Ren'Py - Mystic Valley [v0.29.5] [Mucski]

This is pretty much bad in almost every possible way, theres no real story or main plot which makes it an extremly boring read, the charecters has 0 debt and theres close to no relationship build-up, so it becomes a mindless fuckfest, so no story, no plot, no getting to know the LIs, so its just nothing.

Its also one of the idotic sandbox types where you dont have any freedom and its 100% linear, all you do is follow quests which leads to fucking whoever no matter if you like or hate em and that always make for a poor experince, the clicking maraton to move around and skip time is just not fun.

Then theres the "in development" or "check future version of the game" you run into this constantly and pretty much from the very start after intro, its just another reason i personaly hate this kind of sandbox, the poor hint system dosent help things either.

The only reason i give it 2 stars is due to having decent even though repetitve animations, but they are also rare which again makes it a pointless waste of time like everything else in this game.

Girls look ok for this style, still feels dated though but i dont mind that so much.

Also the content is really low for a 3+ year old game, i would call it a milking game but lets be real wont really get enough supporters to be calling that and the only reason it might feel like more is due to the time you waste in the poor sandbox.

It's a masterpiece, but I think this game lacks the NTR tag, and I really wish it could be associated with a couple of girls. The narrative is very good and cohesive. I liked the couple of girls, I hope it gets more action in the future, and it would be nice if we could do more epic walks and teasing and relationships with the couple of girls. I hope the developer keeps it up. Great job.

Story is bad
You started to live in a appartment with some hot girls owned by your dad
No one who lives there ever seen him expect the maid

To many overlapping events
at the start you see events at every time at the day
Only later almost every event with the girls is afternoon and all you can do sleep and wait until the afternoon
No night events

Renders are good
no bugs
There is sound
sex scenes are good

Pros
+ Harem game, sandbox with a small amount of grinding
+ Renders and animations are very good with sex sounds, the best you'll find using this engine
+ Varied body types and personalities
+ Short and to the point dialogue, no long winding text or dragging conversations

Neutral
~ Pretty empty sandbox and very little repeatable scenes
~ Small updates
~ Slow progression

Cons
- Very little content for a game 2+ years in development (as of 0.22)
- Sex scenes are few and far between
- Personally, if the dev wants to continue making smaller updates more frequently I would rather they focus each update on progressing one girls story, add 4-5 scenes for one girl instead of 1-2 scenes for multiple girls for example.

v 0.22

I think the developer for this game has worked to give us something that suits most people who are straight. The effort for the rewards is not too skewed. I wish there were more games like this. The story progresses a bit slowly but it's easy to follow the cues put on the phone.
It definitely needs more physical content with the girls. But it has a lot of potential.

As of version 0.19.0
It's Harem Hotel, except without any of the plot being explained ever.
"I'm in this mystery house owned by my bastard father that's filled with girls, what the hell is going on.... oh wait, boobs, never mind, I'll just go along with it."

And that's pretty much it. The Dev tries to be cute or clever and leave in tidbits about some greater story, but it comes off as pointless since there isn't even enough plot about the girls themselves for you to care about what's going on. Zoe's interactions jump to sex so fast the MC just forgets she's a catgirl. Not to mention you know literally N O T H I N G about her by the time it gets to that point.

Interactions with her go like this: Watches boring TV, works at a cafe, surprised to be called prettty, make out, make out, make out, sex. That's it.

It's fine if you can't write a good story yourself, but if you aren't going to hire a writer then just stop.

v0.17.0

Its an excellent intro for a game. But even after a year in develpment and being in "Beta" there are just a few sex scenes with 3 out of 16 girls.

Pros
+ I love these cute models
+ Animated hot sex scenes
+ Short dialogs, straight to the point
+ Easy sandbox with repeatable sex scenes.
+ Helpful hint system, I had no problems finishing all content.

Cons
- There is barely any content for each girl. Just a few conversations, dates and daily routine.
- Only 3 out of 16 girls have sex scenes. You can count them on one hand.

Its an Intro or Demo at best. There is very little content, but the content itself is great and I had fun playing it. Right now its 3-4h of gameplay, mostly talkig to girls and getting to know them.

I've given this game, according to the in-game clock, 7.5 hours of playing time on the latest version, which is a very committed contribution to any game.

graphics are ok but available elsewhere - not a complaint.

animations are ok but few, and repetative.

story is - non-existant, we are introduced to characters but even now not really told why they are where they are - ok, its a developing game, but the direction remains really unclear.

But what really pisses me off, are reading the deserved pages and pages of queries about bugs in every version of the game released, whith the answer being "what, where?" followed by " oh I'll fix that in the next version", only for the next version to not fix the problem, and instead throw in a few extra ones.

We are assured 2 people are checking for any problems, well, sorry, but they arent doing their job well if at all, but nevertheless its a shitshow excuse when the buck stops with the Dev full stop to put out a product which at least works, which this doesnt. Unresolved bugs every version is just lazy production, and doesn't deserve support I'm sorry to say.

We are also told about following the hints process, yet those hints don't reference essential key info needed to trigger conditions, even before getting to the bugs - prime example, the continue teaching requirement to trigger Selena's condition, which needs certain smarts (which we are never told about, and even getting those smarts still doesn't trigger satisfying the event)

Overall - a game of possible potential we will currently never know about through failure to explain, and even worse failure to pay attention in preference for laziness. I dont like to diss devs, but this is deserved

Review for v0.16
Date - 02/04/2024

Pretty decent game , girls don't look the same which is a huge plus considering the fact that it's the HS engine.

Pros -> Kind of happy with how varied girls are , don't feel like dialogues are repeated or phrases over used again.
Cat girls

Cons -> Some dialogues could be improved and rewriting on some scenes and interactions , overall not a big deal but noticeable in the long run.

GL for project , tldr my only gripe would be if you've gone through the effort of making girls feel different make sure mc's responses feel that way as well.

Pretty for a start.

Characters are nice, some more interesting than ohters, arlerady some H scenes.
Quite good for a start, (~2h of gameplay right now), want to see where it is going.

Only weak point right now is the plot imo. Some of the interactions with the girls are a little unnatural and feel rushed.

The renders are subpar.
The story is, well, just a bunch of words at this point.

The free roaming, is the typical "nothing to do except for the very few actions you can do one that day in that timeslot, everything else, will either be a great lot of nothing, or "in development."

Anything you do in the game, consume a 1/3rd of the day. As is the usual in that kind of game, it means if you click on the wrong thing, you'll have to waste a full day to do the interaction you were aiming for.

Girls basically give you a blow job on your 2nd interaction with them, for reasons. That pretty much says it all about the story's quality, and the depth of character's developments. Considering the game rendering engine and quality, this is not even working as fap material either.

Move along people, nothing to see here.

It looks like a good game. More development require, such as doors and level up characters. Also, some dialogue are out of place. The characters look interesting. Wait and see. I will put this game in my waiting list.