VN - Ren'Py - Luminary Protocol [v0.3] [Jubs Games]

TLDR: more of a technical demo of what AI can do nowadays with vid creation, but not a very good game and even less a good adult game.

I'll give this quite a hard rating because of the overuse of AI.

The story is the only thing allegedly done by a human and even that feels like it lacks personnification. Most characters are bland and transparent. And the AI images doesn't help to give them an inch of tangibility.
The story itself is a lazy isekai full of tropes, not much to say.

Graphics are Ai generated, so expect empty eyes, the usual blurs and weird effects and A LOT of discrepencies from one scene to another.

Plus point for the visual SFX, they are nicer than most games.

Adult action is almost non existent and not very compelling.

this game has amazing potential.
the modelslook well polished and you can see the dev improving while you play the game. the setting itself is interresting and story is well written.
characters are all destinguishable in personaly and behavier and how they talk and act feels grounded. You can tell, for a nsfw vn there went a lot of care in the story itself.
still eary on but if dev continues like that, this could become something very beautifull

Wow! I really enjoyed this. found myself torn between reading the text first or paying attention to the amazing animations.
There were a few missteps, consistency of characters, some AI-specials - for instance the legs of the donkey and horses - that scene possibly didnt need the animation though...
But in the end the story is fun, the girls are FINE... and the animations makes me remember those glory days of baywatch!

v0.28 Review

As of now this is a 3⭐ but is heading in direction of a 4⭐.

First time trying this found the whole intro and plot setting quite annoying. Minimal setup to the characters and plot before throwing the reader right into it. An isekai is already a far fetched narrative alone, the world building here only making it less believable. The justifications for how this world functions holding about as much water as a colander.

Pushing past that aspect what saves this for me are the scenes and interactions with the other characters. Albeit with many substantial time jumps that would have been better filled with additional world and character development. Writing in general is fine. Nothing stood out particularly good or bad either way. Three is some adult content but not the primary focus.

For the visuals not a fan of AI used this way. I appreciate art isn't a talent everyone has, and don't mind AI being used as a crutch. Especially when the focus is on the story. But there is a LOT of inconsistencies in character design, and too may pointless animations. Waste of dev time IMO. With backgrounds sometimes completely different than their description. Most women in brothel attire from the 1880's and men wearing anything from D&D cloaked leather armor to 1960's 3-pc suits. Design is just all over the place.

Starting in Chapter 2 looks to be headed in a light sandbox system. Too early to tell hos it's going to be implemented. If there is going to be some time constraint to your available options then this would be a con for me. Forcing multiple playthroughs to experience content is just a hassle IMO. At least doesn't appear too grindy.

There's enough here to come back to and see how this progresses. So far there has been improvement with each update. The sub-par AI art and isekai plot essentially saved by it's characters and side content.

Ai Art: 5/5
The art is very nice with a fantasy theme, could be better, but it's ai, so for ai it's much better than in most other games. The best looking scenes are the fighting scenes with blood and effects.
Story: 4/5
The story is good, and it explains a magical fantasy-world, with politics, countries, and so on, so it's high-end-fantasy which is very difficult as a story.
Story-telling: 1/5
The story-telling is very boring I maybe skipped 70% of it, because it were simple fillers that didnt'matter for anything in the story, or even for the relationships, you can just ignore it. It also takes unrealitstically long, instead of travelling further they talk about a stone for 1 hour, nobody would do this. The story is like this, breakfast, talk to every single character, lunch, going to the town, going to school, breakfast, going for a walk, going shopping, etc, and the story didn't progress in this time. In chapter 2 the story progresses in one quest with around 50 images, and every image is exactly the same, it does not make any sense and it is just confusing, it would be nicer if it's shorter. I think as a sandbox-style game it could be easily 5/5 with more, and shorter paths, it's really annoying that there are so much forced visual-novel-style paths.
Gameplay: 3/5
It's a visual novel, so not much choices, but when there are choices, they are ok, there is a chaos/balance/order-system and you can get relationship-points in chapter 2, not much, but it's ok.
Scenes: 4/5
There is only one real scene with a slightly older woman. It is good, and you can not find good written scenes like this in many other games, it just takes maybe 10 fillers to get there, but the scene is good.

great game, art is great and i originally thought it was real life. a cool twist to the typical html games using twine. ofc using fantasy in a real life porn images style would be next to impossible as the use of ai shouldn't bother you.

Its well written and the incest is awesome! Need some animations next especially idles.

It's too early to "play".
Storytelling 5/5
All others 2-3/5
Family time travel not so original but good written. May be it's too good written in details for common vn. Mostly it's kinetic novel with a few choices.
Strange, loud and changing sounds of expressions by same characters, videos overlays on top of pics with borders, even with windows panel line on bottom, changing polished faces and bodies, model look of every character, bodybuilder type of main character it's all scare away.

A very good start. Story is incredibly original and intriguing! Female chars are gorgeous and the animations and gameplay will surely increase as dev gains more familiarity with tools.
I encountered this gem at Ep. 2 dev status and will keep an eye on this. If next episodes show same originality, I may just have to support this developer.

Images and Artwork are great. However that was all that I liked. Animations? Nah? Who needs em apparently. Its a friggin confusing mess of jumping around images on the screen. Did not even bother to finish the first 10 minutes as it had already turned me off. Especially when I read the Dev's comment about the lack of sex as it was just too difficult for him. Ummm. Ok? Its an adult game with no sex? Nah! Big ass No in my book! I don't give a damn how good your story might be if it has no Sex it aint for me. And then toss in the lack of proper animation as well and this quickly became a run for the exit.

Very impressive on the opening with the clips and the writing telling the story is also great, however more work is required transforming the action described by the story telling; by images and clips., eye lids & mouth opening to express life. Hugs and kisses with animation would be fantastic.

As this the Developers first game release I rate as 5 star to encourage you. You doing great and don’t take this low IQ nebbies self centered commends and focus on your goals. Great work for a first timer.

I like this game so far, with some reservations. The story is a familiar trope -- family is mysteriously transported to a different realm where fantasy elements are real -- but the writing seems good so far with dialogues and other interactions flowing pretty well, developing relationships in natural progression. My hope for the future is that the dev improves their rendering to feel less wooden and better reflect the actions described in the story. For example, having people actually hug when that's what's described. I will be following the game with hope for improvement of the graphics while maintaining the quality of the writing and storytelling.

This is the game that I expect to be updated soon with the greatest impatience! Interesting basis and wonderful images of the characters. I hope the author will keep all this and make regular ones. With time, he will probably gain more experience and clean things up more.

First impressions: I'm not a fan of AI graphics in games, but I was pleasantly surprised by the image quality, and I have to say that the story flows quite well, too. One small flaw is the text, which is occasionally flawed. Overall, I liked it, and I'll be following along.