VN - Ren'Py - My Hypnotized Family [EP. 1 v1.00] [The Naughty Three]

This game doesn't deserve the low rating it's getting in my opinion, so I'll try and counteract that a bit.

The art is different but I like it. The writing is well paced and believable, with few grammatical errors.

The story unfolds at a gradual pace, never feeling rushed or too slow. the characters are complete tropes but who really cares about that, right?

There's a decent amount of choices for the player to make, some of 'em leading to the game over screen(with good reason).

All in all a fun little title, deserving of praise. Good job, dev!

This game is, for me, a 3.5, but since I saw someone in the reviews scale their score down, I'm gonna move my own up so we make up for the inability to give half a star.

The art is good, I don't know what everyone is on about calling it bad. Now don't get me wrong, there's much, much better, art for games out there, but there's also much, much worse. Art is ok, it's serves it's purpose.


The problem, however, is the story. It just... It just doesn't make sense. The MC comes across as very petty from the start, I mean maybe that was the intention but personally I didn't like it.

The whole hypno thing doesn't work for me, which is very weird because usually that's totally my thing, but as it is presented in the storyline it just comes across as utter nonsense. It needs a rewrite.

version
0.30

Not much changed from the 0. 28 version
Renders are okayish
Game got remade
not much story because of the remake
No bug
not really a original game concept
I would still wait until there is more content because for now not much story

I like what I see so far , great graphics and really like the characters. A little too short for an introductory game but I definitely understand that it takes a lot of time to develop these games . Keep it up as I can't wait to see the story and characters unfold . Great job , thank you .

Wouldn't mind it being a 2.5 star.

As mentioned before, the graphics are creepy. Just by looking at the picture it's hard to tell which one is supposed to be old enough to be the mom. Also, it's strange that they never look at each other when speaking. They just keep looking at the 'screen'.
Story wise, the MC moves back home after being gone several years only to start fighting with a sibling and complaining about his old room on the first or second night. Just doesn't make sense given the situation the MC is supposed to be in.
Being able to sit in on a sexual hypnotherapy session on the second day doesn't really make sense either.
Weird looking MC who is what, 23 yrs old? If he graduated college with a bachelors psych degree and not being a doctor. I dunno.
As far as themes go, mind control, incest, etc... This could really really be fantastic. If they just redo the graphics and tighten up the story it will be great!

Game is very reminiscent of Snow Daze, but not exactly the same. MC trying to hypnotize step-family into sex.

--Dialogue/Plot seems ok. MC went to college and failed in life so he went home.
--There are some sex scenes, most of which are the MC's imagination, but some are real.
--There is some music that plays in game. It's alright.
--The art style seems original and is hit or miss, but could probably use some improvement. At least it's not Honey Select or poorly rendered DAZ models.

--There's also a few game over scenes which can be avoided by just saving right before choices.

Overall as of v0.21, not something compelling enough to remember after a month, but not bad.

Sorry, this game checks off all the boxes for me, harem, incest, non-con etc. The writing needs a lot of polish but it is not a deal breaker. but THE ART (shudder). I usually can get used to almost anything, especially when you got my attention with everything else, but I just played through the entire current version and the art makes me cringe and want to take a shower. Sorry, too stylized, cant do it.

Review version .015

There isn't much in the game yet I completed it in less then ten minutes. The art isn't good but if the story is interesting I don't mind. MC looks gross in my opinion.

There are a few dreams with sex. Not really any choices and I think hypnosis needs to be gradual but based on the few clients it will be a quick transformation.

I give it three stars even though I think it will likely be a two. There is still time for it to get good. So it'd be too mean to give it a two.

Update: Raising it to a 4, not a fan that some choices can hard end the playthrough, and since it's got some branching paths I wish there was a gallery to track what I'd seen/hadn't seen, but overall it's becoming a solid game with unique art as it adds more content.

3 maybe 4 for the art and story so far, but hard dropped to 2 because it tries to auto open your browser to the donation page at the end.
If your game does anything but play itself you deserve to lose stars. Leave sneaky shit like that to the big tech companies.
Edit: Raising it to a 3 (really 3.5), the dev wrote me and said they're making sure that doesn't happen again.

Nothing to see yet. The low rating is due to the game automatically opening the dev's patreon page when you get to the end of the released content. Don't do that. Having a link is fine, but automatically opening a webpage is going too far. No one wants to to have to go into their history to delete an incest porn game link.

The dev took this out so it's no longer a complaint.

As for the game, the models do look weird, but it's hard to say whether it's the kind of weird you could acclimatise to and find hot or be permanently put off by. The writing seems like typical average porn game stuff, but that can be fun as well, so we'll see.

EDIT: [v0.20] Automatically sending people straight to a website at the end of content is gone and that's great. Other than that It was pretty good. Still not a huge amount of content, but presumably that'll change in time.

[Reviewed v0.13]
By this version, we're still in the story's introduction. It starts out with giving a brief outline of the MC's college focus and his subsequent failure to secure a job related to his psychology degree. He then loses his fallback pizza shop job after breaking up with his girlfriend. Once his money runs out, he ends up going back home, hoping to make a fresh start.

At home, his [step]family consists of a [step]mother and two [step]sisters, all of who's names (including the MC's) and the [step]family relations are settable. This starts the story proper, but we only get about two days into it as of this version, with the second day seeing the MC set up as the assistant to the [step]mom's friend, a hypnotherapist at the hospital where the MC's [step]mom works.

There's only one lewd scene at this point, a dream sequence with a nurse that is obviously the [step]mom, which feels tossed in solely as a "there needs to be some sex somehow" than actually related to the story. In my opinion, the single hypnosis session is more erotic than this dream. Maybe instead of the dream, we could delve into the MC's thoughts on his starting to see the others in his [step]family in a sexualized manner -- why, and whether he should be asking for hypnosis treatment himself?

The visuals are all fine: hand-drawn in a style that makes the eyes look a bit odd to me. One nit is that the [step]mom is still wearing a robe instead of her nurse outfit when she and the MC meet the friend hypnotherapist. There's innocuous background music but (as far as I recall) no sound effects. The story's text is fine with few errors, which I'm happy to see.

On the other hand, I did not appreciate the game's automatically opening a web page at the end of the "that's all so far" wrap-up. Please, instead provide a button that opens the developer's Patreon page.

I'm giving this a positive 4/5 rating at this point. There's nothing really wrong with the game so far, but depending on how the story develops, it could easily drop into a collection of the usual tropes seen here.