Ren'Py - Completed - Pine Falls [Part 2 v0.5] [Daniels K]

Warning, spoilers ahead.

I wish I could say Pine Falls was the story of Pine Falls but it just isn't. The plot of Pine Falls is somewhat interesting but it has the worst resolution of anything I've seen in a while. Par for the course one might say. It really begs the question "why set up an interesting premise if you're not going to pay it off in the end?" I guess we'll never know. I wish I could say "at least the girls are cute" but they don't seem to care much about MC at all in the end.

You spend the entirety of the game setting up relationships with these girls and they all fall apart like they never really liked you to begin with, regardless of what ending you decided to choose. The premise of the endings is you leaving Pine Falls, and you take a bunch of girls with you when you do so, but the dev didn't know how to set up those endings more than just giving a certain girl a kiss (unseen to others) before you leave and the other girls you take out of town deciding you're not worth the time anymore, for some reason.

Not to dive too deep into the endings for the purpose of spoilers, but the "main" one railroads your MC from this game and yet another DanielsK game into what seems to be a bad end for the sole purpose of setting up an expanded universe thing. If you bother to read the text, it seems as if the end is setting up a player choice that might lead to the harem end that I'm assuming a lot of players were looking forward to, but the players are never given that choice, for some reason.

TL;DR: The game stars off with an interesting premise that really goes nowhere in the end. The sex scenes are great, most of the girls are great, but the majority of the endings are pretty terrible and uninspired.

The girls' endings were okay although they felt a little rushed. The ending where you wanted to continue the investigation is a bit of a letdown. If you didn't play some of the developer's other games (such as myself), then the ending seems totally random and out of left field.

The graphics were nice and the girls were really hot. This is very much a visual novel; there are only 3 or 4 choices throughout the game that actually matter. Even then there aren't really any branches, just a couple changes in some scenes as you follow the storyline.

The game deserves your time and is a nice ride playing part 1 and 2 ....until you reach certain part an realized that the dev pulled another Sanic fast ending... He must be a fan of GoT s8.

Graphics: The girls models are gorgeous ,nicely dressed and the have beautiful facial expression.

Story: Start interesting ,went to amazing potential to be unleashed ,vibes of Stephen King situation (hype rising) and... ended in above average quality.

Should you play this game? : YES,is worth the time, the girls and +18 scenes help with a story that falls short to develop full bloom.

At the beginning, the game was quite a fun. Then, it changed to fuckfest with some nonsense of story. And the endings nailed the last nails to it's coffin. Bad (really bad) story, boring second part of game, the best girl left without sex scene and totally rushed endings, it should have 1 star ... but for a lot of nice girls, im adding one more. But after the LBH this was really really turn back.

My god this game... it had such a strong start only to fizzle out so badly... Some would say "what else did you expect"... honestly ? Something better, people usually learn from their mistakes, not repeat them to infinity.

Graphics 5/5 - Game's strongest aspect, the girls are simply divine, among the best seen in VN's around here, easily a match for DrP, and the like. The atmosphere of the game is also amazing, vivid backgrounds, and mysterious effects.

Story 2/5 - The story starts out fantastic as most of Daniel K's games often do, there is mystery, their is intrigue, their are obstacles to overcome, choices to make, ladies to seduce... So why does it get a 2 ? Simple... the ending is horrendous... there are happy ones, but those feel like side-stories, or "what-ifs"... the one that seems like the "canon/true" ending is horrendous... it does a good job connecting all his games into a single universe... but it takes the WORST endings of his previous games for this... basically connecting all the BAD endings to the BAD ending here... making it all BAD !!

Characters 4/5 - The characters are all decent to good, some overlap each other (two sexy girls, only one shy girl, several nutcases, a fatty, a nympho)... there is something for everyone, which means if your ok with the totally disconnected endings your favorite girl gets, you might give this one a pass.

What totally crap endings! Not a single good one. This game went from a solid 4½ to 1 in a single update. This seems to be a running trend with this dev. I'm so glad I haven't given a single monetary unit.

Definitely one of the best VN games.

-Renders 5/5
-Animation 5/5 great quality animation.
-Story 4/5 Mysterious and interesting.
-Characters 5/5 Each character's so attractive.

Voice acting is not bad as well.

Great central idea, but suffers from poor dialog.

Pros:
-A unique setting and plot
-Renders are very good
-Pacing is acceptable (somewhat fast but not excessive)

Cons:
-Dialog, especially that assigned to the MC, lacks punch and suffers from poor timing
-Animations are simple and could benefit from more complexity (esp. part 1)

The horror/scifi element to this story gives it a unique feel and is a welcome divergence from most VN stories. However, the dialog given to the MC, especially during any sex scenes, is just plain bad. There's no eroticism in anything he says. The first and second three-way scenes should have been high points in the story, but they are rushed and his banal babbling breaks the mood. Overall, the MC comes across as mostly spineless with a lack of nuance and imagination. Regardless, I think the game is worth playing.

interesting plot..
nice animation..
pretty music..
the sound effect was shocking (especially in the fucking section) I got a panic attack ..

good character models ...

approaching part 2
I was a little disappointed, we were taken the story where too rushed out of the city filled with beautiful girls ..
even though it should be more fun if you know and enjoy each character one by one ...

in part 2 the fog ruined the atmosphere I enjoyed playing the game ...
but,overall i like it ..

thanks dev!!

Animations 5/5
Story 2/5 and 4/5
Characters 5/5
Renders 5/5

Chapter 1 is great and not. The story is well written, but suffers from a lack of depth due to it's fast pace. You get trapped in the town with a ton of women, but are not really in the town long enough to get immersed in the story. By the time the story starts to take off, the MC is able to leave the town, so there is no time to really get comfortable with the setup of the story before it suddenly changes in Chapter 2. There is also little development given to the mysterious fog or the possible entity in the story. The end of Chapter 1 and beginning of Chapter 2 destroys my interest in the story, and takes it in a different direction, changing it from a mystery/sci fi/horror to just another VN.

The animations are well done and the sexual situations make sense with the story, but there should've been more to fit things that could've happened. Being the only useful man in a town full of women who hadn't had a man for months or even years and not being able to leave the town, there should've been a higher sense of desperation from the women in their hopeless situation.

Could've been better, worth a playthough.

Things that could've improved the game: Go to sleep - does not progress the story, Have coffee and breakfast at the cafe as a repeatable event, repeat sex events that do not progress the story.


Edit Chapter 2 rating and review:

Animations 3/5 >> see below
Characters >> same as ch 1
Renders >> same as ch 1
Story 2/5

I liked most of the dialog and the animations were ok (see below). What led me to CTR through the entire second chapter after 20 mins of play, was that it just felt rushed, hence me just speeding through to see the endings.

One more thing that I noticed. The animations changed in Chapter 2 for the worse imo. Their technically sound, but now suffer from a growing trend of moving the camera around.

Deleted Chapter 2, but kept Chapter 1.

Edit >> It doesn't matter if this story is related to other stories in this games' universe, Chapter 2 rushed to the end and thus ruined the story in this game for me.

Had good quality renders and so it caught my eye.

But, very disappointing. The women do not act or talk like women, they're all just excuses for inserting completely meaningless outta-the-blue sex or kink scenes.

By the time a story twist randomly put me into some dungeon where a bunch of townswomen started to randomly get naked and want to get spanked by the MC (for no reason whatsoever), I ragequit and deleted it.

Excellent game, with very high graphics quality. I'm pretty new to f95zone, so I've been playing the games rated 5 stars first and only recently got down to this one. But I was pleasantly surprised to see how good this one was and think this deserves 5 stars as well.

The choices you make in this one seems to not matter too much as the storyline appears to be pretty linear, but the high quality gfx more than makes up for that imo. Its also pretty easy to guess which responses lead to "action" scenes.

This review is for part 1 btw, havent gotten to part 2 yet.

First and Last -Girls are stunning so how can I pick one ?! damm thats hard to do you know
Nice plot and renders are good
I hope the guy is not crazy enought to try go away from "paradise" ..I wouldn´t..
Thank´s for nice game dev

It's a Daniels K VN. The dev is very good at what he/she does: a light hearted visual novel with elements of mystery and juvenile dialogues, with a lot of beautifully rendered naturally proportioned models (mostly). A harem fantasy where every female character just dies to have a piece of MC. If that's your thing, you'll like this VN. If you are looking for something deeper (again, depth is relative), you might not like it much. I personally enjoyed it.
P.S. With every VN developer(s) is getting better and better, so congrats and looking forward for more! And another reason to support this dev is the steady amount of content, in a little more than a year Daniels K put out 3 and a half very decent VNs with reasonable amount of content (My Girlfriends Amnesia, My Girlfriends Amnesia DLC, Lancaster Boarding School and Pine Falls).

The game doesn't have too much going on, its just an intriguing story with mindless sex. Characters looks good but they have no depth, the mc is quite dull too so as consequence dialogs and inner monologues are quite bad and don't make sense most of the time.

Renders, music and sound effects are fine, nothing impressive but above average, so that´s a plus.

The game doesn't have over complicated mechanics like sandbox or any grind but the story feels disconnected, just an excuse for sex scenes. Choices don't affect the story only the ladies you want to fuck, there´s no build up or anything just straight to the point.

Reviewing v0.8 can´t give more than 2 stars, the story was the only thing that kept me playing. This is a porn game, sex scenes and models are good but characters and relationships feels lifeless, there's no build up and dialog is boring.

I don't like this game....

Only cause the women are SO damn hot... and I can't decide who I'd like to make my girlfriend if there was that choice. Basically the whole town is an all you can eat spread...

The MC is good looking and doesn't appear to be an ass hole, just a normal guy with sexual fantasies and feelings.

Renders are great, women ARE HOT, game play is easy and choices to be had that makes it interesting. Why would you want to leave this place?

Great dynamic between the different women's groups and single ladies. Yes I drank the cafe girls milk, was pretty tasty....

Great work dev... oh did i mention i don't like this game? I love it

Let me tell you, I already played the biggest titles from the website, I mean many of them, but I never ever had an epic moment so far, like...

Right in the beginning of the game Ami walked into the living room, almost fully naked, wrapped in a towel only, headphones on her ears and singing that song from Vendredi (Show me the way)... funny, cute, adorable and f....ing hot.

Not just the moment above, but all the situations, the characters and dialouges, not to mention the renders and scenes were fully worked out. I really liked all the personalities and still they were so different.

The story itself is great, good mixture of a few of succesful american TV series with mistery and plenty enough of erotic and porn.

Keep up the good work.

The game has an excellent Plot but suffers horribly due to poor setup.. To briefly give you a gist of the game, the MC while driving crashes his car and ends up in a small town where some Paranormal / Supernatural shit is going on.. Apparantely the MC is trapped in the town that has lost all outside connections and all male population . also there is some kind of fog terrorizing the town at night.
Well for beginners I found the plot quite intriguing.. The game started strongly with some very good scenes but ultimately dies down into just meaningless sex scenes with no life. None of the characters are worth remembering.. I think I've played till day 5 of MC being trapped and he's already fucked half the town.. There is literally no Tease , foreplay , just sex sex sex.. the relationships with the girls are so shallow that At this point im more interested in finding whats wrong with this town that being with the girls.
This game has so many possibilities that have been overlooked.. if you like teasing , Peeping, foreplay , Kinky , fetish etc you're gonna be disappointed cuz its just straight plain sex..

Renders are amazing. Story is alright, you tend to get more into as time goes on. The characters you are surrounded by are all interesting and are not cookie cutters of each other. You find yourself as a writer stuck in a town with a bunch of beautiful women, while also being forced to investigate the strange happenings in order to get out. You are a bone in a town full of dogs.