Ren'Py - My Best Friend's Daughter [S2 Ep. 7] [CeLaVie Group]

Played the official versions and haven't seen much bugs. Kewp up the good work. I don't know why so many people are facing bugs. Nice models by the way. The jumping from one episode to another need some work and those tiny options on the top. Other than that great game.

I'm done with this game... Even when starting over 4 times and using the walkthrough, events don't trigger and recommended options are greyed out as per the walkthrough... I got to 63 of 64 events in Chapter 3 and could not proceed without skipping to the next Chapter, then nothing I did triggered a single event in Chapter 4... Despite how attractive the models are, it's just not worth the aggravation... Smashing my thumb with a hammer would be more enjoyable...

Besides the good graphics, I particularly like the very small-step increase in the plot. Okay, you can criticise this as excessive grinding. But for me it raises the tension and the level of expectation. Not a quick-fix game. Only the fly is a bit annoying - if you play it on your smartphone.

This game turned out to be the same crap like his other game "Room For Rent". Decent render of the girls, but that's it.
Gameplay which is close to horror.
Either you do EXACTLY the right trigger in the right location at the right time on the right day, or you have to grind (skip) for the next chance. There is no choice at all - no pathing - just to follow the main red storyline and forced to find the triggers. The time you need for searching the next trigger is more than just a "turn-off", it's more like a "rage-on".
Even with Walkthrough it's a horror itself, as the game is so broken, that you will need cheats to get your content (cheats delivered by the DEV - just saying).
I mean: what's a dev who can't even fix his own spaghetti-code but more than that he has to deliver cheats to be able to play the content?
My recommendation:
STOP it - uninstall it, and hence it's the second time in a row where this dev manages to drive a potentially good game against the wall and refuses to listen to people, i really recommend to block this dev at all - will be better for your nerves - imho

I am honestly kinda torn with this one. On one hand, the models are pretty good, the events are well done, and when it works it's a pretty good game. unfortunately, it rarely works. The game is designed in such a way that if you don't follow the Walkthrough exactly, you end up throwing yourself against every wall until something new happens. Instead of fixing the game to function better, the dev instead tries to give us a walkthrough and a gallery guide to help us figure it out. however, the walkthrough becomes gradually nonsensical as events are placed in the wrong place, and even if you meet the criteria that the gallery tells you, some events simply won't trigger. Then there is the FLY. Oh lord, the FLY. The game introduces a concept where for some unexplained reason, the MC have a pet fly that can remote images to him. throughout the game you HAVE to use this thing to unlock events so that you can progress to the next episode. HOWEVER, the FLY has a level that increases as you use it and certain events won't trigger if it isn't high enough. What's worse is that you have to wait until the very last moment of an auto scroll segment or else you won't get credit but if it goes past that point the FLY dies, you don't get credit and you can't use it for the rest of the day.

Any comments in this Thread asking for solutions to these problems are met unanimously with a link to the dev's discord, saying that we would find our solution there. The "solution" is the same broken ass walkthrough that didn't work the first time and a series of 100% saves. Because apparently the game is so broken that the dev stopped trying to fix it and just opted to give us cheats to get to the next part instead of letting us play the game.

In short, don't bother. The game is broken to the point even the dev has given up on fixing it and you can find equal or better 3d porn elsewhere.

Quite a decent game. A lot of spicy moments and teasing, well-directed sex scenes, smooth development of relationships, not the worst script and dialogues. Graphics are not the best, but ok. Grind is not very tiring. Easy to walk through if you follow the prompts. In general, it is quite playable and not bad game, in which there is nothing extraordinary.
For some reason it's always cloudy. Where is the fucking sun?!

lmao, in order to save trouble, the developer made the task collection into fragments. These girls are more like robots, doing the same things every day, and then MC collects fragments of the plot to trigger the next scene. It's better to make the sex scenes into fragments, at least the players still have a reason to stick to it. Do the same things every day, and then arrange them in order. It can be seen that developers are not suitable for writing such plots, so that players are required to repeat the same event collection. The only thing worth adding a star to the character model.

The game has no way of communicating to the player how to progress. There are 'hints', however they are criptic and not helpful at all. The forum is full of people that are complaining about it, and the developer seems too stupid to do anything about it.

[v10.01]

The type of grind I like the most.

Just as the majority of the reviewers in this thread, I hate grinding in a game, so why the 5 stars?
In my opinion, this is the "fun kind" of grinding: you have to repeat the same scene multiple times, but each time something changes to make it naughtier or just sexy in general. This kind of mechanics is what I like most because I feel I'm constantly rewarded with something new after each iteration. Also, the hint system makes sure you choose the right scene to repeat and don't click mindlessly around the interface.
In the subsequent episodes, you can even skip large portions of the day when it is a given that they don't feature any new scene. So what should we ask more for?

The girls are adorable, they are a little bit too similar to each other but it's not a big flaw in my book, they're still well-characterized enough to make them seem actually different from each other.

Also, the fun stuff is getting better and better each episode and I really hope it would get some optional kinky stuff for the people expecting something else from vanilla like me, but as it is right now it's already good enough.

There are some forgettable flaws: sometimes the wrong picture pops up during the sequences, the hint system is good but can be difficult to read and could be a little bit clearer in what to do, and I'm not very fond of the fly mini-game.

All in all, this game deserves much more love than it currently shows and I really recommend playing it, if you don't mind the sandbox/grind mechanics there is a huge amount of juicy content already available for you.

Grindy, repetitive, difficult to play without paying attention. The first game in the series felt like it was paced weird and it has only gotten worse here. If you really enjoy blonde haired blue eyed petite girls I suppose this game isn't terrible but there's not much else going for it.

Hooray, another post 7th update review from your friendly neighborhood idiot!!

So I played the previous game, it was simple but good. This one, the dev tried adding a new way to play that I'm definitely not a fan of. If you misclick or miss the tiny picture in the upper left corner, you have to scroll back and try again which is not fun. There were THREE separate occasions the game was just straight up broken and I had to either completely restart the game or use UnRen to edit variables to move on to the next chapter. I was stuck on EP 5 for 2 extra in game weeks before I figured out it was just bugged and had to edit data. The first playthrough EP 1 was bugged and I couldnt advance anything. And finally im stuck on EP7 and no idea why. In a few days maybe I'll get around to trying it all over again but alas for now, I've rage quit.

NOW THAT THE BAD IS OUT IN THE OPEN
The game itself is a simple slow burn corruption game that is fine. Very standard models and poses and the story isn't awful. I'd say it's worth a play if bugs get ironed out. The game didnt crash so I cant really tell you how it bugged out I just had events that were triggered say they weren't triggered and with EP7 no new events are working and something is just a little wonky. Either way, its an okay experience just watch out if you're stuck.

Really super grindy, not much fun, characters are the very blandest possible. For every 50 scenes one of them is good, but the game streeeeeeetches out the foreplay to insanity and then when the action actually comes it kind of just slaps you in the face with it with awful scenes that may as well have text just pop on screen and say "Penis in vagina".

Also, entirely randomly, has one black character in the game and they are a rapist? Then for some reason the author has a character you save from abusers, make a big deal about it, then instantly you go spy on them naked or something lmao

The game has good graphics. Yeah, that is pretty much the only good point.

I tried Version 9.31 and got stuck at Episode 5 with one Bookmark missing after an hour's search for the last scene I gave up. This game is extremely grindy and from episode 5 you cant skip to the next episode.

Since I couldn't continue I didn't see any actual sex scenes the closest I've seen was the tip of the dick in the mouth of one girl. The scene was pretty much the same as in the previous episode where it just ended with a kiss on the dick... so what I could play was pretty much an endless grind and teasing.

Absolute anal design is the driving philosophy of this game. The definition of insanity is repeating the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Well this game is out to prove that Einstein statement wrong, by having us the player, repeat the same absolute drivel everyday over and over again for months on end, in the hope that we might at the end catch a glimpse of a magical pussy. Boring, uninspiring, grindy bullshit of a game

I've noticed a lot of extremely negative recent reviews, so I hope that this is somewhat more balanced.
There isn't much of a plot and the gameplay is buggy and frustrating.
The graphics are pretty good, with no animations worthy of comment.
Nevertheless, this offering should be viewed as a series (collection?) of problems to be solved, rather than a playable narrative with logical sequencing. This should be obvious from the first day on the island, when Julia can be found pretty well anywhere at a particular time.
I have managed to complete the game (to the end of Episode 9.1) in 78 days. It's a painful process and requires frequent replaying of some days and events (particularly the 'morning glory') to find the last points. No doubt, there are masochists out there willing to spend the time trying to reduce this further.
The gallery hint system is poorly constructed and permanently eliminates hints after a particular action is completed. If you want to go back a few days and try to improve your time (or even restart the game), the hints are still eliminated, so working your way through the game again requires some memory and inspired guesswork. This may be a bit much for someone who actually has a life.
For all that, I still get some satisfaction from playing this. It seems from the sheer volume of comments that others find this addictive, too. 'One star' seems a bit harsh.

Great model characters. Thats it.

Game is a mess, complicated and too repetitive for grinding stats and bookmarks needed to advance the story.
And Im not the one exaggerating about the grinding needed, its the game itself. Imagine grinding everything to the last second of each choices, in order, without missing a single one for you to advance to the next episode? You cant miss one. There are no rates of success or anything here.
You just have to not miss a single bookmark to grind repetitively.
Worst of it all? I found out you had to do the same sht on almost every EPISODE? Wow.

Its like playing a game wherein you must get every achievements in order to advance the story.
Ive never EVER heard of a game like that in my whole gaming life.
And Ive never EVER played a game as perfectionist as this.

Sure you got "walkthroughs" to assist you. But even these walkthroughs are a MESS. Incomplete and lacking. You have to figure out yourself where you made a mistake through dozens of saves and resets.
The so called "hints" in the gallery? Are fckng USELESS.
Doesnt say which DAY or with how much stats needed to get female protag to wear the dress in those "hints".
Guess the walkthroughs only ever assisted you in FRUSTRATIONS instead.

I shouldve looked at the score of this GAPING HOLE of a game. Before wasting my time on it.

And oh, censor Bob's smiles. Theyre CRINGE AF.

Way to many warnings and bull straight off the top strike 1, then made a wrong choice at the beginning as I was unaware the game would kick me to desktop because I answered honestly I hadn't played previous chapters. Strike 2. Then I get into the game and made 2 wrong choices so it makes me start over...strike 3. Girls look like zombies and their eyes freak me out and if that wasn't enough they are all flat chested. wtf. flush

Stucked at e5 64/65 and couldnt progress no matter what. Researching on the forum didn't help much. In game hint system shows that all events are unlocked so what is the trigger for the last event that has no hint whatsoever?

everything about this mess past the renders of pretty girls is just a clunky amateur-hour crapfest. that includes having to go to file manager to kill the game because exiting kept taking me into a "click my subscription links" loop. no thanks.

I feel bad to deliver a one star rating here, but I need to for two reasons:

• I want to warn everyone giving this game a try and clarify what is to be expected, and
• maybe I can give the developer some not so subtle hints how to improve (but I doubt that, since similar feedback didn't help so far)

The reason I feel bad is that this could actually be worth a much higher rating. The visuals for example are decent and happen to tick off the marks for me. Simply said, I love these girls. The story has potential, too.

But overall this game is the biggest disappointment of all, simply because it does not deliver upon the expectations.

The main reason for that is that the gameplay is the absolute worst, leaving me frustrated and even angry. The endless repetitions don't add anything to the story and are just futile. The hints are helpful but don't improve the experience at all.
I tried for hours and hours, but sometimes events seems to be triggered by chance. Other times you have to wait for several in-game days for the right conditions to re-appear, which means repeating the same scenes over and over again. And then some.
When I decided to ease the pain by skipping days, I found that the game doesn't allow to progress the story to new episodes any longer once you skipped anything. Seriously? This is just bullshit to implement a function that is actually useful due to fight the grind, but then punish users to use it.
At episode 5 I quit as I cannot bear it any longer.

Verdict:
Ah, what a shame. This could be so good with gourgeous models, but no, it is just frustrating. I cannot enjoy this game at all due to its mechanics. My time is too precious to endure the pain this developer assumes to be necessary for the players of his/her game. Damn.