VN - Ren'Py - Our Home [v3.02.00] [Old Hiccup]

I played this game for the first time may 2022 (ver2.1.5) and it looked pretty good. You can see the amount of work in really nice graphics, animations and sandbox.

But it's January 23 (ver 2.2.2) and to be honest I don't see any progress in plot - we have maybe 2 new scenes and info that it's the end of the version.

At the moment, there is absolutely no need for a sandbox here!!! Plot is purely linear so far.
And the sandbox introduces unnecessary confusion in jumping around the exact times and places for something to happen. A waste of time with so little story content.

In other words, nothing is happening here at the moment.

So now I looked at the screenshots and there are probably all the scenes from the current phase of the game

In my opinion:
Graphics 10/10
Story (beginning) 8/10 - no progress
Sandbox 1/10 - because it's unnecessary

Although the story is only at the beginning, it already draws a lot of attention, especially the mysteries that are formed throughout the game. The renders, animations, menu, soundtrack and characters are very well done, beautiful and original. The characters are charismatic, funny, and each has their own personality. The Sandbox is simple, just read the dialogues and don't play skipping everything. I'm excited to see what this game has in store for us in the future.

First time I opened this game I was surprised by how beautiful its entire gui is, menus, animations with the presentation of characters, very well done transitions, etc. In addition, he brings a good selection of songs that appear to be original from the dev himself and he manages to bring a very good professionalism in his mechanics, especially in terms of the cell phone that was very well implemented in this version, the strong personality of each character is very present, some are comedians and the dev brings the highlight to that, others are kind of motherfuckers really lol. Dev manages to bring humor and pain, tragedy and happiness, let's say very well, you can feel the game with good laughs and many times with tears. Very well done and the trend is only to improve.

I've been a supporter of this game since the first version, and the evolution of the game since its first release is remarkable.

STORY:
It seems interesting and different, some points of mystery caught my attention, but I hope to be understood.

SOUND:
The soundtrack is original, I loved it. I'll add some to my playlist.

CHARACTERS:
The characters are simply beautiful, you can see a very well done job here, with really unique appearances. I hate to find the same characters in several different games. Emily is my favorite, her eyes look smiling, but Lorena is a hot brunette.

RENDERINGS:
The renderings are beautiful and well done, realizing a great care with the small details that sometimes make a big difference.

GUI:
The GUI still needs some polishing to not leave players of a sandbox game so lost, especially those who don't read the texts carefully, but a back button won't hurt either. I believe that entering more information about the quests can help, but if you really pay attention you should have no problem finding the quests, it's all in the dialogues.

GRAMMAR:
Writing has gained a very good function, it is now possible to report errors in dialogue and translations within the game, and that is simply amazing. When choosing to complain about grammar mistakes, do something useful and report it.
I used this feature and hope the dev puts this option in all text in the game.


I've come to the conclusion after almost a year of supporting that this game has potential and that the dev really has something on their hands that I want to pay to see where it goes.

I wish luck, and resilience

Our home v2.2.2, a sandbox proposal that is moving along at a slow pace.

The women in the game are all very beautiful and certainly always have some difference from all the others that appear in any other game.

The interface is not very pleasing to me, the fact that it is not so intuitive is not good, but if you dedicate yourself to look at the buttons for only 1 minute, any individual who has 1 neuron will understand what each thing does.

The story is really the strength of the game, unlike many others that focus only on lewd scenes, here the developer focuses on creating history and contextualizing the player about everything that happens.

I think the only problem with the game currently is the change in the GUI, there are certain moments that it gets too clear, but as far as I could see, the developer tends to adjust all of this with each update.

I would like to make one thing very clear about the hints during the game and how this affected me in a way, I ALWAYS play reading the dialogs and anything that happens, so I took the information that the characters gave me and had no problem finding the objectives, but I think it would be good to make the hints more objective than they already are.

Story - Dialog:

I realize English is not the dev's native language, but the game should not have been released in this condition. The odd spelling or grammar mistake is fine, but some of the dialog is so mangled it makes it a chore to have to stop reading, and try to figure out what the dev is attempting to say. Not much of a story to comment on yet, but what's there didn't manage to get me hooked.


Coding:

I get there there can be small bugs in new releases (and especially if it's your first game), but how the hell does one not notice that the error page comes up each time you try to save when you start the game?

This has been fixed in the latest version.


Visuals:

No complaints here, the dev is clearly talented at creating great looking renders. Animations look great as well!


Overall:

This game looks promising, but it should have been held back until the language issues were fixed, and the save error corrected. Best of luck with the game, I'm sure it will be great once you fix the issues.

Update: May 16, 2022
I'd add a half star to the review if I could, but if the English gets fixed in an upcoming release, I will change my score to 4 stars.

Not going to lie if it was wasn’t for the cutie on the banner, I wouldn’t have played. I saw the MC and almost skipped this one.
★ OUR HOME REVIEW
I'm writing this review after playing Version: 1.0.0. Here's what I liked and did not like so far.

+ CHARACTERS:
So far, we have met 2 Love Interests (3 counting the receptionist, 4 with Emily but haven’t met her yet) All of them look very attractive.
+ VISUALS:
Beautiful Renders.
+ UI:
Very clean looking user interface. Settings screen needs a little work, I almost mistook the transitions switch for Trans content.

+/- THE STORY:
Non-Existent as of now. All we know is the MC was abandoned by his father and is now looking for him.
+/- THE SEX SCENES:
Fappability - 0/5 None as of 1.0.0. What do you expect from the first release?
+/- WRITING:
The writing is solid. Dialogues are not super boring, not super interesting either. Didn’t find any spelling mistakes or grammatical errors. Could use a little bit of humor though.
+/- MC:
This one’s bad! I always avoid Shota looking MCs because I can’t relate to them and they just look too Beta to me. I was going to skip this one too but only stayed because of the Emily model from the banner.
EDIT 1: Dev has told me the MC won't act like a beta male/creeper so that's a plus. There will be character development and the MC's look will change in the future(Hair cut/style, better drip, etc) and he will also hit the gym as the dev put it.
+/- GAMEPLAY:
Sandbox. What does that mean? It means there will be grinding, time wasted to go from one place to another, shitty mini-games and stupid quests to progress through relationships and story.
EDIT 1: Dev has told me the sandbox won't be grindy and there will be no repeatable events.

VERDICT:
Overall a high-quality game though a little short on content (It’s the first release so can’t really complain). Best of luck to the dev. I hope you succeed.