VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - Life Changing Choices REMASTERED [Ep.4] [NiiChan]

Interesting story and on the dark side
Good models as well
Its actually connected to his other game: my bully is my lover which is also amazing, and dev updates both of them in good intervals, so props to him

Overall, I really like the relationships, character models, and sex scenes in this game. Zoey and Eliza are characterized well with interesting backstories--although their traumas are extreme. I'm eager to see how they develop.

However, many of the other characters in the house that we meet seem a bit under-developed or just annoying as they immediately judge Zoey and MC as reclusive after meeting them for 5 minutes. Obviously, Yuna is meant to be an asshole, but it just seems harsh for the other characters to make such a thing about it. Also, some of the interactions don't feel organic when characters just walk up and ask each other about their feelings towards MC or why they are so reserved to fish for a backstory reveal. It feels like these characters just exist to develop MC, Eliza, and Zoey and there's not much else to them.

Update: Just played through episode 3, and the story and characters are handled so much better here that the first 2 episodes. A lot of information was being withheld up to this point, which made it much more confusing up to this episode. My only remaining complaint is the lack of sex scenes.

Very good game comes with good story . All the game characters are very Nice. I like Yuna very much . She is very beautiful . Game graphics and animation are also very good . Game comes with many secrets that we find while we play this fantastic game .

played to ep4 completion
my lord, i enjoyed this one too. complements to the team on this one as well.
seriously worth your time, Story give you enough character dev to invest in them, looking very much forward to this catching up to its sister game "My Bully is My Lover" although through combined context I get the impression this game is set prior to the other.

characters look great, animations are good enough. most definitely came to this one off the recommendation from My bully is my lover, and certainly glad i did.
My thanks to the content creators!

This review is for the Ep4 of the reworked LCC, and will be purely focused on the new version as I never played the old versions myself.

Coming from his other game, MBML, I expected a similar theme and SoL. I was wrong, as it is quite different. The crime and faction stuff is more interesting than I initially thought, and there are still a few unresolved mysteries in episode 4. I did feel a slight inconsistency with MC and Nicole regarding his clan, but all the other good parts overshadow this slight issue.

For the most part, the characters are great and unique. There is a big variety of them, and as in many games you can easily pursue all/some girls up to your liking. Only slight worry about the characters is that it might be a bit too many, as I am unsure how some will get their screen time in the future. Hopefully the less developed and shown characters get their deserved time.

Music/sounds - great, and I love all of them when Claire is on screen
Renders are great too, and they are in similar style to his other game.

All in all, a great game that, from what I understood, is still in the early stages and I cannot wait what happens next. The rating for me is around 4.5, but considering how the dev developed the characters in MBML, I am expecting the same development to happen here in the future, which should cement the 5* rating I gave. In case that doesn't happen, the rating would be more of a 4*.

EP 4

This update proved why this is my preferred VN from Nii-Chan's awesome mind, seriously it just starts out as a normal mystery harem VN but Ep 3 goes from zero to 100 in a snap! I seriously enjoyed the shift and from then on this went from your run off the mill VN (that was being held together for me because I liked the MC's design and the girls) to something I want to follow to the bloody end. The actions sequences, the mysterious war going on behind the scenes, the romance, the secrets of the clans, the hidden players in the game etc.... All of it is freaking awesome. Looking forward to the next update. When it comes to VNs created using Honey Select/Artificial Girl resources this comes as my second favourite after Eternum.

I've seen some reviews where people have complained about rape scenes and yet there is no rape, attempted rape yes but what do people expect from a VN with dark elements though.

Pros
-Story- My introduction sums up what I think of the story.
-MC- I like his design and how he is being fleshed out. He starts out as reserved because of what happened to him but as the story progresses we are now beginning to see who he really is as he embraces the new people in his life. He can go from serious Chad to flirtatious Joe depending on situation which I enjoy seeing and since he is an assassin he should be able to blend into any situation.
-Girls- Zoey (favourite from the get go), Irene (my hero complex demands we save her), Yuna (I am a sucker for mysterious girls), Nicole (her flirtatious banter with the MC hits so good and in my honest opinion she is the hottest girl in the VN), Lisa (I just like her) and Eliza (wife material) are my favourites but in all honesty all of the girls are wonderfully rendered and have enough personality that I am interested how the MC will conquer their hearts. I can't comment on all the girls since some of them are to be better fleshed out in later chapters. Seriously enjoyed Nicole (the interrogation scene)and Lisa in Ep 4.
-Music- The music is well placed and I enjoy how it enhances various scenes.
-Fighting Scenes and Videos- This really surprised me and I enjoyed how well it is done, wonderful execution.
Cons
-Some inconsistencies in the story i.e. doesn't make sense that MC did not meet Zoey taking into account how close she was with Irene, There needed to be a proper explanation that MC at least knew she existed. I don't mind the cliches since in my opinion they are handled well.

this is going to be one of the longest reviews I've done on this site but this game deserves it. I will divide the review into 5 topics because each topic is worth a star.

1- Game story: Life Changing Choices (LCC) has a cliché and typical fantasy anime story. The central objective of the plot is to find the whereabouts of the MC's lost girlfriend, to find out if she is truly dead or not. In the middle of the way, so far, only a villain who is a cliche anime psychopath and some henchmen whose personalities are also cliche has appeared. The way I've been talking about understanding that history is bad, right? however the story is not bad, just its concept which is cliche but the way it is told can be considered good, having remarkable moments like fights and some key conversations with the characters of the plot. I will give a positive point (+1 star) to the story in good faith, because as the episodes go by, it can stop being a cliche and become a unique story and continue to be good.

2- MC (protagonist): protagonist of LCC is difficult to be analyzed, because at times he is a serious guy and behaves like a killer would be, a cold person and at other times he behaves like a teenager who has just ended a relationship and is at the beginning of puberty, this difficulty in defining his personality makes it difficult for the audience to understand who the MC really is. Another factor that usually when it comes to the male protagonist, some people ask about is the size of the mc's penis and here is the famous horse penis, so if that bothers you already know that you will have it here. Because of the things I mentioned, I'm going to put this topic with a negative point (-1 star ).

3- graphics and animations: this I can say that for a game that uses characters created honey select 2, all characters are well done graphically, ALL without exception. The scenarios are good, nothing to complain about and the animations are excellent, especially the fight scenes. This topic has a positive point (+1 star).

4- Personality of the characters in the story: they are excellent, each character has a unique personality, making it possible to differentiate each one of them. Each girl will be able to tell you which one you like best: do you like girls who have more immature or childish thoughts? have in the game, do you like girls with more adult and more mature thoughts? also have it here. The men who appeared so far also have their personalities defined, my favorite is your bro who lives in your house (I forgot his name xD, I think it was Ken). This topic has a positive point (+1 star).

5 - sex scenes: this topic for many is the most important and what I can say is that the scenes are standard, honey select sex scene normal and the women you have sex with make that retarded face when you and she come (I seriously don't understand and I'll never understand that ahegao face, no one makes that face during sex, whoever invented this must never have had sex in their life). I'll give it a positive point (+1 star) because I have nothing to complain about.

LCC is considered a good game, not excellent or a masterpiece, if you like anime, you will probably like the game and if you don't like anime, you will find the game between standard-good but it is certainly a game that I recommend for both the audiences.

I'm happy with it, the plot and characters have been interesting so far and I can see that it will have good scenes at some point as well. I don't know if the remaster has changed things completely or not, but for me this gets 5 stars. Excited to see future updates!

I kinda played the other game form this dev recently and well, this one even with its flaws its better. A small flaw is being a little dark, visually. I ahve a LG screen and they are dark by nature, so the issue is bigger.
Still the graphics look better, and it doesn't have that much inner dialogue, but the story is little bit, well...A litle convoluted and convenient at the same time. JJ abrams on a bad day.
Starting a game with a "violent" rape is not a good start for a game that is not finished. If its finished that arc can be closed. Right now that arc is open. I don't mind rape, if its for the purpose of porn and the scene is interesting, but I mind when the scene is like this one, a major plot element, there is not even a scene to see.
So this part is bad.

The part about finding a Twin sister that nobody knew existed, well, it could be less convenient.

The thing about the reward images it was present in the other game, and I dont like it now. As in the other game, there are like 10 girls or so, and 4 have scenes, but in the other game 2 had a bigger number of scenes. In thsi one there are more girls with scenes, but the number is way less. One of them is a flashback.

Sex scenes rely heavily in the default animations, and at this point, i have seen everything, and every time i see them I think they are more ridiculous. Still, devs keep relying on them, some of them try to add some renders to build up the thing, but some might go from kissing to default fucking in one go. IT is just too predictable

The content the game has is then, too little and predictable. And that plot element is unresolved. , and for me, its like a bog mosquito in my brain, it frustrates me.

And thats pretty much all for this game. I gotta say I liked one thing about it which is the music, for some reason I liked a couple of tracks, ven if its not my style at all. Maybe in the future this game reaches 3 stars but with default animations playing such a big part, it will never go higher for me.

The remastered version is really improving this game, it has a fantastic story, gorgeous models with diverse personalities, the renders are really a treat to the eye just incredible. NiiChan is improving at an astounding rate. All the best to him

Ep3

This is getting better and better. Started as a normal honey select game. But now this one is on another level. A mysterious story is going on with horror elements. Blood and violence damn... Writing is not bad either and gorgeous and cute models. @NiiChan 's rendering skills improved a lot. So this game is a visual treat. Ep3 is on another level compared to other episodes. Story is more revealed, and there is some badass fight scenes too. Music and sound effects makes this Game more better. Damn now I'm looking forward to next update of this. His other game My Bully is my lover is also nice, happening on the same universe but seems like events in the MBIML is taking place after the events of LCC.

Seems like there is many negative reviews considering rape part. Believe me I also don't like rape shit. But here it's a rape attempt and that guys don't even succeeded in it. So I don't have problem with it.

Looking forward to next update of this one. Keep up the good work dev

First off, the quality of the renders is amazing! I suppose people coming to this who have no knowledge of the original version don't understand that most of the story is the same as before, that this game and the game with a similar story both debuted at exactly the same time, and the devs of the 2 games have become good friends who have had characters cross over between their two games. Another element missing from the context of this game is that the grimness of the story was implicit in the earlier version, and the dev has opted for a more-direct approach to telling that part of the story, rather than springing it on the player after several chapters where it was barely hinted at. All in all, I really like Nii Chan's work both in this, and his other game currently in development

This game really needs a "rape" tag or at least a content warning, from the get go you get a scene of being tied up and waiting while you hear your GF being raped in the background which is just a terrible start to a harem VN, it should either be in the tags or the summary, because this content is disturbing. Also the whole story plot is an insane series of coincidences which just revolve around each other over and over again.

Story 1/5
Sex Scenes 3/5
Characters 2.5/5
No content warning 0/5

Overall 1.5/5

This is a review for Ep2 Remaster of Life Changing Choices.

So, from the get-go, this feels like an almost shot for shot direct rip-off of another game, which I won't name per the rules of reviews... from the characters, their personalities, to the work environment and the general "feel" of the story.
There are a few differences between the two games, but the similarities FAR outweigh the differences.

Right off the bat, this story is 100% "let's make every possible coincidence that can happen in a story happen all at once within just a few days!"
There are more cliches happening here than can be fathomed. There is nothing wrong with cliches, as long as they are at least done well... but this one takes them absolutely seriously, and expects the viewer to have some form of emotional attachment to the characters with it.

Examples:
- Main character had his girlfriend raped and kidnapped (or disappeared? Still foggy exactly on this as the writing is not super clear), moves to a new town a good distance away, and somehow miraculously meets the TWIN SISTER OF HIS MISSING GIRLFRIEND. Twin, btw, that he DIDN'T EVEN KNOW EXISTED. Twin, which, by the story, was "very close" with the missing girl... yeah, sure... so close that her boyfriend didn't know she had a freaking TWIN?! Broken immersion there 100%.

- In this new town, 1st day in new house, MC finds out one of his roommates just HAPPENS to have also had almost the *same damn thing* happen to him.... where his girlfriend was raped in front of him, except instead of disappearing she was murdered. Where the hell are they living where kidnappings and rapes happen so often that you can coincidentally move in with someone like that and BAM same story?

- Speaking of unusually high rape and kidnapping...2nd day in his new house, ANOTHER housemate gets attacked, but the MC gets a... feeling? premonition? IDK... and manages to save her from it.

- Oh, and his missing girlfriend? She just HAPPENS to be living with one of his new co-workers in the new town he moved to that is super far away from his prior town... and conveniently she has amnesia, which is why she never turned back up. I just... wut? Seriously. This is like day 3 in the new town, maybe day 4!

- Also, the new company he works for? Of COURSE it has to somehow magically link back to his own family somehow, even though he didn't know this at all while getting the job... Which, btw, the MC is shown to be super meticulous at everything he does, but he didn't bother even looking into who he was going to be WORKING FOR?! /head-esplodes

Seriously, WTF is going on with this thing?

- Credit where due, the characters look great at least. Truly, they look fantastic. Even the guys look great.

Unfortunately, aside from pretty renders, the story and personality of the characters just fall short. This one needs to go back to storyboard and be reworked... there is potential here, but it's just too much all at once, and not enough "immersion" for a game trying to be this complex storywise.

This game is master piece for me
Nice developer,nice art,character model,gameplay and the story is fking good and wholesome
If u want to chilling after worked hard then download it.Trust me,u won't regret it

Had played the old version and now given a try to this.( WARNING: This review is only till Episode 2 and does not represent the final game.)

Graphics(4 out of 5): Graphics of this remastered version is better than the previous Version. The lighting have been improved as compared to the old ones. But still could be better as some scenes are too dark in lighting.

Music(3 out of 5): Music is the main part of any visual novel game as it adds the extra level of comfort to it. Talking about this game, the music is not very good but also not bad. This game have copyright free music so that's a plus side.

Environmental Soundtrack(2 out of 5): These Soundtrack are those which makes the game more immersive and more alive. I felt that the game lacks of these kinds of soundtrack like bird chirping and rain falling sounds also crowd noise or any other background noise making the game feel empty.

Story(3 out of 5): The story of this game have been paced quite a lot differently from the old one. Now the story feels like a slow burn so if you are looking for a quick read its definitely not for you. Also the story this time seems a lot darker than previous story which I didn't like the change in particular, since the previous version was a little humourous so I was expecting that. But if you like the story to be dark and filled with troller then this is the game for you.

Sex (3 out of 5): Ah the main part for which most people play the adult visual novel for. For now the game only have few sex scenes which are just normal sex( not much hotness) except some certain scene which could be a spoiler for some of you. So if you are looking for a lot of sex scene, you have a come a lot early.

Characters(3 out of 5): The game features all kind of characters having single character traits in each except no yandere (sad ). All Female characters are hot. All characters are easy to understand thus making them predictable and also the storyteller sometimes reveals some body marks of some characters which could potentially tell who might be the antagonist in the plot sooner than expected. This could be paced a little better so that the story telling could fit the whole slow pace.

UI and HUD(2 out of 5): The UI and HUD are good and simple but they get some improvements such as adding sound to the buttons and sound to the menu screen and a little bit more stylishness to fit the whole theme.

Episode 2 & Yuna/femdom Focused Review

Coming into this game, I do actually really love the art displayed here. Looking at other reviews and comments, as someone who really only enjoys femdom in his H-Games, I came in looking to check out Yuna.
The story has an interesting start and going through and meeting the characters is all fine. The interactions with Yuna are very interesting and definitely leaves her character a bit of a mystery, and should be exciting to see how it develops.
Currently Yuna only has one sex scene, Eliza has a few in the gallery, other there aren't really any other scenes currently. Yuna's scene definitely has her domineering, forcing the protag into licking her as a form of payment. Definitely can not wait to see her future scenes with this personality!

I remember the first time I saw your patreon and those first post renders, I don't remember correctly but maybe that's when Lyk mention you and I saw that, it was great, the first time I see it and I think it will be another great game I gonna play, I have played your old LCC first ep and to the latest ep, I enjoyed it a lot, and now we have Remastered, oh boy. Amazing story, amazing renders, good musics, beautiful and pretty girls, I'm looking forward to your future updates <3.
After finished ep 3, it was a BLAST! Those fighting scenes are epic, fatality, and the famous ending cliffhanger, oh boy, can't wait for more.

Two years ago his girlfriend got raped in his sight and then disappeared. Now he moves a few hundred kilometers after a job to another town and arrives in a house with 6 or 7 roommates. Whom does he meet in this new town?
Well, one of his housemates is a twin sister of his still missing girlfriend, that he never knew, that she had, even though supposedly he was looking for her. Another housemate is a guy, that has been kidnapped together with his girlfriend and has seen her being killed. Then on day 2 yet another housemate doesn't show on time in the house, so our hero has a bad premonition, and sure finds her in a back alley just about to be murdered. Yet again, on 3rd day he bumps in his new office into another girl, that just accidentally happens to be caring for the past two years for his missing girlfriend, that has lost her memory. Oh, yes, also reporting for work he learns, that the company owner is a stepsister of his mother. Are you really interested in what will happen in the next few days?
If someone wants to create a visual novel, it sure helps, if he can sensibly write a story. The dev of this story certainly is not capable of this.

The best word to describe this game is "soulless"... Just like the MC that looks nothing more than a mannequin.. the MC has the same expression 90% of the renders and looks like he's missing a majority of his face muscles... The girls are just your average dick craving sluts spreading their legs to the first opportunity that presents.