VN - Ren'Py - Reunion [v0.75] [Karabinek]

Nice looking renders and some beatiful female models. hardly any animations though.

The MC is all over the place in attitude and not consistent towards the different women in this story.
Several of the girls are having trouble with men (stalker, abuse,...) and to these he is sweet and caring. But then he acts like a blackmailer or abuser himself towards other girls (example: Jennifer who drives against his car, he basically blackmails her when she wants to avoid calling the police).

The characters of the main women are lacking severaly, pretty one-dimensional and boring).

Don't play this if you are looking for a good story or developped characters, cause it just ain't there.

Nicely drawn (rendered) models. But the story is confusing. Needs a built-in walkthrough. Having to look throughout this thread are a pain to locate.

[By the way, having to write 200 character review is also a pain, but that is an F95zone fault.]

Props to the graphics and the renders, some of the girls are are awesome.
Jennifer, Khloe and Kayla are my top 3 I think. Kendra is fine too.

Technically, I'm not going to complain about the fact that you can have all the scenes in one play/save.

But storywise, it's more challenging at some point, in a realistic way, and you can't immerse very well because of this.
The plot himself is fine, tracking an human-traffic business which you're relatively involved is an somewhat an appealing story.

But for me, having an MC who seems to be the greatest and flawless men
who ever lived, in a world where there is not a single another men who can be something else than an asshole is difficult to keep it a certain excitement for.
The pattern is now very clear, we advance a little bit for reaching the bad guys, by saving one or 2 girl on the process, and you get a rewards by got her/them in your harem.

Obviously it's a fantasy than most people can have, but sometimes respect that fantasy meticulously like just that, impact the quality of a story you want to tell,and I think that's what we got.

The renders are great, good quality, decent lighting etc.

Unfortunately the story stinks, it is absolutely awful. MC is a stereotypical Marty Sue with zero originality, development or character. He faces no challenges. As soon as a challenge is presented, its resolved.

All the other characters are 2D cut-outs of a 2D cut-out. They are just incredibly derivative., and there are far too many of them. The dev doesn't have the capacity to do them all justice, and in trying he does none of them justice. None of them have any real personality, its just a procession of guy meets girl, girl jumps on guy's cock, and now she can't do without him, the end.

Even AI would improve the quality of this story.

The number of girls should be reduced by at least half and the time saved focused on more renders and more story about the remaining girls. Introduce an actual story arc for each character. Make the story actually mean something, instead of the current situation, which is just a succession of women falling on the MC's cock, while any problem is just being solved around him.

Severely disappointing because the girls look really good, but it would as well have been a slide show of the girls with zero text for all the story adds.

Started with the 0.70 Version I downloaded month ago. The Story gets very interesting, if you get more in the game and the progress. Then I discovered the is a 0,75 Version so I changed on that version. Had in 0.70 some minor Bugs which were gone in 0.75. Most of the girls are very georgeous but some look the same so you have to read the names so see if it is the one other other girl like Anya and Kate. There are also a walkthrough mode you can enable if you want, which could help by some decisions. Back to the story at the moment from my point of view there is a lot of story to programm and hope for more twist and turns like Mr C. The only minor thing i don't like by this harem game is there is a lot of girls which have no real interesting story and they fall in love with you right away because you saved them from a dungeon or cellar where they were mishandled. Which should have been very traumatising. But know she is alright and want to be with you forever. Makes not much sense. Ok you can choose if you want the one or other in your family but which guy will would not test all the girls if you know what i mean. Hope to see more of this game in the future and please dont abandoned. it. Wishlist more submissive stuff with the submissive girls and keep the story rolling every day with some action scenes and pissing of Ming. 4 of 5 stars

This game might very well be the pinnacle of harem games, with a great story to boot

You have an MC who's arrived in town to settle his late father's affairs, reuniting with father's scheming ex-wife and the three stepsisters who he'd left behind. Add to that an underworld organisation making waves for him and his family, his PTSD from his past in the military, wanting to find out how and why his mother disappeared, and number of women who want to get to know him better, and you have a pretty solid game

There's plenty to like about this game. Great dialogue, intriguing and beautiful women who have no qualms about sharing MC, tons of suspense, mystery, blackmail., violence and romance. And the sex. There's plenty of h-scenes, too. Whether you're here just for those or to take in the story, too, you won't be disappointed

One small issue is that as the number of women that the MC adds to his harem grows, the amount of "screen time" that each woman gets runs the risk of getting reduced drastically; for instance, MC promised Sandra that Isabella could stay with them, but it took two updates to get there. A second issue is that there are a few errors in the game which, for some reason, the dev absolutely refuses to fix

I'd still wholeheartedly recommend this game to anyone who's looking for a good storyline, or just to anyone who's into harem games. Just awesome

The story in this AVN is actually pretty good. It has some mystery and foreshadowing to future events that keep it interesting. I also enjoyed the cast of characters and how the building of the harem takes place. Not too many harem AVN's I really enjoy, and I like the different approach to this one, it separates it from the cardboard cutouts that make it generic and about sex rather than built around the story.

The models are beautiful, but the dialog really takes away from their personalities. Writing dialog requires a different approach from narration, or it just sounds robotic and lifeless. Pay attention to how people in real life speak, also helps to read it out loud until it sounds natural. Use contractions, figures of speech, punctuation (comma or ellipse for pause, exclamation point for excitement) and spell out sounds a certain character makes (ah, eh, hmm, sigh). Just makes a world of difference between what could be a 2 star poor AVN to a 5 star excellent story.

The last thing is the MC (Man-Child?). It's a little confusing as he is suppose to be this intelligent guy who started his own successful business, and inherits a very successful business, and seems like a calm and collected ex-millitary guy, but at any sign of trouble or if things don't go his way he becomes a complete lunatic, his faces contorts into pure rage when he is suppose to be a little upset over something minor, looks and acts like a man-child as he throws tantrums like a 5 year old spoiled brat. It's confusing, uncomfortable, and it makes no sense. Maybe he's bi-polar or has PTSD that isn't explained properly?

I really wanted to give this a better rating, but the MC behavior needs to be more in line with his character and the dialog needs a little life breathed into it, and a little thought put into things. The story and dialog has contradictions within itself, which is usually the case with a 1st draft and no plan. I mean in one scene the MC stresses the importance of honesty, then straight up lies to the girls, then accidentally tells the truth to someone else while they are next to him, lol, who wrote this? With some thorough edits though it could easily go to a 4 or 5 star AVN.

As much as I wanted to like this game and it's okay story and characters, it just god damn refused to give more than 4 sex scenes. And I don't mean there aren't many sex scenes, but that they are the same damn thing with different models. Oral, vagina, anal or a group scene. Every fetish outside of those this game caters to is in the dialogue between the sex scenes

When the game was JUST about to get good with something spicy, EVEN THAT turned into just vanilla sex. And by that point (took me several hours) I was already done with it it.

In short, unless you like oral, vaginal, anal or group scenes with more characters than you'll ever be able to keep track off, don't even bother. At least the renders are good, but even then, just do anything else. One of the biggest wastes of potential I've seen from a visual novel.

Look, I know you have to suspend realism for any harem game. But this is so ludicrous I couldn't even do that. I am almost impressed that the game could have so many beautiful girls and yet I have no desire to see any of them in a sex scene. It's because they're the plot equivalent of hookers: there's no development of chemistry with any of them, so it all feels faked like a hooker pretending to be turned on. And the story is equally bad: if you find you can follow the plot while skipping 90% of the dialogue scenes, it's time to reevaluate why you're even playing it- I didn't skip at first, wanting to give it a fair chance, but about 1/3 of the way though I started mashing the Ctrl button. Has the dev ever dated a woman, ever? Seems like no.

Sad to say, but don't bother with this one. There's no fixing it at this point.

Ugh game.

Kind of a click bait tag. (incest) Mc isn’t related to any of them. (or so far as I got)

Forced love interests ruin it as well. You have a few choices but a lot are still forced
on you.

Having several women to choose from is great...but since some are forced it ruins the game. Women throw themselves at the mc… There are game choices but they don’t seem to matter too much.

Repeating the same story to everyone...even 2 of the 3 ‘main’ girls and they act surprised each time. I mean, it’s just padding and after reading the same text over and over and over it gets really repetitive and old.

Some spots that don’t make sense...ie...One moment you are in a relationship w someone and the next day you’re not as she acts surprised and not ready to have sex w you ‘again’ for the first time…??

Boring looking characters...sort of….I mean, pretty and all, but there’s nothing special about them given the huge 50Gb file size.

Boring story line. Part is for revenge and there are several places that make sense to take action but you don’t have the option in the game. It won’t let you. In fact...one of the main ones the mc hates… she yells at him, curses him, hits him, over and over….All you can do is tell her she better not do that anymore…really boring…..

a decent game until it comes to resolving conflict
mc i: hate you
girl : oh i am sorry UwU
mc : i will orgasm you 3 times and this is bad thing ! i am mean !
girl : ok mc i love you may i worship the ground you walk on
LINDA ARC IS DO DOGSHIT i bet most people quit there

⠀⠀Alright, why is there a smoking toggle at the beginning? No way it's because there was some kind of public outrage in regards to presence of cigarettes, right? It just seems so silly to me.
⠀⠀How do you know a VN is made by an amateur? Right at the start a choice that leads to an immediate gameover - a classic.
⠀⠀Every woman has the same body type of a supermodel and zero skin imperfections. It's nigh impossible to approximate their age by observation, 20 y/o and 40 y/o look almost identical. Everyone has big tits. Look, I love my ample bosoms as much as the next guy, but the golden rule still applies - you gotta strike the balance, otherwise there will be no novelty or excitement.
⠀⠀If we're talking about how well they're written, well, most of them fall for MC at the first sight, as if he cast some attraction spell, so probably not that well. Some even have a bipolar disorder as it seems. One moment they say or think one thing and next they enact the exact opposite. There are 30+ love interests in total and author has no time to develop most of them any further that initial impressions, so what happens is they know each ofther for couple of days (some even less than that) and already swear eternal love and loyalty to each other.
⠀⠀MC is a Gary Stue. He's already wealthy, well-connected, stronger than Bruce Lee, fights like an MMA champion and has two girlfriends by default. He can do no wrond, everything goes his way and he irradiates alpha male hormones that women just cannot resist. He's also basically the only man in the region, all other men exist solely as his punching bags.
⠀⠀The main plot is kinda stupid and mainly serves as an excuse to meet new girls, but it's at least entertaining. And the dialogue while often serviceable, sometimes is something else, really. Tommy Wiseau would be proud.
⠀⠀MC hastily runs away from his home and family because his father's girlfriend threatened to accuse him of killing his friend? Really? She's literally got no proof! That's not how it works!
⠀⠀MC explains in detail why he left home to different characters at least 5 times. He and other characters also recite recent events to each other all the damn time. Especially in MC's head. I'm tired to sit there and go through him reiterating the same thought over and over. Are we ramping up word count or the author is just that oblivious? There is generally way too much yapping, including topics totally unrelated to any of the girls, which does seem like intentional padding.
⠀⠀The evil human trafficking syndicate couldn't find MC with all their spies and connections for almost 2 weeks, but a pair of journalists that came from another town found him almost instantly without an effort.
⠀⠀Anyways, I can keep going with examples all day long, but suffice to say the writing in this novel is subpar. Hardly anything seems believable and most answers raise even more questions.
⠀⠀Game is completely silent. Not even royalty-free library main menu theme.
⠀⠀Animations are suparare and even then they're either poorly made (extremely slow, jerky loop and lack amplitude) or are store bought assets. Sex scenes are alright. What I find annoying is that everyone completely undresses everytime before intercourse. There is light SM dynamic with a couple of characters but otherwise there is no spice in the sex.
⠀⠀Renders are mostly ok, mostly. Sometimes they are poorly compressed and show artifacts, other times the scenes are so dim, you'd have to turn up your gamma to see anything (I did download the "low quality" version, but it's still unacceptable). Often backgrounds lack props/fidelity. Sometimes image on the screen does not match text description.
⠀⠀Dumbed down to the absolute low binary choice system: it's either + point / nothing changes, pursue / end relationship, or cum inside / outside. And that's it, that's all you get to choose from. Author couldn't come up with anything better, than making you choose to complement women's looks everytime they meet to increase their affection, it seems like you get 80% of "love points" with girls by simply saying "You're beautiful", if only it was that simple irl.

⠀⠀This VN is very similar in nature to some other ones, the names of which I cannot mention because of a stupid review policy on this forum. Let's say the one where you take the role of a rising basketball player, or the one where you live with your grandmother to name a few. So if you're a fan of those, then this title will be right up your alley. I'd probably rate this a 3 for decent porn and power fantasy, but as development went on, writing detereorated quickly. I mean the bar wasn't high to begin with, but now it really sank below what is acceptable - a mixture of excruciatingly boring and embarrassingly bad.

Truthfully, it's more like a 3.5.

Reunion is a good example of a VN that needed to start with a plan and follow it through. It's been in production for 5 years, but the creator keeps coming up with new ideas and scenarios at the expense of everything that's been previously established. It's already got a massive cast but it keeps adding more characters, all while letting the main plot spin its wheels. At some point, you need to focus on what you've got and save the new stuff for your next project, and Reunion passed that point six or seven versions ago.

You've also got to take time out to appreciate the MC, who hits every point on the escapist-character checklist without slowing down. He's rich, successful, a trained soldier up against small-time hoodlums, hung like a fire hydrant, and exists in a universe where 90% of the other humans on Earth are sexually available nymphomaniac supermodels. His only character flaw is that he occasionally gets too angry to function, which his small army of lovers does not see as a bright red flag. John Ringo is taking notes.

I still download each new version as soon as I see it, because frankly, it's decent porn. Everything around the porn is hilariously overwrought, but the porn is good, and that's what we're here for. Reunion could stand to wrap it up, though, and to take itself just a little less seriously.

I'm not writing about the MC and on how many LI's there are.

1) Story: The First 14 days (In-game days) were good, days 15 -17 not so much until the very end of day 17 writer finally gets back on point with the plot.

2) Renders: Good

3) LI's Model's: Good

4) Choices: Doesn't Matter LI's are on rails anyway (Good our Bad Choices picked).

5) Sex Scenes: Up to day 15 Scenes could end by the readers (players) Choice. Now the sex scenes are pathetic kinetic novel bullshit, with a pregnancy point tracker that makes no sense now, when the tracker was for the readers (players) Early on, to control which LI's pregnancy's they want.

6)When writers go down this road with Pregnancy, doing the Kinetic Novel Route Sex Scene Bullshit (automatic creampies) , it's not a game anymore that gives control it's wasting my time more than anything else.

Last, to me the writer is rushing to get done, I mean this is a rewrite after all, I believe doing Sex Scenes in Kinetic Novel forum, when a lot of work has been done with choices, is cutting corners (Lazy Production).
I'm pretty much done with writers that gain support using con artist tactics.

The story at first seems like revenge ball, but the biggest flaw of this game is the amount of girls it has, which in my opinion is an exaggeration since with so many characters there is not enough time to develop them all. In addition, the game already starts badly with the MC dating two girls, and the justification for this is ridiculous. A good harem cannot have more than ten girls, and in this one there are many more than that, so much so that the player gets lost with so many characters. I don't believe how an ugly MC like this would get as many girls as he does. The impression you get from this is that the developer doesn't know how to work with the girls he has and to compensate for this he keeps adding more and more, and look, this is very common. Anyway, this game here could be a good harem game, but it fails precisely in the character development part and in the exaggeration with girls.

The beginning was good, great even if Im honest but the longer I played the game, it was getting worse and worse. BIG problem for me that is WAS a story driven VN but now it is nothing more then a girl/women collecting game with not much story behind the caracters. The harem is so big that I almost dont remember all the girls anymore. Really a shame because this VN started great.

This game is terrible

first of all

the women are souless, i know it is a game but even i can draw a shit with more emotions that this empty looking models, my god

this is just bad, they are hot? yeah they have good bodies, but doesn t mean anything without a face with emotions

the game size if you want to play it good is 52gb and again, i can draw a shit better looking that this shit, the renders are NORMAL , my god what a scam

the story is somewhat interesting but it loses all the stuff and intrigue when you are jumping between 654654 girls, with empty chats, every woman being in love with the MC or hating him, same patron always nobody gives a shit about mc, is A or B.

i can continue but it is a waste of time, another MC DONALDS of the porn game, fast food,


good bodies, BAD GAME god i fucking loath this shit

While the game may have some charm for certain players, the MC model feels off-putting from the start. The character design and personality just don't seem to resonate well, and it’s hard to connect with them on a deeper level. The overall vibe feels very reminiscent of a pure Harem game, which might appeal to fans of that genre, but for others, it might come across as a bit one-dimensional.


The writing also leaves much to be desired. It’s mediocre at best, with dialogue and storytelling that fail to elevate the experience. There's a lack of depth in both the plot and character development, which makes it harder to stay engaged or invested in the game. It feels like potential was missed in terms of creating a more compelling narrative.


Overall, while it might attract a specific audience, this game may not offer much for those looking for more dynamic characters or an engaging story.

V0.75

as someone who had almost a decade long relationship with two women, much like the MC, except they were both more sub and very much in love with each other, i do wonder why some MC's are not eunuchs.

instilling fear through aggression and threats, choking and brutality? all stick and very likely to end with a slit throat while asleep once that hatred has festered.
here i expect a girl to bite through, not blow.
so few can actually write the carrot.
why would any woman submit to a lack of trust? or respect? long term it will turn sour. it has a poor foundation to build on.

rest of the game is pretty good. clearly just a big fuck-a-thon with a decent enough story pulling along. apart from the above, it delivers enough for a spank bank. visually pleasing if you like the over-slide design artistically.

some coding flaws as even before starting i found an error just trying to look at one of the girls gallery pages. i then hit a few more during play, but oddly not on a choice, just open read. no mods or anything added so no idea why.

characters can be a little 2d and the MC has that magic cock that forgives all sins (or just kills braincells....you decide) like in many other games so the heavy sex focus is not unnatural, just the lack of lesbian content or females interaction with each other during multi scenes is a little immature in design.
the youngest was well into her elder at one point. that disappeared into the ether...

plenty to like and plenty of inconsistencies (so many u-turns i have no clue which way i am facing anymore and it's night) make for that middle option.....or did i just choose that to show how unlike steam this site is? you decide

In my opinion, narrative can be improved. The story feels cobbled together. It's like the characters are reading lines from a script and lack of emotions . Progress of relationships is a little bit fast but as the game is adult game it seems normal . MC is supposed to be this compelling figure, this part really requires improvement on the other hand not all the players are brad pitt. The characters themselves are an issue. The women, in particular, feel like caricatures. Although they all have background summary (including some typos on the text) personality detail requires more attention maybe in the future some options. It's a classic case of "every woman wants him," general approach of clasical adult game..Visually, while the renders are technically proficient. The characters have a doll-like quality and clothing requires a little more attention the story timeline might require more detail to ease understanding.

The renders and animations are, undeniably, well-executed. The visuals are certainly the game's strongest asset.

I also think the core story premise, the mystery surrounding the MC's past, has potential. It's clear that a lot of work went into the game's development. And, for some players, the early inclusion of sex scenes will be a plus, I also recognize that some players might appreciate the MC's dominant personality. It's a matter of taste, but I can see how that archetype would appeal to certain audiences and lastly lack of sound and better animations might significantly improve the game play.

Summary
Fast sex scene advancements with story
some typo mistakes
Preg, love point and summary of characters exist.
Very good image quality and tremedous effort

Animation can be improved
Voice and story can be improved.

Keep up team, thank you for your effort looking forward to next