VN - Ren'Py - Completed - My Pleasure [v0.39 Elite] [Tasty Pics Studio]

[v0.13 Elite]

This one was a bit hard to rate. I couldn't decide if it's a 3 or a 4.

I'm sure everyone can tell that this game has very nice renders. There are some unique models and the quality of the renders are damn great. The animations are pretty smooth too, although the movement is a bit too small sometimes. Some reviewers touched upon it, but the dev does prefer to show many closeups rather than the whole picture. It's an artistic choice and I didn't really find it detracting from the experience, personally. The music is pretty bad, often being a short loop that doesn't really match the tone of the scene. I muted it and listened to my own music after a while.

The coding has pros and cons, but I lean towards it being good. It's pretty complex, using many triggers and flags. The choices don't always result in game changing routing decisions, but the game does a great job of keeping track of your choices and coming back to it with some altered dialogue here and there. The complaints about it being too convoluted are absolutely true though. I played it while using both walkthroughs, and still had to rack my brain a few times to try and get into the right paths to see what I wanted. Still, I would take this implementation over the super simple shit that we usually get.

Now lets look at the qualities of the game that gave me a hard time at rating the thing.

The writing... is rather bad. More specifically, the general dialogues are pretty horrible. The random banters and "clever" quips and jokes these characters tell each other are about as cringy as it can get. They also act so freaking weird. Lori, the younger main LI, is the biggest offender. We got the developmentally stunted 18 year old shtick, and it gets old very fast, especially when it's surrounded by such absurd banter when MC and Aunt Julia gets into the mix. At some point, she changes overnight from a prude to a more sexual being and like the whole thing is just unnatural and cringy.

The plot and character development is rather convoluted and scatterbrained. Going from scene to scene, with abrupt transitions, with plot arcs that develops one way then shooting off into another tangent. I mean, I appreciate that there is some underlying plot, but it could use a lot of polish. It's not the worst thing I've ever seen by any means, though.

So considering the issues laid out so far, I would have rated the game a 3*. However, there are 2 things that stand out above many other games of the same type that brought it to a 4.

The sex scenes. More specifically, the sex dialogue. It's hot. It's kinky. It's hentai talk. It's probably an acquired taste after playing many Japanese games, but the sex dialogue is really hot here. Not many western games can get me hard enough to start fapping during the scenes, but this one is doing a great job of that.

The other great thing is the incest patch. I'm not sure if it's "official" or fan made, but it uses new script files rather than just replacing a few words. I have not found a single instance where the incest patch resulted in some odd sentence structure or connotation. Granted, the game doesn't really play up the incest angle too much, where the characters are contemplating out loud that incest is wrong or whatever. Mostly, it's implied and subtle. I do wish the incest dialogue was stronger, but just avoiding the retarded dialogue that usually results from word replacement or user input incest methods is worth a mention.

All things considered, this is a nice fap game with great build up and teasing at the start, which culminates into a fuckathon later in the game. If you can get over the cringy banter and not expect the game to be some heartfelt romance where you go for a single girl while singing Kumbaya, this is certainly worth a shot.

There are a few really amazing scenes in this game, but there is some baggage from my perspective.

The characters all look great, there are 5 really attractive characters to me.

One thing that is frustrating is that the choices just feel annoying and pointless. When playing a game, I like to be able to chase the girls I want and avoid the girls I don't want. NO I DON'T want you, YES I DO want you! Make it a challenge, sure. Have a surprise or two along the way, sure, but the choices in this game seem nonsensical. At the beginning, you make arbitrary choices that open or close paths. Then as the game goes on, the game forces characters on you and gives you no choices at all. It's really odd to walk a delicate tightrope to try to seduce characters at the beginning, and then try desperately to avoid unwanted characters later on.

At any rate, the renders look amazing and there is definitely hot content, so if you haven't played yet, it's worth a shot, but for me, the game started okay, got really hot, and then became boring and annoying as I stopped caring about the plot completely and the newer sex scenes were either scenes I didn't want or boring compared to previous sex scenes.

Graphics are really the only plus. I've followed this for a bit but I'm thinking can I be bothered to play through the next update and honestly.... no I can't.

So story wise... It's garbage, nothing really going on. I should be objective sorry. Basically just not much really happening, isn't a huge amount to comment on really. There's starting to be a bit of a plot twist ooo moment but it's lost amongst the slow drawn out nonsense. Again be more specific... So the choices don't make any sense at all or hold any relevance, gotta pick the right ice cream for example, dumbest choice ever as you miss scenes, based on ice cream. This detaches you from the MC and the plot. Then there's the way the MC reacts to things and the choices he makes which should be the actual choices, again this creates a separation instead of immersion. It gets annoying and stops you focusing on the story. The story is there, but you have to force yourself to pay attention cos other stuff gets in the way. It could be good but it moves slowly.

A real problem is the sneaky NTR. Mate I got no problem with NTR really, ok that's a lie it should be deleted from existence for all eternity so it never even began. However I got no problem with NTR being a thing for other people, you like it good for you, you don't? Welcome to the club. Each to their own. However NTR is cuckolding, this game contains cuckolding, it literally has a blowjob scene in front of the man being cuckolded. The thing with people liking or not liking this is irrelevant, but understanding why is relevant. People who don't like it, don't like it because we don't want to watch someone we're into with someone else, we also don't really want the other bloke involved, don't really wanna be thinking about him at all frankly, why is he there, can someone get rid of this dude. Basically pick your audience, this is for an NTR audience as it contains it rather massively. But it pretends to be for a non NTR audience. There's even a debate about it, stupid when it's in the game. It happens. The issue is that yet again this another thing like the story that never quite gets going, the awful choices that affect things they shouldn't, the unlikeable and unrelatable MC and then NTR but sneakily, pretending it isn't NTR, it is, and this just takes you again away from the story, removes you from the romance, there just isn't any of that in this game but it pretends to have it.
NTR rant over.

Gameplay is terrible, very confusing to work out what you have to do and impossible without a walkthrough, even with one it still goes wrong and you gotta just cheat, it's the only way.

Animation is a thing, but barely, the renders while amazing in quality are often suffering from weird angles, the MC's dick is randomly different sizes during scenes, at one point a weird choad. There's a sense that the most important bits to have animated just got skipped, all of the hottest moments are non animated, those just got forgotten about and the animated bits are mostly annoying and detract from the scene.

It's frustrating because there is a lot of lost potential. Certain characters are very interesting and we do want to know more, but can we really be arsed, this poor sod can't. With more focus and less irrelevant nonsense this could be brilliant, unfortunately it's just gotten irritating. Honestly the best bits are the dream sequences, because at least the story isn't trying to do something and not quite making it. They're fun and taken lightly they work quite well. Perhaps this is the lesson needed here, remove some of the nonsense and make the whole thing a bit lighter and more fun in tone, it'd help a lot. The overall feeling I get is one of frustration and a little disappointment.

Version: v0.12 Elite

Review:
Great graphics do not make the game great to be played if there is no smooth gameplay with a good story to follow, even if the story is not good, what counts is the willing adult content. But it is logical that excellent graphics make all the difference, I do not want to take the merit out of it, but I don't mean that this game is bad, but the problem is related to the story and also to the gameplay.

History:
The story of this game seems to be a silly story, it all starts with the characters that have not very attractive dialogues. To be honest, halfway through the game I lost interest in wanting to follow. But don't get me wrong, I'm not saying the story is bad, but I thought it very silly in my opinion.

Gameplay:
Well, I didn't really like this gameplay where you have to choose a girl and you have to give priority to her story and obtain her scenes. For having to repeat the game, boring. Another problem is the status of Love and Lust, I don't know if it would affect ways to deteriorate which scene will be unlocked, because I thought it boring, since we are playing a porn game and we want to enjoy unique content, since it is not a sandbox or point-n-click game we can choose which character to interact with or in order.
Graphics & Sexual Content:
The graphics of the renderings of the models of the female characters are very good, especially the brightness, saturation and sharpness of the images, which are great. Talking about sexual content, the quality and quantity is moderate. We can say that it is good to regulate, there are not many animations in the scenes. The content is moderately satisfactory.

Why I did gave 2 stars?
Sincerely, it could be an excellent game. I don't mean that it's a bad game, but I mean that the gameplay and story is bad. But let's start talking about the gameplay, if it is to make the player repeat the game to select other choices, it would be easier to change the mechanics to point-n-click, I know that these game styles are not favorites, but similar gameplay (for example) from Milfy City, it would look good (maybe). And the story is silly. I honestly did not have the least interest or attraction for the characters, the game has no perverse ideas, of fantasies that make me interested more. The game has some interesting and even good moments, but I can't say why I didn't like it. Anyway, if there was a more impactful story, a gameplay with better enjoyment of fun, it would be perfect. The graphics of this game are excellent, but what was missing was pervertivity, fantasy, fetish, something that you could enjoy better. A gameplay that would make you free to interact better with the characters in the game.

Great story, great renders, great animations, and finally great content at every update. One of the hottest games on this website. Recommend everyone give this a try and keep their eye on it as updates come in.

good in everything it does. multiple paths. awesome girls/milfs. sweet animations. nice bonus stuff. everything you want from a porn game. regular nice length updates. its worth the 5

This game was a potential 4-5 star game for me initially, and probably still would be if it wasn't for the fact that I have little interest in dicking anything on two legs but raghter my main interest in the female cast is Lori, and shes seems more like a side character then a main girl when compared to all the milfs in terms of content and screen time.
Also sometimes you seem to be developing a proper romantic relationship with her and at other times it feels like pure lust, take the later updates for example after each sexual encounter you go your seperate way with a good bye/good night.
After she drops the L bomb on the MC you are forced into sexual scenes with other wimen, destroying any wholesome solo route potential imo.

And thats a thing that really rubs me the wrong way about this game is that there's tons of forced content and for a game relying on choices that awards points to determine the scenes you get to view and with whom, this seems really stupid to me.
Alot of this sould be choice/route based events, Like the question game with lori and barbara, the sauna with whatsherface (loris mother) and Natasha in your hometown to mention afew.
They should all be optional and personally I think the same goes for the dream sequences.

The positives would be that the story and dialogue is pretty engaging at times and the graphics are VERY good.

I tried the game mainly because of graphics and the romance tag (I'm a sucker for a decent romance/love story) but there's not really any romance and the MC is obviously more concerned about getting his dick wet then anything and it just left me dissapointed.
Would be easily eliminated without the forced scenes atleast while only persuing one of the females.
My final rating will be at 2/5 stars atm and with the few but huge problems I have with the game gone I would probably land at 4/5.

First of all the characters and renders are top notch no question about that. And i should say the first few updates were top notch too, but the decline since then is disappointing, story becoming fucked up mess, need a proper overhaul of the characters especially female. I get it it's a porn game but need sex to revolve around story not otherwise.

PRO
the graphics and the girls in this game are just stuning , there is no doubt about this 5*
bad
the character development and story was not to bad at the beginning but now it seems worse with every passing update

DAPHNE IS THE BEST GIRL IN THIS GAME. PERIOD.
I didn't wanna try this game at first honestly for no particular reason and I thought why the fuck not but believe me this game is really fucking good
okay so I'll keep it short the renders are fucking awesome and so is the story and it's really rare to find that these days in a game.
Also I'm really into femdom and if you are into it too you'll know why daphne is so good XD
Overall - 9.5/10

Great game. It has good renders, hot chicks, hot scenes. I also liked the story, there is some clichês but, IMO, it was well developed. The issues i've got playing was the amount of choices. It was hard to follow a proper path even with the help of a walktrough. Also, because of this system of choosing on girl over the other, there was a lot of content i didn't played because i needed to load the save almost from the begining.

Thats why i don't like too many choices in adult games.. you will inevitably play less content and the amount of content in a porn game matters.

Renders are superb. ( 5 out of 5)
Story is a criminal intend story. Which I knew from the get go. (5 out of 5)

Gameplay
This is a VN in the tradition of the good old school Japanese VNs (It's a compliment). Not in tone or graphic but with choices that matters.

Back in the 90s my first VN was Ru_aw__ Ci__. Yes I'm getting old. Played the hole afternoon finished it and thought that's a lot of content.
Looked up the walkthrough and realized I haven't seen 30% of it. Good old days.

Here it is the same your power of the story through choices is remarkable.
Examples.
You don't like the stalker girl for what she did. You can make her leave the car in the middle of a desert.

For the BDSM folks.
Did you see the endless discussion in the forum how the BDSM scene aren't avoidable? No?
Because there are avoidable. You choose. The Femdom/malesub folk can choose to be submissive with their MCs. For the Maledom/femsub guys and gals they can do the opposite as well.
And the people who dislike it can choose to ignore the characters, and therefore it is avoidable. That's I think we all want choices which empower us as players.

As someone who has that kink I have to say. After a lot of disappointments on other games.
These scenes are real BDSM. Nobody forces you. Everything is in consent. You don't be a rapist or victim. Just good BDSM play/session.
I for myself always wanted this.

The MC grows with the story. He is relatable enough. I was able to immerse myself.

Problems. The Point system is a little bit to convoluted. So without a walkthrough you can miss content you wanted to see.
And the last update with the Natasha shenanigans we somehow didn't get a choice. Which is strange and out of character at this time of the story.
Because it would be the perfect time for our MC to contemplate. This is solvable.
And in my opinion the Dev should consider adjusting the scene or make that character avoidable. (I don't pressure him. I don't demand or expect him to do so. It is just a suggestion.)

If this is v0.10 it would be solid 5 out of 5
With the Last update I give it a very good 4.4 out of 5.

More and more so-called "games" on this forum are nothing more the comics. Here you have an interactive VN and that's what I want. Therefore, this game is a gem around here and will be watched.

I will update this rating and review during this ongoing project.

Edit: Down to 3 stars because the game becomes linear and the story has shifted. it is now 2 Games in one for me.

This is getting worse with each update. The beggining was very promising-developing realtions between characters, a lot of teasing, many meaningful choices. After 3 or 4 updates center of the story was moved from the relations between MC and girls to some boring pseudo criminal intrigue. Dialogues became pointless and the story events makes no sense.

Renders are top notch but animations could be smoother. It's a shame beacause the girls are very hot and these are fresh faces not those we see in other VNs - especially Barbara

I'm really really sorry but the dev should go back to the initial concept and focus on characters.

One of my top 5 games here. I can't wait every time for the next update.
Regularly updated, with decent content every time.
GUI is user-friendly, contains a gallery, so you don't have to download a bunch of patches to improve a game. Nice story, well-done characters. Amazing graphic.. just great job!

Thoroughly enjoyed this game! The story is very enjoyable and not far flung, the rendering is excellent, and has a bit of everything going on kink-wise that to me enhances the characters. Addition of the background music in certain scenes is also quite nice. I have gravitated towards Lori in my playthroughs (lots of different branches) but have felt invested a bit in all of the characters in one way or another - which to me is signs of solid writing and setting. Keep up the great work TPS!

I honestly cannot believe how underrated this game is. The renders are simple awesome, the girls are absolutely beautiful with their own personalities and kinks, and the story, while not oscar-worthy, is enough to keep you going but most importantly to give organic growth to the relationship between characters

On of the most visually stunning games there is and easily contender for top 10 game

This game has aaa potential in my opinion. It has great renders, a super hot chicks,and a story to match it all. Moreover it has choices that matter, a few paths, and it is not that easy to achieve all scenes ones could wish for.
On the other hand, a big minus, in my book are sex scenes. There is enough of it, yet it feels kinda too short, and moreover it is clearly aimed to those having anus/vagina/dick macro/close-up focus fetish (it all kinda resembles antic 70-80th porn movies where 90% of the sex-scenes would be only ultra-close-ups of vaginas, anuses, dicks and penetration/s). And to tell the truth those renders are of low quality, due to daz-models limitations, it all looks kinda ridiculous, and resembles close-shots of old plastic sex-dolls of lowest quality. Perhaps the dev/s could look through a few games around, and find that even some average, or bellow-average games, do have better visualized/managed sex-scenes than this otherwise great game.
As sex-scenes are the major part of a porn game, it kinda ruins a whole experience imo, so it cant have more than three stars by any means.

This game is a gem, easy to play and watch. Update after update comes without any delay, as I could see. Renders are great, figures are realistic and hot (specially Julia). There's an effort on making the story believable with a good pace. There's one thing I can put against (but this is a personal preference, totally subjective);for me it's the POVs abuse on lewd scene, I prefer more a 3rd side view.

Updating..

Changing 4 stars to 3.. How can I put this in context.. Well, renders are great, top-quality, and all the girls are gorgeous; that hasn't changed... The problem I wrote above subsists; on many lewd scenes, you only watch a pair of tits bouncing and the waist and a pussy being penetrated for the entire scene's length, I mean, the pose isn't that right and it's anti-climaxing (at least for me). Yeah, wanna see more Julia's face expressions on every thrust..

This game is really really good. Starting with quality of renders those are ultra good, way above average. Animations keep with them on quality and this duo combined with background music make this game very pleasant to play. The other good thing is story. In this game story is not from mainstream current which is good, narration is good as well, character development is right next to them on the level of quality. Also no typos, no crashes etc... So far in v0.9.5 the story playtime is minimum 6+ hours, so lots of content so far. Overall this game is very good, nicely done and I'd recommend it everybody who likes good story narration and nicely done scenes. For me this game is very high on the list wouldn't be afraid to say in top 3. Good job. 9.5/10. [v0.9.5].

There are a few unavoidable sex scenes, which isn't really my favorite thing, but God damn, the renders in this game are so good. And the girls all look fantastic. Wish we'd see more of Cassandra, though.