VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Lady In Blue [v1.0] [Sadge Games]

This game's rating is wild to me for the product provided. I understand that the developer has a deep emotional attachment to the game, so I'll try and list the positives and negatives in a constructive way. Unfortunately, there's more negatives than positives.

Positives: models are good, there's clearly talent there. If you want sex content, you'll find plenty too.

Negatives: Being emotionally resonant for the developer, doesn't mean it's well-written. Unfortunately, the dialogue is pretty mediocre. Incredibly stilted, very awkward and unnatural, in fact even the fact some people just randomly jump on you is so rushed and nonsensical. The juxtaposition of the attempt at anything meaningful with the completely random sex-starved characters is insane to me. I'd also like to add the music is incredibly overbearing.

This is supposed to be a COMPLETED product. If I had paid money for this, I would've rated it 1/5, but since it's free, I'll give it a 2/5 for the effort. I'd consider this a 3/10 at BEST.

Wonderfully relatable in a lot of ways. Touches on a lot of deep sadness and general depression. So while it is still a nsfw game it is definitely not strictly a porn game and has a lot of emotions involved

This is even less of a game than your typical VN, because it's completely on-rails and any decisions you make don't feel like they change anything at all whatsoever. Which makes you ask why they're even there??

The visuals are nothing like the screenshots in the OP gives you the impression of, most of them are terribly stilted and there's nothing that makes them feel alive.

The story was childish at best and didn't manage to grab me in the least. There is no build up to make me care about any of these characters, none of their thoughts or words feel like they are those of an actual, thinking adult.

IMO there's nothing here to warrant playing this. Save your time and do basically anything else.

I liked this story. There is a philosophical part. The life part.
Didn't even pay attention to the sex content.
The translation was a little difficult... But, that's in the beginning, when I got used to it, it became a lot easier to translate.
Anyway, I hope to post a full translation of this novel soon.

This game has heart. It's one of the VNs that try to tell an actual story with meaning. As a first project it's even outright sensational with pretty decent renders.

It's because of the story and very serious topic that I find it unfortunate that some of the usual porn tropes are not avoided, like everyone being totally bi and 100% open for group sex etc, it felt a bit out of place here. Also the MC acts like a complete creep sometimes when he installs a camera to spy on two women in a hotel room, this felt very out of place and out of character for the MC.

But other than that the VN is quite a unique experience even though the ending is not entirely unpredicatable. You will probably suspect something along the lines of the ending very early on, but that does not detract from the story. It can be very dark at times and it's certainly not always a happy-go-lucky wholesome fantasy about dating multiple women. If you are down or even depressed you may perhaps want to avoid this game.

And of course NEVER ever choose the red door, trust me, you don't want to do that. Be like Cipher in the Matrix, enjoy the steak instead!

+++Cathartic experience for me .
+++ Interesting & Fun Story, lots of inside references to other VNs on f95zone.
+++ Good renders
+++ Liked seeing the journey of the author.

+- Didn't really see the reality, but I did have a nagging suspicion throughout.

- A little bit of the writing seemed awkward, but it still worked overall.
- - A little too close to home for me.

Definitely worth the experience. Thank you.
4.5/5 (I opted for 5 due to the passion of the author, and the fact that depression really sucks.)

This game was over far too soon. I was enjoying the scenes and character development and then it was all over. The advancement of relationship with each girl is done at a nice, steady pace and there is good pay-off at the end. The renders are great and there enough variety in the scenes and locations to keep it interesting. Progressing through the game and scenes is very simple - just keep clicking and choosing the obvious choices.
I felt that there could have been more development and scenes with some of the side characters that were spotted at the gym and other locations as they all were tantalising. I hope for a sequel or an expansion!

Gorgeous renders. Sad and bitter-sweet story with the bold choice to follow the fragmented/ slice of life/ non linear structure of storytelling.
Animations has lots of room for improvement, but this is a great effort for the dev's first attempt at this.
I really hope to see more of his work in the future, really nice job.

Very Personal, meaningful story, with beautiful ladies and multiple ways to progress. I wish there was a way to follow all 3 sub stories through, but the option to have all 3 main ladies as yours is amazing, especially since they play nice together! To think that this was the dev learning how to use the tools, only makes me more excited for the next thing they create!

Thought this was overall a very well done game. I will say up front, I was not a huge fan of the way it ends, but it wasn't horrible.

The characters were well done and I felt the emotional connection. The graphics were very well done and definitely see potential there.

The main cons, for me, were pathing and the ending. More of a personal opinion, so don't take that away from the game.

Really solid for an initial VN. Look forward to more games from SadgeGames.

How hard it is to add an auto button. Seriously some games really try to prevent you from enjoying the game.
You just lie down and and relax reading a VN game. Instead, you have to click every fucking second. It's just really annoying.

Edit: I think I wasn't fair giving it 1* just because of "auto button". Since I don't know how to remove the review, I'll just make it 3* without playing it.

nice graphics and all, but I found it too real and sad to be enjoyable for my personal taste. The effort is quite good anyways, just that if someone is looking for mindless fun this is not for them I guess

Reasonable entry notable for a super hot milf character that I enjoyed unexpectedly. Not a ton of content and generally fairly linear as far as I can tell. I would say it's worth a run through. Probably not worth more than once or maybe twice in my opinion. Renders are decent.

Pretty nice renders
wholesome cover songs
some memes
harem ending, noice

a map that shouldnt be there but the dev wanted to try himself out on more than one occasion in this game
nonexistent plot, more like a slice of life ala spaghetti order of one life experience
sometimes cringey and the choices are weird

So... I played through most of it and I thought the renders were great and I don't want to say the story is bad because I am sure it is great at what it does but it was honestly just boring for me. I have had this game for about 3 weeks now and I generally just tried to skip through it because it wasn't interesting to me.

Best put I don't think this one was for me.

Story has depth and a twist. Clearly shows the struggles with which we must deal. Seldom do we think that other deal with similar struggles, but in truth many have very similar issues. Once we are more perceptive of others then we see we are not alone.

Great renders, on par writing. A much better game than most of the soulless cash grab garbage on here. This developer deserves more recognition. I hope he continues to put out great titles in the future.

A sexy emotional journey.

Lady in Blue has a broken protagonist, beaten by the bad choices he made early in life that drained all color from his current existence.

Maybe he should end it?

Luckily a friend from his past reaches out in his own need for a familiar soul and so begins your MC's fucking tale.

Very attractive models (shout out for Lyne, who reminds me of an 18 year-old Hermione Granger! So hot)

A robust soundtrack plays mostly unobtrusively in the background to pleasant effect.

The final sex scene on the yacht is long and fulfilling. Having the discovery of what went on during the European trip be revealed here was clever.

Negatives-

The map is kind of meh. It grounds the story in a beautiful tropical place but is unappealing in use.

Some of the sex scenes are kind of filler. The main 'girls' aren't along enough yet so there is a random tramp who contacts you somehow for a one-off. Not knocking sex scenes, but a couple were jarring in the emotional flow of the story. Not much of a negative, too much sex, but anyway.

Story begins with this sad, desperate vibe, which hangs out with you till the end. When u get the choice to take the black or red door (pill) i already knew how this it's going to end. I just wish, that there would be some hope for poor guy (Wouldn't mind some anal scene in harm way).

• 3 / 5 - story
• 4.5 / 5 - charecters
• 4.5 / 5 - graphic / renders / animstions
• 2 / 5 - choices

Overall score: 3.5

This is a unique game. I don't want to give the story away, but there is an unusual blend of happy times with kind and beautiful girls mixed with earnest thoughts on struggling with depression, loss, and regret. If you're ok with that as a concept, then this is an experience which is very much worth your time.