VN - Others - Completed - NDNL3-No Dog, No Life- [v1.1] [sumisumi-dou]

This VN is easy to review, but difficult to score. Basically, this is not a good title, no matter how you slice it, and yet it is one providing something that is rare in the medium (let's call it "straight-up bestiality"), and this needs to be accounted for. Let us imagine you are (at least) fine with the tag: Might as well give it a go, your options are limited as it is. If you are just curious don't bother, you should look for other "sources".

Positive:
- Tag rarity in the medium; Original setting (border between reality and virtual reality, becoming hard to perceive, over time); Unlocking most things is fast (there's an achievement/scene list of sorts, in the CG tab); H-scenes only have the tag itself going for them (it's a 2022 release, they could be much better). S&M elements match the evolution of the setting.

Negative:
- Voice acting; More unique scenes were needed (variations are the bulk of the 18+, doggy style being mandatory, means at least a few different shots, and that doesn't happen); Endings are weak, or not worth classifying as such; Endless repetition of concepts in the narration is exasperating (bitch, slave, dog, degradation, torture, perversion, instinct, addiction, losing humanity...) the author won't shut up about it; Gameplay loop has aspects from "training game" (raising simulation), and corruption game, but gets boring quickly.

Score: 6/10. This needs to be increased for people who have a serious interest in the tag. Let's speak openly, if you are looking for something like this, there are better mediums to fulfill your wishes, but if you want a VN with bestiality (in english), this is it.

What this game desperately misses are closeups and more blowjobs
Lots of cross cuts, but no closeup on the knots is just sad, and if I recall there is only one bj with the retriever.
The art is nice, I wish it had a few more different training options - like more bjs - but overall it's a decent game. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel for decent bestiality games, so I take whatever I can XD

If you like dog bestiality and girls what else is there to say? This game is inoffensive in other ways, you should be enjoying this already.
Takes quite awhile to reach the juicy stuff like pregnancy though

I wish I could give this game a 5/5
- Amazing art
- visual novel about doggy sex that "levels up"

The major downside is how much text there is and how much art reuse there is. I don't need 20 lines talking about how you are cumming. Throughout the story, you will see the same golden retriever pose and doberman pose repeatedly to the point it's numbing.

Pretty good. Real good if you're starved for dog eroge games. It has an intense focus on the slave training and mind control aspect. It's worth noting that you should anticipate two question scenes, one in the middle and one towards the end. This isn't a major crossroads moment, but it encourages at least one more play through which is very short if you're skipping dialogue. The other playthrough is just to experience the alternate scene.

Most of the dialogue is focused on the slave training aspect and the info from the prologue doesn't matter and doesn't make any sense. The side benefit to all of the dialogue is when the girl accepts the conditioning for the dogs apart from the training aspect, and then it overlaps. Basically it has that going for it to make the skill leveling more interesting. The dialogue does change.

There's a few animation hiccups here and there where sometimes it plays an aftermath clip missing her navel. The grind aspect is short enough, but the replayed scenes are poorly cropped. The worst graphical oversight is how the cross-section was rendered. It needed a serious opacity adjustment and blur, and you can't disable it.

Because of those issues, you may personally want to deduct a star. But the rest of the content and attention to the fetish even aside from the mind control and slave training aspect benefitted the erotic overtones.

Reviewing info: How I rate/review and other info is HERE . W.I.P This sentence will not be included if review format is finalized and blog updated.
Review layout: Lazy/minimal format (others)
Review type: Game
Review format: Lewds
PROs
✅ Solid voice acting
✅ Good CG art
❔ Solid “messed up in mind” scenes for those that are into (mindbreak essentially)
❔ Beast/dog focus for those who into it
CONs
❌ “Trainer” gameplay in visual novel disguise, felt kinda pointless
❌ Not big fan of this bizarre storytelling of molding together augmented reality to reality
❔ Somehow major “popular” beast “move” was not in this game
Comments
Well…. Somehow ended up on this genre I guess. As far I can tell the art was great, the scenes were feisty and voice acting for the most part was juicy.

The whole “trainer” element of gameplay felt kinda pointless to be honest. Most of the game was still a visual novel and the “trainer” freedom came mostly in the end. Where you essentially did stat grinding do trigger some visual novel scenes. And the trainer triggered scenes were pretty minimal, giving them quite low value.

Also…. Okay I get the story concept is main character having weird ass virus, and her being closeted horndog because of that. So yay, very advanced augmented reality headset comes to save with some experimental tech. Dogs, kink she went with, sure weird flex, whatever do what you do. But still, having unlimited budget, no one suspecting anything, her moaning day and night in her solo room, okay no problem. But common, for rich isolated virus carrying ojou-sama I highly doubt no one would come to check on her and I kind of felt they forgot about the premise at some point. But whatever, it’s an adult game.

Were not big fan of how bizarre the whole AR and reality molding together went with her as well.

But for short visual novel about such fetish, I guess it was, okay? So, I’ll score it leniently for now. Not really my main interest.
Total Score: 6/10
Game status:
✅ Finished

So, this does have some good parts but can be a drag.

Pros:

• The bestiality fetish is nice and the art is pretty good.
• Story is fine for a porn game.

Cons:

• So much text. I know it's a VN, but they rehash the same dialog over and over again in different ways.
• Lengthy "tutorial." Instead of letting you explore the corruption options or even giving you a brief explanation it does it for you. You can't do anything without the game doing it for you first. It ruins the aspect of discovery.

These two cons are a big hit for me. There's just too much filler and hand holding for me to sit through.