VN - Ren'Py - Moon Shard [v0.7.3] [KimchiDev]

Review - March 2025 - v0.7.3:

Overall first to get that out of the way:
Story, Originality, Renders, Playability, Performance, Bugs, Animations, Grammar, Amount of content. playability performance grammar are all good, i didn't encounter any bugs. animations are on the lacking side of good and can be improved imo. game has a good amount of content at this point and the pace is fast enough to be a full fap game and slow enough to be a tease story. Enough originality to not feel like you are playing something i've played before.

Foot Review.
The feet in this game are somewhere between the cute of anime and the gritty of dirty feet games. In this case, I would say that although there are no dirty feet in this game, dirty feet lovers will likely enjoy the feet here due to the "grit" level inherent to the art style. Since the feet are ultimately from the anime side of things in my opinion: cute feet lovers will also enjoy them although it likely won't hit hard due to the art style, you can just casually look at the example art to make a guess how closely the feet will match your style.

Anime goddess feet, aka super smooth and undetailed feet are not in the picture.
Super detailed feet are not in the picture.

There aren't many incidental feet in this game. Aka you aren't going to see many non-sexual scenes or non-foot-sex that just happen to show feet.

At least one footjob scene, and it is pretty good.

Socks. Socks lovers will likely love the few socks scenes in this game. Without spoiling things, i will say there is at least one incidental (non-foot-sex) sex scene or picture in this game with really really good socks, you'll probably really like it. There is also at least one direct (but not sex) sock fetish scene or picture in the game, and this one is really good too, this one is in between socks and stockings.

Due to the overall art style of this game, socks, like feet, are somewhere in between pristine/cute socks and dirty socks. I would characterize socks-art here as weary but pristine. like clean and not torn but well worn. you can maybe place them in the one day, active-but-not-crazy day, well-worn socks category. Which is a very nice middle ground in my opinion.

Stockings I mentioned one above. There isn't a lot in this game for stockings folks, but what is there is at least great art. If you like the thighs wrapped by stockings you'll likely find nothing of interest, but if your focus is bare thigh contrast, there is at least one photo here that will probably get you going very well.

I know this is still early in the development, especially as it is a rework, but while it has potential, it also needs a lot of work.

This game really needs a better writer. The dialogue is so unnatural sounding and all over the place. The characters don't speak like a normal person would, and it goes further than just if the dev was not a native English speaker. The story needs to be better written cause it just skips around without any good transition. Also there's no character development for the reasons why the characters change their minds on what they want to do with their lives. You see a scene of Eva arguing with her mother about working for the mob and she is defending her choice and speaking like she really wants to keep working for them. Then there is a scene where she is working and she seems happy making the money. Then suddenly the next scene she, out of nowhere, is wanting out of working for the mob and has completely changed her mind? There is no indication or event that shows why this has happened and it's so weird. The scene of the MMC meeting the FMC is also unnatural and weird in the way it was written. Really the bad writing brings this game down a lot and needs to be a lot better.

Now on to what I liked about the game. I do like that, so far, any interaction that could lead to a relationship or showing interest in someone is up to player choice and hope it continues to remain that way. I was also pleasantly surprised that Eva seems to have a female LI possible as lesbian is not in the tags for this game. Whenever I play games with a FMC, I do tend to make them lesbian, so I was a bit disappointed when I didn't see the lesbian tag. When the elf character showed up, I was happy, and I hope that means that Eva can have a lesbian only route. I also am a fan of the artwork and, despite how it may have seemed, am really interested in how the story will progress.

I really can see the potential in this game. Like the choices, artwork, and the story. I just wish that it had a better writer who could make the dialogue sound more natural and there be actual character development and better reasoning for why the characters change their minds. I really want to come back here and update this review with a higher rating.

Edit 1: Lesbian tag has since been added so that's good news.

Another game where acting decent leads to 0 sex scenes, most of the male characters are creeps and honestly unbearable.

The art style is actually good, but gets overshadowed by Eva's incel brother, personally i dont see the point in Eva staying with a creepy brother who tries to be creepy and sexually harass her.

The gameplay of the main character is actually quite ok, but choosing the decent (and not choosing the options of a porn-addict) leads to 0 sex scenes.

Overall its a decent game but plotwise this has lost me. I can see others enjoying it though!

New Review - Feb 2024:

Well, I am not sure what I would rate this at the moment. The story has been cleaned up a lot, I still like the artwork, however the conversations, even though they have been improved, are still a bit odd and lacking flow.

The story rework has clearly improved the game, gone are the 75 different mysteries, there is a very fast explanation to justify the inclusion of non-human characters and also a lot of exposition to introduce the characters and the world.

I think my main issue with the game at the moment is that the characters do not speak like normal people, not only due to the exposition, but also the conversations feel rushed and forced.

I am still upgrading this to a 3 for now, I think this rework is definitely a step in the right direction and hopefully there will be more content and the improvements continue.

I am leaving here below the old review I wrote in October 2023, way before the rework. It had 25 likes but I think it doesn't accurately or fairly represent the game any more.