VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Lucky Mark - Unofficial Ren'Py Port [Final] [Doshima]

As stated by others this is not a game, even Doshima (developer of this thing) says it but only once you actually download it and start it:

Hi! Welcome to my Unofficial Ren'Py Port of 'Lucky Mark'

Before starting with the game, I'll have to make an aclaration.

THIS IS NOT AN ACTUAL GAME.

Why? Pretty simple, it's fucking impossible to make a port of this game exactly as the OG, the grind is an actual mess and the days system with the sandbox is also another mess.

So, I'm sure you're asking what the actual fuck is this. Pretty simple, our boy Mark is so lucky in this port, that he can pick any scene he wants and the game will play that scene!!

No grind, straight to the point, think about this as a 'gallery mod' but without a gallery.

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It's just a gallery or scenes (with text, not just the scenes) to select and put in the menu in no particular logical order that allows you to enjoy them in order. In fact, if you want at least play them in order the developer made a TXT file to tell you the chronological order of the scenes, he didn't even took the time to put them together that way in the "port" itself.

If it wasn't called all the time "Ren'py Port" before downloaded and if it was just an extra gallery mod, then I would probably rate it higher, but the way it's called force me to rate it as such, and as a Ren'py Port it's just a lie, horribly made, it's not a game, it's not a visual novel, it's not a kinetic novel... it's a not really nicely organized gallery mod.

Writing: 5/10
Imagery: 6/10
Gameplay: 0/10
Kinks: 5/10
Overall: 3/10

Galley Mod, not a Port.

I'm being nice here, since the "port" part of this is a straight up lie. I see the dev wanted to make this a full Ren'Py port, but I also see they realized they were in over their head and gave up immediately. They even include a little diddy at the start about how "hard this game would be to port properly". That's just an excuse, I've seen it done before, you just needed to build your own story path and call it the official port way of doing things.

This could have been a decent port, you could have made a visual novel that sticks to the storyline and interjects with the sexy times. I could name a dozen other games this has been done with, but mods get butt hurt when you talk about other games in a review so I'll refrain from doing that.

All said what you're left with here is a very bare bones gallery mod, with zero context to the story of the original game. Is the original a pain in the ass to play? Yes. Does it use a poorly constructed UI? Yep. Are the survival mechanics annoying and unnecessary? You betcha. But it is still more fun, than this.

Dont get confused, this here is not a game. It is just a gallery mod which already exist in the original game. No choices, no exploration, no stats, no building the relationship. You pick a scene and watch it. Thats all.

This is exactly what the title says, a ren'py port of the game 'Lucky Mark', which happens to be the first game I downloaded from f95. A 12 gigabyte grindbox saga that I have fortunately never had to play in the manner intended.

I used a cheat mod and a walkthrough to view sex scenes. It was the best and only alternative to an actual gallery with all the scenes. But no more... because this exists now. Now I can fap to the sex scenes of a porno gaem that introduced me to the world of porno gaems without the hassle of checking the walkthrough for the correct series of buttons to click in a badly designed and clunky Unity interface. All praise to Doshima for making it.

There are a couple of reviews, and posts, complaining about that very fact. For reasons that are unclear if not entirely absent, they hate this gallery viewer for a unity game that finished development half a decade ago. Needless to say, the potential downloader of this port should ignore them.

Strange rating this one. This isnt a full port or remake - it's a gallery of scenes from the original game.

Original game is super grindy, has no gallery, limited save slots and you need to memorize a series of "correct" choices to see each scene.

This (essentially) gallery room removes all the pain from just wanting to see the scenes of the original game.

It definitely has value in that regard. But no real gameplay - if you're looking for the full game and not just a gallery room, go check out the original. If you're like me and have played the original before, this is a great addition to the fap folder.

Game version: Update 6

I wished I could just copy & paste PartyOn111's recent review, because that is exactly what I wanted to write about this "game".

It's the collection of every (at least, when this port will be fully done) scene from the game "Lucky Mark". The game was a mess regarding pacing, story(-telling), characters..everthing except the lewd stuff.

Now, Doshima appeared and decided to strip the only good part from the game and port it to a new game. I really do support and like this kind of idea, especially when handling failures like L.M.

Again, this was never supposed to be a real game, the developer explains this in a disclaimer- whoever thinks that this isn't enough to make things clear...

Okay this isn't a game. It makes it very clear and cuts out a lot a bullshit. This is essentially a Gallery Mod.
However I will be clear, this is the only way I am touching Lucky Mark with a 10 foot barge pole as I value my time.

it could be smoother, and more fleashed out but it gets the job done and doesn't pretend to be more than it is.

First of all, the game has unavoidable NTR (netorare), just in case the tag isn't there.

Mark may be lucky, but anyone who tries this game is definitely not.
This is the biggest definition of waste of time I have ever seen in all my years on this site.

Sadly, the game is impossible to play without cheats. Not only is it fcking annoying to grind relationships AND sympathy points, the game then adds hunger/energy and other metrics that are just broken.
One example is sleeping, which resets your hunger to zero. Normally, you'd wake at 8 or 9, so the first thing you must do is eat. But then the NPCs have breakfast at 10, and in order to progress, you have to eat again, which makes you totally waste a few hours just because the game was not correctly designed.