Review for
My New Life v0.94:
The first thing I see when I look at the discussion on the latest update is that save games are broken. This game did nothing but piss me off with all of it's bugs to get to the end of the content in the previous update. Does the dev really think that players are willing to replay this entire buggy mess of a game for many hours just to see the content of this new update? Fuck that! I am out! The dev should change his name from "Beggar of Net" to "Bagger of Shit" because that's what this game is: a bag of shit... and I literally feel sorry for anyone that actually paid for it.
Review for
My New Life v0.93:
I am approaching 500 games downloaded and played from F95 and this game might be the absolute worst so far. From what I can tell the game was bad to begin with, but it looks like the developer continues to create new content while also constantly breaking older content. This is hands-down the buggiest game I've ever played. Basically, new players are screwed.
If you are a new player of this game on F95, the first lie you will see is this:
Installation:
1. Extract and run.
If you try that, you'll get nowhere because the game will crash all the time. You need to install a bugfix patch as well as a missing images patch just to play. Even then, the game will be unstable, and it will still be missing some images. You're already off to a bad start, but it gets worse. Getting through the game and seeing most of the content requires knowledge about doing things in the correct order. If you don't follow the walkthrough or do frequent reading of the discussion thread, you will likely hit a game-breaking bug that you may not be able to recover from without going back re-playing for many hours.
Also, be warned that all of the good ratings for this game are from players that admit to installing a cheat mod that allows them to get money and reset time to cut down on the insane grind as well as workaround bugs that aren't fixed in the unofficial bug patch. Note that playing with cheats also requires some knowledge of how and when to exploit the cheats.
Story: 3/5 - The story might be the only thing that's not terrible about his game. It's not great, and has a lot of adult game clichés. It's also crazy that almost everyone in the game is a criminal: thieves, rapists, extortionists, drug dealers, violent assaulters, and murderers.
Writing: 2.5/5 - It's below average, but not the worst, certainly not by F95 standards. Writing is a bit inconsistent making me think there were multiple translators and possibly multiple writers over time.
Renders: 2/5 - The renders suck. If you look at when the original abandoned game came out, it was 2016. The renders were below-average back then and a lot of content appears to be reused. The resolution is poor and the lighting and shading is terrible. At least the models are relatively pretty.
Animations: 2/5 - The animations suck, too. Some of the dancing animations are good in concept, but they're choppy and the resolution is poor. Oh, and animations are not skippable, so you have to watch these terrible animations for as long as the dev wants you to watch and sometimes it makes you want to stab a fork in your eyes, especially the animations with the floating dirty-talk text trying to make you think you're reading a comic-book.
Gameplay: 0/5 - Gameplay is the worst of the worst.
- There are artificial delays everywhere that make the game slow.
- The game is grindy as fuck.
- Nearly every task is designed so that it can't be completed for at least a full day, even when it could be something as simple as talking to an NPC, walking into the next room, picking up an item, then walking back and giving the item to the NPC.
- The user interface is garbage. The developer took the basic RPGM UI, which is already terrible, then added some custom interfaces that are actually worse. The quest system is terrible. It's called "Book of Faces" in a play on "Facebook", but it's so tedious and buggy, it should be called the "Bag of Feces". The minigames all have bugs in one way or another that make them difficult to play.
Content: 2/5 - Multiple reviewers have commented on how much content there is. Given that the game has actually been in development for 7 mother-effing-years, it's not at all impressive. The content itself is inconsistent in terms of being erotic. Some of it is almost good, but most of it is poor. But the worst part is that even some of the sex scenes are grindy.
Bugs: 0/5 - There is an unbelievable amount of bugs that will cause the game to crash, hang, or soft-lock, even
with the third-party bugfixes installed. It's really easy to lock out a lot of content by doing something out of order. The game's code is obviously garbage and overall design and testing are nonexistent.
Overall: 1/5 - The 1990's called, they want their gameplay, resolution, graphics, and animation quality back, but they don't want the bugs because games with this many bugs didn't even exist back then. Basically, even if somebody who could actually code fixed all of the bugs, the game would still look and feel old and lame. The only way this game would be deserving of a good review is if it were completed 20 years ago.
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Previous review for 0.91:
This is the first time I've tried to play the game. No mods or cheats. Picture in your mind cockroaches and maggots swarming on a pile of feces, vomit, and rotten garbage and you'll have a pretty good idea of the ugly stinky buggy mess this game is. I only played for 20 minutes and I couldn't get anywhere without some bug causing the game to freeze, crash, or lock out the controls for the MC. If this is a "REVAMP", I'd hate to see what it was like before.