Ren'Py - Completed - Paprika Trainer [v1.2.0.0] [Exiscoming]

This is a pretty great Trainer game that had me invested as soon as it started. I'm not familiar with the IP at all, but it strikes me as being very sincere to the original work and I became a fan of the characters in the game.

My only 'gripe' with the game is that I wished the sex scenes with the spies themselves had text to them. These scenes are beautifully animated, but some dialogue would have placed these scenes above and beyond. I think the appeal of visual novels is the combination of text and images and it would have been really hot to see what each girl had to say/feel during their first scene for instance.

Something that isn't a problem at all though is the 'grind' because you should be cheating for money in basically all these sex games. It still took me a full day to beat the game even with infinite money, which I think is fair. These games should require you sinking a few hours into them to learn about the characters though, waiting makes them better. I get bored when sex comes to quickly.

Only just got around to playing this, I love a good Completed game.

It would qualify as a hidden gem, but has some unfortunate flaws.

Most notably, "trainer" is in the name but it's hardly a trainer game at all. You meet the girls, get to know them a little bit, but then most of the one-on-one activity dies off completely. Corruption doesn't increase as a result of your actions, just from moving the game story forward.

The core gameplay loop is assigning agents to places on the map to build up faction rep, then eventually doing infiltration missions. The infiltration missions are very repetitive and bad. I cheated the game code to give me 100% success rate and they were still repetitive and bad.

All that being said, the dialog is decent and there's a handful of incredible 2d CG animations, so it could still be worth a download.

Don't play this game if you're into more cruel/degrading content.

There's a misleading karma system that would suggest you can choose your path in the game, but I maxed out negative karma, and it didn't seem to change anything.
Despite choosing every negative karma option available, my character is still treated like a close friend of the girls... You will always end up being a heroic "good guy" no matter what you choose (It seems like the karma system is just a mechanic that was never completed, honestly).

Even if you're not coming to the game for that type of content, you might still end up finding the game lacking, as the vast majority of it is just grind, humour (Which I personally felt tried a little too hard), and non-sexual story content (Also, for some reason, the game doesn't feature any blowjob scenes until the VERY end... And it's a single frame/image with like three sentences before it, hardly even a scene at all).

I was surprised that this game ended up disappointing me so badly, as I remember enjoying Orange Trainer quite a bit (This game feels like much less of a "trainer" game as well, to be honest).
The dev's next game doesn't look particularly interesting to me either (Seems too vanilla/tame for my taste), but I wish him luck all the same, as he's clearly got talent (I just don't feel that it was really put to good use in this case).

The game has a good and exciting concept, and many dialogues are funny.
Too much grinding with different gadgets, outfits, and even the agents to use to progress the game.
Some of the hints could be better. too "open" for you to understand.
The reuse of in-mission scenes for different girls is too prominent.
The prisoners you captured definitely need more than just a simple picture

Pros:
-Fairly humerous
-Multiple clothing options
-Variety in sex scenes(?)
-Forced sexual situations, which is a plus (girls not wanting to flash tiddies, but reluctantly doing so)
-forced corruption

Cons:
-The grind has been reduced, but theres still a crapton of grinding. Half the time, you'll be clicking through the game, mousewheel scrolling backwards when you "fail" a mission attack, and slowly waiting for the next "event" with hopes that itll be hot.
- For all the clothes in the game, it amounts to nothing and feels disjointed. You have the girls complaining about wearing skimpy bar clothes, yet you could have them wear nothing and they'll strut out into public without a care or comment.
-The animations are a bit lower resolution. It sounds nitpicky, I know, but it's noticeable.
-Half the time it isn't clear what you should be doing. There's a quest log, but even that doesn't help much.

It's a game that shines in it's appearance, but has nothing inside. It's like seeing a fluffy white cake, excitingly cutting into it with a knife, and having the knife easily tear through the entire cake to reveal that it was only a mountain of whipped cream. I wish the best for the developer in their future projects, however!

its a good game that entertain with a simple gameplay and with a good history, it can be better in this part, but honestly is pretty good, the animations that this game have are the best that this game have, becuase its pretty fluid that make it seems that is a real video (most on the last sex scenes)

Overall it is fun and just as hairbrained as the series. The main issues come from it getting bit repetitive and need more events. The game had a surprising amount promise and for the most part it delivered.

could be way better, i think the dev put much effort on lore and other mechanics, the game lacks of sex content, the grind is boring even with cheats, also this weird obsession with making the girls "please" strangers even tho you live with them and can control their minds, just make them your personal slaves at this point

This was a fantastic game. Hot scenes and art, story started a little slow but eventually found myself getting more invested than I originally thought I would. Could be a little grindy at times but I enjoyed the management of the girls so it wasn't mind numbing. All in all a wonderful experience, my only wish for Christmas would have been even more art.

That being said, one gripe that I can't help but mention, space to move forward in the H scenes? Cmon now. Thankfully most mice nowadays have at least an extra button or so that are re-programmable so not an issue I wasn't able to solve but still. Looking forward to seeing more in time.

Reviewing info: How I rate/review and other info is HERE . W.I.P This sentence will not be included if review format is finalized and blog updated.
Review layout: Lazy/minimal format (others)
Review type: Game
Review format: Lewds
PROs
✅ Solid art style
✅ Pretty fun story & comedy aspect
✅ Pretty solid gameplay
✅Lewd scenes are high quality animation loops
✅Interestng degeneracy premise
✅I loved the dialogues where first chick got slowly corrupted
CONs
❌The „combat/spy“ gameplay is tedious..
❌Barely lewd scenes. Game leans on gameplay a lot more than the lewd aspect (so not much of a fap game)
❌“Trainer“ game with rather weak trainer element itself
❔Lot’s of clothing, but it’s visual fluff only

Comments
Don’t usually care about western styled lewd games or animation overall. But this one had pretty pleasant artstyle. Anyhow... long story short... not really a fap game as there ain’t much to fap to. Yes the animations/loops are top notch quality, but there ain’t much of em. But the game itself was pretty fun. I liked the story, humor and slow dialogue corruption of the chicks.
I liked Sam the most, she hot hardworking and innocent chick.. so seeing her slowly being corrupted in her way of thinking was tons of fun. Plus she ended up being the biggest slut.
Clover is money gobbling bimbo... she the usual blonde slut, was good enough character
Alex... is essentially an infant in her mindset.. tomboy’ish as well... liked her the least.
Anyhow as an adult game . Adult part was meh.. but game itself was pretty fun.
Total Score: 7/10
Game status:
✅ Finished

It's a really good trainer game with quests, managing resources, planning, crafting, detailed cartoon graphics, dressing... Really lots of stuff. Nicely made to. And funny and humorous.

However sexual content is pretty scarce and limited to not so many single scenes. Sure game is sexy all the time (girls running with tits out etc) but not actually that sexual. Like you know. One would expect much more kinky sex ecounters with girls he trains and corrupts all the time.

Despite things mentioned above I had great time playing this game.

I really wanted to like this game, I really did. However, I feel that the people behind this game decided to emphasize the grind of "Orange Trainer", whilst minimizing some of the best parts of that game - the dialogue and corruption.

Yes, technically the art is an upgrade from 'Orange Trainer', but that game had fantastic art already as well as dialogue and scenes that really emphasized the slow corruption of it's main character.

Both games suffered from a unnecessary gameplay mechanic that was just grindy, but 'Orange Trainer' didn't really take you away from the immersion of the whole point your playing a Trainer game - corrupting a strong-willed but innocent woman. The reason I felt 'Paprika Trainer' took you away from the main purpose of a trainer game, and thus the immersion, was that it had missions that you have to perform, that are tedious and not that fun, and for the most part, don't have a great pornographic payoff (especially Trainer-wise). In 'Orange Trainer', it was only really the command centre (money cheat solves this) and some 'fetch' quests (that could be skipped with CTRL), whereas in Paprika you actually have to play the quest. They're boring and they're take longer to finish.

That's my main issue, but I also felt that the dialogue wasn't on the same par as 'Orange Trainer' because it was more humorous and light-hearted, taking out some of the darker side of 'Orange Trainer'. For me, I play Trainer games to corrupt a strong-willed and innocent woman. Paprika has elements of this, but once again 'Orange Trainer' does this better, especially because you're focusing mainly on one woman.

I wouldn't warn people of this game by any means, because it is well made overall and others may enjoy it, but if you're a fan of Akabur's classics (Witch & Princess), then 'Orange Trainer' is a real contender, and arguably better. I feel, for my own personal tastes in a Trainer game, the people who put the effort behind this game, took away the wrong lessons from their previous title. It just doesn't hit the mark as well.

Obviously, taste is subjective though

It might sound weird, but I kinda like this game in spite of myself.

It's intensely grindy and the gameplay is... very not good. The resource management portion of the game, allocating the spies to jobs and missions, is thin at best and a time sink at worst. The missions themselves are pretty pointless, just moving down halls and maybe occasionally using a gadget when the dice roll fails you.

On the other hand, it has excellent art and animations, great voice acting, a decent enough story, a good bit of humor, and a solid corruption arc. It's weird as hell, but the gameplay is basically the only down side. I honestly feel like the game would have made a better VN, especially if it would have allowed a little more focus on the "development" of the spies.

Overall, I feel like the game is worth a play, but definitely with cheats to beat out the grind once you feel like you've managed to find most of the scenes. Fortunately, the cheats are included, so everybody wins.

Like others said many times, a pretty nice game overall. The story's good and surprisingly interesting for a totally spies parody, good art and scenes even if there could be more of them. Gameplay is okay, though it's undermined by a fair amount of grindind/farm.

The ends were a real bummer for me tho, someone said it previously but after everything you came through, facing a single cg with a zoom and a few text boxes is more than disappointing...

Other than that, i had a good time playing it

Amazing art.
Script too.

Looks really similar to the original.

The scenes are kinda repetitive, so are the objectives but it was all fun even without using cheats.

Wish there were more scenes to this.
Its really underrated enough.
Deserves more.
A sequel for example.

Can't really justify rating any lower if I played it through to the end and felt emotionally invested for a solid chunk of it. The explore system is annoying and the landgrab system is completely unbalanced (at first you won't have enough agents to make meaningful progress, but by the end you'll have too many and will just be skipping 30 days at a time to get to landgrabs), and I'm assuming way scaled back from it's original intentions based on the way it's described. These two facts make a gameplay loop that is mostly unfulfilling.

But the story beats are nice and really draw you into the characters. Strangely the foreplay scenes are the hottest the game gets, so if you're in it just for that I'd stop playing once you get there, the further sex scenes aren't half as hot.

I had a blast playing this game, the comedy was the highlight for me mainly in the MC's insanity playing off well with the girls, with the "Say Something Crazy" options being the most fun options to choose in my opinion. The progression of your relationships with the girls was also pretty good feeling like you are actually becoming friends with these characters, though admittedly before writing this i was going for a good guy route so my memory might be skewed, though the dialogue wall you hit unless you get the next rank of the gangs can be a bit annoying.

The game did get rather grindy at times namely in trying to gather resources and money, admittedly though it's less of a problem if you aren't trying to get everything, the game itself was fun and i had a good time through it all, the only real gripe if have is with the endings, after all the work you've put into the game and characters the endings are rather lacklustre, which seems to be a opinion a good portion of others have as well. The endings don't ruin the whole experience but it just makes you feel that after everything you've done your rewards for getting to the end are rather anti-climactic

Overall the game was a great experience which i would definitely play again, very fun and easy to get into, the only bad things being somewhat of a grind and some poor endings.

I really enjoyed this game.
First of all, I love the characters. Sam, Alex and Clover were some childhood crushes of mine, so seeing them in a trainer game is a dream come true.
The game itself is well done, and I would say it is the best trainer game I have played so far. By introducing a few mechanics to keep things interesting and giving enough spice to keep things from bogging down, the dev really makes this game stand out, even over their previous game.

Overall a good game.
From the positive. Great plot and characters. A fairly simple managerial component.
Now it's negative. There are few lewd scenes. The developer's note honestly states their number. But still I would like more. A lot of grind. This is also honestly written in the developer's note. But still I would like less. From the second third of the game, you just skip the constantly recurring scenes with girls. This is not good. But still closer to 4 than to 3.

Best:
- Sex animations
- Outfit system
- The theme and the different gangs are unique

Good:
- The VN style 'combat' is fast and tolerable, thank Cthulhu that it's not another RPG Maker grindfest (not that it's anymore deep, but at least it's over with quickly)
- The length and amount of grind is tolerable. You really only need 10-20 agents and can fast forward through most. Once you maximize your cash you won't need to grind it anymore.
- Holding CTRL really does skip through 100% of the tediousness

Bad:
- The writing is not sexy whatsoever, aiming to be more funny and whimsical. The animations can carry, but don't expect to be turned on by any text

Great execution in this game. Nothing ground breaking or revolutionary. Good smut. Looking forward to the developer's future work. Maybe hire a writer for sex scenes to get that 5/5 for the next game.