VN - Ren'Py - Pandora's Box 2 [v0.29] [Void Star]

[Review of Pandora's Box 2, version 0.29]

TLWR: Pandora's Box 2 is an incoherent mess of nudity and sexual deviancy that does not deserve to be called a sequel by any stretch of that definition.

Now, I will review this game for a strict POV of the corruption route, which is the (I believe) the primary reason one might want to play this franchise in the first place.
So, without further ado, let us recap why this "sequel" fails at so many levels:

• Nadia is now a mother, a MILF if you will, to a beautiful young adult named Ellie. But motherhood has not matured Nadia for the better (with the exception of her chest, Nadia now sports an upgraded pair of milkers compared to her nubile body in the first) given that her rampant nymphomania still wreaks havoc. She will have sex with everyone you come across, which is good for the fappers, but leaves a lot to be desired with in terms of narrative.
• Ellie is gorgeous young girl that inherited her mother's signature hair color - and her sexual appetite. Now, this wouldn't be so bad in itself, if only the corruption didn't mean the girl turns into a turbo-slut that will jump on anyone's bones at the slightest provocation (again, good for fappers, but terrible for the plot). What's worse is, there is no real choice in expressing your preferred kinks here - either she does the nasty with EVERYBODY, or NOBODY. No in-between. No tailoring to your taste; Ellie has to become a fuck-toy for a perverted neighbour in order for her to become more daring with her girlfriend.
• In all of this mess, Nadia is acting exactly 0% like a mother should. You can't choose to help out Ellie and keep her out of trouble, the decisions made for each character are nearly completely independent of one another.
• No variance in kinks: Lesbianism for Ellie, Promiscuity for Nadia.
• Eugene is also back! And he is still a massive cuck... or a monk. Can't be anything resembling a normal, horny middle-aged man. No sir. Either you clean up cum from a random woman's anus or you are seeking enlightment and freeing yourself of these mortal shackles. Feels like the dude just slept through 18 years of prison, rather than use the time to get jacked, learn to fight and become a badass - but character development is not the word of the day in this game, so forget it.

In essence, this game is more of the same, but nothing improved - most things just got worse while getting dialed up to 11. If you wanted to see the story progress, this... plot that the dev came up with is worse than what fans over at Wattpad could've written.

Ten thousand monkeys with type writers would take 10 billion years to write something this stupid. It feels like someone with severe brain damage wrote the plot and dialogue. What's really disappointing is the first game was much better, and the renders are still good. I just feel like I'm getting brain cancer from even trying to play this garbage.

I have to write about this) I’ve been following the game for a long time and this is probably the biggest example in the porn game industry of how a bad script kills the desire to play. It would seem that plot and history are not why such games are needed. But despite the excellent technical performance, it is simply boring and not interesting to play.Many characters, two parallel, drawn-out, non-overlapping stories. The game took a strange path instead of focusing on the main couple, we look at hundreds of interactions between disposable side characters. I never understood why, instead of deepening the relationships between key characters, the authors slide into adding dozens of new characters that we don’t care about because we see them once or twice and they don’t have time to open up. As a result, instead of engagement and interactive play, we just get a set of disparate porn stories.

VERSION: 0.28
SUMMARY: Good but far from as good as it could have been.

PROS:

1. Very nice looking models
2. Animations are pretty good, maybe a tad short but its forgivable for the quality.
3. Kinks are nice, there are several especially for those who like the wilder stuff.
4. Choices that do matter and shape the game.
5. Written reasonably well, good structure to sentences, nothing wrong there.
6. Sounds are pretty nice and give that extra immersion that can get a rise out of most people I believe.

CONS:

1. Story is all over the place, it may seem like there is a plot
   Spoiler: MY THOUGHTS

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   , but the first game IMO had more cohesion, here you simply go from one crazy scenario to the other (sexual) with no real plot that I find worth following.
2. Characters are set to do things once their score is low or high enough, you don't get a choice always. The male MC is a bit of a beta and I find him kind of annoying in his submissiveness. This could be to do with my playthrough, however I believe I picked the route with most lewd content, as I believe most people would.
3. Updates are not infrequent per se but they are very small, at least what is available to me, not sure about other playthrough choices. That being said, NOTE to the dev, as you know, the more options you have the more work you will need to put in to give all options actual content.

TLDR: Pretty decent game with nice lewds which is right up my alley, though content is little and updates happen maybe once a month for not even 10min of play.

Fucking Excellent! Pure Corruption, Coercion GOLD!! I loved the first game and I like this game so far. Realistically I do not consider the stories very interconnected as the ending you received in Pandora's box part one may not be the continued ending here.

This is corruption at it's finest, Blackmail, coercion and some pure plain sluttiness thrown in. The writer knows how to package a story fairly tightly to keep it interesting and deep enough but not add to much flowery bullshit.

I gave the last game 5 stars and this game so far (0.26) I would give 4 stars but I read all the unfair BS 1 star reviews and most have ridiculous rants.

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Animations are terrible - Bullshit Animations are fucking awesome
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Every girl gets raped by a smelly dirty bastard that is 60 older than her. - Bullshit, complete and utter BS, no idea how far this guy played but this is factually fucking wrong.
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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. - BULLSHIT = WAIT you didn't like the last game and you came back even though you hated the first game... Well makes sense to me. If I put my left hand on a hot stove and burn myself I'm sure I'll have better luck with my Right hand on the stove.
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Most of these 1 and 2 star reviews I personally consider utter BS. The three star people seem to have some legitimate complaints about things they didn't like. Even I consider this a 4 star game but I'm giving it 5 to counter some of the 1 star reviews.

This game is awesome with a great story if you love coercion and corruption. In truth I barely pay attention to the Male MC at all, I focus on Nadia and Ellie and there lives I could care less about the Male MC. If you love corruption and coercion please try this title and I hope you enjoy it. I would recommend you play Pandora's box 1 first as it is a true 5 star achievement and you wont feel lost jumping into this VN. On second thought you REALLY need to play the first game to get to know Young Nadia, she really really makes these game great.

Animations are terrible and that's the biggest of turn-offs for me.

It's literally a lazy frame 1>frame 2 loop, I wish they were at least optional. I'd prefer static scenes, since the renders and the characters themselves are HOT, possibly the best I've ever seen in a NSFW game.

Did I mention about the animations? No? Well, then PLEASE fix that and I will be more than happy to edit this review up to 5 stars.

Review of version 0.25
Amazing game for lovers of specific NTR kinks, average in any other regards


Girls
Lovely girl indeed. There is a bit of variety in body types, with a prefference for piercing which is good. Girls have a bit of a personality also

Story
Silly story to justify the corruption of characters

Gameplay
In term of anymation is slightly better then the previous game. the hot air animation to mark moment of excitement seems a bit pointless to me.
There are two reasons why I give three starts:
- there is not really a choise beside the first one: if you miss a corruption/ cuckhold choise all the others are becoming greyed out.
- the need for the man MC to be a sub to be able to impregnate Vivi is plain stupid. there is a huuge diference between being cheated on and cheating so one should not stop the other

I wish this was better than it is. I feel like the dev tries, but there are just some questionable design choices, and honestly the updates are so small it's not really worth playing each one. Wait for a few but it will still be kind of short.

There are 3 MCs this time, 2 from the previous game but you don't have to play that and I don't think anything carries over. Most of the relationships seem reset as it's been a time jump anyway.

The 3 MCs give you 3 different themes. NTR, domination and lesbian corruption. The domination path is with the male MC and can be either male or femdom, but there isn't really much femdom and you have to fully commit. Don't do one thing and you won't have enough points for the scenes, so they just get skipped, there isn't a variation, and you can't pick or choose. This is true for all routes in if you skip a couple of actions you'll then be locked out the rest of the game with no chance to see scenes, and the story is pretty much nonexistent or non-sensical so it gives little reason to play.

Renders are pretty solid overall, some women look really good, some bad. For whatever reason most sex scenes seem to have the option for an ugly old bum to jump in and fuck whatever woman the male MC would fuck. I have no idea why this decision was made either, well I can guess, that is the dev's preference/fetish.

Music is generic stock music, and it pretty much just plays throughout. Doesn't change by scene or set the mood or anything. At least it's not terrible I suppose.

It's all but impossible to recommend this game. If you get it, you'll probably want a gallery unlocker and then just look through the scenes. But if you're going to do that, you're probably better off looking for actual porn. Games are really to make choices and see things (usually fetishes) you don't see in regular porn. This game doesn't really do that imo. At least not well.

Positives:

-Some girls are hot
-Some girls are really hot
-Theres lots of sex

Negatives:

The story is so bad. At first it was fun to just follow it and fap to kinky sex scenes, but then everything had to become se extreme. The tags dont do it justice at all.

There is a points system that means nothing, because if you decide to get 1 footjob or watch a lesbian scene you are locked into a cuck path.

If you are cucked in this game that automatically means that you like smelly feet, smelly cocks, licking dirty armpits after gym, licking dirty panties, getting pissed on, licking dirty assholes.

Every girl gets raped by a smelly dirty bastard that is 60 older than her. The game tries to be disgusting on purpose.

Version 0.24. I give this one 3 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. Skipping scenes that you don't want to see - locks you from seeing future scenes. That is a very poor design i.e. don't want to be a submissive cuck, well now you cannot fuck the hot chick in the next scene. I cheated points to continue to see things, but not do cuck stuff.

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 an ok game, great visuals and storyline. IF that submission point thing was just relabeled to corruption points or something, and got rid of the lock out point system would be a much better game.

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.