VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Prince of Suburbia [v1.0 Beta] [ViM Studios]

Review for Prince of Suburbia Part 2 - v0.95:

I don't exactly know when I started playing Prince of Suburbia, but I've played updates for about 2 years and thought it was finally time to write a review.

Artwork and Renders: 4/5 -The artwork is fantastic. The girls are pretty. The only downside of the artwork is that I find the unrealistically oversized breasts to be a bit of a turnoff. I can't give it 5 stars because there are several scenes where there are 4 or 5 screens of dialogue the players have to click-through and they have a black screen. These usually occur at the lead-in to the scene. I assume this is just missing renders/artwork, but if it's intentional, that's even worse. The artwork is also inconsistent with later scenes seemingly switching between 2D and 3D artwork.

Animations: 4/5 - Animations are generally smooth and well-executed. There are occasionally problems trying to skip them after they've started.

Story: 3/5 - It's a relatively cookie-cutter harem incest recipe where the MC has some unusual way to attract women. Looks like this recipe will also have a generous amount of pregnancy, too. Not my fetish, but I don't dislike it.

Writing: 3/5 - It's not going to win any prizes, but it's fine. It's not full of distracting "Engrish" and it's not cringy. However, it does have a lot of the clichés of a cookie-cutter incest story.

Gameplay: 1/5 - Here's where the game is a let-down. The sandbox is superfluous. For each and every scene, one of the last dialogues in that scene says where the MC should go next. Going anywhere else is either prohibited or empty, so the only thing players can do is go to the location from the dialogue. There are two things that are a little different and they are going to the bathroom and looking out the window, but they don't affect the story at all and neither are available most of the game. Why bother even having a sandbox to move around the house/world when there's no real choice on where to go? So much development resources wasted on maintaining the state machine of a sandbox that serves no purpose in the game.

Content: 2/5 - The content in the game is fine and there's definitely enough to make it worth the time to play. The lewd scenes are frequent and generally erotic. However, I give it a low rating because the game has been in development for over 5 years and this game does not have 5 years' worth of content.

Other: I wish I could understand the versioning and the changelog. I'm guessing that the game has been completed up to v0.8 and the "v0.55 Part 1-2 Rewrite" means the re-writing and re-working has been completed through v0.55 of the original content. I wonder if this kind of disorganization is the reason why the game isn't already finished after 5 years. Also, in the v0.95 update, there were just way too many scenes that used the same render for way too long (like 30 dialogues), and there were more that just moved the sprites around and occasionally change the lips a little. The artwork was the best part of the game and it feels like it's been abandoned.

[v0.8 Beta]
Let me preface this review with the single most important aspect of this game:
This is NOT a game.
There's no gameplay, at all. No "sandbox" or "dating sim", no game mechanics, no choices, no stats, no secrets, not unlockables, nothing whatsoever that would make it a game.
The ONE thing you can do is trigger the scenes in an order already set for you. You're not "playing" it, you're watching it.
So if I have to rate this "game", because it simply isn't one, it gets a 1/5 by default.

This is a kinetic visual novel.

Now, as to whether you should "watch" this VN or not?

The art is pretty good. Animations come in two forms: 2-4 rather different frames playing on loop, which are honestly a headache inducing eyesore (I'm assuming they will be replaced eventually), and "animated images", which aren't very detailed (animation-wise) but fluid, a good experience especially over the alternative. Fortunately this is the more common style used, by far. There's also a very noticeable climb in terms of animation quality which is a plus.
Character designs are decent but it's rather uniform, almost entirely featuring big tiddy women, it's good if that's your thing, not so much if you like variety.

Sounds are...there, kinda. Generic background music, for sure, and moaning for scenes which were decent I guess, but I'm biased here because I always find it more distracting than "hot" so I disabled it right off the bat. Other than that, no sound effects for random shit.

The story is your basic incest harem fantasy which hops into the action pretty much immediately.
To spice that up, I suppose, there's a bit of plot, an explanation as to why everyone's so addicted to the MC's dick, not that the rules of it are written in stone, they seem to be subject to change to fit the respective scenes.
Other than that, not much is happening, it all revolves around MC('s cock) with the greatest development probably being MC breaking both his arms (at least it's not carpal tunnel syndrome again).
But besides that, it's just a lot of fucking around.
Both literally and figuratively speaking.
Really, the plot is more of a premise and the story is pretty much directionless.

Since there is not much going on in terms of story, the characters are driving (me insane). But unless you're a sucker for shallow porn-logic spiced up with melodrama, this isn't going to be a positive point for you.
Let me outline a couple of them:
--The "player" MC is a horny teen who pretty much only thinks of sex and will happily do anything to get some, including being controlled and manipulated. He's a doormat with a backbone as solid as a gummy worm, problem is, he really doesn't need to be, he just is, because.
--"Landlady" totally-not-mom is a jealous hypocrite who says she wants to protect the MC from evil manipulative women trying to "take advantage of" (read, have consensual sex with) her little innocent totally-not-son...while she's manipulating him and taking advantage of him (read, fucking raping him) when he's most vulnerable, in his sleep. To which he remains totally oblivious because porn logic dictates that a character doesn't wake up when a lactating boob is shoved down his throat because it's hot or something.
Over 40% of her screentime will be of her bitching and fighting other characters shamelessly, usually followed up by the other 40% of her making up excuses to justify her actions, leaving a whooping 20% (or less) for anything remotely enjoyable. It got really fucking old really fucking fast.
--"Roommate" totally-not-sister doesn't talk to MC or give a shit about MC for no reason other than generating more melodrama, so how does she end up on the MC's dick?
Well you see she had a girlfriend of sorts who had the hots for the player too and ended up seducing him but then he was also seduced by this girlfriend's mother and fucked her too and he ended up knocking both of them up so girlfriend convinced both totally-not-sister and the MC to participate in blindfolded sex with a "stranger" to get the MC to impregnate his totally-not-sister too as part of her evil plan of revenge! Muhahahaaa!
So anyway she's okay with it now.

There's also aunt and cousin who just happens to drop by and stay for good, hot neighbours and a hot researcher too, with more to come, probably.

Overall it was very disappointing because of the total lack of gameplay, which wouldn't be so bad if characters weren't so insufferable and the story was more than just fighting over MC's dick. I couldn't choose for the player to not be such a pussy and slap some sense into whoever was stirring shit at the time, nor simply ignore characters who were raising my blood pressure rather than my pants.

But even IF I were to judge this "game" for what it actually is, as a kinetic visual novel, it'd still be subpar because the plot is bare-bones, the "story" is running on a porn logic diet and it is entirely reliant on shallow characters generating conflict just for the sake of it, they have no life outside of MC('s cock) at all.
So,
1/5 as a game,
2/5 as a VN and only because of the art.
I can't recommend either way, not unless you're just looking for some action to rub one out to regardless of context, but in that case I'd rather suggest extracting the images and animations or just visiting pornhub or something.

Nice little incest game with hand drawn art. It doesn't have the best scenes the genre has to offer, but they're above average, and the story could use a little more burn to it IMO since once it gets going you're basically fucking someone every few minutes in the story.

The burn being gone from all the characters in the game relatively quickly and then you having a new sex scene with one every few minutes leads me to the one drawback I give the game, there aren't routes or anything to do between dialogue boxes. In my opinion routes are important since you can choose to chase certain characters as you please, and it's almost like starting the game over again every route. Get that burn, that setup, all over again. Big payoff, big reward. I can't name drop the big king of the genre here per the site's rules but you know what I'm talking about, that game is king for many reasons and routes are part of it.

That all said definitely worth playing. Story's a little shark jumping, basically super horny pills launch the main character into turning everyone into cum addicted sluts accidentally, but it's still *almost* believable enough beyond that. Music's good, art's great. If you like the genre you should get quite a few fap sessions out of this.

Straight up 5 stars from me.
Love the art. All the characters are sexy and true MILF boiss
The story is suprisingly good, coming not for it but it is interesting enough to follow.
All and all, you really missing the goood stuff if skipping this game

What wat a great game
I played this before but lost intrest
Renders are good
hot family
loved the moaning
I usally never play with sound But because moaning suddenly stopped I turned music on But still nothing
no bugs
The music is great hip hop beat music

I've waited for some decent updates to become released, and that was worth waiting...

The art is top-notch, renewed one is even better. Like, it's literally amazing.
Simple but fairly good story, does its thing to keep this game together.

Strange choice to sandbox a VN, but not gonna complaint about it, like, you just do a little extra of unnecessary clicks, would be better without them, but it's fine this way as well, like, I dunno how someone can get lost in 2-3 locations.

All in all, it's a game of constant porn, so exactly what we are here for. Excellent choice if you want to just run it and have a really good time without tons of annoying/unnecessary preps.

So, since I have not mentioned any flaws I can name significant, I assume I can rate this as 5*, like I've said, it's neverending lustful fun. What's more to ask. )

good major improvement after the rewrite. art and animation is top notch (except the BG are still trash from pre rewrite), and i like the character development.

the story still terrible and doesnt make any sense so minus one star for me.
lack of unique scene, story that majorly revolve around your own house or someone else's house is boring, get them to touch grass or smth.

The art and animations are the only good things about this game, unfortunately, as they are really great!

The worst is undoubtedly the Gameplay, I like sandbox, but here it's completely unnecessary, you don't have options, it tells you where you have to go, and you'll only see a scene if you go where the game told you to go, the other places are empty with nothing and nobody, why not just take us to the scene?

There's not much of a story, what we have is basically an excuse for the MC to fuck everyone and get everyone pregnant.
Since the animations are so good, I'm not going to complain about this story, I'd rather they didn't change it.

So the Prince of Suburbia is basically a incest harem story. The game actually made a decent effort to be at least a little believable (to the point to witch a incest harem plot allows anyway), which is nice. I'm not a fan of the genre myself, but I quite liked the dev's new game Shot In The Dark, so I thought why not give this a shot.

The good:
Almost every possible taboo relationship has been sexualized here (luckily no grandma yet) and the game still tries for a coherent plot. The game has quite nice original art and decent animations.

The bad:

Won't be discussing any character design or fetish preferences, everybody has different tastes. But oh boy, this truly has some questionable game design.

It's basically a kinetic novel, meaning you have no real option to affect the story or relationships. The game just kinda goes on and takes you along for the ride. This wouldn't be wrong by itself, BUT it also decided it wants to be a sandbox. For some unfathomable reasons the dev decided to pick the worst out of VN experience (you can't influence anything, not even choose to skip the scenes you don't want to see) and the worst out of a sandbox (unnecessarily forcing you to navigate through a bunch of empty eventless locations).

It's just bizare, you get a dialog with some character and the MC tels you in his inner thoughts where he wants to you go next. If you want the plot to continue, you literally have to navigate the map to the location MC wants to be in. Why not just take me there right away? Basically the only thing you can avoid in this game using sandbox is a morning bathroom encounter with random character.

Overall scoe: 2.5/5

The game does it's thing for the right people I guess. Dialogs aren't mind blowing, but they aren't bad either. Characters have rather generic personalities, but they still have some substance in them. What hurts this game the most is game design, I truly don't know how this happened.

At first, the game was average or even below average because the art was almost the same as other games in this place and for the year that the game was released it wasn't worth and the story... it was non-existent. Present time with the rewrite... It changed it all the story is good, I mean is an incest game that centers in sex scenes, it's not going to change your life but now it makes sense and is more "believable" about the art although is the same as before once you get the new animations is top tier and a 180° change if the author wants to make it all perfect in the next updates should progress in the story and updating the old animations to be like the new ones that would be perfect.
If you like incest, vanilla and milfs then this is your game.

This game's art is amazing, I've never seen anything like it before and the animations are amazingly smooth and high quality. The story is a bit weak but it is understandable enough to fit a stereotypical medicine research story. The characters are a bit okay but they all talk a lot about sexual activities and the sexual tension seems to get stronger as the game progress.

TLDR: The game is great, the art is great, the game contains smooth animations, the story is sort off great, the game is underrated and you definitely should give this game a try.

Great game, with each update the game improves a lot, the quality of the drawings is top tier, it is incredibly good, super recommended, the story is simple but the sexual content is the focus of the game, so from that perspective it's incredibly good.

After reading the recent reviews I was expecting not to like this at all - but wow, nothing could be further from the truth. (I guess moderating your expectations is actually a great idea. Who knew.)

I'd encourage anyone curious to just give it a try. I found it to be a fun ride.

The art is fantastic - I really like ScarlettAnn's artwork, so I was pleasantly surprised when the new artist really nailed the designs. The shift is natural, and I am fully accepting of the new artstyle; a straightforward improvement. (Especially the animations. Early game animations are... well, they're slideshows. Late game animations are so much better it kind of blew my mind just by comparison.)

Writing is... good! I was expecting to hate most of the characters, based on other reviews, but actually I really love most of them;

Mother - Fantastic, 10/10, best character. Slow build is agonizingly delicious -next update can't come soon enough!

Sister - I actually really like her! She's a huge bitch at first but I found her extremely compelling by the end of 0.7.1's content. I just want her to be happy

Heather - starts out great, really sympathetic with how she clashes with the Sister, but she becomes terrible real quick. The whole revenge scheme is fucked, disproportionate, and wholly unlikable on her part, even if it does facilitate development with the Sister's character. Heather is (or perhaps was, see below) my least favourite character.

Naomi - I actually really like her? Even though I probably shouldn't? Like she's crazy, but in a kinky fun way. Whether she comes back or not, I don't mind either way, but she was a fun part of the story.

Aunt - She starts out great, but... my god, this bitch is tiring. She has the same sort of crazy as Naomi (as in, if this were real life she'd need serious help), but it's more subtle, and therefore much less interesting. The whole "only I love him" thing is so annoying for reasons I can't really put into words. (It might be the arrogance of it?) She has a great design, great porn scenes, but wow I bounced off of her character so hard - if there's multiple endings planned, I'm chosing one where she's not involved. Fighting with Heather for the title of Worst Character.

Cousin - Cute, sweet, endearing. Perfect. Exact opposite of her mother. If this was the sort of game where "there can only be one" then she's fighting for top spot with the Mother - luckily it isn't, but I don't want to understate how great an addition she is to the cast. A much needed breath of fresh air.

Samantha - She's not there a whole lot but I loved everything she brought to the table. Fantastic design, fun character.

Lina - She's a'ight. Fantastic design (I chose left over right, but both are great), and I weirdly appreciate the scenes where she's thinking about the money she could make off of the MC's semen while his cock's in her mouth. Like, that's a fun character bit. I'd be interested to see more of her, but she's not my favourite (so far).

Mother, Sister, Cousin power trio; best girls, basically. I love them all, and I'm excited to see more from them in future updates.

I was not expecting to enjoy this as much as I did, and I'd like to thank the devs for the very pleasant surprise. Looking forward to whatvever may come in the future!

*review for v0.7.1

Very fun game with non stop sexy action. Not much of a story in this one, has a few bugs (sound effects during scenes need a fix) but overall good experience.

Pros:
- animations.
- Art style.
- household theme.
- Lots of fun scenes.

Cons:
- Shallow story.
- All girls have same body type with non realistic tits (excluding the cousin)
- Buggy with incomplete sound.
- Characters.
- Sandbox without the sandbox, scenes are linear anyway.
- No choices, can't ignore girls you dislike.
- Dialogues need work.

I love the new animations and the story catch me again , the girls are Hot and well made it , good game top 10 in my list , the rewrite was good and now everything makes sense i am waiting for more content

I passed this game by for a long time even though I love ScarlettAnne's artwork. HUGE MISTAKE! This game is amazing.

This is a great game if you are looking for a fap. Not a super deep story, the player is always one scene away from more lewds. And the H-scenes are next level in terms of animation.

10/10

After the rewrite this game is on the right track.
art and animations are great. my kinks are satisfied.

only thing I would suggest is internal view of cumshots when the girls get knocked up, if time permits.

Very average VN.

You're a teenager on summer break. Your dad died a few months ago leaving you, your [landlady], and your [roommate]. Your [landlady] is a drug developer and because she's on a hard deadline, she's started testing her newest pills on herself. Wanting to help, you steal some and take them as well. You don't learn what they're supposed to do until pretty late in the game but they cause her to be horny and lactate and they cause you to be horny and produce more cum. It's not terrible as far as explanations for why you can have sex so much and why your mom is hot for you.

The rest of the story is pretty meh, though. You have a huge dick. The neighbor and her daughter both want to have sex with you just because. Same with your [landlady's sister]. One of the only surprising things about this game is that your [roommate] doesn't want to have sex with you immediately.

It's also not much of a visual novel. A standard day will be waking up and wondering if you want to [do thing that will give you a scene] or skip it. Once you finish that you'll get some text and at the end you'll say "I should go to [place] now" and that'll happen a few times and then you'll say you're ready to go to bed. You can technically free-roam in between segments but there's nothing to do. Every room except the one you just got told to go to will be empty or locked.

The art's fine. Obviously the art style may appeal to you more or less but it's well-drawn. The writing is fine. Overall, it's an average game so I rated it 3/5.

Update: Been over a year and this game is still possibly THE best lactation game out there, with at most only 2 or 3 others even in the same league. Still a 5 of 5. The art change has so far been much smoother than most other games do and the scenes are still sexy as hell. Again, still a 5 of 5 must play in the top tier of adult games. (Hoping animations get added to the two scenes of the last update that didn't have them, the animated ones are amazing.)

AMAZING game, with some of the best lactation content in any adult game. The 2d art style is great, several scenes animated as well. It's a little annoying it's open world/wandering when it's really just a VN, I missed at least one optional scene apparently despite following the guidance the character gives, but I'd still say...
... 4.5, that I'll round up to 5. The art and content deserve it.

Hello my dears, I played this game since its launch (v0.1.38) and I liked the game a lot, the art is quite at hand (wink wink) besides the character design I find beautiful beyond representing the stereotype of said character in this kind of games, the interactions are good for me, its Mission system? It's a bit meh since for example when you go to the neighbor's house you are asked to look for the mpanties and it's a bit xD to be clicking on the screen to see if you find them (they are under the sofa btw) but so far nothing more remarkable . Testa funny, good art, animations ok, characters ok, I give it a 3 out of 5 just because the sprites of the characters are a bit flat for me to have that design a little more realistic than usual (the santias-sized breasts are part of the genre) but otherwise it's ok.