VN - Ren'Py - Our Red String [Ch. 13.1 ALPHA] [Eva Kiss]

This review is based off a single playthrough until the end of the update.

I've had some jarring moments that didn't make any sense. For my playthrough, I wanted both MCs to cheat on each other with the same people but since there wasn't any gay option, I only made them sleep with women. I've made both MC cheat on each other with Holly but the game only lets the FMC call out the MC for cheating despite her doing it with the same character. It felt weird that she was calling him out for cheating while also fucking her roommate every night. Somehow the male MC cheating gets treated like a serious problem. I guess the game doesn't treat straight and gay relationships the same? It seemed like the game treats lesbian relationships not as serious as a straight one. Another example is the male MCs friend the black guy (forgot his name). He gets called out for cheating and sufferers for it. There might be a route where you can call out the FMC for cheating as well but I'm not a multiple playthrough person.

Anyways, the game made me hate the FMC. It feels like she can't get punished for cheating while other male characters can. This is also the same women who cried in the rain because she caught her ex cheating on her and she didn't have any moral dilemmas at all when I made her cheat. Her character inconsistent, most likely due to the paths you can take with her. I've had problems with the male MC like how his story had basically zero progression until the last few updates. Its like the developers suddenly remembered he was writing a book and had a ex gf to deal with in the last few chapters. It was basically hangout with friends for 3/4th of the game while the FMC is getting story progression with her modeling career.

There's also some bugs that I've encountered. I picked the option for both MCs to be in a open relationship but the game kept treating them like they were not. For example, you can't tell Cindy you are in a open relationship, she'll ask you to either cheat behind the FMC's back or break up with her.

I do regret reading the the story, it felt like a waste of my time. You'd probably enjoy the game if you want to make choices that make every character miserable. Honestly, I'm curious how miserable and how much of the FMC you can destroy. But I don't hate myself enough to do a second playthrough on this game.

1/5 stars because I hated my time playing this game. I probably should've stopped in the middle and gave it a 3/5, but then I feel like I can't leave a review if I just stop halfway through so I ended up playing through to the end of the update and the score dropped to 1/5 as I kept playing. Only characters I don't hate is Holly, male MC's nerdy roommate, and FMC's cat.

love this game, the graphics are good, very big decent amount of content, love all the characters, love the story line as well, be cool if there was a feature where you could pimp out your girlfriend or girls you choose that be nice honestly!

as well i think it be cool if you can have a relationship as well as have sex with your boss for both MC's that be a nice feature as well, but overall, this game is very good fell in love with it as soon as i played it definitely will recommend to people.

really good game with nice visuals and good writing that doesnt really bore you out. Lots of content too and there are many choices that you can make. Overall really good game and i really recommend it

Pros
-Character personalities are diverse and realistic. Every character has their flaws and their good sides. These aspects make the game more realistic.
-Choices have big impact on game and can really change the story and character personalities. It has the best choice-story relation I've seen in adult games.
-There are a wide variety of kinks in the game. Vanilla, Ntr, etc.
-The art is beautiful and the ui is stylish.
-The music is suitable and beautiful.
-Sex scenes are well written.

Cons
-Main man (Ian) character's personality is very passive. I couldn't change this feature much. Even though the life of the main girl (Lena) is constantly getting worse, Ian does not provide any help, neither as a friend nor as a lover.
-The story is very monotonous, it is generally about human relations. The excitement factor is low.
-And Robert is gradually disappearing from the game. XD

The games is really fun and well made, it's a VN style game but you get plenty of choices and lots of routes that you can take, I 100% recommend the walkthrough mod though but the game is really easy to figure out even without it.

I think that the artwork is really amazing, most of the girls look great and the music goes well with the vibe of what's happening too. There's stable character development but a lot of scenes too, which a lot of games like this fail to find the right balance, but this one does. You also get to change your mind and decide against going further into character routes once you've started them, which is a very good thing. Again most games don't have that, which sucks. The only thing I find lacking is humour, I haven't laughed once in the game, I think the characters need a bit more jokes to their dialogue. It'd make it more enjoyable.

Overall I've found the game a lot of fun and I'd highly recommend it.

I really love this game. Normally I don't really like to have multiple protagonists in a game and would have preferred to just be either Ian or Lena full time. This game grew on me, though, and I loved both Ian and Lena's story. One side effect of this, though, is that I really became invested in their separate stories. The overall story seems to want to put Ian and Lena together, but because I play as both of them I got more interested in other LIs for both of them and have never done a playthrough where I got them together. With Ian I really got invested with Cindy and Alison. With Lena I got invested with Holly and Louise. It just never seems right to put Ian and Lena together. Of course, this is just a personal way to play so I won't be taking a star away. The story is still engaging, interesting, and fun. I will admit I was a bit disappointed when Jessica from GGGB turned up and she wasn't in a relationship with Ashley. That was my favorite ending of GGGB and I hoped it would be canon. Again, this is just a personal wish and does not take away from the game. I do love the dom route you can have with Louise and Holly is just really fucking cute. I really can't wait for future updates and to see how the story plays out. I actually really like all the characters for what they are, even the antagonists. My favorites are Cindy, Holly, Louise, and I really prefer Lena sections over Ian. I am just continually impressed with this game. I am especially interested to see where the Seymour modelling storyline goes and hope that no matter what the there is no forced content with him and it's left to choice. Other than that this game is amazing and I can't wait to play more.

Another amazing game, I absolutely love two protagonist storytelling. The whole interconnectivity between Ian and Lena was great. The support characters feel real and have depth. I was surprised when I discovered the first game Eva Kiss did, and found it extremely refreshing. But this blows the first one out of the water!



Keep up the amazing work!

i absolutely love this game .
you guys didnt disappoint ,the artwork has improved significantly,
i love that we have both male female protagonist where we can have them be together or apart thats so coool.
music is awesome, the ui looks fantastic has such a nice feeling i keep popin it up.
i liked the story a lot, though ill admit i would have liked more danger and action like your prev game.
still this game rocks .
the conversations are really nice the ''good ''bad system i really liked it it made so much sense.
i would like to see more twists and new characters .
keep up the good work . awesome game 10/10

Great game.

Pros:
-Well written
-Great 2D characters, detailed and unique
-Girls are attractive
-Story Choice and story is strong

Cons:
-Branching story going between 2 characters is a tad tiresome and mundane for me.
-Playing as a girl is not my thing

*Hence the only cons are really personal opinions I find less desirable
I dislike two characters and swapping between them and would have preferred to just stick with Male MC. A hetero version of "good girl, gone bad" if you will. When I play the female character I tend to always end up making her into a slut. It's hard for me to sync up the 2 stories how I want it.

If you like the two competing main characters and don't mind playing as a female these cons will turn into pros for you.

Despite me not liking these parts of game personally, objectively it's still a 5/5 game. Eva Kiss makes great games. Even if they don't match my usual likes/tags, often.

A must play if any of the tags, style or story interest you.

This is one of the most popular games on this forum.
People are having lots of discussions about this game all year long. What can I say, it's one of the best games, since it's one of the most popular games.

The story is believable and immersive and the Artstyle is great. 5 Stars.

Very high quality game! It contains so much that I do not know where to start! Art, renders and CGs are amazing, even animations are added.
There is so many paths to take and so many kinks to explore, especially that you play as two MC's at the same time. The story and plot is how you design it, but the writing is superb and choices are remembered for a long time.
Outstanding game that I would highly recommend!

(Review is for Ch. 11 Final)

There's some pretty good writing here, with quite a bit of choice. I also enjoy juggling multiple perspectives as it helps flesh out characters more. Only a few criticisms:

* A few characters seem to exist solely to suck and be over-the-top in every way possible. It's less fun to play through any scene involving them, because it makes one just want to avoid those characters as much as possible, which kind of kills any potential they may have had. I'll concede that it's possible that the creator was trying to go for a touch of realism (since some people are absolute non-stop sources of drama) but this still creates a stark contrast to the other problem:

* This game is an "everybody knows everybody" type of game. It feels more and more contrived as the story goes on (which contrasts sharply with trying to take a more realistic approach to how some people just suck) but once you realize that everybody knows everybody, later possible twists are robbed of most of the potential narrative weight they may have had: now you're just wondering which characters know this new character, because you know that it's going to be somebody.

World-building is good. Writing your characters in such a way that it feels like they actually have lives off-screen is great as well. At some point, though, it feels less and less believable that every character is already tied in to the other characters in some way. Still, it was enjoyable and I'm interested in seeing where it goes from here.

Best in class, content and story. Unique in concept and story, I've played tons of VN's and this was one of my top 10. The story and depth of character is objectively one of the best I've seen. A game where choices REALLY matter

Ngl, at first I wasn't able to immerse myself very much in the story. I don't prefer multiple protagonists and switching between them back and forth, nor do I prefer playing with a male MC, then there's some boredom at the beginning in terms of the story, the choices and the characters..but I gave it another chance, especially since I liked the art style and music very much, like it's something different from GGGB, and there is also a gradual development of relations (a real life thing) that wasn't present in GGGB either..and the truth is that with the passage of the chapters the story began to become more interesting..especially also that Ian's personality was a little boring at first, but I managed to make him a little more daring and interesting. I'm now in chapter 6, and honestly, I'm enjoying it, especially because I play with relationships to make the atmosphere more enjoyable .

After my second try I give it: 8/10

this game is so good that you cant imagine
most of the game use same design for charactors but this one is diffrent also you can choose different path and there are good options to choose from

This game is very good technically speaking.
Good art, good music, good writing, good animations.
Unfortunately, I can't really enjoy the multiple protagonists, especially when they are different genders.
The way I immerse myself in the MCs, it makes the entire game feel like NTR to me. I got so frustrated that I could not finish the current content, which made me very sad, as every other aspect of the game is great.
Maybe when the game is finished, if the Dev gives an option to separate the game into different MCs and not swap back and forth between them, I will come back and try again.
If you don't have a stupid broken brain like me, you will probably greatly enjoy this game.
I loved this Devs other game, it is one of my favorites.

This is the best porn game of all time no question. Devs really know what they are doing. Personally I'm not a fan of 2D style (although there are still a lot of beautiful arts), but pretty much everything else in the game just made up for it. Thanks devs for this amazing experience.

Top tier game/novel. This is what others should strive to be. The writing, art, and length of each update makes it all worth it. Team Allison. Love that there is so many different options. So props to the creator I’m sure dealing with all the different possibilities is a headache.

One of the best porn games there are, with exquisite art, interesting plot, very good writing and superb characters (even minor characters are very well designed and are intriguing). It's a full package which is very rare.

Pros:
+ Great art and sex scenes
+ Decent plot and very good writing
+ Superb characters with proper development
+ Tons of meaningful choices that result in high replayability

Cons:
- Since the game has so many choices there are some fetishes/elements that I'm not a fan of (like interracial or lesbianism even with almost every female character, which is excessive IMO) but it's not a huge flaw.
- Some minigames might not be to everyone's liking, although IMO they're not that bad

All in all it's one of the best porn games there are (and definitely an improvement over dev's previous game) and despite some minor flaws I still give it the highest mark.

One of the best VNs out there. No joke. Well written characters, protagonists with their goals, struggles and aspirations, top notch humor and dialogue writing. Most importantly this game is immensely replayable and player choice driven for a linear VN and we need more like this. One thing that saddens me is how long you have to wait for new chapters, but it is what it is for an ambitious game such as this.

Also art is very good, not too cartoonish and reminds me of graphic novels.