Good game so far for me. Attractive models, good pacing and it's not too complicated to figure out what to do. I wasn't sure how to make money quickly but used a promo code to skip that. End result is a good game with nothing that feels like a grind. I don't leave many reviews but I'll give this one 5 stars.
Ren'Py - Horizon of Passion Reworking [v0.5] [Line of lust]
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DIKHammer
You need a fucking promo code to change names? are you fucking kidding me? Talk about paywalling. Immediately makes me dislike the dev especially when they get pissy about it on a priacy forum none the less. Thank god for URM!
Then there is random Russian Text that shows up.
AVN is a confusing sandbox with certain things still "under development" aka why can I even click on them now then?
This is a trash heap tier AVN with a milking dev using a sandbox and already reworking the AVN, unfortunately all too common -
xerroxi
as of Version 1.0 (well think of it like a EA game ...)
The game doesn't feel like a 1.0 why?
>multiple stucked screen where you only can progress with the "skip all" ctrl key
>mixed up moments of "who is speaking/thinking"
>mixed up engl/rus
>unfinished placeholders
>either the translation is unfitting to the animations or just bad written
Also the game would benefit from a "go home" or at least "go back to map" option together with a more present "time skip".
Well the story...ofc there is a kind of story that leads you from one women to another ... would be plain boring if they just "pop" in
but don't expect to much, the ingame help does the job but there are a lot of story fragments that just trigger without any notice. The answer options presented just add or remove some interaction didn't impact anything else and not everything is skipable. Personal the "story" sometimes feel messed up especially with the unlisted events that trigger.
(BUT! Beware that these are just points for my progress as i didn't make it to the end cause of the points noted above)
If you "add" a supernatural ability to the MC all the events and interactions feel way more solid, cause otherwise why would every woman he met be drawn to him right at the spot? (Ofc there is some build up with a few mains.)
So yeah, the renders are good and if we don't count the bugs in it is a basic game - a bit to much clicking, and kinda flat - it sits in the middle.
Nothing against a bit of sharing? Love when every EVERY women just want to jump at you? You don't read anyways? Hop in. -
Sesinho
This is blueballing: the game for a good aprt of it,and if the redhead sister is your thing, it is definetly blueballing. I think she doesnt even have a section in the notes, you just happen to find her events cause mostly the mc tells you, or you are going elsewhere and ifnd her.
List of bad things:
Most of the events last 20 seconds and they are interrupted by another event that triggers halfway, or you just have to go to some place so another event triggers. For instance you have to pee but you found someone halfway there and another event triggers and the guy never goes to pee. There are a lot like this one, A LOT.
Then the events that are short is mainly because 2 people are talking, and another person comes, and maybe another one fomring a chain of interruptions.
Or 2 people talk and they get interrupted by something, or they just dont want to talk about it for some reason. There are A LOT of those too.
Then you have the Mc contantly telling you where you have to go and what you should do, so the notes for a big part of the games are pointless.
Then you basically can fuck any side character or main character, but the main girl, cause she is one of those virgin characters that are left in many abandoned games.
Ther are quite some scenes where the girl says somthing like "im feeeling it deep inside me" and the render shows that the guys is abrely putting the tip inside.
Another that gives you the option betwen soft and hard sex, but the animation is the exact same keyframed animation with reduced movement.
The game tries, but it fails miserably.
The good things are the renders, but the gameplay is tiring, repetitive and you just can't chose at all, cause if you try to play an event in the end of the list you will be told taht you need to complete a previous event first.
Terrible and frustrating, i wished ti improves, cause i lost 3 hours expecting a pay off that never come. -
hobobobb
Disclaimer:
I played the ‘Reworking’ V0.9, I had never played a previous version or a ‘before Reworking’ so I have no bias that way. I DO however have a strong bias against unavoidable sharing type content (This includes any (Non-MC) male with any female that is (or may become) a Love interest for the MC).
Summary: 2/5 stars, decent graphics marred by the unoriginal story and unavoidable sexual content, set to the backdrop of a needlessly complex and confusing navigation system. I am likely going to ‘Ignore’ this title.
Full Review:
Graphics: Are decent (but you can look and check if they are to your personal preference)
Sound: I always play mute, so no comment here.
Story: ‘Ok’ if a little overdone with these types of games. All the game is missing is an ‘older roommate/sister’ who is a heavy drinking club-girl, that hates (but loves) the MC and it would have filled every one of the stereotypes. To be clear, there is nothing new or original here.
Gameplay: The game is a sandbox (immediate loss of 1 star for that), and while there is a somewhat ‘almost’ hint system built-in, it doesn’t help much. For example ‘See what’s going on in Julia’s room’ is an excellent suggestion….. if you can even FIND Julia’s room. The ‘world map’ (which isn’t the whole game world) will only open up when the MC is outside.
While most of the buildings are fairly small and not too difficult to navigate, there are a few like the School, which requires clicking on a direction marker (that itself sits over a ‘staircase’ area-change clickable), the player can then click on another ‘area change clickable) to enter a new room. To put it simply, the whole map interface system is unnecessary, detracts from the game, and is made more needlessly complex by the fact that half of the clickable area changes only highlight as such when you mouse over them (and some are quite small).
Sexual content:
This game suffers from what I tend to think of as the ‘Russian Problem’. Perhaps it’s racist to say this, but since I spent almost half of my life living in Санкт Петербург (St. Petersburg, for my Native English friends), I think I am perhaps forgiven for being so. What do I mean by this? I mean that it seems to be a point of pride from the Russian mindset that the MC’s girls are desired and shared with others and that the MC spends as much time ‘dreaming’ of sexual encounters (they happen in his head), spying on others and watching (voyeurism) sexual encounters as he does being a participant in them.
This is not to mention the ‘other guys with potential love interest’ where we see the neighbor (for example) having sex with her husband (No, I am not going to scream NTR, because she is having sex with her husband.., that would as retarded as eating lead paint chips). This is believable and acceptable as they are married, however, as a player this raises two issues for me. 1) It isn’t avoidable (or rather, you cannot avoid it, until you have seen it) It most certainly isn’t preventable through the MC’s actions. 2) Seeing this removes any desire I have as the ‘player behind the MC’ to pursue or see any content with that character.
The key takeaway here for anyone considering playing this game for the sexual content is as follows;
-The game contains unavoidable sexual content of potential love interests with other males.
I have mentioned one example, but there are others that I will not mention as they could be potential spoilers. Further to this, it does not appear as though the Developer is planning on making these instances avoidable (see ‘Russian Mindset’).
Overall, for me, this is a 2-star game, and one I don’t think I will be following any further.
How would I improve it?
-remove the complex and unnecessary map system. While sandbox isn’t my favorite thing, there are good examples out there of how to ‘do it right, find one of those and plagiarize it with the zeal of a first-year student at Art College.
-Make any ‘non-vanilla sexual content avoidable and/or preventable through action.
-Work on a clearer English translation of both technical interface and story text (I played in Russian some and also in English, and while my understanding of both is limited, Russian seemed to be a little better fleshed out) -
amBest
The game is such a - strange - thing. I don't know where to start. I'll give you my main four points. I'll alternate between good and sucky.
- Every character in this game is a hot slut, every-single-one
You sister is a hot slut. She wears knee high socks, ultra-short hot-pants. The most obscene crop top imaginable, covers the nips and no lower. She's so dedicated to that crop top, she wears it with everything. Home clothes, pijamas, school clothes. Heck, I could see her winter clothes being your regular winter clothes, but with a winter crop top and completely exposed abdomne - and a puffy hat.
Your teachers are hot sluts. Your teacher wants to fuck every young guy she ever teaches to. Your principal wants to suck your cuck just because you exist.
- The game is a pointless, talentless, horrible, stupid, detestable, badly implemented, shitty faux-sandbox
Characters do not inhabit this world, it is empty. It only has spirits that come and go as they please. If they have a purpose, they inhabit the world. If they have no event to triger, they dematerialize.
There is only one way to do things, only one place to be at. The character tells you every time an even triggers where to go next, and going anywhere else is wasting your time.
It's not a sandbox, it's an interpretation of hell, of limbo.
- Every slut wants your cock and is amazing
Your sister is the best at this. She wants you but is too shy to go full mackintosh on your ass. After you accidentally enter the bathroom while she's showering - the next day she sends you a naked selfie complaining that it's so boring when no cute boy bursts on her showering. She's amazing.
- There's no consistency
But rather because there's nothing special about you. You don't have the power to hypnotize. You don't have a magic cock or a magic ring. There's no reason for any of it. It's empty. It's soulless.
Don't get me wrong, if everyone was having sex. If you went at the corner store, and the cute emo clerk girl selling you cigars would be having her ass RAILED by the janitor and no one would consider anything happening specila. If the world would have been full of people fucking in public - I'd be fine with it. If you had a magic cock, I'd be fine with it.
But no. You just happen to be suffering from the Main Protagonist Syndrome, and that's that. Sad.
Conclusion?
Well, I hate a lot about it. The faux sandbox is the worst offender and makes the game such an incredible pain, an unfun disaster. A catastrophe. I hate it.
But on the other side, every character is a major fucking slut who lusts after you which is amazing.
But then again there's no reason for it. You're a wet noodle, a nothing protagonist, unspecial in every way immaginable.
The world is not set-up is a fuckfest where people fuck on the streets. It's not normal every day occourance for family members to form family circles instead of family trees. You don't have a magic cock. So why is everyone on your cock? No good reason, that's why.
It's ... a hit and a miss. Everything about this game is like that. For every one good thing I can point out, another bad one rears it's ugly head in.
It's not three stars because it's mundane or boring. But because it's hectic and uneven.
If this dev, colabed with a better game designer, and someone more apt at writing characters or believable worlds - then, I think that the three of them could make a gem of a game. But as it stands, that does not look likely to say the least. -
Alpha Beta Omega
LOVE THE GAME. I have played the previous versions [ the versions before the reworking I mean ].
So thank you moderator to do the reworking again.
And, I hope we will get good story which will be ahead of us and more updates.
Thank you for reworking the game. -
K-Zen
What to say about this boring game.....the english (or the automatic translation) is really bad and dumb. The events doesn't even really make sense and if you don't read the dialogs it's a try-and-guess game to know what to do next, clicking around the f****ing map to get to the right place. The few shops open are depressively empty and accessible even when nobody is there, The animations are a joke.
The renders are nice.
If you are looking for a game with deep story and interesting characters......move along, there's nothing to see in there.