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

[rahy]

It is an 8 out of 10 game, and here is my review of it.

It might contain some mild spoilers, so be advised.

First of all, I am not a native English speaker, so I cannot judge the writing.

The graphics and renders are pretty decent, and the animations are good too, especially considering it was made by just one person.

The story was one of the best I've played lately, though unfortunately not until the end, so let's get to that.

The message at the end with that girl hit me hard. As someone who has been struggling with depression and life for a long time, unfortunately, I have had more life inside the VN than in my own.

The story was captivating and very interesting. I really enjoyed the pace of things and the way they were going, BUT a little more control over certain choices and possibly different paths would have been awesome. The religious concept and the idea that God abandoned that universe were amazing. I was really excited to see a happy ending where I would finally be able to deflower Breanna, but sadly, that never happened </3. The ending was bad for me, but that doesn’t mean the game is. When you have a depressing life, the least you can expect from some games is to have a happier one.

Sorry if my review sounds a little off. Again, I am not a native English speaker, and sometimes I struggle a lot when trying to express my thoughts and feelings. Your characters were really good and well-constructed. I grew attached to a handful of them and really wanted to help them and give them a happy ending.

That said, I thank you for this game and for the time I enjoyed while playing it. You don’t have to, but maybe in the near future, you could revisit the game—perhaps a remake? If you manage to have a small team in the future to help with it, that would be awesome. More choices and endings, more renders, and more time with the girls. I am looking forward to your next works and wish you all the best and good luck. Thanks for the game. I also hope that in the near future, my life will change and give me the possibility to support your next games.

 

[Rockero_69]

After reading through many of the recent comments, I again apologize that the ending was such a let down. I hope to learn from my mistakes. Thank you for your honest feedback.

I must admit that the ending left me with a bittersweet feeling, because as a lover of happy endings and/or catastrophic endings, not having any of them (well Krista's could be the happy ending or alternative, but it lacked more context, a final scene with her and maybe children and that in the end they will end up hugging and everything becomes dark slowly)
The canon ending, so to speak, would have been nice if at the end all the girls appeared saying goodbye to the MC and little by little it becomes blurry and dark and a tear rolls down her cheek.

Well, leaving aside the ending, it was a good game, the NPC renders are very good for the most part, here and there one or another NPC could have been better, Still I hope to see what new AVN could bring in the future, without further greetings DEV

 

[PervySageKem]

God thing I read the previest posts before playing the game, I started playing until the visit to the phone store but I guess I am deleting it right now.

 

[estrada777]

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Updated Android port. Nothing too fancy but let me know if you have any issues.

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[Willy1975]

Interesting game. I found myself checking Wikipedia for several references made in the game, as I find ancient mythology fascinating. I'm not even halfway through it, and I know many find the ending disappointing (like Mass Effect 3 disappointing).

But I'll still play it until the end, before I get disappointed

 

[fitzjmm]

Man I loved this game. Right up until the damn end. Would of been one of my top and recommended games, but now I just can't. It's like Game of Thrones. I won't recommend that to anyone and won't even watch it anymore. This feels like that to. me. Damn. It hurts because it was so damn close.

 

[PervySageKem]

I decided to give this a try, since there are so few finished suppossed harem games, but what the actualy fuck is this game? One second people are telling me to kill myself, the other they are smiling? Like, this breaks all logic that I just cant enjoy it. The NPCs arent real, maybe some hallucination or something, and that makes it impossible to connect with. Wtf is the point of this misery porn?

EDIT: Correction,she wasnt smilling at me. She literally started taking her clothes off. What. the. fuck.

 

[Tora-uma]

I waited some time before posting this, as ODS was probably one of my 3 fav games ever...

...let's start from stating that the game is GREAT. Well thought, well written, nice renders, nice charachter design, hot scenes...it has it all. That's why I can't see what could have gone so wrong for the dev to end it the way he did...of course the fact of NOT KNOWING the consequence of our final choice, like the MC wouldn't know, it's an interesting and in its own way revolutionary point of view, but......It's a game, and it should give, once ending, at least a sense of completion to the player, instead it felt, like said a couple posts above, like GOT s8: abrupt, rushy, incomplete and unnecessary. The girls' future roles in the MC's actions (such as saying "I'll be very useful to you in the end you'll see" ...but we never see that!) aren't explored...it all feels, well, like the dev just got tired of the project and gave it an end for the sake of it...and it's really sad to have this impression from a game which i LOVED every single update before it went wrong.
If this all has been caused by some problem of the dev, of the mind or of the body, then it COULD be somehow an explanation...otherwise, being said that the dev is the only one who has and must have the final word on his own creative product, the end is inadmissible.


But I still 100% recommend playing this game.

 

[PervySageKem]

YO, I GAVE IT ANOTHER TRY. DUDE, THERE ARE A LOT OF STUPID THINGS AND HAS A PORN GAME IT SUCKS, BUT DAMN THESE TWISTS ARE GOOD

After beating the Mayor and talking to Hollow and him calling us Master and shit?!?!?!? WTF, that gave me chills. Insane moments in the story.


That being said: the only thing even remotely hot about this game was the glamour and how the girls reacted to you. Without it, it feels a fucking pain to play and interact with the characters.

Also: the "turn" system completely ruins how natural sex is. If I'm with a girl and there is a mood going on, her saying "it's not my turn" is super stupid and completely ruins the scene. Its stupid.

 

[PervySageKem]

Here is my rating:

So, I've decided to push through and finish the game.

All in all, it was a cool experience. I didn't dislike the ending like so many disliked, I think the ending was pretty cool and I was kinda expecting it from the beginning when the MC said his job.

However, I think this game tried to hard to be something that it wasnt. At the end of the day, this is a porn game and putting so many cool and sexy characters and kinks and not exploring them was a big fail.

Specially in the end, when girls were literally disappearing and were in a position to have sex with the MC, but then they would say "its not our turn". Honestly, if you dont want to render that scene DONT PUT THAT ICE CREAM IN FRONT OF US. Like, it's okay if you dont want to have 5 or 6 sex scenes per day, but dont tease them and say "cant, because its not our turn", its super annoying. If you are going to deny it DONT TEASE IT.

The kinks with the Nicole the doll girl and the sub/dom with Tien was barely touched. The same with Misha's body modification kink, what a waste of an excelent model. The Daddy thing with Audrey was cool, but I always felt like the sex scenes themselves were lacking. OH, and things with Breanne never actually took off, which is a fucking disaster.

The story is cool, there are some very cool moments but, if we remind ourselves why we are downloading this game, I can only give it a 2 out of 5. It had the potencial to be a 5 out of 5, you just needed to actually commit to the perviness and the kinks and less to the depression.

 

[Cpt. Jonas]

Well it's a good game feels like a real "Simulation" games. It's scary to think you feel everything is real until the last moment to know it wasn't real at all...what a plot twist. I can see alot people complaining about the ending but I can see why.....tho I figured the ending made a route for part 2 like you choose the crown , authority etc. your copy got transferred as same authority. This could potentially give part 2 and give me sci-fi feeling where the A.i. universe actually colliding with reality and you're going to save a multi verse... Idk it's just my opinion....


But I really loved the game and had some deep meaning for people like me. Keep up the good work hope your next project will be even better good luck

 

[fkrfxr]

I loved this one. So very creative. Nice plot twist. I did like the end as it really brought it all together. I hope his wife is able to transfer his memories and his harem to the new universe in a part 2

 

[AkaQ]

Maaan... what a brutal letdown... tldr: don't play this one if you don't want to be disappointed...

I was really enjoying the beginning of the game: cool story, pretty ladies, mysticism and magic, harem. But in the endgame it just derails hard. So much is promised, so much is teased, very little is given... and dev is weirdly stingy of sexual content.
First half of the game seems like a solid 4/5, but after so much bullshit that happens I would give it 2/5 for the sour taste in my mouth it gave me.

Another game, SOMA, has a similar concept of the "PA thing" (without spoiling too much), but there it's handled waaay better and we actually get to see the MC get to his Nirvana, while here it's just a fade to black and credits. There is no happy ending here, no harem, no lesson, it's almost purposely hurtful without any payoff... it was just a pointless mess.

 

[Mike Hunt TG]

>>> So much is promised, so much is teased, very little is given... and dev is weirdly stingy of sexual content.<<<

Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong. If all you wanted was a porn game fuckfest, there are plenty of those. Play Grandma's House (I love Grandma's House, TBH, but it is NOT a piece of AVN literature like this one) where the guy is getting blowjobs from the moment he awakens and sex sex sex one after the next until he finally falls asleep.

Also, the idea that the MC could fix what is happening in the world? I wondered that myself - the little girl in the park, his housekeeper/lover, and all the Lost Ones. Yet, it was not in the MC's power to do it because he was governed by the same parameters that they were. The feeling of helplessness I felt while reading/playing was so profound and it was not until the end that it all made sense.

One thing the author/dev could have done to shut up the majority of the naysayers would have been to create a single splashpage image for each potential result chosen - Amy on each throne with the LIs participating in a law-driven or free manner, in each case, the image of the MC off in the corner somewhere. To have some total wish fulfillment on the part of the player as MC would have cheapened it, but just this image, fading away to oblivion, might have shut some of the naysayers up.

I liked it as it was because I like stuff like the old Outer Limits or the writing of cyberpunk William Gibson where endings are not always warm and fuzzy.

Keep creating intelligent, deep, sometimes dark AVNs, please. Thank you for this one, once again.

 

[Firaxius]

I never expected this to be a hardcore porn game, which is good. So far I played up to day 30 and I sure love the story so far, it pretty deep and dark, maybe somewhat twisted. Personaly I don't believe in god, heaven or hell, but I did read holy scripts of different religioins and visited some holy places as each have a certain truth to them but also a certain lie deep among them.

I can say from my heart, i'm glad to found this vn, coze i'm somewhat tired of only fuckfest stories that sometimes make me angry and other times bored. This story doesn't do that to me, in fact i try to enjoy it as long i can by playing each day either one day or a few days of vn time, as the story is really thrilling and making me want to read more. You are a very good writer and I hope in the future to see new stories you make.

 

[PervySageKem]

>>> So much is promised, so much is teased, very little is given... and dev is weirdly stingy of sexual content.<<<

Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong. If all you wanted was a porn game fuckfest, there are plenty of those. Play Grandma's House (I love Grandma's House, TBH, but it is NOT a piece of AVN literature like this one) where the guy is getting blowjobs from the moment he awakens and sex sex sex one after the next until he finally falls asleep.

Also, the idea that the MC could fix what is happening in the world? I wondered that myself - the little girl in the park, his housekeeper/lover, and all the Lost Ones. Yet, it was not in the MC's power to do it because he was governed by the same parameters that they were. The feeling of helplessness I felt while reading/playing was so profound and it was not until the end that it all made sense.

One thing the author/dev could have done to shut up the majority of the naysayers would have been to create a single splashpage image for each potential result chosen - Amy on each throne with the LIs participating in a law-driven or free manner, in each case, the image of the MC off in the corner somewhere. To have some total wish fulfillment on the part of the player as MC would have cheapened it, but just this image, fading away to oblivion, might have shut some of the naysayers up.

I liked it as it was because I like stuff like the old Outer Limits or the writing of cyberpunk William Gibson where endings are not always warm and fuzzy.

Keep creating intelligent, deep, sometimes dark AVNs, please. Thank you for this one, once again.

It doesnt need to be a fuckfest, but If you put so many girls in a game and you dont even fuck half of them (let's not forget this is a porn game), you are diluting the experience. Half the scenes end with the phrase "today is not our turn, so we cant fuck him". That is just stupid. If they arent going to fuck, dont begin the scene with the tease and seduction and suddenly stop 20 times in a row.

The author is absolutely stingy with sex scenes. There isnt payoff with almost any of the characters. The only character who's kink is minimally satisfied is the daddy girl, and even that is just 2 or 3 lackluster scenes.

You can make dark, intelligent, deep AVNs AND AT THE SAME TIME SATISFY THE KINKS. It's not one or the other and the devs have to choose.

It's your type of comments that settle for the bare minimum that keeps the devs doing the bare minimum.

 

[PervySageKem]

Maaan... what a brutal letdown... tldr: don't play this one if you don't want to be disappointed...

I was really enjoying the beginning of the game: cool story, pretty ladies, mysticism and magic, harem. But in the endgame it just derails hard. So much is promised, so much is teased, very little is given... and dev is weirdly stingy of sexual content.
First half of the game seems like a solid 4/5, but after so much bullshit that happens I would give it 2/5 for the sour taste in my mouth it gave me.

Another game, SOMA, has a similar concept of the "PA thing" (without spoiling too much), but there it's handled waaay better and we actually get to see the MC get to his Nirvana, while here it's just a fade to black and credits. There is no happy ending here, no harem, no lesson, it's almost purposely hurtful without any payoff... it was just a pointless mess.

What game is that "SOMA"?

 

[Hadron-5]

A final note from me, the author. What a huge undertaking this was for me. I'm glad I was finally able to complete the game. For those of you who are upset that the game did not live up to your expectations, I apologize. Like I've said many times, the game is flawed, because I am flawed. I'll say more in a spoiler:

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Regardless, thank you to all of you who played. I hope you were able to enjoy something in it, even if it was hopelessly flawed. Coming from someone who battles clinical depression daily, it seems strange to not give a happy ending. But, I think sometimes we don't always get a happy ending and we have to try and find some kind of meaning in the cards we're dealt.

It might seem arrogant to mention, but for those who might be interested, I have started work on a new game. It will be a much less abstract and depressing game. Since it will be my second attempt at something like this, I hope I will have improved some. I should have more to share in a couple months. Until then, I wish you well.

Thank you for the great game, baconsmoke. This was an absolute gem, and I hope you continue. Don't worry too much about the negative comments, the only reason they care so much is because your game moved them, presumably as you intended. I hope the next one is as emotionally touching as this one was.

If you do feel that there is too much negativity, read the reviews with 5 stars. You did write some truly magnificent passages, and a lot of your audience recognized that.

 

[AkaQ]

Wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong.

LoL my dude, stop deluding yourself into thinking the end of the game wasn't a rushed mess.
The narrative changes abruptly every half hour, then the dev overuses the dragon as a crutch to just end it all.
There are several plot points that the dev simply decides not to explore, as if he was already tired of the game and just wanted to end it once and for all.

As I said, several things were promised but not delivered: Tien being "awesome" and the reason she's the whipping girl, Amy and the Choices mattering to something, Araceli date, Muriel and Priestess virginity (might there be other girls that were forgotten also), Pregnancies... and a whole bunch of other stuff that was teased but we don't get a proper visual feedback (not necessarily sexual)... that's what usually we call bad writing/game design lol.
Dev even forgets Helen's name and calls her Heather in one of the last conversations in the game, this is quite symptomatic of him being fed up with the game in my opinion.

One thing the author/dev could have done to shut up the majority of the naysayers

You're even defeating your own arguments by trying to came up with a fix for the ending yourself.
Although I agree, the ending could be a bit salvaged if, after the credits, images of the future in Aethernum were added. Showing the new life, a teenage Amy with her crown and MC with his wives and children... that would be really sweet and give a better closure.

What game is that "SOMA"?

Just google SOMA on steam, it's not a porn game tho. It's a horror similar to Alien Isolation and the plot is a about a dude that after a brainscan finds himself waking up years in an apocalyptic future in the body of a robot.
It has a similar concept to the whole PA thing (Personality Avatar scan).