VN - Ren'Py - Pandora's Box 2 [v0.25] [Void Star]

No me gustan nada los juegos donde el protagonista masculino es un sumiso cornudo que permite que lo humillen mientras que otros tipos disfrutan de su novia.
Sé que habrá enfermos a los que le irá ese rollo pero no va definitivamente conmigo y el juego no te da ninguna oportunidad de salir de ese rol de cuckold ya preestablecido.

Version 0.24. I give this one 4 stars, but to review it well most of this will have to be a spoiler as it is kind of hard to explain anything without giving away spoilers.

Basic stuff, Graphics - extremely well done.
English - good, not horrible
Plot - it is there, lots of porn logic, but the story is better than most
NTR - yes,...I guess..its different and kinda all over the place, so that would be better explained in a spoiler. I am not into cuck stuff or humiliation at all...and I didn't run screaming from it.

Gameplay - linear, choices, tracking of points, and same complaint as the last game, the Male MCs "Submission" points - stupid.

His points should be called corruption points as that is what they are, he makes a choice to fuck someone he gets these "Submission" points - why? No idea, the Dev seems to eventually want to provide an option for cuck in the future I guess, but if you chose differently that doesn't happen - so he gets laid and its called submission = dumb, and most anti cuck players are scared away, when they shouldn't.


So all around a good game, great visuals and storyline. IF that submission point thing was just relabeled to corruption points or something, I probably would put this down as a 5 star game pending future updates.

Models look really good and the dialogue and sex scenes are high quality.

The main issues i have is the animations and story. Every animation looks unnatural and theres always strange movement. Pretty much every animation has clipping issues. I appreciate the effort in trying to use them but maybe still images would be better until animations are higher quality.
I feel like the story of the 3 characters arent equal in terms of quality also. The daughter corruption and submission story is great, the mother story has hot scenes but because she is already corrupted from the previous game story nothing really shocks her so its abit dull. The fathers story is the worst, abit like the mother the scenes just dont have much emotion, theres sex with prisoner i didnt care about, warden, a few prostitutes, and now the friends wife. There isnt any build up, foreplay or emotion.
A few smaller issues worth mentioning, whats with the celebrity models that show up, were these easter eggs, something to do with donors? it was abit weird having gal gadot and zendaya lookalikes show up.
A few renders had clipping issues, not much of a big deal apart from a few involving pillows, the male mc had the pillow through half his skull, was funny to see.

This sequel is surprisingly good against my expectation from the first game.
+The expand lesbian content is really hot
+continuation of character is another great plus, i really like eugene new design and nadia mature look
+graphic is still good
+the story need a bit more direction but that can get done later
Overall a worthwhile game to try even if you don't like the prequel that much

the graphic and scene and art is pretty strong. I like the model used for all people. My 2 big concerns, and the concerns are pretty high is that if you once choose that this scene you're not into it, all the scene will be a negative. Like if you refuse the short bald old neighbor larry, you basically cut yourself for all the sex scene for one of the character.

The multi-protagonist is not my favorite genre by all mean, but sometime it's done well. For me, the commitment of 1 character is sufficient and I feel that the guy being remotely connected to the 2 other female protagonist makes the game a bit limited, it's heavily femdom lesbian scene with some straight sex with lot of NTR for male protagonist. If you skip the NTR, it's kind of 10 scene scene for the guy, and the rest it's Scarlet femdoming the young female protagonist.

I wish there's be more choice, including selecting who you wanna have the story with, remove the very ugly people you have sex with. etc.

The character models are crazy well done. The scenes are unbelievably hot, just kinda wish there were more sound effects or voices here and there, then the game would be top tier IMO. If there are any games similar to this please feel free to send me any suggestions, the corruption is preferably slightly slower but still hot nonetheless.

I really love the story so far, it's even better than the first one (that i really enjoyed as well) especially if you're a fan of lesbian action like me. I can't wait to see what's next. Amazing graphics + amazing storyline.

I really enjoyed the first game of this set, so I decided to give this one a run and unfortunately it's just not there yet. The models good great, but just about everything else is lacking.

This is a work of a talented dev, who would be far better off creating an entirely new game (heck even use the same models, nobody cares) rather than trying to tether it to the Pandora series.

I think its needs to big updates (new updates is like just few scenes) and more sub footjob (or other) choice in next updates.

After all these i'm willingly waiting for next updateS. (S because one update is just like nothing.)

Just going to jump right into a 2 star review for this one and start with the bad because there is bluntly so little good here. Apologies if this is a little rant-y

- It's impossible not to directly compare this game to the first as it is a sequel after all, but the immediate problem being that it's continuing only one specific choice/path making your playthrough of the first feel irrelevant if you didn't follow it.

- The way you start with the stories of the main characters in this game feel very shoehorned and your choices to start don't really feel like choices, at least not interesting ones. Most of the time it's "do you want to see the following sex scene or not?" and not so much, do you want to see a different one. You can pick and choose your "fetish" but most of the time that means seeing nothing and not an actual alternative route.

- The story itself is a combination of complete fluff and nonsense, clearly being padded so the dev can drag this out as long as possible. Most updates come with 1 or none actual scenes outside of someone making out. Often if you haven't chosen the "correct" path you'll just get generic scenes with nothing but talking then the eventual "wait for the next update" message.

- We are now multiple years into this game being shared and the two main characters from the first game haven't even met one another yet. This does go back to the "shoehorned ending" bit as well as obvious attempts to stretch this out as long as possible, despite there not being enough substance here.

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There isn't really much positive to add as it's simply a substantially worse version of the first game. The game so far does more acting like you have choices than giving you actual choices, as with these games you want to choose A or B and have branches, not choose A and get scene or choose B and get nothing until it gets to the next choice option. The dev has clearly turned to milking this for all it's worth despite it not being near good enough with part 2 to pull it off, and with a few years more this is going to hit "Summertime Saga" levels of doing absolutely nothing. This dev isn't known to be one that puts in 100% of their effort, but they've fallen into the more 20% category here and is doing nothing to hide it anymore.

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I gave it a 2 because there are still worse games out there, but bluntly, if you are curious go play the first one if you haven't and skip this altogether for the time being.

Pandora's Box 2 [v0.15]

Pros:
Character Models
Render Quality


Cons:
Animations are terrible and I hate the skip animation button.
Boring Story
Terrible Male MC
Sex Scenes: See Animations, and a lot of scenes involve ugly old men.
Stat points
You can miss a lot of content, which is not always bad. XD

Conclusion:
I played the first one which was a garbage game and tried this one to see if the Dev improved the game, but it´s pretty much the same crap.
What I like is Elle and her corruption path, but that´s pretty much it.
I´m not a fan of NTR and this game, just like it´s predecessor yet again showed why. I don´t understand why the male MC needs to be such a bitch.
He´s really unlikable and makes the story feel so forced and artificial that it becomes a total cringe fest and thankfully he isn´t shown as often as he was in the last game.
Ellie is the most interesting character and there are some kinky scenes that get ruined by terrible animations.
If this was just a game about the women and they took out the NTR that just doesn´t make any sense in that story and fixed the damn animations, it could’ve been a half decent game, but this one is pretty bad.

Same problems as the last game, I don't want my character to f**k random fat old men, oh well you can't see any more scenes. Just remove the choice and have straight story or change it so that choices have more meaning than blocking everything off.

I guess I could list a couple of pros and cons to make the review more thorough (nice character models, bad animations) to name a few, but to be honest, one feature pretty much kills the entire game for me.

There are 3 playable characters and each character has one stat (submission for the male MC, corruption for the older female MC and lust for the younger female MC) that you can raise by choosing lewd options.
However, if you don't want a certain lewd option, chances are you won't have enough points to pick the next one, so unless you want to play a sexless adult game, you are forced to always pick the option that raises the stats. Really bad gamedesign. Either make a kinetic novel or make choices that actually matter and that allow different ways to play the game.

The animation and the story are excellent, and the author rarely uses long words, but always uses pictures and animations to tell the story.

The game is excellent, but it has two very strange feature .
1: There's a ton of NTR throughout, the kind you can't ignore because the author is so good at telling stories that you can't avoid it if you play the game .
2: On the surface, it is a simple and ordinary game, but in reality play you will feel a deep sense of tragedy and loss , because of the tragic nature of the game throughout, you can't ignore it, and the feeling lingers after you play it .

I didn't play the second one for a long time after the author released it because the tragic ending of the first one was too depressing .
Today, after trying the second one, I feel that the author is still the same tragic game genius as he was a few years ago .

Just make kinetic novels!
I was hoping something had improved since the first game but no. It's the same bullshit. If you don't want to have sex with gross dudes it will be just a standard porn story with no sex (because one refusal = no content at all) with nice visuals and stiff animations. In order to see lesbian scenes I need to fuck ugly creeps, fuck that. The dev clearly doesn't know how to work with choice-based system, it is useless here. This game would have been an ok kinetic novel for dubcon/ntr lovers and I wouldn't have played it. Sadly, it isn't positioned as one.

Plot in this game is ok for a porn VN. Not a lot of people need or want complex and captivating plot in a porn game. However, overall visual quality of this game is bad. Objectively, it's much worse than part one. To me, one of the most important aspects of a game like this is visual quality.

Character models are done really great, certainly an upgrade over first game. But scenes in which they are appearing are just bad. They were made with very little effort. A lot of open environments have a horribly placed and compressed to shit skyboxes, that are clipping into objects. A lot of objects are scaled wrongly (for example the huge computer on Ellie's desk or Scarlet's home on wheels that shouldn't be so big on the inside). There also was a scene where Nadia was laying in a bathtub with bubbles so flat that you could cut yourself with them. Why not make bubble a sphere, why disk?

But the worst part of this game for me are animations. They are just horrible. Weird camera movements, robot-like characters' movements and clipping. Oh my lord, the clipping. In almost every sex scene somebody is placed inside somebody/something (and not in a good way). Inside a pillow, inside a wall, inside someone's thorax; you get the idea. The most horrible scene that is still giving me nightmares is Ellie's and Scarlet's first kiss. To me it seems that animator didn't even check what result animation looked like. They were kissing with tongues, but instead of tongues there were just two cilinders of flesh going back and forth. It looked like some body horror stuff.

Overall, I wouldn't recommend this game.

Great renders, many hot sexy girls, among the best.
The Problem here is that you are required to also choose the ugly/unwanted scenes to gather enough points to get to the good parts. Also animations are a bit boring, some more sexy pictures in sex scenes instead would be better. If this was a purely lesbian game or there was a lesbian only route, this would be a 5 star game.
Rating based on v0.8

For better or worse, a "more of the same" for fans of the first game.
The most disappointing thing for me is that the developer learned nothing from part one, the things that were solid there still are solid in PB2, but unfortunately, the flaws of PB1 also resurface here.

In a bit more detail:
I like the visuals - not that big of a fan of the pincushion characters (in the first game this was Nadia), but by and large, they're well realized imo.
I especially like Ellie. No real complaints here from me.

Characterization is still misrepresented by the corruption tag - in the first game, Nadia was utterly corrupted to begin with, and now everyone female is already corrupted. Especially with Ellie, that's a huge missed opportunity in my book.
Eugene ... well, he can either amass wuss points or be locked out of most scenes.

In general, PB2, like the first game, has mostly binary choices of the "Do I want to see adult content in an adult game?" variety (at least for the females, Eugene, as mentioned above, can only collect victim points), and if you say no one too many times, you're locked out of future content.
In a game with 3 MCs, choices could easily orchestrate certain content by picking certain combinations, but sadly, none of that seems to be here.

Also, despite already having quite a few updates under it's belt (as of now 0.6), the game is still surprisingly short.

Well, what more is there to say? I really wanted to give it four stars, because it is definately not a bad game, but on the other hand, it has too many flaws to call it a good game according to my tastes.
Might up the score if future updates improve the game, but we'll see.

Excellent NTR game with an amazing plethora of fetishes: pregnancy, feet, rimming. Consistent monthly updates. Also check out previous games. The animation is clunky and the lighting of certain images are too dark for my taste.

I liked the first one so I was happy to see a sequel.
The story is okay and ties in well with the first one and hope to see more scenes like the club scene from the prequel.

The renders and the game in general have a unique feel to it, but the renders kinda look dated compared so some newer games. Same goes for the animation.
There are some interesting characters in the game which sets it apart from the usual plain "landlady" stuff.

My biggest gripe with the game are the H-scenes though. Not the way they are set up, or the overall quality rather than the writing. It just feels so unatural, e.g. the Scarlet scene in the This goes for some of the other scenes as well.