Ren'Py - Mutant College [v0.11.0] [Space Samurai Games]

I'm giving it a 2 just because it tries to have somewhat of a story.

The renders are ... fine. They do the job, nothing crazy, nothing terrible either - 3/5

The LIs are whatever. Some are fine, most are absolute bitches and/ or walking cliches. I guess the same can be said about most of this game though, it's very very cliche and predictable - 2.5/5

The writing is awful, honestly. You could remove easily 70% of the dialog and you wouldn't miss anything. In fact if you play through the current content in a single playthrough, I challenge you to not skip half the dialogs because it's useless internal monologues or completely random conversations that serve no purpose for worldbuilding, lore, plot, or anything.
The writing is also so bad that it makes it hard to take the game and the characters seriously. It's cringe and unnatural a lot of the time, as is the behavior of the character. I've yet to run into humans who behave the way people are portrayed here. 1/5

It's a sandbox, and an incredibly grindy and useless one at that. It's such a forced and useless mechanic that the first chunk of the game in fact ISNT a sandbox, and it works very well. And then it abruptly cuts (seriously) and turns into a forced sandbox and my god is it pointless. 1/5

All in all, for all the bad there is, there's potential. But to fix this game, a lot of the writing needs to be changed and or removed.

I think the author is italian ? I'm not 100% on the language but sometimes certain parts of the game arent translated to english, which clearly isnt the dev's main language, and it shows. That's fine, but in that case he should outsource someone to help with the writing to make it more human-like and less useless.

Love this Game, Graphic looks good and the Story got me instant. I cant wait to finally get more Story Content.
The LI are great and the only Contra is that the Game is in a Early Stage. Cant wait for more.

Well... The Intro was great! I loved it.

But the sandbox is sooo horrible and stressful.
Most LI are rly unlikeable and bitches.

Animations are meh. But the MC looks cool. Renders are good.
Could be a good game without sandbox.

Doing some great work here dev.

Only suggestions I have for improvement:
Let the MC have fun with the villains when you beat them, let him get his fuck on. Or give a choice to have it happen at least.

For the criminals you need to bring a specific power for, have something tell you which power your need to bring, having to guess over and over is kind of annoying.

Get points to level up your abilities more easily from rebecca too, like more at once or make it easier to achieve an upgrade, make the ways you can build up your strength and such have no cool down so you can easily repeat it once a time period to help make level up easier.

The quest log is wonderful but having some more hints as to say "how" to get rebecca's help would be ideal. More info from it on how you might achieve the next step in a quest is just going to take out the players guess work and make for a better experience.

Solid work so far, great renders, hot women, believable characters, fun spicy situations. Not letting the MC do things like fuck the portal girl while she is stuck in the wall, or fuck the dean when she's been fooled, or nut before telling the one villain he's ass deep in they are under arrest. Small changes like that would make the game feel more like an adult game should. The stories are good and I'm interested to see where you take them, just when things have the opportunity to get spicy, give the option to be the paragon hero or perhaps the less than paragon hero instead without the story being drastically changed. Oh and the scene with jean and the "multiple-way" (since it ain't just three it changes) when they all agree to work together, the MC still hasn't nut, LET HIM GET HIS NUT IN. Several scenes lack the MC actually getting to finish with the girl. It seems the girl finishes some times and he doesn't. Show him finishing. Give options how to finish even! Cumshot, creampie, oral in her mouth, on her face, on her back, etc. Give them options!

Still, good work keep it up, some tweaks to improve and then continuing on with the story and you can make this worthy of a 5 star for sure! GG

The game starts off promising with interesting characters, despite borrowing elements from another superhero AVN. However, it leans too heavily on exaggerated sexual themes and overuses certain renders. The main drawback is the sandbox system, which feels confusing and disrupts the story flow, making it hard to progress even with mods.

It was great, until the end of the prologue, when it suddenly turned into a free roam game, where you just grind relationships and stats. Would have been 10x better, if they just kept it the same as the prologue.

I enjoy this game. The wea points are that it's construction is a bit odd leaving one wondering what to do or where to go and there is quite a bit of grind. However, the characters are varied and the plot is good. The renders are detailed and the girls are physically varied. The animations are good. I have a hard time writing longer reviews of porn games.

Graphics are good including sex scenes.
Writing and characters though nothing new are not bad.
I wouldn't say I fell in love with any of the LI-s, even with the friendlier ones but they are quite an interesting bunch with varied backstories.

There are some bugs and some translation issues that will be fixed hopefully. Unfortunately the way the dev coded the uses of different languages makes it very hard for others to make a fix unless they speak Italian.

Grinding is not horrible but that's partially because there is no content yet for which you need high levels of stats or relationship with most characters.
Stat grinding is not that bad until now, but based on the statistics screen the later level ups are very costly. Currently not needed for any content. You can defeat any optional villains with only a single skill and power level 20 which only needs a few level ups. The cost of level ups should be adjusted and possibly made so that you can gain the necessary pints via the story and just by visiting the same places again and again.
Relationship grinding is also very repetitive. It should be made so that you can increase the relationship via less dates by decreasing the number of stages and/or allowing to gain multiple relationship points during a single date.

Additionally, while this shouldn't be included in the rating of this game, the treatment of the ending of dev's previous game didn't really fill me with trust about this one.

In general I've quite enjoyed it. If the grinding is adjusted, the bugs are fixed and dev can keep up the quality level until a proper end it could be solid 4 stars but as for now it's worth 3 at best and could easily become worse at later stages.

It started interesting although it became obvious quickly that a big part of the story was stolen from another AVN with super heroes. Still the story is not a copy at all and some interesting characters have been introduced in the prologue. It leans to much into porn logic and high school hornyness for my licking.

The renders are great in general using some of the latest genesis characters but there are some renders which feel unfinished and some renders have to been used too often. The focus seems to be on tits and other body parts too often to be taken seriously though.

But my main problems which made me reduce all stars is the sandbox. Sadly "sandbox" in this forum can mean anything and I don't have problems with free roam or a skill tree but the sandbox of this game seems to kill the story. I easily would cheat to give me all the money and all the stats but even then I wouldn't know where to continue. I picked some dates but it felt generic.

This isn't well thought out, the gameplay loop is just clocking on a laptop screen or a location to try and increase one of the irrelevant skills and then attempting the 'boss fight' to see if you have the correct power selected.

The 'love interests' are just tacked on, with a couple of barely related scenes that you can maybe discover. They have chosen pretty models but it's not really part of the game

There is a story but it's not engaging, mainly due to only being a couple of lines here and there between the above loops

When the game was first released it just after the prologue it just dropped you into the sandbox mode without any direction, now that the game has a questlog it's a lot more fun.
I think the biggest flaw of the game is the grind. It's not super bad, but you do need to repeat the same actions a lot of times.
You can also clearly tell the dev is not a native english speaker but it's not too bad.
Overall it is a fun game.

V0.5

Welcome one and all to grind-a-thon. if you thought you have had enough of Marvel and DC flops, wait until you try this!!

instead of a game that gets on with it, you have hours and hours ahead of you of mind-numbing [patented ] Fuk'u sandbox gameplay.
you wanted to have a life beyond this game? hahahahahahahahaha grind muvvafukka grind *ktish* (<- my attempt at written whiplashing )
yes in just a week you can complete the prologue of date questions between characters that include humdingers like "can i smash your hamster mouth with my balls?", "is that your crotch i can smell or my burger" and "can i take you to my special place i take all the other girls to?"
then the REAL game starts!!!!
WARNING: Playing this game will increase risk of player forgetting plot, personal health and will to live.

many pc mice were broken to bring us rebels this content...
...Is what the overview says in my mind.

....but seriously
It's an okay plot with overgrind sandbox design that removes most entertainment in the fog of rinse and repeat. art is good but again, becomes lost in that fog.
just terrible design

VERSION:v0.5.0
SUMMARY: A game you wanted to like, but end up hating due to developers who don't learn to pay attention to their audience.
RATINGS: (out of 5):

1. Models: 5
2. Animations: 4
3. General Visuals: 4
4. Characters: 3
5. Story: 4
6. Writing: 2
7. UI & Gameplay: 2
8. Content (amount): X
9. Sound & Music: 2
10. Fetish & kinks: X

Average: X of 50 possible points giving a X% rating i.e. X stars.

PROS:

1. Fairly good looking characters, nothing over the top and the MC doesn't look bad either.
2. General visuals and renders are good too, world looks detailed enough.
3. Animations are not bad either, smooth frames even if they are a bit short.
4. Story is fairly interesting, nothing new or earth shattering but not bad, but has some annoying shit to it also.
5. Fuckol else to like, the hate of everything else just trumps anything good here...

CONS:

1. Some of the writing is just not good, parts of the dialogue are just silly and some moments or scenes just feel fake. e.g. the whole scene with "julia" the dialogue and choices felt forced and too much, the player doesn't really have any choice.
2. Per above scene, going into the house with "julia" she stands there like a prop, no expression, stiff as a doll. In that short even I saw at least 3 moments where it felt "fake" (visually).
3. Some dialogue is also a bit quirky, there are several character the MC meets early on that are pretty much eccentric to say the least that really just annoy me. e.g. Rebecca character wastes time with drivel and senseless convo just to chase the MC on 2 renders later? The writing really feels sometimes like the person writing it has ADHD (no offense)
4. The story is not very well scripted and planned, I feel like I am dragged into a crazy mess from the get go and its pretty jarring and frustrating.
5. Choices are nice but do they matter or are many just for kinks? Like creampie a chick, can she get knocked up? Is it a concern? Or just for the kink? TBH creampie a chick is kinda traditional, considered vanilla...so yeah not much kink IMO.
6. Music doesnt fit the game really if im honest, its all jazzy, blues style thats kinda like that from those vintage pornos, not good for a modern era and style game.
7. Poor plot points and nonsensical choices and actions from the MC considering everything that is happening. MC handles it all just too well, in the stride, accepting whatever is happening at face value, just too scripted and my BS meter goes into the red here.
8. Inconsistency of character model and just flat out stupid renders. e.g. MC stand naked in front of Rebecca to be scanned or whatever, but check his head and tell me that head and then check his body, its like someone stuck the head of a mature dude on a childs, then check how long his upper body is compared to his legs. I imagine this is what a hobbit would look like naked (with less hair ofc) Oh and why are is the professor so much taller than the here? I believe most of us were fully grown by the time we went to college...
9. SANDBOX, FML this game is completely ruined by its SANDBOX bullshit, this kind of implementation of sndbx is almost the worst kind, but bad enough for me to simply despise the game. See Comments

FINAL THOUGHTS, GRIPES & SUGGESTIONS:

• Often characters come across as never-minded fools that say things that I'm guessing is to entertain the player, yet I find some of the retorts and whit just stupid and annoying, almost "try-hard" especially when the MC can't get a straight answer out of the character, simply because they are the way they are and its not necessarily a secret, its just suppose to be "funny" but its not really. e.g. two characters asked what their names are and yet its gets made into a big deal not just telling the MC (news flash dev, players dont give a shit about the name really, we care about the flow, the story, fun and sexual content)
• The story just feel rushed and forced, the MC is a nobody from nowhere and ends up in a town where on day one more happens to him than what happens in entire chapters of other games. I find this hard to believe and dont feel that enough time has gone by to justify half of it all happening. e.g., MC has power that is considered below sub-par and yet day one fucks up the biggest fucker there? He doesn't know dick about his power and does that, actually he does it to that dude 2x and another chick he takes out and he does it all pretty much by accident...yeah right...Also he makes new friends in one session of class and basically recruits or starts a band of would be heroes just like that, day one stuff man, his guy is a legend...*sarcasm.
• Another example of stupid plot holes and bullshit writing, Rebecca "rescues" our MC, but doesn't trust him, know anything about him, yet she sought him out, also on the very night the shit hits the fan? What kind of coincidence is that? She takes him to her "lair" but doesn't trust him, ffs, the story is so flimsy. She asks the MC if he is a spy, HELLO he just got there, what kind of scientist and whatever she is just picks up a dude she doesn't know, not knowing what he did, who he is, what he can do (because his ability is so great)...LAZY writing
• Overall i'd loved to like this game, but can't, there is just too much that seems like lazy development, the art and renders are good, really, well done to whoever did that, and much less good work to the rest.
• SANDBOX BULLSHIT! The amount of effort and navigating you need to do to get to progress with the plot is just terrible. This implementation of sandbox mechanics just create busy work and cause the games slow down in progression for no reason other than to create the illusion of playing a game. Its simply wasted time!

Osm start and captivating story only to get ruined by the sandbox. The implementation of sandbox in this game really throws one out of catch,i.e. the plot of the game.
Pros:- Decent renders, great start, plot, funny, good english
Cons:- Already mentioned above. I got lost what to do next, too much elements in sandbox part. Even with the hints, the grind will just kill the mood.

Ok so I have to say I really enjoyed this game and was excited for what the future of this holds since this developer completes his games. I am actually excited to try out his completed games as well.

Renders are good and I like that the girls are all unique and have their own quirks and personalities. there not mindless bimbos who jump on the MC as soon as they meet him (ok one did in the beginning, but that is for a different reason and story setup).

The sandbox element is nice although a bit repetitive and could be toned down a bit as it can be monotonous.

I think this game has great potential as honestly I thought it was going to be another superhero game with no real point other than sex. I was pleasantly surprised that there is a story and you have the ability to not pursue scenes and girls you do not want, which is refreshing.

Starts out alright and i found it pretty interresting, but then i got droped into a sandbox out of nowhere? no clues what to do or where to go or anything, so you just click at shit randomly hope to get something right....

When you then finaly get into the hole sandbox, you will find out its just a grind and a huge one at that, you got a skill tree thing where cost of powers goes 1->2->4->8 you get the idea, to gain 3 power points you need raise 3 diffrent stats and each of those you need to do 9 times so in total 27 times just to get 3 power points.......cost goes up to like 64 power points.....

And thats not all, you also need to grind money so you can date girls which adds yet another grind to fill stars on the girls, 3 stars for one level up.....no clue how many lvls there are, i think i got one up to like level 4 before i said fuck this, never saw anything her either not even a kiss.....so yeah no thanks.

The only thing the sandbox got somewhat right is that you can turn down girls which supprised me, at times its a bit to late since girls might be playing with MCs dick and then you get the option to say no....feels a bit to idiotic to wait that long....but atleast you can say no...

I think i made to the end of content but cant say for sure since i had one quest left in log, to hunt the 3th boss down but the skill you need is nowhere to be found, its from the girl going through walls and shes nowhere on map.

Renders are ok quality.

Girls wasent in my taste, dev failed to make much of a diversity in builds, so if you dont have a big tit fetish this wont be for you, theres 12+ girls some are only doing quests and 6 of them you can grind dates with, atleast right now.

Animations needs a bit of work and not sure how much is really animated, it seems like some scenes arent animated at all.

Music is a pretty boring standard background loop thing.

Had this just been a VN as the start and dropped the sandbox it would be alot better, also better diversity in builds would be needed so it dosent only favor a single fetish, but it is what it is so i cant give this more then 2 stars and unless you just love to grind and constantly click ctrl to skip the same dialogs 5 million times then i wouldent recommend this.

For me, it's definitely 5 stars. The ladies are beautiful and are also great characters. The MC is okay; I imagine he'll grow into a deeper character.
The story has huge potential; The game is very well put together,
The art is very good, IMO.
I do recommend this game.
Edit as of 2/19/25
The sandbox grind is annoying, and the costume the MC picked is hilariously bad. -1 star for both.

Despite its flaws with some dialogue I didn't find the sandbox that heavy and enjoyed the story despite or due to its goofiness aspect. The characters embody different women type pretty well and they feel well placed in the story. Looking forward to how it develops further.

the ppl giving this a 1 star cuz it has sandbox needs to calm down. that said, its early in the life of a sandbox game which makes it feel VERY tedious without sufficient payoff. the fact that the game started without any sandbox can trick ppl into thinking it is not one and thus they can get disappointed. i will probably give this a better rating later when the grind to content ratio is better

I'm really disappointed that I had to give this one star

The start of the game was honestly pretty good, plenty of choices that felt engaging, and a nice flow as it progressed, and the story was interesting. The bad part is all that got ruined with the sandbox and bugs. The story just feels flat, the sandbox element feels like a chore, and the bugs involving it when trying to engage with love interests and everything has made this game unplayable for me