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

What happened to this game?
It started with a decent set up and halfway through became boring beyond reason.
The game devolved all the possibility it opened in the beginning into a very linear experience with the problem that the dialogues and story are meaningless, repetitive and unreasonably long.

One of the best adult VN out there.

Pros:

• Awesome renders
• Good animation
• All the female characters are stunning
• Plenty of romantic option to choose from, depending on your taste
• Lots of H action
• Well written
• Satisfyingly long updates
• Updated monthly (except for every third month where we get DMD update)

Cons:

• None

The amount of content for each update and the short length between updates makes MrDots one of the most deserving creators on Patreon. Melody is definitely one of my favorite adult games and I’m looking forward to see how it ends. Can’t wait to see what else MrDots has in store for us afterwards. Keep up the good work

First of all the good:

Good renders with variety of body types, both busty and slim.

The mediocre:

The writing, It is okish but is rather bland, like dry oatmeal, but this is just the symptom of a larger problem which I will explain in the bad section:

The Bad:

The main character, he is absolutely bland. There is nothing at all interesting or exciting about him. He is "spectator mode" made manifest. Him not having a face also contributes to this (makes kissing scenes, extremely awkward, like if they were kissing the screen, who thinks this is a good idea??) The MC never takes initiatives in anything and just awaits like a robot until all the girls by the power of magic throw themselves at him. This makes for a boring story with no tension and no build up. There is zero stakes in anything... As a result there is no feeling or excitement when the sex renders show up, they all feel so robotic an awkward.

The sex scenes itself follows a hilarious progression of unlock kissing --->unlock handjob--->unlock Blowjob--->unlock sex (missionary) --->etc just LOL real sex and intimacy is never like that or follows a particular progression. Just ridiculous as a result you always know what comes next... It is so vanilla and boring and coupled with the MC being such a passive he always awaits for the girl to tell him come on fuck me now!!

Another horrible thing that demonstrates the juvenility of the writing is that the dev is obsessed with touching boobs and ass. Always when kissing you have to grab breasts or touch ass like 14 year old going through puberty and experimenting with his first girlfriend. This is absolutely ridiculous. Once, twice or even thrice is fine and hot, but the more you do it the more it becomes stupid and the MC looks like a horny awkward, unable to talk to girls 14 year old.

All the female characters in the game have very similar personalities. They could really all be shades of the same person. It is always (She, virgin girl, with a friend who is experienced and wild whom has a secret crush on the virgin girl and they are all just waiting for a magic dick to unite them lol)

Much more can be said about the abysmal qualities of the main character and the writing but I think what I wrote is enough for a review.

Renders are good and the "game" choices are relevant-ish...

The reason it only gets 3 stars from me is that the story is VERY in depth and drawn out and frankly kinda boring and written as though for the "twilight" crowd. The MC is of course adored by every woman he runs into being that he's such a loving and thoughtful gentleman (naturally), but it's kind of hard to see why since he's got absolutely no game when it comes to women and bumbles through and questions every move he makes ad nauseam.

I could also do without the MC's internal dialogue of the upcoming days events and then summary of the days events each night....I hate it when they waste time like this on TV shows and it's even worse when reading it. It's completely redundant and unnecessary....but then so is about half the dialogue in this game. To be honest I find myself nodding off while reading my way through, it's bloody boring!

In short; this game feels like a romance novel with Fabio on the cover, hair flowing in the wind minus the puffy pirate shirt and with much less action than you'd expect from a romance novel. The renders and sex scenes are good but few and far between and the MC is led like a puppy dog on a leash in and out of the bedroom by every woman he meets. Grow some balls MC, women like that!!

This a good game.

The characters are interesting enough, the story is well laid out, the dialogues are really good, a little verbose at times but all the story is filled with intelligent and often interesting thoughts and remarks. You can tell the author really put himself into this and he definitely did a great job.
This music themed VN is all in all a pleasure to read and to play, never goes over the top and everything progresses at a believable pace. The renders are very good.
So far I have no real complaint, apart from the fact that every relationship you might have with any girl besides Melody forcefully remains just a side story, with long stretches of in-game time without any content. That is understandable since the main plot revolves around the relationship between the protagonist and Melody. OTOH, more content with Amy or Izzy especially would be very welcome in the future updates.

As for the bad stuff...
There's no music in the game apart from a few (not very inspiring) songs while Melody performs live. No music anywhere else. This surely must be improved. Especially in a game about musicians!


All in all, though, a quality game.

Bland boring story I found myself button-mashing to get though. The pacing is super slow. The distance between "hot" scenes sometimes feel like a marathon. A lot of "date" and cafe scenes were just super boring and added very little to the story. Surprisingly almost no music in a game abut musicians. The game feels like a long tease to finally get 1 creampie with melody in the end. I do not care about condoms, pregnancies and pulling out in a fictional game. That shit is real life problems and adds NOTHING in a fictional story. Rather, it detracts from what could otherwise have been a portrayal of people getting too hot and horny to care about anything. If the passion is great enough even real people IRL will risk pregnancy. Not these fictional thots though. Makes the sex in the story feel transactional. The game's redeeming quality is the art and animations, which sometimes is great. I loved the from-behind scene on the hike, too bad my faggot MC decided to pull out from an otherwise steaming hot scene and ruining it. Also why can't I fuck the blonde? This game is 98% tease and 2 % hot action. That last 2 % is pretty fucking good, but it really REALLY felt like a chore getting there.

I played this game first when I originally found f95 and adult games in general. At the time I thought it was pretty good and donated to the devs. Having played a multitude of others, I now have a good aggregate of games to base a review on.

Story:

It is not unlike Dating My Daughter. It's meandering and there is so much unnecessary dialogue that makes little sense. You're supposed to be seeing this game from the MC's point of view, but you also see Melody's thoughts at times when you're in the MC's PoV? Why? That makes no sense at all. There is also a strange writing style that doesn't fit the supposed age of the characters. They are all entirely too formal and well-spoken to be believable as the ages they're meant to be. (This point will be repeated later.)

The girls are all too willing to hop into MC's lap after almost no wooing at all. I realise this is a common trope, but this game seems to want to be doing something more than that - in which case it's failed.

Music:

What music? For a game about a musician and her musician teacher, the only music that plays is when someone is playing an instrument. The song choices are just as bad as the decision to only have music at those points. "Mom's spaghetti?" Please, devs.

Art:

This is where I have a major problem. I had the same one with DmD and it's going to be echoed here.

These characters are supposed to be 18-20ish years old. Not only do most of them react to things like bratty 12-14 year olds, they also LOOK like 12-14 year old girls, albeit with silicone breasts. Their body proportions are just ridiculous. Their heads are too big for their bodies, their scale is the same as a young tween girl (aside from Isabella and Rebecca who look somewhat normal), even Amy the aunt looks strangely out of proportion.

I thought it was a limitation of the software the first time I played it through, but after playing many other games (Milfy City and F.I.L.F spring to mind immediately) and also playing DmD I've realised that this was a deliberate choice by the creators again to make characters who look far younger than they are supposed to be.

It's revolting to realise you're supposed to be fantasizing about a bunch of girls who look so immature. (Again, discounting Rebecca and Isabella who look fantastically normal and goes to prove the Dev made Melody and Sophia look young on purpose.)

Antagonists:

I don't really need to say a great deal here. Steve and Bethany are ridiculous as antagonists, both in their motivations and their actions. Awful writing. The resolution to their plotline was just as bad. I don't know what the writer was thinking of when he gave us that scene, but all it did was serve to show they were never a real threat, and that MC has absolutely 0 balls whatsoever. Insulting is how I would word it.

Verdict:

It has a good build up story-wise if you're willing to suspend disbelief. Overall the art and character writing stop me from giving this anything above a 2/5 star, though if I were being more impulsive I would give this a 1/5.

The art style is a sticking point and really, truly makes me uncomfortable. This dev has done it in two games now, it's clearly done on purpose and that, to me, is wrong.

What can I say other than this is the best game around. Simply great visuals with a good plot and the main character, Melody, is the best. Story is realistic compared to many other games and your choices matter. I also loved how characters wear different clothes throughout the game contuniously and how there are more than few places in the game for different events. Hopefully it will be finished soon so we can get that perfect ending with Melody.

this game has the perfect mixture of feeling accomplished after working towards a goal coupled with intermediate satisfaction. graphics, characters, and story line are of excellent quality. while I do wish there were more scenes included with a few specific characters, and some scenes of others left out, I'll take what I can get in this game.

Likable artstyle , okay-good animations , good depth in story but probably a little too many conversations for an adult game . The feelings such as love , lust and even concerns and fears are well shown . The details of places and events are on point . However this game desperately needs anal sex and deepthroat animations . Lets also not forget the animation speed is not optional . Overall this game has so much effort in it and can become a masterpiece with few changes as it is already really well-made . 4/5

one of my faves, along with the other Mr.Dots DMD , am already a patreon to his work but great to see it on here, good job! What i like most about this and DMD is the writing/plot... you dont usually get good writing or plots in porn as you are all well aware.. but Mr.Dots work has me on edge on my seat sometimes... you can see that at some point all the main characters plans risk going up in smoke but it mostly works out as a "happy Ending" if you catch my drift

This is a review of Melody in version 1.0 and developed by Mr. Dots Games.

This game has beautiful renders and impeccable art design, all characters are well-proportioned and it has smooth animations on the erotic scenes.
The gameplay has a point system(represented by keys from the musical keyboard), it shows how good your relationship with Melody based on your decisions. After you reach a fixed amount of points, you level up your relationship with her and that unlocks a new sexual option. You can decide if you want to be her(Melody) boyfriend or just a friend because it affects the relationship with the side girls(Amy, Isabella, Rebecca, Sophia, and Xianne). So, your choices have a real impact on the story and they define the ending you'll get: Melody only, Isabella, Rebecca, Amy, and a bad one.
The story is very good and heavily focused on music. The chemistry between the protagonist and his main love interest is the strong point, a coherent narrative, well-written where each charismatic character helps to tell the story.
The sex scenes complement the story spicing up it, they are very inspired, creative with several positions for your taste.
So, if you want a lovely story to read with several branches possible, this game was made for you.

I Can't begin to explain how highly I recommend this VN!

The characters: A++
The Story: A++
The animations: A+
The setting: A+

I absolutely love this game and cannot get enough of it! I'm so excited to see where it goes with future updates and my hopes are so high I haven't been this excited for a game in a long time! And I NEVER would have expected it to be a VN! I don't know what to say... 10/10 on my scale! Keep the amazing work up!!

I have been following Mr DOT Games since his 2nd or 3rd release of DMD. I was pissed when it got canned by patreon and he had to start a new game (Melody). I didn't think it'd live up to the expectation of a META TIER BUFF every patch. I was wrong 100%. DMD? What's that?

Great story and sublime work on the characters - especially the one whom the game has been named after. Sadly, the sound seems to be very limited, although, very pleasing and fitting when present. It's most definitely worth a play.

My one complaint, thus far, As someone who was a big music nut (Major) in his school days, a mini game with the answers were completely wrong and not even a part of the song that was being used, pulled me out of the game quick. Ruining the immersion for me. IF one wanted to use fake bands and fake musics and songs fine, but a real song by Artic monkeys, game design flaw and cause player to get wrong answers, it would have been so easy to get it right. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqkBRVukQmE , the complaint out of the way, the story isnt bad, the models used havnt been over used and are rather good. https://genius.com/Arctic-monkeys-when-the-sun-goes-down-lyrics

i fell in love with a girl at the rock show Like blink 182 once sang
This game kind of reminds me of this But instead you fell a love with a girl who is trying to rock . Melody is one of these game i always look fordward to be updated
You kind of can say its my favourite game
This game is realy great
I never gave game 5/5 but this one deserves it
This game updates is worth the wait

MrDots, you have to grab the readers/players attention within the first 10 pages of a story. Or you'll lose them right away. Nothing new here.

Melody fails at doing that big time. It's starts out boring, and just goes on and on, spinning an unengaging and meaningless story. If this really gets good later on - I wouldn't know.

This is not what I was expecting after DMD.
Nice renders, and programming a game engine is less than half of what it takes to make a good game. You know that brother. Shame on you for this thing here.

UPDATE:
I gave Melody another shot and this time I liked it a lot better. Not sure if there was a revamp of the beginning scenes.
The renders are top notch and the writing is good. Not great, but good.
The English seems to have suffered a bit from DMD. Not sure if Dots is doing this himself these days, or if the guy helping him isn't that fluent in English. But, it's good enough.
Really nice love story!

Another good game from Mr. Dots. It has more freedom in options you can choose than in their last game. Bethany is similar in some aspects with Elena of DMD as well as your ex is with the mother of D in DMD, but the rest of the game feels so refresing and new. I expect to have a path where we can be with bethany and Xianne or with Melody and the aunt, i think is the only thing i would add to the future updates.
A thing i cant understand is why Melody refuses to have sex more than once if u are in a relationship with another girl.
If she knows it, what a silly girl is if the only way she can thing to punish u is to let u deflower her and fuck her once one day.

A bug i have experimented is that if i remove all relationships before the sex scene, i got all the sex scenes but when i select to end it and go to sleep the characters acts like they did it only once. Melody goes to sleep and MC thinks why she didnt want to continue having sex and wonder if he hurt her down there.

One of the best I've played. I like how it actually shows a relationship and intimacy, not just sex. The graphics, character development, and plot are all excellent. There is also a good degree of freedom of choice, and that while it is still a VN, and therefore linear to some degree, it nonetheless offers a feeling of player agency in the story.