VN - Ren'Py - Hard to Love [v0.23] [Qori Gaming]

Amazing game,amazing story and graphics. Animations are wonderfull.
I like when game is teasing and spicy,not giving all at once. Plot is very uniq and well written. Cant wait for another update,very good and interesting game. Characters are so different and triggering of the game is great. I have read all conversations between characters, in my top 5 games definitly. Well done.

The graphic and the chars looking really good and the fact the game jumps like the bad movie "Cloud Atlas" between the time is weird and a bit confusing.
Too much insults all the time!

Emotional whiplash! These two words describe this game in my opinion.

Render are good, but models look strange to say the least.
Intro is hard to follow jumping from past to present and back, while it feels like the MC is actively dying.
In the past the LI is written to be quirky? I don't know MC says something neutral/nice and she takes it as an insult and attacks him verbally multiple times.

But what really got me was Madison...
Wanne see my boobs or even touch them?
What are you doing trying to touch my boobs?
Oh now you feel sad? Come touch my boobs, rub them, be gentle with them.
OMG you took advantage of me and abused me!

The above happens in ONE scene not multiple.
WTF?

That was the point I started skipping and was not impressed by the rest.

Hard to Love suffers from a rather sub-par translation, poor dialogue or both. The narration is erratic and explanations are broken off in mid-sentence, feelings are expressed only fragmentarily.

Because of these narrative problems, I have no great interest in slogging through the plot. I think the introduction in particular urgently needs to be revised so that newcomers are not left out in the cold.

It's exceptional, but it's not perfect, and what's worse.... it seems to go a bit... peculiar.

When playing you can taste the effort put in. The renders are spectacular. Reminds me a bit of another game I won't mention here but they're better than that because at least these characters look less perfect, if that makes sense. It's not characters who look like they've been cloned from all the best bits of DNA from the cast of Beverley Hills 90210. It looks like the Dev's taken the time to make them appealing but not to the point they look unbelievable.

The issues I have, if they can really be called that are to do with other areas. The MC.. seems like a dick. It's hard to say for sure but I definitely get that feeling about him. This could simply be due to the other issue however and that's the lack of real explanation around why everyone is the way they are. There's also little in the way of an explanation as to who the people are. Could come later but if so then it's being fleshed out very slowly. It feels almost like the Dev trusts in their ability to draw the player in so much they don't feel they need to dump exposition on them so soon into the game and it's entirely plausible, but personally I'd like a bit more.

"Hard to Love" seems almost like a joke in itself because it could be talking about the MC (who has a ton of issues and comes off as a dick) or the women he interacts with (who universally also all have issues). The Overview in the original post establishes more than the game does as to what's going on, which in storytelling is a cardinal sin. Show don't tell.

What happened to the MC? Seems he got done in but never explained why. He has flashbacks to a girl, but never really explained who. He's got a daughter, who we know nothing about. A sister who has stuff going on, but not sure what. A mom who's been relegated to a trophy wife who has no issues flaunting herself in front of her family, but it's never explained why. Funnily enough the person who makes the most sense is the dad who seems to hate the MC but from what little I know of the story I can at least get why. There's very little there needing to be explained but all the other characters are a mystery. It also suffers from that frustrating trope of having all the characters KNOW there's something there but refusing to explain it. So you get a lot of dialogue like

Character: blah blah blah. You'd think she'd be better at hiding it
MC: wut?
Character: you know how she....... you know what, never mind... it doesn't matter

No, not never mind, explain the damn story please.

It kind of gets worse as it goes on. There's a whole flashback scene that.... I don't care about with characters I care less about. It's told in a way to suggest it's trying to explain why the MC is a dick but really it just reinforces the fact that he's a dick. And not like a normal dick, I'm talking the level where the story doesn't make sense cause there's no way he'd be allowed by his work to continue being that way. There's also head scratching moments with where the game's set, it seems to be in Japan for some reason despite the cast being white and really the flashback took so long I started to just skip the dialogue. The whole thing didn't interest me and I'm sure it's well written but at it's foundation it's such an abrupt turn from the story that was shown previously it almost feels like a different game.

Renders are fantastic the MC is just unlikable the more I get into his story the less I like him. Story is all over the place and makes me not really want to get invested into it. Game could use a better translator because some parts are just a mishmash and hard to follow. But despite all this I really do like the game so far just hope these things I listed can be corrected by the creator.

I made it through I'm guessing v0.1 of v0.3. The story seems be ok but it bounces all over the place and the way it is presented is difficult to follow, which is the reason for the low rating. Pics are really good. MC is a pussy. I hope the rest of the game works out ok, but it is not for me. Hard to love is Hard to love. Good luck with the game.

I think this is a decent start to what could be a good game.

At the moment it's mostly setup and little payoff but as content updates come that will hopefully change.

The story so far is not super complex and as of yet most of the choices you can make don't really appear to change the story too much; something that I expect will also change with more content releases. The writing itself was good enough that I never felt like trying to just skip through it like I have with some games.

I agree with some of the other reviews that say the MC is unlikable, if he's one that's "Hard To Love" it would make sense, but then again most the women in his life seem to find him the opposite of that.

All things considered, easily one of the best games that I've ever played.

Story 6/5
Models 6/5
Renders 10/5

There aren't many scenes in the game yet, but the story goes very deep. The interactions between the characters may not seem natural for game, but it makes the story much more realistic. Lastly, I would just like to compliment on the quality of renders, so much better than BaD and the other games that I've played.

Hard to Love [v0.03]
Pros:

• Models (Models are mostly attractive. But NGL, Madison creeps me out. But that's my personal opinion.)
• The Renders
• The writing is good enough

The Okayish:

• The Personalities of the girls (They are somewhat likable, but their reasoning for falling for the MC is pretty meh.)

Cons:

• The story (It’s all over the place. It’s hardly understandable. I don’t even understand what this is all about.)
• The MC (He is very unlikeable. He hardly has any redeemable qualities.)

Massive Cons:

• The game is supposed to take place in japan? Neither the people nor the environment represents them at all. Honestly, this makes it very difficult to process the story of the game.
• The animations are horrible as F.

I was very interested in the development of the game because of the renders. But the VN overall is very poorly executed.

Graphics 5/10 The renders are ok characters are done well.
Problem with the whole thing is it's just like reading a comic book. The style is not interesting.

Story 4/10 A little hard to keep up with goes in different directions.

Animations 1/10 Story and Animations are the most important in all of these adult story/games. This pretty much has none. which really cuts interest in the whole project. Dirty comic book is one thing, this is supposed to be an animated novel. Where the hell is the animation, oh yeah there was one or two.

Overall uninteresting and a waste of time downloading, if i wanted to read a comic i would go to the comic section.

TLDR: An amazingly strong start with real feels that somehow turns into a dumpster fire in the latest update (0.03). I really loved this game and was excited for it until I got to this part of the story so we'll see what the next update brings us..

The Good:

The first two updates are really well written and well paced. The build up of the love between MC and Antonella is really well done and just long enough to feel real without dragging on.

There is a decent variety in the various LI models in terms of ages/body & breast types and for the most part the models look realy nice (sadly your sister goes from beautiful to nasty in between the two timelines)

The Meh:

The phone messaging interface has some weird timing issues where it just takes wayyyyy too long before you get to respond to messages.

The Ugly:

Oh where to even begin.. Update 3 is just an insane dumpster fire of an update. The pacing goes out the window completely as the dev goes way overboard in trying to show how badly the MC falls between the two timelines. And we suddenly find out that the story line is supposed to be based in Japan even though most of the characters are not Asian which makes no sense when you consider how anti immigrant Japan is well known for being. Also we find out that the MC & his father have a horrible relationship which makes no sense as the MC doesn't mention anything in the early timeline but this would have been a huge plot point considering the family problems that Antonella has. This shared suffering would have been part of the glue that bound them together. It really feels like this was just something the dev decided to throw in without having decided it would be part of the story from the beginning.

Honestly in a perfect world the dev would just retcon parts of update 3 for now and then rewrite it completely in the future. We get it.. things got rough for the MC but we could learn that in a much more succinct way.

Very interesting story so far and well written. It has good character development, and good story progression. It is neither a grind nor is it a sexathon. The story had me reading every word, something that I definitely don't do in slow-grinds or even in sexathons. I cannot wait to see what happens next (and actually what happened in the past) and really hope that the author does not abandon this.

So cudos to the author. Please keep up the good work.

the game is unplayable when the phone rings the message don;t advance neither rhe buttons get rid this s***t and be done with it...

one star and it is way too much
the story is crap even the writer does not know what is writing
the girls at first was good but after the transition are hideous
mc is contravencional and the players choices are not playing any part at the game

This is a really entertaining game. The adult scenes are on the lighter side(from what I saw) but the tease and storyline is consistent. Will be interesting to see this one play out. Also would like to see more from this developer.

Absolutely amazing plot coupled with impressive visuals and the AVN equivalent of "cinematography". I have just started out and already the game managed to get me moving into tears. Even BaD could not do that this fast. This one has a lot of potential to be ranked near BaD imo. Definitely will recommend.

Very good game with lot of potential.. only thing I personally don't like and hope will change is MC acting very weak.. Its too panful to watch Top Cop, Man with cool and heavy background acting like 14 year old retard. Hope it will change in future updates.

Another complain is little sister is very very ugly compare to rest of the LIs.

One of the most visually impressive games from this site. The rendering and still frames are just gorgeously done. On the subject of story, it feels a little disoriented at first as we jump from the protagonist's past and present with some things missing in between. But it will make more sense as the story moves forward and there is not that much content right now. So the plot is okay for the meantime as I didn't connect to the story until much later.

The characters models are really beautiful, especially the present version of Amber who really caught my eye as she kinda looks like Evelyn with tats from Love Season. There's not much depth to the characters with the exception of few as of now. As for the protagonist, I gotta say the dude's got no fuckin backbone. He's a huge beta despite being a cop and starts to freak out like a teen dude with raging hormones whenever a woman comes near his vicinity including his family

About the music, it's implemented well with chill background and there are no sex scenes yet. Just some teasing here and there especially with the protagonist's family.

The final verdict, it's a fairly above average game for the meantime and I would've gave it 3 stars if not for the beautiful renderings and plot structure. I'm also quite intrigued about how did the wife die, and what's up with amber and madison. So i'm looking forward to see what direction the story takes cause this has good potential.

Really looking forward too see the direction the dev is taking with this story, next update can't come soon enough!

First things first: I love the transtions in this game! you can clearly tell the devs cares a lot about the artistic/visual side of the game.

I really want to know what happened that made them separate ways and why mc's father is such an asshole - Why does he hate his son so much?

Overall: Pretty strong so far and you should definitely check out.

STORY: 5/5 so far
RENDERS: 5/5
MODELS : 4/5
CG: 5/5

One more Diamond in the making

Renders 5/5
Story 5/5
Dialogs 5/5
Animations 5/5
Models 4/5

This is a top of the top games out there
you wont disapointed for sure if you give it a chance
an original story , perfectly presented, and can make you feel you are living it
theres not enough games like this one out there

the only con i found is some body features of the models are a bit `off`

surelly a 5 STAR game - Enjoy the ride !!!