VN - Ren'Py - My Pig Princess [v0.8.0] [CyanCapsule]

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.

(For version 0.5)
Among the most impressed I've been with a game on this site.

The POV character is a simple, good-hearted guy. You can be dominant or more vanilla, but even if you go the dominant route he's never a douchebag and is still considerate/well-meaning, which is a nice change of pace. The titular female lead is very likeable and endearing in a naive-but-lewd-and-mischievous kind of way. Great cast of side characters that are legitimately fun and endearing, and at least up till now have added to the experience as opposed to being excessively long distractions from the main romance. Some of the side sexual interests lean a bit more furry than the more human-like princess, which may or may not be your thing, but they play a smaller role so it's no huge loss either way.

Great non-sexual dialogue that even got a few belly laughs out of me, and immaculate sexual content. The art-style does a great job of being both very cute and sexy when it wants to be. Content-wise the game is more on the vanilla side at least so far, but there's a bit of optional fetish content with the choice of a heavily anal-focused route for all the booty plunderers out there that isn't just tacked on to tick a checkbox; All the butt-stuff is completely optional for all those who haven't yet seen the light. In any case, all the scenes and their variants are very well done. Sound is limited to a few SFX as opposed to moans and whatnot, which may or may not matter to you.

Some might not like the very linear nature of its VN format, but personally I don't think it's a con if it permits for higher quality content like this. The only major downside is that the game is still in development and current content is limited and ends quite abruptly. What is there so far is extremely promising, the experience is short but very sweet.

I've played most, if not all, 4 and 5 star games on this forum. And I have to say, not all of them have impressed me. But this game certainly has. It was a pleasant surprise, very light, comical, well written, great art and good pacing.

The creator(s) must have had a very clear concept before starting, there is nothing unnecessary added to the game, just a very to the point well made game.

This game has entered my top 5. (in no particular order). Being a dik, desert stalker, my pig princess, deluca family, night driver.

Edit: My only hope is that this does not become a game where the updates are few and far between seeing as the development started in 2015 (according to patreon).

Fantastic VN with amazing art by a dedicated creator! His art is cute and the writing is convincing enough as well. Cyan is also super passionate about his work and loves engaging with his supporters.

Five stars. The art and plot are so pure than at one point you start to doubt if this game is going to fulfill your fantasies and then suddenly... POW! You won't see it coming. The game turns to a VN out of this world, simply amazing and incredibly enjoyable. The work has been great so far... I want more of this... It is quite short because of the so good it is right now. One more word to describe it before I finish my review:... AMAZING!

You ever had that feeling where you go "Shit, I've turned into my father, haven't I?". You get that mix of feelings where you think, well, that's who I am and that's fine. I like me. At the same time there's a lingering resentment that you've become what you swore you never would.

This game is like that, except instead of a parent it's a furry. I swear I just liked the cutesy graphics and I've played a couple of princess trainers so I thought maybe this would be like that. I didn't know there was going to be a hot zebra. And now here we are. I'm not completely sold, but I've gone farther along than ever before. The pig princess is fucking hot, alright? She just is.

It's a light-hearted story so far. Farmer gets the chance to be assistant to a princess. Princess has repressed desires that quickly come to the fore.

The dialogue's very good. Warm humour that fits the visuals. Comic relief characters around. There's not much of a set up for an overarching story so we'll see if there's anything to come there.

Otherwise, it's just very fun. I've got no real criticisms to speak of other than that lingering feeling of "Have I really opened up this fetish I didn't need?". Whatever. Give it a go. You'll be one of us soon.

Great art. Great dialogue. No real complaints. If I had to nitpick, I'd say that there should be more content with the other girls of the town, Would be amazing if you could form a harem in one of the later updates.

Really excellent porn fable. The art is AMAZING, can't wait to see the future of this game. My only wish is maybe to have animations like summertime saga but even if it doesnt it will still be really good.

Most VN are trash. This one is excellent porn fable. Personally, I'm not into furry stuff, however wholesome story and stunning art bought me over.
Game hits sweet spot between establishing story, and actual porn content.
The current version 0.5.0 is not particularly long, however still worthwhile.

Totally wonderful, the story soft and candid, the characters are well cared for, every detail, a good vanilla, the art is phenomenal, a simple game but with every detail polished, mostly kinetic but with a couple of decisions and some minigames/trivia , definitely promises a lot.

I cannot overstate how refreshing it is to see something original, written well, and paired with excellent art. The setting doesn't detract from or overshadow the characters, the dialogue feels natural, and the sex is hot while still being wholesome enough that the light and colorful theme matches it.
I'll be honest and admit that I'm a sucker for well-written vanilla. Complex and rich, not overpowered by sugar or lost in a sea of other flavors.
I can't wait to see where this goes, and as a writer, artist, and developer CyanCapsule fully deserves all the support players can offer. Or...they do, if they're a team? Either way--play the game.

I'm not a furry, but this game has converted me.
10/10 art & fantastic light hearted story.
Both the lovey dovey and piggy slut route are equally great.
This is probably one of the best games on this site, and the creator deserves all the support they can get.

Great game. Truly a masterpiece of artwork!

Now only this game is favorite.

PROS:

Art 5/5
Graphics 5/5
Story 5/5
Fapability 5/5
Originality 5/5


CONS:

You have to quit whatever you are doing right now to experience all the stuff that is in this masterpiece.


Honestly 10/10, hope it keeps being developed

I'm not a furry, but this game might just make me one. You play as a human, so that helps, for sure. But what also helps is just how incredible the art is. Seriously, Cyancapsule is so talented. And Emelie is a great character, both in design and personality.

It's just so, so well made.

First off: this game, in my opinion, strikes the perfect balance between exposition (non-H material) and H material. It's just enough to offer a break, but not too much that you lose interest. The game's got substance, but doesn't waste your time either.

Secondly, the art style. It's hard to hit that cross between cute and sexy, but the artists do it perfectly. That, along with the fantastic writing, means every character is interesting and attractive. And it's not just the characters: the entire game looks gorgeous. So much artistry on display here.

And third, it gets all the details exactly right. Things like music, sound effects, story, UI, etc. They're all done exactly like a RenPy game should be.

All in all, I think this one's pretty much perfect.

Great game. Amazing artwork! This is the style of game I want to see more of. The animation is amazing. Really should be more games out there like this. I can't wait for more scenes. I love the choices you can make.

I have very much enjoyed this game so far. It has amazing art and the scenes are top tier! I am really enjoying the thicker girl game, definitely an underrepresented body type. I look forward to everything this game has going forward.

While I don't like VNs in general and furries are also not my cuppa, I must say this is a pretty good little time killer to indulge in. It's plain to see the author knows how to draw and even if you're not particularly fond of the style or theme, you gotta admire the almost impeccable technique and consistency. Some lines of the story hint at drawing being the dev's biggest fetish. Well done on that and keep up the good work!

I also like the tone of the story, which portrays the male, human protag as a reluctant perv of sorts rather than a scheming little POS hellbent on sexually corrupting every piece of ass around, and the titular object of his desire as a very curious, naughty little humanoid piggy, not yet another naïve schoolgirl/princess/priestess whose sexual education will be a result of dishonest manipulations by the MC and other lecherous NPCs around her. Love it and would love to see more sex-positive female characters in other games too. The same goes to the perfect (in my opinion at least) balance between animalistic lust and dirty perversity on one hand and genuine tenderness and affection on the other. Yes, we should see more moments like the one when you can kiss you Pig Princess whose face you have just defiled with your own cum. And then hug and tell her you want her to be your buttslut. And then put a warm blanket over the two of you.

The only week points of the game I see so far is the VN format, which basically reduces the player to a passive mouse-clicker, with very limited influence on how the story unfolds.

The artwork is very detailed and honestly adorable. I just can't get enough of it, I had to sub to their patreon to see more! If you enjoy cutesy characters with amazing physiques, and lusty personas then this game will be great for you!

I typically would never consider reviewing a game this early in development. To be clear, the few hours I spent with this game were so good that it definitely earned five stars. Still, if you had told me before playing this that I would be giving a game five stars where all the girls are anthros, where there’s only one really substantial proper sex scene so far, where it’s almost pure vanilla at this point, I would have told you I’m not a clown. Yet here I am, the game is just that good.

The art for the game is really beautiful and charming but it’s not just a few really nice CGs, there’s tons of them and that includes a lot of really vibrant detailed backgrounds. It really pulls you in and makes you want to stay there.

As I said there’s only one really substantial sex scene, though there are three others if you count blowjobs/titjobs/buttjobs as sex scenes. That sex scene though, goddamn. I can’t imagine how you could come away from it anything but totally satisfied. It’s got a nice buildup to it, and the actual scene itself is multiple CGs all from perfect angles. In most games that are vanilla the author is either obsessed with anal or dislikes it, this scene caters to people obsessed with anal, those who like both anal and vaginal, and those who dislike it without feeling at all contrived.

The actual writing itself is similarly charming, and the antagonist works to introduce the right amount of tension. The dialogue is nice and concise, the characters often multifaceted and sympathetic but not in a way that is overbearing. My only critique, and it’s really minor, is that the author does have a little bit of world building here and there and frankly it doesn’t lay the foundation for a super compelling, internally consistent fantasy world. But that’s not the focus, and rarely should be for a porn game, and the conciseness of the writing in general made this flaw have nearly no impact on my experience.

If I wasn’t broke I would be a patron for this guy because there’s only other one game on here that I’ve finished and immediately thought “Jesus fuck this game has so much potential.” like I did after finishing this one.