RPGM - Ren'Py - Lida's Adventures [Ep. 3 v0.302] [Terebonkoff]

Pity.

I'm giving this 2 stars, only because of Lida, which is a very fine babe. I'm sorry Terebonkoff, but everything else is just bad, like really bad.
This review encompasses EP1.

RPGM
I love games made with this engine, when it's done properly. Here however, it's not. And games like this contribute to the bad reputation that the engine has nowadays.
There is a lot of effort put in, in making sure the player spends a lot of time going from point A to point B. Stumbling into moving NPCs triggers random dialogues which slow things down. Also, horrible map design. Why I can only transition from one area to the other using only one of the sidewalks, on specific tile, why not both? Why does map layout of buildings changes direction as soon as I walk in? When I enter studio I enter from the bottom and if I hold up arrow key for too long I enter and exit again. What is the reason behind such design choice? To frustrate the player even more?

Quest Design
Lot's and lot's of pointless walking, back and forth. Not really well though out for maximum player enjoyment. Also, If I get stuck for some reason and don't know where to go, there is no quest tracker/journal for me to look up.

Visuals
Renders-wise, they are okayish for their time. However, Lida just staring into the abyss when something happens, it's immersion breaking. Not too much attention is put into the expressions, to make them more realistic and not over the top. They are either too bland or too expressive.

Audio
Random, cringe sounds, screams and such - not a good idea.

At the beginning, the game was going well, but then they rushed things with the 'old man pushing forward,' and the quality dropped. What was supposed to be something slow and naughty turned into something rushed and dull, like a Japanese cliché. The game lost its logic and continuity, becoming more focused on long, boring dialogues than on adult scenes. The sexual aspect, which was the strong point, was left aside, and the game became more 'cult' and less interesting. It needed more balance between the narrative and the adult scenes, maintaining the sensuality and natural progression of the story.

OK, freely admit I only made it part way thru episode 2, I did slog my way to complete episode 1, but I just ....can't continue and try to finish 2 or even bother with 3.

Episode 1 and then 2, kinda reminded me of some of the other slut simulators available out there - with worse graphics, horrible gameplay, horrible repetitive running around sandbox...oh the sandbox hell. Graphics was decent for its day and age.

Kinks - some blackmail, ditzy FMC, getting in trouble and gradualy doing more and more - a corruption effect (no choices that matter). Some rape, but in episode 1 it was not too bad, hobo's and then some bestiality that was skippable.

Gameplay/plot/language - uggh, poor translations, if you shut your brain off you can kinda get the jist of what is happening. RPGM can be done good, but this is a mess, non skippable events over and over, pauses that just frustrate you. Sandbox is insane, random people you run into can take you into conversations that you have to do, slowing everything down - just cause you walked into them in the cluttered overly busy sandbox hell.

Episode 2 - I looked forward to this, hoping it was better, more modern take on things - no not really. Sandbox got more cluttered, walking around the farm is just painful, dodging chickens and sheep to get on a path. Constant run this way and that way.

Rape and bestiality in episode 2 came out hard, its far more prelevant than episode 1 and lots of kinks, that are not even well done if that is your kinks. A hero dog that rescues you looks like a spawn of hell, so if you are into the animal stuff, its pretty ridiculous.

Game just lost me with everything now is rape, forced, there is no enjoyment just punishment. Sandbox got too frustrating, and the coding ..insane.

I am out, too bad, I really like FMC slut sims - but I can't make my way to finish this.

2 stars for all the effort, some of the graphics, some of episode 1 that had her whore/corruption moving up with reluctance but, (she was doing it to save her hubby, but liked it). Now, the change to more violent, horrible to understand, and not making sense anymore. - the sandbox hell. The dogs get laid in this more than the fat ugly bastards.

I've been playing since the first episode. I'm looking forward to the updates! These are the top 3 favorite game series. I hope the author will have the strength and time and the game will not be abandoned

Had to be the worst experience playing the game, since it asked you to play from the start.

Developer is a great coder, should go apply to work at Ubisoft or something. But not coding a game where horny people are playing. Game is such a chore to do almost everything. There's bugs where sometimes your next task doesn't correctly represented on the "Help" section. Sometimes when it asked you to do something, you had to go around repeating some other stuff, just to make that event triggers, without it specifically stating anything at all.

You're asked to play since the start (for the recent update, not for every update I think), but game has so many animations (not sex animations, just character hopping into screen on every dialogue), so many transitions, it slowed everything the f down. Skip (Ctrl) was way different than much better games, where you can skip in almost lightning speed. The clicking was way too much, and you have to play detectives, trying to find where to click. To go to one place or another involved so many clicks, and from one task to another involved going one far place to another. All of it is such a chore.

The game has very decent CG rendering, and a beautiful female character. Story is okay-ish, but involved so many unnecessary stuffs. You have beautiful CG rendering, you can write okay-ish, but you decide to complicate and slow your development with overly unnecessary mini-games and transition animation. I would've considered supporting this game, but this turned my interest off completely.

What a game! I mean there is so much content here and so many things to explore to see, as the game is still being developed after so many years!

The game is segregated into 3 parts, which I will discuss and rate accordingly, as overall have to consider the game from start to finish and not only that part 3.

Part 1 - Amazing start of the story, amazing main character, slow corruption that keeps developing as the game progresses, I think this was the best part of the game though it is outdated renders and game engine by now, but really delivered the story quite well.

Part 2 - Game started getting ridiculous where they tried to introduce so many fetishes to the game while trying to keep to the story, which just made it horrible as most of it did not make sense and felt like that H-scenes were more important than the aesthetics of the game.

Part 3 - Swapping game engines and moving away from RPGM into RenPy, which I think is amazing idea and keeping sandbox element alive with all the previous story feels like an upgrade and very welcomed. The renders and animations increased in quality by insane amount! Really polished and good game now, but at the same time has very complicated story that is very hard to salvage now, so wondering how the game progresses.

Overall good game with a lot to see, with it's up and downs, but hopefully the dev will bring it back with the redesign and new engine to be once again great corruption game if he would try to bring her back to basics and develop from there.

Unfortunately terrible, ragged, nasty gameplay.
There is no growth in excitement in the game. Separate short interesting scenes are constantly interrupted by a bunch of awkward and inappropriate riddles and puzzles.
So far I'm giving this a 1 star, but I'm giving it a 3 for the amazing hot start.
Why wouldn't the author make the entire game like this without racking their brains for themselves and users?!

Good rape quality and abuses.

The plot and sex rape scenes should be represented better with more images and good dialogues.

Overall is the game you expect from Lida that is an amazing character.

Apart the sex scenes better represented I would like to see a good journal for better understanding the next action.

W Lida W rape W abuse W blackmail

p.s. More gangbang and multiple penetration please

Ep3 v.182
Quitting after the first few minutes of game play. I have no clue what's going on or why.
You watch a long scene about Lida's wedding day and photo session afterwards, during which the husband is at the same time eager, reluctant, excited, and discouraging of being cucked by some muscle man. After it's over, we're told it's a dream, but then we're told that Lida doesn't remember that it was just a dream. Then she gets ready for work, and she's stopped on her way by a farmer talking about how she had sex with another farmer with a giant dick. Go to school and your only option is to try to steal a key to something from a lesbian nurse. There's no introduction to what's going on other than the game description here. I'm sure the in medias res narrative style is meant to immediately entice me to know about Lida's circumstances. However, combining that with a bizzaro porn dream/memory, alluding to the MC as already a turbowhore (voluntary or not), and the absolutely abysmal translation work, and the slow AF scene transitions, I can't be bothered to care.

Another boring, repetitive game with only one corruption road. From the ratings of this game one can tell one thing people hate this game. I wonder why?

The attractiveness of Lidia 9/10
Ldia's suffering 1/10
Characters 1/10
Everywhere Sexual predators who want to rape Lydie

Plot 2/10
The plot might have been interesting, but it is not. This leads to Ldia looking for her husband who has been kidnapped. he wants to save him from the dark side of evil. Unfortunately, Ldia herself will be swallowed by the darkness. Was it worth it? Something like that, a husband should divorce his wife. In order to find out what happened, she has to be constantly raped from snakes to disgustingly homeless in order to get clues about her husband.Who came up with it. But it's hopeless.

no choices 1/10 is forced to fuck everything whether you like it or not

Graphics 2/10 Episode 1 The version I played in. I couldn't find the mod

game mechanics 1/10 rape/slut empty simulator

Lydia must be raped to get a clue regarding her missing husband. And so from rape to rape. If he has a best friend who should help her, but not for free, he will have to rape her, then he will get help from him.

Character Lydia 1/10 stupid bimbo, turbo thoroughbred whore, happy idiot. Mentally disabled,

sex scenes 5/10

paths in game 1/10
just a path of corruption

The game can be called a rape/slut empty simulator, if you like games like this you might like it, but if you don't give a wide berth to this game, Dev is working on a remaster

I loved this game. It has really nice graphics and ton of great scenes. It had all the time somthing to look foreward. Unfortunately the game is not perfect. The biggest problem i see in the unconsistency of lidas sex drive and sometimes unbelivable dialoges and reactions. Pitty

Concept: 5
Art: 3.5
Story: 4
Overall: 4

I love this game, its story, art, and flow. The only thing that I am having an issue with is that it has some bugs which are not addressed properly. But I am very optimistic about the game and I can ignore a few flaws.

I wish all the best to the Devs for future development of this game and thank you XX

This game was different from the usual. I really liked playing it even though it has many downsides.
Firstly, the art isn't top of the line, but it gets better closer to the end.

The story is crazy stupid but somehow it's also entertaining and quite funny sometimes.
It's like those movies that are so bad that they are good.
Lida is extremely nice though, even though the art is wacky sometimes the character design put into her was great.

The female police officer looks good too and have some nice scenes.

I should remind y'all that this isn't for everybody, but if you decide to play try to stick around for a while, the story can get interesting.

Overall I'd give this a 6.5/10, but if the author ever decided to remake the older renders after he's done with the game and polish everything, this could become a 8/10 easily.

Ep 1 was good (except for the hobo scenes). But this series just continues to get worse and worse. Lida is still an amazing character. But the story is just ridiculous now and by the time it's over with it will be a 1 star game at best.

Fro 2016 i dont hink it was particularly good, but in 2021 its just terrible. Ithte sex scenes were good,i would be more than satisfied, but they are just averagae or bad. There are a couple of scenes i could watch in the middle of the skipfest that were decent, but very few of them, i skipped 20 days and i watchd like 3 scenes. Still weren enough to prevent me from deleting the game.
Added to this, and i played the renpy conversion, it was quite a slow experience, and in addition it crashed like 2 times, so nothing to enjoy here. NExt

I really want to like this game.. The protagonist is hot and very well done, and some of the stuff she gets herself into is right up my alley. However, the game is a complete and utter mess.

First off, it's painful to play. It's essentially a visual novel but you need to run around dozens of large maps to find the trigger for the next event. It gets tedious - and the quest design usually has you waddling across the map for several minutes only to find out you need to go back to where you came from anyway, for no good reason at all. If you accidentally bump into an NPC, be prepared to spend the next half minute waiting for a pointless interaction to slowly complete with some inane dialog and unskippable pauses.

The scenes, while hot, can also be tedious. You'll randomly get unskippable animation loops or still images and just have to wait a minute until the scene progresses. There is also way too much pointless walking and tedious filler quests padding out the time between the scenes, making it seem quite sparse.

The dialog ranges from painful to read to outright incomprehensible. It's clear the author is not a native English speaker and probably used Google Translate or something. Parts of the game seem to have gotten a manual touch-up. The writing itself is also horrible, but I am not sure if this is due to the poor translation or not.

Then there's the bugs... If you do decide to try this game, save often and in multiple slots - you can easily get yourself into a situation where you will be unable to progress through the game at all. There are a myriad of minor bugs and annoyances that you just get used to after a while, but the real game-breakers can hit you when you least expect it and may not be apparent until it's too late.

The game itself is very poor. There is too much walking aimlessly, plot that doesn't make sense and bad English.

However Lida is cute and the sex is very perverted. If that's your thing then there is something to this game

I've done a lot of ratings on the site before and this is the first 1-star rating im giving. I normally wouldnt bother but i spent DAYS playing this game so i didnt want to skip doing this.

I tried man, i really did. Even with my second attempt especially on the renpy remake (thanks to Phalzyr for that) i couldnt force myself to finish the story anymore. This game is probably the most messy one in the site. Random things keeps happening just for the sake of porn, i stopped caring about the story after some time because things are kept afloat to keep rape train going on. Yeah this game felt like a rape simulator after some point, which wouldnt be a big deal when it was done correctly... It says NTR but you cant even feel its existence until you finally saw husband at the later stages of the game. My complaints would go on but i'll just stop here and save my breath.

TLDR: Play this if the niche kinks contained within really interest you. Skip otherwise.

Ultimately this game fell short for me in a number of ways. The content itself is good, and the niche kinks makes it even more appealing at the onset. Sadly, the technical quality of renders and animations are average compared to other games these days.

This could have been OK if the writing made up for it, but unfortunately it's consistently bad. The story itself is a disjointed mess that jumps all over the place and makes very little sense, and English is obviously not the author's first language.

As for gameplay, the RPGM format doesn't do the game any favors either. Expect loads of walking. I abandoned it in favor of the unofficial Ren'Py port , and I recommend doing the same if you really want to play it.

I would have liked to know that there are no real choices. Would have saved me a couple of hours of my life. Really hated that Christmas party. Such a shame, I really liked Lida.