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

There is always the good and bad with any video game.
Some of the characters can be a bit bland or not so attractive;
the same face is used quite often for the aunt, cousin, Ida's sister
etc. The oversized cartoonish boobs which I'm not a fan of
show up on some of the characters. The dialogue can be a bit
repetitive at times and I find myself some time skipping
it to get through.

The good. The ginger trio make this game really work,
Sandra, Lucy, and Alice. The Neko features of Lucy are a
plus, I like the animated movements during the sex scenes,
it has music [even though it's just the same couple of songs].
And the developer Killer7 finished the game through,
he or she didn't make excuses and abandon the game or
do something silly like make the last chapters of the game
multiple pages of text in front of an empty chair just to
get the game done and over with; like a certain game I recently
played.

Whoever Killer7 is this person busted their ass and
put out an insane amount of content to complete this game,
and didn't cut corners. They say respect is earned and not
given, Killer7 didn't bitch, didn't whine, didn't say woah is
me, didn't make excuses, but put in the workload and brought
the creation to completion, and that earns my respect.

So...the protagonist is a bitch. Great start. At least I learnt that right at the beginning so I had no hopes or expectations. Stopped reading the dialogues and the "story" completely after that though, that means don't take my review seriously. At all.

Protagonist.
Rough start in life, gets out of that, girlfriend cheats on him, he buckles up and goes back to his mother crying, mother who left him when he was 4 with his alcoholic father. Then you have to be nice to her if you want to see the scenes. And that's the way to go for every other character, apparently. The developer even tells you that the harem route has the most content, so you need to be nice (a good little bitch that takes the cactus up the ass nicely, without complaining) to get the content. Great. In a game about choices take the choices away from the player. Yes it can get better. A character can evolve. But first thing first, I don't give a shit. And secondly this is a porn game, harem one on top of that. I just picked the green options during the dialogues, and that led me to taking shit from some little cunt yelling at me, and accepting an apology, and believing an excuse the mother, that literally destroyed her own child's future, gave. I am fine. You even get "blackmailed" by your "new boss" into doing sexual stuff "for her". No. Just no...

Female characters.
Honey select. Plastic mannequins. Faces of supposed daughters, mothers, and anything past that, look exactly the same. Your supposed mother looks like she is a teenager. Same with all the other supposed adults. Their bodies are also pretty much all the same. Sorry, but putting a bigger pair of tits, or a different wig on the exact same doll just taller or shorter, does not create a unique character. That's not how it works. Don't know anything about them past what I read about the mother. Wouldn't touch her with anything but a fork, I will admit it easily, I did not read a single line of the dialogue past the "intro", so can't really comment on their personalities or "characters". I want to emphasise, that the mother is a piece of shit, no matter the excuse you cook for her, none of that matters. She left. They did not "get separated", she left him to rot. That's the information I got in the first few sentences and that's where I am going to go from then. Any dirty tricks in the "author's" cookbook to make her seem plausible after that, are meaningless.

Sex/animations
Eh.

All in all, I basically stopped playing after the protagonist folded. I am way too fragile for that type of thing in any story, but when it comes to a supposedly harem oriented porn game with a male protagonist, I am extremely not interested in playing as a pathetic loser. Don't have to role-play that. I play games or read stories to feel good, positive emotions, not negative. I am honestly trying hard to think about a single positive thing to say about the game, only reason I am not giving it just 1 star is that I held ctrl for the majority of my time "playing", and thus feel like I don't deserve to just "flunk" it.

Good luck with the next project Killer7, personally would love to see a completely different protagonist, but that's just me.

TL;DR Started out ok, but then added too much fluff with little actual content.
Game went from sort of good to the dumpster fire it is now. Unfortunately for many reasons this VN suffers from the typical problem of going on for too long. This is made worse by the fact that as chapters went on it turned from a bit of talking and sex scenes to a lot of talking and a few sex scenes in between. This would’ve been fine if there had been a point, but we instead got more of the same “I’m so happy, I love you!” said in a lot more words. There was also the promise of a darker or more asshole path that never materialized from early versions. It was evident that somehow even light BDSM got backlash for the author of the VN. The sheer number of characters with all of them and I mean all of them having to be collected is also part of the reason why some people hate Harem tag. I’d give it an extra star for variations, but some models clearly needed more fine tuning. I could go on at more problems, but then I’d be doing the same thing this VN did.

Let me start by making it clear that this is a really good game and its worth playing forr some people not all though.
So you might wonder why 2 stars and not 5? well ill explain that later but ill start with the good.
If you are into everything from loli to granny, from small to huge tits and want to build a full harem it might be a 4-5 star game to you, if you dont mind no real ending to the game.

But for those that are not, game can and will be a bit of a mess, it feels like the game was more ment to be kinetic then choice driven since if you dont pick the right LIs or all of them, storyline can be a real mess.

I do belive the creator did to much in a single game, to many LIs, to many stories, to many choices with relationships, making the work and keeping track of it all close to impossible which did hurt the game, unless you play it as a kinetic story clicking yes to all relationships even those you dont want.

In my play through story did get messed up where things dident make sense or dialogs that dident fit anywhere in the story and missing scenes with importen facts for the story, all due to saying no to the mother and Fiona and maybe Elaine and if you say no to Sandra it gets even worse.

The good:
Story is pretty good, its about MC being forced away from hes mother and sisters which he will return to and start to help and rebuild the familie for the better, there is ALOT of talk with every LI which can feel like to much at times but it still adds value to the game and at the same time makes it a bit drawn out as well.

It has a nice relationship build up with the LIs, so you get to know alot about them before anything happens, so its not just another fuckfest game and i like that, there is alot of LIs and i do mean alot and all of them gets a decent amought of screen time so its a big and long game which i also love.

As to the LIs they are all unique and with diffrent personalitis and all of them are good and feel diffrent, the builds are great as well since there are anything from very small tits to medium to big and even huge tits, the only problem is the big and huge tits are really only on Milfs and grannys which gave me some issues since i hate big tits but ill explain that in the bad part.

The Bad:
When i started i dident feel like being nice due to the story, atleast not stright away, so i dident pick Sandra at the very first meeting and that was the only chance you will have to be with her and that supprised me since shes pretty much a LI you HAVE to be with or game will be alot shorter and a big mess, so i had to redo and felt forced to pick her and be nice when i dident want to, she is a nice char and there is alot of good content that follows with her, but also alot that annoyed me like how game puts her as your number one girl when she was in the bottom of my list and one i dident truely want to be with.

Then the choices came for the Mother, Aunt/Granny all huge tits which i just cant do, its a huge turn-off to me so theres no way i can go into a sexual relationship with them, and that does mess up the story in multiple cases, you will start having dialogs that makes no sense like how the mother was told about your relationship with LU and more weird dialogs when you get to the vacation home, and all the familie barbarcues is apprently without you so guess you arent familie? ya it gets weird, scenes where MC say lets wait for Mom then Lucy steps in instend and you miss a babyshower due to not being in a sexual relationship with Elaine or Fiona not sure which, creators knows about those kind of issues as well and gives you the option to add Elaine to your harem very late in game to fix it, but i just couldent since i just dont want that kind of relationship with her.

It also annoyed me that all the fun stuff is based around Sandra, like when you start the relationship or she gets pregnant MC is part of telling it to the familie, but when it comes to the other main LIs its more or less skipped, and it really annoyed me how it was done with LU since it was a huge deal not just the relationship but also no one knew if she even could get pregnant not even LU her self, and once she does you dont get to take part in sharing it with the familie its all done off-screen which is a very poor choice in my mind even more so for a main LI and proberly the top LI for most players.
I can understand that kind of stuff with Maddie thats her personality but LU no it felt worng not to be part of so much.

So yeah thats really the main issue, storyline breaks and gets messed up, so you dont truely have a free choice with LIs if you want the full story, not sure why it wasent made so being friends would also give you full story, it would pretty much just be a few dialog changes and no sex scenes with Elaine and the other milfs.

The ending just ruined the hole game, if it wasent because i liked the game up to that point i would give it a 1 star, i picked show ending with the girls i picked which was all except mother/milfs/granny, and what did my ending show.......MC fucking mother and granny and elaine....i mean wtf i seriously saw nothing about the girls i did pick.....just a ton of days like "you wake up" "you go to bed" nothing in between, and no you dont even see the so called real ending (weddings) which isent really and ending, your left with nothing but a cliffhanger about all the pregnancys about how LUs kids will turn out and so on.

Feels like its made only to piss you off due to not picking a full harem when it only shows you the girls you dident pick?

Also the pregnancy part is absolutly shit in this game, sure they talk about it alot in dialogs, but only one or two LI shows a bigger belly at the very end out of the game.
You dont get to know anything about how it turns out like Lucys kids if they will be born with cat issues or not, so there really is no ending to this game.

The Average:
The animations are about average for this type of character style, meaning not great but still someting you can enjoy watching, they do get boring in the long run since they are really mostly the same over and over late in game.

When it comes to Virgins scenes, they did a pretty good job better then most really, sure there are a few that might be a bit boring since some of the LIs has lost their hymen in some way or the other, But there are atleast 4 deflower scenes that even shows a bit of blood, so they did think about it and made some good scenes which is great, they really put alot of thoughts into making the game, this is one of the parts missing in alot of other games.

Music is a bit bland and alot of the same, so again around average.

Finishing note:
I was a bit disappointed with the message near the end of the game saying my new family 2 will center around a full harem since thats how game was ment to be played, which does make you wonder why it wasent just made kinetic from the start.

Also think it will result in alot less support since alot of players wont be into eveything like loli/milf/gilf and flat to huge tits, alot either like one or the other but not all, including my self so i wont be trying out the second game.

But still good luck with the new game.

Easily top 3 visual novel of all time!!! Just a wonderful story full of sex, comedy, and family love! Best of all it has super naked ginger cuddle time! What more could you ask for? Most all the girls are great, but Lucy is one of my top 2 favorite characters ever and my favorite ginger of all time!

For me this game is definitely a solid 5.
Even though the animations aren't anything amazing, they're still good. They're not the main focus of the game, because it actually has depth. Aside from a few spelling/grammar errors, The writing is stellar, which is always important for me.
I like really being able to feel the unique personalities of all the different characters through the writing, otherwise it feels robotic and kills immersion. There's also a lot of character growth, they change for the better as the story progresses.
The story itself is refreshingly wholesome. I like how there's a balanced mix of everything too, as far as comedy, drama, light hearted moments, "romance", etc.
for those reasons, this game will always be one of my absolute favorites.

This game is great except for a few minor things. First There were just too many characters and most ended up being one and done cumdumps . With the Epilogue only being six days there is not enough time to develop a relationship with the last three characters and two of them where teased in the first half of the game. Second, I know adult games have a problem with black women for some odd reason but i always strike a star when there is none. They need a LOT more representation. Third grammar, A lot of times in the story you see the word Spent when it is supposed to be Spend.

avg at best - 3 and im being nice

sex scenes are the same, if you played 2 chapters then you played the whole game. So bland and not unique at all sadly. Animations are nice but the dev lacks any imagination.

Don't. Just don't waste your time.

Great and funny writing with excellent music cues. This is a fairly light heated game that will give you a palate cleanser and lift you up after dealing with all the bullshit in the news. Love that each character has a distinct look and personality and they are written pretty consistent as far as their individual quirks and actions. Well done killer7

Unfortunately this game only works as harem or nothing.

I decided to play it with most girls but without mother/aunt relationship. Game doesn't like that and closed ALL routes for some reason.

Tried it few times and result is the same each time, if I'm skipping mom/aunt, sisters are all of a sudden not with MC, game can't be saved at the end, thus can't be transferred to chapter 10+ (rollback error, tried playing through chapters 1-9 3x, end result is the same) and that's it.

Even downloaded walkthrough mod, selected every single choice positive except relationship with mom/aunt, every other girl is still not developing relationship.

Rating is so low because, come on, if choices are either going to be YES or NO, and even a single NO blocks all content, just make kinetic novel. It's pointless otherwise.

There's, if gallery is to be trusted, metric fuckton of H content if you get it, but seems it's all or nothing. So it's a nothing for me. Happens, moving on.

This VN has one the most uneventful stories on this site: it doesn't care for intrigue, plot twists, gripping storylines, clever plot, escapism, sensory writing. And I mean this, this so desperately flat.
The plot is as follows : MC is introduced to his formely estranged all-female family and has sex with them because they like each other. Thereafter you will be introduced to other members of the family and will also have sex because they like each other. Repeat x45. Sometimes it's friends not family. They go the café, they go to the pool, they take the train! And that is it, slice of life in its dullest form.
The sheer number of LIs is astounding and should give you a clue about how this can feel so boring : you just can't write 45 characters and make them interesting. At the very least this person can't for sure. So Tab is your friend right ? Well...
I would have liked to give a 2nd star but the saving grace should have been sex. But here again it fails ungraciously. I shit you not, this vn uses the most basic, the most uncustomized Honey Select poses there are. Are you familiar with the "holdings hands doggy style pose" in HS? Yeah that one, it's used every other damn scene with same angle, and I'm barely exagerating here
"But you don't get it, it's so very very wholesome you heartless being! There's so much to read! It's an ode to pure love!" Nah, wholesome it may be but everything is subpar in this game. Writing, graphics, everything. You know what to expect if you launch this game

My personal beef with the dev aside, this is what a VN should be. Just the right amount of drama and without any weird death mechanics or NTR. The story is wonderful and the characters actually evolve. That being said there are issues that keep it from being perfect. As I write this only the epilogue is left and there are still three love interests that have not been explored. One, Megan has been teased throughout the whole story with no pay off. another is Celeste who has been teased throughout the second half of the story and still no pay off. The third, Christina came in too late for anything real to happen with her. That is the main problem with story, you are either teased throughout the whole story with no relationship building and only one sex scene or they come in way too late to be able to build a relationship to them. Most Love Interests only have one scene like Ida and Soo. In fact the only Love interests outside of your family that you build is Sun, Yvonne, and Tanja. And since I know that the epilogue will only be six days long it is not enough time to build those last three relationship so we will just jump right into sex with them. and it is sad because I really wanted to explore the relationship between the MC, Ida, and Celeste given Ida's and Celeste's past.. Still despite it faults this is the closet to perfection that I have seen yet. I hope his new game Ny New Memories will build all the relationships over time and involve more than one scene and not wait until the end to surprise us with a late edition.

When the most important part of your VN, the writing, is this exceedingly boring, you have a big issue. Nothing really happens, women just fall into the MC hands for no reason other than he exists. No conflicts, no real hardships, just pages and pages of the most boring dialogues possible.
The models and animations are from honey select. The models have a wide range of quality, from bad to good, there are no terrible ones but no great ones either. The actual problem are animation and camera angle choices. HS has a pretty wide range of positions. You will see about 5 of them here and "see" is extremely generous. The terrible angles will obstruct you from actually being able to enjoy the animations.
By chapter 8-9 I was quickly skimming through they samey lines and replicas to get the meat, chapter 12 was about as much as I could stomach this dull, boring VN.
If you want an engaging story or good porn, better look elsewhere.

Charming story with a whole lot of scenes and good animations. Currently playing through chapters 1-9.

However, I found some petty annoyances with this game. Firstly, it has so many unnecessary lines of dialogue to click through, and it's maddening when they don't contribute to the story at all. I wish it would just focus on the events and character motivations that matter. I'm often mindlessly clicking through another new cluster of dialogue where MC is going to sleep, eating breakfast, or asking a character for their life story. All of these are unimportant to the story. The skip feature really comes in handy with these.

Also, I like the plethora of characters, but this game has a problem with diversity in that many of the characters look and act the same. Many have the same basic features with a slightly different haircut. There are some unique characters for sure, but the love interests can really start to blend together. The one instance of this that bothered me enough to bring it up is the 3 sisters that all have red hair and freckles. Red hair like that is rare. The sisters aren't even all related, so it made no sense when another sister shows up, and she's just a clone of the other 2 sisters.

There will be some spoilers in my review so be warned. This VN is kind of hard to rate because i really like it. I read it twice till chapter 15 and there are 17 chapters. But there are almost as many bad as there is good. The story is good enough that i read it twice but there are some things that didn't make sense like fiona Becca's Boss Becca is the Mom Fiona in her first meeting the MC she sucks his dick and trys to make Him her fucktoy later on you find out that Fiona has a very soft spot for Becca because she reminds her of her dead sister so this is what i don't get if she cares so much for Becca, Why would she treat Becca's son like a fucktoy? Another thing that bothers me is there is forced Lesbian content you can skip most of it but there are some stuff you can't like the Alice and Sandra scene and them groping each other in bed. and another thing is the sex scenes the angles are not to good not really fap worthy. Also this story is written to be a harem so if you reject a girl you miss a large amount of the story. 3 main girls are Sandra,Lucy and Alice But to make sense of the story you should try to get everyone except maybe Yvonne i skipped her and didn't really miss much. I know i gave a lot of bad points but i really do like this game and i do recommend playing it. Just know some stuff is not avoidable and it is not really fappable all though there are alot of sex scenes.

My New Family [v0.22] [Killer7]

Pros

• A fairly good story emphasizing incest & polyamorous. Incest approach with mom was fairly reasonable with mom’s reluctance to give-up the morality was well expressed.
• Excellent quality of image renders (May be 8 out of 10 credit).
• Excellent quality of animations (May be 7 out of 10 credit).
• Play-ability, performance and grammar are all just OK no issue

Cons

• Lack of genuine or more of fictitious in general for sexuality with all characters
• Lack of seductiveness in sexual approach
• Nothing much of game as the options to change are pretty simple like play or don’t play; so obviously will choose the play option

Ancient society where most of the men treat women poorly, where MC is different with moderate mindset so naturally have been attracted by numerous females right from very young sisters/girls to moms, aunties to grandmother. Lot of females with MC as the only male; a bit odd to imagine, but the story is formed little convincing. Appreciate the work and effort by the author. Adding little more genuineness/realistic could improve.

I think my favorite thing about My New Family (and, to be honest, K7's style in general) is that, while these stories are still CYOA, they're not games where you have no idea what the "right" choice is.

Since you know going in that you are experiencing a linear story, with the option to choose to skip elements, rather than a game with choices that you are unsure of how they will effect your ability to finish, there is a comfort level even as the story brings forth each new surprise.

Anyway, thanks for providing a wonderful experience for all us degenerates ^_^

Good scenes and concept, but every character's dialogue is written the same. Their dirty talk is all the same, with no variation. It's very obviously written by one guy who's lacking in the versatility department.

To be honest i wasn't expecting to fall in love with this devs work as much as i did so far this game is one of the top 5 AVN's i have ever played and i guess that's saying something since i have played around 120 of them in the last year (not a lot for some ik) since i discovered these types of games. (ik i have an addiction to them leave me alone.)

To be honest as other people have pointed out the renders aren't the best but i have seen 100 times worse than this. They get a little better as the development progresses. If you can look past the bland looking house and few other locations early on the dev changes most of them as the story progresses and they look a lot better. The dev played on the story with it and as everyone moved past their trauma/depression/etc. the atmosphere/environment around everyone became a lot brighter and has a lot more color.

The animations are great. They have a lot of juggle in all of the right places which i love.

The story is hilarious. I didn't know what to expect going into it but this is the funniest AVN i have played so far. The dev does a fantastic job of mixing serious stuff in with a lot of light hearted playful teasing between the mc and everyone else.

Honestly i am going to be very sad when i reach the end of the current build of the game and have to wait for updates because yea there is a lot of sex in this game but that's not the only thing it is it has a lot of wholesome and funny content that just makes me laugh and kind of brightens my day when i play it.

As of me writing this review the game version is 0.22 i am currently around the content added with 0.15 on my playthrough.

(As i have said on pretty much all of my other review sorry if a lot of this doesn't make sense i am not very good at writing things like this or speaking my mind in general i typically ramble and repeat myself a lot so sorry.)

The game is such a feel good game. It doesn't matter that we could only dream of finding a girl like Sandra. The story is well done with interesting characters and you don't get them all throwing themselves at you automatically. You actually have to put some work in to get some of the girls. Its refreshing and enjoyable.