VN - Ren'Py - HoloLewd Manager [v3.1 + Christmas Special] [AkkaSenpai]

  1. 1.00 star(s)

    jsmitth529

    It's been quite a long time since I've played a game as genuinely bad as this one. For starters, I had to immediately mute the music because the only sound in this game is randomly chosen and just blasting Hololive shit in your ears with no regard to what scene you're in. The dev didn't bother with making anything like an actual soundtrack, and no matter what song the random selection happens to land on, it's pretty much guaranteed to be unimmersive and just generally intrusive in any scene. Even the volume level is inconsistent.

    The model positioning is also awful, with models snapping to barely manipulated default poses many times and remaining awkwardly in poses between scenes, probably to avoid the effort of actually positioning them in a sensible way. There's a cunnilingus scene where the protagonist is actually straightened out on the bed and lying with their face flat against the other's vagina with their arms held at their sides. It genuinely looks like a kid holding up action figures in suggestive poses, and at no point was an attempt to convey motion not incredibly jank. There's also the fact that the first two times you see the protagonist's penis the model completely changes, so they can't even be consistent. Aside from all those obvious flaws, the models are also just of generally low quality, or they're so badly positioned that it makes a decent model look warped. The protagonist in particular is out of proportion with everyone else.

    Then there are the random references, which are at best bland and most often actually subtract from the writing quality, which by itself is already pretty bad. Marking them with an asterisk just makes them even more awkward and out of place, which is a feat because the way the writing folds around itself to make as many as possible, no matter how awkwardly placed, already makes them pretty bad. The story is also absolutely nonexistent and I could barely follow whatever the fuck was going on, it never interested me at all. I agree with another review that likened it to a teenage self-insert smut fic, as it's about at or below the average quality that those tend to be.

    The only thing I could suggest is completely redoing the entire thing, seeing as how the story and word flow is terrible and how all the characters might as well be mannequins with how random they are and how little they act like who they portray. Again I liken it to a kid with action figures, ramming their way through each awkward adlibbed scene with the power of absolute nonsense and only the vaguest sense of who the characters they're playing with actually are. The writing, coupled with the very poor model use and often very poor models, leads me to feel that this project doesn't have any potential and could only be saved by a complete redo. The only reason someone could like this is if they're just that thirsty for Hololive content and are willing to suffer through anything to get some.
  2. 1.00 star(s)

    forgetandeatcake

    This brought me back to the days when I read self insert smut about my favourite characters/actors.

    As in it was awful. That combined with the art/posing means I cannot recommend this game. If you still are in that phase in your life and can tolerate this kind of fan fiction then imagine there is some value in this game, but this kinda thing isn't doing it for me.
  3. 4.00 star(s)

    Shockz

    Way shorter than I thought it was, being v3.1 and all.

    Regardless, I like VTubers and mind control so this is way in my wheelhouse. Would like an option to toggle between regular personality and mind/soullessness if at all possible, then its an immediate 10/5

    Good luck my guy, I know how hard it is to get a game rolling.
  4. 2.00 star(s)

    LuciusSaintlin

    The characters look great but I can not bring myself to continue playing this the story feels incredibly awkward. And a big thing I personally dislike is Fan-Fiction content that disrespects whatever the source and this really feels like that for me so I really can not like this personally.
  5. 4.00 star(s)

    Sauge

    Rating good due to the potential I see,

    The artwork is okay, pretty typical for a lot of Ren'Py games, but not the worst I've seen, the story is okay not too serious, but has a lot of references already for being so short, the sex scenes are pretty good, not too much focus on the main character (which I like for games like this) and pretty varied and a good amount, again for it being such a short game, the text could use some reworks, not bad, but some obvious mistakes which make some sentences a little confusing or awkward. I'm looking forward to where this game goes, not too into Vtubers, but I do watch some of them on occasion and am excited to see content like this
  6. 4.00 star(s)

    trongnghia05369

    I am an easygoing person so your game has satisfied me.

    I have a suggestion: can you add an option to change the font size? Sometimes I find it a bit difficult to read because the letters are too small.
  7. 4.00 star(s)

    aihikari

    Brought to you by the least horny Hololive fans (lol). Here's my thought about the game so far.

    Plus:
    - Hololive girls get dick. Yes, of course.
    - Funny sidekick.
    - Nice MC's power.

    Need improvement:
    - Can do some work around rendering. The angle stretches thing out... weird.
    - If possible, size should be reduced. I expected one hour of gameplay, not 15 minutes.
    - Try replacing "insert abcxyz" with actual expressions on models in dialogue.

    Overall, I'm looking forward to more content in the future~
  8. 3.00 star(s)

    Tayr89

    Review as of v1-0

    I'm honestly a bit confused by what I just played through...

    Is the MC in a new world? Why does he appear to know gods(?)? Why are they fucking him? Why does he KO himself trying to 'combine' essences of gods he just had sex with? What happened to the pixie that was sleeping on his head when he got to the hospital? Who was the girl that he lost to in his previous life? Were they all just hallucinations from getting KO'd by a monster?

    I hope we get the answers to some of these questions in the next update and it slows down a bit ^^ I'll definitely check out the next version and go from there.

    Good luck AkkaSenpai!
  9. 1.00 star(s)

    leremyop

    My initial response: wtf did I just see?

    The game as it stands (v1.0) is extremely short. The MC wakes up in a hospital and one chick is in the middle of giving him a blowjob. Shortly a second woman joins. Zero plot, though there is some minor world building going on in the dialogue that's happening during the sex.

    Now is a good time to mention, the camera's field of view is so wide, characters standing directly before your point of view, or more accurately the ones with their heads between your legs, appear warped. Like, the sides of their head and shoulders are warped when their head is in the center of the screen. It's very off-putting, in my opinion. So distracting I can't care much about anything else happening on screen, neither the sex nor the dialogue.

    Then, after the MC covers the two women in enough semen to have come from a dozen sailors, they go off to bathe or something and there's an optional urination scene, where if you agree to see it, you get to watch the two women, standing perfectly upright, simultaneously shoot out horizontal jets of liquid so yellow they must be severely dehydrated, though the volume of this yellow liquid suggests otherwise.

    Then... That's it? There's a bit more worldbuilding/possible plot advancement stuff, but I really didn't care at that point. Held down CTRL to get to the next scene and was greeted with the main menu.

    tl;dr - Short and would need some major updates before I'd consider it worth checking out again.
  10. 4.00 star(s)

    Yare Yare

    Cute game so far, not a lot to see but it shows promise, one complain that i have is that there is no introduction to the characters, like the other review said it expect us to know who they are, i already know myself all of them but for someone new maybe a little introduction would be nice.

    Overall Cute game with lots of promise ( Hope to see a lot of differents fetishes in this! ) , definitely gonna keep it on watch, good luck!
  11. 2.00 star(s)

    archoniq

    I guess since there isn't much content at all except from a few sex animations that are yeeted at your face ASAP with no buildup at all, and a classic isekai plot. That's all i can judge it on.

    The animations are.. not great? Maybe "Okay" at best.
    Camera field of way is way too big, try and look up some porn from well-known studios get a feel for what actually works. This just makes eveyrthing look stretchy and out of proportion.

    The writing is a little bit weird, maybe woulda made sense if we had any introduction to the characters at all (here you're just kinda expected to know whos who and what they're like).

    If i had to say one good thing about the game it's that the character models for the girls are very good, even if made by other people (probably?).

    It's too early to say, but the pacing is wack right now. Hope to see a more patient approach in future updates :)