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

I liked this game way too much. The BG art is sometimes a little wonky and the way combat odds work resulted in some minor save-scumming, but I know that coding with renpy isn't a walk in the park. I liked this specific franchise and I really don't see it getting a lot of attention from anyone else with 2D art that isn't made with AI.

It took me a few tries to get into it, but I finished my first play-through in a short time and I'm really sad that it ended.

I got attached to the characters and the artwork a lot. Sam and Clover are pretty similar personality-wise in this, and even share dialogue sometimes, but I still really enjoyed the arcs everyone had. The foreplay scene specifically for Clover was incredible and my favorite out of any other scene in the game. I'm a huge fan. I wish more of the scenes were POV because the artist(s) were really talented and have a great eye for expressions.

Exiscoming as a development team... Well, their other works don't really have the same artstyle or presentation, but for what it's worth I really enjoyed this and their other games a lot. As a middle child, you can see the huge leaps in skill the developer(s) made from Orange Trainer and how much they learned from this going into Camp Mourning Wood. I enjoyed this one probably a bit more than I should have. It was a lot of fun, and for what it's worth it had a good amount of content and played reasonably well.

I really wish this game could go on forever, but I know how ridiculous that is. A really big part of me (get your head out of the gutter) wants this game to have a sequel, a remake, or a fan game.

Really well done.

At the beginning the story and the characters appeal to you a lot, but then halfway through it starts to be rough and the content makes no sense at all. So why let me personalize the hair, put hair in the pubic area or put tattoos on it so that later in the sex animations no modification appears. And let's not talk about the endings that there are, rough and tacky.

Rating: Paprika Trainer

---{ Graphics }---
☐ Each frame was painted by Da Vinci
☐ The Witcher 3
☐ They are really good
☑ Made with love
☐ Outdated graphics but still acceptable
☐ Looks like a PS2 game
☐ Paint.exe
☐ Looks like Atari game graphics

---{ Animation }---
☐ This is a movie you control
☐ There are many animated scenes and they are very good and fluid
☐ There are very few animated scenes, but they are decent
☑ The animation isn't good, but it's still an animation
☐ Animation is literally two frames
☐ There is no animation

---{ H-Content }---
☐ Almost too much
☐ A lot
☐ 50/50
☑ Could be more
☐ Not enough
☐ Is this really a game porn?

---{ Clothing customization }---
☑ Barbie's wardrobe
☐ There are some costume changes throughout the game.
☐ There are some clothing options.
☐ There is no clothing customization.
(☐ Does the clothing wear out when taking damage?)

---{ Story }---
☐ It'll replace your life
☐ Masterpiece
☐ Could make a book at Harry Potter level
☐ It can make you shed a tear or two
☑ A story worthy of attention
☐ You can like the story if you try hard
☐ Story makes no sense
☐ No Story

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough to sing "Faroeste Caboclo"
☐ Enough time for a Game of Thrones episode
☐ You're going to lose a few hours
☑ Equivalent to the entire "Lord of the Rings" series
☐ Exceeds 20 hours if you want to do almost everything
☐ It will take a few sleepless nights
☐ You are really a pervert
☐ One Piece ends, and you still haven't done everything
(☑ After the ending, there's an infinite mode)

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ More addictive than cocaine
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ It would have been better to see Pelé's movie

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ It's just watching the game
☐ You have to use less than 1% of your brain
☑ Nothing to worry about, unless you have dyslexia
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ It's one of those games that people study
☐ Dark Souls
(☐ Can be Changed)

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Didnt see some
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ Can ruin the gameplay
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ Ubisoft

---{ Requirements }---
☐ Forget it, current technology can't handle it
☐ PC with very good CPU and GPU
☐ A decent PC, with a GTX 1030
☐ Gaming PC from 2012
☐ A PC with a video card from grandma's time
☑ Check if you can run Paint

---{ I recommend that you play it? }---
☑ Yes
☐ No

Last words:

It’s a good game that brings nostalgia for the flash games of the 2010s. I believe this game was truly made with a lot of dedication and love, as you really feel like you’re in an episode of Totally Spies! It features an interesting and fun plot. I admit the animations aren’t its strong suit, but the ability to customize your spy and make her just the way you want is both fun and satisfying.

As you progress through the game, the corruption of the characters unfolds, and the rewards for your efforts are gratifying. However, in my opinion, the game almost reached the point of being 'boring' due to its grind-heavy system. That said, as mentioned before, the rewards for your effort are excellent and make it worthwhile.

I encountered a few bugs when activating certain gadgets, but nothing a rollback couldn’t fix. Overall, I really enjoyed my time with this game. If you’re a fan of Totally Spies! and would love the chance to fuck them, this game is definitely for you.

Good humor and story, and I always enjoy getting to have different dress up options for the ladies. Gameplay could have been better, but I enjoyed it all the way through and the art for the scenes was very well done

Pretty Entertaining game; Disappointing H-Scenes
I spent round about 7-8 hours completing it (with cheats).
I'm pretty much glad that I've played it once and now can avoid this devs work for good.
It's really just a pretty okay game with so-so management mechanics, sprinkled with hot scenes.

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.