VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Milky Touch [Final] [Studio Kuma]

I have to say that I have not found a new game that excited me as this one in a long time. The story is very well built, nice realistic characters, the art is considerably good, very nice animations. I think this game has a great potential.

A very well done game even if not yet complete. First of, the art is exceptional. Second, I like that I have a variety of choices that not all of my choices leads to a sex scene. Even though this is a game where sex is one, if not, the main genre having the choices to not go through makes me feel more immersed in the game knowing that I can dictate the kind of attitude the MC has. It makes me feel that I am part of the story and I'm not just stuck in a horny dudes body looking to fuck every hot girl he meets. And I kinda like that it's not point based on the women to get them and it's more choices based and cause and effect. I think it just makes things organic and again adds to the feeling of actually being part of the story.

So I'm looking forward for future updates series cause right now it's one of my favorited!

Great art and excellent voice acting and sound design. I feel like the pacing of the story is right on as well. The only complaint I have is I don't like how Victor is written and find him annoying and less believable as a character compared to the others. No noticeable bugs or errors when I played through.

JUST EXCELLENT.
love the models, great story. i am amazed at the physics in art. i love to know how it has been don. whit what software. really great work. thanks.
i hope they continue this great great job. and create moor and moor games like this one.
best regards.

Oh, this is a weird one (v1.19, May 2020).

Naturally I was intrigued by the glowing reviews and the version number. Both turned out to be a bit deceptive, although not quite in the same way. I am tempted to give it 5 stars on account how... thought-provoking the flaws of this game are. So strap yourselves in, lads, we're writing a Serious Sophisticated Review (naaah, just skip to the TLDR and ignore my ramblings)

The first thing one notices is the art style. It's good for what it's worth, although it suffers from the same face, body, and age syndrome. You think Aroma Sensei is bad? Wait until you try to tell headmistress and math teacher apart! There is one important note here, the art style clearly aims for realism. This will be relevant later. Next, paired with visuals there is a decent chunk of commissioned voice acting, again, very well done and realistic. Sex scenes, however few of those are, are voiced (with one exception). It certainly reinforces the immersion. The UI/UX is pretty standard RenPy fare, but nicely textured and gives a "serious" feel. BGM is pleasant and unobtrusive.

Okay, so by now you should take the hint, it's realism as real as it can be yadda yadda yadda. Do you even real bro? And here is where it all came crashing down for me in a way that I couldn't quite put my finger on for a few hours after I finished playing.

And then it hit me. While the audio-visuals just scream realism, the story fails to deliver. Fundamentally this is a silly incest fantasy plus school setting (ugh) plus an improbable noir story. I think either of these could work while maintaining suspension of disbelief, maybe even two, but never all three. It's just too much to take it seriously. (Alternatively, you could throw out the notion of realism entirely, and it would also work, in a way, AKA make a "parody" game)

But even if I grant you a technical possibility of combining incest, school, and noir, there's a price to that. Such task requires impeccable writing. And it is nowhere to be found. First of all, Milky Touch needs an editor. Badly. It's rife with very crude mistakes that are apparent even to someone who is not a native speaker. (That means yours truly. So when I say it's badly mangled, it has to mean something.)

And then the purple prose. Oh gods of rule 34, it is so purple. On a scale of 1 to 10 I give it eleven murexes and a magical pony princess' seal of approval. Simply put, it as purple as it can ever get and that's a bad thing unless your goal is self-parody. It really reads like a joke sometimes. And don't get me wrong, I would've enjoyed the absurd excessiveness if it was framed as a diegetic joke, but it's not. And so it clashes with realism once again.

So that's the biggest flaw, the game sets some expectations and then fails to deliver them, catastrophically so. The end result is a really weird dissonance. Everything else is quite minor compared to this.

Mechanically Milky Touch is almost a pure VN, and it would be fine, but nooooo, someone had a bright idea of spicing things up. You see, there's a lock-picking minigame slapped on top. And by slapped I mean it's devoid of any purpose to the point of being insulting. When the story dictates that the character can break a lock, you can not fail it. When the story decides that character skills are not sufficient, it says you failed even if you beat the minigame. Just... why? The whole point of trying to beat a (mini)game is to win against all odds (big surprise, huh). Railroading me to a loss is basically an insult. This is not how you spice things up, this is how you annoy people and waste your own resources.

In the end, the lesson of Milky Touch. If you strive for realism, you better put on your Big Writer Pants or go home and try something easier. Write a self-parody, r34 parody or whatever less serious genre you want. With that, I'm tentatively giving it 3 stars. It's maybe 4.5 out of 10 on account of very low amount of adult content. I suppose it could eke out a 6 in the future by adding more of the same and maybe even go beyond a six by expanding the list of fetishes (for example stealthvibes and/or orgasm denial would go nicely with this sort of VA).

TL;DR: Good for a one-time mindless fap. Above average CGs and solid VA. Unfortunately not a good game or a good story at the moment; also quite short (it's incomplete, after all). Right now, average at best. Be sure to check it out in a few years when it has a decent amount of scenes with actual sexual activities.

Not sure I get what all the fuss is about. I tried it because of the very high ratings. Been playing for a few hours. Very nice backgrounds. Perfect voices for the few characters that are voiced. Good 2d art for the ladies, but not amazing by any stretch. No variation at all in the looks really. No animations after playing a few hours. Very few stills compared to other VNs.

Story is interesting. Still, some weird ways of speaking No one say "Thank you Mister". They would say "Thank you Sir" unless your living in a 1950s gangster film. This is just an example. Still not a fatal flaw by any means.

Maybe I had too high expectations based on the prior reviews. I will play a little longer but if it doesn't improve, I will give up and move on. If it improves, I will change my review.m

I played more and like the last few days (days 9-11) far more than the earlier ones. Animations with sound are incredible. There's just too few of them. However, first 2/3 of game is not impressive. Why the black blobs for the non-primary characters? Is this a temporary thing?

Original spins on ideas, standout art and a decent experience! Actual sexy content seems a little thinly stretched for now (May 2020). The art and dialogue also seemed disjointed, as in the picture often changes at the wrong time and sometimes not at all, although the description suggests it should. I thought it was my mistake at first, but this repeated often enough to be a bother. The voice acting is pretty tasteful, not the usual overdone style.

A definite promise of originality and good production quality. Hopefully more content arrives quickly!

This is the first game where I didn't immediately turn off the music and voice acting. I mean wow, it's a 5/5 for just the music alone. And the voice actor for Claudia is so damn good. She's clearly acting, but it's charming in a way.

This is an extremely classy game, from the visuals to the music to the writing. Which could either be a turn off or a turn on for some. I personally do not enjoy reading shit like, "a young man having his way with her" like, that's cringey as fuck. But, that's what you're going to get from classy writing. That also means the sex scenes are going to be a lot less visual, too, and all prose. Luckily, however, there's not too much overwriting that many egotistical writers might do.

And I'm a much more visual type of a guy. I hate reading sex scenes. But...something about the entire presentation lets me really enjoy it. I'm still skipping over a lot, but that music just really puts me into the atmosphere like no other before. Hell, sometimes I open the game just to hear the main title song.

So, as you can see, I'm essentially giving this game a 5/5 for the music lmfao. However, the art is also quite stunning.

I really love the artwork. Probably the most realistic out of all games out there. I like the voice over/ sound effect added which is certainly a unique point which very few games does that.
I like the amazing music too. Hate to play game with no bgm at all and i have to play my own music from spotify.
Scene is quality over quantity.

Simply amazing art and quality voice actors! Devs are comunicative and polite. They deserve all the respect and patrons in the world.
I hope to see this and all their other game make it far!
The only think I would like to see is more of what they are already doing, adding more voice actors, keeping to the schedule and from time to time giving out a free release.

Wow. I am amazed. I've read well known Japanese/anime visual novels, and well known titles that are not Japanese/anime. Whether through steam, official websites, patreon, and or from here. Of all the ones I've come across. Milky Touch has a VERY unique feel to it. I'm only about an hour into it so far, and its already making me feel like Im in for a great one, not a good one, but a great one, and perhaps something that is quite "different", and in a good way of course. (At least I hope) I was suprised that Claudia is voiced. I really dig her voice and her voice reminds me of Carlotta's voice from skyrim. Its a first for me to stumble upon voiced character(s) for visual novels such as these, for I always assumed it was only the Japanese/anime visual novels that tend to be "voiced". I especially like it when she calls us sweety! Another thing that stands out is definitely the music. As I stated, I'm only about a solid hour in, and the music is already complimenting the visual novel quite well in my opinion, and I like it. The music is also different and unique from what I usually listen to and or hear from visual novels. As for the storyline and characters so far, I guess I can't really judge yet since I'm only an hour in so far. However, I will say that the artwork such as the characters are fantastically different. Compared to all Ive stumbled upon that is. I just dont know who to fall for, for they are all amazing wonderful work of art. Though my interests as of now are leaning more towards Claudia and Octavia. And.... maybe Karen.. =) Simply put, I'm liking it so far. -Also props for being able to rename the protagonist, as well as the characters. I really dislike playing /reading visual novels without being able to rename the protagonist.

-Edit: Just finished, and I have to say... I'm deeply sadden already. No shame in admitting. I dearly miss Claudia already. Her personality, her voice, hearing her call me sweatie, honey, love you, and etc. I just cant stop staring at the main menu, and listening to the beautiful menu music. Its hauntingly beautiful and perfectly suits how Im feeling after completion . Now Im haunted with the memories. I feel like Im standing at shoreline, staring into the sunset while the main menu track plays, and im yearning for something that can never be. Already replayed, but its making my heart ache for more. Again, no shame in expressing how Milky Touch hit me. Oh yeah, props for animations too. Also, Mrs. Weng... I like her too... Overall, Milky Touch was definitely one of the best things thats happened to me during this pandemic in reality. I was able to retreat to another universe, but now Im called back to reality. I definitely look foward to future releases and completion. Even though Milky Touch is still in development, thank you for the fantastic experience.

Love this game, absolutely gorgeous arts. The script, the feel, and artstyle is different from your usual Daz games which is very nice. The sound, and voice acting is good which also add to the uniqueness. Please keep up the good work dev, looking forward to future updates

Best 2D CG Ever, hands down.
The game hase chill music, some of the females are even voiced!

The story is interesting, though it's only a beginning
I will look further into this potential masterpiece

v1.15
Blind playthrough to the end once.

Graphics/Animations 5/5
Visuals are unique. Gives it a watercolor painting feel to it. I only came across the animations later in the game. Few, but the animations were done well.

Sound/Music 5/5
Music is great, good variety. Not the usual stock music in most games. Not overpowering but gives the scene a more mellow feel.
Voice acting only for a few particular characters. The voice actor for Claudia does a great job.

Story/Sexual Content 5/5
Nothing special about the story for now. Your standard horny college student with a few sexual interests. Characters are well developed. Names and relationships are changeable in the menu settings. There are a lot of branching decisions, fairly linear in structure and I don't feel like I've been forced down any particular path. There is a fair bit of reading.

Conclusion
Solid game. Quite polished for an unfinished game. I do see myself going through the game a few times to see the other options. Certainly not for everyone. Those who don't like reading should probably skip this one or blitz through with the skip function to see images/animations. There's a bit of reading with static images in some scenarios. If reading a descriptive sex scene is your kinda thing then you'll love this.

We employ a realistic style ourselves, but this game puts realistic 2D to a whole new level. It deserves an excellent rating for it's artsyle alone, but the execution of choices and storyline is also excellent. The characters are far from generic and all of them are unique and interesting. This game and it's amazing artwork will always be our inspiration.

Art is the heartbeat of every game, and man, this game makes my heart beat faster.

I just love the art style of this game. A truly unique style that I have never seen before in F95. Character developments are also a 10 (at least for the women). Having played it from the very early built, I also noticed the improvement of the developers on interfaces and structures.

I was holding out for the mom update, and the game delivered.

Amazing art, fantastic VA work, great sex scenes, and an engaging story. This game is a credit to their makers and worthy of its patrons. Give it a try and you'll be rewarded for the experience.

Update by update, this game capitalizes high productions values, an idea of how results matter; for me, only the detail of showing the logo at first place clears the intention of make things right, so a clear UI with many choices to deal with talks about all that work made. Art drawing keeps high equal to the female characters and backgrounds. The story goes too flat, but erotic games (I don't consider it a porn game) only seduces for this --in my opinion--. On other side, there's an effort on writing and shows deep what happens on screen every moment (I see myself following the descriptions in a perfect english). On top of that, finally, a point above all could only be the female voices used on lewd scenes, also the voice of the main female character (Claudia). Got to keep an eye on how this game evolves.

Glad I found this gem. TBH i starting to get sick of all those "mannequin gloss reflect" Daz 3d and Generic Honey Select models. This graphical artwork is really differently excellent
Artwork 5 star!!
Game Play 5 star - Yeah!! I am a sucker for Cause and Consequences VN , I glad this is not one of this grinding stats game. Some paths are mutually exclusive. I have replay this game quite a few times to get all the gallery. A good game gets ppl to play it again and again. I know some ppl might complain anything that need a walkthrough is like a high level sudoku and want a Ctrl Tab skip all the way to a harem ending. To me that is boring.

Story and narrative 5 star - I like the background story of each of the characters. The creators actually take time to invest in their history. When you learn more about them , you connect more with them and the game become more invested to them too.
Many games now put "Mom" , "sis" , classmate A / B / C , Teacher A /B and the sexfest begin.
Mom is believable here , she cooks she works she got worries like a mom and talk to the MC like a mom. You can totally connect to her as a Mom.
Seriously I get turn off by a lot of games nowadays with a caption "Mom" and the first thing she think at the start of the game is "Is my son checking out my ass? thats making me so horny" .............................. >.<
The sex scenes are also well narrated . Not the "He take off her clothes and they have hot sex" The end.

One thing I don't really like is the inclusion of single shot bad end. Bad Endings should have a path of its own. I find single shot bad end like a silly trap punishment for ppl clicking it. I played all paths I find it quite silly. if you don't want ppl to click it , you shouldn't include the choice .
Esp the "Are you ****ing serious" ending." I don't mince my words for this. I find developers who does this pretty lame.
Its a waste of time on both player and developer's end. - 1 Star

This is for 1.0

I don't really know what else to say besides "This is the best game I've seen on here (aside from legit visual novels from Japan)"

Huge props to Claudia's VA. She's perfect. I hope the other characters get fully voiced and I hope they're at least close to being as good as her.