Ren'Py - Red Sakura Mansion 2 [v2.22] [TinWoodman]

One of the few games i paid for. That because i liked Part 1 and i had hopes that this will be a good sequel, or let's say: a completion of Part 1.

But sadly it goes straight in the other direction.

Here you get one of these "sandbox" games that are no sandbox.
It's a VN with an sandbox-UI.
The character-progress with LIs is based on the progress with other characters - you have no choice to skip a girl, give a direction to a kink or something like that.
Same in the h-scenes: it's just the way it is.

Yes, you can choose between some "training-scenes" if you have enslaved the girls and some "ending" in some scenes etc, but it's all kinda uninspired and you don't get a feeling out of it.
Maybe the plastic-style-models prevent a better immersion. The scenes look and feel generic, sterile, artificial. And the UI doesn't help with this either.

A story exists, but it's not worth to mention.
Store-system is a bit of a mess.
Both wouldn't be a problem if the game had something more to offer than repeatable but soulless BDSM-training-scenes...

Disappointing for me.
Not a proper trainer, not a proper VN.
And primarily: you have no choice.

If you are lucky and like the artstyle it's maybe a 3-4* for the kinks in the scenes - otherwise you probably find something better than this.

Have followed Tin Woodman for a few years. Puts out regular updates but lately been getting frustrated with repeated activities that have to go through to get to game play. The need to keep the mood of the slaves in the mansion is getting wearing.

In the end this was a choice between 1 & 2 stars.

TL;DR: Somewhat novel idea completely let down by story, design, gameplay, ui and technical incompetence

A horrible story seeing the main character corrupting the women of the area to become his slaves. I say corrupting but in truth it's basically just mental abuse. This in itself would be fine (I don't mind a monster MC) if the game would acknowledge these actions as such. Instead the story pretends as if all the women were discovering their true nature and we as player are just giving a push in the right direction. This craving to be treated like shit also seems to be inherent in all the women of the area as every woman present in one of the many public humiliation scenes just desperately wants to take the slaves place

While the renders in general are well made, the lack of care when it comes to male models is very noticeable and often takes one right out of the scene. Every male character is basically just a variation of the same bald dude. This might not bother a lot of people but for someone like me it's an emersion killer.

Gameplay loop is simple and somewhat pointless. The player is asked to take photos and sell them to what's probably the only somewhat dominant woman in the world. All of that is done in a way that only allows 1 picture per day which feeds in a money sink mechanic in form of rent which looses all meaning on day one. Additionally the player can interact with slaves(doesn't take time but forces repeat scenes) to keep them happy. Make slaves work on cam shows(passive income so that making money becomes even more meaningless) and some quest related activities often just resulting in waiting a few day or starting a scene.

The ui is passable as it is basically just a series of buttons to instigate events and make some flavour decisions. There are rudimentary shop interfaces for the 3(seriously why 3) shops in the game with lacking player feedback and item names that sometimes deviate from the names given to the player as event conditions. Just lacking care like every part of the game.

What pushes the game down from 2 to 1 in the end is technical incompetence. It is basically impossible to not sequence break the game. This in the best case leads to scenes with characters that shouldn't be there being played and in the worst case soft locks the player as conditions can't be met for events any more. Development is seemingly done based on the latest events and additions of content are not placed into context with previous activities.

There are some good scenes, but as a game it's a mess. Maybe if you follow the exact sequence the dev expects, everything works, but it's easy to get events out of order. I somehow got Naomi before Chloe (although Chloe appeared in the scene of getting Naomi tattooed). Now the Naomi even triggers again every time I visit the club, I lost the ability to train her.

I reached a point with Clementine where it tells me to buy a certain outfit to proceed. (And BTW, why we need a store, a sex shop, and a flea market is not clear.) When I try to buy the outfit, it says I have to level up Emily, a character I haven't even met.

Animations are decent, but the fact that every bit of dialog interrupts them is annoying.

good renders is the name of game with all the fetish that ebntail the game, and it excels at this exceptionally , so I have no complaints as it achieves what it advertise spectacularly so I can't give it anything 4/5.
the only reason I am not giving it anything more as there is virtuaklly no story to speak of

This game is quite awful
you start by paying for apartment and from here you must very slowly get the girls
game is way too grindy in design to see anything

in other games like harem hotel or maid-related games you get the girl
game provide reasonable way to know where to find her at the time
and player can slowly build the relationship with her

in this game i have no idea where to go and what to click
i tried playing it before BTW and i get much further in the past, but also didn't get any woman to live with me and was on like negative money for a lot

i do not recommend playing it at all, mostly due to slow grind to get anywhere

The game has some of the best renders of BDSM scenes. Though there's a money management system, it is not a grind at all. But the story is a bit lacking, with characters just taking the protagonist's advances without any reservation - basically porn game characters.

But the renders alone are worth a play, four stars.

[v1.13]

Excellent game. No empty dialogs, no drama or boring grind. Just meet girls and gradually suggest more daring things to them, so they willingly become your personal sex slaves.

Pros:
+ All models are hot cuties with realistic propotions
+ Kinky sex scenes with humiliation, urination and rimjobs.
+ Alot of content for a few days of playing.
+ No need for walkthrough, all quests are easy to follow.

Cons:
- Most scenes are unique, there is no way to repeat them through gameplay. But they are accesible in the gallery.

I will keep an eye for updates, since its one of the most enjoyable games I've played on this site.

1.13 Version

Enjoying it all so far.

• Story and characters works for me.
• Great renders and animations. Shot angles look great. (The photo studio element is a sneaky and clever way to show them off too)
• The option to pull away from certain kinks is a nicer flavor than it's predecessor.
• The POV works well too. Feels a little like the Japanese styled games & stories, where the protagonist is never seen completely adding to the immersion.

Only complaint is the UI & Sandbox. It functions and that's not my personal issue. Rather, it needs a little more zing and style to match the render quality and style. But this is just a thought as I ramble.

• Added to my watch list.

Reviewing v1.11.2

I did enjoy the first game before it was abandoned for this new one and as much as I was hoping this would be better, it failed to win me over.

One of the good change is the engine. Ren'py makes things easier and the interface works without issue.
But the navigation has more locations that do nothing most of the time. You quickly run into one of my worst feature in those games, daily activities. And so the grind and clicks looking for content gets annoying fast.
If at least the scenes were interesting it could be okay, as the grind is far from being unbearable, but they are not. There isn't a single one I wanted to watch again. And the MC feels much more like a douche bag than he was before.

I'd say the previous game is a much better use of your time, with better made and more unique events, including a mini game with a variety of models.

This is a game that should not work and I should not like but I LOVE this game. This is not a deep compelling story with 1000 different choices and paths, its very linear, choices are almost non existent and none of them really matter. I was all set to hate this game, but the more I played it the more it's charming simplicity won me over.

The first thing this game has going for it are drop dead gorgeous characters that are very expressive. Chloe and Naomi are two of the cutest characters ever. Face, Body and personality really separate these two from your average AVN characters. There facial expression really sell the scenes there in. The graphics here are close to some of the best I have seen.

The story is super simplistic and there are a bunch of spelling errors but not enough to bother me. Is it a power fantasy? FUCK YES it is but is it a fun power fantasy set in a fake world.

I suggest playing the short and very simplistic part 1 FIRST or 2's story will have much less of an impact on you. Part 1 IMO is an absolute MUST PLAY before this part. ALSO not to be driven insane with grind on part 1 the MONEY cheat code is mandatory but it is a VERY short preamble to this game and should not be missed.

I found this game super enjoyable and I can't wait for the next update.

I do not know why so many people claim for a plot. When watching a porn movie I do not expect actors to won an oscar
Love this game as it is pure porn and the dialogues are funny (Yeeff, yeeff).
Love the BDSM porn scenes and the ideas ... did not like the game first as I was fan of RSM 1 and did not understand why dev gave it up .. but as TinWoodman promised the game got better and better ... now I cannot wait for the next updates ... your forcing whores to work and from the money you get more whores or punishment devices.
In this game there is a black slave very rare for a porn game black slave white master ...
An asian slave and a blonde bimbo would be fine as the girls are nice but not really stunning.
Game can be recommanded for anyone who wants to play a nice Bdsm-porn game.
Not for dogooders, woke or feminists btw.

If you're in this for the plot.. well lets just say this aint for you.
The game has great renders, a range of kinks. A range of stunning characters and senarios.
Writing an characters are a little off at times and lacks some polish (why its a 4 star) but its a still thoughly enjoyable game.

Amazing girls
Amazingly sexy scenes
Amazing kinks
Amazing renders (although consistency is lacking)

Then why only 2 stars?:

The 'story' seems to be written by a 15 year old misogynist who has no clue about BDSM whatsoever .

The MC is just a pathetic piece of shit, he is no dom, he's just a rapist.

A shame really because with proper writing this could be a winner.

This is sooo much better then the first game, its lacking a bit with story part there is one but its slow progress and its barely even part of the game, same for LIs there arent really much story with them.

Main goal is to enslave girls, break them to become your slaves and thats it, i would like to have seen some more story aspects to the game to make it a bit more fun since it does become alot of the same over and over.
I know that the game is about being very dom but i wouldent mind if you could pick a girl to be nice to as well since it gets a bit boring constantly calling everyone a whore or a slut and with no real story to the LIs and no romance you dont really build any feelings for any of them.

Its fun with all the sex toys and BDSM and so on but it is just alot of the same, add girl call her whore, spank, fuck and repeat so adding 10 more girls would become a bit boring in the long run, thats why a story or romance would be nice to mix it up a bit.

There are a few things that i am not the biggest fan of and thats the girl you sell photo/vids to, after seeing her at the her birthsday party i wouldent want to touch her ever again after seeing her get gang banged by multiple dudes, i dont share my whores which is also why i hated finding one of your old whores in service to another dude and shes been hes slave for 3 years, so i dident really want her back at all but you cant avoid that.

Also its one of those type of games where all girls or 99% are lesbians/bi which is plain idiotic.

And thats one of my main issues with the game, its an all out linear sandbox without any choices what so ever, your forced to share your girls and do stuff like making them suck 10 dudes off and eat their cum and to make it worse your forced to be with her afterwards and i just dont do slobby seconds and i dont want to share any of the girls so having that forced kills the game alot.

So it really is just a kinetic novel hidden behind a linear sandbox, its to bad since game would have been a million times better and more fun if it had choices.

Story 2/5
There really isent much story in this, its closer to being a pure porn game then a story game, i do wish it would focus a bit more on the story aspect.

Animations 3/5
They are decent but very very short so they could be better, but if plan is to add alot of girls i can see why they are like this since it would be alot of work to make good animations for all of them so it is what it is, and still good enough to enjoy.

Girls 4/5
Not much to say they look good.

Music 0/5
Yeah its still silent which is to bad, some good music would go a long way to make it more fun to play.

Sandbox 2/5
Its a pretty easy sandbox, not much of a grind, its mostly just there to click around on the map to visit locations and shops, but its also like most sandboxes 100% linear which really ruins it and makes sandbox aspect pointless, might as well have been a kinetic novel.

I just cant give it more then 2 stars with the lack of story and only average animations, 0 sounds and 0 choices, its just not there yet, it could be alot better but would take a hole remake which proberly wont happen.

Yes, like the first opus, it is a great game. I enjoy playing it as much and I hope the future will bring much more content (that so far is something we can play for like 30m/1h), but seing the dev having finished the previous one perfectly, I'm sure the content will continue to come, and for that, I thank you.

What else to say ? The art is great (one of the best arts around here), the storyline is pretty good (would not say perfect, but it stills deserves a 5 star review). Well, continue like that, it's a pleasure to play this game.

The sequel to the original RSM feel strangely less ambitious, which is an odd thing in terms of game development. The version reviewd (1.4.2) still has little content.
In any case, I confess I do like it very much... I'm a sucker for BDSM content and this one has it for sure.
The renders are still great, keeping the style of RSM (that you should play first, if you haven't already), and the animations, although not top-notch, are still very good.
It is not the lack of content that makes me give this 4 instead of 5 stars, but the lack of sound (no music, no sounds, no effects, no speech...); in an era of royaltie-free music, sound libraries and easy and free text-to-speech with great quality, it shouldn't be hard (or expensive) to add sound, speech and music to games and VNs...
Also, there is no gallery for revisiting scenes and, finally, the English is very bad -- not as much the spelling, but the way phrases are put together.
Anyway, we are here for the FAPs, not the talks, so, I can forgive that, I guess.
I will update the rating in the future, if the game continues to evolve.

it's not a step back in compare to first game, its f**king leap of fate back. Renders - bad (and no animations), gameplay - bad (just a grind), story (after all devs statements about normal character development) - bad, its now a lame photoshoot simulator (we've already seen it 10000 times) with even worth character development than SM1. Protagonist become absolutely spineless, it's a pain to see him like this. I can't hide my disappointment, i can't believe it's the same dev.

Incredibly good renders! Not only technically, but also artistically. A bit grindy and repetitive, with pinches of humor here and there. I hope dev makes it a bit more interesting and keeps up the visual quality!

Best of luck to developer for this part 2! Renders are good, personally I am a fan of style and themes. Also nice is how the girls are not all the usual copy & paste. Hope this gets continued with good backing