VN - Ren'Py - New Horizon [v0.3] [KawaiiSukebe]

review for v0.2.

looks amazing, and that's pretty all the good in it.
writing ass, full of memes, 4th wall breaking, generic ass anime tropes and clichés.
girls are all pretty cute, but kinda trash ass personalities, or just boring as shit.
mc a bit of a bitch, a generic animu boi mc.

This game has everything I'm usually looking for in an AVN. The characters are likeable and attractive. The story was interesting enough to keep me involved and reading. Also has more content than I was expecting despite only being a 0.2 build. I could see the occasional meme referential humor being disruptive to some but I enjoyed it personally. All in all had a great time with this one and am looking forward to seeing what happens next.

Mini review:

I wanted to give this 3 stars but it feels more appropriate to give it 2 stars.

Lets start with 5 Stars


-2 Dialogue: I deducted a point for the meme references and literal images popping up during dialogue breaking the fourth wall. Besides that the dialogue is very internet speak which is not the worst I read but it also takes you out of the immersion.

-1 Story: As I previously mentioned fourth wall breaking and internet speak constantly destroy the immersion which makes me not take the story serious. But the overall theme is not serious as you have gangs, super soldiers and love interest doing a move from chainsaw man. For the rest it is the natural beta MC that pulls everyone without effort because plot. Also the story has forced love interests and is basically kinetic.

Conclusion: It's a really bad anime that doesn't take itself serious with literal meme pop ups. If the story cant take itself serious why would I put in any effort?

The only good thing I can mention is the Lis are good looking but that is the only redeeming quality.

Story 1/5
It starts off pretty good really, but MC turns out to be a submissive idiot and gets blackmailed into joining a gang and then forced to let the blackmailing bitch sleep in hes appartment and all MC thinks about is how horney he will be? not that she told him she would turn him in as a rapist to the cops with the picture she took of him helping a girl..
If MC had kicked all of their asses and take destory her phone that would have been alot more fun and then talk to the gang about hes father and joining them but not before putting the fuckers in their place....but no the submissive MC will just forgive everything.....

Why cant devs ever make a decent MC that dosent have the mindset of a 12 year old and one that arent so submissive its boring as fuck...
And you have no choices which is even more annoying since you cant make a choice to be dom and tell her to fuck off or atleast no to letting her stay, but what MC will do later is forgive her....again with no choice to the player.

Once they are at home MC just get more and more cringy thoughts its awfull to read really, like "i wonder what she smells like in all kind of diffrent places" i mean come on really wtf she tried to beat him up, she blackmails him, she forces her self to stay with him...tell me MC isent a submissive and childish idiot.

And to make it absolutly idiotic MC then walks into her in the shower knowing shes in there and acts supprised? this is turning into something worse the a b-porn movie.

Next some random girl you as the player barely know anything about is forced on you in a sex scene and if theres something i hate its forced LIs forced relationships, forced fetishes and forced sex scenes.....
And it keeps forcing girls on the player and sex scenes and so on.

This is game is just yet another mindless fuckfest game where the player has no choices or controle over anything, not even who to fuck.

Its also an all out kinetic novel and should be TAGED as such, all the choices given changes nothing, not in main story or relationships.

To make it really stupid game dosent have a harem tag not even in planed tags and the most idiotic thing you can do in any none harem game is force MC into relationships constantly and which also means there is no faithfull route what so ever, which is also idiotic in a none harem game.

Also makes me wonder how on earth anyone can give this game a high rating when its this messed up, ive even seen 5 stars reviews where the list of bad things is 3 times longer then the good stuff? and still gets 5 stars why?

Even if i could get into the main story and like that part it gets ruined to me personaly by the lack of choices and all the forced shit.

Girls 3/5
I like the girls and there is an ok diversity in builds as well, but when everyone is forced it just ends out as a huge turn-off instend.

Animations 3/5
Pretty average HS animations nothing new.

Music 3/5
Standard background stuff nothing special.

Choices 0/5
Forced LIs/Sex/Fetishes/Relationships no choices changes anything in main story so yeah all out kinetic.

Quick Review after playing 0.1.5
I'd give it 4.5 but ratings doesn't allow half scores

The Good:
- Beautiful renders and characters
- Good writing (when serious)
- Good H-scene

The Bad (or Nitpicks):
- Cringe pop culture references, very meme-y in a bad way
- BGMs are hit or miss (especially the songs, pretty sure I heard Linkin Park? Nostalgic, but come on)
- Plot Armor (MC has powers for some reason, could be salvaged if explained properly)
- Almost no choices, better to call it a Kinetic Novel
- Recurring side characters/NPCs getting overlooked or introduced late (as of this writing only MC's Best Friend has a name in MC's group while the others are generic Male Classmate 1, etc. some generic throway names wouldn't hurt)
- Overexplaining things happening like in action scenes so you'd have to click multiple times through them
- The Character speaking gets mixed up sometimes

Conclusion:
I'd give them full 5 stars if they tone down the memes (or at least try to keep it subtle), switch up the BGMs for something better fitting (would suggest something without lyrics) and fix some of the nitpicks I've mentioned above.

Overall this game has a great potential and I'm looking forward for future updates.

Randomly came across this game and decided to give it a shot. Its become a new favorite of mine, and must mention I'm impressed with the render quality given its a HS game. Looking forward to see how popular this game can become given its potential; and with more updates.

This game is very good and have a lot of potential. The plot is fine imo, but the render and design are top notch. The main character is not a wimp but an actually good person and the female cast are interesting.

Reviewing v0.1.5

Pros
- The Graphic is pleasant.

Cons
- MC's personality is pathetic, he can fight and somehow he has some friends and nameless female NPCs be happy to have him around, but ultimately his sole positive personality-trait is his sense of justice, which is put to shame by the rest of his personality, he is a simp, he likes ONE girl(Ayase) and he is subservient to her despite the awful things she does to him(that i'll explain when i'll talk about her) and he compares people to her like "oh this person is so kind and selfless that reminds me of how great Ayase is", he sucks up to her even when she is clearly hostile and aggressive.
- Ayase's plan regarding MC and what she thought about the situation: "This guy clearly saved me and my bestfriend from rape even though i attacked him first believing he was the rapist how can i convince to join me in my quest to find out what happened to my sister and maybe do some vigilantism? I could be nice and appeal to his sense of justice now that he knows that i'm the most popular and loved girl in the school and now that he knows that i'm a ninja-vigilante we can fight crime together OR i can take a picture of him and blackmail him threating him to go to the police and accuse him to be the rapist that he fought and force him to tell me where he lives insisting that nobody will ever believe his word because i'm a girl, i'm popular, i'm loved, and society clearly bends over even at false accusations of rape and other forms of assaults on women, and then be a spoiled brat that brags non-stop about how rich i am, how i know how to buy an actual 3-meals(who even eats that much?!Like 3 plates full of food) breakfast menù and how my dad made me learn how to use a sword and even though i trained for years, MC basically defeated me while also going easy on me when i thought he was the rapist, also why not maybe show off my sport-car that i bought with daddy's cash, all while still acting like an absolute douche and even mocking MC in front of his own sister and her bestfriend who apparently are in a different school but i'm that famous that they know me without MC ever mentioning me to them before today? Yeah let's go for the abusive choice!" This is probably what went through her head at the time. Ultimately Ayase believes to be a good person even though she acknowledges that she is blackmailing MC with a picture of MC completely dressed in front of her bestfriend who is partially naked, and MC having a shocked facial expression...it's such a bait picture that the picture's title could easily be "Random(possibly virgin) guy shocked after seeing a pair of tits and a pussy in a dirty alley"
- Yes if you read above MC is also the butt of every joke to a point that those jokes are shoved down your throat even though they aren't funny to begin with.
- The game is placed in Japan and everyone is apparently japanese but everyone explains to each other the meaning of every japanese-word, some characters even have names or codenames with a double meaning depending on how you read the kanjis of those names...it's so stupid, because a japanese person that knows their own language wouldn't need such explanation(aside maybe for the codenames with double-meanings...but even then i don't think people would explain it, because usually things are more simple than what they are)

Conclusion

Good Graphic, stupid plot, painfully annoying characters, clearly wrote by someone who watched too many animes and idealized Japan...I wish the best to the dev, but i'm very pessimistic about it, sorry.

Extra

I want to add a comment i made in the thread that explains way better than this review

This game will be a MASTERPIECE someday... Mark my work! Got little chill play before bed and it make me go from 1am to 6h26 am Little interact romance but that is what they call sweetness. This KS guy know exactly what he doing! Pls keep developing gud work, i'll follow and support you from now<3

Promising start. Interesting story, likeable characters and great renders. It's a slow burn with a lot of build up to each character it seems, which I like as well.
I think you should give it chance.

Good:
Beautiful art.

Bad:
Boring jokes and memes refrence.

Despite appearing quite a lot, the combat scenes are so goofy.

There arent many options for players.

The characters didn't really have a true individual personality and all seamed to have extremely similar personalities,

Music sometimes doesn't fit the situation

Next, some sexual situations are loose and generic, seen in a thousand other games before. There's not really a sense of conquest through meaningful moments.

The plot isn't that bad but I've seen these typical plot types too many times so everything in this game becomes so predictable. With the main character's plot amor that as big as the whole galaxy, nothing will surprise me, : MC enters a battle - win as always - the girls spread their legs and let him bang them - repeat.

Although I want to mention the number of sex scenes, but this game is just. v0.1.5 at the moment. Hopefully in the future the dev gonna improve his writing. But if it continues as it is, this game will become a game that, lack of lewd, and plot. Thanks for reading this and sorry for my bad english

I really like the start of this game. But we really need some clear story on how his Power come to be. I feel it's not right to judge too early regarding the game in it's whole, so i'll will keep paying attention to it.

The games body model is very very good, not to mention the Sex scenes, moves and positions are smooth and hot. I wish your journey full of hope!

I'm really digging this game so far. The story is pretty cool and the MC isn't some punk he actually has some alpha chad energy. When the end of the update ended it left me wanting more, most games lately haven't made me feel like that so this is a plus.

The girls are cute and the animations are pretty smooth. I highly encourage people to give this one a shot. It really is worth your time.

I like the visuals and I like the music, but it's all in service of a story I've read a million times before.

This one truly feels like just about every other VN: the MC is an idiot and a simp, the LIs are barely characters at all, there's a lack of any meaningful choices, the story mashes the overused missing father plot together with tired anime tropes and let's not forget the college setting. It doesn't do anything new or bold, the plot is disjointed yet predictable and the characters can't carry the game because they're generally all shallow and obnoxious.

I thought the story so far to be decent enough to warrant 4 stars, I was pretty hesitant after seeing some pics of the girls almost being raped but it never happens, it is kinetic so far but you can see that in a scene at the beginning

The MCs new found power feels forced, I'm not sure why it's been done like this, not exactly a big issue though

There's one good thing I can say without a doubt is this, the build up in relationships is slow, there's no jump into bed the day you meet a girl or random sex just for the sake of it, there's a purpose to the scenes which I can imagine being a big draw for some people like myself who enjoy a build up in story Li wise

Might change to 5 star once there's more content to read

The story is rather vague, not in withholding info and containing mystery, but in the sense that a genres and tropes were slapped together without care. The introduction fails in that it showcases potential characters within a school setting without introducing anything. The whole alley rape confusion that sets off the plot is unamusing and contrived. 1.5 is schizophrenic skipping between separate flashbacks and uninteresting downtime. Any kind of plot has been bizarrely shoehorned in. "Don't you want to know what's happened to your father?" being the introduction to protagonists family.

Neither Story or Character have been compelling, but the fashion and art is somewhat nice.

This is a 3.5 star but the system doesn't allow half star and I really don't think it deserves 4 at the moment so 3 it is.

Aesthetically pleasing renders and hot girls with tolerable MC. However this is so heavily anime-ish I cant recommend it to anyone who have enough of their shares of anime, badly written one especially.

High school setting normal guy MC, checked.
Everyone having fake made-up Japanese name that no real Japanese ppl will use checked.
Father went missing checked.
Super popular student president girl actually a secret heroine checked.
MC discovered secret power and save the girl checked.
Some mystery going on involving seemingly important conspiracy checked.
Excessively used of facial expression terms like "smirk" "raise eyebrows" instead of meaningful dialogue; and character getting angry without any reason just to create tension checked.

And on and on the list goes. As someone who has limited tolerance for these super cringy anime-tropes, this one is wayyy too much for me. The renders are there to salvage the playability and there is a pinch of story here and there, but if it keeps this direction I suspect one day it will be too much for me to digest even a single word. Therefore 3.5/5 - beautiful renders without any real substance.

Just the first release so not much to base this on BUT based on what is in the game so far, I think its got tons of great potential. So far the renders are good, the girls are nice, the plot is fun and interesting, the music and sounds are nice. Everything about it just shows nice potential. Looking forward for more. The easter egg was a nice touch too lol. iykyk