VN - Others - Abandoned - Milftoon Drama [v0.35] [Milftoon]

I've accidentally deleted this review 3 times now, because I have the dumb apparently. Time to summarize slightly.

I don't review games often, but every so often one comes along that I can't ignore.

Milftoon drama is a point and click adventure, taking extremely heavy cues from early 90s P&Cs. This is not a great idea, especially in this game and it's odd and poorly executed game design.

My biggest gripe, and the primary reason I rated it so poorly is the game utter fascination for taking control away from the player.

You can click through text, but not in certain "cutscenes". Don't do that. I can read faster than 4th grader, I don't need you to spoon feed the dialogue at a snails pace. To make this super clear, the dialogue in these scenes is so unreasonably slow, it's almost insulting. You know what happens when the game does this? I tab away and do literally anything else until the scene ends. Except that sometimes pauses the game or certain animations. When it decides to this particular feat of annoyance seems random.

Phone calls are the worst. Oddly you CAN skip these with the escape button, but just the phone calls(So far that I've seen). Why? Why just phone calls? I'm not even convinced it's intentional, and not just a bug breaking the scene. Mostly because it just breaks the facial details when I do it in other cutscenes, but doesn't skip them.

There's no fast forward for previously read text. Something literally every other VN is capable of doing. You have to spam click through everything. Pressing control, the usual button to fast forward, just makes the UI flicker faster then usual.


I don't mind the item hunting and general difficulty of the point and click style. I've played much worse in this regard. Yes, a walkthrough is probably required for most players and it can be a tedious nightmare, but that's pretty par for the course in P&Cs.

The lack of consistency in dialogue speed and constant need to randomly take control away from the player is far more aggravating. Quickly making this game an utter chore to play as you hunt around and spam click through dialogue you've read 40 times, only to randomly get stopped dead by a molasses slow cutscene that can sometimes take quite a while to finish.

Milftoon Drama has amazing artwork, quite possibly some of the best I've seen out of many games on this site(IMO). There's a lot of love in it, but it's marred so heavily by bad or poorly executed design choices that even that artwork can't save it. All Milftoon would have to do to earn a decent rating in my book is allow me to skip read dialogue and let me control the pace of "cutscenes". Such simple things for VN, that this game neglects to it's own massive detriment.

To say nothing of the lack of task tracking, lack of NPC hint reiteration, or even a simple hint system in general to put you back on track. Which will, if you don't pay close attention at all times, or leave the game for a while, leave you lost and wandering.

Literally the only way I would recommend this game is if you like the artwork enough to sit through all the tedium, and have the walkthrough handy to power through it faster. Doing it without a walkthrough and wrestling with it's various problems just simply isn't worth it.

This game is quite clunky.

• There is no skip text option, which sucks especially if you read the text already.
• Some hitboxes for items are off. The mixing station was only selectable when I hovered the mouse over a corner of the counter.
• Items are too hidden. It would be fine if the hidden items were secrets, NOT items for the main storyline. The socket in the kitchen for instance.
• My biggest pet peeve is that THIS GAME IS UNPLAYABLE WITHOUT THE WALKTHROUGH. You cannot hope to complete this game in a timely manner unless you are psychic, or have the walkthrough pulled up.
  • The fact that there is no quest journal makes this PORN game 30x harder (emphasis on porn because I should not be using the walkthrough 99% of the time like it's a hard puzzle game).
  • Important dialogue that tells you what to do next can be forgotten because you can't go back to it (person disappears after giving you weird object or some shit). Need a quest journal.
  • Sometimes there isn't even any dialogue that tells you what to do next. Like getting an item to stand on in order to have sex with Gloria, you would search the house inside out only to just go bed out of frustration, then at 10:00 see the old dude outside who gives you a box ONLY if you figure out what he wants. The only reason why I got through it was because I had the walkthrough pulled up. So this game cant function without a walkthrough

At least the art is decent, though the scenes feel kinda crappy. Try Unity

Very nice game! It needs voice actors to be a 5/5.
My favorite MILF is Ms. Gloria without a doubt, she's the hottest and the baddest of 'em all! Linda is also great.
The Animation is top notch, there are some bugs over here and there but i can't blame the developers, it's a developing process game.

Amazing game with HOT milfs, engaging story, and regular updates. The engine might be weird at times, but the game is great overall, and everything else is perfect. Only way it could be better is more Linda!

Very good story, a little difficult that's make some great awards for the player.
Arts are very good, particulary the plans. I never seen that kind of compositting on any other games so great works !
But i seen some little differences between Linda's begining boobs and now for example, which are more huge than before (it's perturbing when you play the game in one-shoot and you see that difference ect...). Maybe they will be fix that on the final version to be totally immersed in the game.

Animations are correct and i'm convinced that all sequences will be fluid in the future. Thank's for the game !

The art is really good, and there's a story beyond just stringing together a bunch of sex scenes, but the user interface is impossibly shite. Like, fucking atrocious. I hope an engine overhaul is in the works, as the game is so difficult to play as is.

I couldn't play this game, problematic gameplay as the engine is quite slow, a very high grind and without any tips or objectives of what you need to do. Some people or many managed to play this game, although many of them are masochists to spend hours torturing themselves. Unfortunately it is a game with a minimum rating but I would like to have played and enjoyed this game but unfortunately I couldn't.

good story,good art,good game.
i hope it will have ntr contence in future,it will very cool.

but reaction on there face not fit with the stituation. i think it wil better when milf surprise at her son when he rubbed his dick on her butt.
good game!

This will be my shortest review.

Firstly I do love the artist of this game and his comics. He's awesome and makes quality content and stories.

However, the coding of this game is horrible. It makes the great Art and concept vanish like it was nothing.

If the game had a good coder this might have bin a very great game. Sadly, due to the bad coding / game programming this is a disaster in many ways.

Imagine the most expensive car driven by an amateur. This is how this game's development looks like.

I liked the games animation and the figures but the game it self is kinda boring
there is so little options that you can choose and I like games that I can controll my character
there were many places I didn't like the decision making on my character
Like some places I wanted to be dominent and some places I wanted to be kind if you know what I mean

My first rating on f95zone.
Rating a thread was too much a bother for me.
This game made me do it finally.

Dev is doing great job with the story progression.
Art is awesome. They also added gallery to the game now.

The only thing is that bothers me is texts are timed. It switches to next after few seconds.
And I usually play games at night when I'm half asleep and some times drunk and I'm reading with 20% of my usual speed and that makes me miss few of the things. Wish it was not based on time and only on mouse click.

After playing Milftoon Drama since version 0.2 this is my review of the game
(This review its my opinion of the game)
-So has (P)ositive points this game only hv the Art which is very good and its the only one i know with this style but once in while u can find rush line draws but nothing that will ruin the entire draw.
-(X)Neutral points the game needs an improvement on the storyline;
-(X) the animations and angles need an improvement.
-Now we reach the (N)egative points:
-Game has bugs and crashes;
-The gameplay its boring has hell;
-Story progress is slow;
-The UI its terrible needs a really good improvement;
-The updates size are not decent u can pass them in less then 5 minutes (but those who dont use walktrough takes more time and i will tell u why next (-));
-There is no ingame hints for the player to proceed with the story sometimes players stand there like lunatics to try to figure it out before having to use the walktrough;
-The Characters Scenes need to be more balanced cause Gloria has tons of scenes by now when the rest only hv one and Mom has been recieving once in while some scenes nothing really exciting;
-The game has been split in 2 parts and perhaps more part in the future idk why it will make it just hard to new players.
(i think i could put more stuff but not remembering now)


Now somethings i hve encounter during my time on milftoon drama thread;
-The game isnt more popular its the dev's fault not the community in overall (patreons or non-patreons);
-The dev is milking and he cant say he isnt (but there is always gonna be someone defending), one of the things he sayed once was "if u give more money the updates will increase aswell the quality" the money have increased not much but still the updates most times can be very small and blueballs content (when there is blueballs content update i call it a milking update) and the quality its the same:
-I hve seen and i hv been informed by other members that the dev was asking for good reviews (bad move);

I have nothing against the dev but he could do way much better he could be on the top and its is fault.

positve things about the game
++very good history
++amazing images
negative things
--very buggy
-in two parts ,there is part 1 and part 2 but is too short for that
-there is not choises
personal opinion
for me this is in my top 10 of my best games of 2019 but need mouch too do for now only thing we can do is wait

The game is good. I love the art and how the story is progresing. Would have loved it more if there were some more scenes with linda. Specially if we could replay scenes like the bj one or the hj one. Also grinding for money in the first part was tedious but the inclusion of cheat in the 2nd part was a good idea. Also the one other thing which kinda irritated me a little was the connection between character to get something. to get a scene with linda you first need to do jobs for gloria and that will TAKE TIME. Summertime Saga kinda nailed it there. No dependence on other characters to progress with one. But overall enjoyed every bit of the game so far.

One of the best games i've ever played so far. I really got suprised by seeing the rate because this game deserve 4.5 stars. I assume cause of animations and drawings not so realistic but on the other hand if you play the scenerios and story you will get what i want to tell. If you want to play good games with has awesome story then i suggest you overcoming your prejudice.

Update [0.34]
I'm improving it to 2 stars. While the older versions still suffer from all the flaws, and normally I dock games for needing multiple downloads to play what should be one game, at least the new version addresses several of the issues that were wrong with the 2nd and especially 1st versions.
The art is still AMAZING, as are the sex scenes.
If this were just reviewing the newest version it might be a 3 but since they all share one review, the first two still drag this down.
If all versions are ever rolled into one game, and the gallery actually had all the content replayable, and it played like the most recent one, this review would possibly even be a 4. Maybe one day.
For now though, adding a star since it has improved.

Update
Keeping this at 1 star. I had debated giving this a 2nd star, it had (past tense now) shown some improvement, while the engine was still horrid recent versions hadn't tried to do so much with it. Now though, it's going to attempt branching paths? Neither the developer nor the game engine should be trying to make this game branch. The engine won't do it well and the developer already has updates that are small and have a history of bugs when it's been linear.
The only selling point of this game is the art, which is still remarkably good, but it was already a pain to get to. Now it's not even going to all be in one play through. The time could have been spent on improving the badly outdated gallery so the art and scenes are more accessible, the game play is bad enough (walkthrough required) it doesn't need to be doubled.

Original Review
The art is amazing so why one star? The game is not fun to play. You have been warned.
The reviews below are correct, the negative things they mention are true. The game engine may be one of the most unforgiving engines on this site, it is a pain to play. It's so bad it makes the interactive nature somehow feel like a step backwards from the comics. You will wish you could just have the CG. This should have been Renpy.
You also have the joy of downloading it twice since it now is split into two sub games.
A walkthrough makes the game just playable but even that's hard to use since while the game can be windowed it favors full screen, has no rewind, limited text fast forward, and basically misses all features just basic to the more professionally done engines.
The in game gallery, which could have lessened how harsh having to play the game can be, is lacking at this time as well.
Forget easy replay of old content, you have a game that's hard to play, functionally requires a walkthrough, lacks most quality of play features found in other adult games, and you can't go back and see what you've already done as there's limited saves as well.
That art though, wowza... they make Jessica Rabbit envious so what can I say. So much potential here so wasted.

Edit: There was a review that's been removed that took a shot at those of us giving this one and two stars, as a reply to that...
- The dev of this game has been accused of buying reviews. (see rspkers review from Mar of this year)
- At this time, over the last 6 months, the positive reviews of this game all have only one like or so, the dev himself.
- The negative reviews have in some cases more than 25 likes and come from a diverse group of members.

We're trying to warn you for the sake of your time, while the art is good this game is not fun to play and you will spend long periods of time for seconds of an image glimpse... and the dev appears to have no desire to listen to repeated feedback and instead may be trying to influence reviews so it's probably not getting better anytime soon.

The art is great and the milfs are hot af, and that's about it. The game has two main problem:
- The engine. I will never understand devs who take the effort to build a homemade engine when there is one available (Renpy) that is MUCH better. You can't save when you want (and have a limited number of slots); you can't skip or rollback; you can't adjust the window size (it's fullscreen by default). The engine completely ruins the experience.
- Game mechanics: this is grinding at its worst, you often have only one thing to do, but have to wait several days to do anything (a typical day is wake-up, study twice, then go to sleep). Most events take place at a specific time on a specific day, so if you miss it you have to spend a week doing nothing to have another chance--and don't forget to save if you want to see the other option of a sex scene, since there is no rollback or replay room!

Milftoon, if you read this, JUST MAKE IT IN RENPY GODDAMMIT!

Game is getting better and better and I really like where the game is going. Last year when they started to make part 2 of the game it was buggy sometimes unplayable but with the new part or chapter it seems they understood what was wrong with the game and they fixed it. I'm glad with their choice of the game mechanics.

I love this game but I think it would be much easier to make it in renpy . Milfs Are hot as fck. It has an interesting plot but I guess for majority of players it is not so important. I definitely recommend this game for everyone who wants to feel milftoon experience. ( If you know what I mean)

Gameplay incredibly tedious, way more so than usual. I really wanted to play this because the art is amazing but I couldn't force myself onwards. Most days you wake up, study twice, and go to sleep. There is nothing else to do. You're just waiting for Saturday when the tutor visits. Literally the only plot progression is waiting for her to visit on Saturday. This is a super awkward and off-putting way to introduce the game to new players.

Maybe this changes later on? I'm not sure, I couldn't force myself to get that far.