VN - Ren'Py - Jason, Coming of Age [v1.7.1-s] [CoeurDeCochon]

80% of assets are AI, files are also encrypted with some retarded extension so you are forced to slog trough a game if you want to fap to pics, or replay the whole game in case you missed a scene and skip function is locked, presumably to make it a paid function later

I really love the mix between video and renders, it really makes the game stand out. There are some story may be a bit generic, but the overall atmosphere and love interests make up for everything. I really love the fact that there is a great diversity in body types of the love interests.
highly recommend this one, can’t wait for the next episode.

Okay, just a heads up, this is a complete rewrite of my review and a downgrade from 3 to 2 stars.

i played this one awhile back, couldnt remember all to much and so was a sorta, fresh take. alot of changes and stuff i remembered and some i didn't. it ended and i wrote my review. however afterwards it was niggling me, stuff i now remember but wasn't in the version 1.7.1.
so dug into my archives and found the old version i played, 0.11.1. played that one again.

and i was right, ALOT has been removed, the main story has gone backwards and not forwards. alot of scenes removed entirely. the start of the game is infact different. now to be fair to the DEV, theAI remake of this game, as thats what it is. has added a whole new game start, more backstory to add a whole slew of new chars, but at the same time has cut alot of content on the main story as result. not a fan of this, why these ones can't be added later i dunno.

so onwards....

the Dev has clearly gone back and done a remake of the story, injecting AI everywhere. now i can get behind AI in these games, if used properly and smartly. and to be fair, the DEV has, remaking and having the AI from the start helps alot, rather than adding later or just small sections throughout. i really think this AI is gonna be the norm.
saying that, AI is still janky, the changes and consistency is still not perfect, but good enough.
the UI and overall look of the game has been greatly enhanced from the older version. though i feel the writing and dialog has taken a change, maybe AI writen aswell, it feels forced and far more crude than it needs, while at the same time, trying to be fluent and elegant. its a weird combo.

alot of music added and it goes well with the scenes and chars its linked to.
at teh same time alot of bloat has been added, the older version did have these little moments of clicking a char or something to get an image etc... but in this newer one, thats been cranked up alot. clicksfor AI posters, panty hunts and little secret AI shots. its far more distracting than helpful, well to me anyway.

if it was a fresh play of this game, i honestly would be at the 3/4 stars. but having played an older version and the amount of time this game has been developed, the amount of cut content and the backwards nature of the main storyline, nah. sorry its a downgrade definitely. no matter how much i like the new UI and overal feel, the decent music and much smarter injection of AI.
the remake and reversal of the story has left a bitter taste for me.

so its a 2 stars from me, my opinion of it, from playing both versions.

to a new player fresh. i highly recommend you play it, as its now well polished, i can see the game going far, i just don't know how long its going to take the DEV, to get the new version back to same point in the story, as the old one.

But good luck to the DEV, it is coming along nicely.

Visuals: Good for the most part but the overuse of AI makes them look weird at points. An easy example is where Lexi is talking in the dinner and there are two different renders and the only difference is some AI weirdness on her face.

Audio: Lots of different music but changing songs so constantly within scenes is just annoying.

Story: Decent "going out on your own" story.

Opinion: Was a lot better in the past before the dev decided to add all of the AI slop to it. Some use of AI to make things better would have been interesting but it's so overboard that it detracts from the experience. Especially since the ability to skip things is blocked at the start.

Realistic looking characters, good sound with music but it's boring to play

From the start you should allocate your stats and there are many of them. You think it's an epic story with many paths, cool girls, leveling and so on but then you look at many ai generated posters with all that slanting eyes and so on with a mass of worthless text, thoughts of main hero and empty talk. Also there are very annoying and frequent tips with a lot of text. Very intriguing and interesting /s.
Then texting with your first lis with another mini-game or what was that with camera? And what for? Who knows. And these questions arise during playthrough constantly.
Is it rpg with freeroam to earn money, leveling stats and get girls/poses? No
Is it vn with interesting plot and characters? Nope. I think text also was generated with ai. Cause you should have a talent to write so much uninteresting text.
Is it vn just for jerking? Nope, cause you will get tired before you reach your first blowjob from a whore.
And that was a moment when i dropped this game. Cause next scene was with some stalkering joker.
Man what is this game and what for?

Great game.
Was surprised how good the ai animations were.
Story jumps all over the place and introduces too many girl of a first episode imo.
I'm just suspicious its not going to go anywhere considering its 4 year old game and hasn't made much progress story wise.

Too much terrible AI instead of good animations. I hope the developer will either ditch the AI or at least use it less in the future, as this is the biggest downside of the game. But the character renders and the music are excellent.

So far it is a really good game, the MC has a item that makes him irresistible
to women, the women look good overall and the animation is top notch. I like how you can make the women have hairy pussies.

Art renders. 9/10
Characters. 9.5/10
Story. 9/10
Animation. 10/10
Sex. 9.5/10 needs more anal and did not find any rimjobs.

Meandering story, bogged down with poor planning. Just the sheer number of LIs is crazy, so my money is on this never going anywhere in my lifetime.

It's a shame because the production quality is high, renders and music are great.

Game is never getting released. Been in development for years and is still barely 5% complete after countless promises. Abandoned the android version after promising for a shitter stream version that is less functional.

This game has great art, great music, but it's unfocused and doesn't value the player's time.
The author seems to disperse themself over too many characters, which is confusing for the player. The first half of the first episode throws at you several very flirty and sexy characters; Elise, Evelyn, Nicole, Rosie... and then goes nowhere with them, and instead the second half summons a new set of characters. Why?

The game has way too much going on at the same time, too many characters,flirting scenes that are too long, subsystems whose use is unclear... It really feels like it needs an editor.

I'm a gamer who values narratives above all else and Jason - Coming of Age doesn't do a terrible job of creating a low fantasy story arc. However, it is subverting expectations in a way that is not feasible if you want to tell an epic journey. What starts out as a romcom turns into a fantasy novel without much of a twist. It just kind of meanders to a point where increasingly supernatural things happen without anyone wondering why.

Essentially that disenfranchises people who started playing Jason because of the initial premise and doesn't move things along quick enough for those seeking fantasy.
Also, at some point the developer integrated AI transitions that do look pleasing to the eye but they are still glaring because of AI's inconsistency. Movement flows between realistic to uncanny in a couple of seconds. Facial properties slightly change while they move from point A to B to point C.

The story is very disconnected in the beginning and when the initial payoff finally arrives you've kind of settled for different love interests already. The final moments are less impactful depending on your previous choices and LIs. The lack of railroading could be freedom, but it doesn't work when you have an LI in mind to progress the plot.

That's mainly a storytelling issue. The lack of focus early on makes you care less in the end, because nobody ever told you that you should care about this or that person specifically. So you have invent a cheesy line like (((SPOILER - "don't touch my harem" to achieve an emotional breaking point. Otherwise it wouldn't make much sense to feel so strongly and sacrifice so willingly for a street whore, does it?" - /SPOILER)))

But I don't expect developers on F95 to write creative masterpieces, so that's not a reason for me to deduct a star. It's just something to look out for as the story progresses. This visual novel lacks tension and that is mainly due to bad storytelling. So while I enjoy the visual, artistic side of things and am not terribly judgemental when it comes to the overall narrative, I strongly believe that Jason needs some serious focus or it risks to become an average experience.

Good animated art.

Decent enough story.

Fucking slow progress just building up like bush or branching out like a tree rather than advancing further.

I think i had a download 2 years ago. Or one. Either way, the latest download regressed in plot a little....

Maybe full story in 5 years if this does not drop? Or maybe that even is super kind and conservative

I played it for the first time a year or two ago. I didn't like MC and game flow but I hoped for the best. My second try to play this game was even shorter.
It's hard to believe but the dev made it worse than it was.
Visuals were OK and dev decided to make it even better. A good try but not this time. AI mini-clips do not make this game better, after some time it becomes annoying. And considering the fact that dev does not hide the age of characters and tries to please everyone it's not only annoying but disgusting as well.
Porn part... I don't get to that so I can say nothing about it. Just an important thing: we will see women of old age on a different state of undress. And no, whatever we choose, we cannot escape that pictures. From my first playthrough I was sure there was a porn scene with young adult girl in the game but I not played till that moment.
Gameplay. User interface became much worse, we cannot skip unread text, like at all, only if we read it before. Saving and loading game became significantly less comfortable, with unneeded story flow on upper half of a screen. I turned sound off in the settings but still see notifications which song is playing now (music is off but songs are playing, yeah). But I would ignore all that if text was enjoyable. So now about the main problem of a game.
At first, I need to say I played in Russian. And translation to Russian is really good. Maybe it's not a translation but original language, I don't know really. But Russian language is the only good thing I can say about the game.
Alas, it doesn't save the game from being a failure. Dev asked us who we want to play (including orientation), what kinks we like, how much body hair we like and if we like big or small boobs but all these questions means nothing. Because they change nothing. Dev already decided that MC is a horny teenager who wants to fuck everyone he sees (yeah, even his male friend). It's the personality of MC and we can do nothing about it. And honestly, it's disgusting to read, MC and his friend are like Beavis and Butthead, the same level of intellect and the same horniness. And it's only part of disgusting things in the game. Dev wrote a scene - players must see this scene. It doesn't matter if they don't like grandmas and don't find anything even remotely sexual in a sexual harassement scene when woman looking 60+ harass 20 years old young man - players must see this scene. No matter what they choose - that grandma is LI and players can only choose more or less direct approach. Forced LI is not good but in this game it's a normal thing we see time and time again.
In conclusion, all the bad things from my first try are still there and now they are not alone. There's no hope for this game.

This game feels like it's gone through hundreds of versions. Almost every time, the plot is completely changed.

I finished the last version, but this one took me 10 minutes to become tedious, with tons of AI videos. Then they force first-time players to not fast-forward—is that just a blatant attempt to show off?

So I uninstalled it. I don't find watching static images turned into AI videos enjoyable at all; I'm already tired of it.

How many more times does this game need to be remade, honestly? Has there ever been an update that simply added content and allowed old save files to be used? Instead of each update forcing players to start over?

Music is fantastic. Renders are top notch. Story is so much fun to read. The lewd scenes are ridiculously hot. I played the original version and this rework is 1000 times better. I will be closely watching for the next release.

TL; DR
Very unusual and very hit or miss product.

Wonderful techno demo of modellers and animators skills.
Terrible AVN.
Devs added to the game all the cool features they could think of.
Collectible easters, RPG-like stat system, QTE events.
Why?
Obviously, because they could.
Somewhere in the process usability of the product dies, but when did it matter for the demo product?
It's the 1st time I see AVN with so much tips explaining to me all the cool features and how to transiton between different screens and modes.
Since when do we need a manual for a porn AVN?
On the positive side, visually its real real good.
Devs definitely saw real human beings, thus all characters in the gamer look like actual people with photorealistic quality, not default DAZ models with super models proportions and plastic skin.
On the negative side, simply couldn't load the save from the previous day.
It was there, it just couldn't be loaded.
Very nice kinks variety, but quantity of content that has been in development for 4 years is not promising.
Definitely give it a try if you don't mind somewhat over complicated interfaces and menus, glacial pacing and meh writing.
If not fhe graphical side it would be 3/5.

Great Graphics and story. Immersive story. Love the multiple pathways. Worth Trying out. Can't wait to see more updates and future content. So far this game is worth the time. Everyone should give it a try.

Absolutely excellent game! Especially in a part of animations. Have not seen a such the realistic renders and animations in the porn games with hairy pussies (btw pubic hair is optional). Natural women rule! I recommend this game.

revolutionary animation and finally the first developer to learn how to work with AI. I would appreciate a translation into Czech, but the game is still great. The story is branched so you can play it again and again and the game will entertain you for many hours. I believe that you will not be able to get enough of the great visuals. Each character is unique. I recommend❤