Ren'Py - Hazelnut Latte [v0.14.2 Patreon] [Rad Lord]

Not many femboy games out there, and even less games where you're not the femboy, so, pretty cool. Really good game. Great art and great writing, very wholesome, it also promises more cute femboys in the future

very good game, hazel is very cute and art is very good, very short at the moment but still very good. I give this game a very good/5.
On a more serious note I do wish it get's a little bit more kinky in future episodes

I like the style. I like the setting. I like the idea.
Why am I giving it 1 / 5.
The length is under 2 Minutes.
3 out of 4 choices (2 main and 1 subroute) are not implemented.
There is only 1 base CG. I'd accept this if it was a proof of concept but this is already the 0.2 version. Seriously you should not even release it. It will probably peak at 10 min of gameplay so there is no use in releasing minor updates that add 1 minute of gameplay. Also this is a VN. Since you already got the spritework done you could have written much more text.
The story is also not good and already limits the gameplay and scenarios since the mc says he is only visiting for today.
You could have easily done a story where the mc is new in the neighborhood and picks this store as his new coffee store.
Then slowly build up a relationship and escalate it from there.
Instead the mc is only there for a single day and the femboy decides to randomly "sweeten his drink".
It is just lazy writing. You could have easily written a 15-20 min story with the available sprites and the CG. Anything would have been better than the current story. Make some shit up. Make the femboi fall in love with the mc and since he can't take it anymore he does that crazy thing out of desperation or whatever. Use your fantasy.
Instead you went for a no buildup, low effort story that starts and ends in a matter of minutes with zero character development.
This leaves only the art & CG to make up for a rushed and low effort story. Both are great but with only a single CG this will never make up for the bad story. If you are working with such few art assets why are you not writing a good story so the reader gets more invested into the characters.
My terrible grammar aside even I could have written a better story. It is just so rushed and generic. I am so disappointed since I really fell in love with the idea.
I will still follow this and update my review if there is some progress but I am really disappointed.

version 0.2

Looks really good so far. Music and art by Hotsumi is great. The writing is really good too, and I'm already absorbed with the characters. Hazel is so pretty!

The only animation so far is just a couple frames, so less one star for that. Even if that's the most animation we get, I'm still looking forward to more work on this game. RadLord has a lot of projects going on, so I'll check out those in the mean time, but I hope Hazelnut Latte gets more content soon.