VN - Ren'Py - How to Fix the Future [v0.3.2] [mr.moonmi]

6/10 Overall
4/10 Animations
3/10 Story
8/10 Character design
4/10 Character development
8/10 Quality

Game gives you options to reject some things but in the end in doesn't matter, This Octavia seems to be more focused on her fantases and kinks than actually saving the world, and story is quite incompletre and weird, The renders are nice tho, we will see where it goes from here because it is in its early development. Meh

Ok so far the game looks really great. The renders are just gorgeous and the women look amazing. By the looks of it you can avoid kinks that dont interest you which seems nice and the story is sometimes a little bit far fetched but is mostly very enjoyable. I can wholeheartedly recommend this game to anyone

I have mixed feelings after playing this VN. I don't want to be discouraging, but would like to suggest some things that, in my humble opinion, would help improve the quality of the VN's narrative. However, I will start off with the good:

THE GOOD

• Renders: it is obvious that lots of effort has been put into the renders. The shadows are well managed and the characters pop from their environment. The images are far from flat. Props to the developer on this!
• The women: phwoarrrr. Nuff said.
• The premise: the setting and overall premise of the story is interesting and is a great setup for a "You got more than you bargained for" type of story, where the author can comment on the unpredictability of life i.e. the butterfly effect.
• NO SANDBOX!!!! Huzzah! I hope it stays this way.

THE COULD BE IMPROVED

• The MC is unlikeable and unrelatable: he is your typical loser late teenager. He is shown to be incompetent (sleeps at job), not proactive in changing his situation (plays video games all day), and not sympathetic: he has no problems other than disliking his job, but even his desire of a more purposeful life is voiced by him after he has been given some purpose.
  • An incompetent character is an unlikeable character, unless sympathy is established with the character through other means (e.g. personal struggles, humour etc.).
• The MC rambles a lot in his thoughts. Given that MC is unlikeable, the monologues become uninteresting and tedious. The inner dialogues should be minimized as much as possible, if not removed. The monologue when MC fell down over a girl was particularly painful.
• Some of the humour does not land because of the clumsy wording. More thorough editing or removing those lines could help.

There are plot holes in the story (spoiler section). This is the main stuff that ruins the narrative for me:

All this is not meant to be disparaging, but instead highlight to the developer that this VN could be truly outstanding and something special if the narrative and characters were tightened up. I wish the developer all the best for the future.

Amazing game, played version 0.2.2:
-story: excellent, it carries the game and captivates the player
-female models: amazing, especially Octavia which is mesmerizing, a true Roman empress
-music: very good, varied, creates the right atmosphere
-sex scenes: only a few so far but the game sets up for great ones
-also includes a beautiful and feminine chick with dick
Highly recommended, one of the best I've ever played.
Cannot wait to see what happens next.

I am spechless. Rarely have met such a thrilling story in decades – I mean even cinema blockbusters included. Also I found myself breathless – highly pumped up with adrenalin – the thrill was almost unbearable.

Also graphics are awesome, excellent. The whole project has drawn me in totally.

My top favorite game atm, and definitely in the All-Time top 5.

This is for v0.2.2... The first thing that stuck out to me were the gorgeous renders at the beginning of the game. Then I started to notice that the writing was pretty damn good with the story plot and dialogue. This has all the ingredients in it to be one of the top 1% games on this site. Most of the models I havent seen before in other games which is a giant plus. BJ being a hard masochist had me laughing because I enjoy some humor in the games I play. Theres easily more than 5 hours of content so far if you use the auto button. Keep up the fantastic work dev looking forward to more of this.

The renders can be seen by everyone just by looking at the preview photos. I honestly find them to be in the top 1% when it comes to their quality.

Dev managed to create gorgeous characters while at the same time keeping the natural proportions for the women.

Story-wise it's still in the begining, but so far it really helps lay the groundwork for what's to come.

If there is anything I would change, are the interactions between Octavia and the MC. However I strongly believe that after a few more updates things will even out and make more sense.

What exactly is the future? It is through the knowledge and the philosophy of nature that we propose to find the answer to this general question. We find nature before us as an enigma and a problem, the solution of which seems to both attract and repel us; it attracts us in that spirit has a presentiment of itself in nature; it repulses us in that nature is an alienation in which spirit does not find itself From this arose Aristotle's dictum that philosophy has its origin in wonder. We begin to observe, and we collect data from the multifarious formations and laws of nature, which may be pursued for their own sake into endless detail in all directions; and because we can see no end to this procedure, it leaves us unsatisfied. What is more, despite all this wealth of knowledge, the question, ' What exactly is the future? ' can always be asked and never completely answered.

Positives:
- Very nice renders
- Interesting story

Negatives:
- Multiple characters don't act like a human would including MC

This is mostly story related so I will explain it below

I don't want to give a template review of this game project. I will be guided only by my impressions from reading this game. As a developer I am well aware of the difficulties encountered in the development process... Lack of enough PC power to work, difficulties in translation and adaptation of texts for a wide audience, especially if you are not a native English speaker. Music that you have to scavenge through a pile of free junk. The game is still at the start, and it's a very good start!

Now I want to flatter the developer (I know how nice and important this is). The rendering in the game is delightful! Beautiful everything, the color, the light... When you see this rendering - you realize how much time and effort it took the person to give us this exciting hour and a half of the game. The characters in the game are detailed. Each character has their own special charm in the look, which accentuates their individuality and nature in a very clever way. My favorite: the rebellious Chloe. I read the game in its original language and it is delightful! The story is interesting and gripping. I loved the way the author tied in with the story, the high emotional connection to the mother, the scene where she worries about her son evoked compassion and empathy in me. I am sure that soon a native English-speaker will appear in the development team and help him to adapt the texts correctly and well!

I want to wish the developer a lot of success. Another game added to my personal top 10. My humble support on patreon - a token of gratitude for the excellent work of the developer.

Have a nice day, everyone.

PROS

1.- Interesting concept, the regular dude travelling to the near(ish) future to prevent a believable apocalypse sounds pretty cool.

2.-The characters are well written for the most part.

3.-The renders are pretty well done.

4.-The focus seems to be more on world building and story than gratuitous sex, so that's a fucking win for me. (there are still pretty good sexy scenes though)

5.- Trans content! (not much so far and is avoidable if you are not into that)

6.- The MC is not a 3 legged freak, also is not super ripped, so is easier to believe he is kinda of a regular dude.

7.- Sub dom paths (if you are into that kind of stuff)

CONS

1.- Male characters aren't that well written. There is an ugly bastard that seems to be a irredeemable asshole/harmful stereotype of fat people, and your male buddy in the future is...not amazing so far, but I still have hope he can become a great character though.

Story look nice , i'm not a fan of futuristic games itself , but i will give a chance to this game , beside the graphics of this game is awesome , is another level for sure.
Not to mention that Ellie , Cathy and Riley are gorgeous as fuck
Hope you keep doing this awesome work

So far it is pretty awesome.
The girls look good, story is building up.
Futa is avoidable/ish... still wish it could be turned off.
Sex none so far, yet you get a BJ scene and I'd rather wait than to hump each girl at the beginning.


Keep up the good work.

This one has a good and promising story, very good renders and the girls are pretty.
Everything seems "fixed" now so I'll change my rating accordingly. Now we have the choice.

Thank you and good luck.

v0.2.1

v 0.2

Story is entertaining, but amount of text is overloaded sometimes.

Renders are fine, but sometimes too much noise and grain. On the other hand dev using cool assets I haven't met elsewhere (iirc).

Girls are beautiful, BUT...
..here's why 3 stars. I understand it's early version, although I don't like games where devs, due to time required, prefer to add more bj, peeking, nude scenes instead of actual SEX. There's no sex scenes atm and I have some doubts when they will be added soon.
Animations are above average but once again, there's almost nothing to look at.

Keep in mind, there's unavoidable sub OR dom route atm.

There are decent music tracks in the game.

Give it a try if have nothing else to do, but I'd advise to check it in six months or later.

Peace.

Blown away by the renders, it looks great so far. But the story is a whole other thing.

*The main character seems to be a guy just trying to get by, that's what we saw so far. He doesn't have any friends, lives with his mom, the usual game setting. He then plays this mysterious game ang ends up in the future curtesy of two time travelers .

*Meets a dictator who's more fixated on her needs and kinks then saving the actual world or planet. She immediately wants him to submit and that's basically the story so far, spent two updates on deciding whether the main character will be a Dom or Sub. Not an actual strategy yet, just the main character and Octavia having a ego trip.

*Game tries to give you options to reject some things but in the end it doesn't matter.

*The latest update ended with the Olga character interrupting Octavia's sex party lol, some responsible dictator she is right?

* Renders are nice, but if the story continues like this I'll have to skip it.

*The Dev thought it would be a brilliant idea to trap players with this trans Daisy character and he's all like "give her a chance" . I got a good laugh out of that because I thought he was joking, but he wasn't. My advice is respect players wishes and kinks and we'll all get along fine.

the game looks stunning for starters. really liked the story telling part . renders are very good and top notch animations are cherry on top. only thing missing was the part when we go in future what happens to present life maybe a seen or 2 might be available but there was nothing in that life or was it. rating it 5/5 stars for the animation story and renders . definitely has the quality to be amongst the top game as it has offered so much for 0.2 version. keeping this in my play list.