Ren'Py - Photo Hunt [v0.20.1 Extra] [Moochie]

Version: v0.13.1 Extra

So the game started by luring me in with the really good looking renders and models (most of them). Too bad there are few animation scenes compared to the amount of content because the animation scenes that are present, were pretty good looking and fluid.
You can see the work that was done in the visuals department, really thumbs up for that part of the game.

On the other hand, the game felt directionless to me, because you have a lot of characters and story arcs, but you never sure how to progress each of them. Most of the time you could assume that some location is related to one of the characters and the more you visit it, the more progress you make. But sometimes, the story would progress through another location and maybe you need to be past some stat gate that you can never know which was really annoying for me after a while.
That lead to stat grind which is never good.

Some more pluses I can add that the game had were the achievements and gallery of the game, the cool images you got from the characters from time to time based on your progress or some scenes you accomplished to see. The option to control the transparency of the text box is also a good point.

And for the part that made me put off the game - story and writing.
The game has some potential in the story and mystery around the red maiden establishment and around Grace's father which is good, but what made me cringe was the many inconsistencies in the character behaviors which broke their personalities for me.
You try to portray a character in one way, but soon she acts really different. This happens a lot throughout the game and with every character except maybe Alice and Jen.

Overall the game is ok and worth a try, I can see why you can love it but also why it can be just meh.

The pacing at the start was super weird and way too fast, and the dialogue is painfully bad. I didn't play enough to find out if the over arching story was any good, but I really just couldn't handle the writing. The renders look very good, and the tag list is great. Too bad, it had great potential.

Oh my... where to start. This is one of the best games I have played. The art is fantastic, and you will not see it all in one playthrough. Each choice usually leads to a different scene.
The sex is a slow build up. Not like most of the stuff where you see, then fuck right away.
The story is solid. Builds in a rightway.
Game Length - 20+ hours easy.
This is FANTASTIC. Thanks for making a sexy porn game, that is great!!

Amazing graphic. The model is beautiful and clean. I like the style.
Great story. A game that I rarely actually care about the story. I like how the author leaves many routes for the players to choose.

Overall an enjoyable game but I found myself spinning in circles quite often.

Pros

• Good story
• Excellent writing
• Good humor
• Unique characters with varied personalities
• Excellent facial expressions and emotion in the renders (very rare and difficult to pull off successfully!)
• Lots of content (two to three games worth)
• Excellent animations (but far too few until late game)
• Different paths for some of the LIs in the game (some choices really matter)

Meh

• Character models are average. The character models look several generations old. They lack skin texture and detail.
• Most of the characters have an anime look to them (exaggerated facial features and makeup, among other things)
• Needs better sandbox mechanics to lower grind and repetition

Cons

• A very slow burn. Slow evolving story. Very slow character progression.
• Too much repetition. I would greatly prefer the options being grayed out if I've done it multiple times unless something is going to change!
• Several of the female character models have noses so small it looks unnatural
• The areola (area around the nipples) has too much color saturation and contrast on most of the female character models. It looks unnatural
• A walkthrough is nearly required to enjoy this game, otherwise it becomes mind numbing. The pace of the game is already super slow so not using a walkthrough makes the game a time waster in my opinion. I probably would have given up on the game had I not used a walkthrough.
• The game suffers from the "carrot on a stick" author mentality. Sex is constantly teased and dangled in front of you like a carrot on a stick but you only get there with a couple of the LIs in the game in version 0.12.3 Extra. It takes literally forever to get there when you do.
• Sex (penetration) is delayed so long with some of the LIs in the game that I just want to dump them and move on. Even some of the LIs who aren't virgins won't fuck you no matter how much you date or romance them. I feel like I keep doing the same stuff with different scenarios/dates and there is little to no progression in intimacy.
• The English is OK but has lots of errors, misused words, and awkwardly worded sentences. The text and dialog badly need a good proofreader!
• Only 20% of the lewd scenes in the game are animated. The percentage gets higher later in the game but it feels like the author favored quantity over quality in the first 66% of version 0.12.3 Extra.
• Not all paths are equally developed. Some paths may lead to an "end of path" notification sooner than expected. Offering unique paths is awesome but I would greatly prefer them being equally developed.
• The lewd scenes are inconsistent throughout the game; some are well developed but at least half are rushed. The girl is getting you off and then two or three screens later you are cumming. All the foreplay and stuff in the middle often gets skipped. I am not a fan of this! Rushing lewd scenes is a big no no in my book!
• Some minor story problems throughout the game. One example:
  Spoiler: Story example - Helena and Ashley

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It isn't all bad. The well written story and the fun and unique characters save the game as a whole. The game is too slow for my tastes but I still enjoyed it overall.

A lot of time and effort was poured into this game. The game has as much content as two to three regular games. I personally would have condensed parts of the game and sped up character and sex progression. Sex (penetration) doesn't have to be an "end" event or "carrot on a stick". I also would have animated most of the lewd scenes and lowered the amount of content released with each update because of it if needed.

Lewd content - There is plenty but it is mostly nudity, touching, breast sucking, hand jobs, foot jobs, and blow jobs. Very little penetration.

The game does improve steadily over time. There are a lot more animations in the later parts of the game and more penetration scenes.

If you don't mind a slow evolving story while chasing a carrot the whole time you will probably enjoy this game. It is a solid 4 star game.

Positives:

• Unique art style and high quality models, honestly would argue the game is suffering from success as even the side characters are good looking. Makes it feel like a waste of the model to not let them have a route.
• Good quality sex scenes, though quality varies as scenes from more recent updates are typically better than the old ones.
• Decently large amount of sexual scenes in the game.
• Wide cast of characters (which seems to keep expanding)
• Multiple routes are implemented for most girls, majority of which are love vs corruption routes and some dom/sub routes
• Content can last you for quite a while, there is some grind but nothing to complain about.....unless you're playing one handed.
• Built-in gallery system to revisit all past sex scenes.

Neutral:

• Sporadic issues with grammar and English. I don't believe it's as bad as others may make it out to be as I don't really remember it being an issue.
• While you can get lost while using the in-game hint system, there is a walkthrough linked to this site. For the most parts its accurate and tells you what you need to do, though some bonus scenes and certain steps on love routes are missing.
• While the game is sandbox-like, the stories of all the girls are interconnected. Neutral for me since I'm going for the full harem. Only real issue I've had with this is that you need to progress on some girls' route before you can progress on the one you're currently on.
• Game's story still has quite a while to go based on what the developers have said. I'm quite happy about this since it means more content, though others may want a game closer to completion.
• I enjoyed the story, though there seems to be a wide controversy about that based on these reviews. I can see what others mean by it having an anime vibe, but I don't think it's really that prominent. Maybe I've just watched too much anime and it doesn't register . The fact this is a porn game that has harem and incest content for an MC that is, presumably, 18 years old should make it clear that the story isn't going to be that realistic. However, it isn't so exaggerated that it can ruin the experience. If anything it's decently well paced so that the time it takes to get into someone's pants is too long or unrealistically short. Only issue I really had story wise was how the MC was treated in the beginning by their family, though progressing through the story helps to settle this as more background info is revealed.

Negatives:

• Some of the main girls' routes have barely been touched
• Currently, some girls are locked behind the corruption route. There are story reasons as to this so not so bad. Listed in negative as it's still gated content.
• If you aren't careful with your money at the very start of the game, there is a possibility of losing the game. While this is only present for the first few weeks of the game, it does cause you to focus on making money rather than on progressing through the girls' routes.
• More of a personal negative but I think there is a lack of repeatable sex scenes which you would find in most sand-box style games. Story-wise it makes sense as to why there aren't that many as of yet, so it's more of a personal gripe than anything else.

Was debating whether to rate the game a 4 or 5. Decided it was a 5 as there are many games on this site that fail to reach the quality of Photo Hunt. I'd say it's a gem on this site, though understand it may not be everyone's cup of tea.

Amazing! this is really enjoyable game.
Although the starting plot is below average IMHO, the story develops itself through day to day interactions and it seems to come quite naurally. When you've made progress with a girl, next interactions are significantly different.
This is a sandbox game well made, with plenty of events. I never got bored when playing without walktrough nor cheats, as I always found a new storyline with one of the characters with a few clicks.

It's giving good vibes, has some cartoonish story, lot of teasing. Keep up the good work!

Only rated this a 5 because from my point of view it is an absolute injustice that some fucking losers are rating it anything under a 4 because of "bad dialogue" which is completely untrue. Literally a top 3 game on this site and anyone who thinks otherwise is a complete fucking idiot.

Art's OK, but the poorly translated dialogue and weak story tossed me out right on my ass.

Maybe hire an EFL story writer/translator to really make this shine.

Also the portraits in the bottom left are just obnoxious ... almost as obnoxious as the story writing. Hasty and immersion breaking.

The following are my opinions, you don't have to dislike the game or like it just because of my opinions, and honestly I don't care about your opinion.

Firstly, I don't know who sat down and wrote this piece of garbage that is this game's script, but whoever written this bullshit must have watched shit tons of anime. I don't know about you guys but I like a bit of realism, immersiveness and good writing in my porn games. Reading shit like heroines undresses just the mc said so or stuff like ahegeo literally made me cringe on the spot. Such bad usage of English with lots of misused words, spelling, and grammar mistakes doesn't help the game either. You just sit there grind relations and read through badly written routes filled with language errors. And yes, if this can't be more anime than it already is, there is a in this if I understood right from my journey through the in-game gallery.

Yeah, I know this is a game but really I don't enjoy this sort of writing. And don't get me started on the bs of "you MUST start/finish another girl's route just to be able to continue/finish/unlock all scenes for the girl you want."

I usually prefer 2D games and despise 3D ones but the Animations and scenes on this are great tho, but just do yourselves a favor just unlock the gallery in some sort of way, watch the stuff and delete it.

4.5

Just going to give it a 5 to help balance out the people who shamelessly give it a 2/5 score just because they have a singular complaint.



Visually it's one of the most impressive games in here, scenes are beautifully rendered and characters have great expressions and feel very life like.
Animations are pretty good as well.

Storywise it's also fantastic, There are many characters which actually interact with each other, they have a lot of scenes that help connect their stories together and it feels like they are living in the same universe, each one of the romanceable have a their own extensive backstory, friendships, faults and goals and most of them interact with each other which is quite refreshing because it takes a lot of work to connect them all together. There's also the greater story slowly creeping in and being brought to attention through different characters.

There's some porn logic involved with some of the characters, especially with Evelyn, where she acts like a total slut in a certain moment towards the MC and after that certain event acts in a completely different way towards him, this could also be considered a continuity issue.( The problem that she has might effect her behavior but not to that extent imo)

Some of the characters have routes which you can choose that shape the way you interact with them in the future, and the greatest thing is that it actually heavily shapes some of their interactions with other characters, which I found it is quite unique to this game.

The amount of content in here in mind-boggling, there's like 20 hours of content in this game, it's probably one of the best games in terms the amount of quality content your getting in comparison to the amount of time it has been in development.

The gameplay is...well not very good, there's some grinding involved and sometimes you have to wait a whole week to advance a character's story several times and it gets tiresome

You can miss out on additional "bonus" scenes with a character if you haven't progressed another character's story enough and there's no way you can know this without working with a walkthrough(shoutout to Lane's mod for making the gameplay much more bearable)

Not all characters are equal, some of them of a lot of content while some have very little of it and it's not entirely dependent on their seniority, I'm not sure it's perhaps determined by the patrons or on the whims of the Dev.

Great renders, story, and general dialogue. Plenty to do in this game with different routes you can take for characters, and also some side content not necessarily impactful to the overall story. Only ever ran into bugs twice and they were fixed the next day or so. Curious how it will end with the amount of women you're in a relationship with at this time. Not too much negative to say: 10/10

7/10 good story. Wonderful models. Sometimes a wonderful expression of emotions on his face. But satisfy. The work is not very exciting. The event search system spoils the whole impression. The places are short, unexpected and most importantly I lost my logic .. So it rather led me to disappointment. This can ruin the whole job. There is no continuity of actions that mc does. Some events of advanced nudity and touches jump the basic story where even a girl hardly communicates with me. When it comes to working on this, it's a clear 5-star work. It lacks a smooth course of connections. So gameplay is search and repeat. Sad. The big plus is the length of the story and the possibilities. He wants to rearrange it so that it is even more exciting in places. I can't help anymore, that's my impression.

Really awesome game. Really beautiful looking and for a game called Photo Hunt it's really great that the dev has a tremendous eye for getting good shots. Some of the best renders i've seen in a game: well framed and great looking. The art style of some of the models may not be everyone's cup of tea but the craft is undeniable. Not just a great looking game either. Easy to play with a ton of varied and interesting content. Want to romance all the girls, they've got you. Want to be a scummy low-life and turn them all into sluts well you can do that too. The characters are all great too, funny, likeable (or not for the antagonists) and well written. There's some tropieness to some of them, like the bitchy sister but the dev is aware and works around it well. Some really heartfelt moments in the romance paths and some really uncomfortable ones in the corruption paths; these types of games that can elicit those types of feelings are few and far between. The paths/stories are all well done and interesting too and there is a ton of side content. The world the dev has built feels alive too because there are a ton of side characters , it's not just the MC, and his LIs. The presence of other guys and rivals may scare some away but the presence of all the other characters makes the MC's story that much more three dimensional. And the H-scenes there is a ton of content so the paths can seem like a slow-burn a bit but you get there eventually, there scenes with animations (which range from average to great) and some scenes without, but nearly all of the scenes are hot even the teasing ones. Overall one of the best games on this site and one that i highly recommend

Review for 0.12.1
TLDR
Pretty average game in terms of gameplay for what you would usually expect from such games. Average story with a lot of cliches and plot holes in it. Very good artwork and some decent animations though.
Good points

• The models are all very appealing and likeable, the textures are very high quality and you may only notice some animation flaws or some hair weirdness in a couple of renders, otherwise it is almost perfect.
• The renders are top notch. As the name of the game suggests, they show models in a lot of positions and from various angles, a significant part of which being creative and rare for such games.
• The game has some animations and they are all pretty well made. But there is not enough of them and the moving textures often clip inside each other.
• There is well enough content by this time, you can spend upwards of 20 hours of the game completing all storylines.
• Most of the girls have "routes", which drastically change how the interaction with the said girl happens. This allows for 2 playthroughs if the player choses all different routes the second time.

Bad points

• The timeline is split in 4 time frames being Morning, Afternoon, Evening and Night, most of the activities are only available in a certain frame. Almost every activity advances a time frame but some do not. This is rather primitive way of creating timeline as of today, because taking one photo and using 6 hours for that is not what you would expect.
• The story events of the girls are very intertwined, so even with the guide which literally tells me what exactly to do it is still rather hard to follow. Without the guide I found myself visiting every location available in every timeframe just to see if anything triggers. The default hints are not helpful. For example, for a certain event with one girl I have to advance the story line of another girl by 30 events, buy her a phone, then receive message and click on it to read. Only this will further advance the storyline. Well, good luck figuring it out yourself.
• Some of the girls have very little content. Like Grace, for example. With that insane amount of content Jennifer has it is so strange that Grace only has a tiny bit of it, like a placeholder. I understand that the developer wants to add new content in rather big chunks, but it leads to very uneven distribution of content between the girls, and the girl you may like the most has the chance to have nothing to do with her.
• As stated above, the animations have minor flaws with texture clipping. Also some of them make no sense from the point of lighting. But this is visible only if you pay attention.
• The system of girls interacting with each other depending on the route they are in is very cool, but it obviously requires the dev to create a huge amount of possible options for every dialoge. And the dev did it for some girls, but not for all of them. To compensate for this, the fork where the player can chose either route for many of the girls happens very late in their storyline and before that they all act the same.
• The stats don't really help much. I understand that the developer clearly intends the players to level them, but the stat checks never actually tell what level of the stat is required and below that level the player may not even know that stat check was performed. Sometimes even if it is performed the player gets no notification that this particular stat check was there. Why to make such a complex stat system only to use it so little?
• Almost none of the choices really matter. From my experience there are these types of choices:
  • Choice of route for a girl - strongly outlined that this one matters. Only happens once for every girl at max.
  • Choice of render. Results in a different render at the end of dialogue. Very slight hints to this (if any), but scroll up option quickly allows to rollback and check if it this type of choice.
  • Choice of extra stat. Chosing a certain option only increases love/obedience/whatever to +1 or +2. All of these stats can be easily grinded to any level, so practically it doesnt even matter.
  • Choice which does nothing. Sadly, there are many of those. Although they hint at a different approach in dialogue, in fact literally nothing changes after first 2-3 following lines. Why would one add the choice there in the first place?

Summary
To summarize, pretty average game with its share of advantages and disadvantages. Most of disadvantages are bad design choices made at the start of the developement and they will never change. However, with every update the game grows better in content and it may eventually compensate for it. But this game is not perfect by any means.

Good Points
+ Art style is unique, and kind of interesting.
+ Newest sex scenes, and sex scene animations are quite decent, even tho animations can still use more quality, better physics, and better facial expressions for characters.

Bad Points
- The start of the story is dumb, and forced, makes it whole ''sandbox'' thing pointless, and makes hard to like the MC as a player especially with how MC thought it's okay to buy camera from shady old man asking for pictures of school girls while changing, and he would face with no problem at all to take pictures of girls while they are in school changing room, which he failed, and he ruined his name in school, everyone started hating him, and earned big debt because of it. This is not a small matter, it even shown on TV, so it affects a lot of stuff, but it happens at prologue, and as a player in this ''sandbox'' game you have no control over it.
- The whole path system is messy AF, first of all almost every character path is connected with other characters, and that's terrible design, first of all it breaks the whole sandbox formula, and takes the freedom it should give the player, like why I need to complete step #63 of another character to progress with a character, that's just straight up nonsense AF. Secondly it opens scenes you wouldn't want with certain love interests, like how Alice's corruption or even love path forcing some scenes involved with Evelyn. Another thing is paths not being like they should, writers of this game has no idea about what Love Path or Corruption Path are, Love Path has nothing to with Love Path at all, in fact some paths like Alice's Love Path can only be called Madness Path at best especially with those Evelyn scenes, and Corruption Paths are even worse. Same goes for other characters, Evelny with lots of nonsense scene has nothing do with Love Path like her drunk scenes or her scenes with Mirslav or how Rachel's path ruined even before starting it, or Kira's nonsense scenes like the one with Leroy, or Tom, etc. Long story short non of paths feels like what they should, and the game lacks some serious romance, so it has no variety at all, not to forget most content is forced as well like you being forced to choice Model or Pornstar route for Evelyn, and have no option leave things as it is, like she already has good job, she don't need any of this, but nope, you are forced to it.
- Some characters, and their content are really annoying, and stupid, like Adrian & Bobby, and how you have no choice over they acting buddy-buddy with the MC, doing some nonsense sh*t, like Adrian coming MC's home, taking pictures of Evelyn's ass without her seeing it, etc. And same goes for MC's father, and his scenes with some characters, and literally getting wasted on him or MC having option have some of his ''leftovers'' or Kira's constant stupid, and obsessive act over Evelyn or Trish coming after MC, and Evelyn instead of going after Harry, and blackmailing the Evelyn for money.
- MC's character design looks awful, he looks like 30 years old on cocain or something like that, especially what's wrong with his neck?
- Evelyn's character literally makes no sense, no one can be that stupid enough to think they can just get drunk over, and over again, pass out in middle of streets, then think nothing bad will happen to them.
- Text is not centered, it looks bad, and makes it harder to read, which is big CON considering this is a game where you read a lot.
- We have big portraits of talking characters on HUD, it looks bad, and distracting.
- Hint system is annoying, and not informative enough, you can buy more informative hints, but that's sold with ingame money, and that means more grind, which is terrible decision.
- Camera hud while taking photos is harcoded, and you can't hide it.
-We have pretty basic and cliche story.
-Even aftet two year some of main girls still dont have enough sexsual content at all... I dont even want talk about it...
- Despite the game being 6-7 years old some of characters don't even have any content at all.
- Gallery is useless, you can't even hide text/dialogue while watching scenes.
- Visuals, and animations starts meh at the beginning of the game, becomes average little later, and becomes quite decent at later parts, even tho it gets better that means you gotta suffer bit to reach there, and not to forget not all sex scenes are animated either.

For The End
In the end this was a game with good potential, but it's ruined by poor development, aside from letting out some steam with Gallery wouldn't suggest wasting time on it.

Kinda boring grindfest for little reward. This game didn't have a natural flow to it for me. Maybe it was the sandbox aspect which I usually don't really mind, maybe it was the way the story unfolds with the MC who is just a straight up creep, can't really put my finger on it, it just didn't keep me interested in playing it more.

5 star rating, fully deserved. The characters are well written, the art is excellent. My favorite one, by far, is Monica. This is the first time I've played a harem game and decided to stick with only one lady. Sweet redhead MILF, that checks out almost all of my boxes. Really looking forward to seeing more of her in future updates.

after receiving a warning about a negative review that was getting a lot of support from the community, i noticed that none of my reviews strictly adheres to the site rules of reviews as outlined by the trial moderator who messaged me regarding the warning.

i asked for instruction as to how to remove all my reviews, in order to comply with the rules and firstly received a speedy response telling me that a warning is only to highlight that i must change the rule breaking review.
except that the review in question had been removed in its entirety and was no longer available to change, making complicity impossible.

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also worth noting that no positive review non-complicit to site rules for the same game have been removed which is rather curious

Excellent Game!

Pros:
Great Renders. No shitty one-liner/pun/humor script. No instant loss because you chose the wrong and clearly not obvious choice. No time limit quests that are impossible to complete unless you grind without sex scenes. Putting more points into a stat will allow you to not need to guess. Warnings because a major unchangable event/path.

Cons:
Sandbox is a little irritating. Some characters (Kira) and events literally cannot be found unless you use a walkthrough or cheat. Phone hints dont list side events. Have to play the game twice or cheat because there are 2 routes for many characters. There's corruption/blackmail but no sleeping/drunk sex or rape.

Overall: 4.5/5
A lot better than 95% of porn games that exist