Ren'Py - Him [v0.3.3 Fix] [Kabuki]

Version 0.3.3

HIM has a functional story laid on top of a somewhat clunky game mechanic but this is more than offset by plenty of high quality graphics and animations. It's one of those AVNs where you don't stay for the story but playthrough remains tolerable enough to make it to the NSFW scenes which are more than worth it.

Story
MC got isekaied into a medieval fantasy world and lost most of his memories in the process, he is then recruited to work for the queen and takes on various quests while bedding a variety of girls along the way. It's cliche but not to the point of being totally lame.

The plot is generally unintrusive like still water - i.e. it just sits in the background monotonously with flat pacing and minimal excitement while you trudge along to see the next LI's scene.

Game Mechanic
A standard AVN with the occasional free roam. So far much of the free roam appears pointless and could have easily been carried over with standard VN narration, the only sandbox that is mildly interesting is that of a D&D board game simulation near the end of Chapter 3.

There are standard choices that allow players to reject LIs or affect the morality of MC, but so far their effects on the story and dialogue are negligible.

Background / Character Renders
It's apparent the developer's strengths lies in background and character designs. Although there is some usage of stock backgrounds in HIM, there are at least more than enough tweaks and original ones to still feel fresh in HIM.

Most of the LIs are unique and well-designed with highly distinguishable features. Kudos to the character models for the Queen, her sister Avery and daughter Rebecca. They share unmistakable similarities in looks as family but yet different enough you never get confused. The care and attention to details in this aspect is well appreciated.

And a great feature is you get to decide whether the main LI, Alex, is a woman or femboy. That should add some spice and flexibility to account for varied taste.

Character Development
One of the game's weak spots - the MC is bland and uninspiring. The guy has no character and simply goes with the flow and whether you mould him as good or evil makes no difference. This affects immersion negatively as MC feels more like a NPC tool rather than someone players can relate to.

There are plenty of LIs, but once again not enough time and space given to them to nurture their characters. From experience, six LIs is probably the max an AVN can push for without sacrificing character depth and HIM definitely has way more than that even at V0.3.3.

Sex Scenes
As an AVN, most flaws can be overlooked if the sex is done well and happy to report that HIM has very good posing and animations when it comes to lewds. Buildup and dialogue is on the light side, but at least it's not a one sentence per render sort of thing and animations are very smooth with multiple angles and poses to cater for taste.

One main area of improvement is there are way too many choices presented during scenes. I can understand the need for player agency when it comes to kinks like anal, feet or CIM, but there is no need to expect player input for every change in scene. It's disruptive and serves no purpose.

BGM and Sound Effects
There is a small collection of BGM tracks that fit the story, but this is often interrupted by significant periods of silence randomly. The same goes for ambient noises, sometimes it's there sometimes it isn't and the choice feels arbitrary rather than purposeful to enhance the mood.

Sound effects are minimal and largely forgettable.

Conclusion
HIM at its current developmental stage is lop-sided. On one hand it features very strong character designs and sex scenes, but the game mechanics, sound and character development could do with some work. The story is passable and serves its purpose.

I would rate this a 3.5+ piece of work currently, it should be able to reach 4.0 standards if the developer fixes a couple of low hanging fruits such as sound, game mechanics and focus on a more manageable number of LIs instead.

Perfect game which justifies its premise withg good writing sensible harem and porn logic fantasy world which doesnlt break immersiob\n

Con: some storyline like witch etc fades
sex scenes have only one of two motuion , which while great require writing or sexual banter..
4,5

Damn good VN!
Various elements involved in this game which I loved.
Story, setting, quests, characters and animation all top quality.
I like the fact that protag is not some looser.
Hope dev keeps the quality high for future update.
Waiting for future updates.

Awesome ! One of the best Renpy game I've played , i like the setting & characters , scenes are good too , i like the animations & POV change, waiting for next update , i want to play more games like this recommendations needed , I'll give it 5/5 for everything I've enjoyed so far ♥

This game is truly marvelous! The characters are beautiful (gorgeous designs!), and the gameplay is so engaging. I sincerely hope that in the future, we get more sandbox content to explore. I'm really looking forward to being able to enjoy the endgame for as long as I want!

Review for v0.3.3

I played this for about an hour and unfortunately just bounced off the game. Him's plot is: what if your typical uninspired teenage MC gets dropped into a fantasy world and gets very lucky. Which turns out, is pretty boring.

In a blur you wake up naked and an ogre is mid swing about to crush you. By luck, something nearby falls on his head and takes him out. A local guard captain happens to be nearby and takes you to a nearby city. He feeds you, clothes you, rents you a night at the brothel, and tells the Queen of your arrival. This all essentially escalates to where the Queen takes you in, gives you a wife, starts having you train, etc. Even though she doesn't really like you and sees you as suspicious, but oh well you dealt with the ogre by happenstance so whatever.

The renders look nice, the character models look nice, the game has some decent sex animations, and sure all that is great. But the writing is very dull, and no amount of nice looking renders or animations are going to save that for me. The MC never has anything interesting to say, the way the characters speak sometimes feels like they aren't in a fantasy world and breaks immersion, and the overall dialogue just feels subpar so far.

Again I did only really play an hour so maybe it picks up, but no aspect of this captured me enough to want to keep going. If you don't care about story/writing then this might interest you more.

Great animations, attractive models, female characters that actually dislike sharing at the start, lots of different sex scenes. Him is a not so generic transmigration story with a few meaningful choices and 'good' and 'evil' routes that lock you out of certain decisions. The story isn't excellent but the characters seem actually interesting.

An excellent fantasy story. An engaging plot, a good selection of models, and a lack of bugs, which is important. A very well-thought-out, intuitive interface, allowing for real choice for the MC, without being stuck on a single character, offers a huge variety. The option to opt out of minigames, which is probably also important. I recommend it to anyone who enjoys beautiful classics without simplifications, school settings, or scary MC girlfriends .

v0.3.3

Been playing this game since v0.3.0

Pros

Visuals --- the art, models and animation are aesthetically pleasing

Story --- Similar to Isekai but in a good way. The Moralities of the story has nuances and isn't the asinine black and white morality

Neutral

Internal Monologues --- the multiple names attached (logic, lust, anger etc) without the name of the MC feels like a different person

Cons (sort of)

Duration / Length --- Considering its already 0.3.3 (unless there's going to be a lot of updates before 1.0) the content so far for me still feels a bit short.

Edit

Also there should be "male domination" tag

For version 0.3.2. So far an excellent medieval themed AVN with lots of content.

Pros:

1) Great models and renders, the girls all look unique and top notch, not the same model copy pasted with different hairstyles and skin color.
2) The animations are fluid.
3) The animation framework is the best I've seen on any porn game. You can switch between a lot of options and positions, making it feel like an actual, lengthy sex scene. The camera placements during animations are also very consistent. For example, when you switch from vaginal to anal sex scenes, the camera stays in the same position and you can see the switch happen in the same sex position.
4) Supporting renders and characters are well done and help you immerse into the world.
5) The music is immersive.
6) The women are THICC.

Cons:

1) The plot is very cliche at first and not believable or very interesting. It seems to be getting more intriguing, though, so there's hope.
2) The MC has this weird glow to him compared to other characters. Like he has gamma turned way up compared to others.
3) The dialogue having different names when thinking or narrating like "Empathy, Enviornment" is very confusing and throws you off. Instead the author should just say "Thinking" or "Narrator" or just leave it blank.

Overall, has a great style and can be one of the best medieval themed games on this site if the plot works out and the game is developed to the end. Good luck to the dev.

As of 3.2:
Good, can get better, worth ones time.

It's a fantasy romp, where you hump everything that moves. The story is... not that strong, tbh. It's serviceable, but things move way too fast and are way too... convenient. Shit just lands in the lap of the MC and the justification is relatively weak.

There are some hints this is not just a dumb fantasy romp, but it's drip fed. Still, it's early days. My guess? MC is stuck in some form of VR. I really hope I'm wrong, tho.

Sexually it tries hard to appease everyone, but there is at least one femodom scene, that I couldn't avoid - it's nothing excessive, but I have the distinct feeling the dev is letting his tastes slip here and there.

Sex is frequent, you get a submissive little slave sorry, servant as a wife almost at the start. For now things are mostly vanilla with some foot fetish options, a few femdom options and a few options to watch girls pee. To each their own, I guess. Surprising amount of control over the scenes and good animations, imo.

I really don't like the honor system - it's restrictive and the game flat out lies to you about it - keeping it neutral is the most restrictive part of it. Systems like that work best as flavor and short-cuts to resources and paths, not as action-unlockers.

That said, I had fun, played it in a single sitting over the day. For an early version there is a lot of content. Worth your time, imo.

Really fantastic. Scenes are great, the girls are very pretty and the dev does a good job of making them curvy without it being ridiculous. Dialogue is surprisingly good for a game where the women fall for you near instantly.

Only thing I think this game will need is a proper walkthrough, but maybe not until the consequences of the decisions are seen a bit more. Excited to see what this dev cooks up.

PROS

• Decent Renders
• Relatively high amount of H scenes for v0.3.3. This aint a game that will tease or blue ball you.
• There are choices and some attempt at branching with the Honor system. Acting a certain way will earn or lose you honor. Having too little or too much honor can unlock or lock certain scenes.

CONS

• Pretty much no story besides you waking up in a medieval world and start banging everything with a vagina. For porn game reasons, you accidently killed an ogre, so the queen shelters you in her castle and gives you a big tiddy wife.
• Zero character development, as soon as you meet them, and do a quick chore for them, you're pretty much at sex.
• For a sex-heavy game, the animations aren't as good as the competition. I've seen slow burn story-based games with much better animations. If you're gonna concentrate on visuals/sex, then I would have a higher standard of that feature as that's the game's main aspect.

Soo this is purely a porn game. Only recommended if you wanna fap and don't care about a good story or getting to know the girls before you bang them. But even the sex scenes are kinda janky and aren't as good as other titles in the same genre.

I first played this game when it came out, and, even though I liked it, I felt the story was rushed and the characters lacked a bit of time to build relationships ...etc.

I was surprised, very pleasantly, when I saw that this had been reworked and really in the best way possible. There is still quite a lot of content, but the characters now take more time to jump on MC's dick. The story has evolved and is fuller and better written, the characters show more personality, the MC behaves in a more realistic and believable way and, more importantly, much more likeable.

Most choices are a bit binary, with a clear good guy / selfish guy approach, and they give you either a + or - to Honor. Very few actions are limited behind a certain honor threshold but those that are, feel consistent with how your character has behaved up until then.

There is a good variety of LIs and a story that is now quite interesting, with the MC finding his place in this world little by little.

Overall a very enjoyable read, with plenty of sexy times with a variety of girls, good animations, choices during story and during sex scenes, a world that feels now more alive and deep than when it first released.... really, I am impressed by the work the dev has put into this and to improve it.

Looking forward to the future of this VN.

Excellent game, I really like the story, and the fact that there are so many choices to make makes the game even better. I just hope you can manage to maintain consistency in the story, because the more choices there are, the harder it is to maintain consistency in the dialogues.



The honour point system is also an excellent idea, it makes the game even more interesting.
The fact that you can choose your fetish at the beginning of the game is also a very good mechanic, it allows you to personalise the MC's thoughts.

The scenes are also excellent, I really like the foot fetish scenes, keep doing them .

The only negative point of the game, if you can call it that, is that sometimes there are inconsistencies in certain dialogues. For example, it's the first time I've taken Maia anally, but she tells me that I really like taking her ass. Also, when Maia decides to leave, we still see her by our side when we fall asleep.

One last thing, but this is just my personal opinion: I find that in some scenes, especially at the beginning of the game, the MC's cock looks inhuman. It's super long, like a baton, haha. If you could shorten it a little, it would look more realistic.

Anyway, excellent game overall, one of the best, if not the best I've played, it has enormous potential. 5/5

PROS
+ Story is kind of interesting, you wake up in a fantasy world but-naked, and you don't even know why you are there, then out of nowhere you get attack by an Ogre, while trying to run it dies accidentaly, and a running guard comes to, says you are a hero to defeat that Ogre plagued their city for a decade, then you are given option to ''lie'' and act like a hero, or tell the truth, eitherway he takes you into the city to meet with the Queen while talking about why you are naked, you are telling him you have no memory whatsoever, etc. Later, Queen gifts you her finest servant and asks you two to wed, breed, and give birth to strong children. Even tho it feels out of nowhere, it makes sense since birthrate, and especially male birthrate, is in decline in the city. Then you went into some quests, meet with some people, remember your past (which was kind of emotional, and sad, how terrible MC's life was, how his GF left him in that mess, how we saw gun on the table, etc, you can guess kind of what happened I guess) And there are some really weird, but same time interesting stuff as well like the village with Goddess festivel they do in every 10 year, let men compete to win right to bless the womb of all birth able women in the village, etc.
+ Your choices kind of matter, like choosing to say you killed the Ogre or not, or choosing to help the girl in jail or not, or help but ask for a sexual reward or do it for justice, etc.
+ Maia is quite a likable love interest, she is cute, attentive, and lovely, not to mention how hot she is.
+ Visually, the game looks good, has a good art style, good quality textures, and animations, along with good physics.

CONS
- The whole MC's monologues having their own names, and dialogues like ''Impulse'', ''Desire'' or ''Guilt'' etc, feels a bit weird, almost like he is losing his mind or something.
- Some characters are bit unlikeable despite looking hot, etc, like Rebecca, she is literally acts like she is on top of world, and everyone should serve her, especially MC, like saying ''when we argue you will always apologize first even if you are not the one at fault'' or asking him to serve her food at every morning or so, and list goes on. She has her moments, like the talk they had at the wine place, but generally, she is not pleasant to be around. Another good example is Gaius, his existence itself; he literally ruins everything he touches, good for nothing aside from his power, yet he keeps getting off/spared. If not for him, a lot of problems in the series wouldn't be present.
- At some point, we meet with a character named Alex, and then show MC's past scenes, and she looks exactly like his girlfriend from before. Meanwhile, it looks interesting until this point, but her whole content is not. First of all, she again has a terrible life, and lots of problems, why? Makes no sense. Second of all, we learned Alex is gonna be married to Queen's son for political reasons... Again, why? Why create a character looking exactly the same as MC's past life girlfriend, then do this? Obviously, there will be lots of drama about this, fights, and problems, and in the end, she & MC will end up together, but why even create this plot in the first place? It's just pointless, and gonna be quite annoying to read.
- The game is a bit choice-heavy, and it needs a walkthrough or at least a character screen showing the points so we can at least guess what to choose.
- Some choices feel bit pointles, like you see the girl you accepted to help is taken by people, and maybe become a slave (seems like slavery is legal outside of city Irda), but that's nonsense, because you decided to help, this kind of thing feels like a outcome should happen if you decided not to help, not the opposite.
- MC's design is not bad, but he has weird pinkish, bruised-like halos around his eyes, and it looks weird. No other character has something weird like this. Don't know why designers decided to do something like this, but it just looks bad. And his character is quite hard to like as well, because he feels quite empty aside from his past scenes, and some of the scenes, like his scenes with Rebecca or Gaius, where he lost without even seeing any fight, etc, and couldn't do jackshit, make things even worse.
- Some character models feel like a waste on some characters, like Diana's model being too good for a cheap 304. Or Selene looking way too good to be someone's slave, or how good Rebecca looks, but has a terrible personality, etc.
- Character models look mostly pretty good, but weirdly, especially women have unnecessarily pointy shoulders to the sides. In fact, if you don't see their shoulders naked, you would think they are wearing padding for their shoulders. Along with that, Yuuhi's tits shaped a bit badly, and her nipple color is a bit too dark as well. And almost every female has bad/ugly feet design.
- Most sex scenes have unattractive positions or angles; better, more attractive positions and angles are needed. The biggest problem is that almost all of them are person or very close third-person view animations, normal or mid-distance third-person animations are needed.
- The minigame choice is seriously nonsense, there is literally a big red cube getting smaller, and a small green one in the middle, and you try to click at the right moment, and this is used on almost everything like fights, pulling stuff, etc, and it looks very cheap and bad.
- Arrow keys won't work on choices, or interactable objects, etc, and you are rather forced to use the mouse always.

VERDICT
So this is a game with good potential, with fixed CONS it could be 4-5 star rated worth game, but currently it's just poor.

10/10

This is one of the game that is worth of playing.The animation,the characters,the story every things is great.Dev is active on discord as well. And take the suggestions from player quite well.And fix some .HAHA
Amazing game.One of my fav not gonna lie.

As of v0.3.1


PROS

• Background art is nice
• Interesting setting (for isekai lovers)
• There are animations

CONS

• Forced into scenes & routes
• MC's a bland pussy
• LI (?) are bitches or used up sluts

CONCLUSION

I couldn't even get to the end of the version, the annoying MC, forced routes and lack of logic had me pissed off just after meeting the Queen, which I think is pretty early on. No chance of changing so no point playing.


For those who like the art and don't care about the characters or choices

Gorgeous women, amazing renders and animations, lots of foot fetish would deserve 5 stars. But this is supposed to be VN or game. When it comes to story and characters, it deserves 0 stars. I could accept stupidity if it was for the sake of comedy, but everything here seems serious. Nothing makes sense, nothing is explained. It's just ugly and weak MC going through nonsensical events and being regarded as hero for no reason.

Another amazing medieval game.
I hate medieval games, but this one is brilliant. I loved mini games and navigation.

Story: 5/5
Characters: some look similar but still 5/5
Animations: 10/5 (very good!)
Sex options: Lots! 10/5