VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - Lurking in My Destiny [v0.2.0] [SenseiDaimon]

Review of v0.2.0
Pros
While models are the same as many other games the art is still good
Animation is fairly smooth and good
Wide array of girls and body types throughout the game

Cons
No dedicated gallery really hurts when the game takes a long time to replay and skip skips through scenes even
The story is pretty typical and relies on overused tropes so if you are someone that has been exposed to similar stories like myself, it's going to feel uninspired
At least for me, the MC was pretty unlikeable so I couldn't really get excited about him winning the girls over

Overall I think if you see the art and animation and like it, it might be worth your time if you are willing to deal with the story and MC being subpar.

The MCs attitude about things is a lil meh in the beginning, I get it though. The story can be fleshed out a lil more but overall its pretty good. If the updates keep coming and depending on how the story goes it could turn in to one of my top favs

Smells like there's a trend on the rise. Typical self insert MC + Anime and/or game tiddies of choice x isekai = Awesome game, seems to be the new cool formula. If I wanted fan art I'd go elsewhere, where I can easily avoid shitty lighting, camera angles, clipping 3D models and pasty white stand ins for my pasty white self.

Thanks but no thanks, parody is one thing but I refuse to acknowledge this mental vomit of already tired tropes and content from real IPs as anything other then a weak, lazy attempt at getting paid. Boring. And unsatisfying.

The actual quality? Does it matter? It's koikatsu. It's not new but the story DOES NOT absolve it of using familiar eye candy like some other decent koikatsu games do.

Any weeb worth their dakimakura cover collection has some heinous fantasies that outstrip what's on offer here. Trust me, your own imagination and a whirl on Gel will be more fun.

Is a good game, there is quite a lot of story even though is nothing really innovative.

PROS
+The characters, are for the most part well written even though they sometimes fall for the porn game trope of being stupid and horny. Particularly the people at the school were pretty entertaining specially the best friend.

+ The MC is fat,is nice to see different body types from time to time, even though it will change in the future.

+There is a lot of content for such early build

+Trans content (avoidable if you are not into that)

CONS

-The story is nothing we haven't seen a million times already.
-Hints of isekai with the whole "chosen one" trope , we already have enough of that on anime why add more?
-The MC can be a creep and a psycho at some points but overall you can choose to be a good guy or an asshole.

Finished this first prologue in 1h30 approximatively,


Upsides in my opinion:

-The story is pretty engaging after the first day passed,

-Every characters are intresting in their own ways, there's definitelmy some big mystery for some of them that makes the future intresting to see

-Animation really great, characters well made. Point up for not having an empty scenery most of the time.


The downsides in my opinion are:

-The MC really simplistic lorewise "fat guy who doesn't have very much success with girls" is an easy way to start the story (but like Isekai's in Anime, some of them work really well, let's see what the develloper gives us in the future).

-The events in the story goes too fast, I know it's only the begining and there is a lot of thing to be introduced, but the way everything happens in only one and a half day is really fast. Also speaking of "fast", the way the sister's MC opens to him is really surreal, one day ago they were like "nothing happening at all" and after that she straight goes to the point without even be sure it will work out between both our MC and herself.

-Special downside point for the engine sound of the car, you can heard it one time in the prologue, but it's not the right sound, the car, a Mazda RX7 FC from ~1990 always has a rotary engine which makes a peculiar sound, it would be excused if there was a lot of car sound, (when the MC drives around, or else) but there is only one time and sounding clear enough to hear it,


Would note this game 14/20 for the effort in the scenery and the captivating story, can be better, but can be way worse.


(Sorry if there's some mistakes in the writing, English isn't my first language ^^)