Ren'Py - On My Way Home [Ch.2 P3] [MrKuchi]

mapeie-memap still confusing despite improving a lot in updates, beautiful and well-crafted characters, the story is average because it's getting lost in the middle of so much drama. Still, congratulations.

+An intriguing mystery story
+Characters with personality and interesting storylines
+Reasonably open enough to play the MC the way you want to
+Great dialogue
+Beautiful renders
+Awesome, hot girls

-Me worrying about how terrible Elizabeth's back pains must be after carrying those two watermelons attached to her chest 24/7
-Uncle's mustache
-Uncle's cooking

This game is one of the best gems i found in 2022, the render quality is superb, the story is compelling, there are loads of Love interests and the quality of the animations just keeps getting better, it really shows the dev is improving on each and every version of the game
I just don't understand the paths we are taking and how they affect the plot, like to be evil dominant or "pacifist"?
But I'm sure we will discover it soon enough
++Vania

Well, it's average imo, why?
First, talking bout quality and renders, its what most people would say is "perfect" or "damn that shits buzzin"
but as more games are being released, so are thinks like renders and quality getting improved.
Therefore its more difficult to make a game stand out based on graphics alone.

I find the story average aswell, I mean u got some protagonist who's living with his uncle and u had some kind of accident which we'll get to know as the story progresses i guess.
Meanwhile u meet some girls and fuck some iyk to say the right things and somehow u got superpowers and shit.

Also, the dialoges are sometimes boring, where i cant help myself but to skip and sometimes pretty good. But its missin something that gets u hooked, f.e. like some real comedy or jokes i guess? idk

Sandbox game...well not much to say, i like it switching between sandbox and visual novel i guess. Its not the kind of sandbox like "rise to the top" where u switch between locations and speak to some people at different times. The sandbox here is more like/ exactly like Being a Dik.

The MC...damn i hate him, but like the personality. I just don't get it...he learns i guess that sometimes he has superpowers but he can't control it?
Therefore And he gets cocky af sometimes cause of this i guess, cause he gets involved in some fight (inevitable) and says some bullcrap like "ye lemme beat u up real quick" (not exactly like that). I mean BOY if u know u got some powers and shit but can't control when it happens, then WHY act cocky. BUT it's not like that every time ig...still pisses me of...but its an h-game so no reason to dwell on it.

SO...yeah...pretty average and I still recommend playing it..fr tho

Exciting new game. I like the quality of render and characters are interesting. In addition, dialogue is interesting to read compared to some other games.

Version 0.6 Review:
Both the art rendering, the models, and the story are very good, and I was impressed that Mama Zoe is a MILF and the most appealing female character to me, this game deserves more support.

Pros -
The rendering is great, the girl characters look great, especially MILF who is very sexy and beautiful.

Cons -
Currently 0.6, I wish the update release time would come sooner

VSN are all about writing and the writing in this is all over the place. The plot is full of empty melodrama and characters you don't care about.

Also, the MC must be some sort of alien.

Allow me to explain:
there's a scene, where a friend instructs him how to cook spaghetti (because, of course it's spaghetti!) It's his first time around a kitchen (!) and she asks him to pass her a tomato. Yes, a tomato.
And then the game kindly shows you a picture of two bell peppers and two tomatoes and you're supposed to make the right choice. You know: like in one of those mobile games ... for babies.

I mean, there's being inexperienced around the kitchen and kitchen tools and then there's having the brain of a pigeon. This is something toddlers learn and the fact that the dev made this a choice indicates, that this is not played for laughs but that they seriously imagine, that this is something an adult could possibly struggle with. Kind of insulting to your audience...

But here's the cherry on top: if you choose correctly (again, something a pre-schooler could do), your friend tells you that "you're very good at cooking. You're a natural". XD. UNIRONICALLY.

Also, I wish people would learn how to depict clothes correctly. Clothes aren't just painted on and automatically take the shape of the body they're covering. When a lady with a big cup-size wears a pullover, the garment doesn't magically stick to the underboob, as if it were glued to it - nope, it just falls down. I know this is a nitpick and that it's EVERYWHERE, but it looks ridiculous every time I see it.

Good Points
+ Art/Render style looks good.
+ We have some good-looking girls/women.
+ Story is quite interesting, but same time confusing and hard to understand.
+ We have good music and songs.

Bad Points
- Story and lewd content balance is not good, we need more lewd content for better balance.
- There is a weird empty feeling when something happens, like someone says MC her laptop is broken, MC says he can fix it and then we saw dialogue ''Thanks for fixing my laptop, you saved my life!'' but... Why we saw nothing about the fixing part? And this is not the only one, nearly whole game have this empty feeling when something happens.
- Couple of girls looks kind of unattractive and they can use some change like Zoe's face or Emma's, sure their bodies looks good, but their face is unattractive.
- Vania and her mixed head is annoying, one second she is crazy for the MC, next second she says she wants to stay as a friends... It's just doesn't make any sense at all.
- Ruby trying to act all mysterious is makes no sense and not enjoyable either, like seriously after all that trouble MC gone through for her she doesn't even told her name to the MC and told ''maybe one day you will learn'' for real?
- There are lots of scene we saw cardboard 2D people or background and it looks cheap and very bad.
- Evil points are quite nonsense, why does punching bully of your childhood/teenage days counts as a evil action? Like seriously why?
- Probably intended, but after certain scenes (like the visions MC had) or after choices we can't use rollback option anymore to pass that point, and that means if you skipped that part you have to go back your another save and watch again, which is annoying, rollback should be always available.

For The End
Basically its game with good potential but need a lot of improve to reach that potential.

Version 0.6 Update

Personally, I really like the game. The game is not too far along, but so far it has a lot of potential. This seems to follow a Young Man/Comic Relief or Horny Best Friend/ DominanceORGentleman or Submissive? System/ Dumb Bully formula so if that's too generic for you, feel free to miss out. Although some areas need improvement, I don't think there is anything in the game I would call terrible. The main cast is likable and you have a good time with the game, if you let it.

The Story:
You, the MC, end up forming a group of friends that consist of: You, Your Best Friend, Your Crush, and Your Crush's Best Friend. After the odd death of parents, MC suffers from weird symptoms involving memory loss, lustful/aggressive behavior, and supernatural powers? There are spouts of memory loss like, not remembering the death of your parents, not remembering a hot scene between you and your crush's best friend, among other things. Behind the scenes, there are two people that are talking about having done something regarding your "awakening" : Your Principal (AKA your crush's father) and his accomplice.

The Good
Beautiful Renders
Likable Main Cast
Characters Aren't Similar in Appearance or Personality
The Plot (So Far)

The Unknown
Flashbacks are not Confusing (So Far)
Dominance/Gentleman System
Energy/Stamina Levels

The Average / Needs Improvement
Girl Animations During Sex
Sandbox Implementation
Spelling

Review of Version 0.6

Overall a very interesting game The renders are good and the story is compelling. There are many characters that have a lot of story potential so I'm looking forward to seeing how it plays out. I had no issue with the playthrough. However, there weren't very many decisions so far....at least compared to what I was expecting. This isn't a negative because, as I said before, there are many characters that have great story potential.

I didn't have any issues with bugs or game performance. No slowdown or anything of that nature. It ran smooth and flawlessly.

Overall, I suggest that if you haven't given this game a playthrough, then do so. You do not think that you'll be disappointed.

I'm having a tough time deciding if I like this VN or not.
The LI's are pretty hot - so that is a plus.
The Prologue is kind of cringy - it is your cliche high school scenario (MC is a loser, you have your bully, you have your aloof best friend, you have the main LI who the MC is too shy to talk to). But beyond the Prologue being cliche, the dialogue just feels off and I don't feel a real connection to the characters. It all just feels one dimensional. Also everything feels really fragmented.
Additionally most of your choices just loop to the same spot - the only impact your choices seem to make are some dialogue differences. To be fair - the VN is still in early development, so the choices you make could dramatically affect the story later on. But so far the choices you make now just change a few scenes you see and then you end up at the same spot. As an example - the MC meets Vania in the bathroom and is given several options to continue progressing sexually with her or stop. I have played it both ways and whether the MC progresses to where he almost has sex with her or he stops right away - later on he apologizes to her and says the exact same dialogue.
One thing I do to test if my choices matter is - I start over and every time I have a choice, I pick what I think is the worst option (rude, mean, etc). In doing this with this VN, I ended up at the same place as I did when I picked all the best options (with just some scene and dialogue differences).

I will say - a lot of my issues with the story could just be that this VN is early in development and everything will fall in to place as the story progresses. If that is the case I will gladly come back and edit my review.

I am giving this VN 3 stars mainly because all the female models are really hot. I am not really connecting with the story much. I feel like there is a foundation of an interesting story, but it just isn't being executed/written properly pull the readers in.
To provide an example of what I mean - there are all these pictures at the end of the prologue that convey this strong friendship that these 4 friends have had over the past 4-5 years. However the story itself doesn't convey that same bond at all. As I said earlier - it all just feels one dimensional. The MC is in love with Zoe because the Dev told us he is - or he was. Apparently the MC couldn't remember that his whole relationship with Zoe started because he was madly in love with her. Also Vania can't decide if she has feelings for the MC or if she thinks he is a loser and can't stand him and she has a boyfriend whom she says is not her boyfriend - but then she is also moving away, so Vania is kind of all over the place. Then there is Emma - who is she? She doesn't show up in the prologue, she only shows up on a few phone calls in the present, we have no background on her. I assume she will eventually emerge as a LI. Melissa and Hilary feel like they were just thrown in to the story to add some sexual content. It feels like Patrick was just thrown in to the story because - every MC needs to have a bully. The MC's best friend (can't recall his name, that's how uninteresting he is) checks the - carefree, only cares about getting laid - cliche best friend check box.

Really good story so far with tonnes of protential. I like how the game takes a slow burn to explore the existing relationship between the MC and the rest of the main cast, which not a lot of games do.

I honestly don't understand all the one-stars from those who get stuck in the easiest free-roam in existence.

Version played: 0.51
This will be my first short review here, this is something I plan to do more in the future.

First of all the current version is pretty short, with not a lot of scenes, so keep that in mind.
The story is pretty decent, it’s not blowing me away but I have definitely seen worse ones out there.

In terms of gameplay, it’s mostly a linear visual novel with some branching paths, with a short free roam section, I personally think it would be better if they left it out completely or went free roam entirely. As it stands it just doesn’t really fit in well.

There is also some sort of optional stamina system, as far as I know all it does is limit the scenes you can get in a section, personally I don’t think it’s much of an addition in it’s current form.

In terms of girls and scenes, you can get a pretty good impression about the girls from the screenshots. Scenes wise, there are not too many of them but the number does fit the length of the story. There is not much animation going on, which I am pefectly fine with. I just wish a bit less emphasis on large breasts and thick lips, but that is mostly due to personal taste.

Overall I think this VN is good enough to keep following but it is not at the top for me.

Please make the animations better! This game is one of the handful that draws my interest on this site and the renders are superb. It's such a shame that the animations are so bad ... so bad! Try to have the girl move during sex a little at least!

On My Way Home [v0.51.0] -
The game has good renders, all the women fit my tastes, they dont look the same character with different hair, each one have a distinct look/personality and MC is a cool guy. The story by now is going well, the flow is good and i didnt have any kind of bugs.

Now about the Sandbox element that is causing some fuss, and keep in mind that im a guy that hates full sandbox games.
90~95% of the game is a straight VN with choices and all, in ocasional moments we have the freeroam mode (just one by now), there are well known and well rated games on F95 that uses the same kind of gameplay, theres NO grind, NO stats, NO day times and etc...In the freeroam you can talk with some characters, interact with some items, use the smartphone (make calls, send texts...), there is pictures to be collected (not mandadory), and you can collect food to fill energy bars that are used on sex scenes (not mandatory, but you will not be able to go through all sex scenes options), they are easy to find, its not super well hiden, its just some clickable food items.... not a deal breaker, but yes, would be easier/better without it, this can become a problem when dating several girls as this energy bar has only 5 slots... but we have to see how dev will handle this as the "problem" didnt presented itself yet. In the freeroam most of things are optional and the phone has a menu that shows all the optional tasks, i think some of them have the potential to affect something in the future, so i think its wise to do everything. The freeroam areas (by now) are not big so just takes a few minutes to go through it...summarizing, this freeroam section its not a deal breaker, give a try and see for yourself....

The game has got good renders and an interesting storyline. The girls are pretty too. The biggest setback for the game is its free roam and collecting picture thing. There are games where even these factors work and players enjoy it but it won't work in this case , so I would really suggest to not add those further . Other than that the game is nce.

Review for v0.5.1
Starting with good things about this game - It starts with some mystery around Main character and some weird disease he has , other than the school part story seems good , added to that female models are well done and good renders and then moving on with negatives - the gameplay is quite bad we get to free roam after prologue gets completed , free roam was okay not too bad i just finished main task ,skipped the optional tasks and got on with the game . After few minutes i can't able to continue lewd scenes , it seems the game needs you to find some energy things if you wanna unlock lewd scenes . I came here to play games not to search for random items which are no use to the story . Talk about disappointment this game sure had potential , I loved the story and the prologue and girls but the unnecessary free roam and weird objects to collect to unlock lewd scenes in a adult VN is pretty dumb and looks like the energy thing is gonna stay and it seems dev has no intentions of stopping that , so I don't think I'll playing this game again . Good luck dev this gameplay is just not for me .

On My Way Home [v0.5.0] [MrKuchi]
PROS -
Renders are good and the girl characters look stunning .
NEUTRAL -
Story prologue is decent other than cliche school setting . Past Main character is weird looks like a 40 yr old man in 12 year old body who is a loser at least that is what he is referred to in most part of the prologue , who is bullied , beaten in school and the usual story of school bullies and playboy male best friend and shy girl fiend , your female friend starts to date your bully where haven't we seen that before .
CONS -
As soon as the prologue got over , game becomes into messy free roam / sandbox after a few choices where you have to click on random items / door to find kitchen and some energy items to collect with no labelling , no shortcuts to rooms lost my interest after that and uninstalled the game . Sandbox / free roam when done it would okay but in this game it is simply poor not even an option to skip .
Game started out good with some excellent renders but sandbox / free roam and the same old cliche characters ruins this game and 2 stars in the end for this game .

Gameplay : ✭✭✭✭✰
Story : ✭✭✭✭✰
Spelling : ✭✭✭✭✰
renders : ✭✭✭✭✭
Potential : ✭✭✭✭✭
Overall : ✭✭✭✭✰
Girls physique : ✭✭✭✭✭
Graphic : ✭✭✭✭✭
Creativity :✭✭✭✭✰
Note :

I love it !
I hope the story will more excited in future , and the Adult scenes ofc..

All the best to the developer.

Version 0.3

Good renders and nice girls although some of them are well known "artists".

MC looks like a 15 yo Boy.

Story is all over the place. the Boy faints and is suddenly in a party, what party is that? Is the Zoe his girlfriend or not? If not, is there a reason? Why is Vania "with" Patrick for months, to make the MC jealous or something? Let me guess, we are supposed to find out latter and these are supposed to be mysteries... The milf masturbating thinking about that little boy of a MC?! That's the biggest mystery so far... MEH

Decent music.

Free roam breaks immersion for me, not that I got that much immersed. Gathering of pics has been done to exhaustion, I hope that's not the entire point of the free roaming...

So far we have 3 woman interested in the BOY, and I'm not counting Zoe, for some reason that escapes me as usual... I know, porn game, no reasons needed...

I still don't know what kind of illness the Boy has.

What's important for me in these are the stories, not the renders, so giving 3 stars I'm already stretching it. Does it have potential? A little, yes but it needs work because it can be a lot better imo. I'll update this review if this goes anywhere. I hope it does. I'm definitely following it.


Thank you and the best of luck.