Review for My Ex-Future Family S2 Prologue v0.1d:
Summary: This game might be worth a try, but don't set your expectations very high, especially since the Ren'Py VN features you like have been disabled for... money.
Story: 3/5 - It's pretty much another vanilla incest story.
Writing: 2/5 - There are a lot of translation issues but even without them the dialogue would frequently be cringeworthy.
Renders: 4/5 - Renders aren't super detailed or super high resolution, but they are good. The female models are pretty, however, neither the male or female genitalia look very natural or even good.
Animations: 3/5 - I give credit to the game for having a decent number of animations, but they're just OK, they're not very natural-looking.
Gameplay: 1/5 -
- Rollback is disabled almost all of the time. Apparently, this feature is paywalled, but even if you pay, it doesn't work all of the time.
- Skip is disabled (unless you've played the scene before). I think the dev is trying to force players to read the poor writing.
- There are choices that affect stats of the NPCs, but the choices are worded in such a way that it's sometimes difficult to figure out what the choices are trying to do. I think it's mostly a translation problem, but since rollback is disabled, players are forced to save, make a choice, then go to the cheat menu and check what effect it had then reload if it didn't have the desired effect. So tedious. It really makes me want to just not bother with this game anymore.
- There are dozens of cases where various NPCs names are misspelled at the top of the text box and within the dialogue. Sometimes it leaves you wondering if there is another character in the game you don't know about.
- I noticed two instances where the thumbnail photo of the character the MC is talking to doesn't match the character.
- WTF is up with the repeating scenes? The MC wakes up and a scene happens in the bedroom, then he goes about his day and the next day wakes up and the same scene repeats and he can repeat other scenes, too. This seems like a bug, but it might be intentional to let the player see scenes that couldn't viewed on previous days because the game only lets the player visit 3 locations per day. Honestly, I don't know what the game is trying to accomplish with this.
- All of the gameplay issues make the game feel cheap and rushed.
Content: 4/5 - The thread indicates that this game debuted in June 2022. If that's the case, then the game has a very good amount of content.