Unity - Completed - Lucky Mark [v18.0] [Super Alex]

This game is quite difficult for me personally because even though I use cheat and follow the step by step walkthrough in the game, it often differs, for example, on Wednesday at 9 PM, should talk to Annie after she wearing lingerie but it turns out that no dialogue options appear. Then on the Zari date event, Zari often refuses to lewd moment even though Zari's points are maximum. Finally, the game always grinds itself and stuck in the middle of story due to the failure of one of the events. And no skip day so make this game more take to long for play and grinds when wrong way to go

I have to say, it's a really addicting game, great, minus the grind. It's the most frustrating grind I've had playing AVNs. But short, sadly. Someone here said it'd better if the dev continued Lucky Mark than Amnesia. I think he's absolutely right, seeing how Amnesia is constantly so optimized over the years. Sadly, vaginal sex is contained at the ending, if you really want to know. But I think it is justified.

3/5 a good sandbox since i like them but there is too much gridning and repetative scenes and steps there is not much of a plot its kinda meh if ur willing to grind hard u can play it there is not much romanace in it also the end part of the game sucks not a great ending there is also stats u need to keep up else the girls might reject and u gotta repeat them again i reccomend using mods or it will take forever to finish this

In summary its an average game with unnecessary added sandbox with lot of features uncompleted and with decent animation.

Some of the features in the game are not complete, and the in game quest guide is confusing. in-game grinding can be skiped use cheats or edit the save file to skip the grind.

The visuals and animation are in great quality, have a decent of content but replayity is none.There is no in-build gallery to replay and at the end the game end you cannot access the free mode/ sandbox soo you can understand that the sandbox is pointless . The story is ok took on average 12hrs to complete.If the developer proprley finish the game and completely or remove the sandbox then it would maybe a exellent game.

Too slow, too many drag, poor translation. It gets boring quick because of the everyday grind its quite disappointing frankly. Disappointing experience overall. The graphics are outdated, the gameplay is repetitive, and the controls are clunky. It lacks depth and fails to engage, leaving it feeling like a chore

Plot / Story: 2/5 - Borderline nonsensical at worst, silly at best. I can't say anything was particularly interesting or well written about it, but it's certainly not the worst I've ever seen. Also, the absolutely awful engrish and terribad MTL-poetry level translations made things that much worse!

MC: 0/5 - One of the BIGGEST beta soyboy losers I have ever had the misfortune to play as. Dude is a literal doormat in the worst way possible. It made me almost physically ill to play as this guy. Even worse is when he tries to act tough / dominant and just gets wrecked like the little bitch he is. This was easily the worst part of the game for me (and considering how grindy and insanely convoluted it is to play the game even with a walkthrough, that's saying A LOT!).

Graphics / Animations: 5/5 - From the worst part of the game to the best. The female models were all fantastic (Zari's hairstyle takes some getting used to, but w/e) and the animations were great! Sure, they were your standard looped animations, but combined with how gorgeous the women were, it made the game actually worth playing.

Gameplay: 1/5 - What can I say? It's one of the worst sandboxes, with a horrendously excessive amount of clicking and basically impossible without a detailed walkthrough. The experience was painful at best, and honestly, if the female models weren't so damn attractive, I'd have quit it after an hour. And I used the cheat mod as well... I can't even imagine playing this game as it was originally intended. That would be absolute torture!

Overall score: 2/5 - If the models / animations appeal to you, give it a shot (because they are the only thing carrying this game). Otherwise, don't bother.

Yet another flawed masterpiece, is how I would describe this game.

It has a lot of grind, glitches, and is (very) hard to 100% without a walkthrough.

It still left a mark (lol) on me. It's one of a kind. The fact that doing whatever you want can have bad consequences is already a subversion of the genre. The game feels rewarding, and rarely stale. It has its sexy moments that feel unique. Even some of the plot made me entertained.

This is one for posterity. If you can accept its slavic-style rough edges.

There is no time-limit so DO NOT rush and try to immerse yourself even if you make lots of mistakes. No need to save scum.

the renders are pretty damn good and there are A LOT of scenes. there are some animations. story is decent. there are some music tracks + sound effects but they're poorly implemented. the english translation is horrendous; you will only be able to comprehend maybe every 2nd or 3rd line of dialogue. the game is very buggy. it's up to you to decide if the juice is worth the squeeze on this one.

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

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

Sadly, the game is impossible to play without cheats. Not only it is fcking annoying to grind relationship AND sympathy points, the game then adds hunger/energy and other metrics that are just broken.
One example, sleeping 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.

So, then you download the cheat mods...
Cool, now every need is 100 and you can skip the grind maxing everything.
But then, even now things don't happen naturally. You need an exact day and hour to talk to the NPCs to advance in the story. Without the walkthrough it would be way too boring skipping everything to try combinations.

Then you start progressing. I focused on Elena, the boss wife. Then you discover that quests starts to overlap, so you need to do others.
By now story is just ridiculous, and I only reading it from time to time since I already lost interest in it way earlier.
Then I looked in the WT to see how much I needed in other quests to get to where I wanted to be with Elena. Then I see the unavoidable netorare...

And to be fair, I did the -stupid- choices you have to make to trigger the ntr (and progress the story lmao) and the scene wouldn't even that big of a deal. Surely, I dislike netorare. But I could see that being acceptable bcz there is a resemblance of a reason for that to happen. And that's one of the major problems of the game. If you force yourself to keep playing, you can see that there is a heart somewhere, but it was completely lost in the total chaos that it became.

So...
-It is written in engrish.
-MC is dumb and a simp, uninteresting.
-LI ain't too bad, but not that great as well.
-Story is terrible, partially because of engrish, but also because it just really makes no sense.
-The whole programmer thing in the beginning made me laugh at least, makes no sense.
-You can only progress with clicks, no ctrl to skip or spacebar to progress.
-Then there's the sound, too much noise added (sfx all over the place) and dev couldn't even make your changes to the options persistent. After a while they reset.
-And overall, too much forced content. There are no real choices here. You have an exact string of choices you must do to get to more content. The netorare scenes are just the icing on the cake.

Pros:
- Excellent models, graphics, animation is present.
- There is a possibility of a game over (i consider it as a plus).
- It is also not necessary to do all the side quests, except for your own entertainment.
- Events are thought out and logical.
- There is a finished storyline.
- The characters feel "alive".
Cons:
- The finale of the game leaves an aftertaste of "rushed", as if the ending was written in a hurry.
- There are unfinished events: Zari, Anna with Bill, Jessica, and in my opinion Elena with Christina (when sunbathing).
- Lots of grind, really a lot. Grinding is necessary for sandboxes, but given that the MC parameters drop over time, it is too much.

Considering that, according to the author, this is his first project and he worked alone, the work for the first project was done very well. Solid 4.

P.S. Some people think that the game has too few hints, this is neither a plus nor a minus. On the contrary, I don’t like it when the game directly tells me: “you need to take oils and smear her back, you need to buy oil in the store, the online store is on the desktop of the computer (surprise)”. Why not make a "finish the game" button then, m?

I'm posting my review right after I pass. I really liked the game, it has a lot of fetishes and spicy scenes, especially femdom lovers should like it. It feels like the author's skill grew as the game progressed, the final scenes began to look super high quality and the author transferred this quality to his next game "Amnesia".
Of the minuses, I can note a lot of unfinished routes that directly asked for a continuation (like the theme with gymnastics or with my sister) and a rather hardcore grind, which I mastered without cheats, but it took a lot of time.
This game needs a director's cut that completes all dead end routes, fixes bugs, and rebalances the economy.

Graphics 7/10
The game has all high-quality rendering and cute models.

Animations 5/10 at the beginning and 8.5/10 at the end

Music 6.5/10
The rating could have been higher if there were no bugs with the music, the music selection itself is good.

Scenario 6,5/10

Text 6/10
In general, everything is written very well, but there are many spelling errors and typos.

Gameplay 5/10
A lot of grinding and repetition of the same actions can be easily repaired by rebalancing, but the author will hardly take it.

In general, I still give this game 5 stars, because it receives an undeserved amount of hatred, the game is worthy in its genre and I can recommend it.

The renders will pull you in initially but just like other sandboxes, the level of grinding you have to do is insane. According to other reviews, there is a good game underneath this if you decide to use cheats and the walkthrough but I like to experience the base game, as is, so for me it wasn't a fun time.

Pros
+ Elena (blond wife) is the only character with redeeming qualities and looks.

Cons
- it takes way too long to beat the game, not only because of grind but in later stage you simply spam skip hours to get to specific days of the week, and often you have to repeat these same events to progress in story.
- For a "corruption" tag the protagonist behaves like a pussy bitch 80% of the time and only persuades the girls by extreme brown-nose ass kissing. Big Brother [Dark Silver] did everything this game did but 200x better.
- tastes are different yes, but all the girls are so bland and boring, not only personality wise but even looks, proportions, skin, clothing. With the exception of maybe Elena, the appearance and sexiness of the girls the probably the most average I have ever seen in a 3DCG Western VN.
- Even the male characters are ugly, including the protagonist. (Usually this is a non-issue, but for a game that takes this long it will go on your nerves eventually)


Conclusion
The game tries to be like Dark Silver's - Big Brother but fails horribly at every single point. And whenever you get your hopes up with rising expectations, you will be met with a boring, repetitive and extremely unrewarding waste of time.

Mixed feelings overall - the route to get there is painful but then this game achieves some great looking art renders and animations.

For me, it wasnt the grinding persay that was a problem - it was the inherent interconnectedness of the character quests that made it so frustrating. Sandboxes with many different characters in different house locations at many times of day can be fun if you can make progress with one independent of others. Unfortunately here, everyone's on more or less the same set of rails, with their quests being small tributaries from the main line.

Having said that, still 4 stars because some of the scenes are competitive in art and animation quality with the best on the site, especially with the multi-angle camera animations. If the game had a better hint guide or quest tracker included, easily could be 5 stars - and this is much easier to fix than fundamentally poor art- and the interface is fairly intuitive compared to the typical unity "hotspot hunt" games.

Dialogue has some translation issues, which isn't a problem in flavor text but can be ambigious when important decision-making screens come up.

Has some third act problems, but what game doesn't?

Summary: Great art, great animations, great scenes, poor grind, rocky dialogue, good ui.

This game is begging for a Renpy remake because the models are quite good, and the story has potential.
Unfortunately, in its current state it's nearly unplayable.
Super grindy sandbox with horrible hint system.
Translation so bad, you literally have to guess at what is going on sometimes.
Animations are not very good, making the payoff for all the grind not really worth it.
MC needs a rewrite on his personality, as spineless beta sub gets old pretty quick.
NTR needs to be made completely avoidable, as having that blow up on you after days of grinding is pretty horrible.
I hear Devs next game is pretty good, but still having nightmares from this grind fest, so it will probably be a while before I try it.

character designs are very good, good story but there's no really helping quest log in game so you can easily miss important events and play again whole week, and a week is long... so you can miss again, and play again and get bored... if dev mae a good in game quest log kind of thing, if we would know what to do more clear, that would be a great game. definitly 4 maybe even 5 star...

Lucky Mark [v18.0] [Super Alex]
It's a nice game but it has too many flaws to be sufficient.
2/5.
- Let's start by saying that the game is not really finished, so if you are looking for a complete game this is not for you.
- The music is there (better than nothing), but it's very casual, it doesn't go well with the events.
- Without a guide it is practically impossible to finish certain events.
- The progressive relationship of the characters is very confusing. It's not entirely bad.
- Some characters are introduced but there are very few interactions with them (I'm not just talking about female characters).
- The game is more linear than you think, there are not many paths to choose.
- The art are nice. The animations are not bad but it was better not to put them.
- The game also lacks a gallery, to be able to see past events with complete peace of mind.
- The dialogues certainly could not all be redone, so I understand, but it is not nice to see that even once the relationship between two characters has advanced, some events, even if done later, are carried out in the past (the dialogues imply this). Of course, all games of the genre have this flaw, it's not just this game that fails, but a flaw is a flaw, it's not a subjective thing.
- Without any kind of outside help, the game is too slow and boring.
I don't recommend the game.

Dialogue is not English. Every time you want to load a save you have to go through the intro tutorial before you can actually load your save game. Audio settings reset every time you load the game, and the default music level is ridiculously loud

This may or might not be a game in which feelings are positive in regards to my opinion if the future is correct based on some assumptions I did not make nor you, but I am sad to report I am misgivings due to very bad English.

Sure, I can understand what the characters are saying and how the narrative progresses, but the quality of this Russian-to-English translation is pretty much par for the course with eroges: horrible. Considering there are 658 pages on this forum and 150+ reviews I find it shocking there hasn't been a fan effort to rewrite it into palatable text, but perhaps the author refused.

tl;dr impossible to enjoy because of the infuriating translation

I recently played amnesia that game was so good and renders and graphics all are better im that game i even rated that game in review section yk cuz i like this game so that's y i tried his this game and im so so disappointed and frustrated .
This game even started to frustrated me before playing the game cuz of the download size
Bcoz its not compressed good and also mega is the only option for fast download and it has limit per day so it is very slower and i had to switch it to VPN to get speed and yeah i handled all of this frustration and i finally installed it.
So when i started to play the game that is so depressing cuz just 3dcg not much animations and so so grind and i just believed this dev it has something so i just played like 6 hrs without break and there is no sex and yeah its utter crap...
I rated 1 star cuz of his another game so its just waste of time
So if u like just grinding with this stupid mc u can like this maybe