Ren'Py - Completed - Sekira: Part 1 [v1.0.1] [Mensh]

At first I liked the artsile so I played it. Might I say that it's one of the only good qualities of this game?
Because it's a a fetch quest game at it's worst
At first you don't notice it, yes finding all interractable objects that you need is a bit tedious, but managable. But then the second part hits and the game becomes a grind fest where you need to collect all the materials to progress, and then the rules are: "collect this, fetch that and don't forget that" just to see some scenes that isn't even animated that greatly. Yes I think the animation doesn't live up to my first impression of the artstyle. I also don't think you can complete this game without a guide because you need to know where the materials are, what to do next, and how to avoid soft-locking yourself

Can't give this game a good grade... Only thing saving it is the art, and even then it's inconsistent... Some of the animated scenes feel rushed, with goofy faces. Game should stick to static CG.

Writing is poor and uninteresting, maybe partially because of the translation (from russian I believe ?)

Game is a buggy mess, no way it is completed in any way:
- Quest log is sometimes unprecise, or flat out wrong. A quest will update saying you can finally go accomplish a task even though it sill locked and you have to do 5 other quests beforehand.
- A quest will reward you with a treasure map, doesn't appear in your inventory nor the overworld map ? no reward then.
-locked H-scenes, a dialogue will hint you to go make the futa potion to try it on a maid, but you don't get the option to search for ingredients needed.
-You can buy stones to throw at a crow to lower karma, but you can just take one and throw it infinitely... Which makes sense from a IRL point of view But I don't feel like it is intended.

Speaking of Karma, why is it a thing ? It feels like you need negative Karma anyway to complete most sidequests and progress through story, and there is so little thing influencing Karma in the story and dialogue choices that you have to resort to just hurt a bird again and again. If everyone's gonna end up with same stats then what the point ? Poorly implemented, illusion of choice.

Part 2 of the game in the is a boring grind. Go do a handjob to this guy 3 days in a row, then a titjob 3 days in a row. Go train dancing 5 days in a row, go walk on a treadmill 3 days in a row. And every f*cking end of the day you have to go report with the same idiotic dialogue. You will spam the skip button I assure you.

I pushed this far so I guess there is a little bit to this game, but there is a lot of improvement needed here. Can only have hopes for the sequel...

A point and click adventure with a very small amount of H-scenes, oh and also the gallery does not reveal all of the scenes. In this adventure there's multiple side quests to do, at the middle of the game there's a huge plot twist which I won't spoil for you, and from there, well, all bets are off, and suddenly it's about survival.

Is it worth playing? No.
Is it worth loading a save? No cause the gallery doesn't open almost anything from the H-scenes.
Is the story worth it? Well, maybe a little bit but no not really, the grind is long, the length is very long, the game gets very repetitive.

Good idea held back by mediocre design choices and lack of polish.

There are some pretty good artworks, the world and chibis look great, but the art quality overall is inconsistent.
The idea of the story is decent, but the characters are mostly flat and the dialogues don't really 'click' well.
The sex scenes are fine, but they could really benefit from more and better writing and more detailed "finishes".
Gameplay is not bad, oftentimes you have more than one objective to pursue, but mechanically you will be often required to repeat the same action multiple times with little or no change in dialogue which gets stale fast.
Karma system is introduced early and implies two distinct playthroughs, but it is pretty much non-existent and affects may be one or two things afterwards.

I am a big fan of female protagonists engaging in wanton sluttery, and if you are as well there is definetly fun to be found in this game. Yet at one point I was holding ctrl 80% of the time to skip through the same 3 actions I was doing every day, which doesn't exactly signal "quality" in my eyes.
3 stars.

I loved the Game , Story was good , Art was fresh and some of the elements were great , and Camp part was great too . I wish there was more to it but now the Second Part is made on AI , I don't care if it is AI or Hand-Drawn , All I care about is faster updates and more content and AI helps in That
so Best of luck to the Devs for second Part .

Well the game is still faulty by bugs and glitches, theres no walkthrough, you cant progress further in the later quest ( dont know if its a bug or end of update ) . And theres no point messaging the developer, he/she seem to not be interested in helping the consumer out.

It's a disgustingly common formula these days. Good, even great art, bad... pretty much everything else. Overall verdict is Poor, which translates into two stars. Oh, it has potential... to earn another star and become average.

But muh art!

Shut up. If your art is great, just draw a comic, stop inflicting stupid grind on us because you're inept as a game designer. If you are so insistent on producing a piece of software for some perverted reason, fine, make a kinetic novel. But no, the players must jump through a series of arbitrary hoops. This is a common theme with Russian devs (which I am 99.9% sure this dev is), they think grind and dumb minigames are valid substitutes for gameplay. They aren't. Your "gameplay" is just annoying, getting in the way of the meat of the story and lewds.

Speaking of the story... It is dumb. Too much stuff happens without any reason except "porn plot demands it". Beyond a certain limit, I can't take this seriously, and the story stops working for me. Skip skip skip skippity skip! Writing in sex scenes is nigh nonexistent, which isn't a surprise to me given the state of writing in general.

Overall, the game just gives off the impression of lazy aside from the art aspect. Yes, the scenes are nicely animated, but at the same time some NPCs don't have portraits, and there are no more of them than 10 in total! Hell, one vendor doesn't even have an NPC, it's just an empty cart that somehow accepts your money. Just what the fuck? My impression is that too much effort went into animating, and 95% of the game is left barebones.

Oh, and if anyone's wondering WTF is going on with [RPGM]+[Ren'Py] tags, it's a Ren'Py game made to resemble (mostly visually) RPGM for some reason. It has turn-based combat, and it has zero depth. Another example of this dev wasting their time reinventing the wheel, and wasting our time trying to make us use that wheel.

Great game with excellent graphics and decent gameplay, storyline also looks promising. The game is still in an early phase, so it has some way to go, I believe it will turn out great when it is done.

Absolutely loved the game, the art,animations, mechanics everything is just so fucking perfect. Pls keep bringing more updates and more fetishes like watersports,etc. Loved it, 10/10, would surely recommend it

Review of v0.1

The art is solid, but so far that's the only thing catching the eye.
Dialogues aren't bad, but there aren't good neither. Story exposition presented is in a very rough way. Story itself is so far minimal and doesn't look like it's going to be something special. Anahel's mentor have some comedic aspects, but he's mostly a pervert, and he's commitment to this is what's in my opinion the funniest.
There are choices, but it's choosing the only one option you get, or stop playing. At this state it's more of a kinetic novel.
Mini-games are based on waiting while gif plays in the background or hitting "enter" and waiting while gif plays in the background a little faster.
You can only slowly walk, even though there is an option for "always running" which doesn't change anything.
You can finish it in 30-45 min, although I wouldn't recommend playing it for now.
I would give it a lower score if not for the 0.1 version. Maybe in the future it will be get better.

Demo version of the game gives hope that there will be created another beautiful game with an interesting story, good humor, and not just a game about how to seduce a girl for a couple of clicks.

During the walkthrough, I was pleased with the beautiful art. My respects to the designer.

A little disappointing with the sound work, but it's only a demo version. Hopefully the next will be better.

The humor is peculiar (it is noticeable that the creators of something from the CIS), but I liked it.

Creators well done. Good luck with your work.