VN - Ren'Py - Completed - My New Family [Christmas Special] [Killer7]

It might not exactly be fair to rate the game after playing for a total of 10 minutes, but those were terrible 10 minutes. The game already starts by breaking every rule in the "show don't tell" rulebook, and the first character interactions are awful.

Sister number one develops a crush on you immediately for absolutely no reason, then sister number two is annoyed at you, for I suppose a good reason (which is yet again told to you instead of shown), and then when we meet the mother, she dumps exposition at us. Up to this point, ok, dialogues have been terrible, but starting stories is hard. Maybe now everyones emotions will die down a little and we will have a nice, gradual development towar- No, nevermind, sister one kissed the mc.

I'm giving a two for the art and the possibility that it improves eventually, but I doubt it.

Has all the key ingredients to be a 5 star.

- Every Fetish
- No sandbox
- No grind
- Good engine
- Different body types on models
- Loads and Loads of sex scenes
- Frequent Updates
- Very Long game with very little filler

Why No 5 Star!?
- I love Honey Select and KK engine games. But the models here are absolutely generic looking.
- Dev attempts make for the lack of graphical appeal with quantity over quality but the sex scenes are mediocre at best. No hard banging or tits flapping. No change in the facial expressions as the scenes progress. Its really like softcore porn at times.
- CTRL Skip most of it. Boring. With all the different sex scenes this should not be the case yet somehow here we are.
- Animations look like a porn game from 2016 and even then it seems like it would have been more interesting.
- I dont play these games for the plot, I even care more about the dialogue over the plot. Dialogue in this game is rather lackluster.

Even with that many flaws its still a decent game with decent fappable moments. Some almost memorable with certain characters but they get the job done. As it stands, its meh.

I love this game. Overall it has a happy, upbeat storyline. It's nice to experience a VN that's more positive. I love the harem aspect with no NTR. If you don't like harem you can pick and choose who you want to pursue to a degree. Pregnancy is avoidable if you aren't into it. If you do like pregnancy there are no visuals yet. Plenty of animated scenes with many body types. Always waiting for the next update which come out regularly.

I had luck when I picked this game as one of my first 3D VN. Start was little dark with MC past, but soon it changed too much nicer story. First meeting with Sandra was nice and Lucy was so adorable I wanted to hug her and soothe her painful mind.
I am really enjoying this game. Sad, happy and funny moments are in good balance. When I am reading it I can feel warm feeling in my soul. It is game exactly for me so thank you very much, Killer7, for your game.

Redheads. That is all.
All seriousness, this game is solid. Nothing new or spectacular just fun. On and neko. Good shit. Good selection of characters, many of which are optional, and it makes it clear as to what your decision means in that regard.

This game is one of the best VN I have ever played.
The renders are great, the characters are amazing and wholesome, the story is actually pretty great too, and considering that a lot of VN's put a lot of drama and conflict in their stories to "amplify" the experience, when all we really want is the wholesome experience of being loved and loving back these wonderful and amazing characters.

Also Lucy is a precious gift from the heavens and must be protected at all times. Praise be to Lucy.

I loved it so far. First point, there is a great deal of content to this atm. Each character feels like their own and most of them are well fleshed out. Honestly even the main character seems to have a personality, which is rare.

I have said this before on Discord and Patreon, but I wanted to say it here as I need to rate these games that I am enjoying. Killer7 has made me enjoy, laugh and cry with this VN. My New Family is probably my favourite VN I have ever played. Every character has their own traits and I am definitely ginger lover, which makes this game even better with the 3 Gingers. Lucy is my favourite to interact with, but every one of the girls is amazing. I highly recommend this to anyone, it is one of the best. I am SO excited to see where this goes as it continues on and even more excited about Killer7's upcoming work on MNM. Thank you SO much for this Killer7, you're amazing.

When will it end!

The beginning stages of this game, when all characters are being introduced, I would rate 4 /5 stars. At that point, it was gripping and realistic enough to keep me reading.

What makes it interesting at first, is the taboo element and seriousness to the story. But once the realism and tension between characters drops in an instant and you're now fucking everybody, and everyone easily becomes okay with it, makes me wonder why the story was so serious in the first place.

Most of the game feels like how I would imagine somebody forced to continue to write the original script of a movie after it has ended and drag it out 100 times of its original length.

It feels like a never-ending dream. It does have a dream like quality ( in a bad way) because you remember, somewhere buried deep down, there was actually some kind of tension and introduction to these characters that made sense now they're just wallowing through this game soulless.

Some other issues that comes to mind:

• Maddy is much taller than usual in some of the scenes compared to her regular size.
• The characters use the same poses as each other. Creates lack of uniqueness.
• No sense of the outer world. I get a boxed in feeling.
• Very linear. Just click and progress.

One positive thing is the characters actually look good.

I have only played up till roughly halfway through chapter 5, so my review will be based on that.

So starting this game I thought it seemed fairly good, the girls look cute and they seem to have different personalities. The animations are well done, but for me could maybe show a little more. Also I feel more choices could be added, for the most part it feels like a kinetic novel than a game.

The story seemed to start off fine, but I now feel its getting a little dragged out. The story itself I find predictable, I mean like when a conversation starts with any of the characters you can be fairly sure how the conversation with go.

The dialogue for me is a little repetitive, and each character progression generally tends to go along a similar dialogue path.

For me the main issue I have with this game is the MC, hes way too nice, borderline simp.


That being said I will most likely carry on till the end.

Nowadays more and more games focus on giving the girl a super detailed 10/10 body and making sure every scene looks like they are models while spending 5% of their time on making the faces.
This game actually focuses on making them cute and beautiful with a somewhat realistic yet attractive body.
Honestly although the game has a realistic yet beautiful design for the characters everything else is bad.
I'm shocked this game has 140+ reviews and an average of 4.3 stars..
This is NOT a light novel or even a game, this is a book with pictures.

Negatives (will go into detail below):
- Characters have no personality
- Characters' decision-making is random.
- Choice is an illusion / You can only be a massive dick or a super nice guy.


Positive things:
- The characters look good

Yeah... So I'm going over the negative thing and try to avoid spoilers. I will comment on day 1 thing and day 2 (very early on but if you don't wanna know don't read after this.)

- Characters have no personality / Characters' decision-making is random:

This for me is the reason why I'm so sad about this game., they build characters that have a personality only to literally throw it away immediately and making their decision to not match the personality that we are told and showed to have

Sister 1: She is told on day 1 to be a girl with no experience in relationships (according to her other sister) she is friendly but innocent.
So ofc you were nice to her once during the first time you meet her so at the end of the day 1 she kisses you and asks if you are ok with having an incest relationship........ Also, she asks to go slowly but after 1 more day (maybe 2) she is showering naked with you and doing "sexy things" with you.
Logic.

Sister with the cat ears: She is told to us by her sister to be very rude and does not trust new people because she was bullied in school for having cat tail and ears. This is demonstrated by her blasting music and being super rude to you.
So on the next day, you meet her in the morning and because you told her what you talked with your mom (on day1) she suddenly forgets she does not trust new people and not only that you are her new BFF.
She will text you to meet and show you her special place that she never showed anyone (not even her sister and mom), she opens up to you and now she asks if you would date her even if she is your half-sister.

Mother: Same story, talked to her once be nice to her she will suddenly kiss you. No backstory to why, no talk with your aunt where she mentions that she missed being with a man, she did not cough you jerking off and got turned on.
Nope, you her son that was out of her life for years,since you were nice to her she kisses you on day 2 and asks if you are ok with an incest relashanship.

Sister 1 friend: Day 2 she is at the cinema, she sees you with her friend so ofc she flirts with you and sends you away with a wink

Dominatrix that dominates every man: Told to be super dominating and that she hates when she is told no. You tell her no, she blushes and tells you no to do it again next time also she will not punish you (lol)

I can go on but you can see my point? We are told and show that the character is someone with X personality but as soon as they see you they suddenly do a 180 and turn into someone else.

- Choice is an illusion:

Well, not much to explain here.. Every option can be summarized as:
- Be really nice
- Be the ultimate dick.

Your sister hugs you
Option 1- hug back
Option 2-Ask why she hugged you and if she always hugs people that she never met.
Ok...
Mom tells you why she left you:
Option 1- Hug her
Option 2- Do nothing.
Gee, I'm glad I was given a choice here.. And every other choice is like this. Most of the time you only have 2 options and they are either be nice/ be rude.
Considering the game starts with a warning saying that you should be nice to everyone if you want sex and build a harem, otherwise the game might have no sex almost if you pick the romance route.
It's the same as giving no option at all. Even if I don't wanna date her do I really have to be rude? There's no in-between option.
The 1 time I was thinking finally I had to pick and my option matter (instead of only mattering if you have sex or not) was when I was asked to meet with sister 1 or the cat sister.
I picked the one I liked the most thinking this would affect my path but nope. After u spend some time with one of the sisters you will be given the option to now spend time with the other.
Again illusion of choice, you can pick who you meet first but nothing changes.
Also, you are literally explained what is the best option in the MC main dialogue:
Sister 1 : What is your story?
Inner dialogue: Should I tell her? If I tell her now she will probably trust me more in the future and that good, if I don't tell her she might not trust me and that's bad... hmmm
Well thanks for spelling out what to pick for me.. I was considering going mysterious but that's bad apparently and hurts me in the future..
Every decision almost is like this.. The MC inner dialogue alone tells you what to pick.
So again no really a choice unless you intentionally wanna go into the bad route.



Maybe later on they revealed that the MC has magic breath so when he talks with any female girl they immediately wanna fuck him even if it goes against everything showed before.
I would not be surprised if later on, he meets a Christian girl that wants to be a virgin until marriage but because our MC was nice to her once she will throw away that and immediately ask for his dick while calling him daddy.

This game had so much potential.. Helping the cat sister get revenge on the bullies. while slowly building her trust and love for you...
Make the innocent sister less innocent..
Turn the dominatrix into a sensitive character/wants to be dominated by you instead.

But all is lost, choices do not matter or you are told by the MC's ability to look into the future what is the best option, the dialogue is ok but the character's personalities stop existing the moment you talk to them.
This is like watching a movie expect you have to press your mouse move to the next frame.

Reason why I rated this game 4 stars:
1) Very good game so far.
2) Characters are pretty great and they have good background story of their own.
3) Storyline is pretty big and intense.
4) The time and efforts given by the Dev to develop this game

The Missing 5 star is for the sex scenes. Well they are okay, but they need spice with some more passion, different position and kinks.

I hope you will consider my request.

I eagerly waiting for more "SUPER NAKED GINGER TIME."

I am truly amazed at how out of touch I seem to be considering how highly praised this game is.

To sum My New Family up in a couple of words: tedious, dull and long-winded. Really, any synonym for "boring" will do. If your kink is incest and you're thinking about trying out this slog - don't. The taboo barely gets addressed, even though it's ostensibly the main focus judging by the title of the game.

When your most original and best-written character is a walking Elfen Lied reference, when you praise and justify the repetitiveness of your writing, and when a disinterested reader can point out flaws, holes and inconsistencies in the story, you should know you're doing something wrong.

My New Family is a perfect example of why this website is sometimes called "ESL95." Weird grammar, lack of punctuation, and the usage of idioms that don't exist in the English language are just, in most people's eyes, nitpicks, but coupled with the other flaws I have pointed out, they make reading this visual novel, at times, truly annoying. There is almost not a single redeeming factor I can think of, other than the gargantuan amount of mundane content.

In order to avoid wasting any more words on this game, I'll leave you with this: if you want an incredibly monotonous, conflict and drama-free, self-insert-friendly story full of inconsequential choices and one-dimensional characters, then this game is for you. Otherwise, if you value your time, go find something else to do.

Nice, Perfect & Smooth
just finished playing the game, and unbelievably this game is really good. At first for some reason the graphics & cg made me back off a little but surely with time they regained their posture. Now let's keep it small & simple.

Characters: Some of the most cutest characters i've ever seen. With a distinct personality every character stand out of their own. 4/5

Story: Enjoyable story to say the least. Not gonna spoil you but it's good enough to enjoy. Thou romance is top notch here. I mean seriously it's totally on doki doki level. 4.5/5

Animations & Graphics: I just played v0.15 & it's smooth af. I mean it's also totally like butter on android too. Animations r superbly smooth and graphics r good enough. 4/5

Overall: Overall a great game imo. Must play game if u r honey select fan. 4.25/5.

So first of all I would like to say that this is by far my favourite VN of all time for various reasons.
I have been following this since around 0.6 and the whole time the dev has been amazing
The characters are fantastic and are all different in their own ways, The game is well written, it has an endless amount of content, the story is amazing and so much more.

So here are my main 5 reason for giving My New Family the full 5 stars:

• The renders are good and the animations are smooth, The H-Scenes are great but in my humble opinion could last a tad longer
• All the characters are different with their own backstory and they are all hot and fit to different tastes. Even the MC is likable which is relatively rare
• The English is perfect for the most part and the story as a whole is fantastically well written
• The game is extremely long with heaps of content but doesn't feel like a grind which is great
• And my final point... Lucy, in my opinion the best character I have seen in any game, I love her story, her personality is great and just her in general is a phenomenal storyline

To end off I would like to say that Killer7 is a phenomenal dev, he is constantly providing updates, He is active on the discord and also posts weekly updates on his patreon. I strongly recommend that anyone reading this plays the game but if you do, set aside a while. You are in for a wild ride

I don't even remember how I found this game, other than it may have been another member's fan banner here on F95zone; but I"m glad I did. Not really a fap game (though the models are varying sizes and shapes, which is great!) but the strongest part is the relationship building, character development, and some dialogue. The progression of how each character is added to the MC's harem overall is logical and unrushed. I really appreciate that the characters will have a discussion about this or that physical love-making activity, but we won't see it for a bit as some other things need to happen first. No real decision making here as there is almost always only two decisions and it's obvious which is the 'better' decision for the story. Thus, this is a visual novel more than anything and one I've enjoyed. Lastly, I've spent hours and I'm only in chapter 5 of 9 in part 1 yet. This is a big story!

Actually a pretty decent game with great writing and well built characters and they try to put some reason as to why the main character has all these girls that love him and addresses the more than one girlfriend thing which only a handful of games will do. it has some corny writing sometimes and one or two minor characters that are just plain bad but it has a lot of effort put in and a lot of Freedom. My only gripe with this game is the Grandma because of reasons you'll see later but your kind of forced into an option and it kind of sucks. otherwise a great game.

edit: why the fuck are they always crying though. it kind of pisses me off because if you went through the game and counted how many times they cry it might be more than there are sex scenes.

Gotta be hontest with ya... I don't even play this game anymore to fap. It's just straight comfort food at this point. Every update just makes me feel good. The models and the animations aren't anything too special, but the writing and characters are. Lots os feel good moments and some heart tugging moments. If you are only looking to fap then I'd say avoid this game, however if you enjoy some "wholesome" goodnesss then this game is your jam.

So this Visual Novel/Game is by far the most amazing one I've ever played. The characters are diverse, the story-telling is by far the best, every single emotion of MC and Women in his life you just feel.

There are parts that have brought me to tears because some of the story I can relate to. The hard life of the MC with his father ect. Not only that part but all the things that some of the girls went through it's a real tear jerker.

Killer7 is an amazing storyteller and I love everything they have done in this game. If you haven't played this. Please. Please give this amazing VN/Game a shot. You won't regret it!!!!

I can't wait for 0.16. 0.15 left me with a tear in my eye. I can't wait to hear the news...I pray it's good news.

I guess its time for my first review...

I felt sucked into the story of the mc right away I understood the bs he went through and knew the pain he was going through.

Maybe some things progressed a little fast maybe not imo it is not like mc and any of the others grew up every day with each other for reasons you will understand if you play and read the vn.

I had no problems with the progression I enjoyed it and the way the MC goes out of his way to help others even if its just women is a good thing.

I found quite a few things with the MC that I was able to compare myself to and it drew me in even more.

I also felt Lucy's pain with what she went through and it sucks I had a very close friend who went through the same crap only difference is my rl friend didn't have the ears or tail...but they had a good heart like she does.

In so many different ways I find myself able to relate which makes me love the actual story and the characters more.

Can't wait for more!

10/10 would risk getting my butt kicked and turned in a pretzel to ask Maddie out!!!