VN - Ren'Py - Lucky Bastard [Season 1 Steam Build] [LLP Clerik Studio]

Sometimes I come across a game that has poor ratings and yet there's something attractive about it. Bastard is one of those games and with the Steam release I finally decided to give it a try. This time my intuition was correct and I actually ended up enjoying this game quite a lot despite some of its flaws.

The strongest point of this VN is great sex scenes. There's a lot of them, they are relatively long, with multiple angles and poses per scene. I especially love attention to detail with separate renders even for small changes in characters' expressions or gestures.

There's an interesting storyline that adds momentum to the narrative and keeps you invested in what comes next. In my opinion this game manages to achieve great balance between sex scenes and story.

There're some negatives. It's clear that English is not author's native language. To the point where in some cases you have to read between the lines and figure out the meaning of phrases from the context. Surprisingly it didn't bother me a lot, maybe because English is also not my first language.

There're also moments that rely quite heavily on porn logic, but since they lead to hot sex scenes I found it easy to suspend my disbelief.

The game has a couple of unavoidable sex scenes between women who, as far as I understand, are not your LIs and other men. So far all of them are important to the plot, they spice things up, move the story forward and also they're not consensual, which makes me much less jealous.

Objectively I'd rate this game as a solid 4, but I bumped up the score because I think right now it has a lot of unfairly negative reviews.

there's the disclaimer about the ntr no longer fitting.

Would be nice if the disclaimer also mentioned that not only was the secretary rape unavoidable, it was a major part of the story so you'd be seeing that shit for a long time.

And there being no sexual relationship with the secretary? it wasn't concrete, but the dev knows good and well it was certainly implied. She was familiar with the mc in the same way all secretaries have been with bosses they fuck.
Am I saying it couldn't be anything else? I'm saying if it has large spots, is a feline and has some of the highest biting force in it's family. It should be a jaguar and not a cheetah or leopard.

The ntr disclaimer states that all LI's involvement with other men will be because the mc decided that.

Not accurate. Apparently the mc's friend PI doesn't need his permission. Yes I refer to the disclaimer for ntr. The mc did not direct the secretary jill to blow or fuck him.

Now the lesb scenes are by the mcs decision, but the pi gets some on his own.

As some reviews have shared, the story is rather poor all things considered. And the variables are weird.
Be vulgar to the house maid/keeper to get the highest points and a disgusted reaction. While you could go for a regular flirt, and would you believe it! She appreciates it. However it looks like it shouldn't make a difference to the continuity. Mc's going to blackmail her later anyway.

For the record, I played through all the available content right now. S2 E2

This is one of those games I like and dislike at the same time. First of all, if you are here for a plot that makes sense, then you have come to the wrong place. This story, while at least linear, is just bad. These are the worst business men I have ever seen and some of the scenarios are laughable at best. The whole abduction of Julie was just silly.

It is obvious the dev is not a native English speaker, which is fine, but the barebones story just makes the poor writing more noticeable. There is a decent amount of content, and the dev makes an attempt to make them more than a screen or two before everyone has an orgasm, but they are wordless and uninspired.

The interesting part is, I think the premise for the game is pretty good and it actually has a lot of potential. IMO the dev needs to hire a writer to do a complete re-write, but the core of the story is pretty solid.

IDK... I kind of enjoyed the game for a while, before it all just became a bit silly.

-Pretty awful game
-Boring simplified dialogues
-Non-interesting mc
-Poor renders
-None of the female characters are interesting. All of the conversations the MC had with them were non meaningful.

Very bald and illogical story. Character's motivation and behaviour sometimes makes you think about their sanity, it's like they don't have a soul at all, just stupid NPC (sex toys). Choices either don't matter at all or matter in a very short period of the game and then characters acts the opposite to the decisions you made.

There are definitely some problems with texts (dialogues) as well, but it's bearable, i mean - at least you understand what's happening.

If you don't like ntr and want to be in control of a game, don't even bother playing the game, since there are a lot of forced kinky stuff, starting from forced BJ and finishing with raping. Whatever you do during the game or which ever decisions you make you can't avoid this shit. And even though some models are really ugly (that's another problem), forced kinky shit is still forced kinky shit. I don't mean to insult developer because of this forced shit, it's up to him I guess, and sure a lot of players are into this as well, so it is a matter of taste. BUT, would it kill author to add corresponding tag or make a note at the description, so players who is not into this shit will just go away without wasting their time on this?

Story (logic): 1/10
Dialogues: 3/10
Girls models: 3/10
Lewd scenes (animations): 2/10
Renders: 5/10

Pity, but it is how it is.

best game ever. That's exactly what I would expect from a game. The female characters are really attractive. A paradise where MC can make love every day. The sex scenes take place continuously and are not boring. I'm waiting for the MC to secretly harass and have sex with other girls in public places. And don't forget to get them pregnant. A little sound effects in the sex scene will make the game more wonderful. Waiting for the next updates

Ep.11
Pros

• Nice character designs
• The girls are beautiful ... sometimes
• I like the Margo's personality and MC's ex-wife. The other girls don't have a soul

Cons

• Something interesting about this game, me: "wow!!! what a beautiful render!!! gorgeous girl" 1 minute later same girl but she has an ugly render , I wonder what the hell happened!, is she the same girl? - (with Margo it's obvious).
• The MC is no different than a rapist or kidnapper, if someone tells me "he's a secondary character" i'd believe them. He's not special or different
• Choices are confusing any mistake will lead you to : losing content or viewing unwanted content
• Too many stupid submissive women

At first I thought it was a harem story, but in the last two updates I found out that the author wanted to turn the game into a crime story .
To be honest, I think it's a good adjustment because there are so many good harem games out there , this game hard to beat the classics .
But in the game of crime stories, this one's sex scenes and tits are top notch .
Update speed is also good, basic once every two months, the work as a whole really can't find any problems .
If this work is finished in the current state, the author will get good word of mouth .

sexy game indeed... i think it can be better and better with great updates.(not that short tho) if you have money support the dev, if you dont just rate the game, write comments lets make this topic and game alive all the time as a fans.

best part of game is, its the office game which is very good and hard to find for adult NV, i am so bored with school genre (and your father died genre )

girls are super hot, stella is my fav, writing is good, pose and renders are good. like i said this game can transform to next level with our support. Its already better than most overrated games.

Good Points
+ Choices kind of matter.
+ Texture quality is not terrible at least...

Bad Points
- Texture quality needs to improve.
- Art style looks very old and not good.
- Most girls/women are not attractive enough.
- Facial expressions in sex scenes look weird and ugly.
- Sex scenes are nothing more than a couple of pictures and it's very boring. We need proper animations with different angles/positions.
- Story and plot are not good and feel weak.

For The End
Well, what can I say? This is a very bad adult game, I can't see any point to play this game at all. Yes, choices matter but without a strong and well-written story/plot there is no point in your choices mattering...

The 3D modeling looks good to me, it doesn't look bad like others that the characters seem to have mega-anorexia. I analyze several things at stake, from my opinion and taste, so as for this I must say that there are things to improve.
-I feel the plot is weak.
-the animations or there are not or have to improve them.
-there are quite a few scenes +18, what Which gives you a big plus point.
-The gameplay is by options, so it's normal, and the interface, presentation of the game is fine.
This game seems more than anything for those who only wants scenes +18, so from my opinion if you want something with a good story and plus +18, this is not your game. From my point of view I give it a 2, 8/5

Played version 8.0.

I just want to say the developer knows where he is. Its a porn game, where the player wants to fuck. No, the player don't want deep story, where he is reading 5 hours straight with no fucking in sight, no. The player doesn't want artistic shit what solves every problem in the universe, the player wants fucking! And the game delivers.

So, if you want thought provoking story, or lot of twist and turns, and want a 3 month build up it is not your game. But do you want fucking? Bastard is your game. In spite of that, the story is far from original (rich guy fucks hot chicks) but enjoyable.


Looking at the models they are great. The developer tried different selections, and it worked. You got mother, daughter, secretary, wife, maid, stewardess, lawyer, all hot. The downside is that there is almost no, or little animations. It only has 2-3, and thats it. Most part is just images changing, but I don't mind.


Sound wise it has music, and it is fine, but I thought it could be great with a little bit more selection. It only has 3-4 tracks in loop. It is not the best, not the worst, mediocre. Hope the dev could add more tracks in the future. Also, there is no voice acting.


My only problem is the lenght, it could be more. I only started playing when it hit 8.0, but I finished the game in 3 hours tops, and I tried everything I could. If it were like 3.0, it would be fine, but the version number is high for that little content. Bug wise I only encountered one, but not game breaking. With ignore, I could go on, and that's is.

Overall I enjoyed it. Some other games wants to add meaning and shit, but luckily this one not, just fucking

I wanted to like Bastard (v 7.0) but I can't say I do. First of all, the story makes little sense and it is poorly written. Most sex scenes so far seem to come out of the blue or are the result of forced plot just to add some sexual content. Choices seem to matter very little, and the game forgets past choices from time to time, making the whole "how do you run your business" idea mostly irrelevant. Characters are mostly plain and one-dimensional and plot twists are both forced and predictable.

Renders are of decent quality, but character models are very irregular, which does make some sense but ends up adding sex scenes with characters I had no interest with (and I can't avoid, since choices don't matter). Sounds are very basic, just some music sometimes. And animations are basicly missing.

All in all, a good idea with a bad execution.

I went in expecting a fap fest but was surprised by the choices. A lot of VNs provide superficial choices which do not affect more than a couple of dialogues but this one has a lot of meaningful choices. It's not groundbreaking or anything, but I was surprised by it.
The other aspects are good too but nothing standout.

this game at least 4/5 tho for me its 5/5, i dont get the low raitings, you cant find any biz type vn with this good renders and models. i can say writing is also good there is not enough deep story BUT who cares?? some guy making biz and fucking girls, most importantly this girls are wearing sexy office clothes. go play ataegina if you mindlessly and boringly wanna read the millions of meaningless text without any scene or tease. in this game on the other hand girls are speaking seductive its only shows one thing to me its writing skill! story and writing skill are 2 diffrent things and i wont expect jrr tolkien type of story with the any porn vn ever. you can see some try and how bad they are.

Bastard v6.0 review

Our protagonist is not a whiny Tenant, a College Gary Stu, or P* Landlord. He is a Bastard and being one is what makes the difference here.

The girls are diverse, and some are pretty on the level of the best girls in the genre, I'm talking about Julia and Margo.

They are not the best renders in the world, but not all devs have an Nvidia X090ti++ or multiple workstations, at least in the sex scenes where we have a large number of CGs, the developer is not lazy in this regard.

The protagonist's eyebrows are not a defect of Daz or the video card, play to find out. Don't let his appearance fool you, this Visual Novel is more elaborate than it seems in the sense of choices and routes.

About the grammar, I am an ESL and I don't mind, but the Developer can fix it in the next updates.

Most of the time the plot with some girls works fine, other times the reasons are silly or fast to my taste, but again the Developer can fix it.

[v6.0]
Story is cookie cutter, businessman goes around trying to fuck every woman he meets while doing business things. At least MC is an actual adult and not a teenager in college, so that's a plus. Models are a bit ugly to be honest. There are some animations, but they are very janky at best. Basic audio is present (light tunes and some sound effects). Writing is pretty poor overall, it's Renglish even with randomly Russian smileys thrown in). It's not terrible, but it's also not worth a download imo. 4/10

This a review for the 6.0 version of the game. My lord what an experience this was...


I'll start out by saying wtf even is this, like my lord, visual novel's need story surely lol?

Story 0.5/5 Not even google maps can find the location of this story.
Now, for a game to be even at least decent, it needs to have a good story, not really even amazing. just decent. This game somehow fails to do the most basic aspect of a game. Now, I'm not asking you to write a whole massive interconnecting story, but please have at least something.
One thing that I found kind of stupid, is how there's a bit of a rape scene (Nothing wrong with that,) and then the woman just turns and falls over the mc's cock like, it makes literally no sense, it's stupid. The woman who goes in their is housekeeping we don't actually see why she came in to the room.
The "story" throughout is a literally a joke, there's no other way to describe it.

English 2/5: Typical Engrish
Another thing that may help when making a game is having it actually make sense, not just logically,(which the game has already failed on)but linguistically. This game makes literally no sense at all, the engrish is insane. Please, if there's anything for the dev to take away from this review it's that they need to proofread!

CG 3/5: Slightly above average
I've given the CG this rating mainly because I personally haven't seen the character's before, but besides that they're your average daz models.
Nothing to really write home about here.

Animations 1.5/5
Now, as we all know: For a game to be good, it needs the two foundations, it needs the floor and the pillar, the mouth and the snatch... This games fails to deliver pillar 1: Story. You'd kinda hope that from that they would then have good animations/sex scenes, right? PFFTTTT fuck off mate get out of dream world.
The animations here are the fucking worst. At first they seem to be where you need to like manually click them to make them kind of look like an animation, which just looks immensely shit, but then we do see an animation that is the typical 1-2 frames back and forth (if I remember they weren't even in a loop) . This also kinda pissed me off, out of all the scenes to be animated, the blowjob was animated, not the anal, not the normal sex, the fucking blowjob. Get your priotities in order. +0.5 for at least having an animation.

In words, I'd probably say that you're going to have a better time fapping to a Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow.

To conclude:
In its current release (6.0), Bastard is a fucking husk of a game. It somehow fails to have just one of the two foundations that make a game decent: Animations and Story.
You're 100% going to cum to a PowerPoint slideshow before you can cum to the fucking "animations" in this game.
The English is really really bad, like really bad . I will admit, there was a game not too long ago I looked at that had the worst English I'd ever seen, I'd say this game is currently in maybe 2nd - 3rd place.

Tips from an Ignorant consumer to a developer:
Hi there matey, two things,:
1) Please proofread: I really struggled to make sense of a lot that was written. If you perhaps were more thorough in your proofreading then I wouldn't have had to mention the Engrish issue.
2) Animations or story: I have done some stuff with digital art, I'm not very good I'll admit, so it's quite hard to actually animate, but I think you should maybe make the decision between (at this stage) animations and a story and then work from there.

I wish you all the best in your current and future endeavours!

Final Rating: 1.5/5: Not even google maps can find the animations or story!

As of V6 ... don't bother.

The game is very short, which could be a reason for itself.
Furthermore, the renders are grainy, the text is in engrish and the plot is porn-level (I saw my mom giving you a blowjob, so I wanna try that, too.).
I also think the females are mostly ugly, but that's always a matter of taste, so ymmv.

On the plus side, a few choices have reasonable impact, at the very least short term consequences, and scene-building and asset-selection appear to be solid.

Still, it'll be a while before the game has a reasonable amount of content, and it's probably unlikely what's there now is going to be revisited. MAYBE the text, but that's it. So ... yeah, as of now, don't bother.

The graphics are decent, but the writing is absolutely awful [v6.0 reviewed].

On a technical level it has sentence fragments and bad grammar, but that pales in comparison to the totally suspension-of-disbelief-shattering insanity of the characters' dialog and behavior.