VN - Ren'Py - Mistery Mansion [v0.4.5] [vincent13]

Version Reviewed: v0.4.5

Overview: Wait, is the title misspelled?

Story: So you're a guy who goes to a mansion your voice intrigued. Everybody he meets immediately jumps on his dick your voice dubious. Turns out the mansion is a porn production thing and more rooms unlock the more you fuck your tone confused? Almost every single line of dialog ends with an unnecessary tag telling you what tone of voice the person is using. I know this wasn't written by an English speaker, but I have no idea what would make a person feel the need to emotionally tag every line of dialog. Is this game on the spectrum?

Graphics: Some Daz renders. The backgrounds aren't just the default freebie assets at least. The lighting is set pretty harsh which has a bad tendency to uglify the Daz models, but it's not too outrageous and at least the game isn't dark.

Conclusion: I guess it's fappable, but the game is kind of a mess. There's no chance of getting invested in any of the characters, and there is basically no buildup on anything. You meet them and just about the first thing they say is "lets fuck" and "I want to be your sex slave".

Mistery Mansion is a great name for this game, because I really don't have any clue what the fuck is going on.

The game kind of just throws you into the game without a real introduction. There are plenty of ways to introduce characters without a crazy amount of exposition, but honestly I was lost. The characters are mostly unexplained and very shallow, with the protagonist seemingly already conquering most of the women presented, and the others going along without a fight. The sisters are modeled after that Addams family show based on Wednesday on Netflix (at least I'm fairly certain, I never watched the show but that's the vibe), and frankly other than looking like them and apparently naturally submissive they also have no depth. Also, while I don't argue this very much since they are adult games, there really is no plot here. I would argue it in detail but I was pretty bored with it and I suppose I'd rather be apathetic than going through the game again to find questions to ask that will probably not be answered.

The story and characters are not the only thing lacking here. The visuals are rendered in 720p, which I don't mind since not everyone has a top of the line computer, however what is presented is not great. There are a lot of scenes where the colors seem washed out and while I won't complain about the set pieces (since I don't really know if they were custom made or just something downloaded and minimally tweaked) they didn't really inspire me either. There is no video, but with 720p renders it might be more of a technical issue than a skill issue.

No sound that I heard, literally nothing. I don't really listen to sound while I play anyway, but figured it was worth mentioning since some people do place a lot of importance on it.

Content is... well, this review is taking place early in the game but it is obvious that there will be more of an emphasis on the sex than the plot. Because of the aforementioned visual issues, I think something has to change or this will crash and burn. The "game" part is just the basic binary "see the scene or don't" choice structure (so far), which I don't mind in most circumstances but it just makes everything feel even more shallow.

The positive? Well, at least the author used spell and grammar check for the dialogue. I would prefer if you also did that for the menu choices, since it seems a bit jarring that the dialogue looks fine but the first thing you see is "whats your name?" which gives a bad first impression which isn't even indicative in the spelling!


I gave this two stars because I don't think the game is irredeemable: the author knows what they want content-wise in the game, they are at least trying to double check their dialogue, and it's still early enough for some tech and writing work to fix the issues I listed. As for visuals, some color correction and focusing would really help with low res images, but I'm no artist so while I can say "do it better" I couldn't be specific about it. I'm not going to say you don't care about your product, but perhaps some feedback from others before a release might catch these issues.


TL;DR Make me care about the characters and plot, tighten up your narration and menu options, and while I won't say to upgrade your visuals, definitely take some time in post to make them look as good as possible.

I hope I can come back soon and give a better review.

EDIT - I initially wrote 480p for images, but I didn't fact check myself. The image sources say they are 720p, which... doesn't help the dev's case but it is what it is.