VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - Hot Kitty BAR [v0.7] [Jester555]

Pros:

1- I tried to find it. I found none.

Cons:

1- Story is basically a setup situation for sex scenes. You're guy who somehow lands a job as manager in a Bar where most of the staff are girls. From there it becomes a fuck-fest, albeit a slow paced one due to necessity of grinding.
2- Visuals are basically Honey Select with grain, lots of it.
3- Hope you like grinding, because the game will make sure you do it, since most of the content here is locked behind it.

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is v0.4.1...

This VN/Game is your typical relationship grinder, but not as good as others I've played/read...

The visuals are typical of Honey Select Asian themed characters... The background are somewhat unique... The animations are a little lower quality in some cases, for HS style animations, but average over all...

The script is a mix of broken English, with some spelling/grammar errors... The plot, what little there really is, revolves around a male protagonist who tricks his way into managing a bar/club where only female characters work... His overall goal is to have his way with the women, while also trying to make money for the establishment... There really isn't much in the way of story with this one, as it is pretty much grinding away at repetitive actions/events until you open new content... Each female character has either a Love route or an Obedience route...

The grind in this one is a bit more tedious then in others of this gameplay style I've played/read... Mostly because it's a 24 hour day, and the only way to skip time is by watching porn or chatting in a porn forum for 1 hour each time... And that means going all the way to the office, opening the laptop, and selecting one of those options each time... There are some events and things you can eventually open up that can also fill the game day, but it is a very tedious way to skip time... There really should have been a button added to the UI for skipping time... In any case, expect a lot of repetition in order to raise various stats with each character...

There is a game over function, revolved around money... You begin with 3000 dollars, and some actions/events cost money... And because there is varying daily overhead, you have to come up with creative ways to increase the income, and not over spend... If the money ever reaches zero, then game over... It's not too terribly hard once you figure stuff out, but it's still an ever present concern... The grind in this game is rather high, but the content opens up quickly as stats grow...

Expect some repetitive scenes... The biggest one is going to the beach every Tuesday, which I really think is a bug... Because it doesn't fit well into that characters progression, once it's been experienced one time... And forcing it on the user every game week is annoying, and feels like it wasn't supposed to do that, at least not without player consent...

I really didn't like how the developers handled the protagonists outlook for the Penny character, just because she has a little bit of meat on her bones, and she has a slight femdom personality... I thought she looked a bit more natural that way, and she wasn't some over the top personality... She just had a fetish that she wanted to play out now and then... But the protagonist isn't necessarily the nicest of guys in this one...

Overall, this is a very basic Relationship Grinder, with very little meaningful story... Not all the female characters have content yet, as this game is still in development... The content is really just a porn fest, with 2 route choices per character... Expect some annoying repetition and poor time mechanics... Some of the scenes are a bit unique in how they play out, with each character having it's own personality... And in the long run, the believability of this whole VN/Game is basically thrown out the window, being just another porn fest... I liked some of the story arcs, a tiny bit, but they tended to be short, which is a bit of a let down... There is definitely room for some improvement, if the developers decide to seize the opportunity... Will I revisit this one? Probably not, as it's just too generic in it's current state... It will really depend on the developers doing some rethinking and fixing of the issues it has... It's early enough to do that, if they care to even bother... Guess we'll have to wait and see...

I found it pretty good to play. Nice animations and overall a solid storyline. Keep up the good work. It wasn't boring for me!

Graphic: 4
Storyline: 4
Paths/ decisions: 4
Bdsm active/ passive: 3/4

At a glance the game looks good, but looking further, The characters all have some filter, like the HSTutor game, but opposite, instead of the art making it look better, it just looks... greasy. All of the characters due to this art/filter, just look like they just dumped a whole thing of grease on them, either that or haven't ever showered.

Hot Kitty bar has an interesting setting where you control a café where only girls work and you have the opportunity to corrupt them all. As of this release (V.0.3.5) it is 1,1GB in size, but does it have something in it worth checking out?
Well, this is my review.

Story 2/5 -> The story itself is interesting enough but once past the intro scene, you are left in an open world kind of environment, where you have to look for content yourself. It wouldn't be too bad, if it wouldn't be such a grind-fest.

Dialog choices 1/5 -> From what I gather, you can either be a sweet charming prince, or a dominant person so at least you have that. Otherwise, it's just trying your luck in finding new content and grinding for in-game days/weeks before you can progress. Money is also hard to come by, but needed in order to further corrupt the girls, resulting in you almost needing a money cheat to progress somewhere, unless you are fine with spending hours trying to balance things between spending and saving money.
This can work if you have a decent story behind it or at least nice sexual content to keep you interested and wanting more... but it doesn't.

Sexual Content+spelling 2/5 -> There are some sexual content in this game and usually that would keep me interested enough. However, the art style kills the mood rather than empowers it and the spelling is so bad that I would prefer a Russian machine translator instead of this English. Seeing as English is my second language and even I can spot all the bad English grammar and spelling, I can only imagine how a native English speaker feels like.
It looks to be a mix between machine translation from Russian as well as some fixing, but doesn't come out as that spectacular at all. If the art would've been better or just using real life pictures instead it could possibly be tolerable, but sadly it's not.

Domination/bdsm 1/5 -> There are hints of there being domination paths in this game, but I just got to bored of the game before I found any actual domination acts. Corruption acts I did see, but not domination acts.

Pregnancy 0/5 -> If there is a pregnancy in this game, I didn't have the patience to look for it.

Overall this means that this game gets 6 points out of 25, resulting in 24% or 2 stars.

For me this is a typical grind fest game, but it doesn't have the story or art to tolerate it.

My star rating system:
0-20% -> 1 star
20-40% -> 2 star
40-60% -> 3 star
60-80% -> 4 star
80-100% -> 5 star