Ren'Py - Completed - Personal Trainer [v1.1.2] [Domiek]

a once promising game which never really has been completed because either the dev got tired of it or he enjoyed chatting with people in this thread too much and found no time to actually develop the game. the two points i'm giving are for sophie, a most loveable character and the reason i got hooked in the first place, and for the capable hint system, without which it would be impossible to go through this game anyway. all of the female characters except sophie, dani and hikari are either ugly or repulsive in a way. realistic? yes, necessary in an adult game? questionable. either way it was a drag to go through those hags' stories. there isn't much to say what hasn't already been said about this underdeveloped, unfinished heap of disappointment.

"Count no man happy until he is dead."

As an in-progress game, this was terrific. But the dev has closed the book and moved on, and what's left is a shambles. Incomplete, buggy, and kind of incoherent. Hard to recommend.

In some "technical" aspects well made; but for me contains much of the worst aspects of porn games. The way most female and all non-MC male characters are portrait is highly unpleasant and gives off a really weird "incel vibe"....

Potential but incomplete game

PROS:
- Good story telling
- Good renders

CONS:
-NOT COMPLETED
- There are so many things that are not polished.
- Most girls routs finished too soon.
- There are no endings

Yet another game on here that shows that people should stop rating a game they like or has potential before the developer finishes it. A game that has the potential to be good also has the potential to be bad. This game started off very promising but then completely fell off a cliff and should be labeled as abandoned rather than completed.

This game has 9 main girls: Sophie, Amy, Jenna, Dani, Maria, Daisy, Hikari, Mayan, and Alex. The problem is, I only liked the first four girls, and either didn't care for the others (Maria and Hikari) or couldn't stand them (Daisy and Alex). I was liking Mayan's route, but it just straight up ends after a few segments, and you don't even get to fuck her. You get to fuck all of the other girls though, but pretty much all but one route ends out of nowhere without any sort of conclusion or epilogue. Hell, one of the girls ends up changing her personality just so the developer could end her route. The girl is hesitant to even give a blowjob in 1 segment and then ends up demanding sex 2 segments later and then the route ends. This is just lazy as hell.

Even the routes that I liked felt rushed or had other problems. For example, you meet a girl and 2 or 3 segments later, you end up eating her out. In the incest route, the girl ends up randomly blowing you, without any prior sexual tension or buildup at all; it just happens, and it's completely unbelievable. It's as if these events were put in just to move the routes forward because the developer couldn't think of a better way to do so. Jenna's route was good, except for the last segment, which actually had a disgusting part that killed the whole mood. The only route I liked completely was Dani's. But it just ends after a sex scene. This game needed endings or an epilogue.

With all that said though, the main reason I'm giving this 2 stars instead of 1 is because I really liked the girls that I liked, particularly Sophie. Her personality is very endearing. Plus, her route has the closest thing to an ending in this game, so that makes it all the better. I also really enjoyed her interactions with the protagonist. Speaking of the protagonist, he acts like a buffoon most of the time, which gets very annoying very quickly, and most of his dialogue in this game is cringeworthy as hell. At least he can get serious and use his brain when he has to, but it felt contradictory that such a fool could also be so cunning, like in the Amy route. Another reason for the 2 star rating, instead of a 1 star rating, is that the sex scenes were really good, and there are a lot of them, most of which were well-animated.

This game also uses a sandbox system, and there are actually hints on how to progress each route, which is always a good addition and every sandbox game should have this. But what happens very often is you have a segment and then the hint for the next segments says something like "so and so invited you over for dinner." But so and so never mentions this in the previous event, so if you're trying to play this game without using the hint system, it can get confusing and you can get stuck trying to figure out how to progress. Essentially, the hint system is pretty much mandatory to progress, which isn't good design.

For all of these reasons, I can't recommend playing this game. By the time I reached the "end" of it, I just felt empty because of how rushed the routes were and the lack of a proper conclusion to all but one of them. A ton of potential was wasted.

Very good story for a sandbox game. The cucked husband storyline seemed kind of out there, and it is too bad that you don't really know what happens after the fact with the gym owner, or the sister for that matter, but maybe despite the 1.0 it will have a follow up? Fun scenarios. Models not that good looking in general, but it had good humor as well.

TL/DR: Endings (if the girls even have one) are rushed that ruins the entire experience of the game. 5/5 6 months ago 3/5 now.

Let me start off by saying that 6 months ago I would have rated this game a 5/5. This game has just about a little bit of something for everyone. (obviously not everything though)
I'm giving this game a 3/5 because in reality it should be tagged as [Abandoned] instead of [Completed]. Most if not all of the girls just have an abrupt ending while a few have a extremely impromptu-ish ending that just feel rushed. Not really a spoiler but for example one girl runs away from a guy(not the mc) embarrassed and that's the last thing you see. No talking to her afterwards to be like "what's up" or "it's okay, their opinion doesn't matter" just abruptly ends with "All content completed for this character"

Story: 1/5 This is maybe a 4/5-5/5 until the last 2-3 events with the girls where things start feeling rushed.

Originality: 5/5 Even with everything this is an original idea for an Adult VN. I have yet to really see anything done quite like this which makes me all that more disappointed about the ending.

Renders: 3/5 not bad not great but decent and unique

Sound: 3/5 kinda generic music but nothing really unique or outstanding.

Playability: 5/5 Stable and very playable. NO REPLAYABILTY imo

Performance: (grain of salt) I haven't ran into any issues with it BUT i have a High-end gaming pc with 64gb ram(OVERBOARD iKnow)

Bugs: Haven't ran into any myself

Animations: 3/5 some good some bad but nothing that's too out of whack or look amazing.

Grammar: ?/5 I don't remember so its safe to assume nothing horrible since bad grammar sticks out to me and can ruin the experience

Amount of content: The amount of content in this game is crazy even with the fail of an ending.

I was looking forward to this game back when updates were coming out but now that it's completed all I can think of is, "That's it? That can't be it." The latter one especially since I tried to interact with one of the characters but I got a message saying "content under development."

The setting and the set-up to some of the stories was interesting at first but going down the line some of the character stories just ended abruptly. The renders are okay but the animations on the other hand are not great. It feels like they were added as an afterthought and I think I would have actually liked if they weren't added at all.

The best part of this game for me is the characters. Since this is a sandbox, we're free to choose which characters we interact with and I could say that I looked forward to the MC interacting with most of them. "Most" because I didn't like Daisy since she seemed to annoying and airheaded to me, and Mayan didn't really add anything to the table. On the other hand, my favorites are Dani, and, the main reason I kept playing, Sophie. I liked how Dani warmed up the MC and her following scenes were pretty hot while Sophie just had the right combination of cute and sexy and her chemistry with the MC was very amusing to see.

This game was good at first but towards the end it runs out of steam and it really shows.

A four star game that got nickled and dimed down to a three star.
The story that we get isn't bad but yes it does end suddenly leaving you wanting a real ending for a given character.

The girls look good render and design wise for their particular types (Fit, MILF, Curvy, etc...).

My biggest issue with the game is the supposed in-game "walkthrough" When you progress with a girl until you can't progress any more instead of getting a "I should continue X's story" or something to indicate that you need to speak with a another girl and focus on her for awhile so I can go back to the first girl all you get is "No hints available.".
No hints right at a point in the experience where you actually need a hint.

I like this game and I do agree it feels unfinished thus the rating however I am more open to seeing more work from this author that is better laid out and will be a more complete experience.

I give 2 stars because renders are okay (I don't like soggy boobs though). The game itself is not that good, typical sandbox games where eventually things get really boring and repetitive.

I also agree with other ratings, the girls are all slut with zero personality. Corruption tag should have been removed, as if the girls weren't corrupted enough already.

I'm not a native speaker:
Personal Trainer is an average game with good looking renders, a lot of sex scenes and... that's it.
It tries to become something "big", with story dept, feelings and emotion, "impactant" choices, and etc, but back to my first phrase, it's just an average game with good sex scenes.
The story have a good start, good dialogues ultil mid-late game, that's when the author decides he wants to give "Plot twists" or bring climax with no context, abruptly ending the paths with just a message in the Hints option, no cutscene at all.
In a nutshell, this is a game to skip the dialogue and watch the sex scenes.

This game starts good... the characters are interesting and reaiistically gorgeous, the hint system is easy to follow . renders are top notch...
the humor is brillaint, but unfortunately mid way... it all goes south, with anti-climatic endings and the game returning to sandbox.

This game started as a quite humorous romp about a """gay""" guy getting a job at an all female gym with the express purpose of sleeping with as many of them as he possibly could. Along the way it found heart, and got more serious, with MC getting into genuine relationships with multiple women.

Most of the characters are enjoyable, and I found myself enjoying routes of girls I'd never in a million years go after in most games, partially because of the humor, and partially because of just how well they were written.

The main issue here is this game doesn't have a satisfying conclusion, it just stops. There are no epilogue endings that are necessary in my opinion to provide a satisfying conclusion to sandbox games. Hell, you don't even get to see the birth of your child for fucks sake.

This is no longer true of this game with the Steam release. There are now solid(ish) endings for at least some of the girls, but sadly most of them are completely pointless. I don't think anyone that was disappointed before is going to have a change of opinion from the Steam version.

To conclude this review, I think most people would enjoy this game over an afternoon or whatever, just don't expect it to blow your socks off.

Good Points
+Story is so basic and unorrignal but at least have some interesting characters.
+Animations and renders looks decent enough and DEV improve them with new updates.

Bad Points
-DEV just shut down game saying ''Completed'' with half. We dont get enough scene or content at all. I was waiting lots of scene with Dani for example but we just had one scene and everyting ended. We dont have any ending. At least DEV chould make endings but we dont have them at... Like he could show future scenes fast but we could know what happen but nothing, we just have nothing...
-Renders and animations improved with updates but they still not good enough. I hope DEV will make better job with his new game.

For The End
It was have big potencial but DEV just wasted. I saw he is making new game and i hope it wont be like this one or end like this one.

A very simple story but many scenes with hot characters. No need for a walkthrough because a help is integrated as well as a very practical gallery because some scenes make you want to be seen several times

Very good game that started as a "learning project" and gradually became something more for a lot of users.
The sandbox style is not my favourite but in this game is implemented decently and i never encontered a problem with the various events.
The models and animations are nice and well worth the download, the characters (with a few exceptions) are well developed and the general tone of the game is funny and light (again with rare exceptions).
Fair warning: the ending may result rushed/not satisfactory but nonetheless is present and that is something i appreciate.

TL;DR
Overall I reccomend this game and consider it an excellent first try and look forward to play future titles from the dev.

In itself a good game with nice gameplay.
The end though feels rushed and the story of only one girl feels finished, the other just feel ... not done. It is, in my opinion, a game that is not finished.

How do you put five stars on this thing?

Sandbox, there are games that use it well by showing where the characters are directly, here we bother to search every day to find out where the characters are.

Almost all women have the IQ of an inflatable doll. (Completely slutty, moronic and weak-minded.)

Our protagonist in all of this, is only a profiteer, just think with his cock and pretend to be gay for how to fuck everyone, but at some point in the "story" it doesn't matter, we don't give a fuck, I stopped from that moment.

If you want to turn your brain OFF, this is definitely the game for you. If you are looking for a clever story and characters, then run away for your own good.

This game is amazing, the amount of boxes this game alone ticks for me is quite incredible.
So many great characters with great personalities and various body types, my absolute favorites being Amy and Sophie, their stories are the best in the game and very well written, and Sophies facial expressions and banter with the MC were the best thing in the game. I was a bit disappointed though that Mayan gets such a short screen time, when i started playing the game she seemed to be the most interesting, would love to see more of her.
The game also has a lot of repeatable content outside of the main character progressions, which is quite impressive to me, its clear that a lot of work went into this games design, also some of the later animations are really good with better camera angles and movements, especially compared to the animations at the beginning of the game.
Highly recommended.

Omg.

5 stars cos of Amy the readhead.
She's PERFECT.
She made our best moments in this game. Some great balance between submission and sex appeal.
We just wanna love and fuck her all day long.

It would be nice to see her ported in other games.