Ren'Py - Innocent Au-pair: Restart [v0.401] [D&D visual]

This one is not the worst game around but certainly isn't good either. And it's a pity because I really liked the premise of the father and son competing for the attention of the girls, the tension and so on. It was really compelling but only on paper, once it got rolling it just didn't work. The writing is bad and the characters make no sense in how they treat eachother and how they deal with the world. The father has taken a loan and is troubled by money and inmediately goes to the college his son studies and pays a lot of money to send his class off on a trip just so he won't step into his attempts to woo the au-pair... really? Doesn't make sense, and that's just at the beginning of the game. Choices seem to matter but to be honest, I ended in a path I like but don't know really why I got there.

Render quality is pretty irregular, staying mostly on a mediocre level in general. Animations and sex scenes work but are pretty basic. I turned off the music so I can't talk about it, and I didn't find any bug during my playthrough.

So, all in all, might work for a fap but little else.

models interesting but repetatively used and static - pointless having them in that case.

Engrish really bad, especially the misgendering often encountered by european (Russian??) devs to describe characters - explains a lot why Russia is so psychotic and frustrated lol.

storyline is bollocks, a naive au pair would not be so authoratative and a parental dynamic would not be so balanced - have you a real life dev? Game or not, you write bollocks it shows

Play also feels like being blind in a maze, intuition doesnt work or seem to make a difference

2 rating for effort, 1 would be more accurate for content and lack of sense

As a game it's good, but as an adult game it's very mediocre. Two chapters with one breast scene and one shower scene, not exactly what you'd expect from an adult game. The story is pretty good, and there's a plot that slowly unfolds. The question is whether the player is willing to wait or not. The intellectual in me thought it was a good read, and can see that the developer is building something here, but the adult gamer in me had a hard time staying engaged.

Nice renders. Well written, I mean there is an actual story. There are gameplay aspects to it, but I wonder how well the story branches out. If it does, it will be one of the best games out there, and if not, it still has the potential to be great.

What a fantastic game, at least for me, the story is good, the renders are also good, at first I had doubts about the sandbox but when I played the game, the sandbox was not a big problem, it was very simple and not confusing if you compare it to other sandbox games, the quest system is also very good, you will not get stuck as long as you follow the clues in the quest log, there are no hidden quests or hidden requirements that will create any problems for you,

I played the original game and I like this one much more. Original game was full of tiresome grinding unlike the "IAP Restart".
This game is much more straight forward but not in a bad way. Choices you make do influence the story but if you have half of a brain it's easy to make the right ones. Writing is not the greatest but since I'm a huge fan of reluctance, corruption and innocence in porn games I must rate this game with 5 stars even though 3,5 to 4 stars would more realistic rating.
I hope that writing will pick up as the game development continues but even as it is, this game is absolutely "my cup of tea".

This game is average to poor.

The renders are good, the models are ok, veering a but too much into just a boob fetish game

The writing is also ok, except that there are two protagonists and you're not going to relate with both, so it feels just like an ntr game which really pulls it down

I remember playing the original, and while I liked it, it was also crazy frustrating to play with all the grinding and doing things in the right order... all the worst of a sandbox. IDK, I guess I was expecting more being in Ren'py, but the dialogue is worse and the characters are all still as unlikable. I think I was hoping for more of a reimagining. Taking the good and making it playable, but instead it is just the same crap in a new wrapping.

Granted, when this first came out, it was pretty good, but AVNs have come so far since then and this just seems to be sticking to the past with little to no improvement.

If you were hoping for something that held true to the original, then you might like this, otherwise not much new to see here.

On a positive, the dev does seem talented and the images look much better than the original, so I am hoping this game sees some success.

Loved the original, but this feels like a novel... The first one had agency... you had to figure out what to do, and when you did you were rewarded. This is basically on rails. Not going to miss anything.

The graphics are behind the current standard too. Just looks like a rip of the old game.

Sandbox? Not really. There is only 1 person available usually.

I would still love to see a true Sandbox with better visuals.

Interesting start.

Found that both characters work/school are very easy to max out except for first week.

Graphics are good. Dialogue is good. Story has the potential to be good.

Things to hope to see:
- Son/Father sharing
- Rating system for father (son has one on how the girls feel.
- A way to get with the Au Par for father that does seem so sleezy.
- Some way of knowing an event is being repeated and no new content

Normally stay away from anything with Sandbox tag as they all have issues disconnecting story from audience by forcing endless advancing time and checking everything to see if any more story actually available.