VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Melody [v1.00 Extras] [MrDots Games]

The most boring game I've ever played. Boring and incredibly drawn out dialogues. The erotic scenes are also incredibly boring and with a lot of dialogue, I don’t know who is having philosophical conversations on abstract topics during sex!

Animation and artwork is supurb as is the storyline! The singing is really good as well. This is one of the few games I have replayed just because the story hooks you in. Multiple endings also keep you coming back for more to see where your story goes.

The game's main love interest (Melody) and scenario of being her music tutor is adequate but not nearly as interesting a scenario as the last game (Dating My Daughter).

Rebecca and Sophia were the best Models (and maybe character too) in the game. Amy was good to (because she's basically Olivia Wild) and also Melody (thankfully) but ultimately were not my favorites. The ex (Bethany) and best friends younger sister (Isabella) were to me the weakest models in the game.

The dialog though really well written is just on that side of taking too long to go through. It's not so bad as to be transparent filler but I still bet that's it true purpose.

Overall I say the game's not as enjoyable as Dating My Daughter but It's still worth it to see the scenes with Rebecca and Sophia. I went to the path that gave me the most threesomes and I was happy.

More like a 4 to 4.5 star quality game in terms of writing/model quality, but its solid enough and was finished (with non-rushed endings) in a reasonable time frame which is a bonus point given how many stories get stuck in the mud. Good amount of content (and polished), few different paths, and the story is not drawn out an excessive amount of time unlike this developer's other games.

One of my favourite VNs.

The first VN that made me explore the multiple different endings that were possible.

This set the bar so high that I struggled to enjoy other titles for a while.

Solid story and interesting characters.
Renders are on point too.

Well done to the developer!

A nice story, especially if you are into music (and if you aren't, you should be). Superb graphics (how do you do that?). Realistic (at least in my dreams) characters, the main women are at least gorgeous.

A masterpiece.

The story is simple but it fits the game. The dialogues are simple but kinda believable. Graphics might not be up to the most modern standard but they are made very well.

So why a masterpiece, why 5/5?

Because of Melody. She is so damn sweet.. This is a romance vn and it delivers exactly what I expect from a romance vn. A wholesome story and a sweet love interest. Sooooo sweet. :O

I love this game so much it is far from perfect i could come up with a number of things wrong with this game but i just adore the MC and the Melody Perfect ending path this will not change the way u think about AVN's but if u want a incredible love story than this is the game for you i wont comment on paths other than Perfect Ending for Melody its not worth goin through the game that many times Melody perfect ending is all you need

A really slow-paced game, that is probably only minus of this game. Other than that it is very good game, animations, characters and narrative are great. Other characters are also nicely done. Recommend it to play this game.

I'm forcing myself to give this 3 stars instead of 2 just because I like to avoid the "hater tag". This game is nothing but plain. The characters, the story and pacing... It's just really boring. The amout of one-choice moments it's quite annoying for me as well. It has some nice renders and I guess if you're about suggary storylines and LI, go for it.
Since I still feel like a hater giving such review, I'll suggarcoat it for the dev saying he did put way more effort than I ever will developing a game for us. Cheers for that!

As a musician, I can say that i enjoyed very much the game. It has a lot of references to rock and music in general. The soundtrack is a plus, as the game it's obviously a VN focused on music.

The animations and graphics aren't bad, but you can find games with better ones.

I would give a 4/5 to the story. It's not revolutionary or has big plot twists, but it makes you feel attached to progress on the game. Gotta make a 3rd run to get a freshier impression, but I recommend this game to every AVN player.

One of the best games ever! Loved the story and the interactions, especially with Melody, such a well developed protagonist. The artwork is also incredible, the developers should be very proud of the result.

It is definitely of the best porn games out there and one of my favorites. The story is the best part about it, you are likely to fall in love with Melody as the story goes on, and maybe even want to replay it. The graphics are still good even if not one of the best.

Excellent composition, Mr.Dot! (obvious pun is obvious). It felt like the character renders here were more expressive than in Sunshine Love, but this predates it, no? In any case, my only constructive criticisms are that I'd love to see more expression in character faces, and to get rid of the single choice options in future projects (they are pointless and kind of annoying).

Ideally, I'd give it a soft 9/10. But since this is out of 5, I round up and use this as a benchmark for a 5/5.
Melody is not ground-breaking by any means. It tells a sweet simple story, and it does it well. It also gets bonus marks for actually being completed without feeling ridiculously rushed, which is unfortunately all too common.
The adult VN genre has progressed so quickly in such a short time frame that people playing it now might perceive the renders to be undeserving of a 5, but I think it's unfair to penalise an older game for looking older. Melody nails all the fundamentals for a good adult VN.

"Melody" is too long, dull and sugar-coated... Quality of writing, which is poor and monotonous does not justify the length of this VN. Novelty of music industry setting soon wears off and all you're left with is love prattle between the protagonists, interesting as reading a telephone book. Melody, as the only meaningful love interest, is forced upon us, and cus I wanted to end up with Becca, more mature and lush psychology student, I couldn't bring myself to read another line after she broke our relationship... At least I got goodbye sex Recommended only to connoisseurs of saccharine, lovey-dovey, watery eyed love novels... For me it was stomach churning and cramp inducing as I drink my coffee über black

+ Good slowburn about romance
+ Sweet nice main LI, perhaps too sweet

- main route becomes boring like hell after some time
- "things" with side girls can't be called "routes"
- "Best" ending is (99.9%) impossible without cheating/walkthrough
- shitty made points/choises system killing all interest

Overall nice slowburn game about some vanilla romance, Melody is very sweet girl, side girls are also interesting... but not much 'bout them here tbh, and main route long boring path to nowhere, I lost interest in main LI a bit before first sex with her, then start skipping dialogs, after all loyal "White knight style" running around her, evading creampies, never cheating or even flirting with other girls, even being unrealistic 95% ideal slave for her... game ended with standard "good ending" cause you must be 100% ideal or her career fuck up, but I don't even looked that ending cause it was not even interesting for Me at that point

Game intended for playing with walkthrough... meh, author made some very stupid strange things here and killed potencially amazing game, Just feeling disappointed and frustrated

Edit: changed from 2/5 to 3/5 cause maybe a bit overreacted at first

very nice game about girl who becomes famous singer (as of intended path but there are other paths too) with help of older guy who has some experience on music industry.

while game doesn't have newest graphic arts it still looks good, story is realistic (mostly but can't make fully realistic adult game) and has enough sexscenes to satisfy most players.

overall good game where player guides young girl to stardom despite some obstacles (again on intended path, player can choose other girls or women to end up with but then misses big part of game).

Mellody, another one from MrDots, some good stuff right here, a simple tale and some testing of my musical knowledge xd, a fun time with some good cast. That was a pretty nice experience with some fitting endings.

play v1.00 with french trad (which explains my poor written English, sorry)

First of all, I would like to point out that I have played it for a while now and that I have just restarted it to write this review, so my opinion may include somewhat distorted assessments.

story: 5/5 It was for me the strong point of the game, it is a very successful love story!

characters: 4/5 There too, it's rather a success, we totally become our MC, and the characters are quite endearing, but I think that many are a little too "yucky love stuff"

sex scene: 3/5 I remember having sometimes flirted with the "fast forward" which is not a good sign for the frequency, but besides that I also remember that the scenes were still very well written and very erotic .

renders: 3/5 On this the game has clearly aged, I think if you start with this kind of game it's fine, but comparing it with many new games it seems quite poor in "diversity" and very "frozen".

animation: 2/5 Even more so than for the renderings, they have aged very badly, the fps are a little nonsense (often too fast) and the "loops" are very far from fluid. But we can still note that there is a good quantity.

sound: I believe there is no empty moment

gameplay: 4/5 The number of choices is very satisfying.