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

In a word, boring.

It's too much clicking and management for no reward. To be fair it is still early stages and considering Faerins last game I still have high hopes but it's a long way off.

Characters look nice, writing so far is good and it is being updated at a good pace so it's likely to improve.

I´ll admit the game has very little content so far. However, both female characters look great and the writing is very good. I will be closely following the development of this game hoping that updates would be frequent.

I giving it a full five star rating as it shows a lot of potential.

If you're missing a room type expect 9/10 guests to want that room type. Beyond that frustration, it takes hours to progress at all in the game. The grind may be the slowest since Everquest in terms of making progress. Either implement a cheat mode, or make the game significantly faster. There's no enjoyment in grinding especially when the current amount of content is near zero.

What really impresses me is the actual gameplay. This is not your average F95 management game, it far outshines the norm.

Pros: Superslick UI, Great models, interesting storyline (thus far) and most of all the actual management gameplay.
Cons: There is a bit of clicky grind to it (especially when serving room service, bar, ets.) The wait for the satisfaction bar is irritating after the thousandth time. And the biggest con is that it is nowhere near finished. I know, I know... that is not much of a con as it is a whine because this game makes me want to see more! Oh, and another minor con - there is no sex implemented as of yet that I have seen. BUT, I can definitely tell it is coming. (No pun intended)


If you enjoy Management games and/or light corruption (it's not so much corruption as it is... just progression), then check this out for sure. I for one am looking forward to when the Destiny Point system is added, as well as the next level to the hotel and girls. Well done!

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs... The version this review is based on is v0.1.1c...

For the moment, this one is basically the infrastructure for a slightly grindy hotel management game...

Visuals are top notch for both the 3D characters, backgrounds, as well as user interface... Looks very professional thus far, for being so early in development...

The script is perfect thus far, as I don't remember running into any spelling/grammar errors... The plot revolves around a male protagonist who's family and next door neighbor move into a slightly run down hotel purchased by his father... The plan is to refurbish it and run a hotel business... There is also an air of mystery and magic involved with it all as well... After a tragedy the protagonist along with his fathers girlfriend and the young neighbor who came along, are left to run the place themselves...

After the story based introduction, you go through a well made tutorial of sorts, that teaches you the basic mechanics of the user interface and general game play... From there you manage the hotel through refurbishments, upgrades, managing the staff, exploring the small list of current locations, and so on... There is even some micro-managing (sort of in the form of a multiple choice mini-game) you have to do as your staff (currently just the 2 women living with the protagonist) is selected to perform their various duties to meet the needs of the hotel guests...

One warning about the mini-game, which is pretty much the only qualm I have thus far, is that it comes in the form of paying attention to what the guest requests and then selecting from the choices as to what to serve the guest... Which means you have to know things like the originating country of various beer brands, what types of foods are what... Such as what types of food are fast food or spicy or healthy (those are much easier then the beers especially if you don't drink beer or have experience with beer too much)... And more then likely the same thing will apply with other various hotel accommodations as you unlock them... Choosing the wrong thing too many times can lead to a guest leaving the hotel without gaining anything from them, as far as money, destiny points, etc... I'm normally not a fan of mini-games much, although this one is a very simple mini-game, yet if you don't know how to best answer a demand from a guest, you will be left having to look it up, or guess and hope your right... Good thing, is that so far the requests each time are pretty much the same, depending on the level of the guest and level of the staff member,,,

In the very beginning you are offered a choice of how difficult of a game experience you want... This primarily, from what I could tell, involves how many save slots you get and how much starting money you begin with... I personally went with Normal...

I played the game for several hours, trying various things, learning about giving found items to staff members to boost their skills, and on some rare occasions experiencing some short bits of new content when visiting staff members as they worked... But for the moment, it doesn't really feel like there is much content, post Intro/Tutorial... Even when my destiny bar was full, I could not visit the Fortune Teller... But, this VN/Game is very early in it's production... And the fact that the game play mechanics, thus far, appear completely flawless and mostly bug free (I'll mention the one bug below)... There are also some place holder visuals for the exploration function, but all in all it all looks very professionally done...

I didn't bother continuing after a few hours, as the money required for some of the renovations and upgrades is rather high, and money takes a while to accumulate... Which kind of makes the current game play a bit grindy, especially when you don't seem to be able to skip the mini-games, and just let them play out as a success automatically, after the first several times you deal with them... There are also some minor delays with daytime progression fades that add to the game play time, and so on... Perhaps once far more content gets added, it will not feel as empty and there fore as grindy, as it currently does...

Do not expect, at least from my play through, to see any current erotic content... There was some light checking out of some characters by the protagonist, and some minor relationship building (perhaps a kiss), but not much else beyond that... But again, this is very early in development... And I kind of find it nice that they didn't have erotic content right out the gate, as it tends to feel like a cheep ploy sometimes when these new projects just start out by throwing sexual content right at the start (probably in order to hook some unsuspecting donors)...

The one bug I ran into, and it's not really that serious of a bug, is that sometimes pressing space bar no longer pushes the text to the next step, and you have to left click with the mouse at least once, before the space bar seems to move things forward again (which doesn't happen that often thankfully)... Not sure what caused that, but I was happy that I didn't always have to use my mouse to move the game along, like many other Unity based VN/Games tend to force you into doing... The addition of the space bar pressing was a nice quality of life feature adopted from most other Visual Novel based engines...

Overall, this management grinder VN/Game looks highly promising, and is one of the few Unity based games in this genre that so far I don't mind... The game mechanics all seem to be working as intended, and the story/plot seems very interesting, thus far... As this product is very early into it's development, I didn't expect to see much actual content beyond the intro and game play tutorial, so I'm not really disappointed... I will definitely have to check back on this one, some time down the line as development continues... I'll see then if the current promise it shows is worthy of the high score, and continues to impress...

Version: 0.1.0c
Good management game. Quite green but promising. Game as is, is still playable. Not many lewd content so far but seems to be in the right path. Transitions between scenes can be upgraded, and also would be nice to add random events to help cope with repetitive actions.
Visual novel/Script: 5
Gaming experience: 5
Graphic quality: 5
Character development: 4
Xcitement: 3
Considering the status of the game, at an early stage, i give 5 stars.
Good work!!

The current state of the game is unplayable due to the scene switching animations taking too long, especially when the time of the day change. The bar that display the guess satisfaction rises stupidly slowing. Since the game ask you to do these actions repetitively, which isn't necessarily a bad things, all these waiting moments make the pacing terribly slow and the game unfun. I've read similar comments.

I suggest the devs to reduce the delays and/or remove some animations that might not be necessary.

Excellent work...great graphics...sexy loocking characters...good storyline..the best game I have played ever and incest patch adds the spice to it...well done DEV...now waiting for the update

A promising game, good renders and an ambitious management system that can give us hours of entertainment. The logical thing if you know his previous creations, I just hope that this one gets more juice. The only problem is that the Spanish translation is literally in diapers, texts passed by google translator with four touch-ups, meaningless phrases and words that don't even seem in the dictionary, even so the game is highly recommended despite being in such a phase early development.

Updated review on v0.6.0

Now that the game has developed fairly well, I feel it's time to update my review to reflect my current thoughts on the game, even though pretty much nobody is going to come back and read these year-old reviews.

Mostly, my expectations were met with this game. The game mechanics developed very well in my opinion and I really like the way the hotel management system is handled.

I'd hoped that the dev would have spent his time with the game so far developing more of the story whereas they have gone in the direction of firstly developing all of the mechanics and introducing all of the characters; that's just a choice, after the game has been completed, it won't matter which of these things were introduced first.
But it does mean that the main story is very thin so far and most of the gameplay so far revolves around grinding towards developing your hotel and advancing your relationship with the girls.

The graphics have remained top-notch throughout and the girls are all very attractive; I sort of bemoan the fact that all of the girls are white (except for one Japanese character that doesn't really look Japanese but still manages to be a walking stereotype) which makes the line-up look pretty uniform and sort of boring, even with the different body types.

My main complaint with the game so far is the way sexual content is handled.

First of all, I never really like when the build-up to the sex scenes is this agonizingly slow with all of the characters; for one, it makes it feel less real and realistic and more like just a gameplay mechanic—just going through these steps one by one to unlock the sex scenes one by one—but for another, it also means that you have to play a long time before any sort of actual sex scenes come up which can be slightly frustrating.

Second of all, and most importantly, I really really dislike the attitude that the MC has towards sex and relationships. It all sounds extremely childish and like a teenager wrote it or at the very least, like the MC is supposed to be an inexperienced teenager which he clearly is not (at least in age and appearance).
He freaks out whenever he sees a woman in a bikini, stumbles over all of his words, you constantly get an inner monologue running commentary of his very childish thoughts about the situation and the extent to which he's freaking out, he's constantly perving and creeping on all of the women even when they're fully dressed and yet—all of the women are still magically drawn to him and find him just oh so charming and sexy.
Women flying towards the MC's dick is sort of an unavoidable piece of suspension of disbelief for these sorts of games but I'd hope that developers would at least try and make that a bit more believable by not writing their MC's as bumbling, inexperienced, creepy buffoons.
And at least so far, this inexperience and shyness around sex also limits the sexual content to extremely vanilla, boring sex scenes. I say "so far" to give the dev the benefit of the doubt but I don't really expect there to ever be a lot of exciting sexual content which always seems like such a waste to me in these animated games where the only limit is often just the dev's imagination.

So yeah, those are my final thoughts on the game so far and thanks to anybody who actually went back to read this updated review.

I'll probably still play the updates when they come out because now I feel like I have to finish the game (sunk cost fallacy, I know), but I'd advise only people who are fine with teenage-minded MCs and boring, slow sexual content try this out.

Playing Man of The House, I had high hopes for this game. So far the hotel management is very grindy and not much content. Faerin should have changed the code since Diane isn't in the game. All you get is a white screen that covers up part of the screen in the kitchen. It's a very long intro to the game with no sexual content. If there is I didn't play long enough to see it. After playing for 20 or so minutes I quit playing.

I would wait at least 3 to 4 updates when the game play and more content get added. Maybe in another 3 to 4 months I might upgrade the rating, but in the current state of the game I can't bring myself to give it more than 2 stars.

A lot of the reviews for this game are based around expectations that it will get better. I think its only fair to review it in its current form. It's the fifth or sixth update of this game and there's virtually no content. Its also pretty buggy and each update is centered around the management gameplay which is honestly the least interesting aspect of the game. All of this will hopefully change but right now its a poor game and not worth your time.

Faerin has a history of delivering so take this review with the caveat that is extremely early.

However, what has been released just isn't fun and it isn't porn it's a extremely long intro into a management sim without any content. All the reviews are basing on the potential on what it could be but the reviews should be based on what it is and at this point it's just tedious grind to get through the intro and the tutorial then when you finally figure out how to play there isn't any content.

So I have to give it 3/5 it honestly probably deserves worse because what is there right now isn't worth playing. Check back in a couple updates after he has hopefully added some actual content.

Based on v0.0.4, i think this game has a good potential, some of the base mechanics seem to be done. It can turn out to be interesting to manage that hotel if it doesnt focus on mass grinding clients to update the facilities or it might get boring after a while.

The introduction is well done and the tutorial too, i hope to be able to skip both to try the game in a few updates.

The characters are nicely done.
On my personnal taste i'd say the mother has a head too big compared to the father and the son. And like in the previous game sometimes they look inexpressive or too much expressive, but that's only my opinion.

It was a pleasant surprise to have Diane from Man of the House as a first guest, it would be enjoyable to have some of the other characters making an appearance too.

I never was able to finish Man of the house because i found it boring after the first goal of banging the mother and sis. I hope this management system can carry the story and not the other way round.

Lets see what's coming next.

There is not much to review yet at all except the quality of the renders, they are the most realistic I have seen so far in 3d models.
The music is improved from his last game, maybe not many people pick on such things but I really like to play with music.
The story seems like it will have some scary moments (at least for the mc haha) I don't want to spoil but you may see some ghost or two.
Considering the quality Faerin is going for in this game it will certainly be a step up.

*Have to edit the review and certainly drop 2 stars after seeing almost no content in story or sex scenes after a long time, all these 6 months so far have been for gameplay and it seems like it will take even more time for the dev to finish it and start making enough content story/sex wise ... seems like this game will be more focused on gameplay than anything else, at least it has been so far and seems like it will be so for a while.
If you play games for the story and sex content maybe wait another 4/6 months before playing.