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

The quality of porn in this game is surprisingly high.
I almost judged it by its cover at first, with this art and name and the overall goofy lines, I expected it to be a 3rd rate hentai game, done hastily and amateurishly.

But I admit, I was very wrong. It's very well thought of, and the scenes are incredibly high quality; well animated and with lots of attention paid to the details. The gameplay is also surprisingly well done.

The only cons I can think of for this game is that the story takes a bit to kick off, after it does though it's easily within my top 10 best trainers.

cool animations, shame there are so few of them.
there is also the nice dress up mechanic (currently mostly useless but its nice).
there a certain lack of direction, I can eaily see people get lost at what to do.
aside from that the game is grindy as hell with no real rewards.
the UI is meh, gameplay is meh (just click on stuff and hope RNG likes you)
I can see becoming a 4 or maybe even 5 stars in the future, but at its current state best i can give it is 3.

Recommended

Pro
- The girls art is both a good homage to the animated show and properly sexified without going overboard. Very good design.
- Writing is pretty good overall. It's actually fun to read, a rarity in western porn game production.
- I like the mc, he's neither a douchebag nor an apathetic dude, just a pervert crazy guy, another rarity .
- Same for girls, they're rather believable as characters too, each with their own personality.
- Corruption seems to lead to fun things ahead.
- Clothing, I love games offering clothing options. Now this just needs more teasing related to these and it would be perfect!

Con
- I like leveling up and grinding, but this is too much, imo money gain should be at least doubled or something.
- Many bugs with clothings.
- Lack of content (expected but had to be said for current version 0.8.x). Actually the main problem.

This gets 4 stars from me for its potential and the dev listening;

+ excellent artwork
+ improving gameplay that's actually kinda fun
+ good story
+ dev listening to criticism and bug reports
+ great potential, especially considering the devs earlier works

- sometimes still a bit grindy
- glitches may break the game to an unplayable state, requiring loading a (maybe way) earlier save
- still quite the cocktease in v0.8

Well first of all the character designs are okay but it's a downgrade of the other totally spice game on this site.

The dialogs are fine but personally I don't really get something from it or have an impact
It's kind of plain and simple.

but what I don't like about this is that the UI sucks.
It's also grindy and have some bugs.

Maybe this rating can change in the future updates but for now this is what I see in this game so far

Update: Dropping down to 2 stars. After several updates the content hasn't grown as fast as the grind has and it's never had the guidance to go with it's level of open worldness. At this point baring a CG rip or gallery mod I don't see myself trying it again so, if I wouldn't play it again I'm not sure I can even call it average anymore. So much potential, so little realized.
It's on the side of 'give it a try', the art's not too bad, the choice of what to parody is of course spot on, but I find myself agreeing with another rater or two that said it can be troublesome to follow what to do next.
It's not game stopping but, a journal with better guidance or a walkthrough or he like would benefit this game. Right now, a lot of guessing time when playing it. Not to a 'bad' level yet but, annoying more than it probably needs to be.
At it's core though it's got 4, maybe 5 stars in there so, the 3 star rating is mostly because it's not the most fluid to play or figure out and a lot of games out there these days are more forgiving on that. Still decent.

This game has potential but when compared to the Orange Trainer I too often felt like I had no idea what I was suppose to do nor how gather resources.

The writing and the art are still great examples to look up to but the UI is what kills this game.

Totally Spies was a show you may or may have not watched as a kid, but as a perverted adult I strongly recommend giving a few episodes a shot to appreciate what we have here. Exiscoming may have just found a gold mine with their parody of a french cartoon already so deeply ingrained with cute girls and almost every fetish you can imagine. Their previous work with the very popular Orange Trainer gives me confidence this will turn into another gem.
At the time of this writing, I am using version 0.4.5.0 and it is still in it's early stages. The UI has many options that are under-used or have place holders instead but those have been decreasing with each update. While currently limited on adult scenes, the ones that are there are fantastically drawn and some are even animated!
I have high hopes for this game and hope the final product will live up to it's source materials already lewd nature!

Not often that I find a game worth reviewing. The dialogue is not only coherent (a rarity for lewd games), but is actually both well-written and, at times, laugh-out-loud levels of funny. Gameplay is actually well done and interesting. I'm not usually one for the trainer types of games, but this one has gameplay that isn't tedious; interesting, well written characters; and most importantly, great art. Tiddies.

Keep an eye on this one. More promising than most games I've played.

I know this game is in development and I wasnt expecting much when I downloaded because its early in its development and I was not familiar with the author. I was happy to find it to be a decent start with great content already in place. Its humor, renderings, story and the interesting way it handles infiltrating places are all really good.