Ren'Py - Completed - Roommates [v1.4] [ititnenon]

Roommates [v1.1] [ititnenon]
Great potential, disappointing result.

From the images, from the plot, from the beginning of the story, I thought it would be a great game, one of those with a structure that I like (increase relationship with characters little by little, while earning money etc), yet it is a game done badly and in a hurry. It would have been a good start to the game (first release of the project) but having seen the "Completed" I deduce that it is over here, so all the defects will remain forever.
Given the basis of this type of games, you have to add other things to not make the player bored, since basically you always have to do the same things. Well, this game failed to overcome that obstacle,
so it became boring and repetitive like few other games. Obviously the game lacks in other fields, such as music, which is not needed in some games, but here it would have helped to ease the boredom.
Too bad, I don't recommend the game.

Category: Visual novel, Dating Sims
Version: 1.0
Overall: 7/10

Pros: Good character design, pretty good graphic for virtual novel. Story is simple and straight forward. Average gameplay length. Easy difficulty for DatingSims type game.

Cons: BGM is missing, Lots of Eng translation bug, gameplay can be quite confusing. You need some time to figure out what to do next which is ok, but without a proper hint translation, you'll stuck at some point for hours. Also, some pointless grinding action to unlock next scene are a bit too much.

This game is very entertaining and very fun...to a point.

The only thing that really makes this not get five stars is that it really isn't complete, as there are many places that it was not translated into english, especially in the hints/tips area. I could forget it if it only appeared when talking to the girls and it doesn't matter, like when your character talks with a girl, your character says something (multiple speech lines, all of which is in chinese or japanese, not sure which) and then the girl replies "You are too funny."

The renders are top notch. The animation is real good, but sometimes choppy. Not sure if it because my system is very old or because of the game itself.

nice renders, nice alot of short animations, some unimportant text not translated, but you can reach every Charakter to vaginal Sex. I don't think, its finished, cause there is no anal as promoted in the game.

Models and animations are fine, but the game is a mega grind fest.
It gets boring pretty quickly.
Still, there is plenty of content. I give it a perfect 3/5. It's not too bad, but it just really takes too long to unlock anything and it's very repetitive.

Only good is renders
Story looked good from reading description but it's not that good
What annoys me most in this game is the Talking to the woman you get chinese text and woman respond how funny mc is And you have no idea if you done everything because later even hints are in chinese
Someone posted a full save and used that Sex scenes are nothing special either
This game could be good if it was translated added more woman and a real story
No bugs

As other reviewers mentioned, sure, you need to do boring stuff like level up your figure by going to the gym or have locations that are useless up to a certain moment in the game, but the game gives me what I like - the sense of progression.
Compared to dozens of other games where every girl instantly wants to fuck the MC for no real reason, this is something more believable.
And I also like how the night visits to the girls' bedrooms progress as your relations with them develop.
I'd give the game 3.5 at the moment. If it had complete/better translation and less grinding, it'd be worth 4 stars, so let it have them in advance.

Step 1. wake up, press skip time, click 5 doors to do required task, press skip time, press skip time, press skip time, perss skip time, can finally sleep,
Step 2. Repeat step 1.

Creator has zero creativity and forces you to repeat actions like time skipping multiple times per day, repeating activities like riding the bus and guiding yoga 5 times to progress to the next level of nothing.

The game has potential...before you try it. I mean there is no story, translation is bad and incomplete. The characters kinda all look the same.

Character Design: 3/5
Animation: 4/5
Gameplay: 1/5
Story: 1/5
sound and music: 1/5

The game is alright but unbearably grindy. it may have been a fun game but i spent much longer then i needed to. its the "repeat a scene multiple times before getting the next scene" type of grind, it just feels like a waste of your time.

One of the biggest issues is the game offers no direction, after you complete a scene it doesnt give you any idea when to trigger the next action without looking at he hints. To make it worse the translation is partially incomplete (including the hints), got on my nerves and made it more time consuming to figure out what to do next.

The animation is really chunky, but not terrible. the art is ok if its your thing, i like asian girls so i liked it but there is nothing new here.

This is a complete game just without any real ending. the story lacks any substance. With the lack of direction and incomplete translation feels more like a beta. Also the dev completely missed the opportunity for any group scenes, considering the cover art has all 5 girls there feels like there should be at least one group scene.

One thing of note, this game's first release is its final release (not sure if there will be patches). You dont see that very often for porn games as a result there wasnt much feedback that could have lead to improvements.