One of the hidden gems really. You can tell that this game was made with love because no ends were cut short. Almost all characters are really hot (specially my dear Eveyln), scenes are made with care and have a lot of variety and the grind is minimal imo so if you didn't play it please give it a try ur gonna thank me later.
Ren'Py - Photo Hunt [v0.19.1 Extra] [Moochie]
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Jaga Telesin
Gonna do this review in sections, since it appears the game is fairly long. The first covers about ~15 hours from the start of the game... and so far gives it around a 2.9 score.
+ Good renders and models, lots of nice details and no re-use of stock stuff.
+ Interesting use of sandbox elements to progress the story.
+ Nice option to corrupt certain women
+/- Optional walkthrough is almost mandatory, to help with progressing LIs
- After the first 15 hours, the MC has not been laid even once. He's received handjobs, a few blowjobs, and even a footjob or two. But absolutely no pussy for him. We've had to settle for watching a dream sequence of a DIFFERENT guy fucking a woman. Total and utter let-down for early content.
- Game is pretty fucking grindy, unless you use cheats, which are unfortunately recommended to get around the grind.
- Game relies heavily on cross-progression of LIs: you can't move one forward without moving others forward, which sucks up a lot of time in useless banter, jobs, and meaningless story.
- There's really no over-arching plot to the game after 15 hours. It's just the MC trying to get closer to girls, either to finally get into their pants, or to corrupt them.
- Money, which is used nearly everywhere, is the major grind in the game. Take some advice: just cheat it in with the mod.
- Teasing appears to be the theme everywhere you go. It's not intentional or active teasing from the LIs, it's the dev teasing us by making us think something might happen, when it actually never does.
Game might deserve more than a 2.9, IF it dished out a little pussy to the MC here and there. So far - nada. No vaginal, no anal, and no throat-fucking. It's like the PG version of "behind the bleachers" in some random high-school.
Will update the further along I get. Hopefully I can stand more grinding and needless boob and foot-jobs, and inane dialog. -
DoctorZoid
Great art work, particularily some serious light work that gives true depth to scenes. Bonus praise for the effort on the story scripting. Quite a lot of content for an yet to be completed novel. Would replay it again. -
Luh geeky
Photo Hunt [v0.19.1 Extra]
game is kinda mid didnt finish it
art 5/5
story 2.5/5
character/design 3.5/5
sex scene 3/5
sound 1/5
vibe 2/5
overall 2.8/5
art really good with high quality renders
story meh it was a hard read
character/design it was good but nothing special i think art of the game hard carry
sex scene idk good enogh i just got few scene
sound i hate the fucking BGM 20 min into game i was going crazy and it was random didnt match the thing was happing on the screen
vibe i would give 1 if art wisent this good hard read annoying BGM
and why i selling pic of my mom and sister ( dont talk about u can chose not to sell if there is option to do )
i though this game gonna be great play with this good visuals i guess 1 thing cant carry other aspects -
LittleBigDaddy
-1 star for the story which is just decent, but it has gorgeous renders, some great characters, the English is solid and readable, and there's LOTS of content. This is a feast.
fwiw I really like the Mom in this game - she's flawed in a relatable, believable way. -
fez16
This is a strange game to review. On one hand, the writing is generally pretty bad and the sandbox is tedious even with cheats and a guide.
On the other hand, some of the scenes are so depraved and hot I don't want to stop playing. The devs don't fuck around on some of these corruption routes. These corruption routes are really the saving grace of this game. With the writing being awful even by porn-logic standards, romance routes lose their allure. The depraved shit you can get up to is the only reason to play this game.
If sandbox wasn't awful and filled with continuity errors, I think I could forgive the writing a bit more. Despite the major flaws, I still enjoyed the game enough for a 3 star. If we get more helena/becky then 5 star ez. -
Kaintfm
So I was checking the recent updates this morning, saw Photo Hunt in the list, and immediately gave out a little “SQUEE!” sound. My embarrassing outburst was followed up by the thought, “If I’m this excited to see this game updated, how the hell have I not written a review yet?”
Not a lot of games can provoke such a response from me when they’re updated, but Photo Hunt deserves that honor. Excellent story pacing (admittedly going back several years now) with continuing payoffs with future updates as more and more characters expand, group up, with more and more exotic and sexy content as things wrap up. A clumsy menu with far too many clicks to locate the new content is a black mark to be sure, but it doesn’t reduce the enjoyment of the events once you find them.
Photo Hunt takes a more conservative (and in my opinion, better) approach to animations. There will be a significant amount of dialogue between renders, and most adult scenes have only one animation, though some of the larger scenes will sometimes have two. However, the payoff in the quality of both the renders and the animations cannot be understated. Hours have clearly been put in to these renders both in setting them up and in rendering them. These aren’t AI generated nor are they quick and dirty 30 minutes per render garbage. If you’re like me, good renders and good writing trump poor animation, and here we have great renders and writing with quality animations. There may be less overall content per update, but quality > quantity, and there’s still plenty to see each update.
It’s not all gold and rainbows though. The one major drawback, albeit fixed by a skilled modder (You rock Shawnchapp!) is figuring out, with as few clicks as possible, how to access the next event. While some events happen automatically when you sleep, others require going several menus deep and picking up on clues from character bios. This is needlessly clumsy and frustrating, require too many clicks and too much leg work to begin the next scene. Thankfully, Shawnchapp’s mod, a continuation of previous work by Lain, puts all the various events into an easy to read, easy to navigate, side panel. If I were Moochie, I would incorporate this mod into the main game as it’s invaluable to streamlining the gameplay. When possible, less clicks is better. An update to another game with a similar design added a tiny icon to the lower right corner which will say things like, “Something is happening in the garage!” letting you know where events are available to unlock. Perhaps something like that would work as well?
Ah, the music. It’s not just the renders to which great attention has been paid. I even downloaded the music that plays during heavier emotional scenes. Really gives the game a nostalgic feel that you don’t normally expect from games that include sharing love interests with a group!
Speaking of NTR, it’s not NTR. It’s sharing, and it’s optional. If you tell your girlfriend, “Dude, fuck that group of nerds to distract them!”, your girlfriend isn’t betraying you. If you start sleeping with a girl who already has a girl in the side and you agree it’s fine if she keeps both relationships going, she’s not betraying you. Doing it behind your back is betraying you, so none of that “OMG NTR” shit please.
Above and beyond renders, great music choices, and a gallery to die for that clearly and methodically lays out every scenario you’ve played sorted by cast making replay as easy as a click of the mouse. Navigation could be improved, but with this much going right, it’s okay if a couple small things could be improved. 5/5 Highly Recommended! -
Reretki
We’re dealing with a middling title
renders are solid, but character development is average. Among its flaws are the abrupt shifts in certain characters' personalities and their weak storytelling. Some renders are severely lacking, while others are excellent. The gameplay, however, is fun and engaging, and the sheer amount of content is truly impressive. Overall, it’s a mediocre title, but one that’s still worth experiencing -
lilipip
Probable The Best game, The best Dev, I game that truly deserve a 5 starts even 5 starts is not enough to qualify a game that has everything good unique 3d models(the best), differents paths, (a good dev that doesn't milk lol forget that), mochie deserve to be in a table with some devs like NTL, even thought Photo Hunt is better than most of its games, but were are no here to make some shitty comepetition here my friends you have the greatest game of the century. -
Xx_Gamerdad-69_xX
Okay, buckle up, there is gonna be a whole lotta yapping.
Overall I'd say the game is an artistic accomplishment tainted by poor technical execution.
⠀⠀I'll begin with immersion breaking intro and far-fetched prologue. Not sure why dev included this porn-shoot intro, just remove it and the game would be better for it. The accident in the prologue is made out to be over-the-top dramatic kind-of-a-big-deal occurrence, that were even shown in the news (wtf?). I feel like they might be a bit overreacting? It doesn't have any impact on further narrative anyways, except for occasional reference. And whats with the immediate gameover if you don't have enough money to pay up? Could the punishment be a bit more sophisticated? You can also get a gameover by skipping too many classes. It's briefly mentioned but never explained. Like how much is too much? I still don't know.
⠀⠀Some plot devices aren't believable. Like you visiting sister in a gentleman's club, and even tho you're wearing a mask, she seriously couldn't at least figure out your voice? You're siblings and you live together ffs! Besides she had many opportunities to look at MC's face and just..... didn't?! Also everything else is still the same, it's not like he is changing his appearance before visits. Or the Miroslav plot-line. It would be ok if you finish his questline before Rachel's but here is the problem: you can only progress his on Sundays, whereas Rachel's could be on weekdays. So what is probably going to happen is you already all lovey-dovey with her, but for some reason she still dates Miroslav unironically, which is nonsense.
⠀⠀Alice "Love" route. So first MC purposefully corrupts her and then becomes afraid that she wants him too much? Really? Why does he suddenly care about her marriage? He never really gave two fucks and and now all of the sudden becomes a bastion of morality? I also don't buy his "I'm too tired" or "I'm busy" excuses, because they come from a literal breeding machine. Why can't you just cuck her husband for good and keep her to yourself, since the other "Corruption" route is you literally whoring her out in a brothel? There is two threesome scenes with husband in the "love" route that you can't consent or refuse to, it just happens and you have no agency in the matter. That's not exclusive to Alice btw, some routes have unavoidable sharing and swinging.
⠀⠀All girls interconnected and their path progression is dependent on each other. So you can't focus on any one of the girls in a vacuum. And even if you do decide to focus, you'd be disappointed, because none of the routes are even remotely finished. Funny thing is, even though characters have to interact with each other to move the story forward, none of them know about other's romance with MC (with few exceptions) and in that regard everything does feel like it's happening in a vacuum. Also connected nature of girls routes mean that you have to progress them ALL regardless of your preferences. Don't like a particular girl? Well, too bad, you're stuck doing her events anyways.
⠀⠀Be ready to work (wait) really hard (long) for those sex scenes. It takes a while to get to know and seduce all the girls into relationship/submission. In that sense it could be considered a slow-burn. But when sex actually happens, It just does and you move on. At least for me there is no catharsis, and no appropriate aftermath. I will touch on it later, but the teasing is often more fun than main action.
⠀⠀Despite tutorial claiming that next steps become obvious if you read carefully, it is not always the case, so walkthrough becomes a necessity unless you want to aimlessly wander around.
⠀⠀Too many events on "Afternoon (Weekend)" later on in the game. You may not have the same exact issue, but it's not an isolated case. There WILL be numerous occasions where you simply forward time for the lack of activities.
⠀⠀Overall lots of narrative inconsistencies if you do things out of order planned by developer. Which, to be fair, is a sin of most of the games of the same genre.
⠀⠀There is a big discrepancy in facial "fidelity". Depending on the image, faces could appear either stunning or repulsive.
⠀⠀UI isn't thought out that well. You can only access Laptop and Phone from your room screen. But laptop contains walkthrough (which we already established is a must) and phone shows your stats, both of which you'd want to check out on a regular. So you'd have to constantly return to room screen, which just adds more unnecessary clicks.
⠀⠀Lack of sound effects - there is none. And the music is terrible. So I turned it off aaaand the game might as well be mute at this point.
⠀⠀There is very little animation, also earlier animations have all sorts of weird body movements in them and are overall considerably worse than late-game ones.
⠀⠀Now to the good stuff. The renders are gorgeous. And I'm not talking just about graphics. Poses, expressions, composition, angles, post-processing - all make up for an exceptional eroticism. Which in turn is further enhanced by the writing. I know I've harshly scrutinized it in the previous statements but despite it's imperfections, it's really hot, when it's needed. I mean there are non-animated teasing scenes that are more arousing than actual sex scenes with animations - that is highly unusual. Characters are varied in both appearances and personalities and it's interesting to follow their development. On which you have real impact with your decisions by the way. There is a lot of text but it rarely feels tiring or like a filler. I also liked the humor. It's mostly tasteful and spread thin enough to not get on your nerves.
⠀⠀Right now Photo Hunt has several dozen hours of content. Enough for a week worth of leisure time. I DO recommend it, and I really want to, but cannot in good faith, with all it's shortcomings, give it more that a 3. If it was a well-structured VN - that would be an easy 4, but alas.
we need more content every time