VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - InHeat - Visiting Aunt May [v0.1.02] [InHeat]

  1. 4.00 star(s)

    dexterul

    Lacks a lot of stuff but looks like a decent start for 0.1 i'm waiting for the 0.2.
    The places look different, did not see the environment in any other game, graphics look like 2005 :) but i guess the developer has a i3-2100 .
    The story is meh, could be improved for the 0.2 also the characters look not really good.
    I give this game 4 stars because i want to see the 0.2 i don't want this game to become an abandon ware.
  2. 1.00 star(s)

    Zippity

    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 v0.1.02...

    Originally Reviewed on 01/02/2018

    Not really that impressed with this one, even though it is very early in it's development...

    Visuals for both the characters and the backgrounds do not look finished at all... The girlfriend has clipping of her shirt in some scenes, and she keeps the exact same facial expressions and sometimes the exact same poses from scene to scene... The house and pool areas do not look finished either, as they are too plain looking and the shadows are off... The User Interface for moving around the house is also rather primitive, being just a long list of text choices...

    The script has a lot of broken English, although i could make most of it out... The way this story plays out is really weird and wastes a lot of time doing meaningless tasks, plus there are bugs in the story progression... The overall plot is supposed to be the male protagonist visiting his Aunt, but when he arrives an old Ex-Girlfriend has bought the house, including many of it's furnishings while the aunt bought a house nearby... Supposedly the Aunt is away for a bit, which makes no sense since the protagonist was sent by his mother to visit her, and yet she no longer lives there? You'ld think the mother who sent him would have said something before sending him... This is just one of the very confusing story holes...

    The underlying plot in this early version is a strange locked door, that requires you to keep finding all these different keys, that appear all over the house, and yet you can only find one of them per game day... Cycling the game days is where I ran into a bug, because if you try to end the day in the protagonists room, it just plays that same day over again... You have to go downstairs and progress the day for it to actually begin the next actual game day... Besides the bug, you spend a majority of your time basically searching the house each day, until you finally get the right key to the door... After you discover what is inside, the only other option next is to go talk to the ex-girlfriend, at her club... Another location that definitely is a bit strange, as she's the only person that is ever there...

    In any case, you can definitely tell that this is a rough first draft... So many unfinished things, and confusing game play... So not even the basic mechanics feel done... Also, be aware there are choice punishments, with some dead ends for making those decisions, so I recommend saving game now and then... I'm not a fan of reader/player "The End" punishments...

    Overall, I'm not really impressed with this one, as it definitely smells like it's gonna focus on porn content more than an actual deep and meaningful story... And the authors have some work cut out, even just for this current content... I don't know right now if I'll check back on this one... It's so confusing and has a lot of holes in the story... Feels like you waste too much time, not even interacting with any characters, while doing the whole strange door stuff... Much of this may change as it develops, but for now it's got a lot of issues...