VN - RPGM - Completed - My Summer with Mom & Sis [v1.0] [NLT Media]

In the previous message, I made a mistake with the browser tab - and, accordingly, I undeservedly cursed this game. I sincerely apologize - this game, although not outstanding, is quite good. Nothing unusual about the story or the scenes - but well done.

Fun game. NLT always makes good character models. The game was fairly linear but some of the quests and the 100% completion were very difficult since there isn't any hint system to tell us where to go. Still, though really nice game since it's one of NLT's earlier games. 10/10 imo.

An early NLT game so compared to later games it feels unpolished and some models feel a little plastic. However the scenes are hot and don't get repetitive.

The gameplay elements asre serviceable enough..

Pros:
Connor is not a huge asshole. He can be a bit mean to his dad, but his dad is also an unreasonable asshole.
Replaying the game after figuring out how to 100% complete it is nice. You'll be challenging yourself to see what the most efficient path is.
The game is a little bit RNG-based but not RNG-reliant.
Everything feels meticulously planned out. The 3 different stats are basically required for you to 100% complete the game.
Decent animations and good renders. My favourite is the mom because she is like ilegally thicc.
Cynthia is absurdly funny. Her naivity just completely destroys me.
There are 3 different endings. The threesome ending is such a relief to get the first time.

Cons:
To get 100% is a trial and error type situation. You will get frustrated trying to figure out how the game works because the walkthrough is deceptively simple. This is a big con because you will probably end up underestimating the game. It is not a cake walk like most other adult games. You have to plan ahead in this game. If one strategy fails you are pretty much screwed. I suggest saving to a different file as much as possible because you do not want to restart the game. It is going to completely ruin you.
You can only save when you start the day. If you go out of the room, you won't be able to do it for that day.

played this waaaay too long ago.
looking back at the art we actually had these same models but improved used in treasure of nadia lol
like that mom, was the archeologist woman but with red hair.
and all the others honestly they feel so familiar.
but its NTL game so its a must play.

Story (3.5/5): The MC has a motivation to do different kind of things, there is like the boss that gives you orders (the MC's dad) but sometimes are noneless. The way that the mom and sis create a romance with the MC is relatively easy.

Gameplay (3/5): I liked the graphics and the scenarios, maybe a little void but the author really gave a good use to the scenarios, the bad point is that i had a bug when you have to drive the truck (you need to exit and start again the .exe)

Animations (4/5): I liked the characters and their design, the mom is really hot, the house is small but as I said, the author gave a good use, the city is basic but is understandable, is only a sec. scenario

Sex stuff (3.5/5): Is important to save the game everytime to repeat the differents scnes. I appreciated the different bodytypes and the way they have interaction, I really would like more positions or maybe the posibility to repeat them all

STORY
It's not exactly breaking the mold for the genre or medium, but it does its job. The characters are simple, but thanks to the game never being long in the tooth it never feels like the game is wasting your time with dialogue. In fact this game goes the route I tend to prefer, which is featuring shorter conversations with frequent dialogue options.
A lot of these adult games resort to things I find repulsive to get to sex scenes, and this game mostly avoided those pitfalls. No blackmail, no "sleep creep," no mind control, this game already has a leg up over a lot of the competition in my book. The main character still does some pretty shitty things with the sister character, but the somewhat "cartoony" writing of the game in general softens that a bit.
The progression through the story of the two main ladies is a bit samey though. Their personalities and the specifics of what happens is always different, but the similarity between the sex acts that occur at each hearts level are so similar that it can feel repetitive, especially if you are keeping them both around the same level.

GAMEPLAY
Mixing adventure game elements with dating sims can go really poorly, and I wouldn't say that happens here. It's not ideal design by any means, but it's fine.
There's a pretty clean split between the story and top down adventure game focus in the home and the stat grinding and shopping focused town. The home is definitely where you'll find the more interesting half of the game, and not just because it's where almost all the sex is happening. Every step of the way through the two main heroines stories there are several new conversations, so as long as your RNG luck is good you won't have to see the same dialogues too many times. The format of grinding for the next heart leading to the next puzzle and sex scene is bit artificial feeling, but at least it isn't super ambiguous.
The game is a bit grindy, but I think it would be more manageable if that grind were handled through a menu of options rather than navigating around the town. You lose some of the sense that there is a town out there if you do that, but if that town is going to be so simple anyway there really isn't good reason to make people navigate it so often. Still, at least the town only takes up one screen. I've seen plenty of RPGM games that force you to walk across a great many screens just to accomplish one small, boring, repeatable task, with multiple tasks possible per day.
The game seems pretty well balanced. I played through twice. I was going for what I would learn later was the best ending, and I only needed to be a bit more efficient the second time in order to reach that point. I'm no min-maxing
My biggest gripe is that you can get stuck in the pushblock puzzle, and if you haven't bought the teleport item you are softlocked. Devs out there, please make sure that you can't softlock yourself. If you know its possible just give the player a teleport item or a room reset button from a menu, don't force people to reset the game because you messed up in the design phase.

PRESENTATION
Games that use DAZ assets aren't my cup of tea these days, but for some reason I found it charming in this game. The character designs, lighting, and animation were unrealistic in a way that I prefer to the real doll looking ghouls of most DAZ games. The approach of overlaying animations over the RPGM map you're on makes it harder to set these scenes in the locations they are meant to occur, but I still prefer the approach seen here to the long, repetitive, unskippable scenes you find elsewhere.
Normally I think the idea of making your map sprites using the same art style used with the cutscenes and portraits a bad idea for RPGM, but it worked 50/50 here I think. Some of the sprites are pretty awkward, especially when the characters are looking left or right, but things look better when the sprites are used for more specific poses, such as when characters are sitting or lying down on the map. The tilesets meanwhile are functional. They do their job.
I can only recall one music track used in this game. That means none of it annoyed me, which is really all I ask for out of small productions in this genre.

CONCLUSION
This game doesn't overpromise, and it doesn't overstay its welcome. It's far from the most lavish production, but it does enough well that I found it enjoyable.

This game is a gem. I hadheard of this dev and enjoy their games but hadn't even heard of this one. I actually played this twice! the girls are hot, the story knows its not the best and embraces that instead of doubling down on trying to be good knowing it sucks. The girls are hot and the animations and renders are amazing considering the time this was released!

As everyone knows NLT media games are always the best. The games are always amazing. I always love to play the games they make. They are the master of RPGM. This game is no exception. The story and gameplay are amazing. Keep up the good work.

Classic gameplay.
Bit grindy but still playable.
Good animation 7.5 / 10 when i played and maybe because it is from a few years back the animation is kinda okay compared with the other newer games and render.
Good job for NLT group.
Check out their newer games too.
Godspeed.

love the black haired gothish sister you dont see that often in porn games. The mom is also really hot.
The endings are great and its not that hard to finish the game with hints.
the dad mechanic is annoying and idk why they chose the ugly bastard but whatever.

Really liked this game and honestly wish there was more. I felt there was a lack of scenes for how good the game was. Definitely worth playing even though it feels like there is a lack of content. The grind is not so bad either if you don't want to use cheats.

(Though in my opinion there is never an excuse for a game to make you repeat the same actions over... and no just because other games do it isn't a good excuse either. Its not enjoyable and extending a game like that isn't okay.) In this game it isn't really that bad though. You can also use cheats of course though as they are available.

Fantastic art, but there's quite a bit of grind to be done in the game and the story isn't that great. Besides, the two quest lines may very easily lock each other out in the end, so following a walkthrough is a must to get the best ending.

Good game which deserves 3.5/5 so 4/5 stars in my opinion.

To be fast, is a good short game but with a lack of content, lewd content and poor animations.


Why ?

• Sandbox : If you like NFSW content and you like playing game too. This game is for you. You have a energy's system which allowed you to work for earn money or train to increase your statistic.
  
  
• Relationship : Basic relationship, which work, with the women. You have 6 hearts which unlock a new event and level of relationship.For the father it's an original relationship, you have an anger's system which it increase if you don't work or do your chores and decrease if you do these or pay a rent.
  
  
• Old Style RPG / Puzzle Game : I really like game with content and not just like novel. In this one you have an Old Style RPG with a Puzzle Genre (even if it's poor for this one) which allow you to have an "open world" without an excessive amount of work, ressources or techniques for the developper.
  
  
• Multiple endings : You have two main girls characters you can finish the game with one of them or the both so 3 endings.
• Lenght duration : Between 3-4 hours for the best ending maximized save. Sometimes it's cool to have a short game which you can finish in a one night (even if this one have a some lack of content).

Why not 5/5 ?

• Design : Firstly this one doesn't count in why it's not a 5/5 stars review. So, even if I played all the NLT Media games, I still have a problem with the characters, in this game for example Synthia is really creepy... even more if she smile ! I also have a problem with the cum, for me we have an overload of cum when they climax, are licked etc... I don't really like it too. But all of these are the style of NLT.
  
  
• Animation : Basically they're good but need more more details, keyframes and the possibilty to change the point of view, speed or even replay them !
  
  
• Content : A lack of the content for the puzzle game and lewd stuff.
  
  
• Miscellaneous : When we reach and finish the last event of one of the girls, you must finish the game when you sleep, you can't continue with the other one after this (you must know the good walkthrough to have the good ending), replay events or just play. Also, I don't know why as we don't have any information of our save and of the game, how to reach the 100%, i'm stuck with a 88% save.

Thanks you if you've read my review, I hope it will help for your choice.
And sorry for my bad english, i'm french native.

Kind Regards,
SoulReaper.

PS n°1 : I added a save in the topic for who want to finish the game with the 3 endings.

PS n°2 : It's my third time I tried to put this review, so as I fed up, I wrote shortest arguments.

One of the prequel of Lust Epidemic and Treasure of Nadia..This is actually a good game.

Main character also not really half bad.Their family is messed up,father is a alcoholic and a deadbeat,the mother that do everything like a slave in the house,and the virgin sister that is an emo girl,
MC is the only guy that do everything better in this game

Pro:
-Hot sex scene
-Beautiful girls
-Good story

Con:
-Grindy
-It take many energy to do things in one day
-No pregnancy which is a shame

I also love the ending.

Short. Underwhelming because the characters are caricatures. Immersion-breaking because the sex scenes don't happen within a setting but are magnified characters randomly in the middle of the screen. I will recommend playing the 'sequel', where everything was improved on.

This game is unbelievable. Starting in the house, I can talk with Sister and Mother once and lose energy. I talk with the idiot father and lose no energy. Why? It is the father who makes his life hard...

After changing stupid sentences with the woman, there is nothing to do at all. Driving a car cost 40 Energy. WTF! If the MC is so weak that driving a car costs nearly half a day Energy, he should better stay in bed.

In Town there are several ways to make money. And getting up attributes. Really? Charisma from watching movies? Maybe I should watch some romance movies again, I must have missed something.

Overall end of the day one lame quest. Someone want to buy used panties. Very original idea. And so far the only quest I found.

Next day again boring talk with the mom and sis. Nothing to do again. Beside some jobs, training and getting panties...

I'm really bored and removed the game from my HDD. I have also only a limited amount of energy and would prefer to use it to have fun.

If you want some straight up incest here it is.

The mom is extremely hot. The sister is cute too.
At least the dude this time (Connor) doesn't look so freaky like Jeff from "Visiting Aunt Sara", damn that guy was a creepy little shit.

The game has facets that sort of intertwine with other NLT games like Visiting Aunt Sara (Synthia) and Lust Epidemic (ESU).

The music used is very good and pretty groovy.

The gameplay is a little confusing at first as you have to manage your energy level with fitness, income, intelligence, charisma to make sure you talk to each of the characters and afford to give them something to get their hearts up to 6 before the 50 day deadline. This in itself isn't that confusing but it's just open ended to the point you can easily blow through too many days without enough progress in one area.
Though many days you get a 50% bonus to work with, you have to blow a lot of money on chore upgrades so that the dickhead dad doesn't make you waste your energy on them.
I guess the hardest part is knowing the exact response they like to hear, but you get a few chances anyway to figure that out.
Sometimes the characters will be behind locked doors indefinitely for reasons that are not so clear.
The save/load mechanic is quite frustrating. You can only save after every time you sleep, and to load you have to restart the fucking game which is plain stupid.

Also, the passcodes and some of the quests get a bit much. Maybe I'm just a dumbass but I could not find the sister's phone lock code anywhere, I had to use walkthrough (which of course has no explanation where it comes from). The lockbox code also had next to zero indication it came from a clue i had gathered.
The dialogue was pretty decent most of the time, however it is absolutely littered with dumbass misspellings.

The scenes are pretty hot with sex sound effect, but there aren't very many overall.

I'd say the overall amount of effort required to get through the game makes one wanting more than what is offered in terms of reward.

Good enough for a RPGM, the puzzles are hard enough to make you try and fail a few times but not hard enough to be imposible to resolve or getting bored trying to do it. I'm not really into RPGM and not a fan of those types of sex scene when you just overlap the animation over the map but this game make me keep it until the end.

Horrible graphics game play and sound. really didn't like the game as a whole, and its high rating must either be a mistake or a sign that the end is nigh. My summer with mom and sis is horribly boring and amost unplayable