Ren'Py - Completed - Monkey Business [v1.0] [Lazy Monkey]

I love this!

I will admit that the grammar is probably the main shortcoming. Could be improved.

Let us not talk about the graphics because many devs have taken it to completely new levels just to make their impact. Graphics are good in my opinion.

I went for the love route with the mom. I'm not so sure why a game that has a love and lust route for one character has no love route for the other but just dom/sub.

I'm a MILF lover though.
And some of the best MILF porn is through incest.
So I love me this game.

Status: completed

time spent on 1 route: 2+ hours (depends on reading speed)

So the game is completed now, it was fun and good while it lasted, aswell as the implemented tags. How well were the tags implemented?

Are there any missing tags?


All in all were the tags well implemented, the story was fun to read too (depends on the taste), its completed, there are multiple endings...
I'm looking forward to the next project.

Solid game with nice story. Two main girls which you can choose from and then some more to spice things up. Animations are ok but the renders are a bit lacking in resolution (too much graining) but its mostly fine.
Try it yourself its pretty good.

I want to like this more than I do. Art and scenes are good, but jarring scene transitions and story pacing plus translation awkwardness leave something to be desired.

Review is for v0.7, so this may all be addressed in future.

Fantastic game. Aside from the excellent models, what stands out is the clever and humorous writing--this is one of those games in which the absurdity of the situations is done just right to make it funny. The characters are fantastic (especially the sister), and extremely hot. The composition of sex scenes is also great, and there are some interesting diverging paths.

I encountered one line that was not translated into English, but that will presumably be fixed in the next version.

The developer originally used a sandbox framework, but that was thankfully abandoned many versions ago. Now no time is wasted and there are no pointless clicks interfering with the story and art. Great work.

Somehow I liked it.
From a point of story it's quite a typical game, like many others.

But I liked the females and the scenes, they are actually quite hot and dirty, and breaking the family taboo makes them even more spicy.

Just try it. Not for story, not for game mechanics but for the ladies and the action with them.

Review for v0.7

I feel like I would love Monkey Business if it just cleaned itself up. There's a certain charm this game has that makes me want to play it, but it's buried under a jumbled mess of issues that are hard for me to get past.

The most glaring one is how often and almost abruptly this game just jumps from one scenario to the next, never giving anything time to build up. There's no taking time to breathe. Everything is constantly on the move in a way that feels sort of rushed. Everything gets this almost disjointed feel because of it.

This is also a rare game where I feel like I actually need a guide. Maybe it's partly due to the less than ideal translations, but the game is not very clear on what your choices actually do. Example: Should you beat your sister in a race, one of the victory options is to save the favor she now owes you for later. Turns out that actually means you just skip the scene without getting anything down the line. Glad I looked into that because I would have picked it otherwise. The game actually has some pretty divergent paths so it's a bit unfortunate that it's so confusing sometimes.

Grainy renders, rather standard animations, a random plot, and a lack of good character development before your family is ready to fuck you. All of these things combined should honestly make for a lower rating right?

Here's where that aforementioned charm comes in. I actually love the character models used for the mom and sister. The MC is a the more standard schoolboy dumbass, but honestly an enjoyable one. The sex scenes/scenarios created are actually pretty hot too, and there are moments where the characters sort of shine that make me like them. This game has some things going for it truly, and it makes me really want to like it.

As it stands though, I'd come back to this only to kill time between other stuff more than actually getting into it. You can have some fun with this for sure, but it's nowhere near a top tier AVN for me.

Great game with amazing renders and character personalities. Story is somewhat erratic, but it dosen't spoil overall experience. I recommend to play it everyone. Hope dev add more anal content in the future.

Version: [v0.7]
Monkey Business is a VN about a young man, living with his family that consists of a deranged father, a horned up mother and a switch sister.
As the extremely random story unfolds the MC meets a bunch of LI's, all too busy flying towards his dick to act like actual human beings.

The story as I said is extremely random and mostly used as an excuse for this VN to not be a gallery mod, MC's father is a weirdo criminal that drags the family into his plans and that's pretty much it. it doesn't make much sense and it is not very interesting.
The other characters are fine in theory, but the dialogues could be improved a lot by letting ChatGPT rewrite them, other than the pretty bad translations its another case of 'no one actually talks like that' that is oh so common in the genre.

I like the models, the mother and cousin especially, pretty good looking and up my ally.
The renders unfortunately are pretty grainy and outdated.
The sex scenes are very short and the animations are low fps, there are a bunch of them tho.

Overall 'Monkey Business' feels generic and average, no real strong points but everything outside of the dialogues isn't bad.
I'll be honest and say I got bored and dropped it at some point, the dialogues bothered me, the story wasn't too interesting and the sex scenes while somewhat hot were very short so the payoff simply wasn't there for me.
Rounding up to 3 stars for the effort and the decent amount of content.

The story is good, interesting characters and dialogues. The graphic part is at an average/acceptable level.
It is a pity that it is not as popular as many other pacifiers on this site. Dev was clearly made considerable efforts to develop it at a high level, I wish more success to this project in the future.

My Reaction for this game : i love it !

★ Gameplay : ✭✭✭✭✰
★ Story : ✭✭✭✭✰
★ Spelling : ✭✭✭✭✰
★ renders : ✭✭✭✭✰
★ Potential : ✭✭✭✭✭
★ Overall : ✭✭✭✭✰
★ Girls physique : ✭✭✭✭✰
★ Graphic : ✭✭✭✭✰
★ Sex Content : ✭✭✭✭✰
★ Creativity :✭✭✭✰✰

Note :

Definitely you should try it .

◉ All the best to the developer .

Review based on V0.6

One of the best games on the site! I enjoyed every minute playing this masterpiece. Some of the hottest scenes I've ever seen, and done in a truly unique way. Story is interesting, gameplay is good, but the Milf is so sexy and seductive. There's one scene in particular that involves a therapist (I won't spoil it) but, it's that build-up of raw emotions and passion between the MC and his milf that just blows my mind, it's so erotic!

Animations are well done, renders/artwork Amazing! I recommend this game to anyone a fan of the genre, truly worth playing. This is one of those hidden gems, loved it!

Thank you Dev!

1. Hilarious dialogues, very funny.
2. Realistic models. Animation and graphics may be better, but this is ebough to make player feel exited in a right way.
3. This is typical story in some details, but on the other side plot twists are good and you dont get bored.
4. Its dirty in a right way, relationships with family members are made just perfect. Good storylines we have here. I dont write review very often, you know, but this game worth it. Wish the author all the best. Thank you.

Highly recommend this game. At start of the game I thought it would be like any other grinding game. But the story is good and characters are super good. There is just one problem with this game is the graphics Please consider upgrading the graphics I loved this game and with better graphics it would be perfect. Hope there will be pregnacy route too in the future for all character. Thank you dev for this game.

Pretty decent VN. I recommend it
PROS
Transitions are good
LI's are lovely
Characters are developed
CONS
Writing needs some help
Summary
Overall this isn't a bad VN. The story is decent enough to keep you interested.
The characters have room for diversity
The writing needs some small tweaks here and there.
Good luck to Lazy Monkey. I'll keep an eye out for future updates

In most regards this game deserves 4 stars. The story isn't all that compelling nor good at keeping interest, but the girl types are right up my alley, art is good, scenes are good and kinky, etc. The interesting thing is that there is a lot of branching character/sex content and, while this is usually a pro, in this game I consider it con and part of the reason for deducting a star.

The writing does a very, very bad job of allowing you to select options that will deliver you to the content you as a player would prefer to see. As an example, I wanted to prioritize mom content so I picked all the dialog prompts that had me spending time with the mom character. Doing so I saw 3 good penetration scenes and I felt content with them. Out of curiosity, I enabled skip/skip after choices and I went back to chose different dialog choices that CLAIM they divert focus from the mom to other characters. To my surprise, by choosing to focus on sister/aunt/etc., I got BETTER mom content than I did by picking the mom options... As an example: instead of spanking the mom during therapy via the mom path, I discovered a scene of MC fucking her raw on the therapist's couch while the therapist pleaded for us to stop but the mom begged for more.

I feel like the dev probably theorized this as a way to increase replayability. This would be true if the player had any control over what they got to see - I was ACTIVELY seeking content with the mother, and got (what I can only assume to be) the shittiest mom content available. If you want to see the best mom content, you need a mod/guide - you cannot get it on your own (naturally, at least).

Considering that dialog choices are the core gameplay mechanic, I consider the core gameplay in this title to be broken to the point that mods are required in order to fix (none of which exist at time of writing, to my knowledge). For this, it gets 2 stars. If the dialog choices guided you correctly, I'd say 4 stars, but they never will be able to due to how much branching in the story there is (unless dev does a huge overhaul which I doubt would be worth while).

Monkey Business has very little to offer in terms of plot. Yes, the father is involved in illegal dealings and fraud, but that is really only the basis on which the corruption game takes place. It is, so to speak, the minimum plot that one expects in a modern VN, without it really gaining in importance. The fraud and the fact that the family suddenly needs a lot of money are simply the explanation for why suddenly everything is possible. And that is too simplistic for me.
Incest exists in Monkey Business, but it feels more like working through a checklist. There is no emotional background, everything just happens, out of necessity to pay the debt or to satisfy a twisted desire to corrupt that is mistaken for genuine love.

The relationship between the siblings has a lot of potential to be interesting, but remains superficial and ultimately a wasted opportunity. Instead of getting closer on a human level and working through conflicts, the result is only a dysfunctional sexual relationship in which it is normal for the sister to steal a sincere love affair from the brother (dominant route) or to submit to him sexually instead (submissive route).

The plot could have been made into something more than corruption porn with its familiar tropes, but that was obviously never the intention and therefore it is rather an average VN experience.

TLDR: A jumbled mess with boring animations and decent graphics

The Good:

• LI models are decent and distinct from each other.

The Meh:

• Animations are there but not done very well. The angles that are used are pretty boring and honestly other non-animated games can be more exciting.
• LIs are so cookie cutter it's just painful and the MC is another boringly generic/stupid man-child.

The Ugly:

• The writing and story is just a convoluted mess that is begging to be skipped. The whole crime plot is just painful to read and you can mostly ignore what LIs are saying because they're going to change their minds or say something different in the next scene.

It's a great game , a unique story , a radical moral breach .
Some choices will lose part of the picture, I recommend choice Sis_Sub , Sis_Dom very mediocre .
One strange point is that the plot alludes to pregnancy numerous times, but none of the girls ever get pregnant .
Author please speed up the update, from the release is only updated four times 15 mouths , which is too slow .

Pros

1. Story is just OK.
2. Quality of image renders are fairly good.
3. Quality of animations are fairly OK
4. English vocabulary is good.
5. Good to see lot of characters and most of them are interesting.
6. Little interesting due to more occasions of getting caught while having forbidden sex
7. Playability, performance and grammar are all just OK no issue

Cons

1. Lack of emphasize for incest, considered as just a normal/casual activity or just a little abnormality of life style. Incest is considered as little common.
2. Illegal activities like bank robbery & jewelry shop robbery are some casually happening in MC’s life is not recommended.
3. Lack of seductiveness in sexual approach
4. Error: Guess I noticed few errors in dialogue by whom and few mix up of language (couple occasions the dialogue is in Russian while we selected the English

In summary fairly good entertainment

[Note: This review done on 28 Nov 2024]