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

Man so tierd of stories getting ruined by forcing you to watch sex scenes with people you dont want to see sex scenes wtih, it dosent matter if its a dream or not, its so easy to add a wake up opton so players that dosent want to watch dont have to, its idiotic not to give that option.

Game then changes from a kinetic novel into a linear sandbox? its awfull truely, now your forced to be with prostitutes as well which is just not for me, chocies means nothing when you get 2 choices both leads to you fucking some random bimbo, game is purely a mindless fuckfest no more no less, some might like those type of games, but i find them pointless and boring and it goes without saying theres forced lesbian scenes without MC as well.

As for story its boring and bland, theres no realtionship build-ups since it goes stright to sex, so every sex scene in game will feel bland and emotionless since you never get to know them enough to ever care about them, might as well go to a porn site and watch animations it would save you alot clicking.

All the girls are also lesbians why? who knows maybe its due to MC being a simp so the girls are starting to the they are the male, in any case its just idiotic.

Girls are pretty decent but it all feels so meh when theres no emotions involved.

Animations are bad due to being very short and clicking once stops it and a ton of scenes arent even animated.

Choices, you might be able to turn one or two down but theres most are forced and you really arent in controle of anything.

Music is the only good part since it has lyrics, but music cant hold up a porn game on its own.

My honest take: The developer made up a really weird story about this MC who is clearly a simp for any pretty girl he's ever met. But this isn't a story about the MC hooking up with pretty girls--though occasionally it is--it's about the MC missing his chance with "the one."

In the prologue, the MC is interrupted by this girl who suddenly corners him and gives into the lust. This girl is Lynn, and she is--quite literally--the girl of his dreams. In fact, this experience with Lynn? Yeah, that's a dream sequence. The MC wakes up at the most inopportune time and is lulled back into the doldrums that are his life. He can't take it anymore, and you very first menu choice is to go hang out with his best friend that he's not spoken to in forever, Paolo, in Hawai'i... or end it all. I'm not kidding, that's the choice. Like... what the hell is this? Way to drop all of your baggage on us, we didn't ask for this shit... but okay, whatever. I guess we're going to Hawai'i.

Once he gets to Hawai'i, he hangs out with his best friend and another guy that's a buddy or acquaintance or whatever, we get very surface level introductions and that's it. Anyway, Paolo's rich. Did I mention that? No? Sorry, well I guess that's about the same way the developer drops this on us: Suddenly. Anyway, Paolo brings out the escorts for our MC and the other guy--he's so unimportant, I scarcely remember his name--and gives our MC a little blue pill to go longer and better. The escort says how much she loves what the MC is doing, says all sorts of affirmations--because repeat customers love affirmations as much as the sex--and how his girlfriend must be absolutely in love with him. Fun night had by all, moving on.

Next day, we get introduced to Lynn. She's here for a semester abroad. Did I mention she's the girl of our MC's dreams? Yeah, what a loser. Wait, did the MC just say that? Directly to the girl of his dreams?! Dammit MC, you're not supposed to actually come out and say that! MC why did you tell her you were a loser?! What is wrong with... wait what? Did she just reveal that she secretly had a thing for him, but she was too afraid to say anything? Wait, seriously? She would just sit and stare at him? The MC? The guy who is basically infatuated with this girl more than anyone--and we know how much of a simp he is, infatuation means he might stare a hole through her--and he didn't fucking notice?

Pardon me while I laugh. I can't take this shit seriously anymore.

I was trying. The faux sandbox is initially off-putting, but I was willing to work through that, and that actually got easier once I realized it was really a sandbox-on-rails--an oxymoronic term if ever there was one. No, that was no longer going to drive me away from this, but all the suspension of disbelief.

AND THE DEV, damn I forgot that. The DEVELOPER actually broke into the middle of the story with a quick intermission to ask how the player is enjoying the game and to tell us about the learning of DAZ and Ren'Py. I swear, I'm not making this up; this is too ridiculous to make up. Why would any developer ever self-insert in a meta way to ask meta things of their player base. I'm not saying a dev can't self-insert, but why can't you do this in the form of a Gary Stu or Mary Sue like everyone else. Why this "Notice me, Senpai" kind of stuff?

This was awful, and it's getting worse the longer I think and type so I'm going to stop here. 1 star.

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.