VN - Ren'Py - Living with Vicky [v4.0] [StannyStanny]

The videos are some of the better graphics I've seen. If you don't like slow burn games then this one might annoy you but its still early in development. Hopefully the dev gets enough support to continue. I'm interested to see where this one goes.

A true slow-burn. Really hot mom, very promising. It might frustrate you if you are one of those people who just want quick sex, but the buildup is very believable, and the mom acts like what we would expect from a real mom.

Gave up playing after half an hour. The writing is dull, the characters are dull, and nothing of any interest happens. Visuals are not bad, but not unique or attention-grabbing either. The MC looks like a fifteen year old and the mother looks like she's pushing forty so... that's something, I guess. I just don't care. There needs to be something happening in a story to grab people's interest, some kind of hook, but this is just white-bread levels of bland. MC is, for no reason, horny for his unattractive mother. They drive somewhere and stay in a motel. Then they clean a living room. Why should anyone stick with a story like this? Even if gets interesting later, you've already lost your audience. And given how boring the opening is, there's no reason to think it gets any better.

Very good and original anims, good general render quality. The main (and only so far) LI is adorable.
A very interesting slow burner, so different from a lot of others.
Only drawback: the MC looks a bit too small/too young

Great! I love every segment of Living with Vicky. The graphics are just enough detail. The dialogue makes sense and there's neither too much nor too little, just the right amount. Vicky is beautiful and reminds me of the super sexy Emily Blunt. All in all, everything has been perfect so far.

A well told story. Great job making the unbelievable believable. The animations are gorgeous, but maybe a few too many of them...like raisins in rice pudding - enough to add flavor but not so many that it distracts from the meat of the treat.

Had to rate this 5 stars because it seemed underrated. It's a par story but the Mom is very nice. She looks like a real person which makes the whole thing 2 stars hotter. I dislike the plastic doll mass appeal look so many games have where the only sign of age or wear is ever-more inflated-balloon-tits.

Never change

Personally, it had piqued my curiosity even before the remake... but after the changes I think it has gone to another level. Great graphics, wonderful female model that looks like a real Milf both in face and body and of course the story that develops wonderfully. I hope it continues like this...

More like a 4*but will leave 5 for now.

The AI surprisingly works very well. Normally remakes are not worthwhile but in the case for this game, it works well. Not a lot of content so far, but hopefully that will pick up and that AI can improve going forward.

Perfect mix of Aicg and 3d models, great storytelling and deliver of personality traits, very hot milf by the way. Just wish there were more options through the gameplay, but still great. Keepgoing the great work!!!!!!

loving this game since the rework, the slowburn, vicky model is giga hot, animations allthough mostly short and (I believe) partly or fully AI generated really add to the experience.
Hope this game keeps its direction and style going and we'll have a classic in the future!

I'm absolutely in love with her. The renders are excelent and we can see a real milf, not an superb woman being a mother of someone.
The story is a little bit lineal, but you can see how corruption increases.

The dialogue regarding the story seems ill thought out at best. The father contests nothing, so the mother receives a house, money and custody (the daughter only staying with him for schooling). However, apparently the divorce was a terribly drawn out and difficult ordeal (I guess she wanted his soul and next born child too).

The monologue from the mc is so over the top creepy and incessant that even a voyeuristic, semi simp, pervert like myself cringes with every thought and action he takes. He then almost cries in a situation involving the only other female he talks to in the game so far.

The expression in the animations are some of, if not the best I have ever seen. Truly a benchmark for me personally and the sole reason for the 2 stars, though Vicky's face changes so drastically sometimes that you would be forgiven for mistaking her as someone else.

The premise is just straight average and uninspired but that's fair enough, it's a smut game so I'm not expecting some Tarantino quality.

No bugs encountered.

MC is a deal breaker for me though, I won't be back for future updates without the cringe being toned down and as my opinion is irrelevant, I guess this is farewell.

there's not much going on here. It's your standard fare 'cest simulator. The MC has no depth, he's just a standard 2D horn dog. No foreplay so to speak, just straight into sniffing panties. Don't like that? Tough cause you've got one option and that's it. Why even force the user to click an option when there's only one choice. A game that seems to think if it forces you to select a single option occasionally it'll make the user think they have a choice. I didn't drill really far into the game. It starts like a trope wrapped in renders and it really fails to set the stall out.

Versio 3.0

Even if the most important thing in the game is the mother and son relationship, it would be nice to have something else to keep us readers occupied. Writing is good, but not THAT good. Eating food and talking about coffee requires next level writing skills to be interesting. The son and mother are not even that interesting characters. Just average normal people, who don´t see incest disgusting. Story could use some colorful character with interesting problem to shake things up. Or a problem that needs to be solved in underwear. I don´t know. At this point, the son does not have much tools to creep his way into her mother´s pants. Other than begging and night raping.

Visually game looks great. I have no idea why people are nitpicking. Sure the face of the mother does change somewhat, but that is AI for you. I think quality of pictures is really good. Mother looks like a average middle age woman, who wears realistic clothes. Normal regular tits and ass from real life. Not that sexy for fictional story, but at least she has pretty face.
I really liked the small AI video clips. They were best when used on ass, tits or sexy facial expressions. No idea why they were used so much on regular things, like walking or sitting.

Using Ai to "remaster" the game but it all looks like shit.
Animations are filled with low res "animations"
Characters hair is now more greasier than an porn addicted 15 year old kid
Some of the animation just have objects randomly vanishing in front of the player.

Dialogue is pretty meh, Pretty obvious that it's been "corrected" by Ai.

Another game ruined by a completely unnecessary remake. The game was absolutely fine and I actually quite enjoyed it before the remake. Now the models just straight up look worse lmao.

Slap an AI filter over everything, change the MC, and call it a remake. What a joke lol. Don't waste your time.

Edit---I noticed they did add the kinetic tag so bumped it up to 2 stars rather than one. 4--22-25 I don't know if anything else has changed as I don't read KNs.


======It's a Kinetic Novel and should be labeled that way. There are zero choices or options for chapter 1. There are a few things you have to click just to advance the story which is poor form since it's not a choice.

There are, however, several spelling mistakes which are annoying.

Very little content for having been released just over 2 years ago.

Skin textures are gross, looking more like orange peel and everything looks pretty dated. The mc's face almost looks like teen age skin problems.

There was an animation or two that looked pretty silly but that was mainly due to it being really short and just looping over and over otherwise they were nice.

There is supposed to be a sister but she's not in the story. I guess she lives elsewhere and might show up later. The story is pretty much like you'd expect...parents divorce, son goes with the mom and horndog's all over her. Nothing new or exciting.

At the end of chapter 1 it seems to change your name to Stan? During a dream....There isn't any more content after that...only ch. 1

Well, this is another remake of an existing game. The characters have very strange facial expressions, at some points the wrinkles are so strong that it seems that his mother is about 60 years old, and the main character has a face like a 10 year old boy with hippopotamus skin. Seriously, developer, if you're going to read this, learn to make normal facial expressions and remove these terrible wrinkles and huge ruts from the protagonist's face, it looks terrible.

VERSION: 1.0 Remake... Re-Review v4.0
SUMMARY: Not bad, not great either with "good" inconsistent renders...
RATINGS: (out of 5): ⭐⭐

NOTE: The following categories and scoring method are my own criteria and may require more context. Additionally, scoring is based on the state, and what is in the current version and not what may or may not be introduced at a later point.

1. Character (Model) Visuals......... : ⭐⭐⭐
2. General (World) Visuals........... : ⭐⭐⭐
3. Animation Quality................. : ⭐⭐⭐⭐
4. Character Personality(Persona).... : ⭐⭐
5. Story & Dialogue.................. : ⭐⭐⭐
6. Writing & Grammar................. : ⭐
7. UX/UI, Game Type & Mechanics.......: ⭐⭐⭐
8. Playtime & Pacing..................: ⭐⭐⭐
9. Music & Sounds.....................: ⭐
10. Adult Content & Fetishes.......... : ⭐⭐⭐

Average: X of 50 possible points giving a X% rating i.e. X stars.

PROS: - See my opinions section for details.

1. Models look good, at least the female ones do (LI), but (see CONS)
2. Animations are pretty impressive, hopefully we will see more of that.
3. General visuals are pretty good.
4. Able to set relationships

CONS: - See my opinions section for details.

1. MC skinhead? Whats with that, did the poor kid get his head shaved due to lice? I am sorry but his look is like that of a serial killer or some gansta...he also looks like a 14yo with weird stretch marks on his face, burn victim had the pox?
2. Inconsistent look of the "mother", her face and age changes from the first scene. Her face often changes from one scene or animation to another, sometimes making her look actually ugly as sin and old.
3. Writing is bad but and doesn't read well nor is spelling checked. e.g. Holly and holy are not the same... The punctuation is also poor and needs decent revision.
4. Pointless one button choices, why have them if thats the only option you have? One button choices still in the game, FML, this developer...*shake head in disbelief
5. MC setup to be a pervert on his "mother", "landlady" whatever is stupid. Needs more context and less deliberate, thats boring and has porn logic...MC is shallow and little to any personality apart from being a perverted, weak, beta pussy, which kills the game because you play as the twerp...
6. Story is nothing new, interesting or complex, its just "feelings" and bs driving a particular narrative with no choices.
7. Short and little content here to give a decent review.
8. No sounds at all, neither ambient, H-scene or music, major disappointment, but guess that fits what the developer was trying to do eh...
9. Some character faces are really bad, the waitress at the coffee shop looks like a female version of the MC with hair and makeup, the way she laughs and pulls her face, looks like something from a twisted horror flick.

OPINIONS, SUGGESTIONS & FINAL REMARKS:

NOTE: The following remarks are my personal opinions and thoughts, which may provide more context and could be useful to the developer. (Read them or don't)

• The first few sentences have repeating words in like our MCs thoughts while packing the car e.g., "holly hell, I hate moving" immediately after "where the hell is..." next line "...new town, new job, new everything" immediately afterward "....get new job, soon". You simply don't write this way because you don't speak this way.
• Per the MC being a pervert to his "mother", if the woman bent down right at MC face level, tripped and showed her panties and that set off a chain of naughty perverted thoughts with the MC then fine, its more believable and planned and we players can kinda get it and understand the MC warming to his "mother" maybe add to that something about the MC always checking her out, just to build some history and no off the bat immediately zoom in on the first woman, it comes across as unnatural.
• Per con about "mothers" face and age. Check the first picture of her on the porch, she looks young, firm tits and face barely has a wrinkle. 2nd pic after animation, looks same, 3rd pic you can clearly see the crows feet around the eyes, still fine...can live with that due to lighting? Keep going though, with each pic more lines come up, around mouth, uneven skin, saggy skin until in the car and then you can really tell she is older (especially when she yawns). In some scenes it doesnt even look like the same person. Even the MCs face looks like it has lines, like stretch marks or cellulite. Maybe I am nitpicking here, but its clear as fucking daylight...
• This game has some potential even in its porn logic story kinda way. Simply because the current "mother" LI does "potentially" look good and the visuals show that this can look good. Its just inconsistent in the game, particularly her face changes and ages from one render/scene to the next and her face looks like clay when there is a smile, laugh, sad or any significant expressions. While this is undoubtedly difficult to do and create good renders etc, its sadly just too apparent not to notice and drops this games rating down as a half baked game. This is not helped by the MC look, average writing and short amount of content that is here, not to mention it was released in 2023 and since had already had a remake, this is the remake...*cough... Sad
• Boggles the mind how there are people who rate this game 5 stars lets alone 4 or even 3. This AVN is simply not good, not compared to actually good games out there, which there are plenty of. Go educate yourselves please, this game is simply not good in the slightest...

TLDR:

My initial review still carries weight only now I dropped the rating to 2 stars because since version 1 the developer made ZERO improvements to the game. The MC still looks like a 14yo serial killer with his bald, pox scarred skin. The writing is still riddled with errors and cringe worthy dialogue. The renders are still inconsistent and faces change from and often look ugly due to poor design skills. This is not said to slight the developer, kudos to anyone building a game in their free time, but don't expect a slap on the back for shoddy quality, this is too damn inconsistent and between now and version 1 without any fixes to things that are CLEARLY bad, it speaks volumes about the developers attitude toward supporters.