VN - Ren'Py - Reunion [v0.70 New] [Karabinek]

Truth be told I quite liked this in the past but nowadays not so much.
It's quite bland really. Not a bad game per se but there's nothing special about it either.

The visuals are good enough and as long as that's what you're looking for, you can go for it.
There is good variety in kinks showed and the gameplay is pretty simple so it's not one of these games where you need to weave through a walkthrough just to get 1 scene out of 30.
There is a quite a big amount of content so congrats to the dev on that front !
Don't bother with the story, well at least that's my opinion. Some people may very well like it.

Overall I'd say Reunion is the epitomy of an average game.
No strong or weak feature remarkable enough to make this game a classic or a nightmare.

The long-awaited remaster to v.060 has underlined the best and worst aspects of this alpha VN. The eye-candy is sweeter than ever. All the girls dress like hookers, and all of them can't wait to get their hands (etc) on the MC, even the ones who say otherwise. Long hours have been put into pimping up the visuals, including new animations. If only a comparable level of talent had served the script, which descends to bad porn-novel descriptions ('ribbed tunnel' &c) during sex scenes, as though dialogue comes extra. Our super-chad MC has an unlikely thing for pussy-licking. The story is neither better nor worse nor more ridiculous than countless others around here. The balance between romance and dominance is fun. But the script...

If you are loking for a good story then this is not for you.

The first couple of chapter where acually good in terms of story and plot and girls. But after the harem starts, then the further you go, the more you just have to turn off your brain in order for the game to make sens( if at all).

The girls locks good and they have some sort of diffreny personality at least in the start. But they way they act around the mc later on (faling in love after 1 scene) is stupid and it schould at least be a little harder to get them in your harem and maybe have them fight each other and have some backstaping shit drama to make it interesting.

So like i say if you turn off your brain and just accept that the girls are "one of a kind" then you can go on and follow the story. However the story was good in the start and now its kinda meh.

i give in a 3 but only because the game was good in the beginning and the girls locks good, but for me a good story is more inportant then the sex/girl relationship. If it is a good story and a good buildup then the sex will be so mutch more rewarding, but i get it. Some ppl only want the sex and just use the "skip" and for them this game is a 6

Review at the time of .55.

There's a decent amount of content. Maybe 8-10 hours? Lots of dialogue in the early part of the game though towards the end of the content that's available the sex scenes pick up in frequency a bunch as well as begin adding animations.

It's okay. It's a harem story that asks you not to think too hard as to why every girl you meet is willing to share you with other girls but remain faithful to you after only days of knowing them. Which is fine, these games are fantasy and that's why I personally play them. For the fantasy.

The girls for the most part are attractive though there literally at this point two dozen girls introduced as LI's and there really is next to no diversity of body types. Dev is clearly a fan of big tits to the point of the least endowed women that have borderline D cups complaining about having small tits and being self conscious of them.

The story is fine. Nothing special but just enough for me to suspend belief here and there to keep going.

My biggest gripe is legitimately the MC. He just looks like a schlub and he gets these horrible faces of anger throughout the story where if anyone actually saw someone in real life making that face, they would never want to be in the same room as that person again.

Also, there is a scene where the MC is driving and it says he missed his exit off of a road and slams on his breaks. Someone rear ends him because he slammed on the breaks in the middle of the road and the Dev/MC makes it out to be the person that rear ended him's fault. Like fucking what dude? I almost lost it. I almost had road rage at my computer desk with my dick in my hand. Completely tainted the MC in my eyes and I'm only half joking.

Just going to end the review at that I guess.

The game felt a waste of time, to be honest. The branching felt non-existent. The abuse content felt misplaced. Overall the harem concept feels kind of forced, un-natural.

During the gameplay, I couldn't shake off the feeling that the MC is an asshole and his actions are highly irrational.

It's a pity, because clearly the effort invested in visuals is very impressive.

I wish best of luck to the dev and I hope the next game to have a deeper script, as well as a more natural human interaction.

It's not the worst game ever, but god damn it's not good either. Here's why:

1. Terrible writing. Ignoring the total lack of spellcheck and the hundreds of grammatical errors, the writing is unnatural, stiff, and unrealistic. The narrative voice honestly is worse than machine generation: sterile, zero passion, the same descriptions over and over and over again. Clitoris this, clitoris that, sperm this, clitoris, sperm, and oh yeah, the all time great: ribbed tunnel.

2. Plot is fucking retarded. There should be an option for Linda in particular to just shoot her in the fucking face. She is a terrible waste of humanity but the MC never gives her anything but sexual punishment. Literally, just shoot and dump her in the woods. There is nothing satisfying about giving her orgasms.

2b. MC shoots this guy in the back while he's about to rape a woman, the police show up etc. A couple days later this guy is back on the street, perfectly healthy, and tries to kill MC. What? The? Fuck?

2c. All the "bad people" are just comically bad. Irredeemably awful. None of them should have any redemption or punishment arcs, all of them without fail should be shot on sight.

3. Every day there are new bitches to add to the harem. For no reason. Just more and more and more and more and they all look identical. All but one or two have the same vagina with the same stupid landing strip pubes. They all have that shiny, alien asshole like every other bimbo in AVNs. They all have cowtits with nipples that point upwards, even the two that are supposed to have "small breasts."

4. MC behaves like a child. Irrational outbursts, failing to notice bad people, inability to do anything but plow women. He's an army veteran and has a big company, and they have guns. None of this should be a challenge to solve. He should just kidnap the bad people, torture a confession, and shoot them. Instead this story drags over seven or eight hours and he continues to whine about "oh this mystery is so complicated wah wah." It's not. It's simple. The only thing wrong here is that the dev wants to milk this for years, because not one single thing has been solved. Each day, along with adding more bimbos with cowtits, adds another layer of "mystery" on to this dumb story. Also he is extremely ugly with an idiotic haircut.

If I sound angry, it's because this game made me salty. It's 27gb and has been in development for almost three years, yet none of it is worth playing because there is zero narrative resolution yet. It's just more and more problems, more and more bimbos, and more le super ebil villains who never get properly punished.

Avoid. The only revenge stories worth experiencing are the ones you can take proper and satisfying measures against the perpetrators. Giving them orgasms is not satisfying. Either give the bad people dynamic backstories or give the MC a way to violently remove them.

While there are little nits here and there with this story and some consistency, the level of detail this story has considering all the various characters and LIs is phenomenal and more than makes up for the shortcomings here and there.

I also really enjoy the overall story and its general depth. It is not following the normal stories you see around here. It has interesting storylines beyond the LIs and keeps a certain mystery to it.

Graphics and animations are easily 5 star. I like the mix of stills and animation to provide more context to a scene other than some weird flailing legs of some games.

Story is 5 star due to being a bit more original and having tons of depth.

Writing takes a hit due to some inconsistency here and there, some grammar errors here and there, etc.

Over all I would rating this around a 4.5. The story pushes it to that.

This game is not perfect by any means, but it still deserves a better score than it currently has.

Some of the more noticeable problems are that some scenes are just too dark to where you can barely see what's happening. Thankfully there's not too many of these but when it happens it's certainly jarring.

Also sometimes the eyes of character seems to be staring out into space or in weird directions.

And the game could certainly do with more sounds and music. Nothing too overdone, just a bit would be perfect.

But I don't understand so many of the complaints the game gets.

The MC isn't superpowered at all, he's just ex-military so that he can beat up some random thugs isn't unbelievable at all. Why he gets all the girls is another matter but honestly if you can't accept that as just necessary to get the story going, why are you interested in a harem game to begin with?

And even then girls are neither falling head over heels nor are they abandoning their convictions just to be with the MC. Some girls that real character growth for them to realize what they actually want. There's genuinely only one girl who expresses having real concerns with being in an open relationship and she has her own very real problems going on and she and the MC has a heartfelt discussion about it and lays all the cards in the open.

If anything this is one of those games that has a genuinely very healthy outlook on having an open relationship and is very consistent on how it's about openness, trust and honesty. None of the actual love interests are bullied, fooled or forced into anything. The facts are presented to them genuinely and they're free to make their own decision.

Now there are some none-love interest girls who are handled via coercion and other means, but in every case that's a result from how they begun by treating the MC and his family, so IMO it's well deserved.

Honestly what got me staying in this game more than anything was the cast of characters, some you love to hate, some you learn to love and others you just love from the get go.

Is it always perfectly believable? No, it's called fiction.

Would like to give a 4.5/5 but I'm rounding up to a 5/5.

Game is average at best.. initially the game looks amazing with the introductions of the love interests and all, but as the game progresses it is evidently clear that nothing makes sense here.. logic is out of question.

The MC is some kind of alpha male gigachad Johnny Sins type motherfucker. theres nothing he cant do.. People get charmed just by meeting him instantly. and the most stupid thing I find is his excuse of a harem. He's already living in an open relationship with 2 girls at the beginning of the game. Most of the LI we meet later have problems with an open relationship / harem, and reject him, but then he goes on to give the most outrageous excuse like " hey I've been already living in an open relationship and it works.." and the girl will be like " Oh really?? fuck that im in.."

It also seems his brain is situated in his dick, he will hire any female from the streets to work in his company without giving a single fuck. Most girls throw themselves at him including the sisters. and i also love how he includes all his harem girls in the planning meetings, like for fucks sake they don't possess any brain cells.

It's very clear that this game has the story constructed around characters, and not that the characters are developed as per the story.

v0.55 review -
A good Harem game with a nice thriller mystery story and good looking female models and MC isn't an idiot unlike most games . And there is variety of fetishes like romance , corruption , some bdsm and threesome involving harem girls . No annoying sandbox , it's pretty much choice based VN and unlike others I didn't encounter any big or error in my playthrough maybe cause I played harem route . But overall 5 stars for me , looking forward to next release .

The models are hot and there are lots of them. The animations are good and the renders a great!

The plot seems a little re-used but it's tried and true for a reason. MC moves back home after a decade and takes over his family... you know the rest. I'm taking off just 1 star because I feel like more could have been done in this regard but it is a small criticism and did not affect my enjoyment of the game.

The writing is very good with spelling errors few and far between. This can't be overlooked and taken for granted, unfortunately.

There's corruption, romance, some rough-play, some fighting and gun stuff, and of course a harem of beautiful women that can be creampie'd - or not. I hope we can knock some of them up and can't wait to see what we get to do with Linda and Ming. This is one of my new favorite games!

A good plot with better writing than you see in a lot of V/Ns. I disagree with some comments I've seen saying that the reconciliation between the sister and the MC happened too fast. They didn't actually hate him, they were just hurt that he left. Once he started helping him and they found out why he left I wasn't surprised they all wanted to mend their relationship. Especially with Lisa pushing for it.

The models look good although you have a choice between big boobs and even bigger boobs, nothing in the small to medium range. Even one thay call small or medium really isn't, just not as big as some of the others. Variety is the spice of life. fortunately they aren't the unrealistic balloon boobs and oversized asses so that's a bonus. I've never understood why some Devs prefer their models to look cartoonish rather than realistic, both male and female.

It was nice they let you choose to keep Lisa'a long hair, I think she's more attractive than with the pixie cut.

There were a lot of image not found messages and a couple of unexpected error messages. I tried using that image fix patch but nothing came of it. I'm not sure why it has an incest tag, maybe for the sisters but they haven't done much with each other as yet.

It's definitely worth a play through and I look forward to updates.

PROS
- Good renders I guess, but its using very generic daz models with default presets resulting in models that you'll probably think are similar to many other titles.
- Finally the game is being compressed (something many devs do from the get-go, but it's okay, this is progress, he is learning).

CONS
- You can tell that the creator wanted to make a porn game and the 'plot' was just an afterthought. Very cliche 'coming back to my family home' incest game where you fuck all your female relatives. Empty plotlines, super fast paced relationships (goin from being 'strangers' to 'fuckbuddy thats in my harem now' real quick) and the dialogue """choices""" are not really choices as they have no significant impact upon the direction of the story.
- Inconsistent writing. How did the girls go from hating MC to falling on his dick the next second. Where is the character development? transition from hate to love?
- This is type of game you'd think was sponsored by the guy directing porno scenes for Brazzers. Predictable/cheesy/robotic dialogues and bimbo females with horrible blown up proportions - huge tits, huge ass, zero brain cells.
- No branching storylines or character routes. Just a kinetic harem game where MC is fucking everyone. At the very least, you'd think you could at least reject a girl you dislike (something even the most kinetic of kinetic VNs do) but NOPE. Game pretends you fucked her anyway and she is in now your harem. Deal with it.

Well...
The good:
Renders,Animations are ok.
The woman are hot!

The bad:
ALL girls are BI-LESBIAN! WTF! And you start with 2 forced BI-LESBIAN "Girlfriends". Its a horror for me.
Choices? What choices? You must fuck all. Because its the dev will. Hey dev mark your "game" as KN.

Exempt the renders its the worst game i ever played.

This is like satire of the genre.

The girls all have bimbo dialogue and throw themselves at the MC, even worse they all have alien proportions that look like a botched-surgery documentary and nobody ever wears clothes that cover anything, in any setting.


All of those negatives are issues in many other Adult VNs too, but this one does it over the top, the characters are caricatures.

Pros:
Alright story

Models are good

Cons:
Inconsistent characters: Some of the LIs will hate one person one moment and completely trust them in 1 minute. Makes no sense. Game will say character(s) are straight, but they will then turn lesbian in a second.

Forced scenes with characters you reject

Bugs: There are a bugs that have been in the game for multiple versions but have not been fixed yet. Multiple parts of the game are not usable without outside fixes

Large game size

False choices: You cannot reject some LIs even though the choices would make it seem like you could; you get many scenes and/or dialogue that contract previous choices.


If the dev had the choices be meaningful , fixed the bugs that have been persistent across multiple version, and made the character more consistent with what has been in game already, it would be a good game, but unfortunately, there are too many problems for me to recommend.

I really tried to give this one a thorough go but found that the style of writing had me going into the menu and turning on skip unseen text. The time sequencing issues in the writing were baffling that I had to question whether the dev actually proof read anything or just went on a wild tangent of how to make it increasingly stupid and outrageous.
For me this game is not worth the download because of it's insane package size even the compressed version.

I would like to give this 5 stars but really can't. While this does have a decent story and the women are extremely HOTT but this game has to many problems. For one Missing images. It has image fix but the link to that is messed up also there is a bug loop towards the end of content that you need a bug fix for. I added the bug fix for the loop and now i can't open the game for some reason. The dialog in this game seems to formal almost robotic at times. And another thing is the download itself is crazy there is like 3 different Downloads you need to piece together your self to play when it should only have 2. One for the whole game and one for an update if you already have full game. This is a mess, if the dev would fix the bugs and put all the game together for us to download all in one down load i would give this maybe 4 stars 5 if he would make the dialog less formal/robotic. also the amount of sex scenes needs to increase theres not to many also the animations are not really that good to slow. another negative is lack of choices feels to linear.

I would like to have given this game three stars for the great art and for the story but because of the "choices" that completely mess up the story, two stars is the best it can get at the moment.

The story is interesting and would be really great if it sadly didn't lack commitment, at the start the MC hates some characters and dislikes the rest quite rightly so but that is quickly forgotten and he suddenly becomes there best friend(even when you choose the opposite choices) then starts helping those same people right away, even the main "bad guy" gets off very lightly
The female characters are pretty good although a little standard and with a body style all quite on the busty side for those that like that, while the MC seems good at the start he later turns out to be a very poorly written character given we are to believe he runs his own successful company but he is dumb enough to believe everything said to him at face value(he never checks anything), again at the start he seems strong but devolves into a white knight simp at light speed.

Choices are by far the worst part of this game, if they actually worked and the characters followed through on them then this game could have been amazing but sadly they don't as almost all story ones are completely ignored then the main story carries on as if you took the other choice even referencing things that happened in the choice you didn't take which gets confusing as you have no idea what they are, other problems are parts of the game are out of order like how MC somehow knows about
You cant reject any of the main girls, i did a normal play through and a full rejection one and got the same women both times

Story 1/5 (confusing due to broken choices)
Sex 4/5 (quite good)
Characters 3/5 (standard busty girls)
Art 4/5 (good)
Choices 0/5 (the worst)
Kinks 1/5 (no major ones)

Review of v0.5a
If "harem" is your #1 fetish, this is the game for you! Up until now, this is the best game/VN (more VN than game, in this case) to go up this harem rabbit hole in a concise and structured way. A lot of dialog is around the consensual harem/polygamy/"open relationship" idea and, TBH, it is a lot less cringe than you could imagine!
The women are some of the best and beautiful 3D models around, and the MC will have the opportunity to have relationships (and fuck) with most of them.
This is one of those VNs (for my taste, of course) that you want to spend time reading and following the story, not just skipping dialog to the next FAP scene.
Speaking of sex scenes, they are mostly static, although there are still several animations. However, even the static scenes are very well rendered and the dialog that goes with them helps make everything sexy AF.
I know I should give one less star because there is no sound or special effects, but I just can't: the hours I spent with the game so far were certainly worthy of 5 stars!
Let's just hope the dev can continue to work on this until the end of the story.