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

The good :
Artwork is original
Models are original, kinda
The BGM isn't bad.
There's voice acting
The UI is original and clearly someone thought about it.

The bad
The artist seems only to be able to draw one face and one body type for females which is why I said that the models are kinda original. Just have to look at the other game by the same creators and you'll see the female looks identical to the ones here. Look at the females on the load screen. The differences between each of them are the clothes, hairdo and lipstick color. Sure, most of them are related to each other but never the less it's a bit much. And as said compare the face of the lead female character to the one in the 'no more golden days' by the same studio. I guess that was a distant ancestor of the flight attendant character.

Voice acting? It's sparse and what there is sounds similar. In other words you can't make up what character is talking just listening to the voice. One has to question what purpose it serves. On top of that, I don't know about you but I read a whole lot faster then they talk.

Bad BGM and UI can hurt how you experience the game. That doesn't mean that good BGM and UI however can make something mediocre become excellent.

Amount of game play after 14 chapters and more then a year since the first release is pitiful.

I hadn't played this since 11.5 and was able to play the few chapters up to and including 14 in about half an hour.
Lots of time you see the same backdrops over and over, in lots of cases even without any characters on screen or the characters in poses that have been used several times before.
Sure, there's a bunch of text but not there's much progression in the story or relationships.

E.G.: from the changelog Ch. 13 Beta
1. One Scene added.
--Yeah, a new chapter with 1, count them, one new scene.
2. Day 13 (8000 words) added.
--Eight thousand words for a chapter doesn't mean a thing. It's not about the amount of words but what you do with the words. Writing a 1000 page book is easy and is no guarantee that it will be any good. Writing a good short story in a thousand words however is very difficult because you don't have room to make mistakes
3. Riley's Yoga outfit updated
-- ??? Made a change on an outfit of one character. Don't over do it now, do you need to sit down after all that work?
4. New BGMs
--Making music takes time. Did they make it or just acquired it from other sources? And even if made by themselves.. if the rest is 'meh' then music won't transform in a masterpiece.
5. A lot of previous bugs and typos fixed!
-- Isn't that the bare minimum that one should expect?

Why anyone would spend money on a game with this little content is frankly beyond me. Then again, how this got a score of 4.5/5 I find odd as well.

Review of v1.19....

I really like this game. I love the artwork. It's GORGEOUS! I respect the devs and the work they put into creating this beautiful art.

There is voice work, but only for two characters...Claudia (the MC's mother) and Karen (the MC's best friend's mother). The voice actress for Claudia is perfect. She has a beautiful mature sounding sensual voice with good range. The actress for Karen is also mature sounding and sensual, but she is also kind of flat. I'm not sure I blame the actress for that since Karen is a bit of a cold domineering character.

The voice acting is also incomplete for this build. There are points where it will dip out and come back.

There is only one sex scene in this build. Others might say I'm wrong, but personally I don't consider a non-MC footjob, a thighjob, and a 69 actual sex.

I've seen others criticize the overly descriptive sex. I would agree to a point. The first scene you come to is spying on the headmistress of your school (Karen) while she masturbates in her office and there is what feels like a 10 minute descriptor of her simply playing with her tits. After that it gets more manageable.

The one thing that kept me from giving this game a full 5 stars is the script. While it's decent there are numerous spelling and grammar errors sprinkled throughout. Some of the narrative text had a name tag on it which threw me off thinking that character was still speaking.

If they clean up the script and fix the name tag errors I would love to give this game 5 stars.

That being said I highly recommend this game, if just for the artwork alone. I very much look forward to future updates and the overall completion.

This game should receive much more support, its one of the best around here.
Good story, mutiple choices that matter and beautiful art.
Everyone that played the game should try to share with more people, and try to get the word around so more people can support.

Mechanically, Milky Touch is a well-made game. The UI is polished, Ren'Py is a good choice of engine, and there aren't a whole lot of dropped balls that get in the way of the narrative experience.

The "game" here leans on a branching tree of choices that facilitates or prohibits the development of certain characters' stories, and how the player interacts with those characters. You can see, or not see, certain scenes, based on your choices, or change some cosmetic details, but I didn't notice a lot of substantive plot changes resulting from player choices. For example, you can play through one scene in a way that either involves your best friend, Victor, or not, but doing so won't change the relationship Victor has to the other parties, or inspire him to rectify his relationship with the object of his affection.

In spite of this, I never felt that my choices were meaningless, and generally felt better connected to the world and it's characters as a result of deciding how to interact with them.

The art, both technically, and stylistically, is the best in its class. The artist's style seems (to this philistine) vaguely impressionistic, certainly more classical than the average erotic game, and compliments the use of elegant, refined, women. It seems like the theme and characters respect the capacity of the art to deliver realistic images that can express a range of emotion and detail. I think the art would be wasted in the service of a story that took itself less seriously, and the theme and characters would suffer if they were represented by 3d models, anime-inspired art, or a more cartoony style.

Visually, the game is filled with stockings, high heels, evening gowns, uniforms, and so on. In the hands of so capable an artist, it becomes a sensual feast. I had no trouble appreciating the femininity or beauty of the characters, and to a lesser extent, details like the feel of nylon stockings, and the implied desire of characters to appear made up, and well put-together.

Disclosure: The game has voice acting, which, since I play my games muted, I was, regretfully, almost completely deaf to. What little I did listen to, I recall favorably, and remember that Claudia's dialogue seemed to suit her character. While I understand that this is a difficult development expense to justify, I am nonetheless excited to see the creative team trying to encompass the other, invisible, senses, for a richer experience.

Writing is fair, comfortably above average for a game in this niche, but not great. The characters are somewhat flat, and it's not real clear what's going on in their head (even when it should be). The mother/landlady is probably the most robustly detailed character in the game. The characters are largely interchangeable pretty faces to be used in the service of the game, and don't have intrinsic values, wants, flaws, or any real characteristics of their own. You probably couldn't tell these characters apart on the basis of their dialogue or personalities. The main character is similarly two dimensional, and while a willing player might find themselves sympathizing with, and caring for, some of the characters, this empathy is somewhat disconnected from the 'avatar' of the main character.

Although the description is, as noted above, adequate, particularly given the lackluster writing that characterizes this niche, it never crosses over to being hot enough to provoke or titillate on its own merits.

I have to rebuff one criticism I've seen: while the writing isn't stellar, the game isn't afraid to give us long, luxurious, reasonably detailed, descriptions of sex, which is a treat, and a welcome change from more taciturn games which seem to treat the narrative as an impediment to their ability to deliver unlockable porn. A beautiful illustration can convince us that a character is attractive, but if you want to meaningfully communicate subtle, and impactful, experiences, like the slow, reluctant, acquiescence of a woman to the advances of a repulsive patron, or the despair and anger of a betrayed wife and her subsequent tryst, or the slow transmutation of a mother's familial love to romantic attraction, you're going to have to rely on the skillful use of the written word for that development. I would much rather an author attempt that challenge, than condemn a game to be a slideshow of pictures, punctuated by clicking.

The theme of the game seems to be an open question of beautiful, somewhat reserved, women, falling from grace, and how the player reacts to that. The women in the game are all upper class women in social or professional positions where a high degree of propriety and refinement is expected. The kind of women who play violins, work behind desks, and wear uniforms to work. The main source of erotic tension in the game is seeing these women in situations, and with people, who betray the existance of a repressed, beating, id, beneath that exterior. Much of the kink, therefore, encompasses experiences of reluctance, coercion, humiliation/degredation, and so on. Summarily, the player sees beautiful women opening to experiences of sexual depravity and gratification in spite of themselves.

The game does a decent job setting up the expectation of propriety before it (predictably) violates it. We develop our expectations of these women from the settings we see them in, and the way we see them present themselves. The art does the heavy lifting here- there's relatively little written exposition in the game, so far, and what there is focuses more on developing plot, more than character. Consequently, we don't get much of an idea of what the characters are like in their normal, refined personas, before the game pulls the curtain back and reveals nymphomania, exhibitionism, incest, etc.

If I had one criticism of the game, it's that the potential for sexual tension (which is significant) is underdeveloped. We don't become emotionally attached to Claudia as a mother before the game induces us to lust after her. We don't see Olivia as a convincingly straitlaced teacher, before the game makes her the focal point of perversion. This is understandable- gamers want tits, and they're not willing to sit through War and Peace to get there. Given the plot's reliance on characters overcoming their own impediments to sexuality, it feels like we don't have a whole lot of gameplay dedicated to enjoying a woman's very gradual descent into carnal excess. It feels like we miss some of the the meat and potatoes- the real substance, of drama and emotional angst that the world has set up for us. This game has a hell of a lot going for it, and I can't help wonder what it might be if it could sell the emotional side of the story as well as it does the visual.

Overall, this is one of my favorite games in the erotic genre, and I strongly recommend it. I really just want more, deeper, exploration of what the game already delivers. I'm equally enthusiastic about the success of this venture, as I am the continued development of the already significant skills of the creators, and their work on parallel and future projects.

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.