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

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.

You may be looking at the review scores and wondering if this game is worth it. Having read some of the previous reviews, I think it's important to know what this game is and what it isn't to determine if, like me, this would be a 5 star game for you.

Firstly, this is a fast-paced, single-path VN with a faux sandbox layer on top of it. You travel on a map but there is only ever one destination to go to progress the story. I actually like this element in games because it has more immersion and you feel like you're traveling around the in game world as opposed to your typical VN where it feels more like I'm reading a book. It also makes for a quick pace to the next scene, which let's be honest, that's what we're looking for some nights. Every day can't be a multi-hour slow jack day.

Hand-drawn artwork is pretty good although I would personally appreciate a little more variety than just uber stacked mommy milkers for everyone. The scenes/setup/poses/angles are great IMO. The animations are the stretching kind you see in porn ads, for instance, which I actually like, when done well. There are a few scenes with just static images in an auto loop and I'm not sure if those are "placeholders" with intent to upgrade but they're also the exception and typically reserved for less important scenes.

The story itself is pretty cliche and definitely revels in the silliness sometimes. A Pulitzer prize winner this is not but if you're like me and enjoy seeing the "Oh no "landlord", both my arms are broken" kind of scenes play out, then you're golden here.

So, does this game have choices? No. Multiple simultaneous branches for all the characters that you can choose which to progress in? No. But I wouldn't dock the latest Halo a star for not having farming elements because I like that in my Stardew Valley. This game does a great job at doing what it sets out to do and as such, easily deserves all 5 stars.

The game seems to have been ported from a former rpgm game into a ren'py VN, that's quite obvious.
The animated scenes are good as long as they are animated- sometimes, poorly looped pics with ugly transitions take over, these are almost painfull to watch.
The story is dumb and redundant, but that's ok with me thanks to the skip-button.

TL;DR:
- v0.55
- Art style appealing, Animations satisfying
- No choices whatsoever, simply a kinetic Novel with Sandbox
- Useless Sandbox (seriously, why!?)
- Misleading title

I have absolutely no idea why the dev uses Sandbox-Elements. Everything you do is predetermined by the story. If you try to go anywhere you are not supposed to, the MC will straight up tell you that you are not supposed to do that now. If the dev simply went for a Kinetic-Novel (since here are aboslutely no choices whatsoever) this would be so much easier for him to produce... maybe he wouldn't have to put the developement off.

I can not complain about the Art. The Character-Design is a question of taste, yes, but in the end they are all well drawn. Even the animations look nice (if you see them, some are just fade-in-outs of two images). But I can clearly see that someone put quite a lot of work into them.

The story is nonsensical. One of those devs that said "It's porn, who cares about story!?". Well, I do. That's why I'm here and not on pornhub watching videos.
He gets a plus-point for finally making a proper incest-story., which seems to be quite rare currently. But that doesn't help me over the biggest problem: For a game called "PRINCE of Suburbia", I would have expected the MC to not be a massive child. But here I am, playing this broke Virgin-MC, who has neither friends nor lovers and gets pushed around and used the whole time by EVERYONE else in this game.
Drugged by his Mother to be used as a testsubject (and for her own pleasure), used by his neighbor to get pregnant, used by the Nurse and Doctor while being drugged into oblivion... I can see this putting off quite a few people.
I mean, seriously, there are parts where the poor guy gets used for DAYS without cumming ONCE.

The Aunt herself calls it turture, and I think she's quite right in that matter...

what a dumpster fire
this game is awful

all the backgrounds are eye hurtingly bad
all the characters are inhuman ugly creatures
story is so cliche and its just pieces of other good games put together and made a pile of nonsense
dialogs are stupidly written most dont even makes sense
sandbox doesnt serve anything, just there to make you play longer

Waste of time

OVERALL 9/10 - fantastic overall and feels inspired. if you're looking at the screenshots and thinking it doesn't look that good. this is one of those games are a lot better than the first impression.

VISUALS 6.5/10 - visually a lot of the images aren't that great but they get the job done. there's also a lot of inconsistency where some of the images are actually pretty good, maybe even an 8/10 overall (the rendering of the bodies are really good, even fantastic like a 9/10 but the faces are often not the best). it does kinda feel like it's the more important images that are rendered to a higher quality which also does help.

DESIGNS 9.8/10 - the designs are fantastic. all i could really ask for is maybe a more erotic/lewd/attractive looking dick, like more "erect" and "juicy" looking. and i personally would like to see a blonde/blue eyed character or maybe a redhead or something but the current cast of women is fantastic.

STORY/WRITING 9/10 - all the characters have distinct personalities. their designs match them well. all the different dynamics are really hot in different ways. it's really good. my only critique is not in the core ideas themselves but sometimes how they're approached like i would've liked to see some small/short dedicated scene to the reveal of when the other girl is lactating too instead of it happening during the blindfold scene or like when the blindfolds are taken off for the dialogue to have gone down more erotically (it just kinda felt like meh with the current reveal scene) but maybe it's more personal preference. overall excellent.

DIALOGUE 7/10 - dialogue has it's hot moments but feels kinda bloated overall and kinda drags down the experience a bit

PACING 8.5/10 - in terms of the content progression and scene order, it's really good. i would've liked to see some tweaks like maybe more gloryhole scenes with erotic dialogue about them complimenting each other on their eagerness/taste etc. maybe having vaginal sex and only moving it to blindfolded without the gloryhole after his arms healed. also would've liked to maybe see the initial doctor visit just introduce them and when coming back begin sexual content with the doctor/nurse. the way it is currently, the whole doctor/nurse/cop part felt like filler content to me or like the porn equivalent of a forgettable one night stand or meaningless sex, like i feel like there's no build up like with the other character arcs which are so much more erotic.

CONTENT IDEAS 9.5/10 - really some fantastic ideas

**other notes: the dialogue box often gets in the way of covering up good parts of the visuals and with how much empty space above their heads there is in many inbetween scenes, i wish idk... maybe... the dialogue box at the top instead (that'd be a little weird) or for the images to be moved higher so that the dialogue box isn't covering up pussies and asses etc.

Refreshingly unique art style with a very simple gameplay that has absolutely no grind whatsoever. Animations are very good and the girls are extremely hot.

I only worry that this game has been in development for 3,5 years now and still doesnt have that much content. Lets just hope that the dev picks up the pace.

(reviewing v0.55)

Arrgh, this game is incredibly frustrating: so close to greatness but also so retarded!

With the fine services of the amazing ScarlettAnn, the graphics are packed with amazingly juicy MILFs and all around hot girls. This version also includes many many new animations (looks like webm's of Live2D animation), which range from cool to **super hot**.

HOW-EVER!

The game story and gameplay are completely terrible.

Weird, disjointed dialogue, missing images and broken sequences.
Sudden jumps in action or location, and apparently out-of-order events.
Family members going from zero to sexual intimacy over just a few days.

Virtually nothing to do except click on bedroom then click on kitchen table, and the story magically advances step by step, on rails with no choices that make a difference to anything.

Honestly, it seems like the creator has a bunch of money and is paying for lots of great image content from the illustrator, but has no idea how to put together a game that makes sense.

I'd could almost imagine the images were stolen from another game and pushed together into a series of random scenes, with a very loose plot around them.

The ingredients for making a TRUELY GREAT PORNOGAME CAKE are here, but the developer is just throwing them all in the microwave and hitting the 100% power button. And we are left with a mess.

I really really REALLY hope the dev can get the story and gameplay sorted out, because otherwise the talent is all wasted. Praying for you, dev!

5/5 because hot busty hand-drawn animated MILFs and SILFs.
1/5 story and gameplay.

Final score: 3/5

+ Game have scarlettann's art which is amazing to see and interact from start to end.

+ Game gives you the option to opt in or out from incest with filter.

+ You can name the characters at your own will or leave the space at blank and by default the characters will be named by their original character name which is pretty neat.

+ Decent storyline and plot on each of the female chars with the MC.

+ Seems to have potential for kinks and fetishes but that's up to the devs.

Cons
- Variation female characters like the cousin which have a different bust size it lacks in the game. most of the females have huge boobs which is totally ok coming from the lead artists but it could be nice to have variety on that area. which once again its up to the devs to add or not.

Suggestions
+ Game still in progress but could be nice to see some seasonal events like valentine's day, halloween, x-mas or whatever event with the girls wearing a costume & outfit in that specific event.

+ Would be nice to have other places to explore like a convenience store, sex shop, public pool, library etc... to either meet new girls or interact with current girls to have an specific activity at an specific place.

Edit: - Game doesn't have a gallery mode to replay the scenes of current version.

Suggestion: Even tho engine its Ren'Py its for sure that gallery mode can be added to re-watch the scenes of current version and future ones.

very good game splendid and very entertaining about the size of the best breasts I always enjoy a good game with huge tits since it is boring to see small or normal tits if some of us really like the size of the tits then go see a porn movie Hundred that this game is too good for people with the likes of table-breasted women

Like the art, its what got me to try the game in the first place. But the story needs major polishing. Also this game basically has 0 choices for the player to make, I kept waiting and waiting for the game to start letting me make choices but still up to the point where I am in the game you make none that effect the game, and without that it just feels like I'm playing a kinetic novel with some extra clicking.

(Review done from 0.5)
Okay i`m going to keep this review short and just to clarify i`m not a game developer or a writer this is just my basic bi*** review
so first the pros: the characters are well made, good clean animation, not much grind at all.
so now the cons: the game story is just there its sub par at best with the first 5 minutes being interesting and the rest the story goes out of the window, no grind makes this feel like just pressing skip buttons to watch the scenes and some might find that good but because the story is so lack luster any other things in the game are just brought down by it. Also some minor bugs and missing scenes but can be forgiven as its W.I.P

Any recommendations that I should keep to myself: redo/rewrite the story just make it so its engaging so people just don`t skip and would want to invest time, but with the images and animations the game has potential from being average to great nothing ground breaking but not everything has to be.

Great game, good artwork and a fun little story, looking forward to see where this goes and for the next update. If I had any complaint it is that hopefully the update speed picks up, but it is still worth 5 stars