Based on the (as yet) unfinished v0.5.0.
My usual disclaimers when writing reviews on here are that A. I am here for the "plot" not the plot and B. I am very picky with visual novels and think broadly they can be very subpar. So, take both of those into consideration for my review when thinking about this game.
ON TOP OF THIS: for this review in particular I’d recommend taking it with a tiny grain of salt (just a teeny, tiny sprinkle). I personally am not a big fan of anthros/furries/ bestiality and so My Pig Princess somewhat had the deck stacked against it when it comes to my review…
Pros
- Very pretty artwork – I think this is probably the largest draw of MPP. There are a few games on F95 which use these sort of hand-drawn art assets and with the right love and attention they can just be absolutely stellar, like they are here. The backgrounds are bright and vivid, the setting is lovely to look at and naturally the girls are just super fucking hot. In particular, Emelie is just pretty gorgeous (which she’d have to be as the main love interest of the game).
- Variety of body types – If you’re the sort of person who comes to F95 and complains about every game having tiny skinny-waisted blonde bimbos with huge butts and balloons for tits, then MPP might appeal to you. Emelie is unquestionably hot, but she’s also got a bit of thiccness going on. The side-chicks of the story as well tend to fall into archetypes (like MILF, muscle-girl, skinny goth) but none of them look like the ”standard” Renpy fare. Admittedly, I like the whole blonde bimbo aesthetic, but that’s neither here nor there.
- Emelie is very sexy – I’ve already said it, but just to reiterate, the Princess in question of MPP is just very, VERY hot. She has the whole innocent Princess being corrupted vibe going on and the sex-scenes thus far have been SUPER fap-worthy.
- Light-hearted and jovial tone – The game has absolute zero pretence of taking itself seriously. It’s a game about you falling in love with a Pig Princess. Yeah… It’s just gonna be kind of a little silly and a little fun.
Mehs
- Slightly too little sexy stuff – The game is maybe a couple of hours long at this point and has 3 major sexual scenes. There’s a lot of “teasing” content around this as well, but most of that barely counts if you ask me. Quite frankly it feels just a bit on the slow side. There’s long stretches of conversation which drag on just a liiiiittle too long. In other games these sections might be used to build sexual tension and stuff, but that doesn’t feel like the case here.
- Choices are seemingly pointless – MPP seems to be one of those kinetic-type novels which provides choices primarily for flavour text. I’m actually not totally certain about this though because there was at least one major point where you make a decision during a sex scene that the game itself informs you will have consequences… But none of those consequences have happened yet. You will REGULARLY be asked about fetish preferences like “do you like muscular girls or softer girls?” and “do you like tall or short girls?” etc etc. And MAYBE the game is building up a list of kinks for the player so that in later iterations it will cater to your tastes, but honestly I doubt it and for the most part think 99% of these will add nothing at all.
Cons
- Non-existent story – Unquestionably the worst aspect of MPP. Don’t get me wrong here, the writing itself is actually pretty decent. The characters and dialogue are all perfectly nice and well-written. My biggest issue is that there is no plot (and by this I mean plot and not “plot”). There’s NO hook whatsoever. It’s obviously supposed to be slice-of-life silliness, right, but many other slice-of-life VNs have at least some kind of hook. You’re there to set up a new hotel. You’re there to create a harem of girls. You’re there to find out what happened to your long-lost dad. But in MPP you legitimately just bumble from one incident to the next with no real connection. If you were a lesser man you could argue that having the Princess fall in love with you is the main story, but even that isn’t true because A. she basically throws herself at you with zero effort and (more importantly) B. the protagonist never expresses outright desire of wanting to make her fall in love with him.
- Outside of Emelie other characters are much more animalistic – Now for some of you, this will be a “meh” or even an outright “pro”. No judgement whatsoever. So, this will be more aimed at people who have similar tastes to me. I went into MPP thinking it would be fine because Emelie herself looks more like a human with slightly piggy features than an anthropomorphised pig (think Neko as opposed to human cat). With that in mind I assumed the other characters would be the same. This isn’t the case. The vast majority of other characters lean faaaaar more towards animal with human features. Again, this is a personal taste thing, but it’s just absolutely not my jam.
- Side characters are, thus far, very irrelevant – In particular there’s been at least 3 sort of major side-girls who are all teased as being potential sexual conquests. Possibly. But I genuinely question whether the game means to actually have any kind of sexual interaction with any of them. It seems like the intention might be just to have some other eye candy on screen to flaunt different body types, but to primarily make Emelie the ONLY love interest. Just a gut feeling.
- I don’t like Billy – This is gonna be contentious as fuck. I like the bro-character trope in erotic games. The other male character who is the protagonist’s best friend and confidant. ALSO for various reasons he won’t be a sexual threat to the protagonist’s interests. In MPP, this character is Billy the guard pig. He’s portrayed as just kind of a big dumb, lovable goof. And I absolutely hated him. I thought he was genuinely annoying, pushed dumb past “lovable” to outright “idiotic” and could not find him funny in the slightest.
I said it at the start but
MPP absolutely had the deck stacked against it when it came to winning me over. I’m not a fan of anthros and furries, so you might be very reasonably wondering why I even bothered trying
MPP.
As I state in the pros and cons, I actually had the initial impression that the characters of
MPP would be leaning more towards humans with animal characteristics than the other way around, and that’s something I can cope with! So I figured I’d give it a shot.
Evidently, I was wrong about that, outside of Emelie most of the other characters lean faaaar more towards furry than they do human. Again, I know this a very subjective thing, but this was simply a disappointment for me.
I also want to add here though that so far most of the other characters are nothing but window dressing. I actually think this may disappoint a lot of other people as well that in a 2-hour story, outside of Emelie really very little happens with the other side girls. And more importantly I question whether the intention is to even let you do anything with them at all. More than once you have a kiiinda sexy interaction with some other girl and the protagonist goes “oh, I shouldn’t go too far, what would Emelie think!” This just seems to imply that the other girls might just stay as they are: window dressing.
So, you’d think that maybe my biggest issues with
MPP would be the fact that it is too animal-y for my tastes (which would be a VERY ridiculous complaint about a game that is openly about anthropomorphic animals) or that it’s too focused on Emelie. But honestly, no, I actually was sort of having a nice time in spite of these things.
The thing that really started to kill my interest was just how bloody aimless the game seems to be. The main character sort of bounces from situation to situation with absolutely no apparent drive or motivation. As such there is genuinely no driving plot. And I think that even the most porn-y of porn games need some kind of plot background. Even if it’s something dumb or cliché like “get every girl in the village pregnant”.
Here, there’s nothing like that. Your character is dragged to meet the Princess and just goes along with it. He then ends up doing sexy things with the Princess because he sort of falls into that. He also successfully falls upwards into a role in the castle, which seems to involve nothing but stumbling around town doing whatever he wants (the farm he spent his life working on already immediately forgotten). Every single event of the game feels like it just sort of happens by accident.
This might seem like an odd complaint. Like, it’s just a silly porn game about a pig princess, but I promise that it makes the game gradually start grating and become very, very boring. There needs to be SOME motivation to keep us interested. SOME kind of driving force to keep us invested.
Even the relationship with Emelie suffers from this. Because his goal is not to “have the Princess fall in love with him” or even anything broader like “marry the Princess”, it means that their relationship is actually also that much less interesting. Y’know, he’s not fucking her because he really badly wants to fuck her or knock her up or something. Instead he’s fucking her because she got naked and went “well I guess a sex scene should happen here” and he goes “oo err, okay!” It means there's none of that super sexy urgency of wanting to rip each other's clothes off. It just kinda sort happens...
Maybe this very aimless and light-hearted approach will appeal to some, but for me it honestly made the game really, really start to drag. Particularly after the most recent major sex scene where they then start up a very long beach segment (which STILL isn’t fucking over) and then nothing proceeds to happen (in a very light-hearted way) for the next hour of game.
It is, simply put, dull.
With all this in mind, I do think that
MPP still has enough merit that some enjoyment could be gleaned from it. Particularly if the whole animal thing really, really appeals to you. But I genuinely think it’s currently vastly overrated and that the issues it have stem more from the writing than the sexy stuff itself.
