VN - Ren'Py - Heart Problems [v0.10] [Xenorav]

This is another game where I don't understand the high ratings. The renders are good, and a few of the LIs are very attractive, but there is nothing else that stands out about this game.

First, the choices pretty much don't matter at all. They usually only seem to affect a line or two of dialogue, and don't prevent or change any later scenes from occurring. Also, some of the choices are completely disregarded by the game, as later conversations often occur as if you had made different choices.

Several of the main LIs are quite attractive, and the renders are very good. However, I found the character Stephanie to be extremely off-putting. She looks and acts like a small child. Many of the MC's interactions with her are creepy and uncomfortable as hell to me, as I have no desire to see any sexual scenes involving someone who resembles a child.

The main storyline lacks any originality, as it's the same basic plot as dozens of other games on here: MC lives in a house with 3 female relatives, all of whom he develops sexual relationships with.

However, my biggest issue is the writing. It is just plain bad. I genuinely cannot tell if the dev is not a native English speaker, or if he is just a really bad writer. The dialogues are extremely awkward, there are typos, misspellings and really strange wording throughout. This is an actual example of a conversation in this game (between 2 girls that are supposed to be best friends):

Girl 1: Tomorrow my mother is arriving from Puerto Rico.
Girl 2: Is your mom from Puerto Rico?
Girl 1: Yes, I was born there too, but we came to live here a long time ago.
Girl 2: Oh, so you're from Puerto Rico too.
Girl 2: I didn't know that you and your mother are from Puerto Rico.

This game may be worth playing for the renders and sex scenes, but the dialogue is brutal to get through. I honestly feel like I'm being generous with this 3 star rating.

Freakin Amazing! Excellent sexy writing, coupled with lovely CG and all the situations MC gets into just makes this one of the most rewarding experience. The Story takes its sweet time and all the naughty situations make the whole journey spicy, hot and very charming. Beautiful! Excited to see what comes next!

Version: v0.6

Review:
When I had played its first version (0.1) the game was point-n-click with some more obscene content. People hated it and the dev had to change the whole trajectory of the game, making it a VN (which for me is better than point-n-click) and removing certain content on behalf of sensitive people.
The story, however, did not have many changes, continued with minor changes (removing sleepsex) with the same proposal that was almost ruined.
After version 0.4 to 0.5 I felt a certain fear of the dev of wanting to build your story and your public not liking it but at the same time feeling safe when trying to build. Which maybe worked a little bit in version 0.6.

History:
The story is not the best and its plot is average. The MC goes to his uncle's house to spend some time there and there are his two cousins (Kylee and Stephanie) and his aunt (Amelie), but the story has a rushed script but not as rushed as it seems. Your uncle (maybe he's the MC's father's brother) has problems with his wife, Amelie, he fights and breaks up with her, making you the man of the house. The choices are not that important, just accept everything to see the content, even if you ignore Kylee for example you will have her content, you can ignore Stephanie but I wouldn't recommend it because she's the best character in the game (IMO).
Gameplay:
Like any other VN, the best decision is to accept rather than reject as you won't see all the content. But there are decisions you can't deviate from, which is to fuck a character even if you try to reject it. The game goes through chapters which is good and I think most games could follow this pattern or different and there is not much difference in path choices.
Graphics & Sexual Content:
One of the best things in the game is the renders of the female models and of course its content. The three initial girls (Amelie, Kylee and Stephanie) are pretty and hot, the animations are good and the content presented is satisfactory.

Why I did gave 4 stars?
I'm editing and I changed it to 4 stars, before it was 3. I think the game should have been more, more wicked, more obscene, more mature, but it happens that there is always a boring public that complains about everything or that they are sensitive to everything. Maybe that's why the dev put the brakes on his story and started it calmly. There are some things in the game that seem to be, how would you define the word, I don't know, but you see the MC looking like a novice dog rubbing himself on his owner's leg, in Amelie's case. This makes a certain audience irritating and asking why the MC hasn't fucked her yet. I like and prefer things to happen calmly, which the dev is doing well and not try to rush things or force early scenes to take the focus off the story. The dev has done so far (0.6) a great job, before I believed he had dumped Stephanie, but he came back with her and it was great, I hope he still doesn't forget her. Anyway, it's a great game to satisfy your desires, it's clear that the game is weak for not having an obscene, mature, perverse content, but it's a satisfying game. I know no one will read this review, but if you've come this far, be patient with this game because the story is being developed little by little to have an elaborate relationship with the characters in the game. I recommend playing.

Excellent game.

Optimized and effective storyline (doesn't need too much text line to build a decent story).
Female characters are insanely hot and scenes with them are addictive.
MC isn't a lame guy (has a proper personality, is fit, decently equipped).

Would recommend to wait as much as possible to enjoy the story to its fullest.

5/5.

Just great! The story does not cause boredom, it is read with interest. Funny situations add a nice touch to the main plot. Permonage models are nice. I want the game to go on and on, endlessly)

But this is just the beginning, I really hope that the author will continue to give us his masterpiece and will not leave it halfway

Reviewed at v0.5 Test

There are a lot of things I enjoyed about this one. The models are enjoyable to look at and feel unique, except for the older cousin (she feels like I've seen her in many other games). I very much appreciate the multiple body types. For those of you who enjoy the voluptuousness of women, you will be pleased. The two stand outs are the aunt and the younger cousin.

Speaking of younger cousin, I liked the development level of her when it comes to loli representation. She's not too young and not too old. Her personality can be a bit grating but I think that is what the dev was going for.

This is a slow burn story, but you still will get some action. I did find it a little frustrating that the MC was constantly getting blue balled and interrupted every time he got something going. But the story made it bearable.

The animation is hit or miss. Some of it is very very well done, such as the blowjobs. I also liked that when the action got turned up to a higher speed, it felt more real. Most games, they will say something like 'fuck me harder and faster' and the animation picks up just a little. And your thinking, 'well what are you waiting for. Give it to her.' This one actually does that. So good job to the dev.

This is one I will definitely be watching.

The game is very enjoyable.

The game was a pleasure to play and the girls all have a very distinct personality and bodies. The pacing of the game and romantic progress is pretty good.

Graphics 9/10
Erotic Content 10/10
Sexual Tension 10/10
The game has animation and sound
(Not spectacular, but it's good enough)

With all that's going for the game, I just feel like I can not give it 5/5.
Maybe it's due to the incest patch, but the language/grammar is just a bit off.
For instance the MC will speak to his cousin and tell her "I can ask my aunt" instead of "I can ask your mom". Also the when speaking about your aunt you will not say "I need to speak to aunt about this", you will rather say "I need to speak to aunt Amelia about this."

That just took me a bit out of the game for me. I know I'm nit picking, but for a perfect game, you need everything in the game to be pretty close to perfect.

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I updated my rating to 5 stars after the last update (2023-09-30)
I'm just enjoying the game so much. It's not perfect, but I love it.

great art,good plot , a lot teasing but you know where it is eventually going. at present ~150 decision points (6x26 but only about half are real decisions) over all a bit draggy but well worth the d/l

Such a good pace! Love this game and how fun it is. The characters are really likable and models are pretty.

cg: 3.5/5
story: 3/5
animation: 3.5
writhing: 4/5
pace: 5/5
chracters: 5/5
models: 5/5

Just play it already, it's a really fun game.

On one hand, it's a typical porn story. On the other hand, it's interesting, with some veritable psychological details. It doesn't feel rushed, and there are some twists and turns.

The girls are very beautiful. On the other hand, they give you a lot of teasing and blueballing, and after that you eventually bang an old fat lady with something like horrible breast tumors.

The plot is basically the same regardless of your choices. If you are nice you just get more lewd scenes and slightly different dialogue lines. For instance, you bang that ugly fat lady twice. But if you are rude, you still have to bang her at least once. So you choose basically between being a casanova or a douchebag, in roughly the same invariable story.

Renders are not outstanding, but OK.

To conclude: the plot is interesting, the writing is rather good, the girls are very pretty. Despite some flaws and annoyance, it's a quite entertaining game.

v0.5

One of my favourite games. Love the MILF, the ANIMATION, the RENDERS, the CHARACTERS, the NETORI, the MUSIC. Overall this game is a MASTERPIECE.

Consider sharing your review of this game after playing it that would help the game and the players who haven't played this game. Thank You Xenorav for this wonderful game.

one of best games

A few suggestions to get better:

It is better for the game to be completely third person

Breasts and asses are exaggeratedly large .. It is better to look more natural

It is better to write down what the other characters are thinking and what they are saying to themselves

great game, models are very nice AND FURTHERMORE. the suspense allows tension and causes an exciting gameplay because each update ends with a cliffhanger ultimately making the player go insane out of mass anticipation for the next update, very great method for keeping the audience interested and at the edge of their seats, hence the necessary 5 star rating.

Amazing game, with nice women models and turn-on animations. Downsides: still little content and no controls over sex action. Anyways, I mark this game for myself, because I really enjoyed it and in overall would recommend donating.

A really great game, maybe one of the best (the renders ). Just hopefully the story & scene develop well, especially with aunt amelie, I think everyone knows she's the main star of the game. we need more good scenes with her until the final moment

Version 0.4
Story & Setting: I don't care too much about the backstory and the stuff with the uncle, but the pacing and teasing works very well.

Art: The art, the renders the angles are all very well done. The girls in the same house are very hot, I don't care too much about the other girls though.

Characters: A nice mix of personalities, I love the development of the aunt.

Good Points
+ Kylee and Amelie are quite good looking and their character development is well-made as well. They are literally the biggest reasons why people play this game in the first place for sure.
+ Relationship development between MC and love interests were well-written until some point, then started to prolonged for no reason..
+ With chapter developer improved texture/render/image quality along with animations and started adding real animations with physics and especially the ones in chapter 6-7 looks pretty good.

Bad Points
- Relationship development between MC and Amelie is quite amazing, but it feels like developer extending this: ''Act like never happened, forget about it'' thing too much, I'm not saying they should start having sex right away but at least they should have accepted what is at this point already.
- Amelie's breast and nipple design look kind of unattractive and low quality, they are like 480p or something, which is quite weird and bad looking. With clothes, her tits were looking fantastic, but naked they are kind of meh, and it's quite disappointing after waiting to see her tits in full glory for 7 chapters... And her ass is getting bigger, and bigger for no reason with every update as well, which is pretty annoying, and bad, especially considering her ass was already perfect at early versions, and it's getting ruined. Some girls like Stephanie has problems at certain places like their face design, etc, as well.
- Sometimes you can see grammar problems here and there, it was far worse before, but it's improved along with graphics and become better as well.
- Most of the characters are not well-made and that's disappointing. First of all, Stephanie is darn annoying & weird, especially as she constantly tries to force MC by saying ''I'm your girlfriend! Treat me like your girlfriend or I will tell dad!'' etc is nothing more than cringe and her face is not attractive at all (At least in the first chapters before making her hair and makeup, and honestly even after that she is not that good either) and she is part of the main girls, so it's very disappointing, not to forget with no control in your hands MC starts acting cringy with her as well like saying sh*t like ''You are my beautiful princess'' , ''My little puppy'' etc, and she even made MC spent his whole week of salary on a f*cking purse at chapter 10... Secondly, we have Lauren, she actually had a great chance for ''My friend's hot mom'' content but it's wasted by her looks and character development. She is annoying with all her talk about acting like she is perfect and while her face looks good she has an unattractive body, she is a side girl and you can avoid her but while we don't have a lot of girls in the story one of them potential being wasted like this is very bad. And there is Mia, her face is not attractive at all but she has a hot-looking body and she is kind of annoying as well. It's just annoying not having a well-made girl cast except Kylee and Amelie (Amelie have nearly zero content BTW) they both have beautiful faces, bodies, and character. Other girls should have been like them as well.
- Davie's existence is not needed anymore, he should have gone with chapter 5 already, we are in chapter 10, and it just feels like DEV trying to squeeze every last cringy story scene with him, especially all that talk in chapter 10 like he constantly talking about how good he is with women, he is always winner, etc, were seriously ''face palm'' worthy, and we even learned he pays Stephanie money to spay on MC & Kyle... Like seriously with every chapter he stays, he adds more cringe to the game, like how he blames Amelie for their relationship going downwards, saying she is childish, etc while literally cheating on her...
- Mia is not fully avoidable, in fact you are forced to accept her as your fake girlfriend, what's worse is she is corrupting Stephanie, etc, as well, her existence is become serious CON with time.
- In the first 3 chapters texture/render/image and animation quality look very bad and the animation physics are not good either. Most of them are nothing more than 2-3 picture static so-called animations. In chapter 4 we start getting better animations with physics but fast animations were looking kind of creepy. Creepy fast animations are fixed with chapter 6 but we still have some static animations here and there and not animated some sex scenes like Titjob etc. Basically, the game animation and sex scenes became better with the latest updates but you have to bear them till reach new chapters.
- Especially in the first 5 chapters characters have dead eyes in normal and sex scenes and there is no emotion in their eyes. Chapter 6 was better but still, they need to improve.
- A lot of detail makes no sense like Davie inheriting MC's father's company and MC having zero rights about the company at all or having no money at all.
- This game is 5 years old already, but we still have no sex with Amelia, and some other characters yet, updates takes too much time, like the last one taken 1 year, and at this point we will never see Amelia sex scene ever, developer keeps adding blueballing & cockblocking & teasing content/updates and dragging the game for no valid reason at all. Chapter 9 was turning point, if developer stopped dragging things for no valid reason and make a update with progress, let MC progress with Step and Amelie it would be turning and redeeming update for this game, but instead it even made the game worse... And we didn't get Amelia sex scene with Chapter 10 either, and from how things going on, like how she still can't accept her feelings, etc, it's not gonna happen at least 2 more updates either, and that could take years...
- How Kylee treated MC in chapter 9 is another con for sure or the ''confess love'' dialogue option being failure, and giving game over at chapter 9.
- With chapter 10 now we can't skip image transitions with mouse click or enter, and you have to skip with ''skip'' feature, which skips more than one image you want to skip, then rollback...
- There are weird visual bugs like hair glitching, and vibrating, etc. Or language bugs, like language turning into another one at certain scenes.
- New feature making animations play at random speeds is pretty bad, especially slow scenes looks terrible, and looks like low FPS animations instead.


For The End
Well... What can I say? This game improved a lot and had great potential, but things getting dragged for no valid reason and updates taking too much time and other cons are dragging this game, this could have been easily 4-5 stars amazing game, but it's knowingly gets ruined by the poor development, which is big shame.

v.04

So the story and the writing are simple, but in a very good way ! You've heard this 100 times in these games, but this time I'm telling ya: "I'm feeling like a horny teenager.".

Kylee is a very very my type girl, appearance-wise. So attractive, can't help myself. But, okay, I like her character as well. Busted.

Amelie is wonderful as well. Stephanie..little devil. Her butt is an eye magnet.

No Davie review, sorry guys.

I liked amount of kissing content, it's made well.

There's some music and also a little bit of moans.

A lot of small typos, missing letters, wrong names, he instead of she etc.

I've enjoyed the game a lot. Played it in one day with a small pauses. Was really hooked.
The only thing I want to say is ... MORE, pls MORE .

Good luck with development.

love it. nice story. good graphics. aunt is hot as f*ck. nice tits and in overal she is beautiful. no words needed to describe this game. just play and enjoy. howver I do not like that little sister, as for me she is to childish.

Real neat! Digging the characters and the story is pretty alright too! Animations and models are nice as well. Quite a few gramatical mistakes throughout, but in time I could see this project shine for sure!