VN - Ren'Py - Pandora's Box 2 [v0.30] [Void Star]

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.

1 \ 3 of the scenes are with the loser fool Eugenie(While in prison he has more sex scenes than most free men),the other 1 \ 3 with the (old woman) mom,and the one who is really beautiful and young(Ellie) has only lesbian scenes,most silly thing I have never seen,at least give us options for the sexual course of the very beautiful Ellie.I would like a lot of love scenes with Elli as in the first part of the game is Nadia,until this is done my score in this game is low.

Loving the return of Nadia. im not sure how but mature Nadia somehow manages to be even hotter than young Nadia and Ellie is beautiful baby lesbian who I instantly liked, hoping for some fun Mother Daughter times.

could do without the return of the husband. he was so unlikeable in the first one it made it easy to NTR the hell out of him.

At least I will get the chance to keep him away from every woman in the game while Nadia and Ellie start a collection.

Story so far is promising. PB1 was among the first titles I played on this site, was pleasantly surprised to see 2 pop up.

Well worth waiting for this one if the first title is any indication

I loved the first one and i'm starting to love this one. The main girl of the first pandora's box is just extremely hot and the older version is equally hot too.
Keep doing this amazing and depraved work

A great start for a new pandora season. The two old MC characters are well known, but the new one is pretty interesting and gives the game some fresh ideas. The storyline is developing slowly and some new characters are introduced in this 1st version. The graphic of the models and the quality of the game is similar to the eldery pandora version. The quality of the game is really high and I am looking forward to play future updates...