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

I played this because I am a huge fan and supported of the other fantastic game of the dev "amnesia".

Well. you can see that he was not as proficient back than as he is now, the models look nice but unlike amnesia the animations are bad.

I normally love free roam and I like grinding if it is rewarding and done in a fun way. Unfortunately this is not the case here, this grind takes a lot of time and the clunky interface is not helping to level your stats smoothly.

During some scences you often have skill checks or worse have to guess what action to make without ANY hint what is right. If you choose wrong you can wait sometimes a whole week before you can repeat it and hopefully guess right.

The hint system is terrible, most of the time you don't know what you have to do next.

I stopped playing after failing for the fifth time watching the movie together with the daughter.,you have to touch when she is focused on an "intense" scene. What is an "intense" scene? No hint whatsoever and when you guess 1 time wrong the event is stopped and you can wait a whole week again.
We are speaking of over 20 images where 3 allow you to process further... And after that there are other movie events...

Sorry but this game is a waste of time, I can only recommend all to play the amnesia instead.

Pretty much dog shit through and through. Bad interface, bad plot, bad options, bad English, unintuative dumpster fire of a game. It's a directionless hint free wander fest that if your lucky you'll stumble onto wtf your supposed to be doing. The polish on the 3dcg is somehow expected to make up for this abysmal shit heap of a game. It doesn't, one star out of 5 is being generous. The only "Mark" is the "unlucky" unsuspecting person who downloads this 12.5 gig waste of bandwidth.

This.... okay let me just say that this rating is more so for the mod and not the actual game the art for the game gets a star and the mod gets the other 2 stars...

I played this game quite some time ago and dropped it because of the absolutely disgusting translation. The english in this game is worse then MTL games. I thought if I left it alone for a while (about a year and a half or so now) that someone would give it a better translation or the creator would fix it himself by using MTL instead of whatever broken english this came out of.

The english isn't all that makes this game bad. It is clearly poorly made and super tedious without the mod. Nothing feels like it works and the music they play just makes your ears bleed. Some of the music is obviously ripped from other games and then some of the music I swear some of the music sounds like they have 2 songs slammed together to create something new(I could be wrong but it makes you want to stab your ears out.)

The only good thing that was created about this game FROM the creator was the art. The story could be good... if you can understand anything being said. I ended up just not reading any of the text after a while and tried to understand the story without it.

+2 stars for the mod
+1 star for the art

Looks great. Undertone is awful and there is pretty much no solid relationship here. Waaaaay to fucking much tedious time wasting. Too many gotta do exactly X at X time in X place shit. Game is unplayable without the mod to keep your stats at 100 or allow you to change time to what you want/need.

Sometimes the pace of the game is slow. English often sounds like a word-for-word translation from Russian. For Slavic languages speakers, such as myself, it's not a big problem, but many dialogues can be incomprehensible to others. However, the scenes are absolute top. The event at the psychiatrist's alone is worth the download. Will play again.

It's enjoyable to work through this game and gradually unlock all of the scenes. The women are attractive and all have their own unique personalities that guide how the player interactions develop. I feel like the developer did a good job of slowly opening up each relationship in different ways. The renders are great and all of the scenes are done well.
My only gripe is that it is a bit of a grind to get through the game. Even with a walkthrough, there was a little too much repetition needed to get through all of the scenes and having scenes limited to specific days and times of the week mean that you have to cycle through a lot of time unnecessarily.

Lucky Mark (18.0) is both a great game and a horrible game, at the same time. The bad part comes from the gameplay. It is grindy, has a lot of quests that are not clear what you need to do to progress, and requires a lot of time devoted to things that are repetitive and boring. It has no choices to make, because even though it seems like it does, each event has a correct choice (or series of choices) to be completed, and often you can only find out by trial and error... waiting a whole week for the event to restart, or to be able to advance a bit further than last time. And it also is very buggy, with lots of different problems. I recommend playing it with cheats to at least reduce the grind amount or to be able to handle time better, but the downside is that it makes more bugs come out. And translation has dozens of errors, I understand english is not the developers main language, but it should still be noted.

On the flip side, the story has some interesting arcs and moments. And also, both render quality and animations (though these show up more as you advance in the game) have a very high quality.

So, all in all, it could have been a masterpiece, but it falls short because of technical bugs and a grindy and confusing gameplay.

The renders are okay, I guess. The story is average. The ending is horrible. And now let's talk about the gameplay. The game so grindy. Sometimes it is impossible to play if you're not using cheats. And bugs, man I have no words. The games is so buggy, sometimes you just wanna quit the game. Sometimes you want to literally exit the game to get those annoying sound track which have been playing in the background even though the even is finished. In summary it is an average game with okay renders and okay story. If you've never played this game I do recommend using cheats carefully, because cheats will break the game and you have to restart over and over again.

i will leave it with 4 stars. (i could have added 1 more star to counterbalance some unfair low rates...but then i would have reduced 1 because of qol)

it is an alright sandbox (content, plot, renders) but only if you play with
-usermade cheatmod ( with timetweaking +/- 1h/1d and anti-grind measures: cash, scores, luck, etc)
-usermade walkthrough ( there is no chronological order so i just pick an event and play until completion, that is, i tweak time back n forth throughout the questchain until it is done. that gameplay reminds souless vn-datesim experience and unfortunately i dont see any alternative to that ). ingame tips exist but not so useful

but lets be honest, when it comes to sandboxes it is not uncommon to rely on such 'addons'. so nobody forces you to have a bad experience when you easily can have an okeish one. that is why i never rate a game without taking into account available improvements

( im into sandboxes, but this is a rare case when i am sure i wouldnot be playing it without the abovementioned things . it just looks more complicated than needed. )

despite the external improvements there are some qol issues
- i think saving when having options to choose from is of no use ( as i loaded a save and was in another room without anything going on . but dunno if it were a single case, havenot tried again. )
-no rolling back (not that important as usually i click correctly)
-only mouse button for conversation skipping ( which can be the one and only reason for me to ditch games. LM is the first exclusion from that rule. though the amount of text is somewhat tolerable , in a way it even forces me to look at the dialogue lines when taking a rest from hardcore mouse-skip button clicking )
-ui is bit unpolished ( volume is on after loading your save , back and exit button tricked me)
-one event (real gentleman) is indeed buggy. (u need to skip/click slowly when u talk to chris at 19.00 ... all other issues i encountered was due to guide being vague or me not paying attention https://f95zone.to/threads/lucky-mark-v18-0-super-alex.5483/post-5876053)

note: animation pack is just for watching, you cannot merge it with the game

Unfortunately I have to give this two stars since this is the most frustrating game I have ever played. So many event that need to redo over and over again and most stupid mechanism is lock those event on certain day. I mean i have to use mouse macro to jump to another week cuz I am tired of clicking. On the other hand there is no hint at all so it may waste tons of hours to search why you couldn't trigger event and there is also bugs with it that prevent you trigger the event. Smart way to aviod that is modify the save file since it is straight forward and there is guide to help you do that. The least thing I want to mention is there is a good cheat mod to use so you won't have to worry about all the energy status and help you save some time

Rating done for complete game v18:
I quite enjoyed this. It has reasonably good coding, excellent gfx and above par animation and music, decent story and writing and gorgeous girls, Elena in particular. Where it lacks is that it’s impossible to play without a walkthrough. It resembles a LOP game, grindy as fuck often for no real reward . Had I played it update by update, I would probably have found it easier because each update contains a specific set of events that the player has to complete. But when it comes to playing the whole game in one go it becomes very frustrating. And the Unity engine does not allow going back to a choice so imagine the grind. Nearly gave up several times. Playing without the WT will lead to a couple of nice lewd scenes but then the going round in circles starts. Do yourself a favour, use the WT from the start and enjoy a very entertaining game. And make sure to go play Amnesia by this dev which is in RenPy and promising to be as good as Lucky Mark.

This is an actual review, I'm not shilling for anything and I wont lie to anyone.
This game is bullshit, another blueballs simulator. 80% of the scenes in the game are blowjob, handjob, titjob, or teasing scenes. The main female characters only have about 2 penetration scenes, one vaginal and one anal. This dev SUCKS at progression, and character development. The characters stay angry or hating on you for most of the game, they stay reluctant to go further than teasing the entire time too, so alot of scenes feel kind of rapey, theres one scene where you ACTUALLY rape a character which i'm personally not very into, especially since it doesnt even effect your relationship with that character, she just goes on to act like it didnt happen. the ending was rushed as hell, he decided to throw 1 sex scene for each character (except for jessica she never gets anything other than a blowjob scene) at the end of the game. The animations at the end of the game are good and all, but the MC SHOULD HAVE FUCKED THOSE WOMEN FOREVER AGO, IT TOOK UNTIL THE FUCKING END. He got to fuck Christina's mom so quickly I was wondering why the hell didn't he do this shit before, she probably has the most actual sex scenes in the game (meaning penetration. Oral or any sort of teasing doesnt count as a sex scene) and shes a character that shows up at the end of the game, crazy how you only get one with your sister, none with Zari or whatever her name is, but get like 3 with a character that showed up WAYYYY after them. Then the ending, you get 3 choices for nothing because they're all the same ending, so giving you a choice is pointless. Only reason im giving this game a 2 star rating is because the dev got better at animations by the end, everything else sucks

Excelent game, superb renders and animations. The history is very good.

If I had to give a criticism: Maybe I would have liked to see more scenes of full sex and have taken a little deeper into the relationship of the protagonist with others, I feel that I gave much more. Still for me it is a 5 star game.

The game has incredible fap potential, 5/5 for that. But other than the sexy characters, the game has very little else going on for it.

The game is long and boring, I have tried numerous times to try and finish this game, each time the amount of grind has caused me to delete it. Almost impossible to try and finish this game without the walk through.

The visuals are good however the english writing is very bad. Sentences have their words all mixed up like "I not my mind even once" to mean "I wasn't even thinking about it" (not an actual line in game but gets the vibe of the writing).
The programing isn't great either with sounds from previous scenes always playing.
The game is also hard to move around in with no indication where to go.
It has promise but the maker needs to get an english editor to make it even close to playable. It might be better in russian but I dont read russian.

one of the best games ever played, nice story, really nice pictures and surroundings. The characters in the game are good. During the updates i played them directly after release and couldnt wait untill the next release. Really worth playing!

Man, such a great artwork for such a bad everything else, gameplay is boring and grindy, history doesn't make any sense, like, you get to fuck a girl and then she gets mad at you when you see her naked?? The file size is just ridiculous for a game that, well, it does has some features that makes it visually appealing but oh my lord 12gb its really a lot for those kind of games. (also the CG rip is only 1gb so there are atleast 8 - 10 gb of features, plugins, etc, [already discounting the coding and stuff that need to be in to game work properly])

Now to the part that i didn't saw much complaint about, The translation. I mean, i can understand the dev, he isn't fluent at english, i ain't too, but, man, google translate is soo easy to use. 70% of the time you have to deduce the dialogue because words are missing or there are random words that don't fit the dialogue

Oh, and i think i forgot to mention but it is very, very buggy, that, even reinstalling the game didn't solved, like the one where you sleep and you just cannot progress to the next night, so you have to save and load or else you'll get stuck forever in the "Day xx" screen.

TL;DR Great art, bad everything else, just download the CG rip, you're not gonna miss the gameplay at all

Obs. As i said in the 2nd paragraph, im not fluent at english, so there may be some grammatical errors and typos. I used google translate and, in my language, it seemed to be fine.

Story: 1/5 - Long and dry
Art: 5/5 - Very careful art work
Animation: 4/5 - Animations are very good, but not very smooth. Sometimes I find it's a little bit laggy
Music: 4/5 - Songs are very dope, some songs I really want to hear again
Sound: 5/5 - Good sound effects
File size: 0/5 - Too heavy for all the animations and artworks, I think renpy does this better in the game's size
Gameplay: 1/5 - Very very very grindy. The game itself isn't that long. Even using cheat, it took me around 10 hours to complete the whole game. No clear walkthrough. There are many bugs that still available to prevent the player to progress.

Overall, just download the fan-made CG and watch it. It doesn't worth playing

Best game!
The best scenes, with a good story.
It is a pity such a low score for this game.
You need to be a little patient in the beginning.
It's my first review, I don't know what to say, only that the game is really good.

So in finished the game... hm didnt liked it very much. Extremly grindy, nearly everything has to be repeated several times. the animations and everything else looks fantastic, but thats the only thing that is positive in my opinion...

the story is complete nonsense, every charactre acts and is written complete implausible.

you have not really a choice in this game, there are no "paths" or "right" and "worng" choices... besides everything feels wrong.. the MC is a complete asshole, pervert and i have to say i wished he would die sorrowful in the end... you cant even be loyal to any of the charactres...

and even most of the "erotic" secenes were more a rape than anything else...

hm not my cup of tea overall.