Ren'Py - Abandoned - Mi Unica Hija [v0.27.1] [Binaryguy]

The first thing to take in consideration is that this is a game in an early stage.
And, as a game it is very well done. It's also a very unusual/unique mechanics for Ren'Py, which is great - not the usual recycled same old.
Repeatedly F95Zone users ignore the tags and don't understand the difference between a virtual novel and a game that is not one, and never was created to be one, and constantly punish games for the mechanics not matching their expectations. They like and expect one-button pressing games where they can easily skip the dialogs and with minimum as possible sandbox features, where they need little effort. And those as I have already mentioned here are the novels.
This game could do what many others could not: it is interesting and something new and this should be rewarded accordingly.

Sorry binaryguy, but I have to give this 2 stars only. I don't think it's even in an Alpha stage yet, let alone Demo quality.

I really tried to play this all the way through the current content, but I just couldn't do it. There was way too many bugs and the UI was a real pain in the ass to use. I'll try to be constructive with the points below... both Pros and Cons.

Pros:

• It was a nice change seeing a 3rd person view like this.
• While the graphics look kinda dated, you made up for it with almost continuous animation. Somehow, that pulls you into the story more then just a slideshow of perfect renders
• I liked the story of just a normal F/D household and the F getting depraved. No Mafia backstory, Alien abduction, 10 year coma, super-rich MC who's father died, etc. Just real people in a low income home.
• The way you handled custom names and ages was unique. Good job.

Cons:



You might notice that my above Cons pretty much fall into two categories. First, the UI is overly complicated and requires way too many clicks to do even the simplest thing. This doesn't add challenge or realism, it puts a wall up between the game content and the player that frustrates the player and makes them just not play. Second, the game still has a lot of bugs. BTW, you might think I introduced some of those bugs with my playing with variables and such, but I didn't When i encountered a bug, I overwrote the whole game again and tried from a fresh start. I only changed variables after i was playing and things were working. And I tried without the changes first in every case.

And I have to say, while i am not a coder, I do know how to examine and debug simple plain text codes such as this. The code in this game has a lot of typos and "orphans". And that's only in the 3 or 4 files I dug into. One typo in a variable I saw that made me smile was that you had two variables for beer ... one was beer and the other bear, LOL. Unless you plan on introducing some Oso's in the game, haha.

Anyhow, i hate giving a poor review on a new project, but I think you need to make some serious improvements here or you'll just scare away future Patrons. I really do hope you get the bugs fixed and tweek the UI because I would love to see where this project could go. And I'll try your next update for sure.

Good luck

Review of Version V0.15.2)
Okay graphics aren't great but done in such a way that it makes the style of animation work. Story was getting interesting, but then the UI started getting in the way and make me groan trying to do anything. Way too much clicking around to find something to do. To much advancing time trying to find what you need to do and getting past it is behind a subscriber paywall. Bad father system not even in game yet. I believe that with a fixing of the UI and future updates this could turn into a great game but system needs to be fixed badly otherwise people will abandon before day 4 or 5.