Ren'Py - Happily Ever After [v0.3.1] [Escovic Games]

Things happen a little too fast, and lack of choice make if feel lesser impact, and like a kinetic novel to me already, more little choice can change the game alot, I know there maybe a boring path with choice, but adding that will make it more like a game that feel you make the choice of what is happening.

This one falls under the weather for me (v 0.3.1). I played it in spanish and the writing is rather bad, but what's worse is that the story is atrocious. 1st scene MC is a sex machine, next scene he is terrible in bed. She goes from faithful to cheating for no real reason and with no buildup, and he does so even faster! Characters are plain and boring, predictable archetypes with no interest. And I'm not sure how much the choices will matter when the game says from the beginning that there will be NTR (I have no problem with that, but it does reduce the scale of impact for the choices).

Renders are decent, but nothing special. Animations and sex scenes are more on the poor side, with very basic animations and a bit wonky at times. There is music but I always turn it off so can't comment on it; there are a few sound effects here and there but nothing too present. At least I found no bugs.

So, all in all, this one falls short for me. I might give it a second try in some time to see how it has evolved, but it's not looking like it's going in the right direction and it'll be hard to steer the ship now.

A decent start of a game, potential for sure, but not much to write home about as of 0.2.
The story is pretty basic I think, nothing too intriguing. Pacing for a corruption game is actually pretty fast despite there not being much content just yet.
Overall it's just an average game despite the good character designs for the fmc. The only weird thing is the eyes are kinda a bit offputting, I think they're just like a bit too far apart and makes it look weird, otherwise there's nothing too impressive nor lacking about this game so far.

I feel like I'm required to post this after the review right before this. The "moan effects" that he is referring to are absolutely abysmal. It's like a 1/2 second clip that sounds like someone stubbed a toe. Characters are sexy as fuck though. The sex scenes are mediocre at best. I will keep playing becuse I want to watch FMC lose control, but it's very short right now.

EDIT v0.3.1 - A tale of a husband with a pencil dick that couldn't make her wife have an orgasm in the 2nd sex scene, the 1st sex scene on their honeymoon, he fucked her brains out. His friend has a massive dick, and he is into his wife. So you can guess the cuckstory. However, in this intro, there are two choices, suggesting that the FMC can be faithful, implying it will have routes. Quite good renders, hot FMC, and nice animations. A promising FMC corruption AVN - good plot with nice dialogues, although the translation from Spanish to English is average.

Why from 5/5 to 1/5:

Each update, shit gets worse, more and more the 'porn logic' is being applied. I couldn't even finish this last update, too cringe.

I find it to be a very intriguing beginning, a solid introduction that captures attention. My hope is that the story unfolds gradually, without rushing, allowing the details to shine. I’ll be following it closely

VERSION: v0.1.0
SUMMARY: Ok, but really been done many times before with nothing new.
RATINGS: (out of 5): ⭐⭐⭐

NOTE: The following categories and scoring method are my own criteria and may require more context. Additionally, scoring is based on the state, and what is in the current version and not what may or may not be introduced at a later point.

1. Character (Model) Visuals......... : ⭐⭐⭐⭐
2. General Visuals................... : ⭐⭐⭐
3. Animation Quality................. : ⭐⭐
4. Character Personality(Persona).... : ⭐⭐
5. Story & Dialogue.................. : ⭐⭐⭐
6. Writing & Grammar................. : ⭐⭐
7. UX/UI, Game Type & Mechanics.......: ⭐⭐
8. Playtime & Pacing..................: ⭐⭐⭐
9. Music & Sounds.....................: ⭐⭐⭐
10. Adult Content & Fetishes.......... : ⭐⭐⭐

Average: 27 of 50 possible points giving a 54% rating i.e. 3 stars.

PROS: - See my opinions section for details.

1. Models look nice and FMC is sexy.
2. Generally renders are not too bad.
3. Story is simple and functional, but not exceptional.
4. Writing is structured and reads well.
5. Sounds are not too bad.

CONS: - See my opinions section for details.

1. Renders are dull and grainy, while this isn't exactly a deal breaker, it does make the whole thing feel like you seeing it from a VHS tape...I think we can stick to clear and high fidelity please...
2. Story is bullshit, unrealistic, and yes its a game, but its a novel too, the best ones are told with close ties to realism, especially when its setting is in a more "real world" dynamic. See comments.
3. Per above, too many plot holes and stupid story telling.
4. Bugs, missing names for custom names, same default for characters, some "spill over" of Spanish where it should be English.
5. Sexual scenes are boring and uninteresting like wedding night.
6. No sounds during H-scenes adds to the dullness and disappointment.
7. UX/UI needs some attention like the opacity setting for dialogue box that is missing.
8. Mini-games are not exactly something I care for, not a horrible thing, but still not something I want in an AVN.
9. Too short and little interesting content, hard to review.

OPINIONS, SUGGESTIONS & FINAL REMARKS:

NOTE: The following remarks are my personal opinions and thoughts, which may provide more context and could be useful to the developer. (Read them or don't)

• Regarding story, the MC not telling his wife or Daniel, that they are moving to the grandfathers house is completely stupid and makes no sense. The couple uproot their whole life to go take over the grandpas business and live in his house which the clearly inherited. At no point did it occur to the MMC that his wife and Daniel should know about each other, be informed? They just show up out of the blue? Wow...such a lazy and stupid way to start the game...
• Per above, the story and its forced situation, again more kinetic, really just annoys me. There are stupid things that make NTR an agenda and not natural, the FMC doing house work half naked, knowing full well she and her husband don't live alone...its too deliberate.

TLDR:

Not horrible, the FMC looks pretty sexy, but the story and way its told has too many plot holes, is too obvious in its corruption and NTR approach. The setting is illogical, but also the intro is very short, giving no clear indication what we can expect. Its too short to review but for now its ok, nothing more.

one of the worst products lately, graphically it is full of bugs and wrong rendering, awful audio, characters without personality, the story, one of the most ridiculous, as a premise even worse, the dev imposes zero choices on us, there is only one way.