VN - Ren'Py - Radiant [v0.6.3] [RK Studios]

There was always something bugging me with this game and I just realized what it was. I played the initial release of the game and was very intrigued. It had an interesting premise. The characters all looked very good. I was sold. I supported the Dev and awaited the release of version .02.

That came, and something just felt off. Sure, the characters still looked good. The animations and such were fine. I had a few discussions with the Dev and still couldn't come to understand what it was missing.

Some of the negative reviews site weak writing, or storytelling, and sure there are some issues there, but they are not at all the real issue at play here. The problem is you meet 3 girls who are your daughters, and then the story goes in so many other different directions. I told the Dev after the release of .02 I thought there needed to be more interaction with your 3 girls. I didn't realize at the time why.

These are supposed to be your long lost daughters, you have just met them, you have no relationship with them whatsoever, yet they're now living with you. They should be your only focus for most of the game. At least most of the beginning of the game. I hate comparing games on here but there is a simple comparison with a game that did this right, DMD. In there, you meet your long lost daughter, and almost the entire first chapter is all about building the relationship. Sure, there are a few side dalliances here and there, but the vast majority is all about Dee.

With Radiant I realized that none of that happens. They just move in and things go on as if normal. All the other options and side parts just get in the way of what the main part of the game could have, and should have been. The focus should have been on the 3 girls. That's why I originally had a lot of hope for this game, and why I originally was supporting the Dev. But after the last 2 updates I realized that's not where this is going, and just what a missed opportunity this way.

Is this game bad? No, not at all. Again, it looks great, has a few different things people might like. But the missed opportunity made me stop playing part way through the latest update. It needs to be reworked for me. Until then, I will not play it again. A game with such potential is being doomed to the wayside at the moment.

v0.3.2
Summary:
You were in an accident and lost 10 years of your life in a coma as well a few years of your memories were forgotten. You managed to turn your life around and make a successful business until one day you hear a knock on the door and three young ladies claim to be your daughters enter your life.

Extraordinary aspects of the game:
The first game made me scratch my head and remind the cringe I wrote as a teenager.

What is good:
The story is interesting, the renders are good, the dialogues between characters quite fine as well.

What is bad:
The inner dialogues are unrealistic garbage especially the MCs, three teenage daughters come to the house, and the first choice how to take this situation is as follows: Pure-Lets see how it goes and if something I will fuck them. Lust-I will fuck them all. Dark-Talks about obedience aka dominate them but sounds the best of the all choices wtf?

The other’s inner dialogues are no better they just saying how handsome the MC is, If removed from the game it will only make the game more realistic and better.

The age reminder of the girls is annoying as well they are trying to push it everywhere, say it once or twice and forget about it.

What can be made better:
Remove the inner dialogue of the other characters, we shouldn’t even hear it. Change the MC inner dialogue to be as his outer dialogue where he is a caring father and slowly corrupt him/develop his feelings for the girls.

My opinion:
Like I said before it’s always hard to do and family incest game, but this is an example of how not to do it. The right way is to slowly develop the feelings of the characters slowly and push them into a forbidden territory before they could even notice, with totally does not happen here.

Some of the choices of the MC are bat shit crazy, at one inner dialogue he talks about how he will fuck all his daughters then suddenly when he kisses one of them, he cries to the wife in his dreams of the terrible mistake he did.

It feels like two people writing the script and fighting with each other for control. Not talk about what he bought for his daughter as revenge/help wtf? And yes I checked the fully Pure path to check if he gets it to her too and yes he does.

This game has the making of an amazing game, interesting story, good renders, likable characters but sadly the execution is just bad. Although I shited on this game for quite some time I still enjoyed it and I am sure that the future content will be interesting at best and fappable at least. So I am placing this game in the alright category.

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I mean... it's fine. The story is boring and I don't find myself caring about it... The incest trope would be OK, and there is some attempt to make the different personalities of the 'daughters' interesting, but it just doesn't live up to some of the better storylines out there. Maybe it will get better, but at the rate of the updates, my grandchildren will be dead before this game is finished.

(Honestly, it's hard to rate this as 1/5 since the creator has effectively abandoned the much more interesting story, Polarity, to try and gather the incest fans.)

Damn it... made me cry multiple times, fyi I'm a big sook so that's no surprise.
But in all seriousness i really like the writing and story!

Going in I wanted the lust route but I love my girls too much now and I don't want to see them hurt so now I'm half purity. (fingers crossed all goes well)

I love each character and the different backgrounds each of the other girls have, I especially can't wait for Brooke and her girl too meet my girls and us to be one happy family

Last but not least it looks fantastic as Ren'Py goes and so do (ALL) the girls

TLR 5/5 so far, I really hope this game keeps being updated I will be donating.

Review for 3.2

The renders in this game are very good. This is what caused me to take a gander at this game. The story is what hooked me and leaves me wanting more. The story of the triplets and their mother is a bit of a mystery that seems to be slowly showing itself. This game is a departure from what I usually play, and I am thankful for it.

The sound was good, however, I didn't use sound for the whole game. As for the games performance, I have an a 3 or 4 year old Laptop with an i3 processor and I had no issues running this game. No hang-ups or freezing.

Olivia and Maddie are my favorite characters at the moment. I'm not sure which I enjoy more. At first, it was Olivia all the way, BUT after my last playthrough, Maddie is beginning to grow on me. Allison isn't a bad character but...wow...she is clueless! haha! Some people like that and that is cool. It adds more liveliness to the character and the story.

As far as improvements needed, nothing really comes to mind. It could simply mean that I'm not a picky as other. No glaring mistakes are popping out in my mind.

I'm looking forward to the next release and seeing how things develop!

[Review of version 0.3.2]
Well, i want to keep my review simple: there's nothing i don't like about this game!
1) The plot is not too fast paced nor too slow, it has just the right amount of speed.
2) All the characters are somehow believable and realistic in their behaviour (you can choose between 3 routes).
3) The technical level is very high, probably on par with the most famous and experieced developers (apparently this is the first game by RK Studio).
In short i'm sure i'll be playing this until the end, probably trying even the other routes.

Hype, I was looking forward to playing the update and loved every bit of it. Thing which i liked the most was no rushed relationship, along with few nice emotional moments. Although animation needs work but story and renders did the butt saving. Don't mind blueballling as long as story delivers. Can't wait.

Ok, so I just played through the latest update and I quite enjoyed it. The renders are extremely clean and attractive, and it seems very nice grammatically.

So all the complaints about the story, it's true that some make no sense, such as the color of the eyes (which is actually really stupid of someone to point out cause who tf remembers that part? Go read a book and write an analysis on it if that's what gets you going. Dev might've even taken it out, can't remember since I didn't really care too much.) Adressing the complaint about feet being sensitive, that's def a thing. Ever tickled someone in the feet? If the mc was being gentle, they will have a similar reaction and instinctivly kick up. I do agree that the random police officer didn't make too much sense, but if you read the part with his wife you see that he was gradually losing his mind 2 years prior. Also, every story needs some drama.

One actual nonsensical thing which I didn't see anyone point out, (since, duh every protag should be like this right?) was the fact that literally every single girl finds the mc so attractive they immediately wanna fuck. Not even a complaint, just something I noticed.

Overall, def give it a try and don't be dissuaded by the negative reviews. They make it sound way worse than it is, and it's a porn game for god's sake. Just enjoy it. 5/5 so far

This is a story written by an evil genius.

I am also reviewing this from the pure and lust routes, not the dark route which is where I believe a lot of the "negative" reviews are coming from. I dont buy that anyone rating this story as a negative is playing this for the actual plot or if they are they are playing the dark route which I feel would be counter to the entire character the MC displays in the common scenes.

If you are looking for mindless porn/fap material, there are better games for that, not saying this is a bad game or the girls arent cute etc, but this is not a game about sex, its a game about loss and love that happens to have sex in it.

I downloaded this game the first time I think back right after chapter 2 was released and was just looking for a fun game with specific kinks, came for the very cute girls on the "front cover" expecting tropey kinks and fun animations but damned if this isn't an actual story with feeling and emotions.

I remember my first playthrough just getting wrapped up in the story, the emotions are so well written I could literally feel the pain of the three girls losing their mother and the MC finding something more to his life in having three daughters and wanting to protect them and care for them (im clearly not playing the darker route when I write this, I feel like personally that would just gut the story of all that is making it amazing). By the end of the chapter you cant help but want to protect these girls from everything bad.

Then chapter 3 comes out and within 5 minutes im already gut punched with the raw emotion of the MC and Gracie's conversation, you can feel the regret and pain of the loss the MC is feeling having lost the woman who can only be described as his soulmate, gone before he even had a chance to have a life with her. the rawness of it, you can feel the realization he is experiencing as more and more of it hits him , they had 1 night together but you can tell it would have been a lifetime if not for the fickleness of fate. "I wish you were here..." even that one line speaks volumes, the music choice is excellent at conveying the emotion of the scene.

I hope the dev keeps going in this direction, as it stands you could remove the porn from the game and I'd still play it for the story.

Like I said, written by an evil genius and I truly hope he keeps going like this.

v0.4B

I'm completely revamping this, giving it a proper review.

Visuals

• All of MC's daughters are cute. I think despite being (fraternal) triplets, there is a visual aspect that will likely appeal to you between at least 1 of the 3. Maddison is my favorite.
• Dev did something weird with the 0.4 update to Allison; her face is noticeably different when she's outdoors w/ MC than in prior versions of the game. Not sure what's up with that. It's not present in each render, but a few in particular, and I don't think it's just because her hair is different from when we first meet her.
• I like that we see characters' mouths move when they're speaking to MC (vs inner monologue), but there are times where a sentiment of excitement/joy are being expressed and the girl's face doesn't match which is confusing. I.e.
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  . She says this with a completely straight face; no smirk, no sly smile out the corner of her mouth, no wink, etc.

Story

• This is in my top 5 VNs for this particular taboo. Probably top 3. The background story is fantastic, and executed in a way that is not cheesy, lacking, over-the-top, or otherwise off-putting. Other devs have tried and - in my opinion - failed to execute the writing and "flow" in a way that doesn't suck.
• The pace is good; not too fast, not too slow. I do feel like there are missed opportunities here and there, if you step back and think about how quickly inter-domicile relationships develop/blossom, it's pretty fast. This will either be something to the player's liking, or they'll feel cheated out of a build-up. Where I think the devs got it right, here, is that they don't just plunge you into lewd scenes that are not even remotely realistic. Mostly, MC stumbles upon them by accident or lets his curiosity get the best of him. He isn't just a hound-dog on the prowl from the get-go.
• The relationship dynamics between the MC and every female are unique and believable. I like this, as opposed to MC having a singular personality and every female just being magically fixated.
• Mostly, at least so far, we get the MC's perspective on his experience over a fairly brief period from the time in present-day when his girls show up to when they vacate on their road trip. There isn't a ton of focus on micro events; it's more one interaction leading to another with some events filled-in in between.

Dialog
This is one of the aspects in a VN experience that - for me - serves as granting the most weight to my enjoyment or displeasure. I have a knack for getting hung up on proper spelling/grammar/syntax. I know the devs for this game are either US-based or simply very fluent in their English, and so there is no wanting for tedious corrections. The characters each have personalities, and these shine through in the dialog. It's not over-the-top in complexity, the vernacular is what you'd find if you visited the US, and is just enjoyable. I really can't say much more here, as I don't have any critiques.


Gameplay Mechanics/Other Notes

• There are a few areas I'd improve upon with respect to player-interaction; I feel like the game auto-advancing to the next render/dialog occurs sometimes and not others. Sometimes I accidentally "over-click" trying to advance the game when it is doing so automatically, and other times I'll sit and wait several seconds expecting it to and realize I need to manually proceed by clicking.
• Thank fuck there's no free-roam and this a proper VN, not a sandbox.

This get 4.5 stars for me. I've only rated 1-2 VNs a 5, and it takes next-level innovation, creativity, and a deep meaningful experience to get it. I think this VN is capable of 5 stars, but I've yet to see devs go back and "fix" all the things I personally want just to appease me. For this one to make that leap, I would like to see more time spent on the first 3 versions; flesh out more in-between scenes and have more interactions with the girls. Insert dialog and outcomes that really tug at the heartstrings in addition to the johnson (metaphorically, of course). We pack a ton into the first few updates of the story, and it plays very fast, but then with the latest update it feels like a proper and whole "chapter". That would be an extra .25. For the other .25, I'd like to see more realism and detail in the model textures. I feel like some renders are more rushed in terms of lighting/skin stretching/detail. Again, that's if I'm being nit-picky. I'm also a sucker for thicc ladies, and it's abundantly clear this one ain't gonna satisfy that craving. Good thing I'm easily distracted by 3 cute girls doting over their father.

excellent! I was blown away by the quiality of the renders - eyes, feet, everything's great! I absolutely love the harem and incest part of story.
It's a bit short and too "prude" - really, all of them are virgins and no other sexual experiences? also, the choices are a bit too obvious.
But overall - great experience, waiting for the continuation

Another heavily overrated game.
Ignoring the pretty creepy premise of the game; the writing is really, really poor. It feels like it was written by and for 12 year old boys.
Don't get me wrong, a porn game doesn't have to be realistic, it doesn't even have to be believable, but this game takes itself completely seriously and that is huge problem because it is full of plotholes and implausible situations and behaviour and terrible dialogue. There are some pretty good reviews with more details.
Maybe this sounds a little harsh, but I was kind of shocked to play a game with more than 200 reviews and such a score to have such obvious flaws that are pretty hard to ignore while playing.

trust me on this, if the script and animation of this game progresses the way it has, its gonna be one of the top games of the site. The plot is pretty original, the girls hot, the conversations realistic, the corruption well paced. Most importantly, there is a 'Dark' side to the character which i think is truly, actually, very dark. And I like just that.

Really good game. Love the dark stuff.

Pictures: good.
Music: annoying.
Storytelling and logic: abysmal.
Several reviewers described in detail why the game sucks now. It looked promising in Chapter 2 but a few months later it's utter disappointment. Will not bother following it any more.

All in all Radiant is a great game that shows a lot of promise.
Choices matter? Check. Taboo themes? Check. A compelling story? Check. Interesting female characters? Oh yes.

It's easy to immerse yourself in the role of the MC and take part of the smorgasbord of emotions that run through the game.

Everything is not perfect though. There are a lot of tropes in this game but that's not necessarily a bad thing.
And I know it's a harem game, but personally it was a bit too much that EVERY woman you run into immediately has the hots for the MC. It'd be nice to ease into a more realistic depiction of that instead of just WHAM in the face. Highly subjective though.

It is my sincere wish that this game delivers on all it's promises for Radiant has the potential to truly shine.

Based on v0.3
Very promising game. I wish it ill turn into someting beautigul. Especially i like the alinment system, how you can developrdifferent types of relationships with girls. My expections for future releases are high, good luck dev.

Great story, and I don't normally watch for those here. Actually got me in the feels a bit early game. Also the way it is written takes care of one of the major problems with much IC fantasy. I am new to IC being a kink that one would play.. I have no siblings or children so can somewhat role with it since there is no one in my life like that. But I read some studies IC is RARE and almost impossible if raised together. So the story here did a real good job covering that and setting up the story. Have not donated in a while I may yours. Also top notch Graphic animations!!!! Though my interest is not the periphery characters and not a bathroom sex guy that was a hot scene in the stall during the dinner.

This is the second review for the games today.
Yoooo, this game is now in my folder with those that are most interesting to follow and wait for updates.
One of these days I will go on vacation, and I am glad that I managed to complete this game before leaving.
Actually a few words.
Very nice storyline, very straight forward.
I liked the characters very much, literally all the characters except the fag from the FBI. (I hope they won't persecute me for this phrase )
And to be honest, I burst into tears at the moment of visiting the cemetery where the parents of MC and Gracie are buried. For some reason, scenes like this always get me emotional.
A very important point, for me, I'm just a little confused. The lack of a gallery. I just like sometimes to go in and see all sorts of scenes, I can see that I missed something somewhere. Well, I hope there is a craftsman and will make a mod. Well, or the developer will add, it will not be bad either.
In general, I'm wondering when was the last time an update was released? When to expect a continuation?
Hopefully when I get back from vacation I will see something new.
Thanks for the game.

I'm not going to get into an argument about the logic of the scriptwriter of this game, which honestly is pretty bad. I already had a good laugh when he said Allison and the MC had the same (blue) eyes and then when he fucks the waitress the waitress tells him she loves green eyes. His justification was, I wasn't referring to the color of the eyes, I was referring to the shape. Of course I did, it could never occur to me or anyone else to deny that he was referring to the shape of the eyes. Simply ridiculous.
But what borders on tragedy is to say a hundred times that a girl is a virgin when she has a daughter. I hope she wasn't abducted by aliens...
In any case, waiting so many months to see this ridiculous update was not worth it. The girls are very pretty, that's true, and everyone will be waiting to see how their father takes their virginity.... But for me that's not enough. The story gets more and more ridiculous and the dialogues get poorer and poorer. The one about the neighbor cop's wife in the car borders on congenital stupidity. And the Russian woman calling him to massage the man who killed her son makes the most sense, of course. And that when he caresses her feet he breaks her nose, also, of course, they were very sensitive feet... ridiculous after ridiculous....
Developers earning close to $9,000 a month should take better care of their patrons and give them a much higher quality product.

This game is deffinitely a bit of a slow burn but as far as VNs go although it uses the amnesia trope it takes it in a unique direction.

The story is actually interesting, I mean strip out the taboo pad the story a wee bit and you have a soap opera or a drama movie script in the making.