Ren'Py - Pill King [v0.27] [Effx Games]

Pros :
The dev tried something different in terms of looks.

The grammar has Improved.

Cons:

Different isn't not necessarily always a good thing. I for one just wasn't impressed by the models if you can even call them that. I don't know much about the whole ai scene and what supposed to look what way or the other. My question is are they supposed to look this dull? From the images I've seen of ai there are mostly these crystal clear images but this looked noisy in a lot of ways. Overall, it just was off putting to me.

Taking a bunch of random celebrities and putting them through ai isn't next level to me, it's lazy.

Story wise, it's generic. Bitchy housewife, neglectful husband and you're supposed to take her side because she's "Hot" when in all honesty she seems like the problem. Your father, another celebrity, is actually a pretty reasonable guy.

The simp of a mc just randomly volunteers to be a test monkey which may or may not kill him and now he's peeking, lusting, and voyeuring nonstop. That's about sums up everything.

If given the choice to buy or sell I'm selling . Nothing to woo me unfortunately.

I like it so far. The renders are very well done, the base mechanics, the look and music are a good start. Not much content yet though.
I like the real actor faces.
What bothers me is that the characters always have this blank, emotionless expression on their faces.

If the story develops positively and the faces start to show some actual emotions, then this game could be pretty good.

For a 0.1 release this is pretty impressive. The framework for a good game down the line is clearly in place, and the renders are pretty decent. But what really kept me interested was the story framework. This may be one of the best narrative hooks I've seen that justify why these sandbox games play the way they do.

By the end of 0.1, you have an in-universe explanation of why you're so horny, why doing the horny things you'll be doing are a good thing, and why you spend so much time in one house, only meeting new women slowly over time.

The current scenes are not that great and they're all dream sequences which I really don't care for, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt until 0.2 or 0.3, at which point I think I'll do a new review.

Okay since each update is 0.01 increments, 0.16 is close enough, time for the re-review. It's not great. The characters look totally different, which was the main draw initially. Having nothing to do besides specific objectives at specific times hasn't gotten any better with the addition of new content, you basically need to open the in-game guide to progress. And it seems both inaccurate and out of order. The music is ridiculous at times, that creepy jack-in-the-box song is so over the top it's unbearable. And the dialogue is really lacking, no character has any depth or... character.

The story is okay but kinda generic, could go either way in the future, maybe a superhit or a shit stain. The renders are good but the AI heads look very bad and weird, the concept is nice but it still needs a ton of work to look decent, normal daz faces would look better imo... also the animations are not good, would recommend straight up removing them until they get better... however the dialogue and the English is the real kicker... the dialogue is extremely bad, the dev needs to hire a writer/proofreader or something...