Ren'Py - Life in Alphaville [v0.60] [GameleaksStudio]

As of v0.60:

So I actually enjoy this game. It's not too bad. But there are some things that force me to give it a 4 star instead of 5.

Artwork/Animations - 5/5

So the artwork and animations for this game with the style used is good, and there are some good scenes available. The scenes are pretty interactive too, which is neat. No complaints here.

Storyline/Dialogue - 4/5

I am curious to see where the story leads. I think I get the premise, but it's not quite far enough to tell. Looks interesting though. Now the reason I am giving it 4 stars is some of the choices and language in the game are in the dev's native language (I think it's Portuguese). While it's not game breaking, it is immersion breaking, and kind of lazy. Dev needs to pick a translation and stick with it, and change the whole thing to fit. Having a conversation in English and then the choices being Sim/Nao is just weird. Needs to be fixed.

Gameplay/UI - 4/5

Relatively simple UI. At the beginning of the game, the devs ask what type of game you want (girls only for MC, sharing, etc.) and then I assume the upcoming dialogue accommodates so you don't accidentally pick an NTR choice (not 100% sure since I didn't try any other routes). Again, the reason I give it 4 stars is the constant breaks in language. Even some of the menu options in preferences are in Portuguese. Again, needs to be fixed.

Overall, not a bad game, is worth playing. But the dev needs to tighten up and fix the dialogue and make it uniformly one language. If they want to do a Portuguese translation, great. Make that all the same language.

Cheers.

Radical Dreamer

Played version 0.6.0 and while this game has potential, it needs a lot of polishing. There's all sorts of untranslated buttons in the various menus and some of the dialog could use some improvement, but mainly it all just is a case of a non-english game developer that needs to get a native speaker to help with the translation.

There's a bunch of characters, most of which are various girls. There's some good scenes but there's some parts that could use some improvements. I'm interested to see how this one develops though, so I'll have to check back for future updates.

It started off great, but now it's gone since December. I hope the project will continue because I think it has good potential. The only thing that annoyed me about the creator was that he promised to release the last update on December 22, but in the end he didn't release anything or answer what was happening with the project. I hope that everything is fine and that he will continue with the project