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

Review as of 0.45
What a wonderful game. Figured I would start with that. There are some little quirks here and there, but the story, the graphics, then animations are all really good.

Story / Characters
For me, I am not one that is all about the FAP per word kind of Adult VN reader. I love the story. With that in mind this story is great. Has plenty of twists and turns and has a lot of parallel side stories that are all intertwined and done very well. The main characters all have very good backstories, once you get into them. Gives much more depth and connection to the characters.

Game Elements
The game elements are not super deep, but they are enough to give you control over your desired path. It works well within the game. Some of the options can be a bit harsh without a middle type answer to be more like I might be, but that is fine.

Graphics / Models / Animation
Really well done and the models, while some standard ones, have good variance and fit the story well. Not in love with the MC's style as it doesn't quite fit the narrative of his background int he military. However it is not bad. The girls are all typically hot. The rooms, areas, cars, etc. are all well done and immersive enough for the story. Animation is really solid. Not the best I have seen, but it is really well done.

Sex
It has more than enough for me. This is not a FAP-a-minute game and I am more than fine with that. I love the story and would rather have good story mixed with good sex than sex every other scene with crappy story. I can blindly click a link to find the latter.

Overall I would give the a bout a 4.5 star rating.

Where to start with this one

Story and Originality - 5/10

Certainly not original, although more of a mix of a few other well known games. Certainly needs a lot of improvement, there are inconsistencies all over the place in the story line, some of them very large and confusing.

Renders - 7/10 Nice renders although there are certainly better. Quite a few bugs that need to be fixed as well.

Animations - 1/10 With the amount of content and the renders used, you would think the Animations would be good, but they really suck. The sex scenes are very poorly done, and the generic 2 second sex is used. Story, graphics and animations are the biggest things to these story/games, so many dev's just don't get that, or don't care. This is definitely the case here.

Grammar - 3/10 Not that the writing is great in the first place, rather amateur. Hire a better writer, one that will at least go through it later and check for typo's.

Content - 9/10 There is a lot of content in the updates which is certainly good considering most others don't have very much in them.

All in all not the worst of story/games, a little too amateur in a lot of respects. Especially Animations, which again i state is a really big deal next to story and graphics. If any of those parts are not very well done, then you might as well not bother developing anything. One day maybe in the future devs will realize 2 second sex and piss poor animations are not going to get them rave reviews.

This a petty solid package with not much to complain about.
Sex scenes and animations are nothing to write home about so this probably the least good part of the game. Still good.
English is Very good, which is rare.
Girls are gorgeous although it has a "amazon tribe" feel to it. as most man the MC interacted with were beaten...
If you deny having a relationship with girls, the MC has thoughts like the next day as if you didn't denied them. Kind lazy dev.
Harem tag is present but since I don't play harem games I wont comment on that. (I was bored)
There's Dom not tagged but It's avoidable so no harm there. Not my thing so I won't comment on that either. It's light dom so far, if you ask me.
So yeah, it's a good game. It's unrealistic but since it's harem... and IMO it does ruin the experience for me. No I won't follow it.
So I was thinking 3 stars but since I might be biased since it's not my thing, I'll give it 4*.

Thank you and good luck.

Whoa, what a concoction of the wonderful and the... well, sloppy, is the best way I can put it. There's some really good stuff here, but boy does this VN need editing. There are signs all over the place that things have been put together without much critical review and thought about how it's all supposed to fit together.

Perfect example of the lack of care: very early on the MC bumps into an old friend at a train station. There's a beautifully done render of him holding her possessively, while she gazes ardently into his eyes. And he says, "it was nice seeing you again." And she replies, "it was nice to see you too." The dialogue doesn't go with the image, at all. So any attempt at tone is lost. There are many, many instances like this. A good, critical eye would have picked these out in advance, and the Dev's rendering skill suggests it wouldn't have been hard to fix. But no, it's all left there, raw footage.

The plot of this VN is a fairytale: The hero comes home to deal with his evil stepmotherly-type person, and her daughters. All sorts of stuff gets tossed into this, USB sticks, strippers, lawyers, a questionably incompetent police officer. The pseudo-stepmother gets to be indignant and bitchy and then gets kidnapped, so there, and there are scenes of her moping in her cell just in case readers forget she exists. Easy to do, actually, because vast tracts of plot and conversation take place without her.

Everyone is very, very serious. Lots of deep feelings. Everyone talks about love, about not forgetting, about caring. And then, just in case we forget, there's a threatening phone call. It's like... a harlequin romance stretched out to an entire season of True Detective.

Other sloppy stuff... well, people do things and, through inner monologue, tell us what they're doing. So, like, there's a render of the MC turning to a door, and the text reads, "you turn to a door." This isn't Zork; there should be zero of this. But in fact there's a lot. Pages of it.

And the fact that by using "you" the dev is forcing me to identify with the MC is irritating, because the MC is a jackass. He's very self-important, with all sorts of mysterious demons (PTSD? alcoholism?) treated as symbols of how deep he is. He loves, I mean loves to tell people about how the faux-stepmother wronged him. You know someone who can't stop talking about some slight they experienced in the past? You like hanging around with that person? I didn't think so.

Plus, he's also a real estate entrepreneur. Ya know, when I think of the kind of heroic, sensitive, romantic alter ego I want to inhabit in a fantasy world, the words "real estate" always come first to mind. Yeah, it's like the hero of the story is Adam Neumann.

Don't get me wrong. If this were a sex-comedy, then I'd be perfectly happy to be into real estate. But this is oh-so serious. Why can't I be something interesting, like, I dunno, a top chef?

Finally, there is just the one male character (the MC) and then, apart from a few redshirts, everyone else is female. We spend a lot of time with these women, and boy, do they fail the bechdel test. They have two topics of conversation, either how much they love the MC, or how much they love each other. They talk about this a lot. It wouldn't be so bad if it weren't so humourless. It would be, I think, a lot more erotic if it was spiced up with other stuff, like their careers, or gardening, or how much they like to French polish.

This is all basic creative writing, I think, differentiating characters, making good dialogue, showing, not saying, that sort of thing.

It's frustrating, because, wow, the renders are beautiful. I've never seen so much care put into making DAZ assets look so spectacularly gorgeous. And, although the composition could use a little more variety, there are many images of wonderful intimacy, like when the MC is talking with one of the daughters in the park, and as she listens, she wraps herself all over him. It's an incredibly sensual image.

I don't want to sound too harsh. Most devs, I know, are just one person. But it is a huge frustration when you have such great rendering skill applied to such poor story-telling. At any rate, I think this dev needs to do two things: 1) plot out the entirety of the story, and 2) get someone to objectively review his stuff before publishing. That's good advice for all of us, actually. We could all use a little more forethought, and a little objective review.

I have to be honest. This game has an actually interesting story BUT as an actual porn game it's not all that great. I'm still giving it a 4/5 though, that's how much I liked the story in it.

Also being a 14gig download probably artificially set my expectations high for the porn in the game only to be disappointed with let's be real terrible animations. And not really that great quality considering it's 14gigs. I've played probably 95% of the big name/mainstream games on this site and quite a few of them had far better animations while not being this big of a download.

But again, I liked the story a lot hence 4/5 despite all my complaints.

To be honest, I think Reunion (v 0.4) is an amazing game. No surprises there, I guess, given the fact that I've given it 5 stars. The game's plot is a tad confusing at the beginning but advances in a decent manner, with different secondary stories and some misteries as well. And it handles its job well enough to make the story seem believable enough to be interesting, as well as the characters involved in it. The starting point in which the MC is already in an open relationship with two girls is a good start, and from then on you can play (especially with some girls) wether you want to treat them well, bad, etc. and go along making some interesting choices. Choices have a decent enough impact though I do feel the end of the story so far is a bit rushed, I expect it is in order to create a certain amount of cliffhanger before the next update.

The render's character designs are great and render quality is second to none. Animations are very well done as well, even though they are few and a bit brief. And, as far as I've played, haven't found many errors, just a few story things that I'm not sure if they took previous choices well into consideration.

In any case, it's an awesome game that I recommend without a doubt.

Edit: as it has been evolving (v 0.65 now) the game is starting to lose track of itself. The storyline is losing interest and the girls are piling up in an unbelievable way while at the same time making choices matter apparently less. So, one star down from my initial evaluation, and if it continues like this it could lose another.

Edit 2: as of 0.7 the story has lost the little focus it had, girls just lost all interest and there are too many and things are spiraling way beyond the capacity of the dev to take back the reigns of the project. So, from now on, just useful for a quick fap, skipping all dialogue.

Just found this game. Really good scenes and good storyline - would recommend to everyone.
One thing that probably should get worked on is the size of the game itself, because I'm sure the images could be zipped to save up some Gb-s.

The general story is shit, but that's not even the worst. The writing is just horrible. Scenes make no sense. There are so many contradictions and ex-machinas and non-sequiturs! (sorry) It's a pain to read conversations. They're just crazy nonsensical. I read reviews about girls falling in love with this MC idiot out of nowhere, and yes that is annoying and dumb, but THE WRITING!! Christ, you can save or sink any story with the writing, and this is just silly stupid.

I do have to say: bitches be sexy. That's it. That's about the intelligence you can expect too. Bitches be sexy. They no have depth or personality, but they do be sexy! But that's not enough. Nobody can be THIS porn starved to actually like this!! If you need good renders, there are much better VNs! If you need good story/writing, there are MUUCH better VNs!

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Just after firing Steven, talking about Clara:

(Isabella) "If you know that she's acting against the company, why don't you fire her?"
(MC) "I know most people would do that and it seems obvious, but there's an old phrase "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer." and I'm trying to follow it."

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After Isabella changes job from Sandra to MC:

(Isabella) "I had actually been out of job for quite some time."

No, you're literally still working for Sandra! What are you talking about??

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This can only be written by a 17 yo :|

Haven't done a review for awhile, but I thought I needed to do one for this AVN.

Story -- This is where the crux of the whole thing. Story isn't bad, but based on the creator I see too many inconsistencies with the MC behavior. According to the creator he is an anti-hero or a knight errant, (yes I already knew what that means) but again based on those things the MC is very inconsistent on who he treats well and who he doesn't. Yes there are instances where he clearly is that type of person. Also I have no interest in playing that type of character. If you are then this might be a good one for you. Score 2/5

Renders -- Above average. The only thing I can complain about is how many characters are so well endowed. Though I'm am definitely in the minority on that opinion. Score 4/5

Animation -- Above average. I read someone recently that was complaining about the quality. Not sure what they were watching because I saw good ones. Score 4/5

Other -- Again I just don't like what "in my opinion" are inconsistencies in the character. This is a huge download coming in at approximately 13GB. Score 2/5

Overall Score -- 3/5 I would like to give it a lower score, but that wouldn't be right as there a lot of things done very well in this AVN.

The good: Excellent renders

The bad: overused revengeplot, power-fantasy, where no woman can resists the MC, and they all throw themselves at him with no buildup, creating no excitement or tension of any kind.

Nothing feels earned, and the writer continually throws seemingly bigger and bigger threats at the MC, who just resolves them with no trouble, barely an inconvenience, making the next big threat that much less effective.

Do yourself a favour and just rip the CG, the story is garbage

The renders were excellent, and there were plenty of good animation scenes. I was very impressed with the quality of this game. The women are gorgeous, and unique. There is alot of lewd content, which is very well done. I found the story engaging, and look forward to the next chapter. Strongly recommended!

Vapid 2-dimensional bimbos, with unrealistic body proportions (think sex-doll anatomy) throw themselves at the socially-retarded-yet-irresistable MC: The Game.

Graphics & Technical:
Above-average quality renders & animations. Nothing to complain about there. Only negative is the use of extremely generic models.

From a technical standpoint, there are some oddities. The amount of content is extremely disproportionate to the size (14GB) of the game. It doesn't bother me much, but I find it strange that more effort wasn't put into compression.

Menu feels well executed, as well as the user interface.

Story:
It wouldn't be so bad if it hadn't been done thousands of times before. Typical revenge-plot where the sole motivation for the MC is to get even.
The lazy writer just makes stuff happen without taking the time or effort to lay the logical foundation for anything. Just turn your brain off bro.
Women throw themselves at the MC for no reason other than his inexplicable, mystical attractiveness.

Characters:
The MC talks and acts like he has Aspergers, showing extremely poor social intuition and very immature behavior, yet all the women act like he's the most irresistible man in the universe, and as the player you're just left cringing. It honestly feels like playing through some socially retarded dudes power fantasy.

There is little to no build-up to anything and feels very unsatisfying.
The MC starts off with 2 girlfriends right off the bat, and on his first day in town, he's already managed to seduce a stranger at a hotel (who want so suck his dick instantly), his secretary, his long-lost childhood friend and his surrogate (Patreon approved) younger sister.

Conclusion:
Feels like a very lazy attempt at emulating games like Where the Heart Is, and score some easy Patreon bucks by appealing to anyone horny enough to disregard poor writing. The game is only elevated by the high quality renders, but not enough to score it higher than 2/5.

my 2 cents

very interesting story - not unique but very good

the renders and animations are not outstanding but great

girls personality are well writen , each are dif from others

cant decide if i let Linda suffer or "help" her
(her submission route will be great i think)

the surprise was the buisness the mc already had
didnt expect that , but fits for the story

5 stars for now (maybe adjust later)

That's a quite good game, great renders, but for me a little short. After short prologue (few lines), MC arrived to office, inherited father's properties and because they ruined MC's life, I wanted to never see them again and continue story with two girls MC had atm. And all of sudden, End.
As I said, good game, but little short.

I enjoyed this game's content, though I do have some complaints:
The choices are often 'good choice' or 'bad/neutral choice' (more often neutral because it doesn't modify your stats). This isn't awful, but just having more options even if they behave the same is nice as it allows expressing ourselves.
The main character's background is ambiguous, but clearly there enough that it just leaves me confused. He appears to have been in the army, rescued those two girls he was with, and potentially has his own company.
It really likes the revenge porn. Linda is imprisoned and traumatized (she is a terrible person, but she doesn't deserve that), of which we haven't yet seen what happens after that (MC plans to buy her). It would be nice to have an option to completely skip this, as I don't really get off to people being put in terrible places. Just "I pay her $50000" and she goes takes a plane to another country for the rest of her life option, if you don't want to make any other content.
At the very end of the current content is a scene where a drunk girl drives her car into the rear end of yours, and while the girl is obnoxious (but also drunk, so I have a more lenient perception towards personality flaws during that), he really slams into her verbally. Then when she has tried offering him a blowjob or more and threatened him (she doesn't want the cops called, I'd say an understandable reaction, even if it is unethical), the main character has her admit all this on camera and says that he will be calling soon. This feels like it is obviously trying to go towards blackmail, which.. I don't really want. As before, I'd be fine if it was just a 'skip out' option where you ignore her or call the cops and don't blackmail her (though I'd of course prefer having actual content with her that isn't blackmail).
The characters are not exceptional, but they're interesting and attractive enough that it doesn't feel like they aren't people.
The writing is okay/good. Nothing to complain about or write home about.
The animations are good. I'll note that the compressed version, the pictures look fine but I noticed at least one video looking pixelated.
Overall, I'd recommend it, but if you don't like the main character being a jerk without your choice mattering then you may have to ignore that or not play.

I give you a star just because some renders are good, others are not. The lighting of many renders is not adequate for the environment in which the scene is developed, that is a very common failure in those who only care about getting fat tits and cocks on the screen.
And in the childish way of conducting business it is better to say nothing... It is very logical to physically abuse a secretary or give away vice presidencies as if they were lollipops...
Otherwise, a very, very, very boring game...
The characters have no personality of their own.
The dialogues are an accumulation of nonsense and stupidity.
And the script, very original, unique: All women fall in love with this guy who can hardly speak properly?
The protagonist will surely end up with a harem of 20 or 30 women in love with him, beautiful, wonderful and above all, very original...
Nobody should waste time playing this boring game...

I would like to write something constructive on this game but nothing comes to me. For good reasons, there are some interesting characters but some conversations with them don't seem natural, and many choices come in the middle of conversation that are unnecessary or other choices this is not more relevant but add "Submitted" or "Love" points, other thing that is not indicated is that all the "Love" choices are linked to a "Harem" point, the plot stretches in length, for Nine Giga the game offers almost nothing.

It's just average, we're back for a revenge, blah blah blah and not happy blah blah blah... It's like that throughout the game.

If it were possible to put 2,5 this is the rating I would put, but we are at version 0.3, so I will give the rating of 3/5.

We will see in the futur if the game improves later.

Version reviewed: v0.3

This is another one of those cases where I got baited into trying a game out because of its stellar overall rating, and came out of it absolutely baffled. Let's cut to the chase: Reunion is your run of the mill power fantasy porn game masked as a revenge story that is neither deep or remotely interesting to follow.

All of the LIs have the personality of a wet cardboard box and in one way or another they all fill in some kind of trope. The most overused one here is the damsel in distress, as way too many of them are in need of being saved from something that is either blackmail, an abusive boyfriend or...blackmail again. But hey, our MC is back in town to save the day! Unfortunately, not even our supposed self insert is safe from the game's terrible writing, as he turns out to be an absolute douchenozzle, both in the way he looks and acts/talks. An endearing quality, apparently, as all members of the opposite sex adore him for no discernible reason. Well, all with the exception of the cartoonishly evil step-mom, who is inevitably doomed to be part of his harem anyway.

The overarching story of Reunion is laughably bad, the interactions between characters are even worse because of how flat and onedimensional they are, and the dialogues often come off as decidedly unrealistic and painfully forced, to the point where they almost gain some unintended comedic value (the scene with the foul mouthed step-mom in the club being perhaps the perfect example of this).
As far as I'm concerned, the only redeeming quality of Reunion resides in its slightly above average renders.

Low hanging fruit. For a lot of people (whose standards I seriously question, I might add) it seems to be more than enough to warrant a high rating. For me, it's a hard pass.

The game is good despite my rating !

I didn't like writing. The characters having "amnesia" regarding their chat, especially Jenn and MC. Whole part about relations of MC and the sisters before the letters part isn't good. All this "their attitude", "like it used to be" and bla bla bla...idk, not much effort here. The details of what exactly girls mother did to MC should've been revealed a bit earlier, because he's whining all the time but all we know that she kicked him out and why. But in his own words it's "everything she've done to me" and only later we will know some interesting parts of this story.
All the lines about "revenge on that bitch" etc...there's too much of it. Too much repetitive thoughts from characters.
When MC asking Sandra if she and Isabelle friends - she says no and that Isa only hired her, i.e. work relationship. And

Another example - Nicole. MC supposed she's in some kind of trouble, i.e. bad company, gang or smth. Asked Mary to look at it. Next time the subject appears - MC discussing with Mary that some1 blackmailing her and they need to figure how to help her WITHOUT anything in between. One moment MC has only guesses exluding blackmailing, couple minutes after - he already knows it's blackmailing. Etc, etc, etc.

ON THE OTHER HAND: MC and his GF's written so much better ! It's so cool and warm ! I didn't like Khloe's chat at start, she sounded like MCs mother. How can u live here, what r u wearing etc, but didnt notice anything similar later. MC's nightmare was made very cool, I mean I would've like more flashback with him and girls, short but interesting.

The whole idea with MC's parents are interesting. Looking into it. Also I liked he's keen to know about Sandra's incident.

The potential size of Harem in this game is unpredictably huge

I can't say I'm really into incest genre it's just so annoying to read this whole "landlady, roommate and neighbor" stuff so I cant stand it. BUT that small and almost innocent scene between Jenn and Lisa...O.M.G. It was such a heat !

Btw, ty for letting to choose Lisa's haircut !

The scenes isnt bad, I wish they could've been longer with more options. There are several animations. Overall I'm fine with this part.

I didnt mean to offend developer in any way. I'm really grateful for your work ! But this game could've been 10 times better with good writing. The second half of this version is so much more heartwarming and good.

Usually the games have rather good or bad writing but here is that contrast that blew my mind, that's why I've decided to post my first review here.

I hope everything will go good for the dev.

[Rev @ v0.3]

Art's nice. Love the boobage.

Writing's good with enjoyable voice and fluency. Scenario's a bit trite but also implemented well. Characterization is very strong for the most part but the sisters trio seem a bit unstable and inconsistent at times.

Porn's very enjoyable, but I am likely biased because I like harems / groups / poly.

The technical implementation has some letdowns. I ran into at least two instances of the Ren'py errors with missing/corrupt images and there are logic errors in the dialog trees with multiple occurrences of characters discussing matters before they learn about them.

TLDR: very nice and #watched~.