VN - Ren'Py - Completed - Returning to Mia [v1.2.0] [Inceton]

2nd Part of a good game, we waited for this for a while now and we do get to see Mia and the MC story evolving. Good graphics, nice characters and on top of that interesting story. For me Summer with Mia S1 had something special and I can say that it hit the spot. I do recommend it to all of you and hopefully you will enjoy it as much as I do (S1 and S2)...

Lets start by saying that the game title is actually a meta-JOKE. Why?:

Mia, Sadie and Cindy have the same face and almost the same hair color. Isla is pretty similar with freckles. Vivian looks pretty similar but with another eye color.

As for the game visuals:
I think this one loses too much work and effort doing things that are easier like giving free renders of models posing, basically, but other meaningful things are just not there. I mean you get some free renders, you can even change girls clothes with one button ( WTF its the most money grabbing ridiculous thing i have seen) but later when you actually can "hug" Mia, there is no hug, like not even a single hint to let you know it happened, not with Mia face, not in the pose, or the camera distance, nothing at all.
To see this kind of work I can download Poser and do the stuff myself, I did it in the past, but its only girls making poses.
The game has decent renders, ignoring the fact that many girls are the same model,and the blurry hair. Still I wouldnt rate high the visuals because the diffcult poses still look like crap, and for me as a male, a girl bending over is a big thing, and if an ass looks like an aberration, sorry it doesnt work for me, do it differently, or make another camera angels that looks better.

For the writing:
Well, it tries, most conversations are boring, the way of recreating tension is using faces, and the MC stammers and the usual stuff, but mostly the shallow stuff. This MC always on the receiving end, and shutting up and thinking he deserves everything is bullshit.
There are examples of things that could be better like when the MC is talking about his girfriend after meeting Mia. He talks about her, but he should be showing her pictures or something, cause at that point i didnt know the Mc had a girlfriend, it would be nice to see her and create in the process a more "natural" scene, maybe Mia could se that she actually looks like her and have some thoughts or something. For me there is not enough tension,and the release is kind of NAH.
More like tension it feels like writer beating around the bush.
The thing is there is quite some dialogue, but since it doesnt exactly feel well, and most of the time doesnt add much, the first part of the game gets boring as hell and fails to make me care about the characters, including the ones that give you easy sex COUH COUGH girlfriend i barely know... Call me weird there are camgirls out there that I know as much as the majority of these characters.

The second hug in the beach triggered me quite a bit, I mean, It seriously did the run away dissapearing into the distance thing. Thats pretty much a MEME, and what happened previously was serious, and i can't take that shit.

The day with Mia, MC had drink 2 superpowerful drinks and he still felt ashamed of Giselle seeing him. I guess his inhibitions are deeply rooted, and he is always hoding back...(this writing)

AS for the game in general:
There are a lot of fake choices that dont matter,so dont put them in the first place, its annoying to have my expectations subverted all the time and have to make extra clics for no reason.
The player has little to no agency, and even characters in some moments are stripped of it, like when something is going on and they are interrupted and they have to stop. It would be awesome if they could make the choice of stopping or continue by themselves, not because of "plot convenient circumstances"

Too many fanservice renders (which also includes dreams,memories and illusions in addition to the magic buttons) way too many hours of rendering that could be put in useful plot related stuff.

Not convinced about the sex scenes, they feel like a sucession of prerecorded scenes, there is not emotion besides "making faces". No wondering hands, eye contact, anticipation, and so on, the little things, the magic that really sell the sex scene.

Mia route sucks, no buildup at all, just drama and beating around the bush, and the release results in a Silent fart (since the fart is used a lot in the game, its convenient)

The game definetly struggles building anticipation. Without anticipation, if you are 18 to 30ish you are gonna do maybe fine, but im guessing for older people a little extra is needed,and in my opinion this one is not delivering.

Did i mention subverted expectations and plot convenient circumstances? Well they actually make combo with the fake choices so you may pick one option thinking it will move things forward, but an interruption is gonna hapepen,and in the end the difference between one option and the other one might be one render.

FINAL thoughts
The game is a sucession of porn VN tropes, with full drama Mia route, and a lot of girls throwing themselves at the MC. They are avoidable, not like Sadie. For me the game is trashy, and im giving it it 2 stars cause some animations are interesting if they keep working on them and polishing them.
Not the best work of Inceton, definetly a cashgrab to "fix" the crap ending of SWM1.

(this one's too long and there may be typos and stuff, bear with me, im not an English native speaker)

Shame to see it, but compared to the first game this have very little to offer, even the protagonists central love interest is unlikable, in fact there are few characters to root for in this game, which makes things all the more annoying, sure the game is story rich, but majority of the characters are unsympathetic self involved & mean spirited with no real consequences,.

Those looking for lots of "action" should look else where I am nearly finished with Episode 3 & there is no content in that regard outside of a dream sequence. What is it about game devs & their overreliance on the whole Bah! Wet dream approach to storytelling?

The first game was much better with, more well rounded & likable characters but the ones that return are nothing like they were previously

The game started as abruptly like the prequel ended, the MC finally matured a bit but it's still of a lovable idiot.

After seeing Mia it was obvious that there would be some tension and that he wanted to get some closure of everything that happen previously especially from the goodbye.

The dialog is really funny I don't remember laughing so much since "personal trainer" or "milf city" but sometimes the names got mixed up.

The design, animation and story for now is on point but I'm disliking a certain subplot with Mia and mysterious fan (which I'm inclined to believe it's Freddie Mercury).

That being said I ended with ep4 which had a great finale I just hope the next episode doesn't start with a cliché drama of them both being found out by MC's GF.

To the dev: This VN is very good. Take my 5 stars. If it had more sex (more fleshed out sex scenes would also be appreciated, but I understand that this takes alot of time) it would be glorious and if there was an "auto" button for the text the quality of life would be increased immensly.

To the generic review part:
The great
Awsome girls
Superb renders
Quality sex-animations
There is "realistic" dialogue and character interactions that match the setting :0
Strong character development

Medium
There also is a story that is also there so stuff happens for a reason and characters have dramatic moments.

TLDR: Download for eye candy, character moments and some incest to boot. Don't if you look for a fap simulator and hate incest

The game is professionally developed.

But there is a big but, this game, like mostly on this forum, are soulless.

There is no excitement, no sexual tension, the only way to wank is on well designed images, animations.

I believe, the focus, from the developers, should be on plot, on character creation rather than just assets..... Best assets are real porn videos.

I remember a game called road trip, basic assets and images but the plot was there, you could perceive the girl struggles as real.

That is what it takes to make a good porn game.

I'm sorry, but the MC in that game is creeping me out! Means, after the intro my eyes just refused to deal with any more dialog of this kind. The images are well done, though. I wish there was more behind the visuals.

It is starting slow, but has good character development. For lewd scenes, SWM1 has more so far, but this seems to be a longer game, so it has room to catch up.

Good models, nice animations. like the story. Inceton does good games, I'd encourage you to support him on Patreon if you like this. Also try Echoes of Lust.

So, I am only on episode 3, and there is still time to turn this story around...but honestly I'm not sure how it happens.

I really wanted to give SWM2 the benefit of the doubt, even though SWM1 ended in kind of a lame way, the preceding chapters were all pretty hot, with interesting scenarios and a relatively compelling brother/sister dynamic.

Unfortunately, SWM2 seems to be leaning into the dull ending of the first episode. I have now played the existing material through 2 or 3 times, convinced that I was making bad choices...but as far as I can tell at this point, the choices you make barely matter.

The story is risible. You've moved to your aunts. Her restaurant is failing because of superior competition. You meet the competition, all of this and various relationships are talked about. To quote Mia re: Grace's bar...it's boring.

But who cares? The renders are spectacular, and surely just like in SWM1 there will be a lot of hot scenes to carry you through! Right? Well, actually, no not really. There are a few competently done vanilla scenes with the gf and Cindy (zzzzz) and some hot flashbacks with the aunt. And that is pretty. much. it.

I'll probably stick with this game until the end, hoping it recaptures some of the magic from the early chapters of SWM1...but at the moment it couldn't be farther away.

(edit: I'm bumping this rating up one star for the ending to episode 4...I hope it's a sign of things to come, and that the previous chapters were just a SUPER slow burn.)

**ANOTHER SOLID OVERALL ADDITION TO THE DEV'S COLLECTION, BUT AN EFFORT THAT IS A STEP BELOW HIS OTHER ACTIVELY DEVELOPED GAME**

Assuming you aren't type to get hyper sensitive about the type of content lines a dev Incenton likes to walk in his games, who generally could care less about some people on f95's tendency to freak out over even the slightest strays away from a "MC as the sole center of it's universe" format formula he still more or less sticks to following, there is a lot to like here.

Story is a "2 years latter" continuation of the first game, and basically made a fairly simplified but well done transition with the game setting. Nothing new or grounding breaking, but with enough unique little individual twisted/tweaks that it still helps it stand out some from the rest of the same ol same game crowd. Written in clear english with a good natural flow to it, and which is obviously always much appreciated in a development genre mostly dominated by non-english devs.

From what I can rationally conclude up to this point the game basically seems to be aimed at branching out into 2 paths. One that aims at winning the central LI back as the love of your life, and one aimed at you continuing on with your "screw everyone around you" behavior that made her leave in the first game. I actually think he thus far has done an exceptional job of this as well. The underlying and ongoing tension presentation between the MC and Mia is about as perfectly done as it could be in one of these games (again, assuming one isn't going to be hyper sensitive the moment any LI in a game isn't swooning at their feet even when it's blatantly obvious that will still go on to change latter). As is the point the narrative makes to stress that by picking the "screw them all" options along the way you are basically being the sex only minded dog Mia thought you were when she left.

As typical of every Inceton game, the collection of girls in the game are a top notch quality and varied personality bunch. That of course goes a long way at generating various reasons to stay interested in playing as the story skips around between them. There is also a good amount of varied pacing with each, with a few fast tracked to full sex payouts and a few centered a lot more around slower burns.

Now all that said, and while not trying to be too critical on this over a game with 3 releases under it's belt, as a total sum I just found something...missing I guess in what should otherwise add up as a 5 star game for me. Not even sure what that is, I just know this game didn't grab my constant attention as much as his other game did when playing through that right before this one. Maybe it was what I felt as a downgrade in animation quality between the 2. Maybe it was this game's choice to essentially throw more of the payout scene sex at the player without as much buildup going in to it. But on a pure erotic measuring scale, I simply didn't find myself in an aroused state nearly as often while playing it. I also didn't play through the multiple nights it took me to get through the hours of content without taking a break to play something else I had bookmarked here (but wasn't exactly something that was a standout play choice for me either) before coming back to finish this, and which in itself says something about that too.

So all in all, this gets a solid 4 stars from me, and a recommended play from me. But if you haven't played his game EoL yet that would be worth the download and play before this one imo.

(Man I wanna give it a 4.5 but still)

I am officially flabbergasted by this, its like SWM x 5 better. Holy shit I remember recently finishing SWM & my impression of it was a good fap material plenty of sex with an interesting finale. But this 1 is on a whole another level:-
-The story man this time felt like was actually written by a real writer. Usually I would get bored somewhere & I'll start skipping text but here I was more interested in the story than anything else. Sure I'm not saying the story is a solid 10/10 cuz there r plenty of stupid instances like we all new his gf is gonna visit sooner or later but after her arrival I expected her stay to be for a few days (1 week at best) but then she wants to stay for the whole summer cuz she misses the MC with whom she'll be spending every other day of the year was a pretty lame idea just to spite Mia, similarly the aunt blaming her business failure on Freddie Mercury is also lame cuz what freddie did is exactly what any business man would do to gain an upper hand when they both r in the same business so instead of making the prehistoric bar into something of current gen she just sits in bar ordering Mia to wear revealing clothes to gain more attention
-I was very impressed with the MC I definitely hated him in the predecessor where he literally blackmails, drugs & rapes his own family members but this time he really matured & was my fav character throughout the story
-Fluid sex animations though not a lot this time around still this feels much more realistic & u will appreciate the well written story.
Got to give to the Dev I am really impressed with their work felt like it took a total 180 from their previous 1 & all the more better it is. Can't wait for the next chapter. Keep it up

At first glance it's a seemingly decent game with mostly realistic dialogues, the renders are pretty good while the animations are absolutely terrible, they just look clunky and mechanical with no smoothness to them atall.
The characters are so so, I think Mia, Sadie, Isla and Cindy are decent and so are the dialogues with them mostly, on the otherhand Gracie, Vivian and the MC himself are gamebreakingly bad.
Gracie dictates everything like she was in charge of every aspect of the MCs, Mias and even Sadies lives, saying who can go where and do what and who's not allowed constantly.
Vivian acts like a bitch from the get go and even though you get some options to treat her somewhat like she deserves you still have to lend her a key, take her constant bullshit and cover for her in regards to her sneaking in and throwing lesbian poolparties at your "tenants" house.
The MC is just spineless, selfdoubting 21 year old with a teenagers mentality and the numerous inner dialogues that make up a big part of the game will make you cringe!
Just want to kick him in the mangina, the options and dialogue makes any immersion or self insertion pretty much impossible unless you're a total whimp.

Storywise the "plot" is weak at best almost nonexistant, what little drama and twists there are seem fueled only by stupid characters or the spineless MC.
It doesn't really add anything but some dramatic dialogues to the game.

If you had some choices to react harshly towards any and all who treat the MC like shit and not just punch a guy or two who's insulting or wanting to rape a possible LI then that'd be great.
This formula for choices where you are a whimp towards all wimen but become mike tyson as soon as any male is in the picture is kinda dumb.

Anyways I'd give it a rating of 2,5 but we'll call it 3 for good measure.(for now)
Some effort has atleast gone into the game altough I feel like this developer almost always produce the same boring and tedious MC and mostly the same females and scenarios surrounding them in his games.
We'll see if the game improves or not, I sure hope so because I want a good ending for the whimp and Mia ^^ or maby just a bad ending where the MC, gracie and vivian die in some horrendous accident.

If you just want pretty renders Id recommend it, cant really give praise to any other aspect at this point, the prequel while flawed was definetly better.

Terrible game
Only good thing are renders except that guy that looks like freddie mercury He really looks bad with the stache
Mc is having sex with everyone except with the woman he wants the most : mia
no idea why this game is named summer with mia Would have been better named summer with hot girls
Story is just mc trying to convince mia he loves her
Was hoping this story would further develop the relationship mia and the mc But it just seems mia is not intrested anymore and suddenly mia has a boyfriend and mc a girlfriend

As a whole, I keep my rating for a 4, maybe 4.2

Girl
There is a small improvement in models quality compared to the previous game. While we can not really call it a personality, the girls are not one dimensional either, showing some qualities or treats along the way. Amazing. It was a pleasure to return to Mia and Grace and the newly introduced characters were good also. Cindy as a little slut, Isla as a milf in need of consolation. Giselle is amazing and I would love to see a corruption/NTR game with her.

Console
The voice is interesting, narating what act is following, but it did not worked for me. Also during sex scene you have 4 levels, from slow to fast that can not be changed in any ways. That brings a level of predictability to the sex scenes that I did not want and not a lot of value. The galery is not well organised and for some scenes are missing the intro part.

Story
I did not liked that the line of Cindy being a little slut was not followed properly. The same can be said about the dull sex with Mia, given what was already done in the past. There were few ideas that were introduced but not very well developed or that do not bring a lot to the story as a whole, for example the wresling competition. The end is a bit dissapoiting as you either end with Mia or a stud with some potential. I would had apreciated a
proper ending with the girlfriend Sadie. What is also a bit off is the fact that the girlfriend




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Feedback on ep 2

The game is a nice and continue the story of the first game.
What can I say about the story is that, even if it is not a top novel, it is better then the one presented in the first game (second episode has a small twist at the end also). The small flashbacs of Grace are a nice addition also

Girl wise, the renders are nice, I enjoy the body of all of them. One thing that I believe it can be improved is the face emotion: at the moment there are very basic and you can not tell if the girl is sad, angrey, happy etc.

On screen you do not have the move forward, skip option. While this might make the screen clean, it make it harder for a new player to find out how to skip a scene.

I also saw a small bug: first time Vivian decide to swim without a bra, in the second scene she appears with the bra.

If this game came out two or three years ago, it would have been 5 stars. The renders are still good, the setup is OK (I don't ask for much when it's an incest game anyway), but the story writing is just f*cking boring. With the amount of games being available nowadays, I really wonder who endures these painstakingly long intros with ZERO substance. It takes an eternity until the game takes up some speed and even then the writing in between the scenes is so god damn basic and pointless. It feels like I've read this type of writing a billion times already, and if it wasn't for the good impression the first game had on me (when the game was still rpg maker!) I probably wouldn't even bother with this type of game anymore.

This was a really nice update. I would love to see more choices with Mia that can make or break your progression with Mia or Sadie. The ending to Act 2 was a nice Suprise. I wonder how it will play out in future updates.

Review after finishing the game
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I loved this VN and I was on Mia's path only and with superb control denied every other interaction and always chose Mia I loved the ending and may play for maybe Sadie's path later or fuck all run later but for now I am happy with my run after playing through the chapter releases one after another. Okay then I loved this VN and now onto other games and book.

Review after playing first few chapters
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I had loved the first game and cried at the end and spent more than 10 hours trying to download the first episode and loved it and again cried and I enjoyed at the realistic interaction after all they have done everything together what else can they do and yeah let's see where does the story go something different should be done this time around after all both have PTSD from the first game. Again I loved the first game and loved this episode already played twice second time only saw the cringy interaction between MC and Mia. This time around so far he seems to have grown and doesn't seem like the asshole he was in the first game. Waiting for the next releases.

The game picks up right where the first one left off, it is nice seeing it in Renpy engine which imo is better, I am interested in seeing what the future updates have in store for the story, the characters so far seem interesting and looking forward to seeing how we make the bar over take the other bar.

Sex. 8/10
Story. 9/10
Renders. 9/10
Characters. 7.5/10

As always my ratings may change with more updates.

Loved Summer with Mia so much I even tried the original but just could not bring myself to keep playing it after I played the Ren’Py version.. Summer with Mia 2 is off to a great start. I cannot wait to see how the rest of it goes!!!

Will start supporting you on Patreon just because you brought back Summer with Mia, Flashbacks to the event between summer with mia 1 and 2 would be a great idea to connect both timelines and there is a lot of content that can be reviewed between those 2 years, flashbacks to the first game was a nice addition and more of them, please.