VN - Ren'Py - Intertwined [v0.13] [Nyx]

Never played this until now (v0.5) and I almost hate myself. Best graphics - no, best animations - no, but that is to not say they are not top notch. The story and the cleverness in the plot is one of the best things I've seen on this site. The models are gorgeous and not overdone (imo) and the story is fairly believable - intertwined (perfect name for this one) - which is fairly rare in this genre. I was totally blown away. Dev earned a patron today... wonderful VN!

I played this game starting with version 0.5 so enough content to keep my interest.
For me a really good game with really nice renders, great story twists and fun
Looking forward to the next update

First rate game, well worth a play through. Great character models, top notch story, in legible English no less, plenty of scenes with good variety. What more do you need? Two thumbs up, highly recommend.

My Rating for this Game is:

Pros:
+ Graphics Great
+ Characters Great
+ Great Story
+ Long Playing time
+ Hot Sex
+ No Grinding
+ Fantastic Animation

Cons:
- Nothing

Conclusion:
Nice Story, not that much text wanting you to skip, Great Animation, love the Story,just like watching a movie,I just cant get enough of it, could continue with this without taking a break.
Would give this game 10 Stars if I could, the Only problem I,m having with this game is to decide which girl to take.....decisions decisions....

Overall:
A Nice Story, Great Characters.
Definitely worth the Download.

This game was a pleasant surprise pick up for me. Good characters, good writing, and pretty good renders with acceptable animations. Highly recommend if you are into more down to earth grounded stories.

top 3 games i ever played on this site! hands down just got to the end of chapter 5 and honestly the makers deserve all the support they can get and tenfold, very deep story which makes you connect with each of the characters as well a pretty complex MC who has layers.

a really good story and great character development, an interesting story. With many plot twist that makes me can wait for the next installment of the story. So many choices of love interest in this story, I have gone form loving a character to hate them and to vise versa.

Review at V0.5.

This is good. Totally forgot that I was playing a porn game.
Didn't skip dialogue at all, and that is rare when it comes to me and the games on this site.

Beautiful renders, but more than anything there characters are interesting, and the drama captivating.

This was a very pleasant surprise.

Good story, with great build ups nicely spaced out. Before you realized it there's a bit of a mystery involved. There is intelligence to the writing--showcasing a bit of the human element to the story. I like that.

The family dynamics are great too, with some witty dialogs. Some good comic relief with the bartender, Dylan, too.

Overall, the models are good, with Alexis and Eryn being super hot in my opinion.

Can't wait for more!

Good graphics and story build-up, the game has a lot of potential in story as well as character relation just the animations and sound are not up to the mark. Animation can be more better rather than loops. Still 5/5

Intertwined is in my opinion a really good game wuth a nice and not set up stroy.

No forced sex scene, every scene makes scense and is well explained.

Character are really good looking and there is a big variety of women.

Alexis seems a little bit off renderwise.

But all in all it's of course no perfect game but it has a really good telled story and is also really well made. The Renders are nice the places are well designed and almost every character looks really good.
There are some old women (milf's) its not my taste but its in the game for those who are looking for this.

Hope the review isn't hard to read english is not my main language
sorry in advance

I absolutely love this game, it just sucked me in from the start. The story has been very enjoyable, the chars are great and the graphics are excellent. It`s become my favorite VN at the moment.
There`s enough love interests to cause some jealous rivalries with our handsome hunk.
I cannot wait to see where the story goes with this...

The college feel also adds some nice drama to the family stuff. Dev has done some amazing work with this

The character design is great. Girls are well proportioned. Story is believable and the variety of girls should cover everyone's liking. The best games are the ones when I can't decide which girl I want to go for.

Tbh, I had high hopes when downloading this game..but was rather disappointed with a very dull approach to the story. The story feels very laggy , like its being held behind and hasn't really took off. There isn't much story progression in the mom's / neighbor's part. I played the game last night and don't even remember a thing about it this morning because all the main characters are held back while side characters are being used more frequently, Like when the MC keeps going to the bartender chick for meaningless sex. The other stepsister arc hasn't been well implemented either.
Ffs, The download size has reched 2.5 GB and there isn't any worthwhile content to keep the viewer glued to. My suggestion to the dev is to ditch the side characters / school stuff and focus on the main story for some time.

Edit: Just completed version 0.7, and holy hell... it's still one big mess of a game. Feels more like speed dating.. Jumping character to character without any significant progression.

Reviewing: ver. 0.06

You play as a young man who came back home after 5 years to your home town. Your parents were divorced and you spent some time living with your father abroad along with his new wife and two same age daughters. Coming home you attend school and get to know several lovely ladies.

-The plot is simple and straightforward at first glance however, dialogue with the characters suggests that a lot of people are hiding secrets or bits about themselves from you such as part time jobs, being secretly related or knowing another character and so on. There are some choices to be made but I do not know whether or not these choices are significant and alter the story or even raise affection due to there being no indicator, but so far seem to allow you to play different versions of scenes or make them play out in different order.

- Mc attracts girls as naturally as he breathes and 99 percent of the girls all want him, which is not everyone's cup of tea. In sum, a pleasant surprise with a bit more depth than expected, overall a great straight forward chick magnet game with great looking girl models and graphics.

Intertwined v0.4

-SUMMARY:
Intertwined is one of those rare games where you, the player quickly connect with the Main Character (MC). The fact that the game is mostly NOT in POV view as many games in the genre, this takes the "third person view" and is done quite well and with great affect.

The backstory leading up to the game gets established when we learn that literally every important person in the MC's life has failed him in some way or another. Either cruel, unkind, or insensitive which left scars. After getting kicked out by his mother to live with his father at the age of 13, then years later moving back with his mother because of a dramatic change in his father's household, puts the MC back where he started: in his hometown to live with his mother, resuming his old life, five years later, now a senior in High School.

This backdrop becomes foreshadowing because of the nature of most of his relationships as the game progresses.

-QUALTIY RENDERS (10):
The visuals in this game are topnotch. Only a handful of games in this format match the quality of Nyx's work here. Nyx's use of lighting, shading, and color were, quite frankly, genius. The characters and scenery are similarly beautiful, owed primarily to Nyx's masterful use of lighting, shading, and color. Scene locations we've seen before in other games just look fabulous here. Even character models we've seen before elsewhere that looked good or okay, look positively stunning here (Alexis). Fantastic.

-CHARACTER DESIGN (9.5):
This is purely subjective on my part. Please bare that in mind.
All of the women were quite lovely. When you load up the game, you get treated to a marquee-like view of all the women in the game, handsomely done. I took the time to pick out my favorites from the Main Menu before starting the game. Then, being familiar with the genre, guessed that one or both of them will somehow become "unattainable." As always, in this matter I turned out to be remarkably accurate as BOTH girls I decided were most attractive to me indeed became Unattainable in the storyline. In this format, the prettiest girls will be lesbians who don't like men, your sister, killed, or moved to a different country. It's the thing...and yes...it drives me nuts. The more immersive the game, the more likely this will happen in my experience.

I only have 2 minor cosmetic complaints. 1) One Fugly girl. Yes...I'm one of those guys that find tattoos, boyish hair, and facial piercing on women to be unattractive (like vandalizing the Mona Lisa). 2) Most girls have overly thick lips. Some have oddly textured lips (like Elena and Alexis). A few have weird-looking "duck lips" (like Layla), but that is easily overlooked because everything else is amazing. Though most girls have the same general body type, none of them are extremes in bust or hip size either small or large. More variation would have been nice, but I think Nyx just wanted to take pains to avoid the now clique, cartoonishly big boobed/butted women that most games in this format have.

-CHARACTERIZATION

THE MAIN CHARACTER (10): As a Player, I found this guy to be likeable and relatable. This guy isn't a rampaging sexual degenerate as some games portray. He's just a guy with thoughts and feelings most of us have without feeling creeped out by him. One reviewer here complained that the MC should be more of a "pervert". I strongly disagree. In the most successful games here (the ones with the highest ratings and most active threads) the MC feels like YOU. If playing the MC feels like you're looking over the shoulder of a twisted psychopath, or is a malicious, hateful person, you cannot connect (unless you are that rare twisted hateful person). Not this game. The MC feels like you, so when he experiences an emotion, you share it with him. Very well done.

THE GIRLS (5): Now, all the characters...I'm serious...ALL the characters except TWO (one girl, and his buddy Zach) are assholes. Seriously. I feel so sorry for the MC. He lives in a universe where every sentient being, including friends, loved ones, and strangers frequently, actively, and mercilessly treat him like crap. Trapped in an abusive universe where every thing in existence wants to hurt or shame me, I found it challenging to actually like...well...anybody except for one of the girls (which has an unspoken secret that I'm sure will end up being a some kind of personal attack). Zach is not particularly interesting as the overused, stereotypical friend with no filter or boundaries. One girl tricked me. At first, she was friendly, funny, flirty, and sexy. And just when I decided I would focus on her...BOOM, a mean and malicious bully out of the blue. The MC gets ignored, abandoned, beat up, pushed, bullied, humiliated, insulted, yelled at, belittled, used, and abused every day, all day, all the time. With only one refuge from the abuse, I grew irritated and worn out by the viscous and unfriendly world. I quickly grew to dislike those mean women, but the game would not let me pull away from them, which I found unpleasant. This is my strongest critique of the game. I am truly not interested in all but one of the girls because of their ugly personalities.

-STORY (7):
Nothing original about this. High school/College age guy moves back home to go to school so you can put all the girls in one place. Nothing new. The one original element was quickly ignored and discarded (see below). A good thing is that so far EVERY character the game has introduced has some internal subplot going. All of them. This is usually revealed with hints showing a brief glance into their thoughts. Nyx does this rather cleverly, and in fact, the "pattern interrupt" of the dialogue with brief glimpses into the thoughts of the characters and the MCs creates a very smooth and entertaining flow to the story. Nyx's writing style is excellent but the game will feel very familiar if you've played games of this format before.

There was one plot hole or error where a girl meets the MC at the Club. Next day she introduces him to her sister who states "Is this the guy you told me about from last night?" Later in the game there is a whole scene about how the sister is shocked and surprised that she met the MC at the Club.

-SUBPLOT (2):
As I said, every living being in this universe except the MC, Zach, and one girl is a total jerk. Some characters literally inflicted trauma on the character in early life that left scars. The existence of those scars hung in the air as the storyline proceeded. The anticipation of that necessary and dramatic confrontation with two characters in particular that traumatized the MC...were ignored and discarded as if they never happened as soon as he met them in-game. "Wait...What???" I tried every option I could, but nope...life changing scars from the past were never brought up and ignored. It's not being drawn out for dramatic effect because the anticipation is GONE. The drama forgotten. I was very much looking forward to these scenes but they never happened. Even if they are brought up again in later installments, it's too late. The fire...the emotions that drove me to want to click to the next slide...have been extinguished. In one case the narrative actually made the MC weakly apologize upon meeting the person that tore his heart out. They hugged once...Best Buds. Two choices were given to "Forget it" or "Not let it go" (a weak kind of, "I'll get you back" thing). Both had the same results: One Hug...Trauma Forgotten...Best Buds. Extremely disappointing. A two great storytelling opportunities were lost with a fizzle.

-DIALOGUE (3):
The format was great. I loved the use of color to distinguish between the characters, and dialogue flowed very well. Nyx even threw in a few creative pauses which was cool. My complaint is that every, and I do me every line of dialogue in the story had a grammatic error of some sort. For example, every sentence (except a couple that I noticed) in the game used TWO PERIODS (..) instead of ONE PERIOD (.) at the end of sentences. In English, Two Periods isn't a thing. There were several spelling error (like one "confortable"), and several grammar errors. A good script editing before the next release would benefit the game tremendously. As an active reader and writer, I found the frequent errors distracting from the story.

-CONCLUSION (4 STARS):
Visually the game is absolutely stunning. The story was unoriginal and nothing we haven't seen before has happened. You cannot help but "feel like you are there" since Nyx made the MC so relatable. But it's that empathy with the character which drives home it's hardest flaw: Everyone is mean to the MC. A couple of interesting emotional conflicts that were important to the storyline were ignored and discarded, which was jarring and disappointing. With not much story here with the major subplots discarded, I'm not sure where the story will take us in the future apart from a series of "things that happen."

Overall, the good outweighs the bad. This game is recommended despite it's flaws.

Absolutely fantastic, one of the best in a while. So many models, so many sub-plots, no fluff/filler stuff. I don't feel like I need a walkthrough or points system, things are kind of natural, choice-wise.

So curious to see what happens if/when the girls find out about each other, the story has a lot of naughty excitement even without a ton of sex scenes so far.

[v0.5.5]

I just finished the game. I was looking forward to the update that had just arrived and I got what I wanted. I didn't get the opportunity to play the 0.5 update, but I can say I'm a little happy because the producer made additions to the past dialogues, I noticed this while playing and I can say it fits very well into the story. It is nice that producer made improvements retrospectively. The story of the game is written perfectly. It is really nice that each of the characters in the game are connected to each other. The game is really one of my favorites. If the animations are a step better, I can say that the game will not lack.

I am looking forward to the new updates to the game again, I hope the producer will not keep us waiting too

Now that there is more of the game I am starting to like the story. There are something things in the story that do seem like utter nonsense, but for the most part the story of how everyone seems to be connected to each other and ensuing revelations are good.


Yet another game that forces a relationship. You aren't really choosing any relationships. Try ignoring a character and the game pretends that you are in love.
Story is bad. Character models are alright, for the most part. Something is just really off. Can't quiet figure out what it was.

[Reviewed v0.4]

This game probably deserves something like 4.5 stars but I'll give it the benefit of the doubt as it continues to develop.

This game has one of the hottest collection of female characters currently in development. Yes, some of the models are familiar but Nyx has done a great job making each character individually attractive. The MC is also very good looking and makes the circumstances of him forming a near instant bond with every character a bit more believable.

The interactions between the MC and women in this game are well-constructed and thought out -- I'm genuinely interested in seeing where certain relationships go next.

The writing is generally good but the narrative is choppy -- there are big jumps between days and scenes in progressing the story. Having played v.04 some time after v.03, the change in time / place / context at the beginning of v.04 was especially confusing.