Ren'Py - New Family [v0.1.3] [King Peanut]

I kinda stopped writing reviews due to how time consuming they are, but this hidden gem definitely deserves one.
For some reason got instantly hooked into this game after seeing the first animations. Even idle side characters are having some small animations which gives me the feeling of the world being more alive.
Story so far is also good. People keep saying the MC is an idiot, but I wholeheartedly disagree with this. Given how he grew up, you cant expect him to freaking demolish and dominate everyone. Also his character fits for the story lines so far. He can still grow up to a more badass version, but for now, its ok.

Music is good too. Its good enough to keep me playing. Not too boring to too hyped.

Tits are a bit big yes, but you can still enjoy the girls art very much.

The only thing saddening me is the removal of the ntr paths. its always nice to see what alternative paths are possible for the characters to fall into (personally I like blackmail stuff etc) but whatever. It allows for faster progress in the story so thats a nice thing too.
Maybe he will add it later on again, after the harem route finishes....

Anyway its a great game and I immediately subscribed on his patreon. I wish for the dev a great journey!

PROS
+ Hayato, MC's best friend is good pal, and it's refreshing to see MC not having dumb AF, pervert, annoying best friend like most cliche games in this style.
+ In the sandbox there are people doing some stuff, like hanging around, sitting on benches, talking, etc, they do have animations, so it looks good, and gives a kind of alive sandbox world feeling as well.
+ Sex scenes have animations.

CONS & SUGGESTIONS
- In the story, we have been told MC's parents died, then he started living with his family and close friend, but he died as well, and now he is living with his wife, and daughters, honestly it feels a bit meh, feels like DEV tried soo hard to avoid Patreon Police, maybe adding simple relationship change options would be better instead of ways like this.
- MC feels bit too stupid, and hasty, how he jumped blacmail tries of Asuna, then got caught while following her, and told her ''I'm sorry Asuna, please don't spread the video'', then literally kneel down in front of her after she asked him to do, then let Asuna take a picture of him while he is kneeled down and Asuna's foot on his head, etc, was quite disappointing, annoying, and makes quite hard to like him as a MC.
- Asuna's existence, and she is constantly trying to create blackmail material to blackmail the MC, etc, is quite annoying, hope in the next update DEV will add scenes where MC makes her his own obedient b*tch because she deserves it.
- Visually the game looks a bit low quality, and old, it's like 2020 era visual quality, and better render quality for pictures & animations is needed. And removing flying weird hand pictures could be good, they look really weird.
- Sex scene animations needs better physics, and better positions/angles currently they are not bad, but they are not better than average, but they have potential to become pretty good, some little improvements can be game changer.
- Characters need design changes, generally, they need less saggy tits, especially in sex scene animations even the youngest girl's tits look too saggy, and they stretch too much, especially Miho has a pretty cute face, and looks great when she is clothed, but when she is naked she looks bad because of her saggy tits, and too big areolas and along with saggy tits thing she had very fat, and bad looking ass in the animations as well, even tho she didn't have that fat, and big ass with the clothes on, so it seems DEV need to figure out how to use proportions correctly. Some characters need facial changes as well, like Akari, she has a really big forehead for no reason, making it smaller could make her far more attractive. And Yuna, again big forehead, and really bad hair.
- MC could have use more handsome face, better hairstyle, etc, since the direction is going towards he is getting the girls, it would only make sense him to look better.
- Menu/HUD/UI looks bad, it can use some improvements.
- Hints show up when you only click on them, then a new menu pops up, and you need to close that menu to continue, so either hints show up when you just drag your mouse, and you shouldn't need to open a new menu and close it, or at least closing new pop up shouldn't need to click ''x'' button on that new pop up, like clicking anywhere on screen should close it, etc. Currently getting hints feels a bit tedious, changing it would be a pretty good idea.
- Better profreading needed, even some really simple words are misspelled like in prologue MC's father called ''dady'' instead of ''Daddy'' etc.
The rollback dialogue feature does not always work, seems kind of inconsistent.

VERDICT
Honestly, I was going to give 3 stars since it's a new game, but especially how pathetic MC was, and the render quality looking too old for this year made me change my mind, I will be giving 2 stars, hope DEV will do a better job with upcoming updates, and makes the game reach the potential it has, I personally think this can be 4 stars rate game with the fixes, so we will see.

Awesome character designs, and very nice renders. The plot isn't all that much, but it's fun. And for some weird reason one of the best starting screen songs I've heard on a game from this site.
(For all the scaredy-cats out there, apparently the creator is thinking of scrapping NTR from the game.)

New Family, old story ...

It is early days, but lays the foundations and hints at what to expect in the future, with a little bit of mystery thrown in.

If you dig the art-style, you'll dig the animations - nice and fluid (although, it all just suddenly happens) with the added bonus of sfx.

The dialogue is a bit wooden at times, but serviceable.

A big no-no is sex dream sequences - it ruins interest in a potential LI. If one must have these types of scenes, at least keep it to titillation - which would aid in building the erotic tension for that character instead of going full nuclear.

Anyway!

... I'll check it out in the future after some more updates, maybe you should, too.

A very promising game, the character design, animations and the girls in general are really good, the begining of the story is good too, senceretely i didnt see anything bad for the moment, so i hope this game can continue updating

I'll start by saying that I've NEVER written a review for any game, maybe out of laziness, but I'll dedicate a few minutes to this one, it's the first time I've seen the background animations while you play, so congratulations, I'm sure this game will be a great success, I'll be happy to be your big supporter, very very nice

Amazing models. Amazing animation. Quality sound design. Interesting start to the story. Decent amount of content for a 0.1 version. I'm beyond impressed, and honestly I'm excited to see where this one goes. Hopefully the dev updates consistently.