated nicely, doesn't feel forced.

- the emotional side and cuddles are very warm and welcome and it genuinely made my heart warm at points.

- I don't have a sister so I didn't come to this due to the taboo aspect, but now I wish I did have a sister like in this

- I genuinely got emotionally attached and am reeling right now.

Haley's Story

Shameful, shameful me, i have been following this game from nearly the beginning and yet i havent rated nor critized it till now .

To be honost, i wanted to know what dirrection the game would take for me to be able to rate it because i had some doubts before the first big update (called the splitting arc for those that remember it).

Like others i didnt like to date Sandra but here ill dislodge other crittics, the only forced action is a kiss!! now, dating Sandra was a crucial factor to the storyline (you have to start somewhere).
(extra subnote: if your looking for porn material, your looking at the wrong game, this game has erotic scenes)

• The strong suite off this game/ story is both the writing and storytelling.
• I adore the sex scenes wich arent porn but highly erotic sex.
• The renders and animations or of higher quallity
• multiple story arc routes, your choises will lead you to different outcomes,
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• characters and there personality or strong and is beeing kept straight troughout the story.
• ...

(extra note of worth towards storytelling: fears, thoughts, likes and dislikes continue like a set vallue wich is why the storytelling is so strong, other games make a one scene about it and the next it becomes obsolete here it stays present, even crucial plotwise.)

also, i find realise i didnt put in a negative except at the start, well mostly it would be some polishing (had to put something )

finale to the review:

The easiest way to put all this toghetter is "I would/will miss Haleys story after the game would/will be completed".

I want to thank the dev, the creators and artists that made this game possible and for sharing it with us.

I would have rated it 3.5/5 (so 7/10) if it was possible but since it's not I'm increasing my rating to not hurt devs who made a quality product, definitely above average but at the same time lacking in some crucial areas.

The main flaw of the game is the linearity and lack of control that player has. For example it's impossible to not date that black chick, we have no choice here and it's really hard to screw things up with her later on, she literally doesn't mind that we have sex with Haley and doesn't mind threesome even. In general writing here (outside of sex scenes) is mediocre, pretty standard for an erotic game.

There's also too few choices along the way (there are times we need to read or skip a ton of text just to reach next dialogue option) and even when they appear usually they don't have much of an impact and basically if we play once we'll see almost every erotic scene there is. That's not necessarily a bad thing but my point here is that this game lacks replayability unlike some other VNs (Pale Carnations, Being a DIK, Sisterly Love, Once in a Lifetime, etc.).

However game compensates those flaws with really well done erotic scenes, beautifully rendered and well written and paced and that's the most important thing in a VN IMO hence such high rating despite some major defects.

All in all it's a good game and I can definitely see why it has such a high rating (albeit it is overrated).

Not bad so far. Quality of renders is good, animations are well made, definetely no complains on visual. Background music is OK as well. But the most interesting part is the story, especially writing. Characters are so well-written, good attention on character traits and over all I had stupid smile for the whole playthrough. Plot isn't any drama or action but tempo fits the game well and so far it is at least 6+ hours of content. I'd definetely recommend this game, mostly for its good writing and story. 9/10. [v0.98.6 Pre-Patched].

Good pacing, great writing and with genuinely interesting characters. Not all women are slack-jawed cumsluts just waiting to jump the MC bones. In fact, most are not - and their portrayal is believable. At least to me.

The renders are okay, nothing special. The character models are good, with some more interesting (not necessarily sexier) than others. As fap material, I'll give it 4/5 so far - there are better around here. But I really want to read the story - unlike most of the games around.

And the times you're asked to make a choice, it really feels like an important one. Not the "do you really want to do obvious thing (yes/of course/duh)", but places in the story where it feels like it matters.

I played 0.98.6 on Auto forward and with very little rollback, and very much enjoyed it.

Makes me want to be a patron. Highest praise I can give.

Impressive writing does it for me... also good visuals I can see the work on details like outfits and stuff so yeah...really good in my opinion! Also the plot is nice and building up to it and you are not a jerk...for once!

Haley's Story [v0.98.6 Pre-Patched]

I wanted to like this game since it has such high reviews, but as with many many other games I say to you "don't believe the hype". The renders are decent, the animations so and so and the writing is okay, if you are into chick flicks (romance style VN). Its a decent product but I don't find it particularly appealing or well made. Try it for yourself, maybe you'll like it more than I did.

3/5

I have hesitated for a long time before to play this game thinking it would be the standard incest story. But it is not. Rather a beautiful romance between siblings that have to discover their love, to accept it, to "commit" and have it accepted by others. With beautiful and endearing chars (especially the female main chars) and several side stories. The writing is excellent, very natural, lively and amusing. I especially appreciated Haley. At least a female char that is positive and radiant and the main force driving the story.
Obviously some weaknesses also. The anims that could be improved, the lack of real choices (but I definitely prefer an excellent KN to an average VN with many branches), some shortcomings in the story (the mafia? hitman?, some reactions of the MC).
But all in all, it is one the very best games I have ever played, with an excellent story and solid chars. Highly recommended.

This one is great little piece of incest writing. Plot isn't exactly out of this world story, but it's spiced with a bit of childhood trauma drama. What really shines here are dialogue and character writing - they each have distinct personality, quirks, their own life that doesn't revolve around mc (except the special case - your twin sister) . What's makes or breaks this is how incest topic is handled.
The most incest games you see would follow the minimum key notes from porn videos : slap the family noun labels on actors, then contrive some simple reason for them to fuck(which never happens in real life), profit from "incest" tag.
Here you start from the usual teasing and prodding of siblings , friendly roomie relationship, with a hints of deeper romantic feelings added on top from the sister. With time, those feelings come to head, as mc falls for his sister and realises what been under his nose for a long time. He tries to release his sexual tension with other girls at first, and that's where branching comes in, which is unfinished yet and hard to judge.
Still, I would rate this very high solely for the writer efforts, as he tries to portray the taboo relationship in a believable way, and I like how Haley's and mc characters are written, with lots of banter, power dynamic and actual romance.
Animations are animated stills, but with camera shots tastefully done, and I haven't seen any stock models in main cast - all have been tinkered to be unrecognizable at first glance.

I wish the dev all the best, hope you will find success and inspiration .

This game(V0.98.4) is really interesting but at some point, we start to lose interest little by little especially if we are on the adrianna's path ( Don't know what the dev is trying to make )

If you want to try this game, I suggest to stay on Sandra's paqth , because it is a little better.

Hope there will a 3th path for Lisa ( the most interesting character ) because at this moment, I give up this game...

good characters. nice models. sex scenes can be better tho. the story is slice of life, nothing spectacular, no weird mystery, powers, demons or something like that. but the characters are what is interesting in it and they are good, so it's ok so far.

It's relaxing really, if it had more characters would have been great. It was a first for me to enjoy reading and not just be there for the animation haha...
The sister's character wasn't predictable

One of the best written dialogue I've seen in a game like this. The renders are not the best I've seen, but they're good enough. It's the writing is where this game really shines. I love the relationship between the sibs, love the banter. It's a pleasure to read.

I have been looking for some good story VN for one year now and only now I hear about this gem. One of the best VN ever good story, good characters, good renderings, no major bugs and is currently good length and I'm looking forward to new content.

Great stuff! Haley is super cute and I love what the story does with her!

This is easily one of my favorite VNs right now, it is totally worth playing through the branching paths since there are really significant changes along the way.

Can't wait to see where this goes next, sort of sad that it sounds like it is coming to a close soon though