Ren'Py - Life in Santa County [v0.9.1] [Bold Bash Studios]

It's kinda hard to review this properly as I've not gotten far into it yet, but also mainly cause right from the off there's wee points that annoy me about it.

Immediately, I'm left thinking the MC is a dick, he's quite unpleasant to his step-dad as soon as he appears and there's nothing to suggest it's warranted. The step dad makes a stupid dad joke and suddenly the MC's saying he hate him. It could be warranted, but as there's no real backstory to explain why the MC is being a dick, it's quite jarring.

The other problem I have is the fact the MC seems to have a square head. The renders look good for the women and it seems the efforts been put in to make everyone unique but with his hair and his cheekbones his face looks like a perfect square. Honestly, check it out. The scene where Ron says "I thought I would go back and get the bag after a while". It's a square. And once you see it, it's kinda hard not to see it you know?

All joking aside, the renders are ok but there's a bit.... unsubtle? Within the first few minutes of gameplay you meet 2 women and both basically have their nipples out. But hey, it's a porn game, it's to be expected.

The plot seems ok, a bit airy at times. Like the dialogue doesn't seem to marry up to the seriousness of the plot at times. The game starts with your friend needing your help cause he botched a job for some drug dealer or something and as you're going to speak to him he's kinda vibing, makes jokes and what not. Like bitch he could kill you? But he doesn't cause it's a game but still, read the room Ron. Maybe it's just his character and the others are a bit more grounded but again, it's a lot of wee things adding up as soon as you start to play.

Great renders and animations. Most of the girls are really great (Lauren/Mom, Iris, Sophie, Karen and Aunt/Chloe are all 10s).
But this game has some of the worst written dialogue I have seen.
I still enjoyed it just because of how great the girls are but still had to knock down 2 stars for the poorly written dialogue.

played this game at the very beginning but didn't really enjoy it, thought about giving it another try while looking for femdom games and wow, it has developed into such a great game, amazing renders and an interesting story, can't wait for the next update

Anyone else feels like that the stuff with Karen is too damn hot to handle (fetish part calling her landlady)? Also, very good differentiating between Landlady and her Sister. Love this game to bits and pieces.

Honestly, this game has loads of potential. A lot of the complaints here are directed at obvious plotholes and the fact that the MC turned from dorky virgin to sex-god in the matter of seconds. While that's true, I don't think that's the main problem with the game.

First off, to start with the good stuff. The LIs, renders and scenes are absolutely top-class. Dev and team definitely knows what they're doing there. Sexy, kinky and irresistible. Even with a slightly inconsistent and maybe far-fetched story, it makes you want to continue playing.

The girls have distinct personalities and designs, but I'm afraid that's it. It's between buxom milfs or buxom teens in the game. A bit of variety in body types may go a long way.

Now though the prologue was going pretty well, it certainly changed when the game actually started. Now maybe I'm wrong, since plenty of people enjoy "choices" in games, and to "write their own story". But I just can't see people enjoying free-roams every 5-10 mins. Especially when it's sequence-sensitive and extremely easy to miss out of scenes as well as plot flavour.

It's just not fun to either replay it over and over again wishing to unlock scenes and find something different, or resorting to a walkthrough where you have to look at every single step of the way.

While I personally dislike multiple playthrough/endings/saves, the same can't be said for others. But at the very least, I'm sure it kills some interest when certain paths and LIs are locked out based on certain choices.

Despite all its flaws, I cannot deny enjoying the game, which is why I'm giving it a review. This game and studio can certainly evolve into one of those that's worth investing money in. Maybe it's not there yet for everyone, but the potential is certainly there.

A good-looking package, with nothing inside.

To get the good out first, the game looks really good. You can tell there is a lot of effort involved in the visuals. Too much effort even, since it even has details like animated blinking. The UI is sharp, the sandbox is not overbearing and it does have some of the best daz models out there. Some of them look very familiar but that's to be expected at this point.

But when it comes to the meat, not much to go on. It's yet another i-story, with landladies and roomies inexplicably breaking every social norm to jump on MC's dick. Why? Because. There is no rhyme or reason, just like every other game of this type, MC just gets everything handed to him on a silver platter. An inexperienced dork with max charisma, max fighting skills despite being a midget and a sex master with a huge dick that hypnotizes every female in sight.

That bitchy cousin? No problem just order her to do anything you want and she will do it. Why? Because. And it gets even worse when it comes to the landlady. This is a mature bombshell of a woman, who apparently saved herself untouched for years to wait for her tenant's dick. That partner of hers she starts with? We get rid of him right away no problem. And to make sure we don't hurt the sensitive psyche of the anime pillow-humping crusaders, he was gay too. And probably an eunuch asexual just to make sure. I'm surprised we don't find out MC just willed himself into existence to make sure landlady is a pure waifu.

The game gave hints of a smarter plot at first, with landlady seemingly being a closet perv who would risk her job for some fun with young bucks in her workplace. That would at least somewhat justify her willingness to break every social norm in her eventual relationship with MC. She's fucked in the head like that, can't help it. But that would be too smart and grounded for this type of game, so that plot practically got rebooted to appease the same crowd.

In the end, if you 've played one of those, you 've played all. If for some reason you aren't sick of that same recipe, knock yourself out. At least it looks good.

Story/ - 1/5 plot sucks, for some reason everyone likes the mc, why they like him ? if you want to add incest at least give a backstory believable enough

Hud/Menu/Map/Navegation - 1/5 half of the rooms are point and click and other half trhough menu thats suck

Sandbox - 1/5 feels weird and don't have a track of lost scenes, easy to miss scenes, freeroam ends with no warning

Renders - 4/5 good shit

This game has great potential, excellent modeling and scene setting. The author has done a great job of organizing the storyline, and it would be perfect if it had more efficient updates. But time is exchanged for excellent quality, and in my case it's definitely 5 out of 5.

Well another visual novel , that has some NSFW elements. Graphics are awesome and visuals are good , some work needs to be done on soundtrack and some characters are the neighbour, as well as some other side characters.

Extremely attractive models, appealing story and secondary characters, good backgrounds, great game mechanics ( Mc routes and sandbox are much appreciated). Very fun to play and decently immersive. This game is going places.

This game is a hot fucking mess. I finally managed to crawl through the prologue after several patient attempts due to how insanely creepy the MC looks (literally like a future molester), the little rat friend who I just wanted to shoot, and terrible writing. Not to mention all the dumb scenarios that could easily have been avoided by anyone with an IQ above thirteen.

This game is 100% style over substance. The women all look pretty great, the animations are top quality for AVNs, everything is all flashy and crisp...but it's put together nonsensically. I don't mind the sandbox aspect at all, which I know is an unpopular opinion, but the problem with those is that even if a player does something out of order it still needs to make sense--otherwise there's zero point having a sandbox. This game doesn't do that at all, and it's worse on top because the scenes that do flow outside the sandbox are jarring and feel as if they've been built by random contractors reading off an outdated spec script. I mean whole conversations about events that hadn't happened yet, and then I'd accidentally stumble across that scene later and think "oooooohhhh, I was meant to do this first." It just defeats the whole point of freeroaming.

...not that a spec script would have helped, because the dialogue and descriptions have definitive machine translation stink all over. Lines make actually no sense sometimes, and even when that is the case, the things characters say are so utterly dumb it made me physically angry.

Also, I don't like feet. At all. Every kinky scene involves feet. No option to skip it either: you will see the feet and enjoy feet. Every woman also has pepperoni nipples but I like that; still, all the tits look identical.

The overproduction ends up being a curse too. Why can't I quicksave? Because the dev made a flashy menu instead. I constantly got locked out of rolling things back because of how scenes are designed, and if there's an animation you can forget it altogether. Which led me to restarting the whole game, but then half the time autoskip wouldn't work. Why? No clue.

Don't bother. Just look at some screens or check a playthrough on xhamster.

This review was made after playing the 0.4.3 version.

Impressive visual quality, stunningly beautiful girls, very nice story, tits...what else can be said?

It needs some minor adjustments, but nothing major. I'm positive about those adjustments being made soon.

Brothers, heed my words: Bold Bash Studios is going straight to the top!

Played version 0.4.2
Qualities:
-the female models are sexy to very sexy, especially the Mom, the Sis and the Aunt
-the story is good and engaging
-the seduction process of the Mom and Sis is well constructed and not rushed
Problems:
-the free roam mode breaks the story and one needs a walk through to advance faster
-for many choices it is not obvious what the best alternative is so one needs a walk-through
The game is very pleasant to play when in story mode.
Unfortunately the free roaming mode breaks the story which requires a walk through.
Because of the problems above it's a 4.5 stars game in my opinion.
I'll give it 5 stars because it has a lot of potential.
Suggestion for the developer: reduce or eliminate the time spent free roaming.

Best game I’ve played. Potential to be amazing if the developer keeps this up. Updates have a lot of content and the renders are absolutely outstanding. Great characters and models as well. And the plot is nice, not like a lot of the other VN games I’ve seen out there

So, first of all, english. Yeah, you know what i am about to say soy, please be comprehensive


In general terms the game is "Good", that's why I give it 3 stars.

To justify this score I am going to basically analyze the story, the gameplay and the renders.

Story and plot.

-Pretend to be something complicated and stick to the basics.

-The prologue with Dave is, in my opinion, ridiculous and doesn't make any sense.

-The MC's relationship between schoolmates and with his "family" is very unnatural.

-Everything happens too fast and in many moments there is a lack of context and it even makes you think that you just missed something and that you need to go back.

-This also happens during the sex scenes. Some start very unexpectedly.


Gameplay

-The different answers during the dialogues are very confusing, and many times they do not correspond to what you supposedly expect to see.

-Sometimes you can skip dialogues and other times you can't. Sometimes you can go back and sometimes you can't ... so....

-The selection of your skills or perks is too simple. The developer has spent time on those cards but are always the same.

Renderings

-Without any place what saves this project.

-Very good quality and careful in the details.

-Has a pretty decent variety of optionss during the sex scenes.

-Animations are very well implemented

-As a personal opinion. I don't like the disproportionate bodies of either the male or female characters. Breasts so big and dicks that look like legs

wow wow this game is fucking amazing. The artwork and the posing of the models is some of the best I have seen on this site. I have two complaints though. Sometimes the dialog isn't clear like if it were written by someone who isn't entirely fluent in English. Second, I think moving around the free roam map can get kind of awkward. Overall I think this game has insane potential and excited to see the future of this project!

Jesus fuck. I'm not sure how anyone could give this less than 5 stars. It's probably one of the best adult games I have ever played. The writing is leagues above most of the material found on F95. The models are meticulously designed and very unique to one another. The scenes are amazing with a lot of interactivity. The posing of the models in scenes even outside of sex, is incredibly erotic. Super impressed with the whole package.

The one criticism I might levy is that it's kinda of unclear how the points affect the story and the lack of things to find in the game. What does the trophies do? Or money? Would like secrets that open up scenes or new art.

Amazing game!

The game have a lot of sexy scene and the design is so perfect ı love it.I
In the game you have a lot of choices and the choices affect your opportunity ı love that feature the best sex game ı have ever seen. I hope it will continue.

What a mess. Everything is all over the place. The story, the coding, so many repeat dialogues like dev doesn't know what to say, the pacing and especially the continuation of story lines. As it's sandbox one must go from place to place looking for interactions, might be easier with a WT, but who wants to read the WT, play 2 minutes and then back to WT, all that with one hand to click and the other to fap. It's a mess. It wants to be Milfy City but it's NOT. Hell it even uses the Daz3d character for the mom (Lauren) and all the body shapes remind me how much I miss MC and curse that asshole Icstor. 2 stars for CGs and effort. Dev should really refine his coding and scriptwriting. For the effort I will come back when it's completed and will review the rating then. Really hope dev makes a better game if only just for the mom..

One of the best games I ever played (i played thousand of f95 games already) and what i can say this one will be in my top 10 I hope the author will non stop updating the game true 10/10 so 5/5