VN - Ren'Py - Lost Daughter [v0.2a] [Verde]

v0.2a

Close to a 5 for me but 4 just seems more fair/accurate. I really like almost all the girls for their looks and personality. The only one I wasn't super into was the boss and even she has her merits. The main character is an adult which is always nice to see.


Andy (redhead) is adorable with her lack of experience, etc. and hopefully there will eventually be something with her sister as well. Kate (blonde) is a great mix of cute and hot (braces!). Claire, the girlfriend is hot and cute as well. It's a bit of an interesting dynamic with her- some of which plays out in the game now and some is more discussed as backstory. She's into girls so sometimes she wants the two of you to share the same girl, sometimes she is sort of "competing" with you for the same girl, and sometimes she is ok with just letting you go for other girls. Maybe not everyone will love that dynamic but I don't get the vibe that the game is going in the direction of bad or hurt feelings for the player or the main character.

The boss was not bad by any means but less my cup of tea than the other girls. If you prefer someone slightly more mature than the other girls, she will appeal to you a bit more. Her story seems like it will involve swinging, at least as an option. Hopefully there will be a way to pursue her without that but if not it's ok. One nice thing about the game is that you can choose which of the side girls to pursue or not pursue. Only the daughter and the girlfriend seem to be "mandatory". It is stated that MC has a foot fetish. That's not my thing but you're not forced to see much of that though it definitely could change in later versions.

The actual "lost daughter" is barely in the game at the moment. She looks good and is kind of bratty/bitchy so far. That can be good or bad- if you get the opportunity to put her in her place that will be great for me.

The writing is alright. Playing the English version, you can tell it isn't the original language but IMO it wasn't bad at all. Definitely not a "plus" for the game but not something that hurt my enjoyment. As always, your mileage may vary. As far as plot/story... not amazing so far but we haven't really seen the main story with the daughter so time will tell.



I rate games based on how I feel after playing them and this felt like a 4. It certainly has the elements to be a 5 for me personally. In fact if you took this exact concept and gave it a huge budget with the most experienced developers, etc. it could easily be in the discussion for my favorite game. That's just a hypothetical, no insult in being what it is, which is a good game by a smaller dev. Hopefully development is able to continue and we can see the full potential.

PROS
+ The story is kind of interesting, but the writing seems to go in a poor direction.
+ Models of the girls/women look good, they are cute/beautiful/sexy.
+ Render quality is decent.
+ Sex scenes have animations, and most of them are decent.
+ You can choose to be on the girls/women path, or not.

CONS
- The existence of Stephen, like seriously why does every fictional story have to have one *sshole like him? Writers really need to stop doing these types of things, SHM...
- Isabella's (MC's daughter) character is another cliche... You know that cliche bitchy, annoying AF daughter who treats MC sh*tty, but becomes better with time? Yeah, that's her, like keeps calling MC ''Old Pervert'' for no reason when she first meets with him, etc. I mean seriously you write a story about an only family she has to have cancer, and after she is gone MC will be the only one for her, yet you make her spoiled unbearable b*tch, not to mention she is the literally main love interest, and focus of the game, hence the name ''Lost Daughter'' so that's a really big con. And if her character is not bad enough Agatha constantly guilt-tripping MC with saying ''It's your fault, it's your responsibility as a man to look after her, you make my daughter pregnant.'' etc, seriously? You were the ones don't even bother to say MC he has a daughter for all these years because you didn't ''need him'', and now it's his fault? BRUH.
- Content-wise it's a bit too short, maybe waiting a couple more updates could be a good idea because the game needs some more sexual content for sure.
- MC has some specific fetishes, and it seems we will be having scenes involving them, which is bad, they should be optional.
- Menus/HUD/UI can use some improvements and changes, currently, they look a bit bad.
- Better proofreading and translation is needed.
- Denisse is one of the best if not best-looking girls in the game, and that's why it's a big damn shame DEV is chosen her model to use as Oscar's wife, big disappointment, and shame.
- Sex scene animations need improvements, they need better physics, and better looking (like far third-person angles/positions, since current ones are too close) & more angles/positions.

VERDICT
Well it's not a bad game, but wouldn't say it's good either, especially with all the CONS I talked about, but it has potential, if DEV fixes the problem I see no reason for it to not reach a 4-5 star rate game.

There's potential here. The story isn't bad, and the renders are decent enough. The thing that needs the most work is the english translation. It feels very clunky and unnatural, and at times is just incorrect. Google translate isn't gonna get the job done, you need a fluent english speaker to go over the script to make it feel natural.

I'm on the line on this one. On the one side, the story is cute and has some promise into it, on the other the same story is terribly rushed and forced in a way that is completely unbelievable. So far, choices don't seem to matter outside choosing what girls you want to incorporate in your story and which you want to skip, though it is nice that the cheat to see the consequences is implemented in the game itself. Language is decent enough, both in spanish and english, though the writing itself is nothing particularly fancy.

Render quality is pretty high and character models are different and attractive. But sticking most of the time to POV and having such an emphasis on kisses takes out some of the potential into them, it does seem like it's evolving to reduce POV. Animations are done pretty decently, if a bit on the brief side. Sound is mostly non present. And bugs also seem to be absent so far.

So, all in all, will see where this goes and decide there where do I fall, I can actually see it going either way.

VERSION: 0.2a
SUMMARY: Nice models, same ol story with little content.
RATINGS: (out of 5):

1. Models: 4
2. Visuals: 4
3. Animations: 4
4. Characters: 3
5. Story: 2
6. Writing: 4
7. Pacing: 3
8. UI & Sounds: 3
9. Lewd: 3
10. Kinks: 3

Average: of 33 out of 50 possible points giving a 65% rating i.e. 3-3.5 stars.

PROS:

1. Models are very nice
2. Renders are good quality
3. Animations are done well, fluid and have decent length.
4. Writing is good, structure and readability is solid.
5. UI is good, built in cheats are also nice, doesn't give too many options but works well, simple but effective. Walk-through doesn't really seem needed. Sounds are nice, that which are there.
6. Lewd scenes are decent when they happen.

CONS:

1. Characters are not overly interesting but not bad either.
2. Story is pretty much the same as every other game where there is a long lost daughter. Too little content to give more feedback
3. Pacing is not necessarily bad, but due to lack of content it feels slower than I'd like. There are some lewd are least so its not bad, but for now I'm listing this as a con.
4. As mentioned, the sound is good overall and music fine, however I would like some more sound when it comes to the sexual bit, it provides that extra immersion, kink and sexiness. Scenes without those sounds often don't "do it" for me and I'm sure other players agree. This may not be easy to do but its definitely worth it if done well.
5. While lewd scenes are nice, they not very frequent and due to their often vanilla nature they feel easily skipped over or lack luster.
6. Kinks are not really present and its uncertain if there will be any decent ones. Right now things are pretty much vanilla. Some kinks that are there are not optional like the foot fetish which is not something I subscribe to. The kinks and tags can do with some update and some should be optional.

FINAL THOUGHTS:
I would rate this 4 stars but I feel if a bit more is done around some points I raised, I would revise my review and give it the 4 stars. However the content is not much, at least the new update had very little new content I felt, content that drove the plot or particularly interesting parts of the MCs life.
There is not really much that is interesting me apart from the daughter who is more a curiosity to me but the content is too little and the little interaction that was there with the MC and his so called daughter is so little that it may as well have been skipped over.

Kinks like cum inside or outside are good so creampie, or not, but creampie should have consequence like pregnancy which is pretty much one of the few kinks that actually have strong consequence and potential implications to the story and relationships. I feel this should be a mandatory kink in adult VNs to provide players with a stronger feeling of choice and consequence. Plus its pretty kinky IMO

Frankly I would opt for much more content that goes from one revelation or major plot point to the next "chapter" that way one can expect good content for a chapter that makes the player want to come back to see whats next. Right now there are too many games like this that are further along, these small updates don't work for me IMO.

2.5 stars but I'm rounding up because it could easily be a 4-4.5 star game.

It's basically a kinetic novel, with a the option to pick which chapters you want to read. The choices are only to start an LI's branch or close it for two LI's, and one to either sleep with one of those two or not if you are on her path (but that scene isn't even in the update - it cuts off right before). And to start one of the LI's branches, you need to have sex with her while she's drunk while the MC is sober which I'm not a fan of.

It is also made canon that the MC has a foot fetish. Eww. Considering there are no choices of fetishes or positions in the lewd scenes other than "Cum Inside" or "Cum Outside" I'd bet that foot fetish content will be forced in the future (I'm surprised it hasn't been already).

The translation is rougher than some, but better than most. Still needs work, though.
The LI's are mostly great. You do start in a relationship that you are not able to leave. One of them is married and - surprise! - they are having a rough go of it with her husband having opened up the marriage? Maybe a missed the hard confirmation, but seems like they may be swingers. Or he's the swinger and she's not thrilled about it. Dunno.

Animations are fairly smooth.
Daughter isn't immediately in love with the MC... mainly because she has no idea who he is.
If you turn on the built-in cheats you can see who gets love points and who can get pregnancy points. The daughter and the girlfriend aren't listed in the 'paths' part which I take it to mean they are automatic/unavoidable. But on this page you can see that there are actually no points for the LI's - just an on/off switch.

The game just didn't catch me. I don't know what the overall plot it besides "date these people". There's an antagonist, but he seems to be there just to be cucked by the MC - one of the LI's listed is the antagonist's girlfriend, and he's also trying to woo the MC's boss (the possible swinger, who is also an LI).

I enjoyed Lost Daughter! The storyline got me hooked, especially because the characters were so interesting. All the girls stood out; they were so beautiful.

The visuals in the game were impressive, with detailed character designs and realistic skin textures. Although the animations were limited, they didn't detract from the overall experience.

(suggestions)
1. Increase the perspective and poses of the sex scenes.
2. Increase the size of the main character's penis.

(Score)
Rendering 5/5
Characters 5/5
Story 5/5
Animation 5/5

(Hope)
I hope MC will be not infertile as in other games. I know pregnancy is a big deal, but this is just a game. I'm not talking about having sex with a pregnant woman.(But I love it haha) The feeling of knowing you've made her pregnant is awesome. After that is the bonus.

Overall, this game is awesome! I'd give it a 10 out of 10. The characters are engaging, the story is interesting, and it's worth a try! Good job Dev

Very solid for a 0.1. Lengthy play time

The renders are great high quality.

Story is generic but well written and different enough to keep you interested. Sex scenes so far are great.

I really like a story that has a solid core couple in it though that may not be everyones cup of tea to be in an established relationship.

Also Father-daughter incest + pregnancy? Two favorite genres

Wow, not bad, the story looks good, quite coherent with both the personality of the characters and the context itself. The characters are well developed, I loved the MC's friend who is not the stereotypical loser, but quite the opposite.

Visually it is very pretty and the animations are fluid.

The above added to an MC who does not allow himself to be "blackmailed" by circumstances to make stupid decisions is great.

Highly recommended, for now it is a solid 4 stars, the last one will be earned if the quality is maintained in the following updates.

Good luck.