VN - Ren'Py - Completed - New Life [v1.0] [SheepyWorksGames]

  1. 1.00 star(s)

    molitar

    The story is awful the girl desperately needs a job and gets hired by a resort where every single person is a sexual predator! She is forced into situation even when she says no so the choices mean absolutely nothing. It tries to disguise itself as a Visual Novel but the choices mean absolutely nothing so it's a Kinetic Novel with fake choices as they mean absolutely nothing... you will be a victim no matter what choices you make.

    Writing: 1/5
    Sound: 1/5 (no audio)
    Visual Novel 0/5 (it's actually a kinetic novel as your choices mean nothing)
  2. 4.00 star(s)

    Branwen

    Rewiew for Version 0.7.0

    Story is kinda meh to be honest,all the big reveals it tries to do can be seen 20 mins into the game. But it ries very hard to be a good story.

    Scenes are Quantity over Quality, that seems to be a theme with these kinds of games where the Models are all like that.

    Music or any kind of sound is nonexistent.

    Yet there is passion in this game, the dev tries very hard.
  3. 3.00 star(s)

    anotheruser

    New Life seems, in many ways, to be a potentially good game (or two) hidden behind a misleading description and a few very poor design decisions.

    An appropriate summary for this game might be: Innocent Chloe desperately needs a job, but the only company that will hire her seems to be staffed almost entirely by sexual predators, who see young Chloe as the perfect target for their unapologetic sexual aggression. All this will be largely ignored while she's railroaded by poor-writing into a relationship with an incredibly annoying "innocent" lesbian serial-groper/rapist for no apparent reason.

    First of all, it has almost no resemblence to the older-and-more-popular game Newlife (also available on F95), aside from the title. In fact the content is, in many ways, the polar opposite of its namesake (the older game being a text-based open sandbox with good writing and zero non-con).

    The game initially gives the impression of an all-female cast, but most of the characters who pursue the MC seem to have male genitals (notable exceptions being Emily, the delusional psychopath/serial-groper, and Rebecca who uses a strap-on in a rare almost-consensual sex scene where she rapes the MC as an apparently-normal part of her job interview process).

    Weirdly a fair number of the obviously-female-looking characters use male names and pronouns. The entirely-populated-by-women-with-cocks thing may just be an odd artistic-style choice on the part of the game developer(s). The intent may be a mixed population of slightly-effeminate men plus a bunch of "girls" with penises or reasonable facsimiles thereof, which they'd quite like to insert into the MC. Possibly the artist can't draw men, or possibly they're using recycled graphics from a game with an all-female cast.

    The initial harassment/coercion/rape part of the game could be quite a good for people who enjoy that sort of fantasy, but the railroaded lesbian relationship really spoils it (the girlfriend is clearly a psychopath and a rapist, but the author treats her as cute and innocent and insists that the MC has actual feelings for her).

    Conversely anybody playing for the lesbian romance will likely be put off by the constant sexual abuse of the MC, and the fact that the girlfriend is (based on her actions) a truly horrible person, despite the author presenting her as if she were likable.

    If this were two separate games: One kinetic novel where the MC has a boring-but-cute relationship with Emily and another entirely separate one where the MC is constantly blackmailed and raped, they'd both probably be able to attract an audience who's into that sort of thing. As it is, I can't see this going very far unless the author does some significant rewrites.

    p.s. I've added an extra star for the writing: The text does contain quite a few errors, demonstrating a lack of proofreading, but at least the author seems to have a reasonable grasp of English vocabulary and grammar. If they bothered to check it for spelling and punctuation (which they hopefully will at some point), the writing would be technically quite good. That's rare enough that I feel it should be rewarded.