Ren'Py Life in Santa County [v0.10.2] [Bold Bash Studios]

Deleted member 3589402 · Apr 19, 2021

Wicked Garden said:
I gave it a shot, but ultimately this game has far too many red flags for my liking.

1. The entire storyline so far revolves around Blackmail, which cause Mc to commit various crimes all while being jerked around by so low level thug. You forced into stealing your mom's panties for his own amusement, forced into an unavoidable sex scene with your "best friends" Hotwife mom and closet cuck of a father. There's absolutely no control as a player, might as well be a kinetic novel.

2. I know the Devs said there's no netorare, only netori but the vibes and presence was everywhere doing this game. As if blackmail wasn't bad enough we have a slutty mom (Linda MC like) who flashes your supposedly best friend in the opening 5 mins, and may or may not have a scandal involving students. Now should she be some nun? of course not, but I've seen this story before. She's also happens to be married to some, unattractive, fat, hairy oaf(Sounds familiar) who might have a sharing fetish as well.

3. We have a "best friend" who's a pain in the ass, a down right nuisance who drags Mc into his bullshit, which is also unavoidable btw. Their dialogue together was annoying to me, for a good part of the first release Mc is arguing with this guy, it's just a weird setup. He's constantly lusting over your Mom and Sister, which is cringe and he practically saw both of them nude by the time the update is over. He did with your sister at least.

4. There's UNAVOIDABLE voyeurism, which kills it for me. I have no interest in watching others fuck and never will, so the fact that you have to worry about scenes like that popping up, or whether your potential love interests are whores or fucking your randoms is a pain.

Hard pass for me, but good luck to the Devs.

Since you wrote so long a review, you got emotionally involved with the storyline, perhaps to places that were uncomfortable to you, but artists never have to care for those that don't like the art. At the end of the day, Patreon creates the conditions for new type of audiences that make this type of games possible. If this isn't for you, then that's obviously their loss, but the dynamics are such that again, artists don't have to care about bad reviews only about strong supporters. Now, here I'm with you that there are probably games I would prefer to support financially. That is after all no shortage of options in that regard.

Deleted member 3589402 · Apr 19, 2021

And didn't read the storyline, just created my own narrative from a random sequence of events.

Edit: I'll ignore [VN] [Ren'Py] tags here on F95zone. Because when I notice how I interact with these types of games, what is said doesn't actually capture my intrest at all.

Deleted member 15555 · Apr 19, 2021

Wicked Garden said:
I gave it a shot, but ultimately this game has far too many red flags for my liking.

1. The entire storyline so far revolves around Blackmail, which cause Mc to commit various crimes all while being jerked around by so low level thug. You forced into stealing your mom's panties for his own amusement, forced into an unavoidable sex scene with your "best friends" Hotwife mom and closet cuck of a father. There's absolutely no control as a player, might as well be a kinetic novel.

2. I know the Devs said there's no netorare, only netori but the vibes and presence was everywhere doing this game. As if blackmail wasn't bad enough we have a slutty mom (Linda MC like) who flashes your supposedly best friend in the opening 5 mins, and may or may not have a scandal involving students. Now should she be some nun? of course not, but I've seen this story before. She's also happens to be married to some, unattractive, fat, hairy oaf(Sounds familiar) who might have a sharing fetish as well.

3. We have a "best friend" who's a pain in the ass, a down right nuisance who drags Mc into his bullshit, which is also unavoidable btw. Their dialogue together was annoying to me, for a good part of the first release Mc is arguing with this guy, it's just a weird setup. He's constantly lusting over your Mom and Sister, which is cringe and he practically saw both of them nude by the time the update is over. He did with your sister at least.

4. There's UNAVOIDABLE voyeurism, which kills it for me. I have no interest in watching others fuck and never will, so the fact that you have to worry about scenes like that popping up, or whether your potential love interests are whores or fucking your randoms is a pain.

Hard pass for me, but good luck to the Devs.

Just imagine having all those red flags and netorare is not even planned

I will wait to see what the dev says about the "landlady" with 2 guys in the bathroom and the basement guy thing but I don't really see how will the dev save the game from that, I mean people are not so gullible to believe nothing happens like the "mc" does in the game lol

Dripping · Apr 19, 2021

Yungdepresshun said:
is the background music motherlover by the lonely island? Why do i know the instrumental to that song so well?

There's a few famous tunes in this game, including one that was also used (a lot!) in Kerbal Space Program. I think the one from KSP is public domain though, or part of some pack with affordable music with full permissions for developers (meaning they can freely distribute it as part of a game or as background music in a youtube video or whatever product, but not distribute it "as is" or as part of another generic collection of full per music)

Swordsman83 · Apr 19, 2021

This MC is being manipulated in any possible way.

Deleted member 3589402 · Apr 19, 2021

djkunn said:
Just imagine having all those red flags and netorare is not even planned
I will wait to see what the dev says about the "landlady" with 2 guys in the bathroom and the basement guy thing but I don't really see how will the dev save the game from that, I mean people are not so gullible to believe nothing happens like the "mc" does in the game lol

Please note, that the mc's landlady and biology teacher is NOT his mom. I don't know why people assume this just because they are close, as friends since mc was an unsexual child. The whole point of the game is a child that becomes aware of the dimensions of sex, power and violence, which is about adulthood. This transition is a narrative about pathos, passion and not mythological that is to say what one tells small children and sometimes even adults because they cannot handle reality. To make this type of narrative logical is impossible. This whole, "tell me everything in your life" thing is pathetic, seriously. Of course, narratives about pathos is what the Bibel would call "evil". But who said that the Judeo-Christian world, is the only world that makes sense?

Edit: A facepalm is the physical