Unity - Completed - Mystwood Manor [v1.1.2] [Faerin]

So I took the normal play mode where there should be game play instead of just linear story.
The game built in a way that there is a mystery that is barely noticeable because you have a long stretches of grinding before the next story bit is exposed, but even though, you won't have many story bits because the story isn't that elaborate.
The guests (1 guest) revealing more about the story and the surroundings which makes it a good combination, it could be used more in this type of mystery game, IMO this would elevate the game a lot.
You will start to feel the bad part of the game after few hours of play where it becomes very grindy although its story still intriguing enough to bear through it, in contrast to the H-scene which became boring and duplicated with just another girl.
The build of the relationship with the characters is really really slow but it didn’t bother me… just note it could take more than 5 hours until you get to the first h-scene.
At first the animations are real good and smooth with nice speed control slider, but after a few of them, you see they are all the same loops with different girls.
There are not a lot of renders in the game like in other VNs. Only in some events which is shame because it means you don’t see a variance in the characters.
One of the most annoying parts for me was the questions asked when characters are working. This was really annoying and there is actually no point at all for this and it doesn't add anything to the game and just annoy the player (after the guest become VIP, he doesn't bother you anymore with this stuff).

Overall, the game is ok, but I wouldn't recommend this game for myself because it is pretty long and I don't think the story worth it that much. It was pretty obvious after the first clues who is the mysterious villain.

i dont usually go back to play games from scratch, but this game is so good that i have finished it 3 times already. models are awesome and characters are very well built. grind is just right, too. seems i have to write an essay tho. not good of you f95

I would give this 4 stars in all reality, but for balance, since many early reviews never updated their ranking, I'd like to balance that out with my review on the finished product.


Cons:
*Somewhat grindy, unless you cheat
*You won't see much in the way of sex or lewd content until you advance fairly far, which, unless you cheat, will take some real time.
*Some of the mechanics can be frustrating without cheating.
*Not much in the way of voiced content
*I've seen better 3d animations
*Without a detailed walkthrough, some key information may be missed easily and never known
*I wish skipping the prologue skipped the whole tutorial, BUT also if it did, people would skip it and then probably complain that the mechanics made no sense, so....

Pros
*Story is at least about a 5-7 as far as being engaging and interesting (the Prologue is somewhat dull and generic, but hey you can skip it, so that can't really be held against it)
*the 3D animations are also not the WORST I've seen, and pretty decent and plenty of them
*variety in girls, even though there could be more (since all are somewhat white-presenting)
*HOLY SHIT, there's actual gameplay mechanics, and you can actually get so involved in trying to run the hotel you forget you came here for a wank
*the dialogue seems mostly real and natural
*the art on the girls is great
*balance on mechanics is fantastic
*love the inclusion of built in cheats if you want to just rip through
*tons of great sex scenes even though most are late-game


My overall assessment: this is one of the first lewd games I've played not JUST for the lewd scenes. I really enjoyed actually trying to manage the place (with some cheating because, again, it can be a bit TOO grindy, but also hey, they gave you the cheats, so reduce the grind to your own level of pleasure mates). So...

Scale of 0-5

Gameplay: 4
Sound: 3 (I reserve 4 and above for more voice acting)
Story: 4.5
Originality: 4.5
Renders: 4.5
Playability: 5
Performance: 5
Bugs: 4.9 (I had one very specific bug took me forever to resolve, entirely on my own)
Voice Acting: 0
Animations: 4
Grammar: 4
Amount of Content: 5

Overall: 4.5 but I go for 5 because again, it's been over-downrated

Got damn this shit is boring. There is no excuse for the dry-ass intro this game throws at you. Hours of your time will be wasted, with subpar DAZ models and obtuse management mechanics. If I wanna play with numbers and portraits I'll go play a Yakuza game. This aint it

The game has really nice renders and i love that you can speed the game up with ctrl. However there are issues, like some stuff not being explained and how much of a grind this game is. I recommend using a grind mod because that still makes the game take a long time but is faster.

Version Played : v1.1.2

While it's not really a masterpiece, I do think it deserves more than 4 stars compared to some other games on this site.

The story is interesting, well written, though there is some porn-logic involved, of course.

There is a sandbox and a VN mode, but the sandbox mode is recommended, and that's the one I played. It's fun, interesting, though I do feel some of the mechanics were underutilized (e.g. upgrades), but overall I had a good time.

My main gripes are that there's pretty much a single female voice audio used for lewd scenes, and it gets annoying quickly - some diversity would've gone above and beyond. My other main gripe is the balance of the lewd content, most of it is endgame-heavy and there are some nonsensical events (e.g. lvl3 guest at the pool which is a lvl4 event).

Other than that, you can get ~20 or so hours of fun from this title, very nice and recommended.

A good game that could've been a great game if it weren't for some silly issues.

The Good:
The models look nice
The management sim is fun and engaging
Cheats can make the game a lot easier if you want to speed it up.
A unique premise for a story with some care taken in execution

The Bad:
After level 3, the grind becomes horrendous forcing you to use cheats
I'm not a fan of the card collecting game and I feel it adds to the grind
The scenes are too limited for my liking
The story disappears for a while
No real scenes with Libby (would've been fun even if it wasn't possible due to the story)

Conclusion: I like this game and I actually completed it without hitting the skip button so it did things right. I think this game could've been a lot more though.

A solid 4 star effort. Everything was good but not as good as it could have been.

The models and renders were fine, but I feel like they were better in Man of the House, so I'm not sure why this one steps backwards a bit.

As a hotel management game it's a decent design, but if you took the sexy out, it wouldn't stand on it's own because there's nothing really fun about the core game loop. And the grind gets needlessly long once you hit 3rd rank.

As a sexy game, it feels too mechanical. All the scenes are broadcast, but if they weren't broadcast it would be even worse because they would take too long to trigger. The rank 4 and 5 sexy scenes are fine, but the most interesting part is the beginning of the scene where it's kind of naughty. Once the clothes start coming off, the scenes tend to be pretty dull, with only a couple exceptions.

There's stuff that feels weirdly missing. Like, you do all this work to get the girls to wear less, but the more revealing their outfits get, the less opportunities you get to see them wearing them in interesting ways - once you max out all you see is the paper doll shots and one gallery shot. I want to see more and more slice of life shots of the girls interacting with each other in random parts of the manor wearing less and less clothing.

The mystery plot is solid. No problem with it. But it would be more interesting if it interacted with the hotel management game in a way other than just the tarot cards. Like, there's all these objects you can pull from the lake or the attic, but it would be way more interesting if those were things found while exploring the Mystwood mystery story instead. Also, Libby was hot and flirty and all we got was a single boob still, which sucked.

Overall, the game needed about 50% more sexy content (not even necessarily full scenes, just some random teasing interactions) and it needed to be more creative (there was a couple creative bits, but we needed more of that).

Thoroughly enjoyed playing this sandbox from start to finish. I think the gameplay was actually quite fun, and I love the story that's veiled in a bit of mystery. The ladies are quite nice to look at, with unique styles & personalities. The sex animations are top notch and they definitely kept the motivation to finish the game. (Hana's happy ending sex scene was sublime )

Well done, I'm looking forward to checking out your other projects!

Fuck the haters, these kinds of management games are great, the outfits are great, the models are great. If it's too hard for you cheat, but eventually it's gonna run itself and all you have to do is cash in.

Dude, who told you I'd want to manage a hotel with one hand on my penis? Didn't anyone tell you we wanted to play a sex game? If you could promise me as much content as "The Twist", the mechanics of this game would be acceptable and even said to be entertaining because you would actually get something as a result of that effort, but what do we really get as a result of every effort? A short story, women who open their legs for you immediately, no corruption process. nope, no repeatable effectiveness at all, man it just sucks.

Then suddenly the developer gets bored of making the game, and in the last part of this game, the MC suddenly decides to fuck all the women quickly and end the game pointlessly.

Let me tell you why I'm so offensive, because I get really angry when I see wasted potential.

Fun gameplay. Interesting story. Good music. The characters are well made and looks great too. Decent sex scene. But unfortunately all of that is dampened by how slow the story progress because of how grindy the game is, it's not that bad with cheats though but still kinda slow. Also not a fan of how most of the good sex scenes are at the latter half of the game.

Regardless, it's definitely a well made game, it's just too slow for me. If you like grindy management games with some porn in it, you'd definitely enjoy this game.

I like all the games that come with Chinese, it ensures the quality of the translation rather than handing it over to a localization group that uses machine translation and modifies the game's content.
Also, the content of the game is very innovative, which by the way, not using cheat mode will slow down your game progress. The characters are also of high quality and well rendered. You should play it.

After inheriting a hotel you witness mysterious sightings and deaths. In this part detective and part management-sim you will meet...


Characters whom you can progress with through their optional quests. All the staff and guests combined have quite a large number to complete if you decide to go for a 100% playthrough.

Gameplay consists of progressing to the next cutscene, whether that has to do with story, staff or guest. The second big part is hotel management. You earn money, rep and unlock services and collectable cards as you go along. Mystwood Manor does a good job at making the management part interesting, though it did get repetitive before the end so I turned on cheats. Note that I was going for full completion and your game flow may differ.

Sexy-times were my least favorite bit. They're in the cutscenes/quests and, again, there's a ton. Each staff has exactly 15 quests, like a quota had to be filled. Perhaps that's why they're short, formulaic and I missed personality in them.


I'd recommend playing this, though more for the management aspect and spooky story than sexy-times.

Compared to previous titles, there is way less erotic stuff in here.
the few erotic scenes there are, are really short in general.

It's more focused being an actual game with managing gameplay and story.
But long dialogues that are mostly boring even tho i tried to let it hook me.

To my surprise I liked managment part of gameplay in this game. But thats where all the good thing ends. Even if hotel managment is fun more or less, amount of grind to get somewhere with girls is insane. 7 hours of grind to get first scene with handjob, CARL!) Content and gameplay is unbalanced as fuck, almost to the end of the late part of the game MC literally will not even touch any girl, but then all the content pushed in the last part of the game where every event turn this hotel to total fuckfest every 2-5 min of last hours of gameplay.

Sex scenes disappointing. Not only all content pushed to the last 2 hours of gameplay, but they average, small (consist from one animation and few renders), without proper facial expressions, without variability and most of all they not integrated for replay (talk with girl to have some fun) in SANDBOX game, only in galery. Only in latest versions dev added repeatable fun time with girls at night, which was horribly implemented, you just go to girl room at night and ask her "want have some fun?" she answers "yes of course" and after it instantly sex scene which depends on current relationship status, scene dont have dialog and consists from one animation and later with +rel you unlock next part of the scene with another animation. Thats so stupid, unreal and untasteful...

Last thing is MC. Gosh I can tolerate a lot of things if MC depicted as at least decent human being. But here... We play as dude 25+- yo with mentality of 12yo and self respect issues. Hes always shy, feels shame when he haves boner, girls always have him on the plate and do whatever and whenever they want, but mc have 0 assertiveness level and just waits when girls come to him themselfs. No jokes if you count all the inner and outer dialogs you will see that his most popular phrases "Im such an idiot", "Im sorry" and "I... oh... ummm... well...". With girls hes passive, undecisive and shy to the extent when I wanted slap and spit on his face for being such scaredy little spineless bitch. In reality this type of pathetic creature or dies virgin or will have once or twice his sloppy seconds with drunk girl in the bar only out of pity.

Really good game with good graphics and plenty of things to do (no dull moments until near end of game).

Each customer has his/her own personality (2 are total bitches) and some are annoying but not too annoying.

Good amount of sex with staff and female customers (even those 2 whiny bitches).

This has only 2 drawbacks, 1st is that time just flies when playing and when next time checks clock it's middle of night and 2nd is that it's not Renpy game (not a big issue).

For some reason this game flew under my radar, found it recently recommended in another thread.

The sex part is not so abundant but you get to unlock lots of girls and guest women, the management part is kinda fun to be honest you have to earn money, reputation and "destiny" to unlock rooms and tarot cards (this has some magic powers and spoiler stuff but cool shit honestly).

So yeah quite the solid game, got no idea how other devs milking people get popular and this one went unnoticed

-- I"m hours of grinding into v1.1.0 and at Day 31.
I only just hit Level 3 hotel and so far ZERO sexy (unless you count some distance views of girls in their underwear) and zero nudity.

+ As a management game, it does a great job.

OVERALL:
A super, super slow burn...too slow.
But worth it for a hotel management game.

Really enjoyed the game and finished it in about 20h (did some grinding to get all the tarot cards).

Definitely a step up from MotH. I thought it was less grindy (no more finding easter eggs) and the payoff was better. The gallery system was also more convenient for replays.

I thought the resolution of the mystery and motivations of the big bad was a bit dumb (could have just moved away to avoid that weakness) but before that it was generally intriguing.

I feel like people are giving it low ratings due to the grind (which can be overcome via the cheats) or because all the sex happens at the end. I didn't mind either in this game.

Overall, I would say it is worth playing. Faerin's games generally have good writing and great renders, and the game mechanics are pretty unique for AVNs.