HTML - My New Mansion [v0.5] [Kestler Games]

The writing is terrible.

You start out trying to identify the characters and relations to the mc...but there's really no help... The "guy who raised you" is 60 years older than you soo Grandfather? nope Father? nope
Then there are the guardians and guardian's sisters...not sure what they are supposed to be....
MC isn't related to any of them anyway.... It was just done terribly.

You can choose the love path or dominant path but it's just a blanket path, you can't treat each woman differently. Again, doesn't really matter much since you don't get a choice or say so in the women. Seems to be all forced relations.

The mc has no backbone and is fairly stupid so far.
The videos and images are very low resolution and nothing is automated. You might have to click through 5 or 6 long mediocre videos to get through a scene.

Needs to be completely rewritten and some options given. For example....I wouldn't have let the girlfriend move in... at least not right away. Also the guardian's sister that shows up wanting money....I would have just shut the door in her face not be forced to let her move in.

Oh well....ymmv
I deleted it

What can I say about the game?

Well, it's another covert kinetic novel in which the story unfolds without player intervention, beyond wandering from one place to another on certain days and times, waiting for some event to be triggered (hence the sandbox tag, so don't expect any freedom of choice).

Chapter 1 begins with the protagonist and his girlfriend making sex videos on the internet (without the player's consent, of course), then with the Guardian's sister staying to live in the mansion (without the player's consent, of course) and continues with the protagonist discovering that Nina is a camgirl, which causes him to get angry because strangers can see her naked on the internet (but he doesn't care if they see his beloved girlfriend, apparently ) and have sex with her (without the player's consent, of course).

In three words: generic, linear and dispensable.

too early to tell if this will be a great game or an okay game with a story that had potential. But I have seen great games get off to a much rockier start so I hope I will find myself upping my rating as we go along

The game suffers a lot from the use of long videos for content. It isn't enjoyable to enter a story where you immediately have to watch 10 minute blowjobs and then read through a wall of text. There needs to be some sort of build up or narrative, and as of right now there isn't any. The game probably has double the amount of scenes than it needs. This game does not need full porn videos to get the point across, they just take up disk space and stop the action.

A frustrating part of playing this game is that you have no options to explore or do things. If 90% of the rooms are going to be empty at a time, at least make it easier to go back, add a "return to bed" option or anything to make navigation easier.

The good:
- Uh... can't really thing of anything.

The Bad:
- Images are deformed due to forced sizing.
- Videos require manually playing.
- No quest tracker or log to help guide you on your next task.

The Ugly:
- Choosing a route before the game even begins.
- Either there's a severe lack of content, or the "love" route has a bug that has zero recourse after banging the first chick and the aunt/daughters come.
- Due to said lack of content/bug, I pointedly closed the tab cursing myself for clicking on the 9 rooms 300x throughout each time period trying to find where to continue the route if there was one.

I don't usually leave reviews, but seeing this at one star I felt obligated. I'm mostly going to be addressing the complaints of the previous review.

I think the writing is actually quite good. Both the plot and scene writing is strong and not overly cliché. The biggest weakness is the dialog, and I believe this is the main complaint others have. It is admittedly quite cheesy in how exaggerated the characters are, sometimes approaching caricatures. I do think each character having their own unique personality does help with variety and justifies each characters purpose in the story/game. The author just needs to find a better balance (e.g. tone things down a bit, and add a subversive trait to each major character). It is still very early, and I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt in the author's ability to flesh them out more. Even if they don't, it's not a deal breaker for me.

Addressing the media. I think the videos they choose are hot, and the author is clearly trying to prioritize continuity. But they are doing that at the cost of variety (one porn shoot getting spliced into shorter segments does damage the benefits of a porn game, rather than just watching a video on a porn site). Maybe they could find a better balance going forward, but again, it's not an issue I find major.

Overall I think it a unique game that I quite enjoy, while it has some rough edges, I look forward to future releases.

Going to be blunt about this one: The writing is garbage. Someone clearly took one look at Anime Harem Tropes and decided that was good enough for a story. The premise is interesting, but the fact that there really isn't much choice, just reading cringe dialogue after cringe dialogue, ruins the experience. On top of that, the actual porn is just full length videos chopped up into several minute sections. If that's the way you're going to present the sex not only is the file size going to get massive really quickly, but going from a hot scene to the bad dialogue continues to be incredibly jarring. I'd have given this 0 stars if I could have.