VN - Ren'Py - Lens Lust [v0.1] [Dreamveil]

  1. 3.00 star(s)

    RandyPhoenix

    PROS
    + Despite all the plot holes, unexplained details, etc, the ''magical glasses'' thing is kind of interesting and fun, like how MC can earn points by doing quests given by the glasses, and buy stuff from the shop to make his small dick bigger, etc. And the story has a funny sense of humor as well, if you can pass how illogical/nonsensical the whole thing is, like the scene where MC's dick got bigger by 1cm, he went outside and said ''Ahh, I never knew the world was this beautiful'' :D And the game tries to dramatize some stuff like how MC got humiliated by his ex-girlfriend, has to run away, and join the military since she told everyone how small his dick is, then 2 years later, after finding glasses, and getting a decent-sized dick, how happy he is, etc, but thanks to how it handles things, even that comes kind of funny :D
    + Some female character models look good/hot.

    CONS
    - The story has to be taken seriously, because a lot of stuff is not explained, like where the hell those glasses come from? How is it possible to do all that stuff? Why was MC the one who found them? etc., the list goes on, and things kinda happen a bit too fast as well.
    - Story is a bit forced as well, especially thanks to glasses forcing MC to do quests like forcing players/MC to peek/creep on Mathilda, or asking him to masturbate someone, or else saying it will take - points or reduce his physical stats, like dick size.
    - The game has tons of typos; better proofreading is needed.
    - The only sex scene the game has was the scene we had in a dark alley, very hard to see with a woman MC paid to have sex, yep.
    - The song's game feels way too repetitive. Changing them and adding more songs would be good. There are tons of non-copyright songs out there; it shouldn't be really hard.
    - The game does a poor job with some of the love interests, especially with the unnecessary stuff it adds, like Claire's job, or the demon-like girl shown at the end, and the dead male body on the bed, like seriously, the developer really waits for players to have any interest in love interests like this? Some editing here is needed for sure.
    - Facial expressions can use some work; they look funny and weird, which can be funny at funny scenes, but the problem is they look funny and weird even when they shouldn't, like in scenes where females should look hot/sexy, etc.
    - Animations need huge improvement, AI ones look weird, and don't suit the style of the game thanks to the inconsistency of the AI, and non-AI ones look way too low FPS; they need more pictures per second.
    - Character models kinda look good, but they are like clearly ''inspired'' by a certain game, a bit too much, I do say.
    - There is a big risk for this game to be abandoned as well because the same creator abandoned his other 2 games before this one.

    VERDICT
    First version, but it's a bit poor, gonna give 3 stars because of it, and hope it will improve with new updates
  2. 5.00 star(s)

    Ogamias01

    I like it so far , pretty much all the characters except the daughter are very attractive and the renders are very nice . Also i like the dialogue and mc . The only complaint which is honestly not a huge deal and iam sure will get better are the animations because the resolution drops very noticibly . Overall excited to see where this goes
  3. 4.00 star(s)

    xkevlarex

    By far, it’s looking really promising. The renders are extremely high-quality, and the use of AI animation is great, little too blurish. and some polish is needed, but still great. The story is good enough, but definitely needs some proofreading.
    The only real downside so far is the character models: they all look very similar, and the proportions are a bit much. Not every woman needs to have THAT size of boobs and ass.
  4. 3.00 star(s)

    EEMNHMQI

    I've just finished 0.1 and I'm not terribly impressed.

    Story is not bad, renders and LIs look great, and there is room for the universe to grow bigger and bigger -especially after the cliffhanger-... But the script is clunky, the exposition is apparent and, despite the fact that it did try to describe the world around MC, it felt very sparse. It dedicated a couple of phrases in every scene and it felt mathematic, not spontaneous.

    Prologue was nothing earth-shattering -which is fine-, but I guess was expecting too much from the very first episode. That being said, another nail on the coffin was 4K renders and scenes. If dev takes the time to make scenes in such resolution, then it means that it should look good enough... And yet it just feels like they weren't done in, say, 1080p at 50 or 60 FPS just 'cause. In the future, they will eat a not-very-small chunk out of a shorter dev cycle. If I had some say in the matter, dev could perhaps wait until the story is completed to their liking and then re-render everything in 4K episode by episode (remaster, as it were), or maybe simply aim for a modder from the community to pop around and do it themselves.

    Another point I could raise was renders. Not LI's renders, but MC's renders. He is wearing the glasses and the prompts in AR that are not seen from his POV are facing away from him, so he's effectively reading everything mirrored. It makes the player (us) read the texts easier, but it breaks the fourth wall for no reason other than dev simply not doing it. Hopefully.

    This won't be a one-star review simply because it's not decisively bad in any way, shape or form, and it is just starting to get some traction, some movement, some stride. But it can and should try and go further with the description of the environment, stay away from unnecessary, avoidable delays but, above all, pay some mind to differentiate MC's POV from ours. It has a long way to go though it can (will?) improve.