VN - Ren'Py - Loot Line [v0.6] [Candylight Studio]

Cum on a sea adventure with Thomas as he journeys to find one piece... urrr... the loot line! While recruiting sluts... urrr... crew members to fuck... urrr... help on his endeavours into their honey pots... urr...the vast seas!

The ladies are pretty hot in this one, even some that aren't human look pretty good. The sex scenes are pretty high quality, and the animations come in different angles and are pretty smooth and well rendered.

The overall look of the game is decent, nice use of lighting and focus. One particular amazing render caught me by surprise, which is of their boat at night with the lighting strike. Very nice!

The story is interesting enough. There is mystery to the origins of the protagonist and his crew members, but that's just part of the reveal as you get further into this adventure.

I'm shocked there's not much interest for this game, as it's definitely worth a try in the least. It's got great adventure vibe, action packed story, and plenty of sex. This update was surprisingly long and I'm looking forward to the next update. Great work!

Loot line [v0.12]

A good-looking and working game, mostly.
Fairly good renders that are too dark most of the time.
Horrible Engrish, I mean very bad.
The story/plot is okay; it has potential.
No bugs that I encountered. It's in Renpy, the GUI, saves and loads, work fine.
Minus 2 for the Engrish and minus 1 for the darkish renders.
I do not recommend the game at this time. Hopefully, things improve.

VERSION: v0.12
SUMMARY: Unique in a way but doesn't feel polished enough to call it good.
RATINGS: (out of 5): 2.5 Stars at best

1. Models: 4
2. Animations: 4
3. General Visuals: 3
4. Characters: 2
5. Story: 2
6. Writing: 2
7. Pacing: 4 (in terms of lewd)
8. Content (amount): X
9. UI & Sounds: 2
10. Fetish & kinks: X

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

PROS:

1. Unique story, at least the world that is created so thats a plus, other than that its simplistic
2. Models and renders are decent all round.
3. Animations are fairly decent also
4. Pace at what you get your first lewd scene is quick so in terms of that its decent.
5. Music and sounds are nice.
6. Sexual/lewd scenes and animations are decent, interface allows for some different angles and adjustment. Also some lewd sounds are included which is nice.

CONS:

1. Writing feels a little "unprofessional" but that could just be because of the style, pirates and that era being often not very educated. Speech and thus writing just is a bit stupid.
2. Overall the dialogue needs some revision, clearly English is not the devs native language.
3. Characters are meh, the MC really does sound and seem like a moron, which IMO does throw the player off a bit. The MC acts and doens't think, not much goes through his head and if I didnt know better Id think you are playing a comedy.
4. While the story has a unique setting, the way it unfolds and is written is complete bullshit
5. UI is a bit simple, not sure why there is a ? every now and then, there doesn't seem to be any options on screen or items that are highlighted or interactable nor any choices so I don't understand what the dev is driving at.

FINAL THOUGHTS & SUGGESTIONS:

• Per above con on naming, it really feels and sounds silly calling these eras such uninteresting names, that includes the game name "loot line" wtf? Again why not call the game Mother of Pearl or whatever the hell else...sorry just my 2c...
• Lack of effort with things like naming, "big flood era" come on...why not just then call it a Time of Squalor and play on the word squall at least thats a little more original ffs...
• Speaking of stupid, the first impression you get of the MC is that he is a drunkard asshole, not always great to create an MC that the player doesn't like. Unless that is what you going for of course.
• Clearly a game that is not meant to be "good" and probably prefers to be simple and just good or semi-good fap content, for that its ok, anything else or more sophisticated at least in terms of story then look someplace very very far from here.
• Many issues for me with the story e.g. the MC springs a random chick from slavery, makes her a navigator of a ship he is the sole crew member of and ofc "captain" but has not a dime to his name and acts more like he just stole the ship more than own it. She also seemingly immediately trusts him when he decides he will find what other can't and kill all these "sea rulers"...wow, only that, not conquer the world too while at it? Oh and don't forget the chick he springs has superpowers apparently (sensing shit and night vision and telescopic vision and God knows what else). Then randomly our drunk MC has a brain fart through his generally comatose drunkard disposition, taps into some mystical ability that instantly sobers him and he kicks some ass...Maybe im just not "cool" enough to appreciate this bullshit... at least not when there is not decent background to the MC or a sense of realism to all this. Again my opinion ofc
• I also find it rather odd the MC gets into scraps with so few pirates, i mean his 2 vs another 2 pirates? Where are the dozens of pirates and sea battles that have more than 2 crew per side? Also is able to crew and manage a ship with 2 people, must be a tiny sloop...even if it doesn't look like it, but what do I know...
• Bottom line, this games story and writing is filled with so much bullshit, you kinda do have to play it for the lewd only because there is nothing else, though to be fair its written so bad its actually fun to read and comical as a result. The game shows a lack of evening attempting something interesting on the writer and developers side and while the previous game The Lust City was not great either it was a fair deal more coherent than this drek...