VN - Ren'Py - Abandoned - Project SAGE [Act 1 v0.19d] [Paperwork]

the main character is weirdly bland but also strangely likeable. There's nothing terribly special about this game in gameplay story or mechanics, but it's still one of my favorites on this site and every time there's an update I'm excited to download it immediately.

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I have to give you some serious credit @paperwork

1. Animations: You do very good animations. Better than just about every game i've played. When I say this is has mostly to do with you working on making sure the body movements are as close to natural as possible or at least appear close.

2. Body Choreography: You take the time to pose and manipulate where everyone else cuts corners; Whether it's a finger, a hand, an arm, you really take the time to make sure it looks right. (except pillows, I can tell you don't want to put heads on pillows, lol)

3. Renders: Holy shit man, you take the time to render A LOT or there's a secret I don't understand as a player and not a dev. Your scenes aren't sparse and you fill them appropriately, without looking ridiculous. You showed time and care to place things. You put focus on clothing variety and actually use quite a bit and it all looks appropriate on the MC and other characters. You render the small things that everyone else, again, cuts corners on.

4. Decision Making/Dialogue: I ran quite a few of the choices and I have to admit, you actually reference some of it back in some cases later on, at other times. I ran quite a few save paths. In one i found myself not protecting the MC from every man out there, but still was playing a bit of a cockblock at times and another main path where I tried to make her a whore or give in to anything possible. Both play-throughs were enjoyable despite having very little sexual content (other than her masturbation scenes + initial blackmail scenes *kudos on the "be smart" choice btw, I ROFL'D like mad AS WELL AS how bad the dude felt when you give in to his demands*). While the plot wasn't deep, it was enjoyable and there was quite a bit of variety in it. it felt very slice of life and for a moment scifi when she gets sick. I love Chris and Matt's circle of friends. All of the variations of the scene at the end of the current content was hilarious. Everything from the breakdown of the movies (loved the references and topics, my own friends had similar conversations to them) to the truth or dare game, hahaha. Also, the little slipped in inside jokes about the adult gaming world.

I can really tell you love this and it's your baby. Are you really just one person doing all this work? If so, holy shit, I wish you'd join the Ecchi Sensei team because I think you'd help make that game even more amazing (it's my favorite, so take this comment with that in mind), but keep up the good work on your game. I will definitely keep watching for updates. I'm very glad i downloaded. Oh and fuck the haters on your model of the MC, I think she's hot. Yeah, she could be a little less lean (she's quite tall and looks stretched out, but I felt this was also what helped her look more like a model), but I love what you were going for and thank you for not just making yet another overly curvy thick girl. I love her attitude in the game too.

Update. hoped the author could pull his head out is ass for a minute and fix plot inconsistencies. He has good art work but seriously his dialogue and story are so fucked up if I could I would give him a negative rating.
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The art is good no complaints there the general story is good.
It's pretty well written dialogue compared to a lot of games. That
There are some serious inconsistency issues in the story.
The only way some of the stuff could be explained is if the girl planned on slutting herself out to start with but that doesn't go along with her dialog and thoughts.

I love this story, renders, and choices. I can't wait for the next installment. Finally, something to rival GGGB. Also, Mr. Miyagi a villain? The several blackmail routes, Mr. Wilson? Lots of kinky archetypes

a huge amount of story content for so early on. There seems to be a wide variety of options for how you want the protagonist to behave and a lot of romantic options. My only complaint would be that it occasionally feels like your character is the only woman in this universe, since you go days without interacting with any others. Integrating the other female characters into the story more would be a plus.

Probably one of the best VN games on this site.

/spoiler mode on

Love it that you can actually avoid dumb dialogue choices. There are already so many other games out there where you have to play a stupid female MC that this one is *particularly* refreshing. Player still has the choice to go with bad decisions if desired.

The MC is cute, and one wants to watch over her. NPCs have believable and interesting personalities, reacting to player input and progression of the story. I especially like Matt, which isn't the kind of character that I usually fancy. Him caring about his sister, not actually raping her while she is sick and sleeping, deciding to man up and to fight against Hank, made him endearing to me. I almost regret now picking Hank and Chris over him, and want to play again to see if he's going to be just another NEET if the MC caves in too soon.

I also enjoyed the movie evening, where earlier choices came up in the thoughts flow of the MC, wondering if she acted like she did because she felt lonely.

Also, some great small touches here and there, like being able to name the plugs. I of course went with the suggestion of the MC to name them small=Matt, big=Chris (her love interest) ^.^

Speaking of the story, it's a bit too heavy on the shota side if you asked me. What is it with all those "18 physically years old 12 mentally years old" kids in game ? I realize that's a personal preference/dislike, but there are quite a lot of them *everywhere* and never fully exploited : on the beach, teaching, babysitting, at the clothes shop, etc. If they're just meant to be "side-stories", I wonder how they can "put in their weight" to the story (or even play out eventually) if the MC is already proceeding on a heavy romance path with the other main characters in the near future.

There are some unexplained holes in the story (for example, why hasn't the MC been busted out of college or her part-time jobs after being absent for several days because of sickness), but that's only a minor nitpicking for a H-game.

Finally, I don't mind the slow progression as long as I know there will be closure... one day. Actually, as noted above with the shotas, I fear that the game progresses too fast, not giving the player the time to explore all the options that are available in game. What about the teaching/cosplay sessions with the neighbour kid ? What about the modelling sessions with Lorenzo ? What about the maid-ing poker parties at the neighbour house ? What about summer school, Simon, Andre, the head-master ? What about meeting Andrew and crushing his impotent blackmailer balls ? What about the DJ ? What about fully exploring the sex-shop and taking advantage of the promotion for... ahem, leaving a glowing review of some of its articles ? What about Katie, Jose, Joe, Mr Chang, the Cops, not to mention all the possibilities with the family (the uncle, the grand-father, the (over-jealous?) aunt!) ?

I also fear that providing the player with such intimate and very naughty scenes as the Hank balcony date will leave whatever else may fallow as quite bland and unsavoury in comparison. The pacing and rationality of the story would just feel wrong if she had outstanding sex with her sweetheart one night, and the day after caved into some easy shota boob/skirt-prank.

The game has been so enjoyable so far that I actually don't want it to finish ^.^ It's such an exceptional game compared to others on this site that I hope we'll get to follow the MC in her adventures for a long while still. Really considering to support it, hopefully next month.

/spoiler mode off

Thank you.

Models are nice, scenes are diverse for all tastes (tho could still be expended) and since it's not a finished product i look forward to it's final form !

Note; It's very easy to get the scenes so far, and i really like the VN style tho i do feel like it's a bit too linear to my taste. I still enjoy the story.

Project Sage is a really great game !

The good :
The mc is hot and likeable.
The story is interesting.
The graphics are well made and pleasants.
The textual content/x-content ratio is well calibrated.
It is a reworked version. We can see the differences when we play the older version afterwards. The determination and experience of the dev paid off.

The bad :
This is subjective, but i think It would be nice to have the option to let the mc be more vulnerable to blackmail, especially in group scenes (which are way to uncommon in porn games, because it's not the most simple thing to create).

A very likable MC for whom you get a lot of choice over how the develop. They feel as if they have very realistic reactions to things, and their descent into pure erotica is wonderful to see as they explore themselves and what they are into.

A genuinely nice person too, and almost all of the cast are interesting in their own ways. People, rather than caricatures.

I actually stumbled upon this one while checking out the alpha of the 'last updates'. I am usually not the biggest fan of VNs in general as most of them are pretty rubbish and good ones are simply hard to find.

Imagine my surprise when i started to play and very quickly got hooked into it. This is one seldom piece where the female protagonist is not a simple minded sex crazy slut but a real girl.

The story unfolds mostly undisturbed by the player but when there are choices they are actually meaningful and one actually has the feeling to be in control of the protagonist. Since i usually dont play these to play each possible path i cannot rate the outcomes for different decisions but i can highly recommend to give this one a try as the variety and kind of choices leaves the player with some very decent control without the feeling to miss out if one had chosen differently.

This developer has obviously listened to what quality means and i expect more great things to come.

Ok so i have no idea why I'm even reviewing this someone mentioned this to me sometime back and i jist thought why not, lets make review on an abandoned game while I'm at it..... Yep I'm really free
Anyways, this is your same old HS game with same graphics and same models a little thinner chin here a little bigger breasts there not much difference (maybe hair color is different ‍♂) story is apparently about a really horny girl who you will play as and knowing the community you horny little devils will go down the dark dark path.
Not much else really since abandoned.

Looks amazing! Much room for development, many possibilities. Lets see how the Creator uses it.
PC's boobs are shamelessly huge for her slender body and looks unnaturally Porn Star-ish. Smaller cups would offer an option of future enlargement as the wtory develops.

A game without the usual run around of "oh im a stupid virgin with no life experience in a new city and have to get groped and jizzed on for awhile to survive" Cliche. You play as an attractive girl that is contingent of her decisions and of what she does while also having the creepy blackmail troupe or cocky jerk guy who gets all the girls and wants this one to. Gives you enough content and sexual activities without just giving you all in all a very fun game even with honey select.

Love the game!
Story: The story is great, a bunch of different characters all trying to get at the MC from different angles. Each person is unique and has just enough attention put into them where I don't mind reading about them, but I'm not bored and waiting 45 minutes to get to the next scene.

Game Play: The gameplay is pretty normal for a Ren'Py game, but I really like the fact that I don't have to save after every choice and reload five times to see what happens with every option. I know I'm going to get something good no matter what I pick. People have made the comment that they want more choices, but I disagree. Choices take an extravagant amount of time to program in. I know it may not seem like it, but until you make a game... Well, I would rather have more content than more choices, and just because I make one wrong choice, now I don't want to miss out on something great later on.

Updates: Many games start out strong and pretty quickly die off. I don't see that happening here. Paperwork has been very active and supportive of the community and is pumping out the content. I think he is a developer deserving of our support.

Awesome job so far Paperwork!

the games contains a lot of content for this early versionnumber, the fetishs (skinny body and anal) are really welcome. the maincharakter is a young stupid girl with a big hath for the weak and poor. so she encounters a lot of silly but funny situations. if you really believe there must be a realitycheck in corruption porngames and the protagonists have to be realistic, this game is not for you, but i enyoy this kind of charakterdevelopment.

It has a lot of content for a relatively early release.You can see influences from various other games and it is a good thing because in my opinion it took the good sides of these games.If you enjoy a corruption game with naive main character give this one a chance.I bet you won't be disappointed.

I'm a big fan of the exhibitionism in this game and am impressed by the large amount of engaging content. Many games hype up the large amount of playing time but many times it's chaff - endless dialogue and repetitive scenes. In this game the content is all very erotic. As of the time of this writing it looks like Paperwork is working on building out multiple storylines, and I'm looking forward to them and to seeing the main character develop.

This girl is H-O-T, exactly the type I go for. Artwork in this game is great, story is interesting with some funny parts. The story/text is just right (unlike some games with way too much text). And there's a surprising amount of content for a 0.1 release! Can't wait for next update!

Wow... Unexpectedly, but I really liked this game. I played only once, so I can not say exactly how much the choice affects the consequences, but:
-there is really a lot of content for the first release;
-In my opinion the corruption fast enough, but it looks interesting;
-the arts not perfect, but good enough;
.-Minimum of uninteresting texts - there's always something happening, events are quite unique;
-No Grind.

I can't wait next updates, you are doing good job.

The following review is based off my personal experience with playing this Game/Visual Novel... I try to be as brutally honest and detailed as I can, and these are my own opinions and thoughts, from one or more play throughs...

(Review Update - March 2019 - Act 1 v0.14c)

Ok, it's been about a year since I last played this one... I can tell there has been some improvements, which I'll get into... The improvements had me pleasantly surprised, for the first half of the current content, but then I began noticing a lot of trends, which I'll go over...

Visuals are pretty much the same, as far as quality and type... There are some short animations that didn't exist before, but not many... The scenes are done fairly well, for the most part...

The script has somewhat improved, but I still ran into occasional minor grammar errors, and several instances of broken English still, but not to the degree as there was before... There is a lot more dialogue and inner monologue then before... The small print, during inner thoughts and whispers, were hard to distinguish one from the other, sometimes...The difference between the inner monologue and an actual whisper should be made more clear to the readers... Sometimes it was easy to tell, based purely on what was being said as well as the context of the scene, but it should be made more obvious...

For the first 3 to 4 hours of reading/playing, I was seeing some story elements that teased towards more meaningful and deep story telling, some of the time... Such as the grandfather knowing something about the protagonist's past, and so forth (and wanting to help the protagonist with her future), as well as how some choices allowed you to select non-sex based choices, that might add to the characters personality and development... But in the long run, not much is ever expanded upon... Sure a couple times the grandpa would show up, and you got a tiny bit more info, but it never really went anywhere... The choices that you would think, might strengthen her character, and not be just more corruption choices, didn't feel like they made much of a difference, all that often... There were also a few moments, where the game pointed out some new hidden stats... As well as some choices would be presented that might increase or decrease certain aspects, oh how content presented itself... And at first, it did appear that some choices made a difference in how a scene played out, but then you kind of never see any further choices related to those events again... It was as if those choices no longer mattered...

You can definitely tell that the developers are trying, very hard, to throw in as many sexual trope and fetishes as they could, the further the story went along... Which in my opinion, began to feel a bit overwhelming and pointless... I mean, for the first half of this VN/Game, I was thinking perhaps things had really improved, as to the story elements, mixed with the erotic stuff... But then I noticed a pattern, that makes you sort of feel like the developers have it out for the protagonist... She never catches a break... Every single male, young and old was just a perv, outside of the grandpa and a few voyeur teenagers... They all seemed to have an agenda that was not necessarily in her favor... And the grandpa doesn't show up too often really... And anything that can go wrong, seems to go wrong for her, most of the time... Just one problem after another, and it starts to feel old and tedious, after a while... This poor girl has the entire world around her just trying to use her, perv on her, make life harder, and so on... Very few characters seem to be helping her in any real way, without some secret selfish perv motive/reason...

For those first few hours of reading/playing, I was sort of comparing this VN/Game to something like other VN/Games that focused on meaningful choices... I tried to make a few choices that would hopefully NOT lead to her getting so messed over... But as soon as you think things are turning out good/better for her, some new crap happens to her... And that gets really tiresome and majorly hurts the story, in my opinion... The last half of the current content, I noticed the story elements began going down hill, and all the corruption events, along with her not getting any breaks, just got worse as the VN/Game progressed... More focus was placed on the erotic content, then any meaningful and deep story plot...

So, the tiny fraction of moments, where you think the story and plot might be gaining strength, it is mostly just a tease, and really goes no where good, if anywhere at all... Just the introduction of more and more tropes, as you watch her personality take a nose dive, towards this mindless horny girl, where most prior choices to improve herself, no longer had any meaning... It just devolves into nothing, outside of sexual content...

Lemme give you an example, in the first half you have a choice with the Air Conditioner Repair Guy, when he tries to blackmail her... You can either fight against it or sort of play along with it, and let it play out... If you choose to fight, it appears to work out, and the story plays out positively for her, for that moment... She took control of the situation, and you were proud of her strength... But half way into the VN/Game, suddenly it comes back to haunt her in very pushy ways... With a new blackmailer, with the same photos, and instead of being presented with choices that avoid it, no matter what choice you go with, she ends up doing most of the things he demands of her (she just complies), which involves all sorts of exhibitionism and so forth... Sure, one of the choices has her thinking about getting back at him, and possibly working out a plan to get back at the blackmailer, but she still does most of his sexual requests regardless of choice... Don't get me wrong, the scenes looked well presented, but it shows how the beginning choices (during the first blackmail attempt) no longer mattered, and any attempts to avoid it again result in her compliance with the blackmailer (regardless), as the new choices don't matter much... That is just one case...

Overall, this VN/Game has a lot of content for being only a first act, that is still in development... But I began to get tired of a story that really wasn't going anywhere, other then just being more of the same... Too much teasing of a real plot (through the grandfather), with no real follow through... And too much crap just keeps going wrong for the protagonist, with no end in sight... Choices not really mattering all that much...The few characters you think might be romantic interests, are either not developed in that direction, teased without going anywhere, or just a perv she hasn't caught onto yet... The promise I thought might be there, from the first couple hours, began to slowly dwindle away... Which was very disappointing, as at first I was kind of willing to give more praise than criticism, in a follow up review, but it wasn't meant to be.... I kind of see this project as more of a porn fest in the making, just trying to cater to those wanting tons of sexual content, teasing, perving, etc... Rather then being something more balanced and meaningful... While there are definite improvements from the last playthrough, I just can't see any reason to raise the score that much...

This VN/Game is just an average corruption story, with lots of dialogue/monologue, about a character that is pretty much screwed over, as a target for every perv imaginable... I wish the developers the best of luck, as I'm sure there will be folks who are looking for that... But don't play/read this one, thinking it's as high of quality as others in it's category... It's sort of in an average limbo... Better then some, but poorer then others... I don't see any reason/s to revisit this one at a later date...


(Original Review - 3 Mar 2019 - v0.1)

This visual novel/game has a huge amount of content for being so early in production, based on it's version number, but it is pretty much a porn fest...

The visuals are all done with Honey Select, with a lot of backdrops that we've all seen before in other games... So obviously all the characters are hentai inspired, to include some of the scene themes... There are no animations that I ran into, which is unusual for a Honey Select based game...

The script has some occasional broken English as well as spelling/grammar errors... The plot revolves around a female protagonist who has moved in with a family friend and his family while she gets prepared to go to college... Lots of things occur to her, but overall almost every situation she runs into offers up the choice of something sexual/erotic in nature... In fact, every single character she runs into, male and/or female, finds her sexually attractive, which is so unrealistic in every way... There is actually a lot of content in this VN/Game, and pretty much every time a choice presents itself you can either go down a sexual route or not... That also includes moments when you get to make a selection for the other characters now and then...

The gameplay has an Arousal bar, which fills up based on choices, and it only goes down once she has willing done something sex related near the end of each game day... Not sure if it is used to open content, or what not...

There are some story related things she does each day, but everywhere she goes and everyone she interacts with usually ends up involving choices for sexual content or trying to avoid it... Be careful though, because sometimes a minor choice to go through with sexual stuff lets it continue even further then expected with regards to further more intense sexual stuff... And because the protagonist is a virgin, there seems to be a repeating theme of sexual content revolving around either BJ/HJ stuff and/or anal stuff...

When selecting the place the protagonist came from, be sure to enter a country and not a city or state... Because when it uses that choice in the story, most of the time it refers to the protagonists country of origin... I entered California and it kept saying now and then I came from the country of California... hehe... I think this whole story takes place somewhere in Japan based on both it's visuals, places, and situations...

There are some moments here and there as well, where I felt this VN/Game was including some under aged characters... The protagonist is supposedly older then many of the younger characters she runs into, and yet she is under the age of 21 (which you find out during the beach event)... Even though the youngest male characters look like they are either in the middle of or just getting out of puberty, that doesn't make them adults in an adult themed game... It's just a bit borderline, and feels a bit suspicious now and then, especially when a lot of them apparently are still in high school grade levels...

The dialogue has a lot of small font usage, when characters are whispering stuff to one another, which happens a lot... There were also some mistakes all throughout this VN/Game, where it doesn't use the chosen protagonists name, but instead uses the default protagonist name... There were a few moments in the beginning as well, where it sounded like the dialogue was coming from the protagonist, but it had one of the other characters names showing instead...

Overall, this thing does not feel like a meaningful and/or deep visual novel in any sense of the words, as it is pretty much a back to back to back porn fest (if you select to go with the sexual choices rather then just flat out skip them)... All types of sexual fetish's play out, to include Japanese themed porn, such as train groping... If you select to ignore the sexual content, when making a choice, typically there is a lot of skipped content in the process... And it feels like 90% of the content in this thing is sexual/erotic in nature... So if you plan to avoid all the sexual stuff, might as well just stop playing/reading it at all, since the story isn't all that interesting anyways...

I didn't play through all of the content, and there is a lot for being so low a version number... This mostly was because it was such a boring story, that pretty much just went from one sexual based encounter to another with very little in the way of meaningful plot... No realism in how the protagonists life plays out at all, since every character just wants to have sex with her, or trick her into sexual encounters... The protagonist gets used, abused, corrupted, blackmailed, etc... Avoiding the sexual stuff doesn't help the plot either, as it just goes to the next event after a very short scene, in most cases... Will i revisit this one? Probably not, because I can watch real porn videos with real women, rather then seeing hentai based characters doing all the same exact things you see in normal porn vids... There is no immersion in this thing, just like with normal porn...