Ren'Py - Park after Dark [v0.23a] [SID Gaming]

  1. 3.00 star(s)

    PDP19

    Ah yes, the one game that actually attempts to make a harem out of disney princesses, well...most of them anyway. So how does this make out into?


    PROS

    - A good selection of different princesses, with differing personalities, so there will no doubt be someone here that you would happily jerk off to.
    - Decent writing, lore etc.
    - Far as a VN goes, the gameplay is okay. The H is decent.
    - There is ambition to make a management game here.
    - Artwork is acceptable


    CONS

    - The game is incredibly linear at the start, and you can argue that sets a bad precedent for enjoying the rest of the game
    - The management aspect needs some very, very heavy tweaking because its bad
    - Artwork...artwork. Read my commentary below.


    COMMENTARY

    Okay, so what's the game about. You play as 'Mickey' the non-mouse, who has recently been fired from your amusement park job. One fateful night you meet Sid, wizard, who proceed to provide you with a pen that basically brings whatever you want to your reality. There are some limitations on what the pen can do but what it boils down to is you've got reality warping powers so you decided to reopen your amusement park, staff it with horny princesses (yes thats what the game describes them as) and get laid I guess.

    So with the pen youd think the first thing youd want to do is to draw a harem of princesses who would suck your dick. Unfortunately, how the game is structured is that you've got to more or less finish off Cinderella, the first girl, before you can get the next. In fact, when you get the second girl, Aurora, you now have to also finish most of hers before the game finally opens up and gives you three girls at once. So the game is linear as fuck at the start, and for a H game with such a volume of ladies, that's not good design.

    The mini game is simple enough, and easily completed. A bit grindy but whatever. But the management game is quite something else. At its worst its unfunctional, and at best its a waste of time. To make a short description of how it works: you make up a load of areas that'll earn you passive income. Occasionally there would be exclamation marks hovering over them but clicking them has never resulted in anything positive and there's simply no penalty for ignoring them. My park rating goes down after clicking them so what will I do? Well, I'll just never click them then. And lets be real, you're not really managing the girls in any shape of the imagination, its existance here is merely a nuisance to be endured for the girls' sake. Take the management game out and nothing essentially changes, from a gameplay perspective.

    The girls are properly written, so youre not really just skipping loads of dialogue, though I can confirm that theres plenty of fluff text worth skipping. Just a point: the personalities of the girls are not perfectly aligned with canon, though the dev clearly at least tried...a little.

    Artwork is fine, the proportions arent disastrous, but Id like to point out that there is enough design space for there to be girls without jumbo jugs, and not every girl's nips need to be THAT visible. The result is that every girl here looks alike, just a head transplant away from being completely homogenous.

    I will say one thing though. Taking the disney princesses is bold because they'll always be held to the standards of its IPO and in this case the game really does suffer from comparisons. If you ever watched the films, the original designs, the animation...it really does make these girls looked watered down, flat, like their soul been ripped off their bodies. Its very Robert Crumb; the girls are well drawn, anatomically correct, but there's little to no appeal in any of them. As a consequence, I couldnt get my dick hard over any of these, even the girls that I like.


    CONCLUSION

    Its not a bad game by any means, and if your thing is to jerk off to disney princesses then chances are youd be at least interested to try this. For the effort, the size, and the ongoing development, Id have to praise it because stuff like these often tend to be abandoned midway through, so hats off to the dev for keeping it going.

    Good, decent, but could use some work. Consider improving the management aspect, or scrap it entirely.
  2. 4.00 star(s)

    TheLastOne101

    story: hold ctrl to continue
    i'd give this a 5 star rating for the concept, artwork, and sheer abundance of scenes, but it's another "super obscure gameplay" thing where you get stuck all the time and find out there's one villain you forgot to fight via card drinking game, or one stat that's abysmal with only one way to raise it. It can honestly tired you out through sheer annoyance and grind.
  3. 2.00 star(s)

    MikesDK

    Story 2/5
    Well the story had potential and i love the idea of the hole park and creating stuff with the pen, creating the first female was a bit of a let down though, i mean why make a bimbo as the first one...its yet another game that thinks everyone has big tit fetish which is getting old....its also just yet another mindless fuckfest game, you have no choices in anything just fuck em all, it just dosent get more boring the pointless then that.

    Game is also just a kinetic novel hidden behind a sandbox, you rarely get choices and the ones you get means absolutly nothing, which also means relationships/sex scenes are forced on you and so is fetishes, nothing is in the players controle, you cant even skip a girl if you dont like her since quests are tied together so theres only one way to progress making it pure kinetic.

    Game tells you to talk with sid if your stuck to get a hint on what to do but that dosent work either since theres only one route where your forced to fuck girls you hate to progress, its the most idiotic way to make a game, why is it so hard to let players say no to sex scenes if they dont want it with someone... atleast show the kinetic novel tag so people dont have to waste their time playing something they hate.

    Not sure whats up with the story either, you got a pen so you can create whatever you like but MC cant figure out how to get a dress? huh? he created a hole park full of shit and he cant draw a dress? he has to buy it? makes just no sense....

    Really not a fan of MC, making him the standard run of the mill pervert with a childish mindset of a 12 year old is boring to say the least.

    Girls 3/5
    The art is great but i most wasent really for my taste since i dont have a big tit fetish so they where more of a turn-off then anything else.

    Animations 0/5
    Its not an animated game.

    Sandbox 2/5
    Missing questlog, Missing hints, Very grindy, gets boring fast having a million upgrades, cheats help but not really how a game should be played.

    Choices 0/5
    Its a kinetic novel, mindless fuckfest, no choices matters if there ever will be it wont be importen stuff like who you fuck since thats all forced.
  4. 1.00 star(s)

    Plejer

    Very bad. Progression system is trash. I hate it. The stat of park ranking or wtf is that is always falling to 0. And i can't progress because of that. This is BULLSHIT. Scens are midicore. Overall game is buggy and graphic is kinda trash.
  5. 5.00 star(s)

    Saint1121

    Excellent game - looking forward to the final release. The games progression system feels really nice, and it feels like you're actually playing a game instead of just watching a movie or reading a book.
  6. 4.00 star(s)

    Congressman Weiner

    I enjoy this game now that I only play with the cheat codes.

    The art is excellent, the dialog is funny, and I really enjoy progressing with the plot.

    I HATE dealing with park maintenance ... and I like those kinds of games in general. I really enjoy Brothel King, for instance.

    But this is just random crap. Things break down for no reason and soon half the place is on fire and there's nothing I can do about it. It's one thing if my mismanagement caused these problems, but you can be the best manager in the world and it won't matter -- the game is designed to screw you over. I mean, if I was given a budget and I spent it all on girls and wine and ignored the running of the place, it would make sense, but I've done everything I can to keep the park running smoothly.

    And when I brought this complaint to the attention of the developer, I was treated as if I was just stupid for not understanding that this is just how the game works and basically told to suck it up. (Mind you, I am not alone in this opinion, as a glance at the comments and reviews for this game will tell you.)

    But what's the fun in that? What's the fun of having terrible things happen to you when you're not making mistakes? I am not a masochist -- I don't get off on being beaten for no reason. I mean, there are no puzzles to solve to make things better, no strategy you can apply to fix things, and that's what good games have when terrible things occur... a chance to figure out ways to make things right again. Nope, not here.

    So now I just wait for the cheat codes to be posted and ignore all that management crap, and just deal with the underlying plotlines with the girls and am enjoying the game quite well, thank you. In fact, I like it a lot. Absent the management crap, it's a great game.

    But I wish I could enjoy all of it.

    So my rating is docked a star for forcing boring grinding crap on us for no reason. It's not fun when a game punishes you when you have done nothing wrong.
  7. 5.00 star(s)

    quickstart

    Very good. Really good job with the princesses and how they appear. Nice scenes and fairly polished game. Looking forward to seeing what else comes. This is better than other disney princess games in my opinion. Creator has done a really fine job.
  8. 1.00 star(s)

    factyma666

    Imagine you want to play a porn game about horney Disney princesses.
    Plot twist!

    Instead you spend hours clicking through menus, being forced to talk to an annoying wizard guy, doing tedious drawing minigames, slowly unlocking a girl for lame sex scenes that are 90% more talking and two or three nicely drawn pictures also drawing your own pictures of the park at like 5% per action because the dev wants to sell you cheat codes.

    There seem to be some park management mechanics in this but after 90 minutes I was so bored I stopped playing before they became relevant. Dev at very least you could have made the wizard guy we have to spend so much time talking to into a hot girl for the eye candy.
  9. 2.00 star(s)

    Cal2

    [Reviewed 0.20x]

    I appreciate the breadth of content and the developer trying to stay true to the art style of the characters, but for the first several hours, this game is just too grindy and the resulting scenes with the princesses just don't warrant the time investment with this game.

    The Good ((y))
    • Good art trying to emulate the look and style of each character
    • Unique game mechanics (building a theme park)
    • Lots of story content

    The Not-So-Good ((n))
    • Very, very grindy -- few options except for doing 1 or 2 actions per time period and progressing time, rinse and repeat
    • The repeatable "Drawing Training" minigame to increase your drawing speed was extremely tedious and a complete chore to complete
    • No animations or voice acting
    • Slow "unlocking" of new content -- had to wait for certain events to trigger, led to some sections of the game being relatively empty
    • Park management system has a lot of unavoidable, negative outcomes that can't be prevented in the course of normal gameplay
    Was hoping for more in this one, overall was just too slow, grindy and the time investment didn't justify the H-scenes content.
  10. 4.00 star(s)

    persea

    First of all, thanks to the developers for the game, I have liked it. However, it is a little grindy at the beginning, until you unblock the Villain tavern. Now a short review of several aspects.

    The story although a little superficial is funny and serves to link everything together.

    The characters are surprisingly well developed, each with their unique personality.

    The renders are good and the animations are ok.

    The grammar is good.

    And the content is fairly good around 15 hours of playability without using cheats.

    Lastly, I have missed the GUI to put auto during the animations, but this is a personal preference.
  11. 5.00 star(s)

    Aeneasc

    If you love to be rewarded for some reasonable grind and also had a crush on disney princesses as a kid this is the perfect game for you. While I usually play completed games, I already played multipe versions of this unfinished game. I highly recommend it.
  12. 5.00 star(s)

    OreWaTotoro

    I like the system implemented in this game. It is fun to develop the park while dating princesses. Having a sligthly more complex managment of the park (financial gestion, maintenance of the attraction, food stand, employees....) will be a plus. But even without that, the game is excellent.
    Thank you.
  13. 5.00 star(s)

    cdf86

    Good shit. Worth the time spent on it.
    If you have any fetish of fantasy with Disney princesses this is the game to go. Good scenes, easy to achieve your goals, having a good fun along the way.
    The project still under development with full compromised devs working on it. Good stuff.
  14. 5.00 star(s)

    zargal

    Easily the best harem collector game I've played here so an easy 5 stars.
    -Plenty of content and the girls seem to be largely "finished" before the next one is introduced.
    -Attractive character designs and decent characterisations (ie. how unique+likeable).
    -While there is a certain pattern to your seduction of the princesses, it doesn't feel like you're just repeating the same moves over and over again. No need to watch the same scene 5 times to progress thankfully.
    -After draw skill is maxed, it seems the grind is decently matched to progression. I seemed to unlock girls just as I finished the current one.
    -The villains are a nice wrinkle and will be a lot less annoying once you can actually deal with all of them.
    -The English is great.

    There are some problems
    -The early game seems rather grindy- you need to play the game's worst minigame twice a day to max a skill. Basically this leads to a slow start.
    -The upgrade system is a little slow (maximum 1/day) and the pricing for low-income rides is a bit off. Also there's no way to know what exactly the ride you're drawing brings to the table, negating some of the strategy.
    -Midgame can feel like you're "losing". This is a design choice, push through and you'll be fine.

    These are quibbles however. This is a well-produced game with good to great sex scenes and well implemented systems which promise continued high quality in the future.
  15. 5.00 star(s)

    uberbomb

    thought it was great, lots of content and potential here. Can't wait to see who gets added next. Definetly need to use cheats to get through the grind but the end result is great! Wish date outfits could be worn outside of dates too
  16. 5.00 star(s)

    ruXik15

    Really great game, as a poly person, I like that the girls are open to an open relationship, even if it is a bit too easy harem wise and I'd like some interpersonal drama, hope that there will he more multigirl scenes added, Aurora and Cindy need (that isn't a dream) badly, just because they way Aurora talks about it, you expect it.

    I do hope to eventually be able to cuck Roger rabbit and fully fuck Jessica, but if all we get is what's available for her, that's fine.

    Overall the game is a really great time, I wish you could maybe have the girls put on "date outfits" at home. Other than that I have very few complaints.
  17. 5.00 star(s)

    Deleted member 5670829

    Loved playing this game. Initially pretty grindy with the drawing minigame, but once you max out your level, it becomes a non-issue. The selection of girls, ranging from princesses to some villains is filled with variety. The characters talk and act exactly as they would in their respective movies. Overall a great game.
  18. 4.00 star(s)

    God's Last Gift

    It's lewd Disney princesses and it also features Slut versions of their regular outfits, which is one of my favourite little things these games tend to do. It's got a grind to it if you don't use cheats, but I did, so I guess I can't really complain about that.
  19. 3.00 star(s)

    E_nigma

    Good sometimes great art. Nice steamy scenes. The girls i've been able to get to are interesting but the rest of the game is too needlessly convoluted grindy and confusing. I've only been able to get to about 3 girls and finally got to the villians but there are so many places where the game grinds (literally) to a halt and you have to search through the thread or cheat or what have you.

    Art doesn't make up for how aggravating the actual game part is, hopefully it gets a bit more streamlined and fleshed out at a later point but for now I'd recommend avoiding unless you really love the art (which you can just extract) or don't mind tedious grindy and confusing mechanics.
  20. 5.00 star(s)

    brog77

    Great game overall.
    The art is lovely and the scene variety is great. The only issue i can think of is how boring the late game is, fixing that will make it a strong 5/5.
    A gallery viewer to check on scenes without having to go to each girl's place would be awesome!.