VN - Ren'Py - Priscila Secret [Ep.4] [Geiko Games]

This title was released in Aug 2024, wow people are really impatient.

My Review as of Episode 4. December 2024!

It's pretty good and way better than Celebrity Hunter. Lots of internal dialogue and debates the MC has to make a bunch of choices as to her future.
The Interface is Standard Renpy and is only hard for people, who find Choose your Own adventure books for children difficult to navigate. So far their is no real deep story direction, just a young beautiful woman navigating the corruption of the entertainment industry.

So far it has an interesting story developing and I am interested to see where the story goes in future updates.

I will reassess as more updates become available.

Maybe one year something will actually happen and the game won't deserve a low rating. The dev likes to promise a lot of scenes, but this game, just like his other, has little in it just trying to get money with a promise of a better game down the road.

Three episodes are around 150 cg's meaning a lot of text and dialogues, well written I must note, but the with same cg's over and over. Also the versions shared here have no animations although there are several comments in this thread about good animations ...which make me wonder about fake profiles etc

The protagonist is pretty and this is a well written corruption story but unless the dev put some more effort with additional renders etc this is a no bother for me

+ the only good thing is Priscilla and that's all..

- game is boring. Plenty of text with not many renders (180) - total laziness. I don't like that style
- another bad thing is often forced lesbianism and unfortunately poorly done straight content, so don't waste your time if you looking for straight action

In the current state game doesn't deserve more than 1 star

Excellent visual novel if you're into corruption and don't mind the infamous ugly bastard trope.
If you're looking for hand holding and romance stay away from this.
This is a porn game for fapping purposes.

Clearly much effort has been put into the design and presentation, but sadly there is nothing even remotely fresh or challenging about this stale, clichéd, hackneyed and by now utterly boring scenario; the casting couch.

The characters are totally and utterly stereotyped; the bullying butch-bitch of a childhood "friend", owed everything, having made all necessary personal sacrifices, herding the poor girl through the archway to the artistic abattoir. The quivering, drooling, obsequious, narcissistic old creep who can't wait to get into...well, certainly not her pants, because she's been told not to wear any...and the stunningly beautiful yet hapless, helpless, totally groomed object of their vile, disgusting, utterly despicable exploitation.

The poor girl's internal conflicts play out exactly as one would expect them to and the capitulation, inevitable. Despite anything you may try and do to resist through the supposedly counter-reactionary "choices" all are made in vain. Like everything else in this worn out storyline, they are irrelevant. The starlet still ends up, in "the grand tradition", signing. She was always going to sign, because if she didn't, in accordance with the obviously overwhelming threats of consequences assaulting the girl, both internally and externally, she and this creator together with their audience all slobbering over the girl's admittedly stylistically sumptuous beauty, have no future whatsoever.

It's all unfortunately very, very disappointing and that's as politely as I can put it.

review ep.1 (will update in the future when we have more content)

so, this is a spin-off/side-story of the other VN from this DEV-team.
in this one we play the girl Priscila and how she got mixed up with this president dude. (play Celebrity Hunter for context).

theres not much content but so far so good and if done right it can be a quite nice VN, if u like a hot babe getting corrupted by old and ugly. theres choices to avoid it (I think) but its too soon to tell what it means.

in the main-VN (celebrity hunter) Priscila was my fav girl and its nice to see a VN with only her. her model is really hot. the dialogs so far are erotic and a bit disturbing as she is doing this for others or for fame, but she is not sure. and its the player that decide her fate it seems.

1. very inconvenient interface.
The button of automatic text scrolling is hidden and you have to constantly press the menu to make it appear.
2. Because the text is typed letter by letter, it is impossible to quickly skip dialogues. It is tiring to wait until all the text is printed on the screen. You have to make a million extra mouse clicks.
3. Default model of the main character from some DAZ kit, which I've seen in hundreds of other games. No sculpting. Her body is not unique and her body colour is not natural. She's just not a beautiful woman. Reminded me of my ugly female classmates. Boring.
4- The producer's character is disgusting. He has a skinny body, narrow shoulders and a Don Quixote moustache. It's hard to imagine a less sexy combination. If the developer isn't a woman or gay and can't appreciate the beauty of the male body and male behaviour - why the hell is he making a game with a female protagonist!!!?
5. The lighting is too monotonous. There is no play between light and shadow, so the picture looks flat. Light and shadow are used to bring out the volume. Leonardo Da Vinci established this. 600 (!!!) years ago.
6. Compulsive lesbians. In real life, a woman never has to fight off intrusive lesbians at work, at home or in shops. In real life, women have to compete with other women and often endure humiliation and jealousy. Not realistic character orchestration.