Ren'Py - My Real Desire [Ch.3 Ep.4 P2] [Lyk4n]

First a small warning the writting is just bad, theres sooooo many spelling issues, worng words, missing words, misplaced words....you get the idea, it gets quite annoying since it ruins your reading having to stop and check wtf the lines just said or tried to say.

Story 2/5
After that idiotic start it does get better, you can controle who you fuck or have a relationship with, which is the type of games i like to play, start did almost make me quit this one before ever getting to that point though.

Also Mila pissed me of, i had 0 interrest in her what so ever and for idiotic reasons you arent allowed to turn her down and thats really what annoys me since you have had a choice with every girl but then dev desides to force Mila on you, saying some shit about MC cant reject her? it just makes 0 sense since he can come up with any excuse to not fuck her on the beach, its just bad writting and makes for a poor story and also ruins any chance of staying faithfull to who ever you do like, you can skip the scene with her but that does nothing for me since it still happens which just ruined that game alot for me, i will never understand why Dev dident just make it an option to just say no when he clearly knows some players wont like her and wouldent want to be with her, its a sure way to fuck up the game.

After the Mila shit i just lost all interrest in the game really and just couldent see any reason to keep playing, i mean you lose the harem feeling since shes not a choice, you lose faithfull options and i just lost all respect for the game that was choice driven up to that point, so you pretty much lose every sense of freedom to play how you like to play.

The Mika girl dident really many any sense to me, you cant go after her as a LI even though shes around alot, its like her only reason is to be there to keep the other dude in the house bussy, would have been easiere just making him gay really.

I dident like MC much, the emotionless robot he is was ok to start with but it constantly leaves you wanting for more emotions like rage and getting mad, i mean MC gets raped hes like "Meh nothing worng" MC meets hes real family and hes "Meh not sure what to feel" it just makes for an extreemly boring MC and it makes any immersion in the story impossible.

Also story dosent really line up with choices all the time, take Wendy i told her that her hobby was a bad thing and that MC dident approve of it, yet she ask MC later if he can take nude photos of her to add new content for her followers...it feels a bit idiotic since it also means she dident pay any attention to what MC told her last time they talked about it, dev seems to lose track of details and choices made which is never a good thing.

Girls 2/5
Some are pretty cute, but the diversity in builds arent good, its has a heavy focus on big tit fetish which is just not my thing so its very limited in LIs that i would care about and it seems like most content is with the bimbos, i liked Wendy and Sally and Eira, but theres really not much content with them.

Animations 3/5
Pretty standard animations for this type of characters, like when a girl finger her self it looks like fingers are going trough skin instend of into her pussy, but like i said its average for this style they are still good enough for you to enjoy.

Music 4/5
It has some pretty good music in this one, not just stand tones but singing as well which is a really nice change to all the monotone tunes in so many games.

Choices 2/5
To me the most importen part is to be able to select and build your own harem and being able to turn down anyone you dont personaly like and for the most parts you can but it still fails to deliver on that when it forces multiple girls on you with no choice.

I used to enjoy this game a lot. But ever since the main story decided to go for the more serious route, it went downhill for me. To me it feels like the dev is trying way too hard to put out a serious story, while trying to show its still a porn game. But in games like these the characters and development for the girls are the most important and the dev kinda stopped halfway (for some girls barely at the start) and suddenly started a typical harem girlsinfighting, even tho the characters should get waaaaay more time to get attached more to the mc.
Half of the cast had so little development that it doesnt make sense to me that they are suddenly so clinqy to him.. even if they are suddenly in danger of his enemies...

The girl i liked the most was Krystal. it was interesting to see how the girl who fell deeply, slowly got used to society again.. i wanted to see more of it...

I tried really hard to like this game because it had a really nice cast of characters and i enjoyed it early really much... but the updates werent as interesting anymore. Frankly, the rushing of the main story destroyed any good relationship building for the rest of the game.
This is my first 3* review and it saddens me...

The game started good, but the later part I felt it underwhelming. I've played more than one game with the exact same plot. The portion of the game in which you are supposed to collect the pictures also feel a bit random. Interactions with the girls are repetitive and the sex scenes are too short (besides, having to click next and having the option to change positions but being forced to end in one specifically are two things I find innecesary). But, I like the character design of most except the main one.

Game is good, not exceptionnal, but it's ok. The start of the story is similar to another one that I won't mention but, if you know, you know (especially after meeting Aine & Freya. I was like, wtf are they doing here!) but I loved MBML and its prequel so not really a problem for me, and I really like this honey select style.

Story is interesting albeit not that original, but that's why I started playing after reading the summary, and not disapointed so far.

LIs - Well, there's not really any "relationship building", only at the start when you meet the girls, but then not so much and the girls just come to have sex with you, it doesn't feel real to me, + I really have a problem with Wendy (Yui sometimes too), because of their head. I mean, just imagine them without hair, and you'll realize the shape of their head makes no sense it's like, way too long. (like a rugby ball, no joke, it feels really weird to me)

Dialogues are a bit cringy sometimes, and a lot, like a lot, of typos and other gramatical errors. I know this is just a H-game but, a little bit of proofreading would do wonders to this game + there's nothing new in those dialogues, like ever, it's almost always the same thing (especially in free roam mode, don't bother talking to people, just the ones you need to advance for the story, the rest is useless).

About the sandbox, I was really skeptical at first, as I hate the sandbox, but it's just a few parts of the game, you'll have 2/3mins of free roam looking for photos and talking to people and that's it, no grinding or anything, which is really good, because imo, sandbox/grinding, in most cases, just completely waste the game.


Feels a bit like wasted potential to me. Tbh, if you don't have that many time, don't waste it here, there are many others really better AVN

My Real Desire completely fails every goal of making a porn game and an AVN. The MC is basically an emotionless robot. Imagine Data from Star Trek TNG, with even less emotion. The MC doesn't care what any of the LIs are doing, whether they live or die, whether they see him or don't. Each LI, goes out of their way, inexplicably, to please the MC at every turn, and his response is basically "OK. Goodbye". There is some plot point about how his lonely childhood made him like that, but he never improves one iota, after years of game development.

Second, none of the LIs have any memorable personality to distinguish them from each other, except paper thin tropes seen in every bad slice of life porn game or bad anime. All the tropes are here, Jock Girl, Shy Girl, Motherly Type, Slut. But that is it about their characters. You already know from the first sentence of talking with them, everything you will ever know.

Is there a story? Something about the MCs orphan-like upbringing, and his long lost family trying to find him, a few characters from his past showing up, and industrial espionage, but it is all so half-done and bland, as a player it's impossible to care.

The sex scenes are all totally unexciting. There is so little passion between the MC and any of the LIs, as a player you are surpried to see any sex scenes at all. Maybe the LI's feel sorry for the MC, but the scenes are ice-cold as far as any passion or flirty fun interaction goes.

And the dialog. Oh my god the dialog. This is the second worst game I have every played, out of many hundreds here, for terrible empty dialog. Every scene is some variation of, "Hello", "How are you", "I am fine", "Did you have a good night", "Yes, I did", "Do you want to go to lunch.", "I haven't eaten yet. Ok". Bla, bla, bla. If you've read this paragraph, basically that is the entire game.

Finally, none of the choices make any difference at all in anything that happens, as a player there is no agency. It is just a boring MC, boring cookie cutter LIs, boring story, and just more of it.

The only slight positive, is that there is an overall mystery about the MCs past, with slow and steady reveals about his upbringing and the people involved, that there is a spark of interest as a player, just to find out what happened.

There is a hint of a decent AVN buried here that could be interesting and entertaining to play, if the dialog was not so god-awful terrible, boring, and repetitive, if the MC grew in some way as a character and cared about any of the LIs, and if each of the LIs had some distinguishing characteristics to make them in any way memorable or interesting.

Lastly, the quality has taken a nose-dive in chapter 3. The dialog is getting even more bland, the story, such that it is, seems to have been forgotten, and every day is just a bland go out with some LI and have a boring sex scene. You might as well play the actual Honey Select, than this game. It was never actually good, but it seems to have moved into actively bad territory. Maybe the main dev quit and left it up to someone else to write, and they don't have any idea where to take the story, so they just repeat pointless uninteresting scenes day after day.

I think this game was slightly below average from the first few chapters, but with Chapter 3 it seems all the issues with bland dialog and repetitive interactions with the LIs have gotten worse, and the story, such as it is, has been forgotten.

I give it 2 stars just because there are no obvious bugs making it unplayable, the images are pretty much standard-fare for Honey Select games. Not great, but not terrible. And there is some hint of an interesting story buried here.

Update:

The story has picked up a bit since the prior update, so that is an improvement. However, the story is still predictable and not very interesting. The latest update finally shows the MC starting to care about the other characters, just a tiny, tiny, bit, with the "story" coming to its apparent conclusion, at least regarding the main arc with the MC. Hard to believe it's possible, but the dialog is even more monotonous, predictable, and boring. I would think the dev is using AI, but I think AI would actually be more interesting and less predictable than what is here.

Summary:

Graphics: Passable, but no different than any HS game without mods.

Story: There is one, but it's predictable and not very interesting. I will admit that it is at least fairly original, for AVNs that is, and I get the sense that there are a few surprises in store. Worth an extra half star, so 2.5.

Characters: Terrible. All cliches no distinct personality whatsoever.

Dialog: The worst. 0/100.

Sex Scenes: Lifeless. No passion. If anything, they've gotten worse. The LIs are like a dead fish, so is the MC. So cold and dry, why bother. Imagine robots having sex based on what they saw in a movie. That is what we have here.

I have to say it is just on the edge of playability. Not bad enough for me to give up seeing where the story goes, just because of how much time it took to get here, but every line of dialog has my finger itching to press the skip button, which I never like to do with AVNs. The sex scenes, such as they are, now get the full skip treatment.

I really enjoyed this title. It does have one glaring problem that is especially seen in the sex scenes dialogue, there is no individuality from girl to girl. This could be a really good title if the author were to spend more time attempting to get the girls to have very distinct personalities in bed and out.

This game is... Cute. That's pretty much the best word to use for it.
It feels like something a teenager would write. Both in subject matter and structure.

The premise is alright. It's a slice of life VN about characters working in a company and living in a shared house with a bit of crime mystery sprinkled on top, mostly related to the MC's background and goals. It's nothing special but it's a good premise for a harem game like this.

The MC is extremely cold almost to the level of psychotic, which while rather unique in the VN space makes all his dialogue very stilted and boring to read. Sometimes it can be fun but often it just makes it rather impossible to believe anyone would actually enjoy speaking with this guy, not to mention fall head over heels for him. Speaking of which..

The love interests range between meh and fine. None are especially unique and there's probably a bit too many of them but there's a problem thats consistant to all of them, which is that they all act and speak like actual teenagers. None of them feel especially adult which is a bit distracting for this kind of premise.

The general writing is one of the games main weaknesses. It's clear English is not the writer's native language but it goes much further then that.
The structure is extremely repetitive with scene transitions usually begin with a character saying "let's go to X" followed by the character exclaiming "we have arrived" afterwards. It feels very robotic.
I lost count of how many times a female character will save her self from an interaction by claiming you're her boyfriend, it's almost a meme at this point.
The writer often decides to skip describing things that happen in the scene with detail and instead result to something like *giggles* or *moan*. This makes conversations feel like two people roleplaying in a text chat which is awkward to read.
Pretty much all of the conflicts are black and white with 0 shades of gray and they're all resolved in a way a children's cartoon would resolve conflicts - the clear bad guy getting their absolute comeuppance while the good guys cheer. It's very childish

For me personally however the biggest problem lies with the sex scenes. The repeated use of the exact same stock Illusion animations barely scratches the surface of the problem.
The game appears almost ashamed of it's own pornographic premise. characters will never talk about sex, no hint and no innuendos, then suddenly the story gets horny and summons a scene out of nowhere. The story then gets a post nut clarity and out of embarrassment, will quickly wrap up with a character exclaiming "well seems like we're done... bye". It's a waste to relegate sex to these "designated sex scenes" instead of intigrating it as a part of the story.
The setup to the scenes often repeats it self with very little variety or creativity. From the top of my head I can think of 3 or 4 times the MC is woken up with it's rod stuffed in a characters throat, followed by the exact same interaction of explaining what a "morning wood" is.
Worst of all the scenes are just not sexy. There's no sound effects and they don't look better then the basic engine they're made in, so all that's left is the writing and like I said - it feels like two people role playing in a text chat. The game never describes the scene in a sexy way (or at all really) nor do the characters have any steamy input so the game relies entirely on the okay visuals to satisfy. That's just not what you're here for when you're reading a novel.

On a personal note I feel like Yui's conflict with her parents is utterly ridiculous. After meeting with her parents and seeing how absolutely lovely and kind they are to her it's entirely unbelievable how she reached her conclusions regarding them and makes her look like a massive brat, which relates to my earlier point about how they all feel like a bunch of teenagers.

Overall while I appear extremely negative I found the game to be.. sort of charming in a way? It's a bit better then the sum of it's parts and the mystery it builds around the MC's background is interesting enough to at least make me want to see where it's headed.

Sorry for my English, it's not my native language either.

I find most of the girls good looking but I can't gve more than 3 stars because the story takes itself too seriously. The tone of the story could be a bit lighter, and the plot shorter with less attempts to put all girls in it or around it, and I think it would be a better game.

If the girls are good looking, I think the sex scenes themselves are quite simple and unappealing. I'd love to have sex scenes with more boldness or variety.

Review as of Ch.3 Ep.3 P2

Man, this games has taken such a nose dive in quality recently it's sad. I started playing it really early, though I can't remember which ver. (Episode 1) exactly, but I do remember being hyped for each updates.

The game has a pretty good start - we have a semi-evil MC that is obviously trying to keep a facade up, and it was interesting to see him slowly open up to people, or just pretend to. I enjoyed the akward moments with Krystal and Yui, just trying to get a conversation going was surprising enough for the MC. And having the MC reflect on how he acted and what he should and shouldn't do or say was an interesting dynamic.
But now that we're past that phase, and especially since everyone you see eventually becomes a LI, the MC just isn't interesting. To me it feels like the MC is just comfy enough with everyone now, so we rarely get casual scenes with everyone. That's part of what made the game great, and now it just feels like when a LI pops up it's just an excuse to have a sex scene with them. The MC isn't much of a character, despite the dev trying to make them one, and now he just feels like your regular porn-VN MC that happens to be important and powerful for plot reasons.

Hell, most of the time the plot now goes like this: MC wakes up, takes a shower and has breakfast (text on a black screen), goes to work, get a call from someone, some plot happens, goes back home, takes a shower, gets another call, some plot happens or a LI pops up. It's always the same structure, and there's just nothing happening.

The game also has terrible grammar and English in general now. It wasn't a problem at first, but it's honestly distracting in Episode 3, there's just no proof reading/check up, it's just text jolted down and there's just a lot of mistakes. (The scene in the night club with Zeke where two characters are called Jay, seriously ?)

The renders are beautiful, and it's what made me interested in the game at first, but now it's the only thing holding the game together.

Ch3 Ep3 Part 1

Really great game with a good story. I think one of the high points of this game is the story and the characterization of the MC. I really like games where the MC develops his character as the game progresses.

First we have an MC who was raised as a tool but gradually comes out of this shell and develops his attitude and character greatly, this character arc is what I like in this game. He is like an anime character but likable and not cringy.

Secondly the LI's, all of the girls are cute and beautiful. Everyone are unique and are have beautiful scenes.

Really a great game, recommended for those who like Harem and a good intriguing story.

Story is pretty mediocre and bland and characters aren't good either. Graphics are good I guess but the grammar is terrible, like in the first 20~30 minutes I caught so many mistakes it was actually getting distracting and I don't usually even focus on that.

Yui is one of the worst characters I've seen in a long time. She literally rapes MC in his sleep while both are drunk and it's not up to the player to decide if that'll happen or not. Besides that, her entire personality is being insufferable.

I wish I could rate this higher. I don't think that this game is bad but I also don't think it's good either. If I could rate in half stars I'd go with a 2.5 rating.


I like the premise of the story because of how much potential it has and just how much more potential you start to see as the story unfolds a bit... But then it kinda just falls on its face, in my opinion. Things start to seem rushed and you'll primarily begin to notice it when it comes to character arcs and interactions. They just won't have that much going on as they once kind of did. They're kind of the bare minimum and like feel like filler to make the update feel just a little longer than it actually is.


The renders themselves are ok. Despite the game being 3 and a half years old you'd kind of expect to see some improvement in their quality but it doesn't really look like there has been. Or at least if there was I just don't notice it.


What really lead me to leave a review was the proofreading and grammar. I'm sure there was quite a bit done and that what we see now isn't comparable to what it was before, but it still needs some work. There's obvious errors that people have pointed out and especially obvious errors if you're paying attention to what you're doing. The two largest examples of this would be the photoshoot with Wendy and MC calls her Faye a couple times, or this latest update where MC and Angela talk about doing push-ups but then proceed to do sit-ups.

Maybe they're just waiting until the game is completed before doing a final pass over things, or to hire someone else to do it. But right now? It definitely could use some work. I was seriously looking into making a mod to fix all the errors myself (Maybe I will make it, we'll see) with how annoyed I became over it. You'd think that after 3 and a half YEARS that it'd be better or improved, but no. It's about the same as it always was.


All in all, this kind of just feels like the rough draft of what this game could be in the future. If it got a rework/rewrite like a number of these games have gotten.

I enjoy the game, it has a ton of content and I like the girls, and the MC Did grow on me a bit, but I think it's just a little off, especially the later chapters with some grammatical errors. I think this game could still be a five-star game but I think there needs to be more information given about the MC's background BEFORE the game gets rolling. Him acting like he's on the spectrum from the start of the game without the necessary information in his backstory can push people away.

I do like the idea behind everything, but I definitely don't think the story fits a harem-type game either, the author tries to broach serious topics and have the MC be a McBadass and there are dark elements, but like, it just doesn't all click. Still, a 4-star review because of the amount of content, and it is enjoyable!

Ch.3 Ep.2 Full

Until this chapter, I think the story is quite interesting, if I gave a rating it would probably be around 4.4 out of 5.
Here are some of my thoughts about this game:

1. The game is very simple, especially the choices. But that's okay, because I liked the story and the characters.
2. The rendering is quite good, 4.6 out of 5. A little suggestion, maybe when talking, the character's mouth can be opened more often, so it looks like they are really talking, because I noticed that there are several parts when talking, the character just smiles.
3. There is a part that I think feels strange, when there is a menu of choices, the main character always asks what he should do.
4. As for the characters, there are several parts that bother me:
   • At an event on the beach, whether because I was wearing the compressed version or because of the original game, I looked at Wendy's bikini bottom, sometimes that part looked like Wendy had "balls", especially when Wendy was dancing with 3 other men because of punishment after losing in a volleyball game.
   • In the part when Krystal comes to the company to discuss the work contract, after Krystal wears Xecon Gear and dives into the game, when in the game Krystal looks like she has "balls" when wearing outfit inside the game.
5. I feel that Nina, the Cashier Girl, is more beautiful and attractive than Wendy.
6. I'm curious, why when there will be a sex scene with Mila, there is always a warning about whether to skip the scene or not.
7. When the main character calls Maya as Mom for the first time (after they meet Rowan), rather than Maya's response of just smiling while saying goodbye to main character, perhaps a better response would be that Maya feels moved and happy, and spontaneously hugs the main character. Because Maya's son, who had been looking for a long time, was finally found and finally the main character wanted to call Maya as Mom.
8. After the main character told his past and mission to all the Heroines and Zeke, I wondered where Krystal was sitting.
9. There are several words with typos in chapter 3, and there are also several other writing errors during the event when Zeke introduced the main character to Zeke's friends at a nightclub:
   • Zeke says that the orange haired guy's name is Jay but it's actually Seth.
   • when the main character fighting with Seth and charged forward to avoid a kick from Seth, Zeke thought like this: "Zeke's body is completely open now", but maybe what Zeke meant was Seth's body because the one who was fighting with the main character was Seth.

So far my favorite girl characters are Rin, Krystal, Skylar and Angela.

Sorry for my bad English, and thanks for the game.

Great sexy scenes.
Great renders
good animation

Minimal gameplay (it is a VN)
Poor story (shallow characters, inconsistencies, overdramatic)
Autistic MC (even if it has some justification in-story)

The negatives are hurting badly on a VN where writing is as much if not more important than the renders.

TLDR: A few good porn scenes but drowned in a bad story, you won't care for characters or their relations and just ctrl speed from scene to scene...

Generally I enjoy the game. But it's got a bunch of problems in terms of storytelling. I'm not very critical about porn stories but with how much this one focuses on story I have to criticise it. That isn't to say there isn't enough porn in it. There definitely is plenty. And the sex scenes are good looking. That is in fact by far the best aspect of the game. But there is a lot of story in between each of the sex scenes. And if you try to pay attention to the story to have context for the sex you'll quickly notice the characters are very shallow and the main character is quite a Gary Stu, even more so than most porn MCs. The story is exaggeratedly dramatic and the English not being very good makes that sound very ridiculous often. So if you care about storytelling I can't recommend it. If you only want good porn then I can almost recommend it. Just keep in mind there is a lot of stuff between the sex scenes.

The game is pretty midcore and branches are very poorly implemented. The renders and characters are somewhat nice. Plot is overly dramatic and unrealistic, it is becoming more cringe with each update. It all about white knighting and showing off Infront of girls and girls pretty much like main character for no reason. Not to mention developer uses controversial and traumatic shits like rape/blackmail/kidnapping like a joke. There are no emotional bonding between the characters. Just follow main story, they appear to have sex with Mc and protect them from whatever bullshit(and you even get choices for that? Like yeah, let a girl you know get raped by some douchebag) Choices and relationship between characters doesn't matter at all. Honestly, the game is going downhill from chapter 3 but chapter 1 is probably the best chapter of this game. Nonetheless, it could work better as a kinetic novel. While there are pretty cool scenes but they hardly matter when characters are pretty much sideline.

Just fiished playing up to Ch3, ep1.

Most of what i was going to say has already been covered here, so i dont feel any need to rehash it. English is obviously not the native toungue of the developer, and its annoying. I can look past it though, and trust me there are far worse out there.

Story: 3/5 Aside from a few tense phone calls with Victor and later in the game the plot twist that shakes your core, the whole "evil criminal organization" story line is lost under slice of life daily grind.

Models: 3/5 only because they are HS and i feel there are much better technologies out there to texture with its 2023 not 2015. The women are beautiful, and I like them all but ... yeah.

Characters: 3/5 I feel like the story doesnt allow for any real timesharing with love interests. Most of the interactions are the house girls coming to your room or you meeting up with them for lunch/dinner and a possible sex scene. Most of the girls have confessed that they are in love with the MC and the harem branch has started with all the girls vowing to fight for him and make him theirs. And then.... nothing. They literally leave him alone for weeks at a time while "plot" happens, and he bumps into them and its like "hey i havent seen you or talked to you in a long time even though you are in love with me, how have you been", and then they find a spot to have sex and then hes (ok that was fun i need to go now im going to be late for "insert time of day activity here). The MC himself has VERY little emotional growth through the entire game, he is still as emotionless at the end as he is in the beginning. The only time he even got angry was in 3.1 and if you played it you know why. Which is completely out of character because he has no other feelings at all, even though it hints at them through the game, Especially the beginning while hes spending time with his primary LI's.

Overall I give it 3/5 i think if you already got through what's there then its worth playing the updates to stay caught up. Otherwise, its very very long and you might be disappointed after you get through it. On the bright side, the story is picking up rapidly now and so it may be different later.

I have been playing this game since it was first launched via the prelude, and I have to say it is really a good game with a in-depth and rich story. The characters and animations are very good as well, Thank you for making a game that is soon to be great and fantastic keep up the great work.. <3

(Version Reviewed: Ch. 3 Ep 1 Full)

I'm not sure how I should rate this game.

On one hand, I think the characters are very shallow and if any characters are being explored, it's usually very cliché. It also annoys me that MC is the knight in shining armor for all of the girls and that's the reason why they love him. The MC's personality is as interesting as a cardboard box, so I don't know why all the harem girls love him. He does have a large dick tho. That must help.

On the positive side, I think the story is engaging despite it's failures in making interesting characters. MC is sent by his boss to infiltrate a company and reveal some secret. Fun premise. A little bit of intrigue and twists and turns to keep our attention on the main plot. It's certainly entertaining enough to make me play it whenever the game releases.

Music isn't bad. The renders aren't great, but the girls have attractive faces. The animations are average-ish.

Overall 6.5/10. Not a bad game, but it isn't a great one either.