Others - Completed - Hypnotic-Family Planning S [v1.03] [tanedukeitinengo]

It's a mildly interesting game that sorely lacks quality of life features that would make the game substantially better. Not much in terms of corruption slowly influencing characters, most characters stay relatively similar. It does somewhat change scenes though so I saw it as extra scene variants more than anything.

Drove me nuts having to click like 8 times just to see if a character is getting corrupted by 23 vs 26. Doesn't help the game absolutely craps itself if you quick load in the beginning of a scene.

Man... this is like the mind control game I've been waiting for a long time , just to get frustrated by the chinese (japanese?) lack of translation.
You can click around and play it, and find some delicious scenes, but the machine translation on the texts and total lack of translation on the buttons (and there's dozens of buttons that trigger scenes) makes it hard to enjoy it as it should. Even so, got a couple of FAPs on it, and I recommend it to other creators doing mind control games as a template.

I have to preface this review saying the in game tutorial and the UI are not very intuitive and you will definetly get frustrated and posibly drop the game unless you read one of the guides in the thread, which probably summarise the mechanics and how to way better, you can even get a save with morals maxed or money and income maxed to not deal with earning nor ntr.

With that said, I want to point out the good points of the game. and by the end maybe drop a mini guide.

SEXUAL CONTENT

First of all the game has a LOT of scenes, I mean it, there were so many situations and scenes I lost count, if you enjoy hypnosis or wide area mind control this game's porn content is for you, and it has all type of girls too, even a trap. This is what makes it a 5* mind control game for me despite the bad UI and tutorial.

When it comes to specific fetishes, the end game has pregnant content and for those into it, the game has completely optional pimping, which I enjoyed quite a lot as I love netorase/pimping. It also has NTR or rape events but these are easily avoidable, not like i cared I was in mission to make the city a whorehouse. The sex scenes themselves arent very extreme.

there is a sub text in all events besides their main colour, which can be blue, white, pink or red, meaning you are pretending to be the dad, the brother, the lover or a rapist.

GAME MECHANICS

They look way more complex that they actually are once you know them.
You have an hypnosis app, it has a lot of functions that let you proceed with outfits, situations or heroines and they cost a monthly fee you can cover by conquering heroines or working.

The map has hypnosis up evets in orange or red, sexual events in red or pink if conquered and pimping events in pink with money on them as well as daily life events in black. If they have a star, they are non repeatable and only happen in that day, you can also disable or enable a type of event to see them clearly, they are ordered around the bottom center of the screen.

You have 3 actions a week (daily life wont consume) and 52 weeks to suceed.

Lastly, heroines can get alert and notice others being mind controlled, so conquer any subheroine surrounding the main ones beforehand otherwise you get taxed to memory wipe what they discovered.


I'm only giving it 5 stars because of the comunity here helping ignore the inherent bad UI and lack of proper explanations or guides in game, because the actual game and content are amazingly fun for a mind control game. Consider that some minor parts are untranslated due it being an image and not text, but they were an useless status menu or completely irrelevant once you knew the colours.

Honestly, this is quite a great game but boggled down by the hard to understand tutorial. Yes, that's about it. This make the game harder, but it's managable.
If you find yourself needing the guide to do so, pls read the spoilers I post in the thread
The game is quite decent so I kind of want to help people to adapt to this game before leaving a 1-star review just for the horrendous tutorial. Even if it might not really get good reputation due to the above reason and the no-brain script, it's quite a good brainwash game do to how realistic the game is about this genre.

The game is so close to being great, but is constantly dragged down by it's own insistence on using management sim tropes.

Many here complain about the tutorial not explaining properly and taking far too long, but ignoring that this games mechanics are just counterintuitive. The game showers you with "sex scenes", but punishes you for taking too many. It advertises a swathe of side girls but punishes you for pursuing them. The game wants to be built around you slowly expanding your scope, but scares you from doing so, and barely rewards you for doing so.

Also, the sex scenes are so close to making this game worth it, but focuses on quantity over quality to it's own detriment. The game sports 20 girls, most with 3 or more short scenes, with the main girls easily having 20+ each, with each scene having multiple variants based on corruption level, but they're all too short and are held back by the poor translation that's readable but dryer than hardtack to be anything but vaguely arousing at best. Willing to cut it some slack because it goes FAR in its fetishes, and sports so much content that you'll probably come away with a few good times through the frustration and boredom.

I swear to god Eastern countries need to start requiring licenses to make video games. This is not a video game, and sure as hell not even a good porn slideshow. Its not even a true wannabe anime. Its more hellbent on a neverending tutorial that probably is the entire "game" itself for all i care.

I gave up at the tutorial. There should be no reason to include a tutorial so long for what is essentially clicking to a bunch of pics. It also doesn't help that some stuff are not translated like the pics I mentioned (assuming they're hardcoded or something). Played for 30 mins or so and the stuff you do can be explained in 5 minutes tops.

Wasted potential.

Do you know this type of game after finishing of which you want to sit and write a guide for them? This is one of these.

It is an unintentional puzzle that is kinda fun to solve. Unintentional, cause its interface is partially untranslated, tutorial is unbearable, and half of game challenges are unpredictable (like, in what order side girls will attack you). But somehow it doesn't make the game worse; instead, it gives you a weird type of challenge.

Yes, graphics is not very good, and dialogs are your basic Japanese cringe, but I don't care, I had fun, even while losing.

Too bad, that once you figure things out, the game loses all the fun and turns into boring scene watching (the game gives you a year, but achieving everything takes 6-7 months).

But with the right attitude, you will have some fun for a couple of hours.

The game itself is pretty good if you are looking for pregnancy and corruption themes.

BUT!

When you start the game... Boy oh boy... Game approaches you like as if you are 33 iq retarded monkey guy. It tries to teach you how to play this game like kinda 1-2 hours stragiht instead of by you play. This is the why i rated 1 star for this game. I even forgot which mechanics guide taught me. Thats ridiculous, unacceptable, humiliating and insulting.
Normally, i dontbother myself with doing reviews but this shit totally deserves to be punished by 1 star review.
I dont know if the developer reads reviews -probably developer himself even doesnt know this site because of he is japan- but if you are reading this review and want to develop more games then pls dont try to teach everything all at once. We dont even remembermany of what you try to teach us. Give us guide by we play, slowly.

Good concept. Bad execution.

As many others have said, this game could be good if it wasn't for the fact it has very shallow gameplay, which is ironic, considering it has one of the longest tutorials I have ever seen.
It's a VN where each scene is very short, and you need to select a few scenes from a handful of options each week (or iteration). This adds pseudo-interactivity to the game, so it is a bit more intricate than a regular VN, but not by much.

Despite that, I still had fun playing this game, so give it a try if you're into family corruption.

Massively wasted potential.

Game starts off with the longest most convoluted tutorial you've ever seen for what is essentially a game about clicking around a handful of menus. Actual game part is pretty simple but also not really satisfying or interesting at all. Events are extremely brief and seemingly have zero context, including the sex scenes which kind of just come out of nowhere.

It's a shame because when I saw the art and large cast of characters I thought this could be great, but the art is pretty much the only redeeming quality this has.

Game is so-so, definitely a good concept but bad realization, don't worry too much about the 1 star review down here cause the guy was just annoyed to read and so give up even before the game itself started..

The game revolves around the mc who differently from the premise doesn't belong to the family mentioned however after being next to homelessness for some unkown reason received an app on his phone about hypnosis with a trial of 1 month, the first girl he meet was the mother and so the mc decided to live as her son (also for some other unknown reason the mc is able to send the dad abroad for work).

The game itself require you to lower the mental barrier around 1 or more family member and make em pregnant in 1 year, to do so you have the ability to buy various plugin of the app that will unlock more functions (more events). The app after the first month require a monthly based subcription + plugins you have selected, to pay for these the game will give you the ability to do some jobs that inevitably will lower the security of the city, in doing so you might incur in some ntr scenes (that however are absent other then the first text line, i guess the on/off toggle will remove also this), the game however will fix itself like nothing happen with a surplus on the next month fee.

And now the bad,
game is basically inconclusive, you start mini events without a real reason and hypnotise ppl without even a brief introduction, you just know that you saw em somewhere before, other times neither that, the game also doesn't help making the event thumbnails pretty much anonym (not sure here if there is a translation error) so you often will redo the same event. At begin you will pass enough time in the tutorial that is not bad however since a lot of stuff are not translated you might still be in doubt on what to do at begin.

The game itself it might fun ngl, however take it as a scene collector cause there's literally no meaning behind or plot whatsowever, just couple of lines with 1 max 2cg for event.

Generous 3 stars.

Pretty grindy game. Translation leaves out a number of interface text that would make it much easier to navigate. And the opening is a solid 20-40 minutes of convoluted game mechanics info dump instead of just walking the player through features as the game progresses. (Think someone trying to explain a game to you instead of just playing the game and explaining as you go along. It's not *that* complicated, but they chose the worst possible method to convey the info you need to play the game.)

Once it starts in earnest, you'll take a while to figure out what's going on. However, once you start to understand how the subscription plugins work, it can drastically reduce the grind. I've posted a general game guide and rough play strategy. But it's still not great.

Its main redeeming quality is there is the size of the cast and it's more of a sandbox management game where the only thing that can get you in trouble is not having enough money. Which is easy to get if you don't care what happens to the heroines. If your goal is to monopolize the girls though, you're going to spend a long time trying to figure out what's going on to have any hope of not going bankrupt in the process.

Overall, 3 stars. If this sort of game is something you like, you like the variety, and you don't mind the clunkiness of it, you'll probably enjoy it. However, if you're on the fence about trying it out probably pass it up.

Lots of setup for a mixed result.

Lets start with the tags:
-Incest: The MC is a completely unrelated rando who uses a magic phone app to rewrite himself into the family. depending on the app settings he can be the father, son, or holy ghost (just a stranger). The family dose have a few lez scenes together as well as some group.

-NTR: This is netori. the game warns you that NTR will happen and you need to buy insurance to prevent it. This is not the case. it is pretty much just a gameplay feature to punish your wallet.

Now Onto Basic Gameplay Loop:

3 Actions Per Week-4 Weeks Per Month- Game Lasts 1 Year

The hypnosis app is based on a monthly subscription service. you can purchase new plugins to gain access to additional content. You work jobs (Blue Outline) to gain funds but that will lower public order. You volunteer (Yellow Outline) to increase order.
if order falls too low you will be hit with NTR insurance and have money added to your monthly bill

The Cast:
There are 21! Girls (and 1 trap) to Corrupt.
increase corruption (Heart icons) to lower their Mental Resistance with the end goal of knocking them up at 0. Depending on the girls relationships with each other, you may arouse suspicion when increasing corruption. This also adds to your monthly bill. some planning may be required to corrupt these before focusing on your primary target.

Try to balance your funds and public order to corrupt the girl of your choice without raising undue suspicion!

Very grindy game with poor translation. It's hard to know what the scenes are unless you have already done them. The scenes were alright for the most part. If you don't like censored stuff I would suggest to give it a pass.

An interesting premise ruined by poor execution and game design.

The menus are a mess, the mechanics are unclear and poorly explained: mostly due to the translation, which is not bad, but doesn't make much sense in certain areas.

The gameplay is basically clicking here and there to trigger events, but how these events affect the world is almost impossible to know until the girls are getting assaulted: which almost never happens due to the NTR guard: never thought I would ever read something like that.

Getting money is not hard, but comes with the issue of lowering the morality of the town, which triggers the assaults and rapes of the females.

Long story short, the game would have been great if they didn't try to shove 100 different mechanics and tutorials down your throat and had instead focused on improving on the core gameplay, the hipnosis and the money gathering.

Not worth the squeeze!

I'll start of with the positives. I'm kind of fond of the art style, it can be a little rushed in places, but I think it's good for this game. There also seems to be a lot of content, but that's it. Those are the positives. Onto the negatives...

I don't think I've ever played a game worse than this and I mean that sincerely. There are worse games out there, but this one somehow manages to fail at every job that it's trying to accomplish when it comes to gameplay.

I can summarize it simply: You can almost perfectly simulate this game by getting an image library of this game, sprinkling in a massive pile of bad lines from incest visual novels at a ratio of twenty more lines than you'd think is necessary to read between each new picture and scrolling through that library while pressing the buttons on a remote controller randomly in between a few lines of text.

And I'd argue you'd get a better gaming experience doing that.

Rest of this review is just my first impressions during the tutorial. If you want some enjoyment out of this game, my suffering should be significantly more than the game itself has to offer.

This game has possibly the worst tutorial out of any game I've ever played. Skipping the tutorial and going trial and error would be preferred over this, holy shit. Seriously, mouse over a button and get a text box that tells you what the button is would be JUST fine for vast majority of them.

And the subscription upgrade system aside, there's literally nothing that unique to need the tutorial for and even that one is just "upgrades last a month" or something like that, I don't know, I was fucking overwhelmed by information and now I have a headache. I don't recommend playing this with while sick, the information overload is real and everything it teaches you is not worth teaching like this.

To quote the damn game... "...Phew, I'm tired from hearing so much at once." I'm fucking done. Whoever made this has no appreciation or understanding of game design, just make a damn visual novel if you don't want to bother designing a game. Can you believe this wasn't the end of the tutorial and just the end of the pre-recap recap?

I decided to give it another try, which was the worst mistake I've made in ages, by a significant margin, since that wasn't the end of the pre-recap recap. That was the end of the pre-second tutorial pre-recap recap. After that, I finally got to the game itself, and it's somehow so bland that I'd rather write this review for my sexual gratification. It's that bad. Do not play this game, the designer doesn't know what game design is.