Ren'Py - Completed - Master of the Earth: Reborn (R) [v1.0] [IndianaTK]

EDIT: Review of Version 0.4

MUCH improved over V0.3. Well done, IndianaTK.

Positive changes:

Change proposals:

These are just my personal recommendations, however, as I have stated in other reviews, the Developer is free to make their own choices as it is THEIR game design.




Review of Version .3:

Pro:
Cons:
Synopsis:

To my mind, the negatives outweigh the positives in this one. I can not speak to the experience level of the developer, but there are just to many glaring issues to keep my interest. There IS potential here, if a great number of the issues are worked out. I intend to keep my eye on this one to see where the next update or two leads, and may adjust my review accordingly. In any case, good luck to the developer with their title.[/spoiler]

Review for 0.8:

There are definitely improvements in the quality of the renders and animation for this update, but the update itself is totally linear, which completely negates any need for the poorly implemented sandbox. That's a good thing, but the story and writing still seems like they came from an adolescent rather than an adult.

Review for 0.7:

I'm raising my rating to 3-stars for this game.

This update has a ton of content and no grind leaning toward a VN instead of a sandbox, and there's nothing wrong with that. There's a lot more story in this update than previous updates, but it's very shallow. There were a couple of animations this update too. I was beginning to think animations would be removed.

The game still has so many inconsistencies in the user interface, renders, animations, translation, etc. The dev is working tirelessly on updates to the game, but it's still pretty rough.

Oh, I'm still going to whine about every single woman having the "thicc" look. Not that I don't like the look, but now all of the women have that look (the women that didn't were transformed by the MC to have it). It makes the women boring.

Review for 0.6:

I'm not sure what to think, now. The animations have been removed for the past 2 updates, and that really takes away from the game. The trend continues to have the MC magically make all women have the exact same body type with big tits, a fat ass and a narrow waist. I'm sure that's what the dev likes, but when every woman in the game is the same, then every woman becomes average. To quote Syndrome from the move The Incredibles: "...when everyone's super, no one will be."

I'm lowering my rating back to two stars. The lack of animations and the dev's lack of understanding of erotica definitely make the game below average. As motivated as he is, unfortunately, the dev is still flailing in nearly all aspects of making an adult game.

Review for 0.5:

The 0.5 update was really small. There were just two small new scenes, but I'm sure there were bug fixes, too. I'm a little worried that one of the two scenes was the MC using magic to make his mother look like most of the other women in the game with oversized asses and tits, just like the MC did with the library girl. It's supposed to be temporary according to the dialogue. I hope so, because making all the women look alike is going to make the game boring.

Previous review for v0.4:

I'm updating my review because the dev reached out and asked me to play the newer update and provide feedback. All of the really annoying and game-breaking problems I previously experienced are now fixed.

The game isn't perfect. The plot still has holes and inconsistencies. The user interface is still primitive. The low-res animations still need to be cleaned up. However, I do think that players can now actually enjoy playing the game instead of just being frustrated by the game-breaking bugs. Players can also see when they've finished the game content. There is still some grind, but it's been simplified from the previous release.


Previous Review for v0.3:

Version v0.3 of this game is having serious teething issues. The game seems like a prototype created by a high-school intern. The dev appears to be a novice at coding, rendering, animations, writing, general game design, and game validation. It's like he never actually played an adult sandbox game before to understand what makes a game good. The game is very crude and very buggy. I wouldn't recommend it to anybody to download and play at this stage, unless they want to do the dev a favor by finding and reporting more bugs. Oh, and there's also no way to tell when you've completed all of the content in the current update, so you could grind on forever waiting for something to happen. The v0.3 version is just not a good experience.

On the plus side, the dev is being very responsive and fixing bugs on the fly as players discover them, so I do expect this game to get better very quickly in future releases.

slow animations and grainy models. Game has barely any assets in it. Game has a lot of bugs (Example: in the begging of the game u can get stuck in infinite loops) the pictures look good from the main page and maybe if they stuck to images and left animation it wouldn't be so bad

There are good games and bad games. However, this is one of the most worst boring grindy game ever. I have never rated a game before, but this game makes me want to burn my computer. There is basically no story no game play at all. The game starts out in a room and the mc just train magic to reach the next available check point with little to no conversation. The act is also haunting with the mc have different eye's skin and look like a try your best cgi in the 1970.

From what i've seen so far, This game has potential. But it needs a LOT of work and improvement
As it is now it's a clusterfuck. No offense.
I hope to see this game develop...

this is really an amazing game, the characters look so good and are all hotties the render is very high quality, I've seen no issues with the gameplay so far so ( no bugs yet ) the story also has a lot of potential I can't wait to see where this goes

It's getting there, I appreciate the dev's efforts and the storyline and girls look fresh and hot. However the gameplay is so unnecessarily grindy and the interface is not well-thought-out enough: too many clicks to do things, difficult to access your home/the town... adding many places to sleep that aren't always interchangeable (e.g. you must sleep at the hollow in order to get to train strength again) don't really make the game any less annoying. Keep trying, though!

The changelog for 0.5 is misleading. Sure, there is technically new content for each girl, but about 90% of the game in 0.4 was stripped away as well.

Currently what there is in the game is:
1) spam a button to "get stronger"
2) talk to two people about 4 times until one decides to take their shirt off, and one until they let you smash once.
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That's it.

It is an abysmally empty game. I will do every aspiring dev that reads this a favor by telling you that FIRST IMPRESSIONS ARE KING. If my first impression of a game is extremely poor, and its next version shows up on f95, I will probably go "Hey I remember that game! It sucked, so I'm not going to play it again or even consider subbing to their patreon."

update 0.3

classic sandbox game, go places, do stuff get scenes.
character models are great.

story is basic but solid is told with quests, its nice.

new shiny map BUT navigation can still use work.
example: MC's room is still unnecessary and even annoying mostly
the lack of access to the map from MC's home.

hint system or a character progress tracker can be useful to prevent people from grind trying to unlock scenes that aren't there..
there is a bug that if you go to a certain place it resets a quest line if a hint system was in place people would be less likely to stumble upon it.

Version Reviewed: v0.5

Overview: Click some buttons, see some numbers go up

Story: You are a dark wizard that has been trapped in his house for 9 years reading a book, you decide to grind your way out of the house and reconnect with your family, then you do that. There's hardly any story here, almost nothing with your family and a tiny smidgen of something with a neighbor.

Gameplay: This game has the emptiest grind I have ever seen on this site, and I have played a number of Russian QSP games. It will bore you to tears. Everything is in disjointed menus and you are forever clicking on something to increase a stat by 1 or 3 and then clicking next day to do it all over again. Story bits intrude on this clickfest only rarely, and some of them may be hidden away somewhere. The changelog suggests there is content I have not unlocked, but I couldn't take the monotony any more.

Conclusion: Too empty. Too boring. Skip.

Word of advice to the dev... Removing 75+% of the story content just to switch to new graphics. Is never a good idea! The game now (0.5), consist of:

Boring grind to get out of the house, with story content that would easily fit in an SMS. Followed by a microscopic sandbox consisting of a map with three locations(of which two has content, boring grinds), and some fan-service imagery, and another SMS worth of story.

If you're not a fan of udder-like boobs... Fan enough that the mere thought of natural looking, but flesh-sacky boobs, or giant perky but plastic-looking boobs make you involuntarily cream your underwear, give this one a miss for at least one version. Me, on the other hand, does not find the models appealing at all, and therefore, I'll uninstall it with a slight tear for the bandwidth I wasted dowlloading it.

You spam the same 3 buttons about 30 times to start off the game, with basically no explanation as to why. The 4th button is a useless Stat screen. Art's mediocre.

I'd recommend a UI with your Magic and Relationship stats, rather than a button to go to "stat screen" that's just a few numbers. But that would reduce the total interactive elements at the start of the game to the 3 buttons you have to click 30 times to even start any sort of "story"

Updated for 0.6
Game has has more content then it had when i first reviewed it on version 0.5
Events seems to be random
Lot of sex scenes
Game story is not bad its starting to get intresting
Renders are good
No bugs

review based on 0.3 version.
PRO:
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CONS:
- this release bugged
- story
- "cool" part of gameplay like dozens times do train/research/sleep
- UI ... no "preferenses" from main menu, ig menus is "something"
- CG from PC game "the sims". for VN its looks like ugly thing... i mean- VN call cuz "visual novell", but here visual component ruined... and some cg have artifacts like blabla with lint/duran etc
CONCLUSION: what was that?!