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

Many many things are wrong with this game. Basically, it seems written by a 13 years old schoolboy, just like 90% of games here, but worst because apparently game had some potential at start, just before story could look a train wreck.
Most disgusting things imo are:

Just an example of how childish plot is, but there is a bunch of situations like that: "Natalie" woman, appearing from nowhere, looking for some kind of retribution or so. Useless character and absolutely unnatural. Just a couple of (stupid) smacks and MC goes to sleep a full day (with a house crowded by your 3 daughters you met just hours ago, that has no reaction at all and wake you up with a silly game).

Game was supposed to be focused with the 3 girls. Instead of that, a bunch of nasty or empty characters appear, probably because developers have no idea about how to treat the main plot and how to develop a proper relation between mc and the girls and they need to put some filler into the story. That explains why they needed too much months updating this.

The "points system" are not gonna work. Really, developers around the world, remove it once and for all. No way somebody playing this could feel related to Mc following a "lust" or "dark" route if inner thoughts are so poor, full of guilty, repetitive, bland and unrelated with the path we are trying to follow. Also, developers should know that trying to branch a plot with multiple paths always leads to a failure: plot holes, inconsistencies, unfinished paths and routes (and updates) and characters doing absurd things.

Finally, sex scenes are vulgar, uninspired, bland...just reused situations and positions everybody has seen in a ton of games before. Zero imagination and no novelty at all.

One to watch for sure. The Dev does a fantastic job with renders and there's no doubt that the quality will continue. I see this one taking a while to get some meat on it's bones as far as H content goes.

I'm going to wait a fair few updates before I try it out again but it is definitely one I'll be returning to.

Updated review. Feb 25, 2024

Still an average VN as of v0.5.2
Inner monologue is such an over kill. Do we really care about the constant back and forth with feelings? A little bit is ok, but consecutive never ending monologue is to much. IMO

At this point it's way to late into development to actually say that the pure, lust, and dark choices are garbage. Not to mention choices don't really seem to make a difference with them. I guess the actual relationship choices are important, maybe?

RENDERS are ok
LIs are ok
Story is actually good.

I made it to the swimming day at the lake and just couldn't go further. It made my brain hurt. Wishy-washy, back and forth with the horn dog MC kills my brain cells.
The story is actually interesting, but tossing in the "hormonal teenager" 30 yr old MC chasing every skirt kills it. Oh, I'm spending the day with my "wards" at the lake, let me just go over here and try to pick up that cashier I met for like 30 seconds. LOL

Look, don't let my opinion ruin it. If you're interested then try it out. It might be good for you. For me, I'm going to go back to not paying attention to this VN.

The Good
Goddamn, this game man. Everything feels good. Characters are well made, the scenes are great. The animations are top notch. The story just makes sense, and is so beautifully crafted, and combined with your music choice it really does make me feel emotional. There are alot of games out there, but this is one of those who just does that little extra you know.

The "Bad"
The only thing that i feel like is a problem here is that the patches have so much time in between ( This is ok because of the quality of the production of course) that i do not remember fully where i left off and what has happened previously, i would really like to see some sort of flashback or something along those lines after each chapter so the returning players dont have to restart the game to remember their previous choices/crucial story parts. I believe "Being a DIK" does this really well and could be a inspiration.

Thank you for creating this masterpiece though! Would definitely recommend everyone to try it, and ill look forward to the upcoming chapters!

A very long wait for chapter two, but well worth it. Superb quality all around; probably the best-looking girls in any game. Between the three main girls and the four(?) side girls there's so much room for future content. Not liking the dickhead neighbor stuff so far so I hope that's not too heavily involved in the future.

Very happy to see this back. Even if the update is short, I still like it. It's a great game that I have a feeling will put story first. I would say it's up there with Halfway House in terms of quality. And I fucking love that game. This has beautiful visuals and an emotional attachment.

This game is pretty heavily overrated. While the CGs are top notch, the writing isn't very good, the story is pretty uninspired as well, and the characters don't seem all that fantastic, and the dev team seems to be almost uniquely ineffecient at game development. All of this on top of what is quite possibly the creepiest situation I've ever seen in a game leads me to say this is not a game you should bother spending your time on.

Version 0.1.2
Overall, I enjoyed the game - there's lots of potential and the devs seem quite ambitious, the renders are really nice, although so far quite generic (no surprise given the mum + three triplets angle).
Game progression is slow and steady; there are a couple of H scenes straight off the bat but it feels like there's an invest and reward style of play ahead.
A lot of the dialogue is interesting and well-written (no engrish), but I really struggled with the girls calling the MC 'Daddy' within the first 5 seconds of meeting him, then it's tears and hugs all round. Everyone is just far too accepting of the whole situation. I was expecting some conflict to spice up the interactions, but maybe I'm being too picky.
Time will tell on how the points system will work as the story progresses, but so far I can guess where the story is going.
I'm gonna keep an eye on this one.

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MC is a sissy.
The lines inside are often "Am I dreaming?" "In my dream..."...What the hell is this? He has been awake for several years...Do ordinary people react like this?
The tone of MC's words to others and the thoughts in his head always show that he is a weak and unconfident person. Can't his personality be more confident?
Although he was in a coma for 10 years, he woke up for almost 10 years, but he still thinks like a teenager? He can only think of women in his dreams? What kind of loser is this?

In addition, what the hell is the narrator? Can't the author directly use italics or boldface? There are too many narrations, which is very annoying.

Nickname...Everyone has to take a nickname...
On the first day a group of girls moved in, can you just call them by their nicknames?
I don't know why the author is so attached to this meaningless title...

Many details of this game really need to be improved.

I have mixed feelings about this one.

PROS

- I do like the quality of the renders. I appreciate even small head/lip movement when talking which is what even a lot of new VNs seem to ignore.

- The Audio was pretty decent too. Nothing was really out of place and there are sound effects for different situations which is something I do like in VNs.

- I like that the plot has a more serious feel in the beginning and not just a flailing penis all the time.


Mixed Feelings PROS + CONS? .... PRONS? ..

- While I don't hate the plot , It does feel like a fast forward (personal opinion). There's not much of a buildup. I like getting invested in a story and knowing the characters before drastic changes happen.

- The writing is not bad in my opinion. But again in some cases it does feel 'pushed' for comedic effect.

- I'm not a huge fan of the usual MC getting random boners or thinking about his dick every time someone's half naked in front of him so I do wish there was less of that. While I do understand that's the games way of telling the player 'you are attracted to these girls', it just felt too rushed for me. I barely played for an hour or even less and i'm already getting turned on by these three young girls that show up in my life
This would be understandable but the story is pretty serious and just takes a porno turn too fast for my liking.

CONS

- Nothing too bad to mention here except maybe it wasn't much of content to make me get a good feel of the game.

- While the story was 'interesting' so far, I was far from invested.
I understand for some people these are just Click N Fuck games but I personally enjoy good plots that keep me hooked.


CONCLUSION

While I did enjoy my time playing this game, it was too short for a verdict.
In its current state its probably a 3-4 out of 5. Not in a bad way but just in a "there's not much to go on" way.

It's definitely worth a download but only more content will help bring the games quality out.
For now it lowkey feels like a rushed introduction.

Good luck to the devs

v0.1.2 Overall ++quality Game:

It has a good and intriguing storyline.
It provides us with high quality renders and animations.
The length of the updates are decent.

One point less for their update policy, needing over 6 months and delaying the release is annoying.

Story: 10
Design. 10
Characters: 10

i love this game so far, it reminds me a lot of another game and i loved that game. definitely something to keep an eye out for. The story sucked me in and made me feel emotions i thought i killed years ago. The characters are unique and it's an amazing thing how the developers made the daughters look like their mother, but with differences between them.

1/5
Just a basic insert incest dribble and i cant understand how the game has so many positive/high reviews.
Renders are average, the 3 daughters are dangerously close to FBI territory but its an incest game so thats a given or there would be no audience for this.
The story sofar is generic and predictable, nothing refreshable or new about it that some other reviews hint at. Sheep.
Should probably rate it 1/5 but kinda wanna see more before i up the rating or clap it down to a 1.
Edit to downgrade the rating to a 1, 7 months is too slow unfortch.

The renders are good but the H-scenes are bang average. The however is quite promising and unique. The models are alright, although a bit generic. This has the potential to become a wonderful Visual Novel. The story is VERY good.

Based on the current content as at 27/08/20 I am eager to see how this game matures.
Radiant has earned a permanent position in my library of visual novels.
I did not encounter any bugs.
This is a very enjoyable game with good writing and a nice looking art style.
I hope that some of my kinks are brought into this game so I can breed a harem with family fun.
I am giving it a 9.5/10 as there have not been enough releases to make a final say one way or the other, but it is leaning towards a good time.
I am looking forward to its continuation, will download each update and fap again XD

Sex scene was really average, model in that scene seems worse than games 3+ years ago. Honestly is comparable to shovelware that is made so frequently now. Story is not very inspiring either, I'm sure there will be meaningless drama added and resolved instantly though. Would not pay for in its current state

Fantastic so far, love the way it all starts, very nice story to follow that is all possible in real life. Can't wait to see how the dynamics will work and the possible things that can happen seeing there are 3 ways to go with your choices... This will be one to watch for and follow that's for sure!

So looking forward to future content for this game. Great story already despite there being minimal sexual content. Kind of like My New Family for me; came for the fap, stayed for the feels. If the quality of this content keeps up I will have to Patreon.

This is looking like its gonna be very good. Not gonna lie the idea of the story is quite heart wrenching but I thought it was handled quite well so i'm confident that the dev can do a good job.

Models looked nice, tough i do wish theMC was a bit more substantial between the legs but whatever.