VN - Ren'Py - How to Train Your Dog [Ep3 v1.0] [SHADOWMASTER]

You could have made this a lot better by making it a lot shorter. We don't need to keep replaying "oh no, the dog is acting more dominant and becoming more aggressive! Better "calm it down!"" A half-dozen times in a row. We also don't need characters going "surely they're not going to do X" after we see them do X a dozen times. It's boring, and it gets people to just hold down the skip button to finally get to something new. It doesn't help that the game is huge in size, and seems like it was either written in part or whole by AI.

Speaking of, almost every single scene that starts with "Then she suddenly remembers Ann" or anything like that should be removed. Either show the whole flashback in one go and set up the rest of the story, or delete the rest of it past the first couple flashback scenes. Constantly jumping back and forth from the past to present just jerks you around and stops the story from progressing, and at a point I was skipping all of them because I did not care for the story to take breaks when it almost seemed like it was going somewhere.

Gave it a try and went through to the end and it was painful. The writing was terrible, the characters were aweful, the story was extremely basic and dull.

I would advise the creator to scrap this one entirely. No amount of fixing can redeem this.

Nice. Every game genre has its fans. If someone doesn't like it, there's no need to give it a low rating. Everyone should respect the work of a person who creates something. So I support the author and wish him creative success.

This whole game is ugly as sin.

I'd be more compelled to give an in-depth analysis if the game itself actually expressed more effort.

The dialogue makes me want to cave my head in, and is either poorly ChatGPT translated or just written by somebody with an abysmal grasp of the English language.
The animation (the ACTUAL animation) is god awful, bordering nightmarish. I never want to see a woman's head or tongue swivel independently of the rest of her body like that again.
The AI cutscenes are terrible, which is just to be expected.
The text to speech voices aren't just bad, they're haphazardly tied to different audio channels, NONE OF WHICH ARE THE VOICE CHANNEL. So if you're like me and you muted Voice after hearing the first line of dialogue, only to be further assaulted by the noise, it's because the dialogue is tied to the Sound Effects channel and the cutscene dialogue is tied to Music.
Speaking of music, it ranges between butt-ballads (like Adele slowed down to 75%) and the most insulting implementation of classical music to date.
The actual 3D CG is repellent in about 95% of cases.
And names in the dialogue boxes are lower case, which isn't so much a sin as a minor annoyance that made my anger finally boil over.

In conclusion: I'd be genuinely surprised this reached a third chapter if it wasn't composed of about 90% ChatGPT, because CGPT shits out content with barely a prod. It's just a matter of the end user if they actually filter for quality.

Very little filtering was done here.
I might be more forgiving if this was someone's first game, but it's not, and this is decidedly unsexy. Also, as someone mentioned, the two sons are very young looking. Suspiciously so.

If you can give the option to skip over the chatgpt cutscenes, that'd be greeeeeat.
It just kills the pacing when I already read what is shown and can't click past it. And in every the midst of all the clicking (you know the normal reaction when trying to skip a cutscene) the story actually jumped way ahead.

Other than that, you just gotta proofread your work. Like Darla with a capital D on the dialogue box and using italic for inner thoughts instead of saying "Darla's inner voice". And you're over-describing scenes. No need to describe "Darla placing her hand on his shoulder trying to convey warmth" when we can see it right on screen. It's redundant, and just more work on your end, ya know.
Story wise- you can suspend your disbelief in regards to modifying the dogs with yada yada science, but "realistically" if reports/complaints were coming in about all the dogs being this super aggressive, this company (and the dogs) would be put down.

Ep3 v 1.0 reviewed.

A laugh out loud bestiality story set in a world where a virus makes males infertile. But have no fear, science has cum to the rescue and developed a way to impregnate woman with genetically enhanced dogs.

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Pros:

1- Hot looking MILFs

2- Some of the renders are decent.

3- Nice set designs.

4- If you are into bestiality you might like this.

Cons:

1- The AI voices are flat out awful. I just hope it's intentional, otherwise I would really question the developers thought process here.

2- AI scenes are integrated into some scenes and it doesn't work for me.

3- Awful dialogue. Way too wordy and redundant. It could be cut down a lot and still get the message across.

4- Both sons look underage. But I guess they are "18" for storytelling purposes.

5- Animations are very crude.

6- Scene transitions are confusing, switching back and forth to different events in time. This only hurts the story.


Final verdict - Erectile dysfunction.

Was this meant to be funny or just a lot of bad design choices? Either way, you can't not laugh at the absurdity of the robotic voice acting and silly story.

My suggestion would be to scrap the voices and the AI scenes, get a proof reader and trim the excessive dialogue. You can tell this story much better in less time.

The dev has skill with renders but needs help with story writing and development. I wish him/her good luck going forward.