Ren'Py - Mythic Manor [v0.22] [Jikei]

v0.14

This is another one i have seen here before but didn't give it a try until now.
And while it didn't rock my world, the premise is interesting and i am very much into monster girls which i want to see more of but it's early so hope is there.
The characters are in general interesting and i already have 2 favorites(the sexy milf and the shy nymph, with the horny sphinx as an honorable mention).
So in general the writing is solid, the situations that crop up keep me interested and i enjoy the relaxed upbeat atmosphere.

I also enjoy that it is a big focus on having it almost being completely from the MC's point of view with most exceptions being during animations.
Another plus which lately almost feels as a must personally is that you can name the MC and they almost kept his face hidden with the exception of one scene i can remember(sees it through a mirror).
Which i would have preferred not to see at all but it is a very minor complaint.

Onto animations which are also solid. The early ones are rough but improve overtime and it is so early in development and i read they intend to go back and improve early ones.

Main gripe i have with animation i have seen is that when pussy gets penetrated in an angle where it is displayed very well it looks
more as if the penis clips into instead of actually penetrating(vagina shows no movement or animation).
while this could be fixed later on and something they already are aware of and fixing it. So it too i consider a minor thing.

All in all this one is a solid start and foundation that could turn into a really good VN or even a great one.
One thing i can say for sure is i am glad i gave it a go. And i now have another on my increasing list of promising VN's.

Figured i will lastly yap about my personal wishes/requests.
And that i hope get added. First which seems to be planned since it is mentionend and has a tag for it is pregnancy or well MC impregnating and having children with chosen ladies.
And second which you can figure is of course harem, i do not want to choose just one. I hope the plan is for you to be able to not only have children with multiple but also have multiple wives.
Lastly which is the least important to me and also least expected since current societal attitudes are what they are.
Is incest(yep that one) although that one is more i wanna get to know the mother and if i desire have the option to steal her from dad.

EdIt: Just a small realisation that i never mentioned the stats mechanic. Maybe because so far it doesn't have much weight or relevance in game.

I wanted to start by saying that Jade is my kryptonite – she’s absolutely amazing!

Pros

• Each character is unique in look and in story.
• There is a variety of body types.
• Each story line is engaging for each character and the game overall.
• A fair amount of play time is included as of v0.14.

Cons

• Animations are mediocre.
• In-game tips on what to do next would be nice, as it can be frustrating and time-consuming figuring things out.
• Need more characters in mythic form (partly and fully)!
• Need more playtime with each story line, which I'm sure will be covered in future patches

Bottom line: play it, love it!

Good story and a novel story at that. The renders are not superb, but they are consistent. The game progression starts of easy, but eventually it can become a bit messy. There are seperate storylines with each love interest that seldom overlap. However there are some scenes that require hidden triggers in more than one storyline. Still not finished, so we can forgive this for now.
The game needs an ending and it needs to either cut or finish some storylines .

Truly the very best renpy game out there. Jikei is a genius and a god.

Great scenes and great characters, along with regular updates since the very beginning, so it's no wonder that I always find myself coming back to this game.

It is a great sandbox game. Renders are good animations get better with game development and new ones are smooth and nice. Girls are beautiful and writing is good everybody is a different and interesting person.

Good Points
+ Girls/Women look hot/cute and their character stories are interesting as well.
+ We have interesting story so far...
+ We have lots of girl/woman characters and content with them.
+ We have animations for sex scenes with different angles/positions.

Bad Points
- 4 years ago and even 2 years ago this game visual style and quality was good but now it just looks average. Animation and general quality needs to improve maybe even a soft remake.
- Animations need more FPS and better physics.
- Most of the sex animation angles are too close and they look bad.
- Mystic forms look not good, especially Pantheon girls Mystic forms were bad.
- MC's story, basically the main story is not progressing at all. After 4 years we still know nothing about what MC really is... Seriously?!
- We don't have good enough content for 4 years of time and the level of content DEV adding with every update not helping at all either. At this rate, this game never going to be complete.

For The End
4 years ago this was a good game and had great potential to become a great game, 2 years ago it was somewhere between good and average and the game wasn't improving at all and now 2022 it's just less than average... It's nothing more than 2.5 stars rate game and that's just sad... This game had great potential but DEV wasted all that potential...

A feelgood harem game. This is one of if not best demonstrations of the harem romcom situation pioneered from anime.

Multiple aspects of the game are great, which makes this an easy recommendation. Each of the girls have their own personalities and are fun to learn more about. There is a great balance with the writing - the dialogue is humorous and concise. The "mythic creature" background isn't overdone. Best part for me was uncovering the secrets and multiple times I found myself grinning at how hot an unexpected scene was.

Bad parts include lack content for the side girls, bad animation particularly in the beginning, and wishing there was more content for the main girls. Currently, it feels like you're just getting to the interesting points with the main girls, and I'm excited to see what happens next.

Not quite polished, but easy recommendation.

So sexy of every charactor, love them all! Beginning just the Egyptian girl attracted me, then I found everyone was so charming. It's about there body, not the story, but that's enough, that's what I like it's excellent enough to ignore other parts.

This game is awesome! The characters all have their own unique quirks and don't feel cookie-cutter like a lot of harem games. The humor is good without beating you over the head with it. One of the best 3DCG VNs out there right now.

This has a lot of content, not a lot of repeating scenes, and some likeable characters. Often it has heart and almost all sexual situations begin with a romantic overtone.

But then when you get to the sex, romance is tossed out the window and it becomes like you're experimenting on these girls... sterile and passionless. Every girl touches your privates before you have kissed them.

It's kinda schizophrenic... it has you feeling one way -- romantic and happy -- as you go through normal situations, and then it emotionally shifts to lechery in all the sex scenes. A lot of the sex is kinda rapey... my favorite storyline which tugged at the heart, involves a homeless girl whom the MC helps... but when she progresses the sex is arguably rape. Which I'm actually not against in these games... it's a fantasy where we're supposed to get the taboo we can't get in real life... I get it... it just has no place following this romantic and heartfelt leadup. All the sex is like this... the MC taking advantage after wooing them with genuine romance. And all the sex is handed to you, you don't have to work for it. They get a tingle between their legs because they had some provocative stimulation and then they need you to touch them. Nevermind that they've never had their first kiss... we'll get to that after they've had their first oral sex.

This also uses the breasts popping out because of clumsiness, bending over to pick up low objects up-skirts, and spilling stuff to wipe groin type situations... there's a ton of these lazy tropes. Every third scene.

Choices are meaningless... at one point the MC snoops a girl's room, reads her diary, steals an existential item from her locked box using a stolen password, then uses that item to manipulate her into having sex with him...and then he confesses all this to her... and she apologizes to him.

And the writing is overtly masculine with basic repetitive verbs and adjectives... which to me, has the effect of reminding me that there is a guy behind all of this trying to get me off. There is no flowery language in this and very little metaphor. Sure, flowery language can be overdone, but zero flowery is just masculine... In some of the dialog he is entirely romantic and it makes you play this from a caring, romantic, date simulator type angle... and I think it does this part very well... but then the sex and the inner dialog just kills all that by being anything but romantic or caring. It's hammer, pound, thrust, faster, harder... Every time this guy penetrates a girl it's like he's punishing her. Check it out... tell me I'm wrong... every girl begs him for his cock and then thanks him for giving it to them. And all the girls have the same voice that sounds like the author. They have some development in their individual actions and characterization... but they will break character to say a joke or pun or just to be kinky if the author needs it. A shy character will talk like a street whore to get the reader off. A clueless character will get the reference if there is a joke to be retorted.

The writing in these should be androgynous... the reader shouldn't be able to immediately discern if the author is a man or a woman. And this had me thinking about the author instead of immersing in the story.

Long passages of sex contains dialog like "mmmmmmmm-hmmmmm" click "mmmm-hmmmmmm-ooo-mmm" click "mmmmmm-o-mmmmmmmm" click "mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" There is no imagination here... no arousal... just hammer, pound, thrust, faster, harder. mmmmmmmmm. Good titles explore complicated thoughts and emotions in these passages. This is entirely base when it comes to titillation.

And you'll die if you drink every time you read "She blushes <insert adverb>."

The world created is pretty excellent. I liked the concept of the Mythics, and the tails and ears wasn't so much of a transformation to make the models less attractive or freaky... actually the opposite, it made it like a giant sexy cosplay.

But the story that is told from this world that is created, is bland. It has no drama. The choices all lead to the same outcome. And how the girls progress is too simplistic. All you have to do to advance them is meet them X number of days. Everything else will take care of itself. And the daily grind is a bit of a chore with having to check when you can meet each girl daily and events not triggering even when they are listed as ready because some other unnamed flag condition hasn't been met.

This had potential. It just doesn't really know what it wants to be: Romance or porn that feels like a science experiment. And it needs something at stake in the story. Some kind of drama with all the not-at-all intertwining relationships. Something to make it more than meet and fuck.

There are a lot of better titles that use this same format of semi-open world, limited actions, and progressive training. This one isn't horrible... it's just bland. I wouldn't question someone who enjoyed this... but I left feeling like I had wasted my time. Maybe if I hadn't played better versions of the same game.

(Naming the titles that I feel delivered this concept better is against this site's terms of service... but they're in my review history.)

Great game, great story, great characters, totally deserved to be where it is. It might need a few tweaks and add some minigames, but but the rest is incredibly well treated. I usually don't pick favorites with games, but Nefari has something really especial and I think it's done impecable. Liked everything about it, can't wait to see more in the future.

This is by far the best honey select style game I've played. It looks great despite the antiquated map, is sandbox with simple time management, no big grind and has cheats, and is surprisingly wholesome. The girls all have personalities, are lovable in their own way, ero scenes are hot and the player is not an asshole.

TLDR – A good harem game that has loads of content, but unfortunately shows its age in places.

Mythic Manor is a sandbox harem game with a morning-afternoon-night cycle. The girls will be in different locations at different times and if you talk to them at the right time to advance their storyline. The in game hint system is actually decent, but I played using the walkthrough and suspect most others do as well. Grinding is there, but it isn't terrible.

There's five main girls, but their storylines are independent so you can ignore them if you want. All of the plots are slice of life stuff with very little drama going on. Despite the low-stakes the paths kept my interest and the 'payoff' felt good. The writing is serviceable.

There are problems through.

While the models still hold up fairly well, a lot of the animations are simple and old fashioned. The developer is going back and updating them, but with so much legacy content to cover its a fresh coat of paint not a renovation. There's some scene composition problems as well. Honeyselect's male models are notoriously bad and the MC is no exception, but he shows up on camera with unfortunate regularity in the smut scenes.

The writing has issues as well. The 'MC' is a blank slate even by porn game standards. While the girls start out with distinctive personalities, two of them quickly converge as their storylines go on. And the dialogue falls down in places.

Still enjoyable, although not one of the top tier in 2020.

This game gives me some Harem hotel vibes so of course im going to like it. These characters however are really special, because they're Mythics and Im a fan of fantasy monster girl hybrids, So I really like how their mythic nature is mixed with their character and attitude. The story is good but the game is mostly just free roam, talk to the girls, go through their story, and there. Its pretty simple. I give it a 10/10 for good story, good unique character design, and simplicity.

An excellent game with great visuals, great diverse cast of characters that have distinct personalities and unique looks, the writing is well done with some fun and heartfelt moments as well as plenty of intimate and sex scenes, and you get to choose who you want to pursue or ignore depending on your taste in a very simple to navigate gameworld map. Some minor complaints would be that some better-detailed hints on how to progress some characters would be nice and a few events are laughably short that consist of an exchange of very few lines of empty dialogue.

Amazing game! Already lot of contents, but there's much more to come.

-Renders 5/5
-Animation 4.5/5 not the superlative quality, but much more animation scene than other games.
-Story 5/5 very interesting. remind me of X-men.
-Characters 5/5 Each main character's attractive. and tons of side characters as well

I can't believe how good this game has gotten over the many updates, the story is good and easy to follow and plenty of wank material! The Dev should feel accomplished with this, monster girls but still retains the human side of the characters. Well done in my book!

Mythic Manor is a very well made Renpy game made by Jikei, who is contributing to it non stop since the beginning. The characters are all very well written and none is boring or copy-pasted from other games. Each character-story line is on its own a VN, that's worth to play. The complexity of connecting each character to a mansion of lewd girls, each with its own personality and quirks and kinks, is a true masterpiece.
Jikei showed the community over a long period of time, that he has the breath and power to support this game until it is finished, which is sadly becoming more and more rare these days with other games and developers.

Mythic Manor and its maker are a figurehead of lewd gaming. Playing Mythic Manor was - and still is - a very pleasure.

A neat and laid back VN that you can navigate and play through at your own pace.
The girls are all pretty cute, each having their own personality and unique appeal to them. For example, I'm not really a fan of the oppai loli archetype, but Fanora's bubbly personality and... "character progression" actually took me by surprise. There's a little something for everyone here, so long as you're not looking for anything too hardcore. That being said, this is a REALLY vanilla game with a feel-good and relatively wholesome atmosphere to it, so if that's what you're into, stop reading this review and download the damn game already.
Support jikei on patreon! The dude really deserves it.

Also, Jade is a good girl.

My favorite game among the others I've played so far. Extremely cute girls with fully animated and butter smooth scenes. Characters are all so lovable, if there was sufficient content, i wouldn't need a wife. So hooked to the music its become nostalgic to me. Game play is easy and extremely rewarding. #feelingblessed Not being a generic overused school theme is a plus. First game ever to pop my patreon cherry.