VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - It's a New World Out There [v0.33] [Flamecito]

Would be higher if there was more, shame it was abandoned. I really liked the game and was curious where the story was headed.
Not the best quality ether look wise or game play wise, and with an incomplete story I can't recommend it

A super fun game that includes everyone's favorite fetish (the one from the Folger's commercial.) It's sexy, hot, does not take itself too seriously and the models are okay. Really great to see, I hope the dude comes back and finishes it sometime.

Came for the boobs, but god damn, I enjoyed the story 8/10 would play the game for 6h straight again.
The ending (002) ... was interesting.
Didn't have much to fuck tho, but then gain it had more of a 'darker' tone

Man all concepts and ideas brought up in the game....I swear I studied them once, this was actually good like holy cow man...I am pretty sure I will join your patreon sooner or late thanks for everything in this game

Zombie apocalypse with no real zombies, and no real apocalypse either.

It reads like a very flat romantic comedy. Characters have no personality, they are scatterbrained and like to engage in mindless, utterly uninteresting banter.

So no horror, but no comedy either. It Is 'in the middle of everything'. Like kneading plasticine blending all the colors together into a huge brown blob.

I don't know about the sex scenes, because at that point I just don't care.

Avoid like a *true* plague

Been a min since I played. Came back to check for updates and decided to drop a review.

While I can understand why its not for everyone, I love it. Was generally annoyed with reaching the end of the route ive taken. Even though I think the only sexual encounter i had was a blowjob, maybe it was a handjob? No matter.

If you dont care about reading a lot of dialogue, and just getting to the sex scenes, this is certainly not for you.

It's not a bad game i'd say.
Not for all, definetely.
But it would be so much better one i think, if dev take all the time he used on Hiehie & all that brain breaking dialogs and puted it into those two perfect yound ladies mc had lived in bunker with...

The game started really good and the dialogs often make you laugh out loud. But unfortunately it seems that during the development the author got upset about the new Patreon rules that were forced on him and the game took a turn in a completely wrong direction. While progressing through the story it feels like you throw everything away at some point and start a completely different game which is really sad because it had such a promising start.

First this game is not finished yet, Second the developer is hit by Hurricane Maria and said the his region is cut off from connection of internet.
So perhaps for now you can call it is a bit messy. But not bad game.

Mind you , This is not a Good game for anyone who :
Looking for immediate, straight, sudden , sex scene.
People who don't like zombie setting.
People who don't like reading more text with a bit philosophy and comedy in it.

BUT, if you had time , looking for entertaiment in general (not just looking for porn)
This game must i say is great and surely had potential.
If you like apocalypse theme it is good, if you are "reading generation" , like you just okay reading something worth your time then this game is good. Surely worth my time and hopefully yours.
The story it self unique, the main object of story is the sibling which the relationship name is free to change and there is 2 main faction which led by female whom the "persona" is contrast, nicely written. A psycho, leading , commanding VS soft, caring, reserved girl.
What are you going to be, what kind of relation you have is on your call, though no sexual intercourse is implemented yet, but this kind of thing surely will give you a choice affecting sex scene in future update.

To sum it up, if you want a material for fast masturbate , this game as for v0-23 update it will give you nothing as far as a blowjob scene, and many nudes.
But if you like me, entertained by the story itself, the beauty of the characther then i said download it, and give it a try !
I appreciate the game as i saw it is as visual novel, not pornhub or click-direct sex game.

I think, as is explained in the game at one point, that due to flamecito's experiences as a Puerto Rican in the time since the Hurricane hit, that the game diverted a lot from what was originally intended.
Right now porn plays only a very small, almost non-existent part of the game (unless you count the nude hiehie as porn, which I don't, nudity alone isn't porn).

Who knows how the other routes will play out, maybe it will return to more conventional porn game lines, maybe it won't.

If you are willing to read through the really verbose spilling there is a lot of humour and philosophical musings and just plain weirdness in there, which definitely made it worth playing for me.

(Though I admit I skipped through quite a bit of text here and there and stopped when I came to parts I found interesting).

I would like to give the game more than three stars, but it is a bit of a mess and definitely fails as a porn game.

I will try to keep this review as short as possible...

The beginning of the game starts with an usual zombie outbreak. Hide in bunker with step sisters for years, out to get food when running low. Then the story goes out of whack! The game turn into long boring conversations with 6 to 9 characters till either of the 2 endings.

The salvaging to trade for food and repairs don't feel like it really mattered except to get the story going using more even longer and boring dialogs. What's the romancing of the female characters for?? Answer is nothing. The dialogs are way too long and the weird story line get weirder and weirder.

I think most players will quit halfway with that massive clicking to get past the long needless dialogs. It tries too hard having everything in the story and nothing works.

Avoid unless massive revamped in story and reduction of needless story branching.

This review is based on Ver 0.10b

Turn off your brain when you play this game.

Ever heard of the term "ludonarrative dissonance"?
"Ludonarrative dissonance is the conflict between a video game's narrative told through the story and the narrative told through the gameplay."
What the game presents to us is a guy capable of surviving years inside a bunker with his sisters, which only intelligent people would have the mental capability to do, and he also is pretty strong because of his exercises.

On the actual gameplay, the MC is mentally retarded. And I use "mentally" before "retarded" because he's actually retarded. He's so slow, dense, dumb, gullible, naive and clueless that it causes me physical pain and severe seizures.
I want a dollar for every time the MC uses the lines "What?", "Why?" and "What do you mean?". He also uses so much "..." at the start/end of sentences that you might as well replace everything he says with "Huuuhhhhhhhhh huuhhhhh??? Huuhh!."
He honestly reminds me of Fallout when you play with a low intelligence character sou you become a neanderthal.
Remember when I said he's strong? Yeah, he isn't. He literally dies with one punch, and he's always afraid of something or someone.
Another dissonance is when your character makes a long and beautiful monologue, but when it comes to actual people he's the same (this is literally a sign of autism).

The reason why this is such a big part of my review is because this is the MC we're talking about, not some secondary character. The difference between this game and almost every other adult game ever created, is that the others don't lie to you about your character. They're at least honest that you're going to play with a dumbass.

The game apparently is self aware of this, when characters make fun of him for being naive, easily manipulated, and dumb in general, but this would be very funny if the MC wasn't so dense for 100% of the fucking time, and if something actually bad happened to him for being like this, but no. You blindly trust a psycho because she has a pair of tits, but nothing happens.
I honestly think the tag "female domination" would be appropriate here, but it's a mental domination rather than a physical one. But again, who wouldn't mentally dominate this slug?

About the other characters, all of them are super cliché except the zombie dude (Mighty Mack). The younger sister is a whore, the older sister is the classic mother type, we then have a Harley Quinn split between two characters (Eliza and Violet), a zombie girl with almost no personality, you get the idea.

The models are nothing special also. The lighting is poor, which combined with the texture makes it almost impossible to see a pussy if it's not close-up.

The world is limited as fuck. The grind is easy but still repetitive. "Get certain number of this, get this scene", so your "choices" are only the difference between game over and continuing the game.

Also, have you ever heard of "Show, don't tell"? The dev clearly hasn't. When he got too lazy to actually develop characters, he just made the succubus explain the girls one by one, spoiling everything about them. Everything was revealed and you didn't even get to flirt with them. Simply underwhelming. At that point I never felt so tempted to close a game in my life, but I kept strong.

If you're not like me and you simply want some porn, just skip the dialogues, and even so you'll still have to wait a long time for anything to happen.

I initially thought 1 star would be too harsh, but at this point I simply don't know WHAT is this game. You think it's trying to be comedic with the MC being so stupid, but then some interesting plot or situation is happening and the MC's stupidity gets in your way of experiencing anything good. Is it supposed to be serious or funny? Believe me, "both" is not an answer if you're trying to create something good. Being dumb is not a trait, it's an annoyance.

Have in mind that I didn't finish the game. I'm sorry, I simply couldn't. However, if all of this SUDDENLY changes, then that's another problem. You can't simply CHANGE things on an ongoing project. It's like replacing the tires of a car while it's moving. It breaks the immersion and creates plot holes. But honestly I doubt that's the case.

SPOILER WARNING

The dev on this game lives in Puerto Rico, and after Hurrican Maria ended up taking a big hiatus before returning to the project. As a result of this though, there is a very big difference between the parts of the game written before and after the hiatus.

The first half of the game is a fairly typical porn game, albeit in a slightly more unique setting. Taking place in a post zombie apocalypse, our main character lives with his two (step)sisters and has help his family survive, navigating a tightrope between two hostile factions. One, a group of ruthless survivors, and another a group if intelligent zombies.

Naturally, each of the two groups are lead by a hot girl, the main characters sisters are hot and also attracted to him, and HUD interface clearly shows a "lust" and "love" stat for all female characters in the game.

Anyone who's played these type of games knows where this is going. The zombies and the setting aside, genre convention tells us that our MC will go around doing some fetch quests, having dialogue, raising the various love/lust stats which will eventually unlock sex with all the female characters in game.

But then we get to the second part of the game, and things go a bit weird. The game gets meta-textual, and basically pulls a Doki Doki Literature Club situation on us where some of the characters acknowledge and become aware of the fact that it's a game.

There is even a segment where one character very blatantly acknowledges that this sudden tone shift is due to events in real life (ie. Hurricane Maria devastating PR).

This ultimately ends up being to the detriment for this particular game and story. A meta-textual, 4th wall breaking story can work. Plenty of other stories have done it, but that was not where this story was originally intended to go.

All of the plot threads from the first half of the story, the tension between the two factions, the hints of government conspiracy, the half dozen female characters who you've been building relationships with... all of that is just tossed to the wayside in the second half of the story. It pretty much turns into a whole different game.

There are two endings in the game, but they only serve as endings to the 2nd half of the game. That is to say, they wrap up the plot elements introduced in the post-hurricane story.

The elements from 1st half, the part that is more compelling, are forgotten. It remains to seen if this can be salvaged, or if this will just end up a zombie of a game, limping along as a shell of its former potential.

Interesting story, sisters looks fine. it would be great if the dev could make less conversation tho. Sometimes the convo seems too long. Maybe add other personal stats and story choices to make the game more alive. Good game overall with room for improvements. Looking forward for the update.

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 v0.018b...

Originally Reviewed on 12/03/2017

Well, the story was cool and there were many funny parts, but as soon as the story part was pretty much over and the grind began, the game became tedious...

The randomness of when the events occur after you begin the Salvage/Food grind was slow and boring... Not enough to keep your interest... Tis a bit of a let down to go from a comical story with nice visuals to a slow grind with very little story, or at least piece-mail story bits...

I hope to see a lot more story elements added along with other scenes and so on, but for now it feels very unfinished, which is a shame as it showed so much promise up to till the grind part...

UPDATE - The author/s live in Puerto Rico, which was hit hard during hurricane season... For the time being there is no telling if this project will continue or not, only time will tell...

Flamecito, Has provided us a new style of game here allows the MC to become a hero to all and save his family.

Everyone should check this game out, action, comedy, and Lust. This will not be a waste of time..

Promising start, with a fairly unique take on the zombie apocalypse. Why these reviews require two hundred characters, I'll never understand.

Simply prevents me from giving a review, most of the time.

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