Ren'Py - Happy Summer [v0.6.8] [Caizer Games]

Nice art, but that was true of 'My Sara' too... other than the art though there are no redeaming qualities to be found here.

'Happy Summer ' you will find is a fap-free pile of annoying repitition. The Dev created this game to milk patrons not tell a story and in that he has succeded. The grind you will find is not a flaw, its the point. This game is grindy just to be grindy, waste time and drag you. Be warned, there is no reward for your efforts, just more grind. Unless and until Caizer stops the milk run and shows some progress in the story then I would reccomend you do yourself a favor and play something else. There are lots of great games on this site, but this is not one of them.

This game is 50% keeping stats up which is boring as hell, 45% grinding scenes with charaters to get relationship points and 5% story.

Cant save during a scene so you either have to save before doing anything so you dont miss it or start from your last save and grind all over again but make sure its a good scene as there are on 20 save slots, also even through this game is mostly repeated grinding scenes there is no skip function.

The charaters and backrounds are very nice plus the animations are smoother than you would expect and i would love to give it a higher score for that but if i cant repeat the scenes its kind of all wasted.

Can you say...grind? Holy shit - the dev has made it even worse by requiring you to click at least 3 or 4 times to repeat the meaningless actions to continue the grind.

Models are nice - visually the game is appealing, but quickly degenerates into a click fest.

To lessen click purgatory, if you access the console you can bump stats with the following commands:

I know you are reading this in search of a guide. Worse the scores on this page are a joke. Here are many clickers who understand an adult game like clicking on the screen until the next scene. This is a game where you must be aware of your needs and money and a plot that is gradually being built. If you like graphic novels this is not for you, if you want a game with good animations and immersion if it is.

Hello everyone
In fact, the game has a different character structure that draws attention. Renders look good. On the other hand, it cannot be said that it has a real subject. Game updates are progressing very slowly. Although I like the general character structures and renderings; Their daily repetition is seriously disturbing. Developers should now think about this issue. Repetitive games are boring.
Good game to everyone.

Review based on 0.2.3
RE-reviewed at version 0.5.6 => NO CHANGES, maybe even worse than before!

Original review(0.2.3):
Well - let's start many updates ago - it was a very promising nice game and seemed to be worth to play.

But then it turned into pure hell. The grind is horrible. You have to spent more time to keep your stats up than you are able to progress with the girls.
Speaking of progressing the girls - you have mostly no single clue what you should do or how you can continue. There is no hint system at all. Even the nice characters (if you like that style) can't help over the massive turn-off due to grinding.
Finally even after several updates, there is not really a progress for the girls. They maybe change their cloths, or you see them at new locations, but that's all.
There is no real story, no feelings - nothing what could make worth a single minute spending on that "game".

i love this style and story is good.

updates are small but come regularly, it is best to miss a few months and then catch up in one go.

Would also like to see some sort of replay function.

Great renderings
Great graphics
Gorgeous 3D appearance
Good story

Based on the "objective" "honest" reviews one could expect for this to be the worst, or nearly the worst, game ever...
I guess all that reviewers are skilled game creators and gamers who are created and/or played a bunch of top notch games with exciting stories, with no grind, hot real-looking ladies loosing their panties as soon as the mc approaches and holly wetness all around....
Nope, this game has almost nothing of it, yet it has some interesting ladies, a slowly developing relations, and story where the mc is not superhero/superdick, yet an ordinary guy with ordinary struggles..he has to eat, piss, bathe and work, and there is no easy sex for him.
Yep, some scenes could be repetitive and the game needs balancing a bit, but this game is far from the worst game here. So, for matters of balancing those "objective honest skilled" ratings/reviews, five stars from me.

Im very curious why the dev decided to start this project and still working on it without giving care to what the community is saying.
Theres nothing good about it, Characters that reminds me of barbie dolls, boring story, no excitement and grindy.
Stay away from this game, do not compare this to his "abandoned" project called My Lovely Sara because its totally different.
This game, if you can call it that is a bad idea.

*Love the graphics
*Love the cute personality from Rose

That's about it.

- Don't like the grind. One moment you could only do one thing, which I did in like 6 times with no variety.
- Don't like the game environment. Disable right click and scroll through history.. Whyy?!

The game is right now most content with Rose. But I'm more interested in the girl in library.

Slow, damn slow updates and little content but characters look unique, sexy and damn great. I think that using those models in interactive 3D game could be possible. Like with unreal engine or unity. Besides that it has great potential but as I said too little content to truly enjoy it and too much grind for my taste.

Edit: Did I say slow updates and little content? Dev made sure to make my words a reality. Not only did he make sure to add as little content as possible per update. He actually made it more annoying to get to said content by adding unnecessary grind to this game to make playing it all the more annoying and uninteresting. With little to no hint how to get to said content. It looks like dev does this game as a hobby in his spare time and gets sick enjoyment from reading comments about how bad is his game and how frustrating it gets to see new updates. Besides nice renders this game offers nothing but frustration, wasted time and blue balls. Nothing worth your time. I personally haven't even played recent update but I just needed to vent my frustration when I saw it's new update. Even when I dreamt about a day this dev abandons this title and forgets about its existance. He still churns out miniscule updates to this grindfest of a "game".

Visually exceptional! Might belong to the cutest art styles ever made, but their free-roam concept looks at least questionable yet like a shop with no goods (v0.1.9). The pace is "low key" and (yeah) I wouldn't want it any other way! Having to watch out for all daily needs a) to stay in the mood and b) to pay the bills, felt like torture after a while.

No need to fret tho, there's still hope! I'll try again later on.

Great renderings ...
Great graphics ...
Gorgeous 3D appearance ...
They do good graphics now and on mobile devices, this does not require powerful equipment.
This project is a dummy and an estimate of two and a half stars, this is too much. I think such games and their developers need to be stigmatized.

New to the game played v0.1.9 the game is really small so far but it looks like a good start, images and animations look impressive hopefully it stays like that if it stays good and updates are regular I will sign up through patron

This game makes one of those absolutely unforgivable mistakes, which makes it completely and utterly unplayable to me: This game removes RenPy's normal settings so that you can't skip and can't rollback. What business is it of the developer on how I choose to play my visual novel games? Does it somehow hurt you that I want to skip past your boring dialog? It takes a special kind of self-absorbed developer to think that players MUST play the game they create in the manner they dictate. Especially when it's a DINKY PORN GAME. Forever 1/5 until this is fixed. Wish I could give it 0/5 though.

No, no, no and not again. In my life I have not played a more boring and schematic game, no plot whatsoever and the content of the game is to perform tasks resulting from physiological needs. It's getting worse after every update.
It's a long way to anything in this game, unless it's all that the creator has to offer, yes, it's a waste of time for such a creation

One of the best game here right now. Although the contents are abit slow, the Quality of the story, the Art/Animation,, The Pacing, and the Systems of this game are exceptional. I hope the developer will keep up the good work!

Around 8 months and around 2 nude pics/"scenes" (barging in bathroom). Not worth downloading at present. Not going to say there isn't hope... but it's not lookin good... I'd suggest delaying releases (yes, even beyond how slow it currently is) until actual "content" is included.

So boring

wake up - pee-shower-eat-work-gym-chat-sleep-repeat.
the game isnt even able to tell you "hey dude, thats the end for this version." so you wonder around the house untill you disappointedly alt+f4 because nothing changes.
the graphics are solid but thats it.
There is nothing in the game that would suck player into the game...

Don't even spend a single minute on this - it's a repetitive, rewardless, mind-numbing waste of time. You'll be on a stat hunt that leads to nothing - literally nothing. And it will take you HOURS to get there.

I held out hope based on another game from this developer - also incomplete - that Happy Summer would lead to some kind of payoff.

After having to eat, watch TV, pee, bathe and work (these are all separate, mandatory actions that take up game time and serve no other purpose but to annoyingly delay goals, the game 100% does not ever lead to anything you'd look for.

And it's not like the game itself is good. There's zero story. Just actions. Over and over and over.

Ignore the artwork you see posted here. You'll never see it in -game.

PS - there is no way these 5 star reviews are honest. None at all. It's awful.