Ren'Py - Lucky Paradox [v0.10.3] [Stawer]

Lucky Paradox is excellent in basically every aspect. That being said, the character writing is where this game really succeeds in comparison to other vns. It is a bit slow on the sexual content but that makes it all the better because of the connection you build along the way. I believe when it's completely finished and polished up it will be one of the best vns on this site.

Excellent game with an interesting story, excellent characters, graphics and animations. A fairly complete game which I look forward to adding more content (especially from Charlotte). As points to improve, it would be great to work on voices for the heroines or effects sounds and the inclusion of some minigames for some activities and as a last point, more importance to the statistics of the protagonist and that these influence the events.

Now what can be said about Lucky Paradox... I would say it's a story about a broken man trying to shoulder others problems and manageing it quite well through his skills or sometimes some lucky circumstances (pun intended). While it's somewhat of a harem game, personally I fear that as we near the end, the multiple girlfriend situation will backfire on our protagonist. I hope I'm wrong, but alas the overarching story does allude to something like this (or I maybe misread the situations, but alas I digress). For the time being, It's nice to see that the girls find confort and can give confort to the MC.

This game made me feel like picking out that one pretty and chocolate cover candy that has a whiskey+mint in the middle. Sweet and designed beautifully outside, while bitter and packs quite a flavor in the inside. For the characters themselves, can't say they perfectly match their personality, but this gives them a more "human" feel to them. My main interest is torn between Prim and Maxy (yeah, I'm really into alt/scene girls, sue me). Prim is on of the sweetest characters you can didle out there. She's caraing and loving while, being vulnearble around our MC. Maxy is your run of the mill, alt/artist girl, with quite a secret to her. Both of them gives you a captaveting and fulfilling story and relationship. Ofcourse, this is true to the other girls and everyone have their taste. You can choose from qute a vareity of characters to be your main girls so, by all means give this game a whirl.

While LP have a time system, like most of the Ren'Py games, it manages to not make the player feel too much urgency to it. What I mean, the pacing of this game is quite good. There is no chance on missing out of content becouse you didn't raise your XYZ stat to a certain extenet in a span of a week.

So all in all, an amazing job and an intriguing story with very life like characters. I don't even dare to speculate what ending this project will have, but while I dread a tragedy, I'm still waiting and expecting an update to this game every day. As mentioned and incredible job Stawer! Cheers.

Just finished everything there is to do in 0.5.0, and i can safely say this is one of the better sandbox/harem games out there. Before diving into the pros and cons, i want to give huge props to the dev of the game, as you can clearly tell alot of work went into making this game, because the quality of pretty much everything is quite well done here.
Pros:
+Nice and clean renders with the HS character models having somewhat realistic proportions, with actual locations around the map to explore day to day.
+The UI is quite nice and easy to understand (usually i have a huge pet peeve about things like this)
+The writing has alot of heart, and characters all have backstories that you learn as you progress through their quests.
+The actual location the game is set in, with all the backstory that has been presented, gives it alot of potential to be expanded by quite a margin.
+The chunk of content already here even though it's 0.5.0 is quite impressive
+Some okay jokes, some overused jokes, but ultimately the mood in the game can change from light hearted to heavy quite efficiently.
Cons:
-Some girls come on a bit too strong? Some of them fall in love at first sight, and even though it is explained why later, it still doesn't really feel right, but i suppose time will tell how the dev decides where the characters go
-There is some grind here, and usually i like some grinding, but the reward for grinding in this game isn't quite satisfying (a single piece of clothing in the game costs around $500, and at first you earn around $10 a day in game. Through alot of grinding, and i mean ALOT, you eventually will reach to a point where you earn around $100 each day. For me it took around 100 in game days to get to that point)
-The current roster is a bit smaller than the typical Harem game, so i can imagine some people not liking this
General tips or thoughts:
+Some of the existing characters could be more utilized (the lady by the dock, the lady in the casino, french girl's sister)
+Maybe either reduce the grind a bit or make the fishing activity produce more money
+Have some actual uses for the rooms besides sleeping or showering. I like playing sandbox games and feeling immersed in the living space.

TL;DR: A great harem game with enough characters to keep you entertained, albeit with some grind. Worth the download and maybe consider donating to their Patreon

This is one of the best game in this site.
Lovely characters make me feel more affection to them. great renders and perfect POV animations. Story is good too.
Already lot of contents but can't wait for more!

i rather like this type of game as i play for a storyline and whats in the world around u Lucky Paradox has a story that links all the characters together in 1 way or another. i think the dev puts alot of work and thought into the story
as any developer they want to see thier own vision of what they want it to be not what everyone else everywhere wants as thats impossible. i can say this as i like this style but alot of people may not as i say different strokes for different folks.If u enjoy this style have fun.

I am not too sure why this has so many good reviews. Not to hate or anything, but I think many of the more criticizing reviews mention all the important points, so to make it short:

Good
- Good character visuals. HS is some very welcome change from all the Dad3d stuff.
- Realistic bodies wich is a plus for me, since I have seen to many 18 year olds with HH cups etc.

Bad
- Characters are way too edgy and overdramatic. Often feels like I played a teens movie. Story is very artificially stretched
- No shadows in renders decrease their quality tremendously, at least for my taste

Good CGs, but poorly written/translated dialogue (I'd imagine the devs first language isn't English, but I don't have faith the dialogue would be much better even if they were perfectly proficient). The setting is bizarre, and I get the feeling the game believes me to be far more engaged by the story than I actually am.

A really good game, I just played half of it already but it's really interesting, it's not a like other games that only concentrate on sex or fucking every girl you see, I really love Prim and every character is like a real person with feelings and not a robot that is in love with the MC because it's the MC, and the last thing the story it's really good has a really amazing plot and (Spoiler) the best scene is the one with Sasha and the truth behind the door, when she shows to the MC that his friend is dead ... I fucking loved that

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK

Pros:
- Amazing Characters
- Good plot
- Developer quite dedicated
- Good animations
- Good relationship builder

Con:
- It takes a little longer than usual to get to the good stuff

Review:This game is fascinating, I loved all the characters, I like how you form relationships with each of the girls, the only thing that can be considered as "bad" is that it takes you a lot of time to get to the lewd part, although for me it is not that important, from there the game is very well done and I feel that at some point the developer can only go improving the game because it has so many things that can be appreciated and the whole game is like putting together the pieces of a puzzle, I have a lot of theories but I need the game to confirm them so I will only wait for more content.

Based on the (as yet) unfinished v0.5.3A.

My usual disclaimers when writing reviews on here are that A. I am here for the "plot" not the plot and B. I generally dislike visual novels. So take both of those into consideration for my review when thinking about this game.

Pros

• Honey select models are usually enjoyable to play with and hot - while obviously not the "photorealistic" style many other games prefer, I have always been a fan of Honey Select and think it makes for an enjoyable experience to play with. Plus the renders and animations are all quite nice.
• Content - There is already a whole swathe of content and it's clear that the dev is churning more and more out (given that it's only been on F95 for ~1 year at this point and is already in v0.5). Always a good sign.

Mehs

• High level of "story" content - I put this as a meh as some people might enjoy this a lot more than me. In essence, it takes a LONG time to get to any of the sexual stuff with the girls... A LONG time... And while that in itself isn't inherently bad, I'll direct you to my negative points.

Cons

• Inept male - I've seen a few reviews of other games on here complaining about useless male protagonists and usually avoided them, but nobody is mentioning it here and it is ABSOLUTELY the case. Lucky (the protag) is fucking clueless and useless. There are multiple scenes where a girl is basically getting naked and rubbing herself on him like a cat in heat and his response is "Oo err this is bad." Fuck off with that dick-teasing weaboo shit.
• Melodrama and edgy story - ALL of the characters (bar none) do not behave like any semblance of real people. The protagonist is constantly bemoaning how he cannot allow anybody to get close to him, the girls constantly insist they cannot love him because he won't allow himself to get close to them (which was news to me given that I was hoping they'd get their tits out), but simultaneously they all immediately fall in love with him, but then will refuse to actually have anything resembling an open or honest conversation with him. Not to mention that to a one every character (again including the protag) have almost ludicrously tragic backstories which means they refuse to trust/love anyone or do anything that would make them happy. It's all FAR too "I am 14 and this is deep" to take remotely seriously.

I have mentioned in about half of my reviews that I am a fan of Harem Hotel and on the surface, Lucky Paradox looks like it could very easily fall into the exact same category of game. Lots of content, honey select girls, hot and kinky harem shenanigans. Unfortunately, the similarities are only surface level and after an hour or so in the game this starts becoming more and more apparent.

From the perspective of sexual content (which I am here for) it takes WAY too long for anything to actually happen and usually for no good reason. It's like the dev will just arbitrarily go "you can only see this much titty right now, no more! Not until you've done this same event another 3 times!" It's just exhausting. Particularly as many times when it seems obvious that sexual content will happen it then doesn't.

This is largely due to the behaviour of the characters and protagonist, which I've already said are just so far away from reality. Both the girls and the guy will regularly refuse each other for really bizarre, nonsensical reasons. Mostly for the sake of melodrama. Note: I said "melodrama" NOT "drama"... It's just the sort of "oh woe is me, I am so sad and do not deserve love or sex, but you can still sort of touch my boobs because I need to tease you". And god it's just frustrating.

A lot of the other reviews have said how good it is that all the girls have their own personalities rather than "box for you to stick you dick into" and in principle I agree, but their personalities are also by-and-large very extreme tropes of "difficult".

I think perhaps a big part of my frustration might be due to the fact that Lucky has a very defined personality. He doesn't feel like a character who I can self-insert on. In most H-game you are given a defined goal ("save the Princess", "get revenge", "bang your sister" etc) but here you have more than that. Lucky has a goal (of sorts, which isn't terribly clear) but also has his own character and makes decisions based on this, leading to regular occurrences of me going "what the fuck, why the hell did I say that??"

For all of this, you might note I'm not rating it extremely negatively. This is because I feel that if the decisions made are stupid the writing is at least decent and the sexual content (what there is) is very enjoyable. It just is such a slog to reach it that I'm not convinced I'd recommend it.

Renders 5/5 great renders
Animated Scene 5/5 I love H-scene of POV angle. There are many in this game.
Characters 5/5 I feel more affection for the characters. Yui is the most adorable character I've ever seen.
Story is good too.

I can say that it is an excellent game, at the beginning it starts there normal, with a bit of misterior but after the story starts, it is very entertaining and good, of this type of games I think it is the first to play with the fourth wall and the pc closes me hahaha good detail. Then the story of each of the girls is very interesting but without a doubt the two best stories are those of Maxy / Mary and Yui, I want to know more and please, tell me that later I will be able to flirt with Yui's sisters hahaha
10/10

by the way, thanks for the language in Spanish, thank you very much

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puedo decir que es un excelente juego, al inicio comienza ahi normal, con un poco de misterior pero luego de que arranca la historia, es muy entretenida y buena, de este tipo de juegos creo que es el primero que juega con la cuarta pared y me cierra la pc jajajaj buen detalle. Luego la historia de cada una de las chicas es muy interesante pero sin ninguna duda las dos mejores historias son las de Maxy/Mary y Yui, quiero saber mas y por favor, dime que mas adelante podre ligar con las hermanas de Yui jajaja
10/10

por cierto, gracias por el idoma en español, se agradece muchisimo

Version 0.5.3A

First, the developer is quite dedicated to the area of artistic detail and image composition, I love the way the renders work

Second, each character is like a person in itself they have independence in their actions, they have internal problems, they have their own reactions and most important of all "They don't try to justify themselves by a sad past", but above all Charlotte is my type of girl because she knows what she want to achieve and even if the protagonist is not part of her life could continue to move forward, although of course it is normal to have some shortcomings as a person that makes it the best character of all, at least for me

Third, for God's the plot is a masterpiece, it has so many details, so many things to find out and what the developer tries to do is to tell the story by images because sometimes the texts are not necessary.

5/5

Animations 4/5
Characters 5/5
Story 5/5
Gameplay 5/5

I like this game. The story is well written and easy to follow, the characters have great personalities, you can take showers (yes that is important), and there's no mini-games or puzzles. While this is easily a 5-star game, the one thing that stops it from being a 5-star for me, are the H-scenes. The H-scenes are excellent, smooth, and well done, but lack or rarely show one thing, ass angles. That's it. That's the only thing that prevents me from rating this game a 5.


6.0
I'll be jumping into 6.0 momentarily. The first thing that I did was a quick check of the animations, and yes they look great. Review updated to a 5-Star rating, great job!

The art style feels unique, the character progression is nice and even if the game might feel a bit empty for now I have a lot of affection for it. For example Yui barely talks but nobody better hurt her! The game manages to make you care about the characters. Oh and nice art

Great art and scenes but the real star here is the story the characters are great and have great stories of their own but the overall story is insane. Can’t wait to see more with each character.

{Spoiler} hope in the future we get to either choose between the restraint girls or resolve their differences.

played version 0.4.02
first of all its not realy ordinary porn game- its actualy romantic game with some porn.
pro:
- very good written story- nothing ridicolus like "meet and fcuk", each girl have good background
- girls have surprises (nothing ridiculos like "im superheroine" or "actualy, im 3000ys old vampire " or "honey, i must to confess- i have dick"). no spoilers- just taste it through gameplay
- not bad CG
- simple eng
- no need wt cuz game have buildin hints
cons:
- source code written in spanish lang and that take time to read it.
- some hints r wrong

i hvnt written that in any review, but "try that game- pleasure guaranteed"

Oh my god a lot of references to kamen rider, very funny, in fact it makes me think that one girl of them is based on Stark from Kamen Rider build (For those who notice that reference) but WELP ...

The artistic style of the characters is very well done

(Spoiler Alert)
I really liked the plot, especially now I thought that the game was totally calm until the last thing happened I was shocked, and that it was known what happened with Anton, I can not imagine how the developer will continue to develop the story but follower who is on a very good way

The composition of the renders is not perfect but, if it comes too close I like that it doesn't only show the girls from the same angle, but also that it doesn't change the perspective that each one of them has in some scenes, you can see that the developer has put a lot of effort into it.

The translation is not perfect but it's understandable and I can still notice the personalities and intentions of the characters through it so for me it's ok, there are some mistakes but nothing that can't be fixed otherwise the game is very well done

The design of the girls and each personality has me in love with each one of them, without anything else to say, I say goodbye or should I say

CIAO

This game was a big surprise.

Each girl and the story in general is quite interesting. There are a lot of things to discover and you don't need a walkthough to know what to do in each moment, and grind is not necessary to get H content.

After the secret ending, I'm looking forward to the new update!

I think I've fallen in love with Layla.