VN - Ren'Py - Having a HARD Time [v0.4.1] [Quadruple-Q]

WAY-too-early-review-that-I'll-delete-later-if-I-remember:

Yes. For only having two chapters this one hits it out of the park on production values, and is very solid in length as well. I didn't time it or anything, and I was listening to the World Cup, but I think it was around two hours which is a hell of a lot considering there are games on here a decade in development that haven't hit ninety minutes.

I think the screenshots demonstrate clearly the best and worst things here: the characters and their models. First, I didn't find anyone attractive and the worst offender is the MC. Sure she's infinitely better than 90% of VNs that have midget 12-year olds with footlongs who everyone loves (self inserts.....) but she is really, really odd looking. She has jowls and a weak chin, and her eyes are just fucky for me; overall, she just looks really off. And it doesn't improve with the other characters as well, Marianne specifically is like a cross between a Barbie and a GI Joe. Uncanny valley all around for everyone.

Also, there are way, way too many characters so far. It has to be about thirty or something by the end of chapter two which is a bad sign considering as development continues there will be more and more added. Since being negative is my favorite activity I'll also point out that there are EXTREMELY worrying signs that there's going to be a dumb AVN subplot about an evil villain or corporation or something retarded that adds nothing and only serves to melodramatically detract from humor and porn.

Everything else is great. As others have said, this has solid DIK vibes without being overtly a comedy. Very lighthearted and entertaining. I had a real smile on my face pretty much the entire time I played which always is a good sign: besides that one hint at the end of what's here, I very much enjoyed what's on offer and can't wait for more. Plus, it's really rare to have a factually-correct futa and not a dickgirl or ladyboy. Shame the only sex so far is a rape, but......eh whatever.

I absolutely love this game!

It reminds me of Being a DIK, but not due to similar characters, stories or concepts but the overall quality of the game. I do not have a single complaint regarding this game. The characters, the story, the renders, the animations, just about everything in this game is well done. And I really appreciate all the small details from character intros/profiles via a lot of truly funny dialogues and scenes to the extensively implemented cumshots.

For me it joins or maybe even surpasses Futagenesis Unveiled as the #1 futa game/VN on this site!

v0.2.3

The game has good renderings/animations, girls are cute and various expressions are nicely(some look weird though). Music sets the atmosphere right.
I'd say audio/visual wise it's pretty good

However,
We get bombarded with characters early in the game but interactions are barely there. It's just like constant this is who and this is who. Probably won't remember who they are when they reappear couple of chapters later.
I would rather have them introduced if they were playing a meaningful part.

The weakest link in this game is the jokes. Honestly man.. Reel it in.
Too hammy for my taste. And that Lucas dude.. Ugh.

All in all, the game has potential and is worth your eager wait for the next update.

I gauge how good a game is based on how I feel when I reach the end of the current version.

For this VN I was very disappointed that I had got to the end of the current content as i was enjoying the story so much.

i see that is is going to be one the great VN's on here, great job so far dev

Review after finishing Episode 1.

So far the game offered a lot of variety of choices.
Additionally the phone is not completely useless for once.
The thing I look for the most is the character logic and it delivered.
Looks promising, while some renders look uncanny I can look past that for the sake of content.

Wish the devs good luck and will definitely keep tabs on this one.

This is fuckin fantastic !

Nice girls (with and without dick), good story, not complicated playing, engaging, hot sex scenes (with good pace and speed), good variety in looks and character for the girls, even the dudes in this game seem ok (I'm not gay btw) ...

Keep it going please Dev

Gonna try and review more games on this site, and do it in an orderly way based on the factors important to making these adult games work so as to be helpful to discerning folks who want to know if a game is gonna do it for them. Here goes!

MODELS: 5/5. Huge diversity in the types of bodies and faces present, and all of them are at least somewhat sexually titillating. At no point does it feel forced when the MC comments on how hot someone is: we're agreeing, not just being told. There's occasionally a little excessive expression in some of the faces, but done in the course of conveying different emotions and personalities. The MC is especially hot, though she's not without competition, and her 'transformed' body looks and feels as organic and realistic as the original.

SEXUAL CONTENT: 4.5/5. It's not unending - there's breaks here and there to establish characters and storyline - but nudity and sex happen often enough to keep the player chugging along and their blood up. Buttocks, breasts and dicks sway and jiggle delightfully, angles show us pretty much exactly what body parts and facial expressions we want to see, cum jets are plentiful and rewarding, and the seeming recurrant choice between dom and sub roles for the MC is an excellent topping. All that's needed is perhaps a bit more kink and action - but that may well get fleshed out as updates come out.

GAMEPLAY: 5/5. Little to no grind, interface is simple and intuitive, just the right amount of choice given to the player (too many choices would mean more and more dev time having to go into routes which only fractions of the playerbase would take interest in); and plenty of Easter eggs hidden across the story and within the very fun social media app and the other smartphone-based items (a wonderful game dynamic which the dev should definitely keep updating along with everything else).

WRITING: 5/5. No tedious, endless sermons, but the stage has been set for plenty of character development and thematic discussion. The MC's narration establishes relationships and personalities well, and NPCs bring that out with consistency, whether they are adversarial or allegiant to the MC (and each set of different relationship dynamics adds to sexual tension and anticipation in a different and exciting way). Good characters make for good media - the writer has done a superb job so far. And on a personal note, I'm especially excited to see more content with the MC's mother, with Hannah, the three Mean Girls, Farah, Lateshya, and the neighbour family.

All in all, an instant addiction for me - playing Having a HARD Time guarantees me an exhilarating and relieving private-time. So long as the dev stays true to how they have started, and pans out the story and relationships along with the original promise they have shown, they cannot update this game often enough. Five stars.

First off: I'm not an expert, a connoisseur of art and literature. I'm just a guy who likes porn games for what they are: porn.

But this game got me hooked. I'm the guy who usually starts with enabling Skip and just starts with pressing that Ctrl. And yet, sometimes, very rarely I change to just pressing Enter and reading the lines. If you are like me, you know this feeling. It's the feeling when you find a game where you start to become interested and then invested in the story and the characters.

Of course, it helps having high quality visuals, great character models and amazing sex scenes. The thing is... there is about 3-4 actual sex scenes (and only 2 involving MC), the rest are handjobs, masturbation, blowjob. But you know what? I don't mind. I want to know how things are unfolding between MC and Marianne, what happened to Hannah, what's the deal with Lisa, what is the deal with the experiment... And of course, can I get closer to the big titty nanny and have some fun with her.

I can't emphasize on how really rare it is for me to care about a porn game's plot. But this one did it.

Good models, the menu of stats/characters very well made, the story interesting, the erotic excellent but the peak of the game i think was the ending of CH1 (the contemplation) EPIC!

Keep up the good work!

This honestly came out of nowhere and surprised the hell out of me.

Its been a while since I became invested in a VN story and characters, and while this has a lot of standard tropes for the genre, there characters have some depth to them and have some genuine emotions and deeper moments.

First time in a while when I hit an end of content screen and cant wait for more. I need to see where things go with Lisa after confessing to her, want to see if Hannah is more than a cartoon bully trope and best friends to lovers? if so it is a trope im all there for. Not to mention the mother is hot AF.

The game in its present state, while lacking content, is a good start. The renders are well made and animations are present and not bad. However, the amount of characters could become an issue later down the line as there are so many and some may end up being left behind as the story develops. But each character introduced does not come off as complete cliché or trope.
I recommend giving it a try. I do hope this game keeps chugging along to the finish line without a drop in writing quality, Good job Quadruple-Q I wish you luck.

Playing this was a treat. Glad to see bad ends and achievement systems in play. Glad to see options to see more scenes in the form of 'spend time this weekend' .
Has a diverse range of characters and has great dialog and as far as I can tell great character buildup. If you are a futa on girl fan, this is your chance to play a high quality VN.

This review will change according to future releases.

This Dev is amazing , his story the words used very clear and on point
i started the game and droved away by the story with beuty
i don't know what to say
it's fking amazing game with fking amazing story line
hot animation
hot ladies
eveything is hot
highly recommended
5/5

This dev is a story teller. The characters are great, the MC is deeply developed and the women are beautiful. 5 Stars is an easy call for this, I hated to see the end of chapter 2 wanting it to go on much longer. It is a treat to see a story well told. Yeah, there is a request to suspend disbelief concerning the 'change' but if you can let that go the game opens up with emotion and empathy and smarts.

Awesome game, models and renders are top quality, story and dialogues are fine and funny, musics fits well, a good amount of contents.
So why not the 5 stars it deserves: week end activities.
Once per episode you have to chose one activity (go to the gym, look for a job...), and if you pick the same activity the next week the story of this event goes on. So now after only two patches it's already a lot to skip if you want to see these variations, but what will it be in a year?
Great game, play it if you're fine with futas, but I won't give it 5 stars for this shitty week end mechanic.

Futa/female with such quality is rarely seen. There seems to be some kind of plot building for chapter 3 besides all the personal drama about MC and her new body part so I look forward that, since love drama can get stale on itself. I like the character diversity and some of the rare personality tropes that aren't the usual in a porn game. Also character personality shifting with choices and paths closing and opening are always appreciated, and further shows this game quality and commitment towards players decisions.

This just might be the most conflicted review I've ever had to give as, for my own tastes, this one does some things extremely well, and others very badly. Given that this is a review, and thus an expression of my own perspectives and experience of the game, I guess I need to start out with a baseline of what the perspective is, so you know where your own viewpoint or tastes may be different.

Firstly while I have nothing against Futa content or protagonists, and I do very much appreciate that this is actually a full Futa/Hermaphrodite, not merely a trans protag (only one gender of genitalia), that isn't a kink of mine and gets it no special consideration, plus or minus. If futa stuff is a kink for you then you'll likely rate this game higher than I do.

Why did I give this game a shot if Futa isn't my thing? Well, while it isn't my thing, I also have nothing expressly against it. The ratings and reviews made the difference. Lots of mentions of those key things like good writing, great characters, an interesting story, and some originality. Those are all 'things' I look for. I wouldn't exactly say I was disappointed. These things mostly show great promise, but honestly, its just too early to say, since a lot of the 'reality' of a character is about consistency, not just novelty.

That said, the humour is well done, and there are plenty of signs that the writing is good. If the game can maintain enough internal logic and consistency to keep up the suspension of disbelief, then I think what others say will hold true, even if they have, in my view, jumped the gun so early on in the development.

Models / Renders:
One thing that I massively disagreed with other reviews on though was the models. Make no mistake that this is very much a fetish game, and that fetish isn't just the Futa protagonist, but rather the utterly unavoidable fetishistically and ridiculously huge butts. If you are not into ludicrously sized asses and hips, atop skinny legs, then you will not enjoy the visuals of this game much. Sadly, that's another kink I'm not into, and unlike the futa one, I'm not as neutral about it either.

For me, the inhumanly fetishized mega-butts were a turn-off, and given that they permeate so much of the game, it really detracted from the otherwise excellent renders and imagery. If you like stupid-big butts, you will love this game. If you don't, then you need to accept this particular fetish is unavoidable and constantly present.

The faces are beautiful for the most part, full of character and life. This isn't a game for the 'flat is justice' crowd, even without the hips and butts. Composition, lighting, and everything else about the renders was good.

Characters:
There are a lot of characters presented very quickly in the first episode, most with very limited exposition, but you can get a little more background on them from the phone contacts (the game's mechanics for character tracking).

This early in the story, the characters are mostly clear tropes/stereotypes, which is not in itself a bad thing, as it gives you an instant impression of who you may expect them to be and how you might want to react to them, without some long expositions and backstories. It is too early to see any genuine character development, but there's some clear signs the devs are going to handle that pretty well, especially in regards to Hannah.

The characters are diverse, plentiful, and interesting right from the start. Something for everyone, (so long as you remember and accept that all the females have inhumanly and ridiculously oversized hips and asses). Think of any trope or stereotype character and they are probably here.

It is worth noting that there isn't much personality or character in the MC yet, but I think that was a deliberate choice, as the choices you make will very much steer who the MC is and what persona you want to play. That will be a hard challenge to keep up, (few devs would write every scene ten different ways for how different persona choices would play out) but for now it works fine.

Story / Plot
This is one of those big conflicts. On the one hand, everything is extremely well written (so far). On the other hand the basic premise of an accident causing the instant appearance of a fully functional cock and balls, like magic is going to take actual magic to explain.

When we are first introduced to our MC, she is very clearly and explicitly stated to be lesbian, and of the type that literally thinks all men are douches, yet we then find ourselves to actually be a represssed bisexual (we can effortlessly develop romantic feelings for/with most of the guys in the game we meet). That was almost more jarring than the instant magic penis.

There seems to be a LOT going on, already, and that means that either this story is going to need to be humongous, or those hooks are going to fizzle out with disappointing results. That's a red flag. 2 episodes in and I think there are already more than 30 identifiable storylines and mysteries. If the devs can keep going then that's great, but it is a pretty big task.

Writing:
This is the only part of the game where I had no reservations. The writing is enjoyable, and of great quality. In fact, for me personally, the writing was the only thing that kept me going through the game at this early stage.

Sum-Up:
Overall I gave the game 3 stars at its current stage, which, ironically is 'Average' when the game is actually anything but. It is like all of the individual components were either 5 star or 1 star, and in the end I have a game I'm not sure I'll continue to follow. The writing and the story hooks both show incredible potential I want to follow, but the aesthetic of the female models is very off-putting to my tastes.

A game with a Futa Protagonist. With a good story. And no pretentious elements. Just a experiment gone wrong, well written side characters, a very nice segment of Trolley problem, potential partners with really good character development, This story is looking real good. Though one scene locked behind being blackmailed by a TERF influencer was a bit infuriating and we can only tell her off in dom way or have sex in sub way, felt odd. otherwise the story is going good and I hope we get more chaapters too. Each chapter has good enough scenes and story progression, which is really nice as well.

Nice work devs.

This is fantastic. The MC is smoking hot, and smart. The scene with Marianne is great, amimations are really good and all the ladies look great and believe me there is a lot of them, looking forward to banging them all. I like how she starts out as a girl but with accident transforms, and sounds like a mystery is a brewing, which I like, so good story line potential also. Support this one, it be will great when done. She also has a vagina so, lots of possibilities here. Being from Indiana loved Kurt Vonnegut quote. Also liked the morality test they did for class. And the cat videos are hilarious. The phone has a Steam button that actually works. GLORIOUS!

Updated after playing Episode 2

A futa protagonist who engages with women? Sign me up!
It is helpful that the developer explicitly stated that our MC will only have female love interests. It makes it so I don't have to go out of my way to be mean to the males in order to avoid them, and I can respond more naturally.

The first episode was a step-up episode, but it was fun, funny, and awkward. I like it!

A lot of the ladies are lovely, and I like how they all seem to have different personality directions, so you can choose who you really want our equally lovely protagonist to engage with.

I also love a lot of the funny faces they make, especially during comedic moments. (Like whenthe mom and friend draw their lips into their mouths.)

Episode 2 is when things start to kick off more. I continue to enjoy the story, and if this much effort was put into a sex scene with a side character for whom we're not building anticipation, I can only imagine what's in store for the character we are, and how much disappointment there will be if they aren't given the same treatment.

The dramatic moments are also nicely done andthe comedy continued to be funny.
One thing I've grown to realize is the comedy moments are often cartoonish in a way, so they ca be more enjoyable with some exctra suspension of disbelief.

I'm enjoying my time so far and will be hanging around. That's the simplest way to put it.