Ren'Py - Completed - On Distant Shores [v1.0 Final] [Professor Amethyst Games]

One of the best VN's I've played(watched? read?) Engaging story, good-looking women. I can see the effort given to making the animations life-like.

One minor gripe I've had is that there are too many women and I easily forget who they were when talked about in the story. Maybe a bio of the women could be added? (accessible at all times).

Also, the image of topless Kayla(if I remember correctly lol) keeps popping up everywhere. I'm sure there is a reason for it but it was annoying, especially during sex scenes.

(I will change to a 5-star rating when the game is finished with the same quality it has now)

Well. I ahve to say one good thing about the ame and it's the writing. ITs pretty decent and seems to be adult oriented. The things it talks about are interesting, but for this game maybe the apporach is wrong, or fails to integrate it to the "porn" part.

The background kind of clashes with the sudden sexaul encounters. Its hard to see any build up. Even if there was, sex scenes are animations, without dialogue, I wouldn't cal it sexy, and I speak my opinion which is how hard my penis is, he is the one rating the game.

The sex scenes and the lack of buildup is a major issue, when the graphics department is so average. In my opinion there is nothing that makes me motivated to keep playing after the third sex encounter, which is pretty similar to the second.

And there is still another issue:, the sandbox part. It works like this:
You are at home in the living room in front of the doo, that's the default place. You have 3 ways of moving on which are the front door and the phone and at some point the laptop. Once you finish all available events for the door, you need to go to the phone to check messages and stuff, and that gives you option to pick door events once again, once they are finished, you repeat the same procedure.

The thing is there are a lot of girls, if that is enough for you, maybe the game is enough for you as it is, but for me those many girls that at some point throw themselves like youa re the last man on earth, doesn't work for me without some context. IT would work in real life situations with actual girls, but these are poor 3D representations, there is too much work needed from my imagination in order to make it work, thas why it doesn't.

Wonderful game. Starts out horribly melancholy, becomes mystical and spirtual then a porn game where a lonely database architect becomes impossibly attractive to impossibly beautiful women. We will see where it goes from here.

One of the best VNs I have ever had a chance to experience. Now I could say a lot about this one, but I don't want to spoil the experience for you, so I am going to summarize my rating.
Story: 8.5/10 (Deep and interesting)
Renders: 8/10 (Improves as it progresses)
Humour: 9.5/10 (Left me in splits)
Harem: Yes (but it has been done quite differently in this one).
Characters: 10/10 (All NPCs have a soul of their own. The game makes you care about them).
Choices: Not many, but there are a couple of important ones.
Entertainment: 8.5 - 9 / 10
I really look forward to seeing this one grow, and I sincerely hope that this developer and their team get a lot of support from the international community. Keep rocking Professor Amethyst Games!

I stumble through the wreckage, rusted from the rain…
This is a rare breed among its kind, an actual adult VN. A story about a man struggling with guilt and self loathing, thinking themselves undeserving of affection, unworthy of experiencing yet another day. A story of a man suddenly having people thrust themselves on him, being enabled to take advantage of them. Of a man fearing of succumbing to his deepest, darkest desires, in turn harming and breaking the people he now holds dear.

It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I'd say it's among the finest offered. It has an engrossing story, filled with mystery, interesting characters, and an easily sympathized with lead. The characters range from outgoing to outright broken, with varied looks and most will add to the story's mystery. I like the lead's inner monologue, their treading a tightrope between their guilt, their morals and their desires.

That being said, certain scenes offer no choice or are dependant on a seemingly random one. And although this is a harem title, it doesn't give off a very wholesome vibe – for now. To me, these points make perfect sense storywise, but they may rub some of you the wrong way.
Review based on v0.4 (as I started over, to refresh my memory before diving into 0.6).

WHAT. THE. FUCK.
This just blew my mind.
I will in all honesty admit that I came for the renders but remained for the amazing story and incredible soundtrack. The renders are good, the characters are diverse and fleshed out, the plot is gripping... I could go on for hours!
100 out of 100

Game didn't any sense to me neither did the constant mental ranting with sleep deprived monster. Sandbox implementation is poor without properly hooking up players with objective and purpose to need to grind through it. Story and dialogue could get some professional help same goes for renders. It would have been helpful if developers and story writers brought themselves on the same page before creating this game and be on the same level of understanding with plot progress. Thank you for your game.

Awesome VN game, it's well written and has many different girls with different personalities. It also has some supernatural elements which are cool, this is one of the few games where you don't want to just skip all the dialog due to it being bad or having poor translation. Also Breanna is the best girl by far.

Come on so I really enjoyed the game it has a macabre story it is very creative the animations are good the dialogues are very well written all the characters I thought were very beautiful and well made there are plenty of choices this is an important point in the game it's really cool you have the freedom to choose what you want and the tags are also pleasing to many, especially the optional MMF I found it interesting thanks for the great game made I'm looking forward to waiting for new updates This game has a lot of future ahead.

Amazing. Parts of this were all too familiar and honestly hurt like hell. Writing like this is rare. This really hit me in ways I'm still trying to process. Not sure exactly what to say but regardless of my own issues and feelings I came here to give 5 stars and say that this level of story writing is rare and amazing. Even if it did cause some pain for me I feel like this rating is the most deserved I've given here. Keep going.

This is a game with an interesting plot, but not a good adult game.

The underlying issues the MC faces and supernatural mysteries behind it all are quite intriguing; that said, sex is obviously a big part of the plot with the girls being drawn to the MC due to a higher power's intervention, but I feel that the "adult" portion of the game just feels tacked on, with no buildup of sexual tension between characters. It's like one second they're chatting about something, the next she's on her knees giving him a handjob for the 3rd or 4th time in a row. The dev also decided to add in a nun that swore celibacy and a girl that apparently can't lose her virginity or she loses her powers. In a porn game. To me, that just feels like a cop-out way to stall sexual development and add unnecessary obstacles to relationship progression.

Most animations in the game currently are just foreplay, and none of them have any accompanying text. It's just a default animation with optional different camera angles and an X to end the animation. Personally, if all I wanted to see was an animation loop, I'd go watch a porn video.

Solid game so far- the writing is mostly good, the story is intriguing, the girls are cute. The renders are decent; nothing exceptional, but they're generally above average.

The first problem with the game is related to pacing. Scene changes are very abrupt and sudden, when something as simple as a fade from one render to the next to indicate movement from one place to another would be nice. Pretty minor, but obvious and persistent enough that it annoyed me.

The second, more frustrating issue, is how little effort seems to be put into the sex scenes. The animations are pretty smooth, but portrayal of sensations and emotions are all but nonexistent. One frame a girl is telling you she wants you to finish, next frame she's covered in your jizz. Sporadic display of decent buildup for both the MC and his partner really takes me out of the scene. As a result, the scenes are mechanically descriptive, but not remotely sensual. Put more effort into making sex scenes sexy- show us the characters' emotions, their buildup, their crescendo.

EDIT: Also, the fucking saves are limited to 6 pages of 4 saves each. I tend to make one save at the start of each scene- sometimes in the middle, too, especially after long winded exposition dumps- and this limitation really fucked my enjoyment of the game. I'd give it a lower score now that I remember it, except the dev has stated in the game's thread that he intends to implement more saves, and I'll probably start over from scratch to get all the saves I wanted from the start. Here's hoping he allows unlimited saves like it should ALREADY HAVE.

7/10- despite annoyances, looking forward to more.

Review for V0.4

I liked this game a lot at the moment m it's one of my favourite VN, I don't know how I missed the first two releases , I'm glad I played it now the story of this VN is top notch and well written . It started as slow pace at the end v0.3 it's okay . Loved all the characters and art is nice and I personally hate Grinding SANDBOX but in this game it's not all grind it's more like using laptop and phone which is nice instead of maps , location and money, I hope it stays the same and I love the personality of the Main character who genuinely cares for all the girls . I love Harem games where I am not forced to choose one girl at the end , it's a harem game so it's nice to not worry about that . Overall it's an amazing game nothing is bad in the game , with lots of promise in the future , Kudos dev for this amzing game . This game is highly recommended if you love a good story and harem games .

I liked this game a lot. A bit of a slow burn and the current version came to an end just as things were picking up steam. Story seems like it's well thought out and there's a consistency to the world building.
Animations are well done, but I'd like the scenes to be a little more varied with more to see.
Definitely looking forward to more. If there was a Patreon for this I would sign up.

Okay so i played a lot of adult games so far and i do have to say few things, firstly i prefer the games where the girls are more curvy or should i say with bigger features i guess.
That being said, this game maybe doesn't have the best models out there but they are above average however i have to say the story so far one of the top 3 ive played so far, did i mention the game had like 3 updates so far and ive been playing it for the past 4 or so hours?
I'll say only this keep up the good for dev you are amazing and so is your game. keep up the good work man.

This game is AMAZING to whoever reads this you should play this game 10/10.

Nice little surprise this one! This can become really good with some tweaks but it's early days so we will wait and see.

3.5 stars really (based on version 0.3)

The storytelling is very good, better than in most games. Pretty natural dialogues as well. It does jump forward quite suddenly sometimes,and there is my main critique of the game at the moment:
I respect the devs vision for the story and the the speed and order in which to tell it, however I would really like some more agency for my MC.
Most of the girls are cute and no bother to interact with at all, but there are few who I am not very interested in. I get that we need these interactions but there's a few sex scenes I would have avoided if I had been given the chance.

The renders are decent, nothing special but most girls look nice and not very generic so that's good.
Not a fan of the dick though, it's too big and has hardly any texture , there's a lot of room for improvement there.
Animations are basic, serve their purpose I guess. They do get better later on in the game.

So all in all it's been a joy to play and I can't wait for the next update!

P.S. one little thing, please make the elevator go faster

I almost gave up on this early into it, so very glad i didn't. It's a wonderful story with a diverse character list. Cute girls as well. Very much looking forward to seeing where the Dev takes us on this ride. Highly recommended, well done!

P.S. If your one of those peeps that want every girl to be a virgin and hopelessly in love with the MC because he's...there, maybe avoid this one, just sayin.

Guys, just read it, don't skip, it's not mindless block of texts put just because.

I'm on it since a few hours I don't remember how many, however what I know is that I'm hooked in since the beginning and I didn't get bored or wanted to skip at all, not once, it's the opposite it made me feel many different things.. and I'm always happy to stumble on games like these with quality writing like this. I'm sure Dev is not on their first try.

Let's talk about renders now, the background and stuff are ok, the characters shape are ok + (I feel like their skins lack of grains, if that's the right word, it's too uniform)
Also I think MC's penis is a bit too weird-looking, it set me off a little bit. I'm here for the females what do I care about dicks right, but still.

But I'm not very bothered by the renders, I really love the story and mostly am here for it

This game is good and I mean really good. Starting with the quality of renders, it's fine, let's say average but it's not what this game is about. Animations are OK as well, must praise for multiple angle feature. But what is truly perfect is the story. I've been devouring every scene. The characters are so perfectly written, I love those inner monologues, self thoughts, simply everything, also story telling is nice. Fact that story isn't so mainstream-ish is pleasant as well. I can definitely recommend this game for its interesting story, catchy writing, nice character design and development and even a music. 9.5/10. [v0.2].

This story realy struck my heart right in to the core of my heart.
I only read to day 6 and i have tears i my eyes of recognision.
I diddnt lost my family but i can feel the sorrow as it was my own.

Great animation
Great caracters.

Keep up the good work.