VN - Unity - Completed - Pocket Waifu Rekindled [v1.0.0] [JNT Games]

To quote the game itself:

No one sane just drops their pants ready to have sex. You need to give her reasons to want to do that in the first place.

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Veredict: 3/5 "Not for the sane of mind".

(The other reviews already summarize quite well the state of art: Nice 2D art but poorly implemented; a nice wardrobe system but with the game describing the opposite; Lots of text for a weak story; an insufferable sidekick and protagonist... and a pacing which not even "it's magic!" manages to salvage. It will draw you in, make you spend a ton of time, and then leave you with regrets and thinking if your time wouldn't have been better spent in any other game ─ so in the end of the day, an average game is still average).

I have high standards when it comes to eroge games, so anything that can take my attention to play it especially until the end deserves 9/10 or 10/10 from me. I thought like this way until I met this game.

I could not understand why it has (at the moment of writing this review) only 3 stars. Looking at the pictures I found the art good (at least it is not AI generated shovelware) and that it is not another RPG maker game and showed lot of clothing options. It got my attention enough to download the game and try it out myself.

First I found the core of the game had lot of possibilities. Just changing your girlfriends with a click if you are bored with one to another one, having the fun you want while still having the mystery lurking inside and not knowing what will happen. I like that there are a lot of clothing options for the girls. All these really pushed me to play it until the end which left me unsatisfied. It ended way too suddenly without being able to reach what this game could have been.

This game has a solid core with many possibilities which are not used having half baked systems surrounding it. I am giving some examples:
- Sometimes you get story items, but they feel kinda random and they have no meaning. You meet a girl, have sex with her at the first event and you get her shirt as an item, but it came so randomly and so easily that it made me no sense to have it.
- The game just randomly throws you presents which you can give to girls. There is no shop, no money system, nothing to grind them out. These presents come from girls and the presents are actually meant for the same girls! Like there is a girl who likes gardening and you have an event with her and suddenly a rose appears in your inventory which you can give to someone. Guess who likes this item? Yes the gardening girl. (It is good for other characters as well). And actually during the event it is not stated that she gives you something, this item just randomly appears in your inventory.
- Girls have their own profiles likes/dislikes, goals, personalities etc. These profiles are filled in as you get closer to them. This one feels random too. You get information about stuff you are not even talking about. You talk about cars with a girl and you get the information that she wants to be a police officer. All these information are just chosen randomly without any relevance to them.
- You get your first present and after like 3-4 hours later the game says that you can give these to girls to get closer to them. Like... why now?
- You have to option to click on the girls but they have only 1 animation (maybe even the same voice, but I can't recall it) and say the same line that you should stop it. It does not change given to character personalities (I tried on like 4 girls not on everyone to be honest), nor when you get close to them. Why implement a feature like this then?

Of course there are minor issues like there is an orange circle on girls where there are unseen events, but it stays on even if you don't have any event with the girl or when you have event it doesn't have that circle. I had to stop once to google if I got stuck, because I did not know I have to give a present to a girl to be able to advance the story (there was no mention to do it and I have already done all the events with positive bonding outcomes.)

My biggest gripe was the story. It started so good, but it got railroaded and ended too fast. There was no moment where the story stops letting you spend time with your girls and this game really needs that. There is like 5-6 hours of story in the game, then it ends and there is no postgame content. All this for $20 on Steam which is a bit to much in my opinion.

I still rate this game 7/10. The core of the game is really well made and fun. I really hope that future patches (if there will be) gives more content to the game and fixes the minor issues. If that happens this game easily becomes a 9/10.

The CG is nice, the characters are endearing and very romanceable.

However, the sex scenes feel a little bit empty without any money shots/climax moments.

But I appreciate that the developer made an offline mode for the game to enjoy.

Overall good game, although could had a little bit more interactivity in animations and possibility to unlock gallery. Really like visual style of the game - there is not so many good true 2D game, now days.

Not into the story. H scenes are boring and character modifications do not matter in any considerable way. Its not for me, but some may like the story as boring as though it may have been for me.
The character creation was the most interesting thing in there and I spent most of my time in there just trying out my creativity.

Wow this took me back to the time when I played this on Nutaku. Don't remember why I stopped playing it, and seeing this makes me worried that it's gone now or something, but that's another matter.

I won't spoil the story here, but I'll say that it's not the cliche "make a contract with a succubus and have lots of sex" story, which is this game's first problem. I don't know how faithful this is to the original game, but regardless, this game's execution made me wish it was just the cliche storyline.

Another one of this game's problems is that you can't save during the VN bits, which makes going back on choices a bit of a hassle. There are also large segments where the game takes you from one girl to another, kinda killing the point of the whole switch and hang around with them as you prefer thing.

The images are nice, but they lack more animation and variety, like climax and such. They also sometimes feel out of place with the actual story. While I'm at it, I will say that it was nice to dress up the girls (I personally enjoy changing their clothes every time the relationship level changed).

I don't know how many endings there are, but I got 2: one where the MC ends up alone and the harem end. Kinda disapointed with the harem end since it's one single image.

Overall, I'd recommend this game to those who are nostalgic for the original game. But otherwise just stick with Huniepop or similar games.

OK, honestly most of the reviews here got me a little off, the game itself its not as bad as ppl make it looks like so lets start with the most judged part.

Story and Narrative: Ppl complain that the scenes comes form out of nowhere when thats pretty much the point, and the difference between most games that do things like that its that THE GAME TELLS YOU THAT, its the whole point of the game on how unsettling and false feels each scene, the succubus made the MC wish real in a way of how Genius and lamps grant wishes, being extremely literal and with small letters in the contract.
So yeah, that ppl complain about this aspect in the game when its stated pretty clear at the beggining feels off since its pretty much the strong part of the game, my only complains on this aspects its the andreas character (the first succubus), she its most of the time heartless, coldless and insufferable and I was expecting to paths of things that could happend to her, first one was that we could romance her and make her change the way she is so we could be free, the second one was that since she is a really cold, lying and treacherous bitch, she would get a proper punishment for her actions, like becoming a slave of hell or even of the MC. In the end none of those things happens and she is freely to do whatever she want without punishment.

Characters: They are good, tons of girls with different personalities, the bodys are almost all the same tho and I think that some characters have bigger cups than the journal tells you.

Sex scenes: the weaker part of the game, they lack text, cum scenes and better sounds, its only a loop that sometimes have a beggining and little times an end with text telling you that the scene have ended, pretty meh in my opinion, the only strong point its the art and characters but nothing more tbh.

The endings: Meh I only have 4 endings to choose, idk if I could have more but the game doesnt tell strictly that and from what I have seen they are nothing special and the worst part its the gallery, the game should give you an option to unlock the gallery since sex scenes are pretty weak and its not really that worthy to do a new game to pursue characters that you are not really interested in knowing them.

3.6/5 stars to me, barely enough to be a 4, but not that bad as ppl make it look, if you like more the dark stories than the sex scenes you should play this, if you are here for the sex scenes... not really recommended

The review will contain a spoiler for the story so if you don't want to know don't continue reading. I stopped playing after mary got murdered and I don't intend to finish the game. I've played a few different games on this site that have a darker theme. It's fine when your going into it knowing that's in the game but when your not I don't think you should be throwing that type of stuff at your players without warning Besides that I think the game has a few issues.

1. Pacing with some scenes you'll be talking to a girl and all of the sudden they'll be naked out of nowhere with zero build up.
2. As of writing this I cannot save so unlocking scenes I missed is very annoying because I have to replay the whole game. This would of been fine if you gave players the option to unlock the whole gallery after they get a ending.
3. Andreas character is incredibly annoying/rude. I understand what you guys were going for but you could of written her in a better way where she still came off as pushy and only caring about obtaining lust dust without it getting annoying and her insulting you at every opportunity.

I've always enjoyed your guys art style and games back when I used to play games on nutaku. I hope you guys continue making games despite me having some complaints about this one.

To add to the previous reviews, the sex scenes are very abrupt and odd. Not just in the sense that a succubus is manipulating things to make all of the women unrealistically horny, just abrupt.

For example, one scene has you talking to Sakaki about Japanese bathing etiquette. She mentions being worried previously about offending you for asking for help. But then it immediately jumps to a scene of her masturbating in front of you. No mention of anyone undressing, no reason why it would happen, just right into it. For some reason this also updated her profile with her birthday. I guess she has some very odd dirty talk.

This is pretty typical of the game in general. You walk into the kitchen and suddenly this girl is wearing nothing but an apron and splayed out over the counter. Then it's back to having a cutesy talk about love on the couch. Or someone you've never even kissed just blows you for no obvious reason. Again, it's not like "I'm overcome with lust and can't help myself" sort of magical succubus interference. It just comes out of absolutely nowhere. Just like the women who simply wander into your home for no reason (although at least they try to explain that as a succubus thing, meaning she yells at you for saying it seems weird).

It's par for the course because the rest of the writing can be weirdly awkward and abrupt. I returned from the park with Mary and asked her to come in, which she enthusiastically agrees to. But the next line is about a knock on the door and introduces a new character. Mary seemingly got forgotten about. Presumably the whole thing was intended to reset you to the "default" as you hang around the house but the game decided to trigger a new scene on its own with no regard for how it would mess with what it had just established.

There's also a very strong emphasis on clothing and dressing up the girls for a game that then ignores it as hard as possible in the sex scenes. It's one thing to simply cut to them being naked. A little clumsy, but it works. Except this game doesn't do that. Instead it not only draws them wearing very specific clothing (often their default outfits) but will have text that talks about it, describing them lifting up their dress or removing stockings. And it's often not even subtle, with scenes like a character pulling her shorts to the side that simply don't make sense with other clothing. It's a weird move that seems almost hostile to the idea of actually dressing them up on your own.

Of course, the makers can't keep track it of it themselves with some that don't even match the art. Like Anabelle's first scene, before you can even dress her, describes her bra and then later taking it off. Her CG specifically shows her removing it. But in her in-game art she's not even wearing one and jumps immediately to being topless instead.

This results in a clumsy, awkward game that's really at odds with itself. It almost feels like the sex scenes were shoehorned in after the fact.

I have played the original version of Nutaku and this version really dissapoint me. Albeit, I haven't finished the game but have played the fair share of amount and I found the game is very boring.

I like the art but the game is so different from the original. it's mindless clicking with not so interesting story and the MC is annoying to played as.

The progression of relationship is very weird as well. I know it's porn game but the first sex scene I got is threesome which is weird because I don't even get a solo action with said girl yet.

so my bottom line about this game is that it's not very good.

+ great art
+ many interesting fantasies
+ harem

- overly long, pretentious, depressing story that has no place in a porn game
- replaying neccessary but boring to unlock more gallery
- unlikable MC and Deuteragonist (succubus)
- ending "rewards" are boring clothed pictures
- unavoidable scarring yandere murder content
- cryptic unlocking mechanisms

Its not very good.

Let's elaborate further; you play as 'James', just another one of those unfortunate beta males that cant speak to women. One day a succubus, Andrea, visits you and in exchange for your soul, she'll let you lay with as many pussies as you can manage with your two hands. The catch? She'll always be next to you barking orders, making your life miserable, and ruin your hardon. Yes, let's begin by describing the biggest problem with the game: the characters suck ass, and Andrea is pretty much one of the most annoying characters Ive ever had to suffer in a H game, so much so that I couldnt actually finish the game itself.

As for the other characters i.e. the girls, there's one of every archetype imaginable, from girls next doors, to otaku lover, to creepypasta; there's one here for everyone. The problem is that your interaction with them neither feels natural nor relatable, let alone satisfying. They pretty much just appear out of nowhere (story related reasons), automatically have the hots for you, and then with minimal effort you just plow them. Even real whores dish out more emotional value than any of these pieces of wood.

Sex scenes are varied. You get the occasional still pic of a girl in questionable positions, and then there's the live 2d 'animated' scenes that for some reason I cant get into. Literally zero erections gained about two hours of gameplay, though not for the lack of effort. There is plenty of girls, the sex scenes dont really require any sort of grinding, its just not satisfying - at least to me.


So to conclude;

Story's a linear mouse click adventure that's neither compelling nor interesting, the main character's a wimp, Andrea's a fucking annoying little bitch, I cant get into any of the characters (not least because the game refuses to let me just progress the girl I want at my own pace), and lastly, for inserting a yandere character that's neither comedic nor necessary, who exactly is this game made for?

The only positive I can give out is that the game's premise has potential. The idea of progressing a girl through getting to know her better is simply one of the simplest - and yet effective - gameplay elements ever conceived by man. And this game has tons of ladies, each well animated with incredible live 2d, with wardrobe elements. Such a shame that the game itself is bogged down by an unlikeable story and two of the worst character pairings Ive ever had to suffer through.

The story is infuriating, with the MC being a typical pathetic, doormat, loser moron with no brain cells. The "animations" lack 98% substance, as they're just barely moving pictures that don't even have a climax. I ended up getting soft locked twice and couldn't even finish this dumpster fire. An overall unsatisfying game, as the gameplay itself is really chaotic and apparently easy to break. Either the sex scenes have to be good and the story bad, or the other way around to be enjoyable. Unfortunately, both are bad in this one.

Story: i`m actually dont care about the story, so its up to you
Graphics: pretty good art style
Animations: not bad and smooth cartoonish anims
Gameplay: there is no actual gameplay u just click and watch tons of text, and than see a h-scene or another tons of text, and you can dress girls (But it's basically meaningless, because dressing up doesn't affect the h-scenes.). There are no repetitive h-scenes here, and there are few of them for each of the girls.
Conclusion: if you like reading text, and there's a lot of it here, you'll probably like this game, but not me. 3 stars for not bad h-scenes
edit: I forgot to tell that not all the h-scenes have animations.

This game is good 5/5
The story is entertaining and the characters (lots of them) are fun.
I encountered one bug where my progression was halted, but the fix was simple you have to select continue consultation with psychiatrist lady, (for some reason her notification did not show).
Good amount of scenes and they are decently animated. Lots of appearance customization options.
Graphics: 4/5
Gameplay: 4/5
Story: 5/5
Scenes: 4/5
Overall cohesiveness: 6/5
Characters: 6/5

As someone who's played the OG game, I know the potential this has.

Characters are all unique with charming personalities with some compelling arcs to overcome, and the scenes are nice. I look forward to the finished product.