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

Very good game, shows the developer improving compared to his previous on all fronts, story, graphics, gameplay, etc. The only things I don't like (seems to be a stylistic choice by the developer) is that sometimes the dialogue become a bit too long-winded, and having to click buttons during H-scenes, which takes you away from the immersion. Overall I highly recommend it.

good game, i really enjoyed the main girl relationship aspect, and the story was great. only tough part is the fact that you can get locked out of some endings early and wont know until the end, and its quite a long game to replay with all of the filler. 8.5/10

Easily one of my absolute favorite games here.
it has
- good Story
- interesting Characters
- nice renders
In my opionion the dating sytem is okay (I've seen better, but it is not very important for me
And it is a f*cking love letter to music!
I love it!

The girls are all beautiful. The facial expressions that some authors struggle to get right and realistic looking are very well done here. The story drew me in and made me care about the characters throughout. All in all, one of my favorite games I've found on this site.

Honestly this is the best hentai game ever made the characters are so amazing the story is amazing theres like nothing bad i can say about it if i had 1mil dollars i would give half to the dev/devs (Great Work 1000/10)

Basically I'm not someone who follows critics whether positive or negative about a game or a product. I like to have surprises. This time I trusted Melody's notes and comments and got hooked on the game. Good even though I knew from the notes that it was a great game, I've been playing it for 2 weeks now and I haven't finished the story yet. I could say that a game that is too long might get tired over the hours, here every time I start the game, I want to continue the story to know the ending. It's another Ren 'Py game that made me realize that I've missed a lot of good games in the last years. Novels have become a new drug for me. And Melody is one of those games where I can spend hours on it. The story is quite long, the characters are endearing and the story seems to be taken from blockbuster movies. Even if I haven't finished the story yet, Melody is already part of my Top5 Romantico-Erotic Novels. If only I had the patience and talent of these developers to make this kind of beauty.

Nice story, good renders and animation.
Storyline is immersive although it does get a little tiresome and repetitive with the music talk.

Spoiler Alert.

I enjoyed the game until the end. I got the "Good" ending which was a little bit of a let down.
This is where I have a complain about the game. To get the perfect ending the MC have to play a perfectly monogamous route. But if the MC wasy to play that route, a lot of the fun, scenes etc will be missed. Basically a sizeable chunk of the game will be missed.
IMO the decisions are too mutually exclusive.

Let me start off by saying that I've been supporting MrDots for at least a year now. I just like to include that, to maybe explain some of my bias. Melody was the first adult VN I played, and it hooked me, totally.

The renders are great, as they are in all MrDots games. The characters look great, Melody is awesome looking, so easy to like her.

As characters the cast is cute and likeable. The story is also fun, not terribly complicated, but a fun ride. Some of the conflict in the story does feel a little manufactured. It also ends to early. I felt in the 3rd act of the game there we no real conflict to deal with. In the first act it was simply trying to gain Melody's trust and friendship and breaking down some of her walls. In the 2nd act it was a little more manufactured in the stealing of her guitar and the conflict the arises from that. The 3rd act doesn't really have anything hindering you and your relationship with her, or her path towards stardom other then a few simple choices you make, like not cheating on her! Or pulling out when having sex.

MrDots is not the best on this site at renders, not the best and storytelling, character creation, or animation, but he is very good in all of those things, and together, it makes an excellent and fun game to play.

This is a 5 star game that I have to drop down to 3 stars because of the filler content in the game. Honestly, they could have cut down the game by 1/3 and that would have made the experience so much better. The middle of the game is a complete chore to get thru, I almost stopped playing multiple times. I am so sick of going to meals and places around town with Melody, these dates were pointless and almost always led to nothing substantial. Honestly, the entire premise of the game, Melody's music career, was boring, they should have just left Melody as the MC's student and given more focus to the other girls. I also really hated how the game constantly gives a recap of everything that happened during that day as the MC's thoughts, I don't need a summary of the day I just finished having. Overall, I think this game was probably much more enjoyable if you played it while it was being released in installments, but now that it's completed it feels like a drag too much.

i sincerely believe this is one fo the best adult VN's ever made. Loved the characters, loved progression of the main relationship and loved all the hot scenes. The only thing I see hurting this game is that render technology is getting better and better and in a year or two I think this game will look really dated. So the sooner you play this game the better. Best meant for those who like romance in their games and who enjoy an actual story.

Beautiful game with romance based story around the lead character.
Other romance options also available.
Nice slow progression where you feel the relationship is building, leading to a strong story and connection to the lead characters.
Good quality renders.

loved the stroy ,good renders . The only thing I disliked is one of the endings where when we choose none we are forced to choose one.
Other than that an excellent VN ,enjoyed completely
Wishing he would continue to make good vns like this.

The writing is a bless and the curse of this game. There's just too much of it.

Idk how many nights I've spend reading this VN. At some moment I've got bored and started viewing the gallery. BAD decision
Too much repetitive stuff and chat but overall the project is very good.

[As of v1.00 Extras]

- Main Girls look nice.
- Story is decent , again a bit too long and i fast forwarded a bit.
- Lewd scenes are very good.
- I wish there are fewer buttons to click when it doesn't involves choices.

Conclusion:
On Par with Dating My Daughter. 4/5

I wanted to give this four or five stars because in a lot of ways it's a major improvement on this author's previous works. That's how I felt for most of the beginning, but after he starts getting hot with Melody (which takes a considerable while), it was all downhill.

It suffers from the same flaws as his other genre-defining title.

Again, you made me fall in love with the main love interest, Melody... just like you did with your daughter... and then you had me doing self-cucking stuff right and left.

I drew the line when the ex barged into my apartment and then called herself my fiance right in front of Melody, and I'm not given the chance to correct her, to clarify to Melody and right to that chick's face that she is history... and worse, I'm forced to "hug" or "kiss" her goodbye when I want nothing to do with her. And I've made that clear in all choices leading up to this.

There is a lot of this... manufactured drama. The choices you make do not lead to drama, instead drama is foisted on you by NPCs and situations outside of your own control... and generally resolved by NPCs.

And the characters have development in their actions which makes you like them... but same as his last work, all the characters speak the same, using "as" as a filler in sentences, like one would use the word "because" or to combine what would have otherwise been two sentences:

"I couldn't see them at the mall, as I was doing my nails at the time."

"I want to feel you up, as I am incredibly horny right now."

"I was at the store and I thought I might as well buy it, as I don't own anything like that already."

This happens on average about every 10 lines of dialog, so much that I can't avoid seeing it every single time. It would be perfectly fine if this was one character's pattern of speech, but all characters sound like this. They all speak in complete, proper sentences. No shortcuts. No slang. It's easy to read and highly descriptive... but repetitive and indistinguishable.

The sexual build up is pretty good. It's a great vanilla date simulator... emphasis on vanilla... but the sex scenes aren't very hot and the animations are like alien probings... the models are cute in a very Barbie Doll kind of way, but they defy physics on beds with legs hanging out in the air and the poses are all unnatural and stagey.

I stayed with this a lot longer than I did his previous work. And just like that one I went all in on every love interest, only to fall for Melody as she develops later, and then I'm given no chance to rectify any of those relationships and am forced to keep seeing them when clearly I should be all in on Melody at this point. But ultimately none of this mattered... I felt like a creep but the MC didn't. His inner dialog was perfectly fine with saying "I love you" for the first time to Melody and then fucking someone in the next scene.

If you go on a date with Becca or Amy you're going to end up fucking them later even if by then you're committed to Melody, who wasn't even close to committed to you at the time you accepted those other advances... and it was their advance, too... the MC has no agency in this... aside from planning where they're going on a date, or what lessons Melody is going to learn, the MC initiates NO action in this.

All the breakups are initiated by the NPCs too... they all get jobs in other cities. The MC is DTF with everyone but also very clearly professing and acting out of love with Melody... it's a bit bipolar.

Every sexual encounter and every hookup is started by the NPC with the MC asking all along the way "are you sure about this?" In fact every action in this is preceded by one of the characters asking them if they can take that action... at some point you would think Melody would just up and go to the bathroom without asking permission. Nearly every action by every character occurs this way, with one character asking permission to do something, no matter how spectacular, or mundane.

And the sex has too much talking in it. "I'm going to lay you down on the bed." "I'm going to put it in." "Are you ready for me to put it in?" "I'm ready to have you inside me." "It's going to feel so good inside you." "What are you waiting for?" "Right, I'm putting it in you..."

This had potential. This author is infuriating. If this was garbage throughout, it would be easy to just walk away from this without a review and chalk it up to someone learning a new craft... but this grabs you with characters you start to fall for, and then breaks you by forcing drama that could be avoided simply by giving the MC a choice to do what the reader is dying to do in that moment.

It was insulting to Melody and all the romantic times her and the MC have had, even early that day, to not correct the ex in that situation. Unforgivable. Make me care about this and then force me into that...

And ultimately choices mean nothing except the one where you decide to stay with a character or not. You can screw everyone and it doesn't seem to affect the main relationship and eventually they all break up with you before there is a conflict. The choices that advance her stats are arbitrary and it's really a matter of using click-and-back to find the right choice that gives the most points. It's unclear most of the time which would be the right choice and you just have to wing it. Like when you first offer her food: offering her meat ends up not giving her points but the salad does, so later when you're given the chance to order for her in the restaurant, you're thinking she likes salads, but no, this time she wants the ribs.

And I couldn't tell you objectively which is the most impressive compliment but when she asks you how she looks before a concert your options are "Perfect" "Amazing" and "Dayum" ... one of those gives you points. Can you tell which one does? It's a crap shoot. This is an example of nearly every stat advancing choice in this game.

And near the end of the infuriating storyline for the ex, you're given a chance to "intervene" or "do nothing" when Melody's guitar ends up in danger... intervening leads to the guitar being destroyed and not doing a thing ends with the guitar being given back... this choice was just a crap shoot and the choice that seemed right was wrong. This happens a lot.

And it's hugely annoying how the MC -- a musician who can play any instrument and who has toured live and recorded for years -- goes WAY out of his way to avoid playing an instrument alongside Melody when she is a solo act and when she forms a band. This entire time I'm screaming at this thing "PICK UP AN INSTRUMENT IDIOT!!!"

For a guy whose first love is music, he does every thing in his power to avoid playing music.

Why can't he manage and be part of the band? And for that matter, why can't he manage the band and date the singer? They're all adults, she has talent leverage and the MC has blackmail leverage... the sneaking around is again, manufactured drama.

To the author: You write great love interests.... you do real well with the inner dialog and the build up is a very good pace... but you need to work on their voice to make them more distinguishable... and give the MC more agency, have him advance some sexual situations and sometimes keep his mouth shut during them... and a better realization of what the reader might be thinking. You've made Bethany into a total cunt, you'd have to know I'd want to punch her more than I'd want to "hug" or "kiss" her in front of the main love interest of the entire story... and the choice system could use more meaning. Give the user clues to what they should pick before they're forced to decide.

And the daily recaps that are clearly in there from when this was being made in chapters gets really old. A good idea when you end these stories would be to go back and edit down the mental recaps that marked chapter breaks from development. And in future works, maybe work on adding a second stat that gives alternate meaning to making choices. In this system it's always a binary right/wrong choice... even when given multiple options, there is still only one right choice. The stat build up is a good system to give the user a feeling of advancement but it needs a reason to pick the other options.

And a final tip: Song titles cannot be copyrighted and artist names can be printed as long as you don't defame them. All the fake names alluding to real people and songs is just a time-wasting puzzle for the reader. Just avoid lyrics and you can use all the real stuff you can think of... and this would be much better for it. You did a real good job keeping the music theme going throughout, it just would have been better to not have to try and figure out who you were discussing.

This is probably more of a three or four start thing... I'm biased because I left this mad. I cared about the characters and then was forced to put them through things I'd never do to someone I care about.

I'm not certain it wouldn't have been better to have not cared at all.

A girlfriend simulator. Not for anyone seeking a harder edge.

I started off and played midway through properly, reading up everything and taking in the story. The titular character, Melody, was the star of this show completely. A ridiculous amount of time is spent talking to her about all sorts of shit. She is your simulated GF. More dialogue than I've ever seen with one character.

The story about her music career is well developed. The sex is great and the animations are top notch here. I did have to start skipping dialogue halfway through. I think my preference is for power dynamics in sexual relationships. I need some sort of power dynamic, cloak and dagger games with mentally mature characters. I skipped faster towards the end starting from when the MC became a pussy Anyways, hopefully DmD keeps the harder kink going.

An excellent game. The story is very engaging and the characters are very charismatic. The theme of the game is very cool, the story gradually develops. Melody is definitely a character that makes you like her.

Very nearly a five star game, I was on the fence with this AVN right up until I completed it the first time. Some pretty excellent art in this game, but unfortunately the title character is actually kind of forgettable. That's also true of her personality, which when compared to the other women characters in the game is pretty bland.

The storyline is well thought-out, and the choices throughout actually have an effect on not just the ongoing narrative, but how the game ends as well. It's entirely possible to have a positive ending without fully realizing the "best" ending. This is a refreshing change from many of the pass/fail AVNs out.

Melody was initially one of my favorite AVNs, just because it is generally handled so well and, I dare say, professionally. It feels polished, genuine, and has some solid replay options. Highly recommended.

Game is well done overall. Few little inconsistencies here and there, but well done. The story is interesting, which is nice for a porn game. I actually enjoy having an interesting story that makes sense and has some realism intertwined with the sex scenes.

Best game i've ever played.
Awesome story , i played Melody route cause like someone else mentioned earlier when a game is designed around 1 character i like to be loyal to that character and i was not dissapointed, best ...10h or so of my life in terms of games ( this kind of games at least).
I fking love the story progression and their relationship how it advances , most if not all the characters are nicely built .
It was a trip for sure , I actually played it 3 times in a row with same route just because i fking loved the story and how the story/relationship advances.
For me this game will be future comparison to other games because thats how i see games should be made ( this is my personal opinion and choice ).
Other things renders were very good made , animation in my honest opinion could have been a tad better BUT I LOVED IT nevertheless.
It's a pretty long game so be sure to have a full day of playing if you read every line ofc you don't then it can be finished in 1-2h probably but i MOST DEFINETLY DO NOT RECOMMAND doing so because you be skipping a very sweet romance story which again i must stay i FKING ENJOYED IT ALOT!
I think that's about it.
Recommend it 11/10