VN - Ren'Py - Mila AI [v1.3.3b] [aDDont]

Great writing. The Ai art is hit or miss. Sometimes great, sometimes awful. The NTR path is done, as well as the loving one ( although its short), and the sharing path is still in progress. Looking forward to the next installment.

I decided to give this a shot after I saw it's 3.5 star rating (as of v1.2.2b), I like some games on that rating range so I was curious about what people see in this. The TL;DR is this: The AI art is very prominent, brown dude on the banner looks like he has two bulging testicles with no dick and there's a notorious clash with hyper realism and anime style, writing is tedious and the presentation is barebones. I get the feeling people rate this highly because they are starved for more NTR content

Presentation
I like two things: the .exe icon is unique and the dev bothered to add a phone interface for simple SMS text. Everything else is either stock renpy features and a mish mash of individual elements that are not good on their own. Grab a CG set from pixiv, and fanfiction from the usual sites, slap them on renpy and you already have a better game

Gameplay
Typical visual novel made in renpy. It has a couple of paths that branch out permanently quite early so it's either going to be very short or it's going to be a mess/slow to update later on

Sound
There is a single sound effect, it's a "bloop" sound that plays for every text message exchanged. It gets annoying fast and it's jarring since everything else is silent

Visual Art
Where to start, it's appallingly bad. FeMC changes appearance very incoherently, tits shrink and enlarge, hair color changes, proportions change, height changes, in one scene she looks like Futaba from Persona 5 in the next one she looks like Monika from DokiDoki Literature Club, one character looks hyperrealistic, another looks like a typical low detail bara drawing. There's no theme and you get what you can expect from AI. There are also some animations but they look shoddy at best.

Writing
Not the worst I've seen, characters have an unnatural way of speaking. It has some grammar mistakes, odd phrasing and redundancy, all served in a purple prose platter. Text could've used some trimming

Porn
It's mostly NTR, I don't have a hateboner for it but I can also live perfectly fine without it . I like that there is some build up but things escalate rather quickly, unfortunately there are so many issues with the art and writing that it doesn't come together for me so I approached it like a biologist counting monkeys. I figure people that enjoy it do so because there's nothing else around.

My experience with this game was something akin to walking around a farm and stumbling upon a guy inside the pig pen eating slop off the ground, he locks eyes with me and tells me "It's not as bad as it looks bro". I look at it, smell it and just say "Nah not for me homie". I don't like being mean without cause, but I hope the dev reconsiders his approach moving forward, because I don't see this garnering a following if any.

TL;DR = pretty nice game. Bored housewife is discovering kinky sex.

Story: 4/5
+ There is this bored housewife who complains about her vanilla sex life. So she will try to change that.
+ Nice thing is the fact, that you have a choice how wife will proceed. The game has 3 very different routes you can follow.
1st) Loyal wife: the girl can open up to her husband and start experimeting with kinky BDSM and role-play.
2nd) Swinging (Netorase): The wife can tease husband with idea about having sex with other males. Together they can explore this kink. They will agree that wife will seduce their older neighbour.
3rd) straight Netorare: wife will turn into cheating slut, that will do all depraved things with some random black male. (be warned: I didnt like this path, this is weird shit for heavy NTR fans)

Art and sex stuff: 5/5
+ Renders are good.
+ The girl is sexy.
+ Sex scenes are hot.
+ This is clearly AI generated art. But it is much better than usual low effort garbage.
+ Another great thing is the fact that images gradually progress during conversation and they are quite consistent. It gives the story nice flow.
+ You can avoid kinks you dont like with your choices.

Gameplay: 4/5
+ This is typical VN with some choices.
+ Choices have big impact on the story. They can lead you into different routes. And even inside the routes you can see vastly different scenes.
+ English is acceptable. The dev is clearly not native speaker, but you will understand everything.
- Unfortunately the game doesnt have any soundtrack. Game has some small sounds, like incoming message on mobile phone.
+ Current version of the game has around 2 hours of gameplay.

To sum it up:
I really enjoyed the game, thats why I am giving it 5/5.
Feel free to check it out.

Fap-able but the art of the female lead having inconsistent skin of if she have a normal white skin or a lot of mole in her body, also the black guy art feel out of synch with the rest
Could be better

i enjoyed this game! the art is nice and the writing is good too, i finished the only route atm that is the NTR but im glad that what it seems to be the main one is the NTS path. This is not Blurring the walls level, but is a good nts/ntr short game atm to have some fun and enjoy some nice ai art.

[1.2.b]

4* is being very generous, but I think this is a good example of how to use AI in a VN. I'm pretty convinced that the Dev used AI to assist in the writing process as well, either directly for the prose, or at least for the translation from his native language.

The first thing everyone is wondering about is probably the art. It's very good. Very, very good in terms of implementing AI art in a porn narrative. Why? The dev makes use of inpainting to make slight variations within a scene. There is consistency in the outfit (more or less) between images if it's happening in the same day. Most importantly, the way the images are constructed and presented along with the text gives a sense of smooth narrative progression, rather than the usual feelings of looking at a bunch of random pin-ups or self-contained vingettes in a sandbox environment, which is more common when it comes to AI art games.

Don't get me wrong, the AI ain't gonna make the exact same face and style all the time, but the discrepancies don't really shatter the impression that we are following this same girl throughout this story.

There are 3 routes. Loyal, NTR, and netorase. Once you choose the NTR/netrase route, there is a further branching point where you can decide to confide in the husband to enter the netorase or just cheat on him to get the NTR route. That's basically it for choices, just picking the route early on.

The game opens with a stream of consciousness from the female MC, which is rather weak in getting the reader's attention. But once it dives into the meat of things, it finds its rhythm.

The story basically goes something like this. Spoilers obviously.

The story is not a long one. It's compact, but a decent read. I've messed around with AI chatbots recently, and it seems like this kind of narrative arc is about what I could produce with the help of AI, too. You can't really do a long story, but with some guidance, you can make a nice story arc and wrap it up before things get too monotonous.

Anyways, currently, the Loyal and NTR routes are completed. The netorase route has a finished script, but I suppose it's waiting for CGs.

As for what I would suggest to improve the whole thing. Add some character sprites. There are a lot of text on a mundane background picture like an empty room. And obviously, fix the untranslated russian in the menu and some parts of the script.

I wanted to give this a shot because I was curious about AI art in a game and how well it would work (considering the backlash towards other games that implemented it). I've gotta say, while some of the art looks nice, it just doesn't work for me. The lack of consistency between different images just breaks any sense of continuity, and they all have that "yeah this is an AI image" sort of look to them. Alongside that, the format for the VN is a bit odd. Overall, not my jam, but hey, maybe you will like it.

Having played through the most recent release (1.2.4.1b - I still don't understand why you'd use such a convoluted version numbering scheme, but whatever), it's improved considerably since my previous review.

I will however, only review this as average because it didn't interest me. The female MCs descent into depravity is already pretty much in place at the beginning of the game and comes far too quickly with no buildup for me (on the NTR path (which isn't an NTR path, it's a cheating path, but again, whatever) at least, didn't check any of the others before I got bored).

This review is a little harsh, but I just didn't find the story compelling and the game is clearly not for me.

Ymmv.

It does however have good visuals. The use of AI art (arguments over the ethics of monetization aside) is well done and none of the pictures I saw felt out of place or awkward. The writing in a purely literary sense is at the very least above average.


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Firstly, although not directly impactful on gameplay, not all of the UI/menus are fully translated - nothing that should directly prohibit you from playing the game though.

It's hard for me to understand whether this is an initial release or after significant testing as it's version 1.2.b but the first 'public release' so I can only assume other people have given feedback up to this point.

The choices are at the moment, as far as I can ascertain, largely meaningless past the first option, rendering it a string of AI CG images put together in the form of a text conversation.

Most of the AI CG is well done, although I found some of the expression shifts questionable and a little uh, strange? I don't know how to word it - but shifting the expression while the face stays exactly put just looked odd to me, ymmv.

At the moment, do not recommend.

While the mc is a decent model and the pics are really good, it doesn't save this game. The first half of it is a lot of texting on a phone and there's a weird shift between the phone dialog and the usual Renpy dialog boxes that is annoying. About 99% of the first bit is all text with the occasional picture that flashes on the screen for a moment and then is gone to a very bland SFW screen background.