VN - Ren'Py - My Time with You [Book 2 Ch.25] [EoloStudios]

Super enjoyable story cant wait until next installment. Each chapter kept getting better written and overall just a nice fun story with a lot of interesting characters. By book 2 a lot of the issues i had with the early story like weirdly paced jumps and transitions were improved a ton, but the timeline is still sometimes hard to succinctly follow. I wish there were dates or more indicators on how much times passed but thats a minor qol complaint and doesnt affect how the story is overall perceived anyways. Excited to see whats next and i plan to keep supporting this game and dev for a while.

ver played: book 1
The game has some very loveable and likeable characters, with good blends of humor and cute scenes made out of cliches and tropes that make me feel like I am watching a sort of rom com anime that many games try to do but none give me as strong of a feeling and consequently succeeds as much as this! The dev definitely knows what hes doing with how he frames the scenes to add extra details and help deliver his jokes as well as how he does his end of content cliff hangers.

The biggest downside about the game though is the fact that it feels so much like a kinetic novel where in the choices dont actually do anything only giving you an illusion of choice for the most part and LI's being forced upon you as part of the plot at least in book 1 . Even despite those downsides it is very much well worth the try! If you're a big fan of tropey rom com anime then this is the game for you!

Review as of end of Book 1. Will update once I finish Book 2.

The Good

• Characters have distinctive looks, which is very important for VNs with anime visual style. I never got confused between who is who.
• Characters have distinctive personalities. You can usually tell which character said a line even without the speaker's name displayed.
• Character decisions are (mostly) consistent with their personality, previous actions and exposition. There is no personality trait pulled out of the arse for the sake of story, or inexplicable decision. As an example, the MC, being an indecisive person, does not suddenly grow testicles on his chest and become a decisive authoritarian for an event.
  • However, there is one inconsistency that annoyed me, which contributed to the non-perfect score. I'll get to that later on.
• Events and personality traits that contribute to story events are properly anticipated. The idol's anxiety is a constant theme throughout and so when she panics on stage it is no surprise to the reader.

The could be improved

• The scene chronology is confusing and not consistently signaled. There are jumps to scenes set in the high school past, to recent past and to the future. All these jumps are separated by the same transition animation. To make matters even more confusing, few of these scenes are introduced with a slide or description of when the scene happened. Nothing in the previous scene's content indicates what the next scene's setting will be.
  • Personally speaking, the dissolve transition animation used is one I associate with callbacks to the past. Therefore, it was jarring to see this animation used to transition to the next chronological event.
  • To improve this, I would:
    • Reduce time jumps as much as possible so that the scenes are presented in a chronological order as much as possible. Hime's photograph scene comes to mind.
    • Add distinct transition animation for callbacks and future scenes. Having distinct transitions will train the reader to identify which scenes are from the past and which are from the future (call forward) and which ones are in the present (i.e. the scene immediately succeeding the current one).
    • For a callback or call forward scene, the preceding scene's dialogue should clue the reader into what is coming up. But even then, the scene transition animation will cement in the reader's mind the chronology of the scene.
    • The most blunt instrument would be a transition slide that would tell the reader when the scene was set (e.g. Past/Then/Before etc.) This is quite on the nose and should be only used if the previous techniques do not work.
• The MC is indecisive and avoids confrontation, even those that could lead to potentially solving his problems. This is not a problem as a character flaw, as long a character improves on the flaw over the course of the story, however it does present the MC as incompetent. To illustrate this, I shall reference one particular girl's relationship with MC in Book 1.
  • Reader was given the choice to have MC flirt and be more intimate with Girl X.
  • After several encounters, MC and Girl X are about to take things to the next level through sex.
  • MC has a flashback in which he made a promise to an important figure in his life to protect Girl X.
  • MC panics, gets cold feet and repudiates Girl X, without truthful explanation of his actions.
    • My issues with this sequence are:
      • Having the MC reject Girl X diminishes the significance of reader's previous action. If the story is going to give control to the reader, the reader's decision should be respected and not erased due to story reasons, without the proper plot anticipation.
        • Props to the author to alleviate or explain the MC's action by the flashback to the promise MC made, but I, as the reader, still do not see how that promise is in conflict with MC having a relationship with Girl X. The story does not make the equation intimacy with Girl X = promise broken clear in my mind. There needs to be more plot anticipation such as:
          • A similar relationship shown not to work for another character, where the Girl X analogue gets hurt.
          • MC rejecting Girl X to be faithful to his first love, but this is difficult with MC flirting with every girl and vice versa, as well as MC staring at their bodies.
          • Basically, something to show the reader that intimacy with MC will directly lead to Girl X's future being destroyed.
      • The other issue I had was that MC did not immediately share his true reasons for rejecting her. Why? His epiphany is not shameful and something to be hidden. Instead he chose to let Girl X feel rejected for the wrong reasons. This uncharacteristically strong rejection is in direct contradiction with his weak attempts to reconcile with Girl X. He allows her to keep ignoring him, not showing the same strength with which he threw Girl X off. The weak attempts of the MC tells me as the reader that the MC is incompetent, reinforced by his initial decision to reject Girl X. There was not enough exploration of why MC kept putting off his reconciliation. What was he afraid of?
      • This incompetence colours my impression of MC 's relationships with other characters. I find myself asking: why do all these girls like him then? Why does Dice do everything for the MC? Dice seems to be the competent one, he should be the protagonist, not the current weak willed MC.
• There are no strong plotlines that tie the scenes together. I understand that, from the wife's perspective, getting a harem together is essential to (somehow) saving MC's future, but then the scenes themselves do not serve to advance this plotline. How do the idol scenes relate to the overall plot? There is no strong conflict to center the scenes around, which means that the scenes themselves feel loosely connected. Even Slice of Life stories have central themes connecting them, and strong conflicts that are resolved within each slice.
• Finally, the number of renders with small, insignificant movements needs to be removed. Although I appreciate the developer's effort in creating the most cinematic experience possible, having scenes with large amount of renders that the reader has to click through slows down the story and got in the way of my enjoyment. One example of this is in a sex scene where a female character repositions the MC's hand across 4 renders. 1 or 2 renders should be enough for this. Being economical with renders is as important as being economical with words (bravo on this though, developer!).

Summary
As of Book 1, good characters, excellent dialogue construction and English contribute to an enjoyable read about engaging characters. However, I feel that to reach the next level the MC needs to be more stimulating, the plots need to be more gripping and the presentation of the story more intuitive. However, the developer has put in excellent effort so far and I am sure that the VN will continue to improve in leaps and bounds. Looking forward to what the future brings!

One of the most underrated games on the forums, and quickly making its way into the top 3.

The Positives:
1. All the girls are interesting in their own way. They each have quirks and hangups that make them feel like real people.

2. The character models are all very cute.

3. The story is satisfying and wholesome. Each update brings a satisfying chunk of story that always leaves you wanting just a little more.

The Negatives:

1. I understand the reasons for the MC to be passive, but sometimes he's too passive. I wish that if you took the bolder choices when they're presented, he would be a little more forward.

2. The animations range in quality from really great to meh. None of the animations are bad, so this is a small nitpick.

Overall, this game is amazing and absolutely worth your time. You should download and play it, otherwise, you're going to miss out on what is shaping up to be a great story.

Woah, this game definitely deserves nothing less than a 5 star. Overall it's great, fun, well written and well prepared. Even much that it saddens me seeing it actually being that underrated. At this time I'm writing this (Chapter 13) it's a hidden gem.

Unique story, unique characters and really interesting plot exploring all LIs deeply. Which is one of the most positive points I can make about this game, almost all Love Interest's own plotline created as they are the main girl in mind, you can really see the effort and thinking Dev put into the game. Keeping all of them separated but together at the same time, while giving them a distiguishable character. Really something to appreciate.

At first couple episodes things are more amateur-ish and humour is pretty dry. But as the story progress you can actually see the game progress as well, It gets better in all means, so I suggest players to not to judge quickly.

I have many more things to say but also no need for it, I feel and wish this game will be very succesful in the future.

I only have 2 little negative (imo) things I could say about it.

Honestly I would play and love this game even if it was only about Hikari, so I kinda underwhelmed by the amount of content of her, even though last chapter was entirely about her, thinking that she got into the story really late than others and even though crossing some lines several times, MC's inconsistent and unsure behavior against her is a little bit irritating, it might be Dev trying to pursue "forbidden fruit" deeper but I wouldn't call it succesfully done, It was more like trying to hurt and reject Hikari several times then get angry at both her and Sayumi over the littlest thing, compared to the other girl's arcs (especially Yukimi's) I would say Hikari deserved way better than that, but that's my opinion.
Second one is not that important, but this little breaks with enthusuastic rabbit-girl between chapters are a little confusing, I see the humouristic and cute side of it, but like what's going on, as MC we really listening someone tell a story or something?

Overall this was a really enjoyable experience so far, I hope eolo gets more support in the close future and we get to see this piece of art more.

Did think this game just another salmon hentai game just for fap , but i was horribly wrong, this really a masterpiece for this kind of games i have ever played, storyline is interesting and graphic render seen detailed well and look beautiful characters, every done professionally and sexy, this worth to be release on Steam. Very good game to try, friends

Review for My time with you (Book 2 Chapter 13 ) -
Simply a wholesome romance ( Harem ) game and in this story Harem works and each female characters are well developed and have different personalities . And not single one is unlikeable and they all want the best for MC so I want them all and it is not like mindless sex with all girls in town ( I like those too ) there is slow romance developing with each character as game progresses . Main character is one of the plus points in this game , he cares about all female characters and prefers their well being more than entering a relationship with them . And the game has nice humor with MC best friend ( only likeable best friend in many games that I played at least ) . Music , sound effects and sex animations are nicely done . Avoid this game if you want all choices to make impact on the story and choices seems to change dialogues and sometimes scenes that play out and that doesn't make this kinetic novel . Play this game if you like romance or harem and for the story which is different from most games on this site . Highly recommended .

I honestly can't recall anything else on this site that was such a clusterfuck of overused anime/VN tropes without also being a parody. That alone is not enough to get a bad review but, if you're not going to be original, you need to at least go above and beyond in some way to make up for it. My Time with You... does not. Everything about it screams mediocrity. Also, it should be tagged as a Kinetic Novel, because you could probably hold down the skip button for an hour and still not encounter any meaningful decisions.

This game feels almost like a Kinetic Novel, the choices dont matter at all and have no influence on the story path at all no matter what choices you click it all leads to the same outcome in the story, heck you cant even chose the girls you like but i guess that is the problem with a time traveling game.
Kinda sad because the story is decent, the characters are loveable and the humor is fine.

First game where plot is on another level.
Only what i want is to know what will happen next and I cant wait for next updates. I hope everyone will hear about this game and play and im sure it will be the best decision they will ever maid in this life

This story is very good so far, it never misses a beat, honestly my favourite character in the game is the best friend, he is a real bro who literally helps you with everything in a no question asked kind of way like you don't even have to ask and he does it for your own good, and he's actually pretty funny and is one of the best bros in any VN, the girls are all written with actual personality's and give the game its charm, I've only played up till chapter 7 and there's been maybe more content for one girl over the others, but it makes sense since relationship building actually works like that it's not a quick talk than bang,only thing I hope is that the Dev doesn't go into book 2 and begin with another girl and show little content with the ones they've already established but seeing how they write it could work, these guys have definitely started something really good and I can't wait for book 2 and well chapter 10 so I can finish book 1

Also confirmed to me through patreon
No NTR
No Swinging/Sharing
Nothing related to NTR basically so I'm sticking with them for a while

The game had an overall fun and enjoyable vibe. The animations are nice and the colour is vibrant. The humor is decent-funny and made me chuckle a few times. But the most important factor is it's a game with a genuine bromance that doesn't end up with your POC friend going ntr all over the place. Like finding a golden egg laying goose it's that rare.

As of Chapter 9
Nice Harem game with great humor and romance with a good story and good to see a Main character with personality and his humor with his best friend Dice and well written and likeable female characters , sex scenes are animated and music and sound effects are nice addition to this game .
Overall a fun and unique story different from other games in this forum . Great job devs for this game, looking forward to future developments of this game .

So I almost don't want to "review" this yet, because for one, I actually like this one. And my criticisms aren't as big as my usual reviews. But I will do a follow-up later on. Provided this one still is being made because who knows when the heat death of the universe will ACTUALLY happen. Joking aside, usually the games I like either stagnate or die so I'm hoping this one stays on. And if somehow you're reading this before you try this, STOP. Just play this one, right now, then come back if you care. Anywho, welcome back. This story has some of the best dialogue I've read in a VN in a while. But not the best writing, to be perfectly honest.

You play as MC, an orphan kid raised by his mother's adoptive sister. AND FOR ONCE THAT IS IN THE UNCENSORED STORY AS WELL. While it's still IC adjacent, it's not. So it gets points for that, but those points get taken away immediately because MC loves his sister. So here we are again, I'll never understand the fetish but whatever. I digress. You're MC, 22 and you work security for idols(?) I'm not exactly sure because they say something like that, but you do office work. Either way, you eventually become a manager for Hana. More on that in a bit. But you and your best friend, Dice, work that job together. Even though his family owns the company, so he'll be the rich plot device moving forward I'm sure. Also, can I just say, It's an ACTUAL living male other than MC in a harem VN. I'm shocked to the core.

Moving back to that beginning of the damn game, because my brain don't do words good. You get to work and meet "the one that got away" Yukine. Dice's cousin that you grew up with after your mother died and you both love each other yadda yadda. She plays hard to get for about 2.5 milliseconds, so don't worry about that. And after you get home from seeing her again after 9 years, you meet Yumi, your supposed wife from the future. She essentially travelled through time to get you laid. Blunt and a little wrong, but true. You either died, are dying, or through strange head trauma, were stricken gay suddenly. Obviously, I'm betting on the last one. But she gathered all the girls that have ever had feelings for you for some reason, to make sure you make yourself a harem. The word is actually used in game, which is usually a red flag for me, but so far it's okay.

Love interest number 3 is Aunt Akemi, the woman who raised you. Adoptive sister to your mother, but had feelings for her and now you. That is about all there is to her at the moment, she feels guilty, but the heart wants what the heart wants type of thing. She lived with you and your sister Hikari, the typical little sister pushing boundaries, falling for big bro type thing. That right there is one of my biggest gripes that I will talk about in a minute. But you and her are fighting and she is out of the picture for the first 7 chapters, mostly.

Last two love interests, at the moment, are Hana, the idol you're managing that falls in love with you immediately because you were nice to her one time. And Hime, a girl you went to highschool with but you were an idiot that didn't reciprocate her feelings. Granted, most of this has been grossly oversimplified, but I don't want to completely ruin everything. That, and the last two aren't as fleshed out as the others yet.

Now we get to my issues. This first one isn't necessarily the fault of the Dev, it's the fault of you(us) the reader/player. It's short. Very short. Like disappointingly short, to illustrate it a little better for you. I feel it might be because of the "We need to pump something out once a month" mentality that Patreon and such force people into. But whatever, quality over quantity, please. Issue 2. The writing. I'm not the biggest fan of everything needing to be funny, that's my opinion. I will, however, say that it is excused a little bit due to using Koikatsu as the visual medium because it's so "Cartoony." So it's not a huge deal. Part 3, and I will never not complain about this ESPECIALLY if anyone is making any money off these things, the DEFAULT RENPY UI takes me out of every project no matter how good it is. Sorry, but true. And finally, my last tirade, is going to be about the incest factor. Not only will I never get it, but having read both with and without TrueStoryMode, The "workaround" is a load of bullshit. Chapters 8 and 9 are essentially all about how it's wrong to be in love with your sister, but no living, sane, red-blooded human being would have a real issue dating someone that isn't actually related to you. And the "censor" makes no sense in that regard. While I understand a lot of the serious moments relate to that, you could still have just as good a story without it. But I'll shut up about that now.

Anyway, TLDR It's good, very short, and better than most of the crap on this site. I hope the Dev keeps up the good work.

This game is fucking adorkable. Great pacing, great character development, and a plot with engaging (and gentle) cliff-hangers. Really great work. I'm eagerly looking forward to seeing what happens next.

Finished the current release (Chapter 8 True Story Patch) and I really enjoyed this game. There isn't a character I dislike, especially the heroines, they're all very precious and another potential legendary bromance in the indie eroge community. I think everyone is well written and their connections to each other feel real, they bounce off each other with banter, humor that you'd expect from adult friend groups, and many cute moments. The story definitely has me immersed and it seems like theres much more to tell. The chapters feel a little short compared to other games maybe around 25-45 minutes each but thats not to say anything is rushed. They do a proper job of telling the story and relaying events to the player. So far the H-scenes I feel are well done too, there aren't many, theres more scenes that feature nudity without sexual intercourse but I was honestly more engrossed in the story so the H-scenes felt more like a bonus, this is by no means a nukige, its a story driven eroge. My only complaint is that some events, mostly insignificant ones happen offscreen, so when you see the characters referencing them, it takes a little bit to understand and be like "oh what that happened? okay cool." An example would be early on a date is postponed but there isnt a scene for that so it just transitions to the next day where characters are talking about how theyre bummed about the date being postponed barely glossing over the reason why. It doesn't happen often but there are times that you feel lost for a minute playing because the characters will talk about something that happened earlier that day offscreen that made me rewind just to make sure I didnt miss anything but understood better after just advancing the story. And this is not talking about flashbacks/memories. Those are done well and helped me understand the relationships better. The later chapters so far haven't really had this issue so maybe its been addressed, but I completely understand if the reason for these events not being shown is due to not feeling the need to render images and write out some dialogue for a scene or feeling that the player is smart enough to piece things together as I dont think they truly take away from the experience. It's just something that I noticed that I haven't encountered before and I wanted to put that in this review. Overall My Time with You has a lot of charm and I'm really looking forward to playing the rest of this story. The game is also FREE for everyone, and I hope to support the developers as soon as I'm able; they seem super solid, transparent and truly enjoy making the game. Thank you!

Updated review for Ch. 20

God damn I love this game. This is the kind of comfort harem game I live for. Nothing is ever perfect, but My Time with You is really delivering for me.

Is this a super complex story like nothing you've ever seen before? Not really. But it's actually incredibly solid in what it sets out to do. That being, taking a quote from the overview, "sappy romantic slice-of-life crap that will have you grinning from ear-to-ear." Which it accomplishes perfectly.

The dev has managed to create an endearing cast of characters all around. Everyone has their own little quirks and charms that you can't help but love. This includes the bro characters as well. I really do love Dice and Thonk along with the rest of them.

The story has really got my interest too, and I don't even like time travel. There were some legitimate moments that really surprised me and had me theory crafting what might happen next. Case in point, chapter 20 where I have just finished playing.

There are things I can nitpick about, and improvements that could me made for sure. But I'm enjoying the game so much that they really don't bother me. If you like vanilla slice-of-life harem games, this is one of the best I've played. I'm now a confident fan of the dev, and can't wait to play more of this as well as (hopefully) future projects.

Loved it. I'll be honest, sometime story gets confusing but that's not much of a problem, transition is little jerky a while from one timeline to another but you'll get idea of what's and when after few seconds. Direction is good, humorous dialogues, Sci fi harem theme, with pretty likeable characters and a good friend. Animations are good but the focus gets too much distant during some of the sex scenes like having a camera recording from one of the corner of house also hope that transparent textbox will be introduced in near future.

This game is simply just beautiful (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤
Story is unique beautiful romantic love story 10/10,
I'm amazed how the developer manages to play around with so many love stories, and keep it romantic and make them work together.
This is one of the first game i have ever played with this art style and i was vary of playing this game first but I'm so glad i did. So if any one reading is in doubt because of different art style than some other games, play it you will love it (hopefully).
Charcters are beautiful both in writing and renders.
Renders are good and animations are with time are getting really really great.
100% recommend this game for other to play, in my opinion one of the best romantic game here. And the game has humor too which is also great.

Good luck to the dev EoloStudios for the future development of their game. Keep it up, proud of yaa. ;-)

I look forward to playing each new chapter as it's released.

The story is interesting. Details are released over time, pacing feels fluid. Lewd scenes hit decently quickly but are not overloaded.

Characters feel distinct and have a ton of personality.

Character models are attractive and have a range of different body types.

Looking forward to following the game as it progresses!