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

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.

Reviewing v.1.0 Beta(Tagged: Completed)


The Good

— The general art, the animation and the whole graphic. I even don't mind MC's design, it has a "underdog-vibe"

The Annoying

— The idea that this VN is a sandbox...which it isn't...it's an interactive kinetic novel. The interaction is that you can move around...and that's it, which is a thing that inexperienced developer do so to put the "sandbox" tag. Little secret here: People don't care if you're making a kinetic novel or a sandbox, as long as it makes sense, and it's good. This game doesn't have choices, so it's a kinetic novel, the plot is forced on you, the characters are forced on you, either you like it or not.

The Bad

— We talked about how this game is a kinetic novel, whether you like it or not...Well, it's time to talk about the plot: non-existent. Only some drama where we are forced to deal with an overbearing mother, a sociopathic friend, a nympho aunt, and a home-wrecking mother of said sociopathic friend, a bitchy sister and a shy cousin. Let's talk about it though: Catherine is a widow with a good-for-nothing husband that cheated on her with that home-wrecker, and died leaving the family to deal with debts, so Catherine decides to use herself as a guinea pig to test an unknown drug (that i believe is some sort of super-hormone, it's unsaid what it is, and only its effects are known) only to be "enslaved" by the effects of this drug, that induce lactations, horniness and enhanced fertility in women and in men, they become hornier, they reek of testosterone, improves the quality, and taste of sperm and it enlarges their penis. MC curious starts to take this drug and suddenly becomes a pussy-magnet, becoming victim of his mother obsession and victim of said sociopathic friend also known as Heather, not mentioning how Naomi(Heather's mom) starts to seduce MC despite the fact that she seduced MC's dad for the very same reason: Having another child(why specifically wanting someone from MC's lineage...when she could have artificial insemination or find a date willing to give her what she wants, is beyond me considering that MC's family is in debts, to the point that Catherine is so desperate that she is willing to be her own guinea pig for a shady untested drug). Everything would end the moment Catherine tells MC that Naomi is the woman that her husband(and father of MC) cheated with...i mean i wouldn't even stay in the same town with a person who ruined a big part of my family, but MC is an idiot and got Naomi pregnant and breaks both his arms. From this point if the plot seemed bad and poor, it becomes so much worse, because MC becomes the "reward", the "person of the dreams" of everyone but Heather(who is scheming to use MC to get her girlfriend aka MC's sister, pregnant for some sort of revenge because MC got Heather pregnant...SOMEHOW, maybe is something in a flashback that we'll see in the future updates, but Heather barely touches MC in the present), including MC's aunt, and MC's cousin(Fiona, the only decent character of this game, and ironically also the least present). And that's it, we have people literally arguing over having MC all for themselves, while being accused and accusing each other about how they're incestuous sluts for even thinking of having sex with MC. MC in all of this...he fucks everyone while enjoying drinking breast-milk from his mother, and doing other pleasant sexy-thing while manipulated like a puppet(because his arms are blocked by the casts).
- Between updates, the save-files are incompatible, and the start of the game asks you "from which version you want to start?" but if (like me) you forget at what point you were in the game...it's going to be messy.
- The Ending is the most stupid, offensive(because its stupidity), brushed-off and dismissed thing i've ever seen, MC fucks the scientist-woman in the ass, timeskip six months a few kids are born then timeskip two months later, the scientist-woman i mentioned before is in jail for her research(MC's mom erased her name from al documents, and she does it because the scientist-woman TOLD HER TO DO SO) and she also reveals to be pregnant because MC fucked during visits...which the dev could had the decency to show such visits...because from the player's point-of-view this woman is pregnant after some anal-sex...MC really didn't notice her belly getting bigger? REALLY!?

Conclusion

This game is bad, the one star is for the graphic, which can't save this game, despite how good it is. The game is one of the worst i've ever played, it's buggy, it's not really entertaining, and it's dismissed by the developer himself very fast, he did promise a "DLC" that should show random moments of MC's life during those timeskips...but i refuse to waste my time with this pile of garbage.

One of the best game i played, very fun ! i wish it would be 100 hours long. because in my opinion the game is too short for this quality
the character are gorgeous even the plot is perfect, as my liking

I have to say, of all the "reboot" remake" "rewrites" this one here has made serious gains in quality of assets story line pacing and overall content. I like the changes. I played this years ago but lost track of it. saw it in "rewrite" status and thought to myself....naaahhhh... then this ep came out and I thought well I'll give it another shot. I am glad I did. While retaining same cast and similar plotline this is a much improved game over all.

Welp, honestly I would give this one 2.5 stars, but since I can't and my grade gravitates towards the lower spectrum, I'll settle this with just 2.


More recent reviews seemed to be rather positive, so I decided to try the game out. Thing is, it's not a game. The sandbox tag is misleading and, overall, is a straight-up lie. While it's true that you can "move" around locations and "choose" your actions, the amount of those actions is either one or two, one of which is secondary
(like, check the bathroom every morning) or whatever the main action is which will progress the story. It gives a very strong illusion that you, a "player", are in control of your story and you always think that there might be something else that could be done, but no, there's nothing of a sort. You are locked onto a single existing path and there's nothing you can do about it. And there's absolutely nothing to do between the scene transitions, which in this case is moving between the locations.

Basically, it's not a game. It's a kinetic novel.

Would be fine if it was... what's the correct word? Advertised? Well, let's go with that. If it was "advertised" as a kinetic novel from the very beginning, but no, there are strong implications integral to this game's design that are screaming that it's a sandbox game. Not cool guys, not cool at all.

Moving on, this, sigh, "game" has a very strong fixation on lactation fetish. There's no way to obscure it and there was no warning whatsoever in that starting disclaimer that it was one of the main focuses. Worst of all, it's integrated into the, heh, "plot".
Personally, I find it fucking disgusting. At the same time, I have a few kinks of my own, so I decided to be an open-minded person and ignore it the best I could to appreciate the whole experience for what it was.

The plot's rudimentary idea is not bad, but it was implemented rather poorly and doesn't reflect in the title at all. Like, what would you expect from the phrase "Prince of Suburbia" and the puny looking MC in the cover art? An underdog story, perhaps. Sure, an overused trope, but depending on how you do it, it might just work. But no, the whole premise is that your mom landlady is having some tough times, her financial situation taking quite a dip due to unresolved debts from her dead husband and her daughter being a total bitch.

In order to get rid of at least the financial part of her problems, she, a scientist that she is as we find out, decides to accelerate production of her new drug by bypassing human trials. How? By taking them herself. Okay, I don't really see it working out, but for the sake of PLOT progression I am willing to overlook this. What does that drug do? We don't fucking know. No, honestly, there's no explicit explanation as to WHAT THE FUCK THAT DRUG SUPPOSED TO DO EXACTLY, only some innuendos in the latter half of the current(0.55 Rewrite) version. Only the side effects that come from it. And they are, you guessed it - excessive lactation, which is exclusive to females. Also horniness, which is present in both sexes.

The MC, who's eh... okay, let's not fuck around, THE SON of this scientist chick, decided to help his mom out by taking those pills too, without any fucking idea how they work or what they do. I saw many smoothbrains in games, movies, literature and, ofc, the real life, an this guy is the pinnacle of that archetype. What happens next? Well, he apparently becomes real horny and wants to fuck all the time. Why I said "apparently"? Well, that's because even before taking those pills he was horny as fuck, that's why. There's no transition between his normal state and another, he literally is the same guy he was before.

Honestly, just thinking about this "plot" hurts my remaining two braincells more than anything ever could, so let's just wrap it up there and say that this story doesn't get any better, and it goes even heavier on the whole lactation thing. Oh, and, of course, MC somehow manages to finger and caress some girls even despite his broken arms which were sealed in cast. Right.
Interactions between characters are as basic as they could get. Even a fifth-grader could do better, but I digress. What I hate the most, however, is that one thing when you interact with multiple characters: let's say MC has finished an event with the first girl, and then the second one comes up and says that there's the second event coming up, and there's no reaction to this from the first girl, she just straight up... disappears. Vanishes from existence. Snapped away, even. No extra interaction, no basic reaction, nothing at all. This whole mess of a game already felt pretty empty and deserted, and now it feels simply... alien. Oh well.

Where Prince of Suburbia shines the most is the CGs. But no, not the character sprites, they are horrendous. I have no idea why there's such an unsurmountable difference between the naughty CGs and sprites. The MC himself is the very definition "look at this dood" meme. His asymmetric eyes, his shitty hobo-teenager haircut, his robotic expression that sometimes felt borderline psychopathic. Dear God, whenever I read VNs or played similar types of games, I've never felt anything like I did in this one: MC's stare drilled right into my soul - mercilessly, relentlessly. I really am glad I've managed to make it through this torture and not break in the process. But I doubt I'll ever be the same after this for as long as I live.

The rest of the sprites are pretty meh too, but nothing as bad as the MC's - the devs were probably aware of it and decided to tone down the whole horror bit so as not to scare away the rest of the players.

No one cares about backgrounds, but since I started shitting on this game, might as well shit on this too: those are very poorly-rendered 3D pictures, no actual effort was put into them and it shows.

CGs are gorgeous though. Like, actually gorgeous. Most of the scenes are animated too(Live2D, at that), and most of those animations are of amazing quality. Sure, would be nice if they weren't running on, what, 24 fps? But they still are banging hot. Considering how much this part of the game is better than the rest of it, I'm surprised that there's no cheat code or an option to unlock the full gallery to save every sane person some time. Though, even if the CG-transition does(50/50) make the MC look less of a Zuckerberg-type of a robo-lizard and a bit more like an actual human being, it doesn't rectify his fundamentally dull character design.

And, basically, that's it. I'd give this one star, but the art just barely saves this whole mess. I just, for the life of me, can't understand how people like this, but hey, if they do - good for them. I still don't understand though.

Not sure the rewrite really improved anything. New version dramatically altered some characters and made them worse in many cases:

1. The mom is more overbearing
2. The aunt is a freeloading cunt wants to fuck the mc immediately
3. The sister is a mean ho, does drugs, parties and fucks random dudes
4. The cousin gets ignored mostly, cause small booba
5. The neighbor is a sinister plotting cunt
6. The neighbor's daughter is a vindictive psychopath

ScarlettAnn's art looks fantastic and the animations are nice too. The story is just inconsistent and I feel like the broken arms threw a wrench into the writing. Maybe it'd work better if the mc was a shota or something, cause that would justify the mother babying him so much or helping the neighbor for work as opposed to using the internet to find an actual job.

Nice game, played version 0.55 (before the rewrite):
-sexy characters which seem hand drawn (2D)
-a good story which seems to pick up speed after the first few days
-the incest themes are well developed, we have a warm and desirable mother and a bitchy sister (less developed)
The version 0.55 starts slower, then the sex events pick up pace after the MC bangs the neighbor (Naomi) and it ends on a nice cliffhanger.
Currently the story is being rewritten to "flesh out" the characters.
Let's see how that goes.

The plot is absolutely bizarre and brainless, only done to get the MC laid so we can discard that and move on to what the game really does well: the sex scenes.

Of course ScarlettAnn's art is great and it is what carries this game to what it is but we also have to give credit to how hot and different every girl on this game is (at least physically). Play this game if you want some good animated sex scenes and you like what you see on the previews, it won't dissapoint, but it is not much of a game nor it promises much aside.

I hate the fact that this kind of games draw the MC as a teenager lookalike... I'll still be coming back for more tho.

TL;DR: play it for the animated sex scenes and amazing art, everything else is meh.

Nice game. Small size but good gameplay. Some scene missing animation or picture. When broke your arms you need help. Maybe think about fix this in game that you need every day pee, have shower,... Lovely game,hot and sexy girls.