VN - Ren'Py - Pandora's Box 2 [v0.36] [Void Star]

Alright, so when I first started playing this game, I was genuinely intrigued by its potential. The premise seemed solid, and the early updates gave me some hope that this would turn into a well-rounded and engaging AVN. Unfortunately, after having played through the latest version (0.36), I feel like the game has veered off course and is now a bit of a hot mess.

The Good:
Let’s start with the positives. The renders and character designs aren’t bad. The art style is pretty decent overall, and some of the scenes are visually appealing. There’s an obvious effort put into the aesthetics, and while it’s not groundbreaking, it’s enough to keep me engaged for short bursts. The models and animations (when there are any) look fine, but unfortunately, this is where the praise ends.

The Plot:
This is where things start to unravel. It feels like the plot was lost a few updates ago. What started off as an interesting story with potential character development has, at least for me, turned into a series of disconnected events with very little substance. It’s clear that the developers have either lost track of the narrative or shifted focus to other aspects of the game, but the plot has suffered as a result.

Updates Are Too Short:
Version 0.36 was a major disappointment in terms of content. I completed the entire update in about 5 minutes. That’s right—5 minutes of gameplay. For a game that takes 2-3 months to release an update, that’s just not enough. There’s barely any meaningful progression or depth to justify the wait. It’s especially frustrating when you consider the long gaps between updates. It’s hard to stay invested in a game that doesn’t seem to be making real strides in terms of content or narrative.

Lack of Content:
I know these kinds of games can vary in terms of how much content they offer per update, but it’s hard to ignore how little is added each time. For the time between updates, I was expecting more meaningful story progression or even a few new routes or character interactions. Instead, what we get is often just a handful of scenes, most of which feel disconnected from the larger narrative (or what’s left of it).

Conclusion:
At this point, I’m going to shelve this game until it’s completed, if that ever happens. I think it’s clear that the game has potential, but as it stands, the updates are way too short and the plot has become increasingly incoherent. The developers need to focus on delivering more substantial updates and re-evaluate the direction of the story if they want to keep players engaged.

If you’re someone who likes to play AVNs that have a solid, progressing story and regular updates with meaningful content, I’d recommend waiting until this game is finished or significantly improved. Until then, I can’t see myself investing much more time into it.

At the beginning of the game, the plot was not bad, but then the story turned spoil. My opinion is that VoidStar could come up with a lot of interesting things if he tried to.

For example - deeper relationships with Theresa, Scarlet and Ellie, including jealousy (at the beginning of the plot, the player can choose who Ellie will help with the warm-up at the stadium - Teresa or Scarlet. But for some reason this does not affect the plot at all); Criminal history with drug dealers and, may be, with Scarlet's mother's lover; arrests by police; Ellie's unexpected pregnancy (especially after she confused antibiotics with contraceptives) and so that the player does not know for a long time from whom she knocked up, especially if the player has chosen the path of lust.

It would also be nice if, at the player's choice, Ellie would remain Scarlet's puppet or learn to act on her own, and, for example, would invite Scarlet to Larry to he fuck her.

The girls are superb! Really! Really, and that's it!
The intimate scenes are missed for many of them;
The story is forced and despite allowing certain actions, it still causes something we don't want to see, even worse: allowing blackmail and seeing (or not seeing) the girl being impregnated by force.... it's too much! Sorry, but this is going way too far: we always fall into abuse and blackmail and we sink deeper and deeper into it! No feeling comes out, nor any real emotion either; it's just a series of poorly done animated scenes! It's all about degradation!
There was really material to achieve something good, something fair, and it's nothing but degradation, dirt, and other things!
At some point, we're going to have to consider the limits to impose or impose on ourselves when doing this kind of thing!
I give 2 for the beauty of the girls, the rest is worth -10 and 10 years in prison!

4 stars for renders/scenes
game is getting undeservingly trashed in reviews
i ctrl skip the dude part mby people dont like that? other half of the game is fun if you like female mc
second game from solid dev, updates are tiny but dev time been 4 years so they added up

Played the first one. Meh! Thought how much worse can it be. Well I found out how much. Over half the conyent is lesbian sex scenes. A little over a quarter is interracial NTR content and the remainder is finally the MC stumbling into sex. Oh and did I mention the females and the males are all god awful ugly and disgusting this go round as well. There was a handful in the first one but this go round there was just a handful that were not. Nope no more of this guys stuff for me.

I've played PB2 several times, but never got very far. Not even today, in v0.34. It should be noted that I couldn't use an old save from PB1, even though I had played it once.
It has some good ideas, but it fails due to many inconsistencies.
Positive:
The ongoing story with old characters.
Nice-looking FMC, although there are several "playable" characters.
Some nice-looking supporting characters.

Negative:
Forced but monotonous corruption paths
(either masturbating on the ugly neighbor's cock or using my mother's tits as a model, no other choice).
Father is a complete wimp - in a women's prison.
(Again, just monotonous choices. It's either wimp or nothing.)
Completely illogical representation of age.
(School class: Boys look 12-14, girls look 25, and thus sometimes older than the teachers)
80% of male characters are extremely ugly
Animations lag too long
Sex animations have unimaginative loops, some have ugly detailed views
Unavoidable fetishes (feet, for example)
And the list goes on.

At the moment, I can't give it more than 2 stars. Even a third, neutral option would earn me one star. And newly drawn male characters would earn another. That would put the game above average. As it is, it's bordering on garbage.

The models are stunning; especially the whores and the nympho Sasha.. I do not know what it is but she looks crazy good to me. The sex scenes are hot and a lot, but not really good technically. The depravity deep and the corruption high. I think this one deserves (beardly) the 5/5 (top 20% of games).

EDIT: I had not seen the finale of this version, before I wrote that. That alone put it in 4/5, really bad...
Version: 0.34 (Ellie's pregnancy)

The game has nice graphics, hot scenes, If you played Pandoras box 1 this game has a time jump from 1 showing the characthers older and Ellie which is a new characther. Nadia is hot, Ellie is super hot and she will get pregnant soon according to the patreon. I think If you like hot scenes, corruption with lots of kinks the game is for you. You can follow the updates for the game on itch.io

I agree with sixpo2, I don't like the idea of forcing people to go through corruption n other shit with ugly characters(might as well have no options because that's what it feels like). I enjoyed the renders until I saw pregnancy I was forced into and ugly characters I was forced into just to get more corruption. Also the story is ain't great either.

So far the game is mediocre. The plot is quite decent eventhough the chapter 2 is not that good. The female characters are under the average, could look much better. I don't really like the idea of having most of the characters bad ugly only for purpose of "higher corruption". Also the variability of the kinks is not so great. But biggest issue is that most characters are not really pretty.

I like the games by this developer, I think I've played almost all of them and one of the ones I liked the most was one with the protagonist who rides a ship there, my only criticism of his games are the scenes since I find his scenes very simple and being just a video that repeats itself from other angles or positions, if it's not possible to make animated scenes they could make scenes in slides with different angles like some developers do. I like this game too and the characters are very hot especially Nadia

- The women look fantastic: 10/10 (probably some of the best design I've ever seen)
- The animations are not good: ~5/10
- The story is average to bad: ~4/10
- Depravity: 10/10

The frequency of updates is good.

Game version: 0.2.9
I'll give it a 4/5 with reservation.

[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
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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.

Started off so well then developer just ran out of ideas on how to continue the story or what direction they want it to go. Now introducing pregnancy, hopefully this titles ends very quickly from here and we can move on to a new game.

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.